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Chapter 179 Underground Ecosystem

The lake water around the jade pillar was frozen by ghost flames, and in the middle of a large lake, there was an extra piece of cold ice.

Lin Yan made sure that no other strange fish rushed up, so he squatted down and carefully observed the white jade fire lotus on the jade pillar.

There is a white jade-like rhizome under the fire lotus, which is connected to the jade pillar, and it is obviously integrated with the jade pillar.

Each flower is divided into ten or twenty petals, and each petal is white jade color, with flame-like fiery red lines on the tip of the petals, like a burning flame.

In the center of the petals, there is a white jade-like lotus pod, among which there are many emerald green lotus seeds the size of a little finger.

At first glance, Lin Yan felt that the lotus seeds looked familiar.

He stretched out his hand and twisted one, and a layer of emerald green smoke emitted from the lotus seeds.

"This is... Poison Pearl!"

Lin Yan immediately remembered that this lotus seed was exactly the same as the poisonous bead in the center of the poisonous stone that he snatched from the Dripping Blood Cave at that time!
The emerald green smoke emitted from it was full of poisonous mist.

"It seems that the poison pearl in the poison stone is the lotus seed of this white jade fire lotus.

"It's just that I don't know how, but I got drifted outside?"

Reminiscent of the strange fish also appearing in the Longsi Pond, could it be that there is some dark channel under the deep lake that connects to the outside?
Just flash the thought and put it aside.

Lin Yan stretched out his hand to grab the jade rhizome under the fire lotus, and exerted a little force. Unexpectedly, it looked like jade, but it was actually very strong, and it couldn't stop breaking.

Lin Yan continued to increase his strength until it broke out, and then he broke it with a crisp crackling sound.

"It's so strong, it's a mysterious item..."

Yes, Lin Yan guessed that this white jade fire lotus is likely to be a mysterious item.

Because its attraction to him is at least two or three times stronger than the beads in the body of the mudberry that he has seen before.

Looking at the white jade fire lotus in his hand, Lin Yan first buckled off all the lotus seeds on it one by one, put it in a special bag, and then carefully packed the fire lotus, which was prepared before coming, In a leather bag.

Fortunately, when he was underwater, he was protected by mud berries, and his clothes and animal skin bag were intact.

Since the fire lotus was strong, he didn't break it anymore, his palm trembled slightly, and the original dark and violent flames rose up, turning into a sickle with a curved handle.

Then he grabbed the white jade fire lotus, as if cutting rice, and lightly stroked the sickle.

If there is no movement, the rhizome will be cut off at the same root, and the port is smooth and delicate, without any resistance.

Then dig out the poison beads and place the fire lotus.

Harvesting continuously in this way, until there was only one white jade fire lotus on the jade pillar, Lin Yan stopped.

"Let's keep one tree. If those people come in later, if they find nothing but bare jade pillars in this big lake, they may be suspicious of me..."

Thinking in this way, he waved his sickle, cut off the broken roots, and put them into his animal skin bag.

In this way, it was as if there was only a single fire lotus growing on the jade pillar.

"There are more than ten fire lotuses in this animal skin bag, and it can barely be covered with mud berries, but if I put ten more, I'm afraid it won't work."

The mud berry can't cover it. Once it enters the water and is entangled by those strange fish, the animal skin bag may be bitten to pieces immediately.

Lin Yan had no choice but to hit the bag of fire lotus first, jump into the water, and swim towards the shore.

Strange to say, this time he entered the water and swam out, but he did not attract a large number of strange fish.

There were only three or four sporadic strange fishes that rushed up to bite him without opening their eyes, and were crushed to death by his slap of the Spirit Seizing Demon Fire.

"Is it because I am afraid of killing these strange fish?"

With doubts in mind, Lin Yan went up to the shore, and he specially left a mud fruit clone here to prevent the corpse Buddha cockroaches from gathering again.

At this time, pour out all the fire lotus in the animal skin bag, place it under the body of Ni Berry, then turn around and enter the water, and swim towards another jade pillar.

At first, it was still smooth and there was no movement, but when it got close to the jade pillar, the water started to boil again!
Countless strange fish swarmed over, biting at Lin Yan.

