Under the dark starlight, Leviathan ca closer and closer to the land. But, a rock cliff dozens of ters tall separated Lin from the land, preventing Lin to see what land looked like under the giant sharp spikes.
Was it rock? But there were so small forks on the spikes. Rocks should not have such structures.
Could it be.an organism?
Lin was interested but Leviathan could not climb on to such steep cliffs.
Never mind, when the ti ca, it should be able to swim around the cliff to find land.
Lin did not care. It had the Leviathan put down the base seed. If there were problems with this piece of land, then it could only face the disaster face on.
Lin did not have great hopes. Yet when Lins base seed touched the rock, there was nothing unusual
This landdid not have an abnormal reaction?
So this was why. No wonder it had a feeling that the north was safe
While Lin did not know what this feeling was, it seed to be of great help. Now it must have the transporters quickly swim here.
Lin did not know if there was enough ti. Leviathan took more than a hundred days to co here, and the transporters were not as fast as Leviathan. But they were now in the ocean, and shouldnt be affected by the disaster on land.
Lin had Leviathan stop under the cliff and focused on directing the large swarm of transporters.
At the sa ti, Lin noticed that the observation eyes from its original bases over on the west land and east land now saw signs that disaster was coming.
In the thirty days before the disaster, many organisms were starting to leave. First were the fish like the sharks with a good sense of sll, then the helt fish. At nearly nine days, even the jellyfish were starting to leave. What remained were the sessile organisms like the corals and grasses
Of course, they did not just sit by. The corals released large amounts of eggs even though this was not the ti for breeding and let the eggs float away with the water current.
Each organism had so ability to sense the ripples deep underground. Their senses had continued to evolve through competition, hunting and countless disasters.
Lin was interested to see where they would swim. While Lin itself predicted earlier, it had no clue about escape paths. But other organisms were always able to swim to safe places.
While Lin now had a target, it still had many eyeballs follow the fleeing organisms.
Lin also had many organisms swim in the direction that it had swam in. For example, the helt fish were mostly mixed up in Lins transporter army. There were tens of thousand of them. There were also many other lobe-finned fish. They had chosen the sa direction as Lin, but many other organisms swam in different directions.
Lin had over two thousand transporters. The transporters were shaped like sharks, and relied on their water spout tentacles to swim and steer. Right now, this enormous troop was underneath the dark cold ice layer and swam north without hesitation.
Over 90% of a transporters body was stuffed full of nutrients from the green carpet and they could not swim fast. Adding on the group of helt fish, this attracted many predators. They swam around the troop and prepared to attack at any ti.
Most of them were sharks. There were about a hundred of them that followed the troop on both sides. They would sotis charge up, bite a helt fish and then retreat.
Lins transporters had many guards and it was easier to deal with the sharks. If they only attacked the helt fish, Lin would ignore them but there were so troubleso organisms following as well.
The Dunkleosteus. These giant fish rarely appeared with more than two but there were dozens now following behind Lins transporters. They did not wait for a chance to attack like the sharks, but calmly swam behind.
They may have grown more docile because this was the prelude to the disasterwhile Lin thought so, it still kept an eye on them. This group of large fish would be very troubleso.
Lin called the north the fish path. Almost all the fish species had followed this way while other organisms swam mostly towards the southwest and northeast.
Now, there were only eight nights left. Would they get there in tibut, no matter what, this location should not be greatly affected.
After the night passed, Lins troops still moved at their fastest speed but Lin felt sothing strange.
There was a layer of ice above the troop. Large amounts of ice started to fall. They did not affect Lin and the other fish but were very strange.
This must be a warning sign of the disaster. Would the change affect this place as well?
While strange, Lin did not stop.
Another night passed. There were only seven nights left. Large cracks appeared on the ice layer. This ti, there were obvious changes. The sharks grew quiet. They did not seem interested in eating and sped up swimming.
There were only six nights left. Lin could sense that the water temperature was much higher. All of the fish were not swimming so high up, and did not day so close to the ice surface.
Lin also moved down with them. In terms of choosing the path, Lin trusted other organisms more.
There were only five nights left. Big cracks had ford between the ice pieces. The sunlight shown through the cracks into the dark waters. If the ice lted, Lin could create the green carpet here. But looking at the urgently swimming fish, Lin did not follow the thought.
Then as night and day changed, the changes in the ice layer grew more obvious. From the thick ice dozens of ters thick to the few pieces on the water surface now.
The water temperature changed rapidly, and the icy ocean water turned to a hot spring. While Lin did not know what a hot spring was, from the term, it was easy to understand the aning.
Now, there were only two nights left
The fish swarm was now swimming along the seabed. Lin found that the fish were not the only ones moving north, there were also many segnted limb organisms, like the trilobites, the Brontoscorpio. They were also moving on the bottom of the ocean north wards.
There were many fish that werent able to endure the heat and died along the way. When their corpses fell to the bottom, no organism went to eat them. Every organism was hurrying, of no mind to do anything also. Even those that were predator and prey were close together as they traveled.
In the face of the disaster, every was different
Lins troop was not completely unhard. Because the change from cold to hot had been so fast, so transporters had died, unable to adjust. But the remainder quickly adjusted.
Lin had not had to endure heat for a long ti, but the cell mories of enduring heat a long ti ago were stored. Lin just had to produce them.
But, if the water continued to heat up, there likely would be more danger.
Now, there was only one night left
Lin observed the surrounding organisms. There were only half of the helt fish left. The remainder were large ones with great resistance. The sharks were not well off. But the Dunkleosteus did not seem to be afraid of the heat and only a few of them had been lost.
As to the arthropods, they seed much better than the fish. Lin saw few fatalities.
Lin had kept so eyeballs observing on the water surface. There were almost no ice pieces left. It was so hot. But the eyeballs were simple in construction, could easily change itself and increased its ability to resist heat.
All this ti, Lins eyeball observed the change of the ice layer, but now on the ice free surface, they saw sothing else.
Right now, it was night and the stars shone brightly. The temperature was much lower than during the dayti. Lin had the eyeballs float to the water surface to sense the air temperature. Imdiately, Lins eyeballs felt the surrounding temperature increase. The stars on the sky seed to grow bigger, and they were flying towards the sea!
What was that?
Stars? Didnt seem like it
These things were spheres, around ten ters across, and were completely wrapped in a red and flickering light.
A new term appeared in Lins thoughtsfire
Fire? What was that?
During Lins confusion, the fireballs crashed into the distant sea.
Translator Ramblings: This is a really cool docuntary with amazing graphics about space and life, especially chapter 2.
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