The Skeletal Dragon was using its claws to hook into the cracks on the ceiling of the cave. Lin saw that its eyes were actually glowing faintly in this dark environment.
Unlike Tucker who liked to stay on land, the Skeletal Dragon had mastered a way to accurately judge its environment in the dark. Tucker, on the other hand, had yet to see the Skeletal Dragon!
Screech! With a shriek, the White Skeleton Dragon jumped down from the top of the cave and stabbed its sharp claws at Tucker. But because of the shriek, the White Skeleton Dragon was detected by Tucker. Tucker immediately jumped away and dodged the White Skeleton Dragon's attack.
Lin really didn't understand why it shrieked. Predators were very quiet when they hunted.
But now that both sides were in the dark, the Skeletal Dragon could see Tucker's figure. Its eyes seemed to have some kind of glowing ability, but Tucker could also tell where the Skeletal Dragon was from its glowing eyes.
The battle was about to start! The Skeletal Dragon swung its sharp claws at Tucker, but Tucker grabbed its claws even faster and twisted them with all his might. With a crack, the Skeletal Dragon's thin forelimbs were twisted to an abnormal angle by Tucker.
So that's how it is. Tucker's hearing in the dark seemed to be very sensitive. He could even hear the sound of the Skeletal Dragon's claws waving in the air, and used it to accurately grab the Skeletal Dragon's claws.
The Skeletal Dragon, whose forelimbs were broken by Tucker, kept screaming miserably. Tucker didn't stop at all and grabbed at the Skeletal Dragon's neck.
With the sound of bones breaking, the Skeletal Dragon fell to the ground.
The battle ended easily. It seemed that if Tucker wasn't injured, he could indeed fight one against three.
Then next. What would Tucker do? Find a way out? But Lin would at least stay here for a while. To solve some of the problems here. For example, the large pile of eggshell fragments on the ground, the fossilized fungi, the Skeletal Dragon that had been gnawed clean, and …
A war.
The troops that were sucked into the roots were in fact exactly the same as the immunizers that Bechymos used to immunize against the fungi. But Lin still decided to call them 'invaders', just for the time being.
In this tree, they used their eight spider-like limbs to tear apart the 'blood vessels' inside the tree. They tore apart the cells inside. It was very interesting. Lin found many muscle-like structures, but not as complete as animal muscles. This meant that although they could move, they couldn't move that fast.
Lin had never seen plants with immune organs. Although they were immune, these trees had more special immunity. They even used multicellular organisms to help immunize them, just like Lin. Although this should be a symbiotic relationship.
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Lin gathered the invaders together to face the attacks of the Sword Fleas. Their bodies were positioned inwards while their limbs were facing outwards. Any Sword Flea that came close would immediately grab it with its limbs and tear it apart! Of course, the torn Sword Fleas would not go to waste. Their fragments would be eaten by the invaders, who would then rapidly grow in size.
During the process of growth, the invaders melted their backs and fused together. All of the invaders were slowly transformed into a large creature by Lin. By tearing apart a large number of Sword Fleas, this group of invaders was constantly growing.
The feeling of fighting in the water was really good. They could change their body shape at will. If they were on land, they would have to make a shell to prevent water from leaking out. It was almost impossible to quickly change the troop type.
Now that the invaders had been integrated by Lin, their limbs had also been enlarged and sharpened, fin-like structures had grown on their bodies to assist them in swimming. At the same time, Lin had also created an even larger mouth on their heads to devour even more fragments.
The Sword Fleas were like an endless source of nutrients that nourished Lin's army. Now, Lin was going to use this growing army as a base to produce even more invaders …
Once she had enough troops, she continued to advance deeper into the root system.
While devouring the invaders, Lin was amazed. The Sword Fleas seemed to have completely taken on the role of immunity. Not only could they distinguish between fungi, they could also distinguish between viruses. As multicellular organisms, they were much larger than viruses, but they could still find and devour viruses. Then, the tree would produce some spherical objects as nutrients in return for the Sword Fleas.
It was a very typical symbiotic relationship. The Sword Fleas could even locate and devour the infected cells. Their strength made it so that the tree itself had no immunity. Lin, on the other hand, was destroying everything. The invaders were constantly attacking and tearing apart the Sword Fleas and their various structures. The deeper they went, the more secrets Lin discovered about the tree, slowly exploring its structure …
This would take a long time because the tree was actually very big. However, it was not the tree itself that was big, but its roots.
