How many days and nights had it been since they left the continent?
The creatures on the ark had probably forgotten about it by now … However, even though Lin could clearly remember how many seconds had passed, the journey was much longer than expected.
That was because of … ice.
Lin looked around. The sea had turned completely white. Ice and snow had covered the vast sea, severely hindering the ark's progress.
Although the ice was not very thick, the ark still had to break through it. However, the ark's speed was much slower than before. Lin's main goal was to maintain the surface of the sea so that the Skeleton Dragons and the Emerald Dragons could see the situation outside. Perhaps … there was no place left for them to go … they had to adapt.
It was the same for the other creatures on the ark. The food that the giant dinosaurs were eating were spheres made from the nutrients that Lin found at the bottom of the sea. If this continued, they might lose their original vitality and slowly forget about hunting.
The warm current at the bottom of the sea was also shrouded by the cold. Lin felt that under such circumstances, the Northern Continent might be in the same situation. After some research, Lin discovered that such a large cold phenomenon might be related to the sun …
At first, she did not notice it, but now … Lin noticed that the sun was different from before. It was' darker ', as if the sun was farther away than before. If she looked closely, she could see that it was different from before.
However, normal creatures would not be able to notice it. It required very careful observation and calculation. Even the brain worms could not detect it. Lin felt that apart from herself, only the creator of the ark knew about it.
The sun determined the fate of all creatures in this world. As long as there was a small change that almost no creature could detect, it would have a huge impact. Although she could see it every day, she felt that it was far away. It was an incredible feeling.
As for the moon, the star tumbler, Lin felt that it was closer. After reaching there, perhaps she would be even closer to the sun.
However, Lin did not want the surroundings to become empty at that time, so … she needed at least some creatures to survive.
But … would it really be like that a hundred years later? If this situation continued, it was indeed possible. However, this prediction was not completely accurate. The brainwave's coverage was limited. Although Lin had calculated every detail of a large area, there might still be some special changes.
Lin was wondering if she should look for another place other than the Northern Continent, but at the very least, she wanted to take a look there first.
Perhaps there would be a 'surprise'. That was why Lin didn't wake up the base directly.
If he saw it directly, his surprise would be much lower.
But now, it seemed … rather boring. Due to the cold weather, there were only a few pterosaurs nesting in their own nests on the back of the ark. No other creatures came out.
However, the main reason why the Skeleton Dragon and the Emerald Dragon didn't come out was that they were in a dream.
Lin used her mind to create a new dreamscape. However, it wasn't the one she used to predict the future. Lin had created a new Dreamscape Brain, and she wanted to use the previous one for something else.
The main function of this brain was to detect and predict. Lin could use her brain waves to detect the surrounding environment and even meteorites, which was very effective. She could also search for tiny creatures hidden in the atmosphere.
For example … the Atmospheric Slime.
Although it wasn't tiny, it seemed to be very common recently.
Under the sky above the ark, there were many creatures that looked like soft clouds. Their shape and flying movements were somewhat similar to a type of fish in the sea called 'sea', but their bodies were transparent and they floated slowly in the air. This seemed to be a new species. Lin noticed that they didn't seem to be afraid of the cold.
In fact, Lin had done the least research on these creatures. She had no idea what species they evolved from, and how to classify them. The only thing she could confirm was that they were neither land creatures nor sea creatures. They were purely … aerial creatures … Unlike the pterosaurs and other flying creatures, the Atmospheric Slime never touched the ground. They didn't need to rest or reproduce on the ground. As for the reason why, Lin hadn't studied it in detail.
Although that was the case, they would still come down to hunt. These Atmospheric Slime seemed to be interested in the pterosaurs on the back of the ark. They kept circling above the ark, as if they were ready to dive down and capture them at any time …
While Lin was observing these creatures, a black shadow appeared in front of the ark …
That was … They had finally arrived … The Northern Continent!
The ark immediately sped up. The 'hammer' in front of the ark continued to attack, shattering the layer of ice on the surface of the sea. The Slime in the sky seemed to be frightened by the sound and immediately scattered.
As the ark moved forward, the black shadow in the distance got closer and closer. A familiar scene slowly appeared before Lin's eyes.
