In any case, she had to check her surroundings first …
Lin observed the Skeletal Wyrms here. They weren't as scattered as the ones in the forest. Instead, there were thousands of huts in the same place. Furthermore, it didn't seem like the first time they had built such a strange circle. Lin found a few similar circles in the surroundings. They were all made of hundreds of kilograms of stones, which were piled up in circles. At first, it was a small circle with a diameter of about five meters. Then, it slowly grew bigger and bigger until it was about seventy meters in diameter. The circle Lin saw before was still incomplete.
They had already built five of these circles, and were now building the fifth one.
The white skeletal dragons had been building these circles for a long time, causing their community to dwindle. Lin was not sure how they managed to maintain such a difficult life and still survive here. However, they should be on the verge of extinction now. Perhaps it was time to stop them from building these circles.
The pompoms flew to the construction site. The white skeletal dragons were still tirelessly moving the pompoms. Occasionally, they would drink some water from a leather bag when they were free and then continue working. There was also some dried meat on the ground. A few white skeletal dragons were especially responsible for guarding it to prevent it from being eaten by the pterosaurs.
These guards seemed to be on a rotating basis. They would change every once in a while, so it was not easy for them.
Lin wanted to see … what exactly were they worshipping? There did not seem to be any paintings or statues here. Speaking of which, the white skeletal dragons did not seem to know how to make them, so it was difficult to know what they were worshipping …
This feeling …
When she got close to the center of the circle built by the white skeletal dragons, Lin felt some brainwaves …
Could it be that? There was one here too?
The pompoms flew to the center of the circle. There wasn't anything here. However, when the pompoms stretched out their tentacles to dig up some sand on the ground … Lin saw a small crystal buried in the ground. There was something white inside the crystal.
The pompoms immediately stretched out their needle-like tentacles and injected a miniature soldier into the small crystal to investigate. Sure enough, this was … an Atte brain! No, it should be a split-brain.
Could it be that this brain caused the white skeletal dragons to become like this?
There was something special about the Atte brain. Apart from the main brain, they also had many 'split-brains'. It was a brain that had been split from the main brain.
In fact, it wasn't clear whether or not it was actually a split from the main brain, but it was a good idea to call it that. Lin had already known about this split brain since 10 years ago.
At that time, it was after Lin brought Li Xie and the others out to build a village.
Lin had always been curious about the underground network of the crystal forest and the gigantic underground scorpion group. She was also curious about the crystal trees that could 'record' and the mysterious feeling of 'very cold' on the surface. Later on, Lin sent an excavation team to investigate the place.
The excavation team was mainly made up of a type of small worm similar to the Pioneers. Lin had discovered a rather large underground network with a rich ecosystem, for example, there were three types of rib centipedes and two types of jade. There were also some insects, pterosaurs, and so on. The underground caverns there seemed to have existed for a long time. They formed their own unique environment inside, but the main reason why the underground cavern system could be maintained was that the bottom of the cavern was connected to a huge underground river.
The water of the underground river was salty, but it was rich in living creatures and nutrients. It was probably directly connected to the ocean. The underground river nurtured some plant-like creatures, and then some creatures fed on the plants and slowly expanded upwards, providing vitality to the entire cavern system.
Although there were many wonderful things in the underground system, the most peculiar thing Lin had discovered was the 'split-brain'.
Li Xie's leader also had a split-brain. Lin initially thought that there weren't many of them, but in fact, there were many of them. She could occasionally find these split-brains everywhere in the cavern.
These split brains were usually the same. They were placed inside a small crystal, and the crystal usually had small holes to allow it to contact the outside world. The split brain had some ability similar to green cells, and it could absorb light energy. Occasionally, it would extend some tentacles through the small holes to absorb nutrients from soil and other things. But in fact, even without nutrients, the split brain could live for a long time. It basically maintained a very low energy consumption state, and it only had one use, which was to continuously release some brainwave signals …
However, Lin had yet to discover that these signals would have a large-scale effect on other creatures. For example, Li Xie was not affected at all.
Other creatures with lower brain capacities were needless to say. Although Lin did not pay much attention to them, she still collected these split-brains. Lin specially created a type of soldier to sense their brainwave signals. So far, she had discovered a total of more than twenty split-brains in the underground cavern … but they did not seem to have any special uses …
After that, Lin did not find anything. She was also not sure why those crystal trees were here. Perhaps it was related to the Atte race? Or perhaps it was related to some other situation. Lin felt that there might be other wonderful races hidden under this continent.
But at least they were all extinct now. But the influence they caused caused many strange things to appear in the crystal forest area …
Lin did not know why the Atte race created these split-brains, and why did they scatter these split-brains everywhere? Back when she was underground, she found them everywhere without any pattern. She did not expect to find them here as well, and they even caused the White Skeleton Dragon to become like this.
But whether it was caused by these split-brains or not, she would have to do it herself to find out!
With that thought in mind, the pompom used its tentacles to hit the small crystal, and the brain inside was instantly smashed into pieces! The brainwave signals also stopped.
But … there was no reaction.
The surrounding White Skeleton Dragons were still moving the stones, as if they did not notice what was happening here.
… Right, there were four circles around here. Could there be one there too?
Next, the pompom quickly flew to the center of each circle, dug out the split-brains wrapped in the crystal, and smashed them.
Lin felt that there was no need to collect them. It was more direct this way. After all the split-brains were destroyed, the White Skeleton Dragons … still did not react?
… No.
The pompom kept observing from above. At first, the White Skeleton Dragons did not react, but after a long time, they began to show signs of doubt … Astronomy.
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