The tree was a relatively large plant. It had a huge cylindrical structure underground, called the 'core'. Countless roots extended out from the cylindrical structure like the tentacles of a sea anemone. These roots were all close to the ground. What surprised Lin was that the tree had many structures similar to animal organs.
For example, the pipes in the roots had some structures similar to a heart. They were similar to the hearts of ordinary creatures, like a 'pump' that boosted the various pipes, and there were many of them.
There were also digestive structures like a 'stomach' and so on. Lin also discovered that the cells in the tree were not only plant, but also animal cells. Every root had structures similar to ganglia, so the tree could instantly control the movement of its roots to pursue its prey. However, these structures were relatively incomplete, or rather primitive, and there were fewer types of organs compared to animals. It still retained many of the characteristics of a plant. Lin felt that this might be a creature that was somewhere between an animal and a plant.
The tree that Tucker and Lin saw in the cave could be said to be its reproductive organ as well as its predatory organ. It used its huge root system to absorb the water underground, then mixed it with the 'petrifying toxin' and released some of it on the ground. Because there were dry salt and saltwater lakes everywhere, creatures attracted by the light would quickly discover that there was water here. After drinking it, they would be poisoned.
The petrifying toxin would cause the internal structure of a creature to become rigid, including the heart. At this time, the tree's roots would follow the scent of the petrifying toxin to the corpse of its prey. It would not pursue unpoisoned prey. Tucker was attacked, probably because he had been poisoned before, so he was infected with the unique scent.
This creature surprised Lin. It had completely abandoned its previous plant lifestyle and was even more powerful than the common trap plants. It even had a symbiotic relationship with the Sword Flea and had its own army. Did this mean that there would be plants with high intelligence appearing in the future?
The possibility was small, but time would tell.
Lin named it the 'Dumetha Tree', and it felt like a very suitable name.
Lin knew that there was more than one of this plant, so she could slowly destroy it.
While Lin was slowly attacking the tree, Tucker was wandering aimlessly in the cave ….
He paced back and forth on the large pile of broken shells on the ground. His emotions were very complicated. Anxiety, nervousness, fear, all kinds of emotions. Lin thought that it had a lot to do with the pterosaur's' death '.
Tucker wandered in the eggshell fragments for a long time. Suddenly, he kicked something. His emotions were instantly increased by a 'surprise'. He picked up the thing he kicked.
This egg … should be called an 'egg'. Dinosaur eggs had strengthened the shell's hardness and were different from ordinary eggs. This egg, on the other hand, was the egg of a Skeletal Dragon …
Lin had never seen a Skeletal Dragon breed, but there were cracked eggshells in the shed where they lived, so she knew its shape and size. Tucker obviously knew it too, which was why he was so surprised.
Lin guessed that this was probably the egg of a Skeletal Dragon, but Tucker did not smash it immediately. Instead, he held it for a while and walked in the direction he came from.
After walking for a while, Tucker reached the fork in the road. The 'Dumetha Tree' was still shining brightly. In fact, the meaning of this tree's existence was very different from that of ordinary plants. Its structure was somewhat similar to that of a mushroom used by fungi to release dust. Its branches had tentacle-like glowing threads that were used for reproduction. After a certain period of time, these tentacles would break off. The tree itself had enough nutrients and could even move slowly like a worm to another place to start growing.
These tentacles had a large number of small thorns like those of a jellyfish, which could inject petrifying toxins into those who touched them.
The purpose of its glowing was to lure prey to drink water. There was no other reason. This was the only purpose of this tree on the surface. The huge roots underground were the 'main body' of the 'Dumetha Tree'. It should have grown the same structure as this tree in other places. Lin believed that if there was a lack of prey in one place, the 'Dumetha Tree' would slowly move to another place.
Lin now had a basic understanding of this tree. Although she still did not know how it developed this way of life, she could slowly explore it by digging up fossils in the future. For now, Lin felt that there was no need to completely destroy it, but she could use its nutrients to create a new troop for Lin.
Tucker's current actions were very strange. First, he put the egg in front of the tree, then he took a lot of stones from the nearby ground and surrounded the egg.