This group of ice drillers was put in the second half of the canyon by Lin, which is located in the jungle and the ice is drilling. Lin will explore the ice environment
The ice driller quickly drilled through the ice crystals, and Lin found that there were some frozen creatures in it. It felt as if the water suddenly froze here, and the ice seemed to freeze to a deep place. After drilling for tens of meters, Lin found that there were still ice around.
Wait, this is …
The first ice driller suddenly came across something hard. Lin found that it was not ice, but … crystallization? I haven’t noticed because it’s almost the same color as ice.
The ice driller speeds up the drilling speed to block the not-so-thick crystal drill in front of him. The ice driller suddenly enters a cold.
This is … water? Lin found that it seems that there is no ice sample in the area of more than ten meters on the surface of the ice.
The ice drillers all got in and swam slowly in this glacier water. The water here is very cold, but it can’t reach the freezing temperature, but in fact, for living things, the heat loss in this water is faster than that in the ice.
At the bottom of this place, Lin also found many biological remains, including fish and benthic organisms. The head of the ice driller gave off light to illuminate this place, but Lin’s attention was mainly on a fish bone in the middle ground.
This fish bone looks like a shark. A shark has no ribs, but it has a spine and skull besides fins. It is very recognizable, but this bone is very strange … and there are some meat scraps on it.
It looks as if it has just been eaten. Are there any creatures here?
Lin asked the ice drillers to disperse quickly to explore. They swam from here to the sea while the other part swam in the opposite direction.
Along the way, Lin saw a lot of foreground scenes, such as huge singing stones and some traces of plants. There was no ice at the bottom of the glacier for more than ten meters. It seems that the ground is warmer, maybe there is something underground.
The ice drillers swam to a place where the Inca swarms once lived, where they dug up fossils and raised creatures on the ground, and the ring pit still remained here.
When the ice driller explored the last two potholes, there was nothing special in them but cold water, and when he saw the third pothole …
What is this?
Lin can clearly feel a warm feeling in that pit. When the ice driller approached, Lin saw a wonderful sight.
When the ice driller illuminates the hole, almost the same shining light is reflected back, and there is a huge crystal in the hole, and this crystal … has a strange shape.
It’s a bit like a brain worm, and the irregular crystals of a rock hill stand in the potholes, and there are many small holes on the surface where a creature can go in and out.
And the creatures in and out of the surface are … ancient squid. Many ancient squid live here. They lie prone on crystallization and move, but when the ice driller takes photos of them, they seem to freeze and turn into colors similar to those around them …
They’re still alive, and they’re so alive …
Thinking of Lin, let the ice driller stop emitting light and change it to sound and brain waves for detection. After the light disappeared, the ancient squid moved again.
Lin discovered at this moment that the ancient squid didn’t completely adapt to the darkness, and their bodies were slightly bright. The light was too bright to be seen just now, and the ice driller could see it especially after stopping emitting light.
These ancient squid are now rapidly drilling into the crystal and something has blocked the hole. They seem to be in a panic and fear because the ice driller just photographed them.
It seems that we can’t shine here to scare them.
Then Lin explored the surrounding Inca potholes, some of which were inhabited by ancient squid and some of which had nothing.
They all live in almost the same way. A crystal is built in the pit and lives in the crystal. These crystals are shaped like a head worm rock mountain or a mound built by a creature called termites.
It is not clear where they got these crystals.
However, the main reason for knowing that they live here is that the pit is very warm, and they find crystals that have heat preservation function, while those pits without ancient squid have no warm feeling.
When exploring the potholes here, some ice drillers who swam to the end of the canyon also saw a similar scene. The end of the world was originally connected with a mountain, and there was a vast wasteland and a rift valley in that position.
And the ice driller is now near the rift valley, where Lin also found a group of ancient squid.
Chapter 29 Those who are fortunate in cold places
Crystallization is really a wonderful thing
Lin hasn’t thoroughly studied crystallization until now. There are many kinds of them, and almost all of them are shiny. Lin is observing that these creatures are crystallization and have established a city that belongs to them.
Irregular crystals are established. Most of them are one to two meters high, and some are as high as more than ten meters. They almost touch the top ice wall, and each crystal is like a pipe. A large number of ancient squid are interconnected and shuttled back and forth in the pipe, which reminds Lin of Chibucha.
