This was perhaps the oldest place on the continent.
A salty and dry wind still blew across the white land. The skeletal dragons had given this place many names, such as' The Land of First Sunlight ',' Pompom Plains', 'Flavor Paradise' and so on, but Lin usually called it 'Salt Land'.
This was originally an endless expanse of whiteness, but now it was being dug up in large chunks. This was the only place on the continent where Lin thought she could dig at will.
The Abyss Diggers were Lin's new type of excavator. They had a beetle-shaped body that was about three metres long. Their forelimbs had a 'drill' structure for digging, while their second pair of limbs were hollow. They could absorb the salt and other debris they dug out into their bodies, then condense them into a ball and shoot it out behind them.
This was a type of unit that did not have to deal with waste! That being said, they still had to deal with a lot of it.
Lin had now dug very deep. There were a total of a hundred Abyss Diggers here, and she found quite a lot of fungal fossils underground.
Just like the ones she found before, these fungal fossils did not form after being buried for a long time. Instead, they seemed to have been 'cursed' at some point in time. All of the fungi had hardened at the same time, and it felt very strange …
Lin had also found many skeletal dragon skeletons here before, as well as the skeleton of a wyvern. This could be the scene where they were attacked by the fungi. Lin did not think that the fungi here were plague fungi at first, but they were indeed very similar. It was also possible that they were a variant …
They had destroyed the wyvern riding the wyvern, but the wyvern riding the wyvern should not be the same as the one on the island. Tucker had seen them when he was young.
As for the fungi here … they had destroyed the white skeleton dragons that were riding the wyverns not long ago.
It was clear that the fungi under the salt ground were not directly related to the wyvern on the island. They had only emerged recently, at least within a few decades. The wyvern on the island, on the other hand, had been attacked by plague fungi earlier and fled to the island.
Moreover, there were no traces of the wyvern building a city here. It was clear that the wyvern on the island had not lived here before.
Generally speaking, things made of stone could be preserved for a long time. Even wood could be preserved for a long time in this salt environment.
However, there were no traces of those here … only fossils and corpses. That was why Lin's main concern now was to investigate why the fungi here had been 'petrified'.
Also, why did these fungi suddenly appear? What was the reason? Lin continued to study the structure of these fungal dust and found that they were indeed simpler than the plague fungus' dust. There weren't too many complicated structures inside, but they still had the ability to grow as a parasite.
Lin believed that these fungi could be called 'primitive species', meaning that the plague fungi later evolved from them.
But why would this kind of 'primitive ghouls' appear in recent decades? Lin thought of a possibility. It was the birthplace of the plague fungus.
They might not be marine creatures, nor did they come from anywhere else. The origin of the plague fungus … might be here!
Later on, perhaps due to various reasons, the plague fungus left the continent and entered the sea. It was only after that that the 'army' similar to the brain was created, and under the command of the brain. They were even more terrifying and powerful, but they were heavily injured by the Atte tribe's special attacks and were eventually exterminated by Lin.
In fact, they weren't completely exterminated because Lin still had a little bit of the fungal dust left behind. They only needed a little bit of nutrients and they would erupt again!
Although that was probably not very likely.
The process of evolving from primitive fungi to their newest form was a complete mystery, and it was clear that the 'primitive' fungi still existed on this continent.
This required further research, so Lin's Abyssal Digger had already dug deeper into the ground, a place much deeper than the one Lin and Tucker had reached before, and here. There was also a … white cave that was very similar to the one above.
In fact, there were all kinds of caves everywhere. Although the caves appeared to be self-formed, Lin felt like they were dug out by some kind of creature.
There were also many fungal fossils here.
The Abyssal Diggers slowly moved forward in the cave. The light they emitted illuminated the cave walls on both sides. The walls here were full of protruding fungal fossils, but unlike the mushroom fossils above, the fungal fossils here were pure mycelium fossils. They covered the ground and the surroundings like a carpet.
The Abyssal Diggers finally gathered at one place. It was a hole that Lin had recently dug. Here, Lin found a … piece of wood.
More accurately, it was the root of a plant.
The root was more than a meter in diameter and more than five meters long. It looked like it was broken. Not to mention why it appeared so deep underground, the most important thing was that it was still alive.
This plant was in this dry and waterless underground. It was surrounded by a layer of wood-like outer shell, but this layer of wood was more solid and sealed than the bark of ordinary plants, making it difficult for the energy inside to leak out.
