"Boom …!"
At the edge of the cliff, the black rock wall suddenly burst open. A huge creature drilled out of the big hole, spinning at high speed and rushing into the sea.
When the Explorer's spinning body rushed into the sea from the rock wall, the polluted black water around it also spun like a whirlpool, expanding on the surface of the water like a black whirlwind. When the 73-meter-long body of the Explorer completely entered the water, the whirlpool slowly dissipated.
She finally reached the sea.
The Explorer swayed its body in the water. Lin found that swimming in the sea was much easier than swimming underground. She could spin and swim in the shape of an'S '. It was quite free.
However, she quickly sank to the bottom of the sea.
Her body was too big, resulting in too much weight. Although the Explorer could quickly swallow air to float, Lin was originally going to the bottom of the sea.
On the seabed that was littered with corpses, many ancient squid swam around. They grabbed the longer bone fragments to pry open the corpses, looking for the tiny creatures hiding under the bones for food. Occasionally, they would fight for food, but at this time, a third squid would come to stop the fight. At the same time, some ancient squid would form pairs. They built nests with bones and stones, planning to breed in them.
There were no natural enemies here, only food everywhere. The ancient squid could be said to be carefree. Just as they were enjoying this peaceful life, a huge black shadow suddenly appeared from above.
It was so huge that some ancient squid even froze in place. Their minds were filled with the emotion of surprise. It seemed that this affected the emotion of fear.
More ancient squid escaped into the cracks on the seabed and the hard shells of the trilobites. They poked their heads out. They looked at the giant monster's movements in the sea in horror.
The monster's body kept spinning. The strong currents it brought with it rolled up the corpses and sand on the seabed, forming a storm of bones under the sea. Countless ancient squid were also caught in this storm. Following this storm, the monster drilled into the seabed. The rocks on the seabed were easily drilled away by it, and then its huge body followed its head into the ground.
After its extremely long body had completely drilled into the ground. The storm at the bottom of the sea finally stopped. Many ancient squids swam out of the messy corpses and gathered around the big hole that the monster drilled out. They kept changing colors and waving their tentacles. Were they discussing about the giant monster?
Two of the ancient squids even started fighting as their colors changed. It seemed like they had different opinions.
However, some of the bolder ancient squids actually swam into the giant hole.
Lin's Flyer followed the pioneers into the sea and observed them.
In fact, Lin had never understood what the word 'bold' meant. Daring refers to being fearless, and naturally. 'Gallbladder' was a relatively common organ in living beings. It was used to secrete a liquid that helped dissolve and absorb food. It had nothing to do with whether the brain was fearful or not.
This made Lin wonder if there were some problems with some of the words …
However, these ancient squids were really interesting. Creatures with bigger brains would always have some strange behaviors. However, Lin's current research topic was not these creatures.
The pioneers drilled through the rock layers at the bottom of the sea and moved towards the trench. Lin found that the rocks at the bottom of the sea were softer than those on the ground. Was it because they had been in the sea for too long?
The drill on the head of the pioneers was also its mouth. It opened its mouth slightly and swallowed a small amount of sand and stones to be analyzed in its body to determine the composition of these rocks. The useless rocks were expelled from its tail, and the useful ones were quickly decomposed into shells in its body.
Lin let the Flyer follow the pioneers on the seabed where they were. Lin found that the pioneers' movements would cause the seabed to vibrate slightly, and these small vibrations would cause some cracks. These cracks would grow bigger and bigger, which could lead to bigger situations. Many of the Sound Stones were affected by the cracks and broke off from the seabed, rising upwards.
Lin felt that the entire seabed seemed to be more loose, which should be due to the previous seaquakes. She didn't know if there would be any major problems again … If there were another seaquake or something, the ocean that had been painstakingly restored would revert back to its previous state.
The pioneers were approaching the trench. Lin let them slowly drill deeper into the trench. Within the rocks, Lin found some shells of Purgatory Worms.
Boom!
Suddenly, the pioneers' eyes lit up. They drilled out of the trench's rock wall and rushed into the opposite rock wall.
But at that moment, the pioneers suddenly came to a halt. A section of its body was like a bridge between the two rock walls of the trench. After stopping for a while, the pioneers began to rotate again. This time, Lin drilled upwards. Along with the tremors of the seabed, the pioneers emerged near the trench.
The exploration was complete.
