Ash Island.
That was what Lin called the island. After the Leviathan was swept away by the storm, Lin arrived at an island that spewed out ash.
It looked like a volcano, but it was different from the volcanoes she had seen before. This was a cave that spewed out ash intermittently, and it was filled with a lot of dust.
It seemed to be caused by some violent activity underground, and the Leviathan was now exploring this place.
The ash spewed out was probably only a few times in a day and night, and Lin believed that such a small amount of ash was not the reason for the dust outside.
Moreover, the dust outside seemed to be much thicker than before. Under the influence of the storm, it was now becoming thinner and thinner.
The main reason Lin came to this cave was not to find out where the dust came from, but because Lin found that the dust contained a lot of absorbable substances, and the temperature here was not very high.
In other words, there might be creatures here.
Around the cave were smooth rocks, and around the rock walls, there were many caves of different sizes. Most of them were less than two meters in diameter, and the Leviathan could not enter. The caves were very dark, and the Leviathan could only see the surroundings by emitting light. Just now, the Leviathan shone on some of the more spacious caves below.
The cave was more than ten meters in diameter, and it was located on the rock wall more than fifty meters below the cave. The Leviathan floated into the cave and searched the surroundings inside.
The walls here were white and very spacious, and there was a lot of water inside. Every pool of water was very turbid. The Leviathan approached a pool of water. It observed it … There were … many creatures here!
Most of them were fungi, but there were some micro-multicellular creatures moving around.
Although they were very small, this was the first time Lin saw a multicellular creature on the moon, and she was a little excited.
It was a multicellular creature similar to an arthropod, but its internal structure was very strange. It had both a skeleton and a shell, and …
Slap!
Just as Lin was observing, she suddenly heard a sound. The Leviathan immediately shone light in the direction of the sound, and under the light, a pile of white sand appeared in Lin's sight …
Sand? Although there was nothing strange about it, Lin remembered that there was a place with sand …
Just as Lin thought about it, the sand suddenly moved, and all the sand instantly transformed into a creature that seemed to have many legs, and it rushed over here!
Sand can move? While Lin was a little surprised, the Leviathan immediately retreated and changed its color to hide in the darkness, and the moving sand seemed to be completely unaffected. It pounced on the Leviathan, and the sand all over its body wrapped around the Leviathan …
This creature … was really incredible.
The Leviathan observed the sand on its body. This reminded Lin of the 'creatures' in the Dream World. They were completely different from ordinary creatures, but they were creatures made up of other elements.
She did not expect to encounter such a creature, and it was on the moon!
It seemed to be trying to break open Leviathan's shell, but no matter what it did, it couldn't hurt Leviathan. After a while, the creature made of sand gave up. It slid down from Leviathan's body, gathered together, and crawled to the side of the pool.
And when it pounced on Leviathan, Leviathan had already obtained some of its' sand 'and began to study it.
So, this is a creature like this … It was different from what Lin had imagined. It was not a creature with a different structure. Lin had thought that it was a creature made entirely of sand, but that was not the case.
These grains of sand were actually in a very regular shape. Each one was about a millimeter in size, and they were square. There was a hole on each side, and a creature lived in each grain of sand.
The shape of the creature was very strange. It looked like a square-shaped creature with many limbs. Its tentacles could reach out from every hole in the sand. The ends of the tentacles were very thick, and they all had a circle of barbed teeth.
This meant … they could be connected to each other.
When Lin tried to put two sand particles together in the Leviathan's body, they would use their tentacles to grab each other, forming a 'connection', and cooperate to crawl.
Lin deduced that the pile of sand Lin saw was the same. It was made up of countless one-millimetre small creatures living in square sand. It was a 'composite creature' that could change its shape at will.
They only needed to pull each other together to form 'legs' for movement, 'claws' for attack, and then they could disperse at any time, turning into a pile of sand and slowly wriggling on the ground …
Their main method of feeding was still the fanged tentacles on the sand particles. They could tear their target apart bit by bit.
These sand creatures also had the ability to harden instantly. Perhaps when they formed legs, they would harden immediately to bear weight. They also needed to cooperate with each other to form muscle-like movements in order to move.
They were multicellular creatures, and they were made up of the same structure as Lin, but it was quite strange that they could evolve into such a form.
However, Lin believed that they couldn't do any complicated movements with just sand particles. The pile of sand particles was now lying on the ground, but there was a relatively tall protrusion among them. This should be their core, where the 'brain' was located. Lin could feel subtle brainwaves emanating from it.
So, there were such large creatures on the moon … Indeed, they were protected from the storm here. Although she didn't know where the water here came from, they were obviously doing well. Although they weren't the kind of creatures Lin was looking forward to, they were still quite interesting.
Lin put the two sand particles she caught earlier on the ground. They immediately combined and crawled towards the big pile of sand in the distance.
Perhaps the core brain was controlling the scattered sand particles with brainwaves. They could be considered a branching species. Although they seemed to be feeding on the fungi in the water, judging from their previous attack, this sand creature might be a predator. In other words … there were creatures as large as the Leviathan here for it to hunt.
Hopefully, I'll find more interesting creatures …
With this thought in mind, the Leviathan flew into the depths of the cave.
However, Lin also felt that … there was a possibility of encountering a familiar creature … as if she was floating in the sky.
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