Lin stayed in this part of the sea for some time, mainly to excavate the shell fragments. However, as Lin had expected, she did not find anything special. There were only the shells of two different creatures …
They had obviously fought a war here, but their history was hard to know. After all, not every creature was as fond of making statues as the Inca bugs.
But so far, Lin had discovered some useful information. For example, some of the shells of these creatures were relatively intact. Lin found a tubular structure near the tail of the shell, and some of the tubes even had some round oval-shaped objects in them.
Although only the shells were left, it could still be seen that they were exactly the same as the 'echo eggs' on the islands above.
This was rather peculiar. It seemed that there was a very special connection between them. Perhaps the creatures that had fought this war were still alive and had left their echo eggs on those islands.
But at present, Lin had no way of finding them. If it was on land, she could find them by smell, but it was not very possible in the sea …
Next, Lin continued to excavate the shells. They were piled up to a depth of more than 30 meters and covered an area of almost 3 kilometers. However, not every place was piled up that deep. Apart from proving the tragic nature of the battle, they couldn't prove anything else.
After excavating the whole area, Lin could not find out what happened to the creatures later on. They did not seem to have escaped, but just fought here until they were all dead. Lin could not find any other creatures or such a large number of corpses. But the information they contained was rather incomplete. Finally, Lin stopped excavating. She continued her journey to the west.
During the journey, Lin might discover more secrets, but it was also possible that she wouldn't discover anything at all. After all, the ocean was such a place.
The rest of the journey was rather peaceful.
Lin did not discover any special underwater creatures for a few days and nights. There were no islands on the surface of the sea, not even a storm …
The boredom of staying on Bechymos' back was becoming more and more unbearable. Lin noticed that apart from sleeping, the brain worm's rich brain needed to constantly receive a lot of information, or it needed to think more. Otherwise, the brain cells inside would become paralyzed, and due to the brain not being active enough, there would be some blockages. In serious cases, it would cause all kinds of problems in the brain.
Usually, the army units controlled by the brain could solve this problem very well. But now that it had nothing to control, it had to use the original method – to look at the display.
Lin brought the brain into Bechymos' body and used a display more than three meters wide to show it some interesting images. In fact, the contents of the images were shown. Lin was very interested to know.
It was about … some creatures in the Northern Continent.
Although the army units there were in a state of hibernation, Lin still cared about some things. So, she awakened a few observation units to observe some special things.
. and about the ecology of the canyon.
The 'moon' was no longer visible in the Twisted Jungle......
Because the Singing Stones would move slowly in the air, not all of the Singing Stones from the underground world fell back into the canyon. In fact, only a small portion of them fell back into the canyon, while the rest fell into the nearby forest.
Many creatures returned to the sea with the retreating water, while some creatures stayed in the canyon. They hid in this world where water was slowly depleting, struggling to survive.
Lin was observing a group of ancient squids struggling in the canyon. She called them the 'Ika tribe'.
The 'Ika tribe' was a small group of ten ancient squids. They were located in the middle of the canyon, in a puddle about three meters in diameter and one meter deep. One of Lin's awakened flyers continued to observe them.
The main reason for choosing them was that they were more interesting. Many ancient squids were trapped in the puddle, but most of them could only wait for death. Ancient squids could not leave the water. Even if they did not have breathing problems, they would be easily dried by the sun or the wind. Therefore, almost no ancient squids were willing to leave the water, even if they knew that they would die if they stayed. The ancient squids of the Ika tribe were more … special.
The leader among them had hatched from a very special egg that Lin had seen before. It was the egg left behind by the Ancient Squid that was killed by the Overmind Worm. Lin had been tracking and observing it all this time. Although she had stopped observing it for a period of time when she left, Lin could still recognize it.
Now, it had become the leader of a group.
The water in the puddle was getting thinner and thinner under the sun and wind, and the food inside was almost all eaten. Under the night sky, the leader began to move.
Ancient squid leaders were usually male and female, but this ancient squid was the leader alone. This meant that it had defeated a pair of ancient squid leaders by itself. However, Lin could not be sure if it was a male or female. Male and female ancient squids looked basically the same, so it was difficult to recognize them without dissecting them. Of course, it was possible to look at their behavior. At present, this ancient squid did not have any obvious gender movements.
It was obviously not the kind of ancient squid that was willing to wait for death.
At night, when there was no sun and the wind was light, it began to try to approach the edge of the puddle. It tried to use its tentacles to crawl out of the puddle and look for food outside the puddle …
It first stored enough water in its mouth before moving. In the first few times, it only crawled a few centimeters before retreating. Lin found that this ancient squid even calculated the time it took for its body to dry up to determine how far it could crawl. After the tenth time, it crawled a meter out, and there happened to be a small shark carcass at that location.
It couldn't bring back the shark's carcass, so it quickly returned to the waterhole before its body dried up. The next time, it found a sharp stone in the mud at the bottom of the water and brought it to cut the shark's carcass.
Every time, it would cut a small piece of meat and eat it. At the same time, it would share some with its own kind.
The other ancient squids in the group saw this and learned from their leader. They cut the shark carcass together and brought it back to eat.