"This strange fish...could it be entrenched next to the jade pillar?"

With the cooperation of Seizing Soul Demon Fire and Ghost Youyan, Lin Yan climbed onto the jade pillar without hindrance.

"These strange fish, entrenched around these jade pillars, are they guarding these fire lotuses?
"But if they needed the fire lotus, why didn't they jump up and bite the fire lotus even though a clump of fire lotus had grown?
"With their bouncing power, the fire lotus should have been eaten up long ago..."

Animals occupy a place, or this place is their habitat, territory, and cannot be violated.

Or, there is food in this place, and they are protecting it.

Lin Yan didn't figure it out for a while, but his hands were not slow, and he didn't have much effort. All the dozen or so fire lotuses on this piece of jade pillar were all in his pocket.

Just about to dive back, Lin Yan suddenly felt a slight tremor under his feet.

The next moment, the ice layer frozen by him suddenly cracked open, a huge black shadow two to three feet long jumped out of the water, and swallowed the ice layer with a big mouth. in the mouth.

Before Lin Yan could react, another big fish of the same size charged straight up, shattering all the ice around the jade pillar and scattering it into countless shards of ice floating on the lake.

This time Lin Yan saw it more clearly. This strange fish looked like a shrunken whale. Its whole body was pitch black. No eyes, nose or other organs could be seen. It only had a huge curved mouth, like two huge door panels.

Lin Yan immediately thought of the black shadow that he had glimpsed in the Longsu water pond.

As soon as the ice layer shattered, all the frozen saber-toothed monster fish scattered out, but they were still frozen, even though they had strong vitality, they were still in a frozen state.

These two big fishes swam excitedly around the jade pillar, and swallowed all the scattered strange fish into their huge mouths.

"Is this coming for these saber-tooth monster fish?"

Lin Yan took a closer look, and found that the mouths of these strange fish had a very peculiar structure. There was not a single tooth in them, and the upper and lower jaws of the mouth were like two layers of hard slate. Once closed, they looked like two huge slabs. The rocks are pressed together tightly.

"An ordinary big fish, if it eats the knife-tooth monster fish, it may be bitten through by the knife-tooth monster fish before digesting it.

"However, the mouth structure of this large fish is obviously the natural enemy of the saber-toothed fish.

"Once the saber-toothed fish is swallowed into the mouth and the upper and lower jaws are tightly closed, the saber-toothed fish can be firmly clamped between two thick and solid rock plates, unable to move.

"And what I saw in the Longsi Pond at the time, was the saber-tooth monster fish, whose whole body was corroded and half-rotten...

"It must be the mouth of this big fish, which will secrete acid and digestive juices, directly digesting the strange fish!"

The two big fish swam around, biting their upper and lower jaws tightly, then turned around happily and swam away slowly.

During the process, one or two lucky knife-tooth monster fishes also came to life and opened their mouths to bite the big black fish.

However, the skin and flesh of the big black fish are actually rich in elasticity. When the knife-tooth monster bites down, its flesh immediately sinks, and when all the force of its bite is relieved, it is like a spring, stretched to the extreme and rebounds back. , Flying the saber-tooth monster fish directly!

"It seems that this big black fish is the natural enemy of the saber-tooth monster fish..."

After the strange black fish swam away, Lin Yan swam back into the water again.

Sure enough, seeing him leave the jade pillar, the surviving saber-tooth monster fish did not continue chasing him, but entrenched on the edge of the jade pillar, constantly guarding.

Next, Lin Yan began to do happy repetitive work.

Constantly going back and forth between the jade pillars and the lake, picking and harvesting the jade pillars one by one, and when there are too many jade pillars, they will pick up a animal skin bag, exit the giant green forest, return to the hidden cave, and count all the white jade fire lotus Put it down, leaving two mud berries to garrison.

Fortunately, he made a few new mud berries last time, so the quantity is sufficient.

Then go back to the lake and repeat the operation.

This is very time consuming, especially the further you go to the back, the farther those jade pillars are from the shore of the lake, and the longer it will take to get there.

