This was the fifth multicellular organism...
Leviathan was now in the cave under Ashes Island. Lin found that there were more organisms here than on the surface of the moon. Leviathan was now looking at one of the organisms in front of her, observing and recording it.
This organism was called a grey mushroom. It was a sponge-like, very soft, and highly poisonous organism.
This thing was more than a meter tall, cylindrical, and stood on the ground like a mushroom. There were no organs in its body. Lin found that its only food was the dust floating in the air. There were many small holes on its body, and the cells inside absorbed the water and food in the air through the movement of the cells inside. It was somewhat like a primitive filter feeding organism.
So far, other than the gravel monster, this was the largest multicellular organism Lin had seen. However, its structure was very simple. The others were very small and lived together with the fungus in the pool.
In fact, the gravel monster was not considered big. After all, it was an aggregation of many small gravels.
Although these organisms had the same composition, their structure and shape were very different from the organisms on the pompom. Lin found that they did not use oxygen because there was almost no oxygen here. Instead, they used another method to replace oxygen.
It might be another kind of gas in the moon or something else. So far, there was no complete study of their internal structure. Moreover, their circulatory system was very different. They did not have a seemingly basic structure like blood vessels. Instead, they used some special cells to squeeze and transmit energy.
Lin Sanjiu did not know if all organisms were like this, or if it was just the few organisms she had discovered so far.
Right now, Lin wanted to find some very large organisms. And there would definitely be some here. Because...
'Boom …' Thinking of this. Leviathan heard a rumbling sound coming from the outside. The Ashes Island was about to erupt again.
Boom! Along with the sound, Leviathan suddenly felt a strong suction force. A huge amount of dust rushed in from the entrance of the cave like a sandstorm. After the dust storm passed, there was still a lot of dust on the ground and in the pool, covering Leviathan's body with a thin layer...
More dust poured into the depths of the cave. There seemed to be something there... sucking in the dust.
Dust originally sprayed from the bottom to the surface of the island, but since this was a cave in the rock wall, it was unlikely that any dust would enter. At most, some dust would gather at the entrance of the cave.
However, the dust was the main source of life for the creatures here because it contained a lot of food that could be decomposed. The fungi and other creatures in the pool needed to decompose the dust.
And just as Lin was wondering how they obtained the dust, this phenomenon occurred …
As the dust gushed out, a powerful suction force was generated at the same time, sucking the dust into the cave. And it would last for a while to allow the dust to reach the depths of the cave.
The scattered dust was basically decomposed by the fungi. Then, the larger creatures would eat the fungus. Layer by layer, the fungus would slowly grow until it reached a very large creature.
If there was one.
Now, Leviathan was trying to uncover what caused this attraction.
In the flying cave of the Leviathan, the sound of water dripping could be heard everywhere. Water often dripped from the top of the cave, and then gathered into puddles on the ground.
This seemed to have created the environment they lived in. The water might have come from the sea, but the substances in it were not so mixed and appeared to be more 'pure'.
Suddenly, Lin noticed that the Leviathan's light shone on something moving. It was drinking water beside the puddles. Even when the light shone on it, it did not react at all.
This creature looked like a cylindrical stone more than a meter long. Its body was covered with very thick needles. It was now leaning to the side. Lin saw that the ends of the needles on the side of its body had a small hole, and something like a tongue was sticking out from the hole and constantly licking the water in the puddles.
This was the appearance of the sixth multicellular creature.
It seemed... not that strange.
Just as the Leviathan was about to get closer to take a look, the creature suddenly seemed to have sensed it. It retracted its' tongue 'and then rolled on the ground at an extremely fast speed.
This was obviously a creature that was good at rolling, but the Leviathan caught up with it at an even faster speed and stretched out its tentacles to grab the rolling cylinder on the ground.
The moment it grabbed it, it suddenly sprayed a large amount of liquid from the needles on its body.
This liquid seemed to be highly toxic to creatures like them, but it was nothing to creatures like 'pompom'.
After the Leviathan inserted a miniature soldier into this creature to study it, Lin found that this creature seemed to be similar to the Gravel Monster from before. Although it was not an amalgamation, its outer shell structure was the same as the Gravel Monster's. Moreover, its inner shape was also similar to the Gravel Monster's.