They also crystallized and’ planted’ a plant … No, it should be a creature like an anemone, which is about the same size as an ancient squid. They emit a faint light, which makes the whole ice city shine.
This’ Crystal City’ has been growing for several kilometers near the rift valley, which is quite huge for creatures with a body length of only ten centimeters.
Their main source of life can be said to be that the rift water in the rift valley is very warm and even relatively hot, and the ice layer here is thinner than other places. There are no ancient squid living in the rift valley, but they have built many pipelines, which lead directly to the bottom of the rift valley.
Lin is curious about their living habits, so she should do some research on them during the period of ark remodeling.
Lin observed that this group of ancient squid mainly made two kinds of crystals. The first crystal is heat-insulating, which is their main building material. The ancient squid crushed these crystals and secreted something to bond them. These crystals were bonded in large quantities, and finally a city was formed here.
The second kind of crystallization seems to absorb heat. In fact, the pipeline layers that link each crystal building are all made of this kind of crystallization. These pipelines eventually extend to the bottom of the rift valley in large quantities. The purpose of these pipelines is to make the rift valley heat lead into the crystal building, but they not only do this, they also throw a lot of crystals to the bottom of the rift valley and bring them back after absorbing enough heat.
This wonderful move can make their whole city in a warm environment. They also build towns along the rift valley, but they can’t expand to the outside. This crystal city seems to have been built for a long time. Further away from the rift valley, Lin can see some residual architectural traces …
Perhaps the ancient squid was widely distributed and suddenly became cold. Most of them died and those who were alive gathered near the rift valley.
The building’ heat pipes’ should be made recently. They seem to have a lot of intelligence.
These crystals seem to have been dug out of the ground by them. Lin remembers that there should have been no crystals here, but it didn’t seem that she paid much attention to this kind of thing at that time …
Lin was a little surprised by the living habits of this group of ancient squid. Even though they gathered in a huge community, they got along well with each other. They also relied on color-changing communication, but the most important thing was that they believed in their own kind.
There is no such thing as disbelief or hostility of the same kind in ancient squid, that is to say, they don’t steal and deceive them, and they don’t buy or sell things with each other, which is similar to the fair distribution of skeleton dragons.
Lin found that one of them, the leader, found that he was responsible for distributing things, but he would not take the opportunity to distribute more to himself, that is, there was no selfishness.
Without this phenomenon at first, all cheating disputes would not appear later.
This is amazing … Lin thought that if the individual creatures continued to develop without’ teaching’, they would all become like white skeleton dragons or emerald dragons.
But it’s not necessarily true. After all, ancient squid came from creatures like ammonites. It’s not surprising that they developed a special life character with a great gap from dinosaurs, but I wonder if they are related to the group of ancient squid that Lin observed at the beginning.
The ancient squid that saw the war in Qianhai should be two different ethnic groups. Although there is no "tiger" among them, the same kind will still fight.
The ancient squid food here usually comes from the frozen creatures around and those anemones. They sometimes break anemones’ tentacles to eat and then give them their own excrement to eat.
It’s common symbiosis, just like planting plants …
However, after the surrounding creatures are eaten up, their way of life is difficult to determine, and they are not the only living creatures. Some creatures will rob them of food and even attack them.
At present, a creature has been found on the edge of the city, which is the kind of … crystalline trilobite seen on land.
Before the land saw those trilobites, they probably dug the ice and ran out, but … that seems to have gone too far. Does trilobites have this ability?
It is more than 30 centimeters long, and it is like a monster to the ancient squid. This trilobite tried to dig up the crystal building of the ancient squid, and the ancient squid quickly fought back.
Although this group of ancient squid can make complex crystal buildings and piping systems, their weapons are simple, but they still make sharp stones or shell fragments stab trilobites. After many attacks, trilobites seem to feel pain and run away.
And this group of ancient squid is still chasing after them. They keep attacking trilobites and trying to drive them farther away, but some ancient squid are caught and shredded by trilobites during the attack.
But the crazy attack of the ancient squid also worked. The trilobite made it difficult to move because of joint damage, and finally fell to the seabed …