164 164 Inca Ecology (1/2)
Leviathan dragged the flattened spider back into the breeding bin and began to decompose this creature that can secrete hot body fluids.
In the course of research, Lynn discovered that this spider has an explosive system similar to the silver beetle. It mixes two liquids together and can instantly generate extremely high temperatures, but the ingredients are somewhat different, so they will not explode.
When the spider bites its prey, it injects two liquids into the opponent's body at the same time, allowing it to mix into a high-temperature liquid in the opponent's body, so that it will not harm itself, but it can also destroy the opponent quickly than venom.
Why are the body fluids in spiders also hot?It was just because Leviathan collided the two liquid-making organs of the spider and allowed the two liquids to mix.
It does n’t feel like a very complicated structure. Lin might be surprised if she sees it for the first time, but because she already has explosives, it feels nothing special.
However, Lin found another organ in the spider body-the silk sac.
It is something that secretes silk. Many organisms secrete silk. They first make a liquid, and then this liquid will harden when it encounters air and form a silk thread.
Usually Lin does not pay much attention to these abilities, and there are many creatures that can spin silk, but Lin has recently noticed that each kind of silk thread has different hardness. For example, ordinary larvae use the silk thread to wrap up and protect themselves from deformation. This is The most common type of spinning, this kind of yarn has low strength and is easy to pull apart and break.
The strength of the sticky silk spit out by the ”Starlight Worm” that Lin once encountered in the underground cave is much stronger, and the strength of the silk thread made by this spider's silk sac is the strongest.
Lin made some silk thread liquid to form a silk thread test. This kind of spider silk only needs about 5 mm in diameter to lift more than 200 tons of things.
Although I haven't really experimented with such a large object, Lynn believes that such a thing can't be wrong. After all, the data will not change.
If you can make this kind of silk thread, it would be very useful, but Lin needs the cells to break down the ingredients in order to fully understand what kind of ingredients it is, just like the original chitin, but the combination may be somewhat Different, it takes a long time to fully understand.
In short, I found something very interesting. The spider at that time did not use this kind of silk thread to hunt. Lynn speculated that it may be used elsewhere. If you can catch a live one, you can conduct more experiments.
The next night, it was very quiet, no second spider appeared, and there was no strange sound. Until the day, the hidden lizards and various creatures appeared again, and some large male lizards climbed to a high place. , Announced the arrival of the day with a loud howling.
Lin continued to excavate the cave in the tree, while releasing a large number of flying people, including Leviathan himself, set off to explore the environment nearby.
The entire area here is almost rocky, and there are many home trees, but relative to the fern forest, the distribution is relatively sparse, and only one will appear in one to two kilometers.
Near the place where Lin was before, there are waterfalls and hot springs, and there are still many living creatures, but as long as you fly away from your home tree, you will see only dry and cracked rocky ground. There is no moisture on the rocky ground, so you have not seen it. What kind of creatures, and at the same time there are fewer glowing creatures at the top of the cave, which makes the whole environment full of darkness and barrenness.
Leviathan flew through the air quickly, Lynn just wanted to find those spiders.
When flying about five kilometers from the tree of his homeland, Leviathan discovered a huge rift valley, which was more than 70 meters wide. From there, a constant sound of rumbling came, and Leviathan flew to the rift valley. Looking down, I saw that the bottom of the rift was covered with a layer of black rock that seemed to be very sticky.
It ’s solidified lava. It seems to be a lava-prone area, but it ’s not surprising that Lin has seen it many times, and it ’s worth Lin ’s attention on the rift wall. On the cliff, there are several bodies that are as bright as lava. The giant spider, this is obviously the giant spider that Lin met in the night.
Finally found it, they only hang themselves under the cliff by a seemingly thin silk thread, they have evolved such a high-strength silk thread that seems to be used to support their weight, although Lin does not know that they are hanging here to dry Well, these spiders curled their legs together and seemed to be sleeping.
Sleeping above the solidified lava, it feels really strange ... Coupled with their color, Lynn can call them 'lava spider'.