But the whole process was blissful, it was so easy, and he was able to continuously collect priceless mysterious objects. He was willing to spend more time like this!
But the lake is too big, and there are corpse Buddha cockroaches all over, especially the giant corpse Buddha cockroach, which is entrenched on the other side of the lake.

Lin Yan asked himself, it was impossible to collect all the white jade fire lotus in five days.

Only the most convenient, shortest, and safest white jade fire lotus can be selected for collection.

I don't know day and night, time flies very fast.

About four or five days later, in Lin Yan's cave, the white jade fire lotus piled up like a hill.

Just the faint halo emitted by the strange thing illuminates this underground cave, magnificently like a fairyland.

And as the number of trips back and forth in the lake increased, Lin Yan also gained a more in-depth and detailed understanding of the ecology of the underground world.

First of all, the saber-tooth monster fish, they are indeed entrenched around the jade pillar.

Only when Lin Yan is close to the jade pillar, they will rush towards Lin Yan like crazy, attacking him in large numbers.

After many observations, Lin Yan discovered that these saber-tooth monster fish seemed to be feeding on this jade pillar!
Several times, he saw that the saber-tooth monster fish opened its large curved mouth, and opened the teeth of the upper and lower jaws into an arc, which just fit tightly on the round surface of the jade pillar for gnawing.

Their teeth cannot be completely closed, but they can fit tightly when eating jade pillars.

Later, driven by curiosity, after freezing the strange fish, Lin Yan went down to the side of the jade pillar and touched it with his hands.

Only then did I realize that the surface of the jade pillar was covered with a thin layer of moist, dense fleshy organic matter!
In other words, it is not attached, but secreted from this jade pillar!
The saber-tooth monster fish feeds on this layer of fleshy organic matter.

Therefore, this jade pillar is the producer of this underground great lake ecosystem!
Relating to the strong smell of sulfur around and the sweltering heat underground, Lin Yan suddenly remembered some reports he had seen in his previous life.

It is said that some strange bacteria live in the crater of the seabed, and use geothermal energy and sulfide to perform a physiological activity similar to photosynthesis to produce organic matter.

He couldn't help guessing that this jade pillar was formed into organic matter through a similar physiological activity.

Later, Lin Yan observed more carefully and found more things.

For example, that corpse Buddha cockroach can also go into the water!

They will shrink their bodies into a shuttle shape, and use the fleshy touch behind them to swim, like an octopus, and their targets in the water are the big black fish and jade pillars!

The elastic flesh on the surface of the big black fish is almost immune to the bite of the saber-tooth monster fish.

But the corpse Buddha cockroach is even bigger than them, and the blade arm is so sharp that it can directly pierce this big black fish!

Most of the time, they will hunt this big black fish as their target, probably as food.

But sometimes, they will attack that jade pillar again! !
But at this time, the offensive and defensive forms are reversed, and the saber-toothed monster fish has become the natural enemy of the corpse Buddha cockroach!
Its fine scale armor on the surface and its small size make the saber arm of the corpse Buddha cockroach useless at all.

But its terrifying bite force can easily penetrate the carapace of the corpse Buddha cockroach.

Therefore, every time the corpse Buddha cockroaches attacked the jade pillar, there were often heavy casualties, and it became a feast for the saber-tooth monster fish.

And they attack the jade pillar, not for food, they always cut off a piece of jade pillar, grab it and run away, just like they collect immature mud berries.

Therefore, the entire underground world is actually connected by a tight food chain.

Yuzhu, Saber-toothed monster fish, big black fish, and corpse Buddha cockroach are one;
Yu Zhu, Corpse Buddha Cockroach, Saber-toothed Monster Fish, and another big black fish;
Restricting each other, closely fitting together, each has natural enemies.

Ordinary natural ecosystems are stable when they are stable, but they often have extremely rich biodiversity.

And this large underground lake, counting the jade pillars, has only four kinds of creatures, but it can maintain a strict ecological balance.

This feeling... as if it was not formed naturally, but made by man!
What makes Lin Yan even more terrified is that it is completely impossible to maintain a long-term ecological balance naturally with these four kinds of organisms...

It must be possible with the continuous intervention and continuous maintenance of external forces!

(End of this chapter)