Although the Abyssal Diggers could easily pierce through it with a poke.
After releasing the Abyssal Diggers, Lin found that the cells inside the root of this plant were in a state of hibernation. This allowed the cells to live for a long time inside, possibly even thousands of years or more. It was similar to a creature called 'Bear Bug', which was good at making cells go into hibernation.
However, Lin not only found cells inside its body, there were also many multicellular creatures hibernating inside the transmission tubes.
Lin had seen this type of multicellular creature before. It was a type of multicellular creature called 'Sword Flea'. It looked very similar to a 'flea', but it was very small. There was also a similar type of creature in another plant called 'Dumetha Tree'. Could they be the same species?
However, its internal structure was very different from the 'Dumetha Tree'. Although it looked like a plant, its internal structure was very strange. There were also some small sacs in between the transmission tubes inside its body. Lin believed that these small sacs could contract and transmit liquid, acting like a heart. However, there were also some small sacs on both sides of the tubes … inside them …
They were filled with a large amount of viruses.
Lin had never seen this type of virus before. It was as if they were purposely stored here. There was a layer of solid structure around the small sacs, which seemed to be used to prevent the virus from leaking out. Lin still didn't know what effect the virus had, perhaps it was very dangerous?
Aside from the virus, there were also some small sacs filled with eggs. They should be the eggs of Sword Fleas, which wasn't too strange.
Lin also found some unknown thread-like structures inside the plant, but she didn't know what they were used for.
She also didn't know how to awaken them. This plant was only a broken part and didn't have a complete structure. She should be able to find more nearby …
Lin looked around and had the Abyssal Diggers continue to dig around. However, one of the Abyssal Diggers brought a special creature — — the Salt Jade that Lin found in the cave above.
Lin wanted to test the effects of the virus. It wouldn't be meaningful for Lin to experiment with her own cells because the internal structure of Lin's cells was different from that of ordinary creatures. This was something that Lin discovered when she was experimenting with various viruses. Normally, viruses could only cause basic damage to Lin by entering her cells and using them to reproduce.
However, this wasn't the case for other creatures. Some viruses could cause the creatures to have other behaviors, such as going crazy and so on …
So, she decided to test it on Mao Yu.
With that in mind, Lin dug out a small sacs filled with viruses from the plant. Then, she used a unit called 'Taker' to extract some viruses from the sacs and injected them into Mao Yu.
Injecting just a little bit shouldn't pose any threat to Mao Yu's life. She only needed to observe what would happen after the virus entered her cells …
… But it didn't seem to have any effect.
At the same time, Lin injected some mini units into Mao Yu's cells to observe. She found that the virus couldn't affect Mao Yu's cells at all, it couldn't even enter the cells …
This usually meant that Mao Yu's cells were resistant to the virus, but it also meant that the virus didn't seem to be able to adapt to the cells.
Normally, viruses were effective against most cells, but this didn't seem to be the case.
Since Mao Yu was useless, she decided to keep some of the virus and test it later.
If she could find the whole body of this strange plant, she should be able to obtain more information …
With that in mind, some of Lin's Abyssal Diggers dug out another part of the plant's root system. This root system was even smaller, only about a meter long. After Lin examined it, she found that there were some sac-like organs inside, which seemed to be used to produce liquid. There was a strange liquid stored inside, which seemed to be some kind of toxin.
The composition inside was similar to the 'petrifying venom' of the Dumeisa Tree, which could harden the muscles of living creatures.
And it also had another kind of sacs, which contained some … bacterial dust? This bacterial dust was exactly the same as the bacterial dust of the fossilized fungi outside!
As expected, the fossils around here were related to this plant? … But where was its main body?
Perhaps she shouldn't just dig here. There were other suspicious places she could dig, such as the outer area of the rift valley.
A large number of skeletal dragon remains were once piled up there. She should be able to find something there.
Lin continued digging nearby for a while. There didn't seem to be anything left in the surroundings. Just as Lin was about to head deeper into the cave, she suddenly saw a few … skeletal dragons in the tunnel ahead?
They were all lying on the ground in a disorderly manner, as if they had been dead for a while. But one of them was still tightly clutching a … crystal.
PS: Thanks to ~ Magical Cell ~ for the tip ~
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