However, it was very big, and like all the other creatures here, it had no eyes.
Wait... could this be...
While exploring, Lin's miniature soldier found a place where a large amount of fat was stored at the end of its body. This seemed to be a storage area, but Lin also found a lot of white substance among the things stored there.
That's right, this is... white paste!
With that thought in mind, Lin immediately put down the creature. The Leviathan quickly flew deeper into the cave.
There were puddles everywhere. The Leviathan quickly investigated each puddle and searched for microorganisms inside. So far, the Leviathan had found dozens of fungus creatures, but none of them were familiar to Lin.
All of a sudden, the Leviathan stopped.
This was because another creature had appeared in front of them. This creature was only thirty centimeters tall. It looked like a plant called a 'radish,' but this' radish 'was standing upside down and walking on the ground with three slender legs.
Sure enough, the creatures here looked very strange.
However, the Leviathan mainly paid attention to the location of the 'radish'. There was a pool there, and this pool was different from the others. Although it was also very turbid, the color inside was mainly white.
The Leviathan immediately flew there, scaring the 'radish' away. After the Leviathan flew above the pool, it immediately stretched its tentacles inside and checked the composition inside.
Sure enough... there was white paste inside.
The fungus living in this pool was one of the species Lin had seen before. It could be named 'white paste fungus', the fungus brought by the creator. They seemed to be able to decompose dust and produce white paste.
However, the white ointment produced by these fungi was different from the ones Lin had seen before. Lin tried to break down the white ointment and found that it contained a kind of toxin that was effective against both the creatures on the moon and the creatures on the pompom.
This toxin was more basic. It could damage the synthesis system of cells, but it had no effect on the creatures themselves.
This was to be expected, because the reason they created the white paste seemed to be for storage and not for other creatures to eat... Even so, there should be some creatures here that could eat them, just like the radish just now. And the cylindrical creature also seemed to be able to eat the white paste.
They did not seem to have any connection with the creator, but were a separate species of fungus.
However, the creator might have used their ability to create white paste, and finally let them create a non-toxic white paste, and then used it to feed the sword fleas in their body.
But what was the process like in between?
This was very difficult to investigate. It was unknown what form the creator used to reach the pompom. Perhaps it was also relatively primitive at first, and then slowly evolved into that appearance...
The Leviathan continued to move forward, and it seemed to be approaching the bottom of the cave.
Under the illumination of the Leviathan, more creatures appeared here. In addition to the radish from before, Lin also saw some creatures that looked like stones. Most of them were only a few centimeters tall, and they crawled on the ground in an extremely slow manner...
It was not just the ground. Lin also saw something wonderful at the top of the cave. It looked like very soft silk threads spread all over the top of the cave, and under the illumination of the Leviathan, they shone brightly.
These creatures were called 'drooping fungi' by Lin. These thread-like structures were actually the aggregation of fungi. They seemed to have taken this shape specifically to obtain dust, and they could also directly obtain the moisture of the cave top.
The most abundant creature here was the radish. Lin Sanjiu could not think of a good name for it, so she just called it radish.
They ran very fast and fed on the white paste in the surrounding puddles, but they did not eat much. Lin guessed that every little bit they ate had to wait until the toxins in their bodies were removed before they could continue eating.
Lin saw a radish run to a puddle of sand, and the sand suddenly moved and wrapped the radish inside...
Sure enough, the Gravel Monster relied on this kind of disguise to hunt. It did not seem to eat the things in the puddles, but relied entirely on hunting for food to survive.
The Leviathan made some observations here. In addition to the previous creatures, Lin also found some stone-like creatures. They moved very slowly, and all of them relied on the fungi in the puddles to survive...
The creatures here were really rich. Although there were not many species of creatures here compared to the frozen pompom, Lin believed that there were more species here, and some of them were quite large.
The Leviathan stopped at a place, and it seemed to have reached the end. In front of the Leviathan was a wall, and on the wall, there were many... cracks.
This was the place where the dust was absorbed. Floating astronomy.
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