Chapter 68

The base seed's sensory tentacles can detect various changes, including earthquakes, faults, lava eruptions, and ice formation. Lin has already mastered the patterns of these phenomena; they always produce subtle fluctuations in the water beforehand. Lin's sensory tentacles are specifically designed to feel these fluctuations. Even when Lin is asleep, this ability continues to evolve and improve, allowing the tentacles to detect these fluctuations in increasing detail, sometimes even years in advance.

A subtle vibration was felt when Lin's base seed came into contact with the lake bottom's mud and sand. This sensation was very peculiar; Lin had never felt it before, but could calculate its future impact.

According to Lin's records of environmental changes over 100 million years, this tiny vibration will suddenly intensify in about a year. This will not only cause ordinary vibrations but also seem to make a large area move.

Wait... this is not the sea; the lake is deep inland, about a few kilometers from the sea. So... this vibration affects the land? If the land starts to move, what impact will it have on the sea?

This is a situation that has never occurred in the past 100 million years. In memory, the land does move very slowly, but such sudden changes have never been seen...

Why? Lin doesn't know. This is unlike any environmental change before. If such a large area of land moves into the sea, it could cause massive destruction. Lin must prepare.

Other organisms also have the ability to predict and calculate, but they usually only react within seven to thirty days. Unlike Lin, who can detect it a year in advance, the helmet fish would not be here to lay eggs otherwise.

The base seed will stay here to observe the situation. Lin must also monitor the main base, even though it is far away. Such a large-scale vibration will definitely have an impact.

Lin first had Leviathan leave the lake, following the previous route back to the river and then to the sea.

The main base was originally exposed above the water surface, but due to the rising water level, it has returned to the sea, just like other bases. The main base is now covered with a green carpet, but the organs inside the giant rocks in the center are still there. Lin made it produce a spherical probe to swim towards the nearest land.

The probe reached the nearby land at its fastest speed. When it approached the rock wall, Lin felt the same vibration.

Will this area also experience the same vibration?

The land might move hundreds of kilometers towards the sea. If so, the green carpet covering this area will be completely destroyed, causing catastrophic damage to the local organisms.

Lin must leave... within a year.

Lin currently has no good way to stop the environmental changes, so the only option is to escape.

Thinking and acting, Lin began to have all the green carpets self-decompose. The nutrients accumulated by these cells over the years, beyond what is needed for normal growth, are usually stored in some high-hardness small spheres within the green carpet to prevent other organisms from stealing them.

Lin created a soldier type like a devourer to collect these small spheres and the self-decomposing photosynthetic cells. Another type of soldier is responsible for dissolving the outer shell of the green carpet, then combining them to create large transporters, into which all the nutrients will be moved.

These transporters can move and carry all the nutrients Lin has collected without leaving any behind.

The green carpet now covers a vast area. Without considering any mutations, Lin can calculate that these tasks can be completed within a year, but various unforeseen events may occur.

Regardless, Lin must try hard to completely recover the green carpet within a year.

At this moment, Leviathan, which had jumped into the river, quickly returned to the sea. Lin doesn't need Leviathan to return to the main base but to go to a more distant sea area to find a safe place for Lin to continue covering with the green carpet.

It must be completed within a year...

Leviathan swam into the depths of the sea, an area Lin had never been to. The green carpet mainly covers the shallow sea near the land. Further in, the seabed is completely dark.

Perhaps... a floating green carpet could cover the sea surface? After all, the current ultraviolet rays are not strong.

But... ice formation usually occurs on the surface, making it easy to freeze and die. Photosynthetic cells, specialized for absorbing large amounts of light, have low resistance to cold.

However, it is really necessary to move away from the land.

Leviathan swam along the surface, where the seabed was no longer visible, just a dark expanse. This area is already considered the deep sea. Not far ahead on the surface, large ice sheets appeared.

Ice... always a troublesome thing.

Leviathan approached the ice sheets, and Lin found them to be extremely thick, possibly formed over a long time, but unlikely to melt within a year. Lin must find another place by going around them.

Leviathan swam along the edge of the ice sheets, and Lin found that the ice-covered area was quite extensive, making it difficult to go around.

Since that's the case, let's swim under the ice sheets and see if we can pass through.

Just as Lin thought this, a creature slowly drifted over from the air...

This creature looked like a jellyfish, with an oval body about two meters long and some thin tentacles about one meter long, but it was floating in the air above the water!

Floating? In the air?

Can it move in the air?

At that moment, Lin had an idea: to capture and decompose this 'air jellyfish' to see how it does it!

Leviathan aimed the troop exit at the air jellyfish and fired a burst projectile.

The air jellyfish, though eyeless, seemed to sense the attack and quickly rose to avoid the projectile.

It's much smarter than ordinary jellyfish. Let's use this.

Leviathan has a new troop type called 'Rusher.' The Rusher has a streamlined body with a long, pointed front. In the water, it can charge at ultra-high speed by jet propulsion, even leaping several meters out of the water.

Taking advantage of the jellyfish's slow movement, Lin quickly created a Rusher and had it dive to a certain depth before charging upwards!

The Rusher's jet propulsion system rapidly activated, propelling it out of the water. Before the jellyfish could react, it pierced through the jellyfish's body.

Good... huh?

As it pierced through, the jellyfish's wound suddenly spewed a large amount of gas, not only blowing the Rusher away but also propelling the jellyfish far away, quickly disappearing from sight.

...Leviathan can't catch up with this speed.

What a pity. I didn't expect it to be hollow? It seems to be filled with some gas, allowing it to float in the air.

Although Lin failed to capture and decompose it, Lin has already roughly calculated the internal structure of the jellyfish. Unfortunately, it's not very helpful now, and Lin doesn't know what kind of gas is inside the jellyfish.

Leviathan has more important things to do, such as passing through the ice sheet and finding a suitable place. However, it's unknown how long it will take to go around, so let's see if we can pass through.

Leviathan dived under the ice sheet, and the surrounding light became even dimmer. Many starfish were gathered here.

They stuck to the underside of the ice sheet, moving on the ice surface with their bodies inverted. Over 100 million years, starfish have become colorful, but their appearance hasn't changed much. However, there are some exceptions, but it seems there are no such exceptional starfish here.

Just as Lin thought this, a large star-shaped ice crystal suddenly fell from the ice sheet, instantly enveloping Leviathan's entire body.

...What is this? Ice? No...

Lin found that this 'ice' began to change color. The ice-like color gradually faded, and its entire body turned a bright red, eventually becoming a giant, completely red starfish...

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