This was a cliff that was more than fifty meters high. The cliff was covered in white snow, but it didn't affect the overall appearance of the cliff …
There was a feeling of 'nostalgia' here. When Lin first came ashore, she was still climbing up this cliff with a group of Bloon Scorpions …
These scorpions were very common in the sea. Like the trilobites, they were an ancient species that didn't go extinct.
As they approached the cliff, Lin slowly stopped the ark. When the ark was on the surface of the water, its back was almost as high as the cliff. However, there were still many things that had to be moved up.
"We're here! We're here!" On one of the ships that was' tied 'to the first ark, the Cephalopod rolled out of the cabin at an extremely fast speed. As it rolled, a Roaring Beetle behind it shouted excitedly, "We're back! I've rolled onto this land again, looking for Moketu. I'm going to … "
Before it could finish its sentence, it quickly rolled back into the cabin. The brainworm rolled back to its usual sleeping place and said with a trembling voice, "It's so cold. Search stopped. Stop rolling. Go back to sleep."
It was indeed very cold now, much colder than when they first arrived. Lin's worries were right. This place was also affected by the cold.
Boom! Following the sound of cannon fire, a bomb shot into the sky. Countless scouting eyes flew out in the wave of the explosion. Lin was scanning the land as fast as she could.
This wasn't the place where Lin came ashore. She didn't see the familiar forest of spikes. Instead, she saw a desert.
It didn't seem to snow in the desert. This place wasn't covered in ice and snow. The cold wind blew up endless yellow sand, obstructing Lin's vision.
There was nothing in this desert. She couldn't even see the remains of anything. There was only sand and rocks. The cold made it hard for Lin to imagine how hot this place used to be.
Lin flew across the desert for a long time. Although she released a large number of scouting eyes, she didn't spread out to search. Instead, she kept moving in one direction.
However, along the way, the eyeball saw some familiar sights. Now, the eyeball saw a large creature slowly moving on the cold sand.
It was the Mist Worm. A worm that didn't belong to the arthropods. It seemed to thrive everywhere, but this one seemed to be on the verge of death.
Eyeball approached the worm and saw that its head was exposed above the sand while its lower body was basically buried in the sand. They used this method to cross the desert, but now, this worm could no longer move in the sand. All it could do was to twist its head slightly, and even this strength seemed to be slowly fading away … Zhang Heng was stunned. He had no idea what was going on.
Lin used the eyeball to perform some simple checks on the worm's current state. She found that its weakness was due to two simple reasons: the cold … and hunger.
The worm was slowly dying, but before it died, its eyes were still fixed in front of it. There was a snow-white forest in front of it …
This forest was exactly the same as Lin remembered, except for the color.
It seemed that returning to the Ark wasn't the right choice. But in reality, there was no place to choose. Every island and sea that Lin came across along the way was shrouded in extreme cold. Only a few islands were relatively warm, but those islands were too small to accommodate the creatures on the Ark.
What should she do?
Lin's eyeball slowly drifted across the snow-white forest. The trees here were still as twisted as before, but there were no signs of life …
Almost all of them were covered in snow. On the ground, she could see the remains of some large arthropods.
There were also some small crawling corpses … they didn't even have the chance to evolve into dinosaurs.
She hadn't returned for a long time, only to see such a tragic scene?
"Gulp." At this time, Lin heard a sound. The eyeballs immediately flew in that direction. In the middle of the snow, Lin saw some shiny creatures crawling on the snow.
Are those … crystallized creatures? However, they did not look like the arthropods here. Instead, they looked more like trilobites. Each of them had a body length of 30 centimeters. Compared to terrestrial arthropods, they were relatively large. A transparent carapace covered their entire bodies. That was how crystallized creatures looked.
These creatures were full of vitality. They did not appear to be weak at all. Lin had one of her eyeballs follow them to observe them. Their lifestyle was just as Lin imagined. They fed on various frozen corpses. Due to the sudden onset of the cold, there were many such corpses here. They would also nibble on the bark of the twisted trees.
The other eyeballs flew in another direction.
Lin wanted to see what had become of that place … it was once an underground world. Later, it became a huge canyon …
PS: Thank you ~ Liuyan ~ Calm Watermelon ~ for the tip ~
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