About a hundred meters deep in the trench, Lin found a large amount of shell-like substances similar to the Infernal Worms. Lin planned to call these shell-like substances' Infernal Shell-Like substances' in the future, and planned to collect them here.
The pioneers weren't responsible for collecting the shells. They were only responsible for drilling out the tunnel and exploring. It was the subordinate worms that were responsible for collecting the shells. They broke free from the pioneers' carapaces and entered the tunnel that the pioneers drilled out.
The heads of the worms glowed. Lin discovered that the tunnel that the pioneers drilled out was full of cracks, but it shouldn't collapse that easily. However, if the pioneers drilled into mud or sand, the holes would be instantly filled by the collapsing sand. On the other hand, if the pioneers drilled into rocks, the holes would generally remain stable for a period of time.
Lin needed to start digging once they had stabilized, so the three worms began to work together. One of them was responsible for releasing the 'gatherers' that were used for digging, while the other one was responsible for drilling out a large amount of powder from the cave walls. The last one was responsible for collecting the powder, while the last one was responsible for swimming back to extract more nutrients from the explorers to create more gatherers. At the same time, it was also responsible for building a base.
Apart from muscles, the pioneers also stored a large amount of nutrients. Other than for its own activities, it could also be used to create more troops.
A large number of Gatherers were created and began to collect the shells in the cave. All of the shells would be transported back to the base. When the base was full, it would rise into the air and fly back to the Twisted Jungle.
The pioneers weren't used as a base. They drilled out a tunnel that could be excavated, set up a base, and continued to move forward.
After loading the worms back into the pioneers' carapaces, the pioneers began to rotate again. This time, during the rotation, it relied on the air holes on the surface of its carapaces to suck in a large amount of air. The air was distributed to every part of the pioneers' carapaces, which made its huge body full of buoyancy and allowed it to swim forward in the sea.
Lin wanted to try out the pioneers' second ability – filtration.
The pioneers rapidly rotated their carapaces and swam to the upper layer of the sea. The upper layer of the sea was filled with black and poisonous seawater. Lin's filtration system could deal with this kind of poison. The pioneers rushed into the black sea and swam at high speed while swallowing a large amount of black seawater. The seawater was filtered and broken down by the pioneers' internal organs.
The pioneers' carapaces were different from ordinary worms. They didn't have a straight esophagus that led directly to the tail. Only a small part of the esophagus was the front part, and the back part was a system made up of a large number of organs. These organs could be used to break down and filter things like gravel and toxins. It was a complex and complete system.
Usually, the pioneers could grind boulders into powder in the esophagus and swallow them to break them down. However, water didn't need to be grinded, so the filtration process was very fast. The water was broken down from the beginning to the end. The filtration process only took a few seconds, and the filtered water was discharged from the pioneers' tail.
The pioneers continuously swallowed large amounts of polluted seawater and released clean water from their tails. The toxic substances were compressed into a small ball in the pioneers' carapaces and discharged separately.
It seemed meaningless. In the end, Lin still couldn't deal with the toxic substances … It was better to let them disperse automatically in the water.
However, the pioneers' filtration system wasn't used for this.
After moving forward in the black sea for a while, the pioneers lowered their heads and swam downstream. As the pioneers dived down, the surrounding light became darker and darker. In the darkness, the pioneers turned on their own illumination system to illuminate the surrounding environment. The vast seabed once again appeared in front of Lin's eyes …
There were many huge stone pillars protruding from the seabed. At the tip of the stone pillars, a large amount of black smoke would intermittently spurt out.
This was one of the underwater volcanoes, but it was better to call them underwater fountains.
This was relatively common. The smoke they spurted out was mixed with a large number of impurities and nutrients. The pioneers swam to the top of one of the fountains. When the smoke was spurted out, the pioneers opened their mouths and swallowed a large amount of smoke, breaking it down and filtering it in their bodies to obtain a large amount of nutrients.
In the sea where living creatures were scarce, the pioneers had to rely entirely on these underwater fountains to obtain nutrients. Alternatively, they could also eat a large amount of seabed mud and decompose it to obtain nutrients.
The pioneers' filtration system allowed them to obtain a large amount of food from the turbid mud or the smoke of the underwater hot springs. This way, they could travel far in the sea. Just like its name, the pioneers were used by Lin to explore unknown areas. However, it wasn't limited to the underground. After testing various abilities, Lin decided to use it to explore more distant places …
For example, other continents. Floating astronomy.