Ferns are the earliest terrestrial plants on earth, and in ancient times they once spread to every corner of the earth.
The water fern that appeared in front of him at this time was obviously also a fern, but it was a fern that evolved independently by relying on the subglacial lake environment.
The light of the subglacial lake space is dim, which may be the reason why it cannot absorb sunlight. The water fern is very different from the existing ferns on the earth.
Its overall appearance is light blue, which is rarely seen in plants, and the stems are prostrate on the ice wall like rhizomes. At the front end of each main stem, there are fine broken leaves, like a feather attached to the ice. Only the buds in the center are curled up with snail-like spirals.
Picking off a water fern, it is cold and cold, the root system is also very shallow, and there is
What the hell!
Shao Zifeng suddenly discovered that in the attributes displayed by the light curtain, the stars representing the quality of the water fern quickly dimmed, and the leaves of the entire plant were also shrinking visibly to the naked eye.
Five stars.
Four stars.
In just a moment, the quality of the water fern dropped to three stars.
There was no time to explain, Shao Zifeng grabbed the deer beside him and stuffed the water fern into its mouth with a confused expression on its face.
The moment the water fern entered the deer's mouth, it released a milky white pure power.
It didn't take long for the deer to spit out the water fern residue that had completely shrunk into a ball.
"Yo!"
The little deer puffed out his cheeks and looked at Shao Zifeng angrily.
"How do you feel, is there any discomfort?" Shao Zifeng directly ignored Xiaolu's resentful eyes and asked with sincere concern.
The little deer wasn't really angry. Seeing Shao Zifeng's sincere attitude, he slowly closed his eyes, the antlers flashed with a faint fluorescent light, and then nodded lightly to Shao Zifeng.
"In this case, then eat all these. If you miss it this time, you may not have such a good opportunity in the future."
This is not his nonsense. Although the Antarctic continent claims to have more than 400 subglacial lakes, each subglacial lake is not connected, so these subglacial lakes are more like more than 400 independent small worlds.
No one knows what evolution process these independent small worlds have undergone in these 15 million years. The same creatures may only have a temperature difference of one degree, and the light will be dimmed and they will evolve in completely different directions.
That is to say, perhaps this water fern exists only in this subglacial lake. After all, even in the surface world, ferns have evolved into 4 classes and more than 12,000 species.
When the deer lowered his head to absorb those water ferns, Shao Zifeng did not wait, but continued to explore nearby.
Because there are too many unknowns in the lake under the ice, Shao Zifeng did not dare to be too far from the deer, so he simply hid beside the ice wall.
Like a faithful guard, Xiaoyalong followed Shao Zifeng silently, looking at this sub-glacial lake with amber vertical curiosity.
It basically never left the nest before, and even after the mother disappeared, it just looked for food nearby, so every day is new to it now, no matter what it sees, it feels very fresh.
The empty space under the ice lake is not quiet, except for the slap of the water flowing in the tunnel, the lake itself also makes a rushing sound, it seems that waves are constantly hitting the lakeshore.
The water vapor on the lake rolled, and the little tooth dragon suddenly turned its head, it felt that something seemed to have disappeared just now.
Xiaoyalong stopped and tilted his head to look into the depths of the water vapor, but he didn't feel that way anymore.
"Little thing, there are a few stones here, do you want to eat it?"
Shao Zifeng's shout sounded in front, and Xiaoyalong nictitating membrane blinked twice and recovered.
Stone or something.
It doesn't eat duck either.
After asking about Xiaoyalong, Shao Zifeng regretted that it didn't eat stones.
He pinched his chin and carefully measured the slightly abrupt rocks in front of him.
Not only that, he always felt as if he had seen this kind of stone somewhere.
The grey-white stones are irregularly shaped, with twisted dark-brown patterns on them.
pattern.
Thinking of this Shao Zifeng's eyes lit up, isn't this the kind of stone that he and Xiaolu were looking for that were suspected to be fossils
But then his brows wrinkled again. It stands to reason that in this space except ice and water, there should be no such stones on the surface.
Did it come from the ice crystal tunnel
No, the water in the ice crystal tunnel is directly into the lake.
After thinking about it, Shao Zifeng picked up the stone: "Little thing, have you seen this kind of stone?"
"Gollum."
Xiaoyalong's small face was tensed. He was very serious about Shao Zifeng's question. His amber eyes looked at the stone carefully, and after confirming it repeatedly, he nodded slowly.
Stone hammer!
It is indeed the kind of stone on the surface!
Has anyone else been here
But even if someone really came, who would bring this kind of stone in
Is it someone who thinks this is a fossil like him, the question is, no one can be so stupid, right
what.
It always feels weird.
Just when he was thinking wildly, Xiaolu came to him, rubbed Shao Zifeng with his small head, and looked at the stone in his hand curiously.
"It's all absorbed?" Shao Zifeng put down the stone and touched its corners. "Let's continue to find out if there is an exit."
"Yo~"
Seeing Shao Zifeng's movements, Xiaoyalong stretched out his short front legs, wanting to feel if he had any horns...
Um.
Can't touch.
Then, accompanied by Xiaolu and Xiaoyalong, Shao Zifeng spent a long time looking around the lake under the ice.
The harvest is there, but the most wanted exit has no clue.
Perhaps because the area of this subglacial lake is too small, no traces of other animals and plants have been found except for a few clumps of water ferns.
In addition, Shao Zifeng also discovered an ice crystal tunnel on the ice wall, where water kept flowing into the lake.
The deer sent him up with vines to take a look. The two tunnels were the same as the one they entered, steep and smooth, without any leverage point for climbing.
After returning to the original point, Shao Zifeng sat cross-legged on the ground, with the patterned stone placed in front of him, looking a little sad.
The hunger that was relieved by eating the fruit before entering came flooding again with the exhaustion of physical strength.
Xiaolu didn't know how to comfort him, so he just knelt down beside him obediently, put his head on Shao Zifeng's shoulder, the antlers bloomed a few illusory flowers, exuding a relaxing aroma.
Smelling the fragrance of the flowers, the somewhat tired Shao Zifeng relaxed and didn't think about anything.
The sub-glacial lake was filled with water vapor, and the water below made a clattering sound.
The little tooth dragon, who had nothing to do, didn't make any noise, and his amber eyes stared in the direction just now.
Whoa!
Slight water rhythm.
Xiaoyalong's pupils shrank, and it saw the cloud and mist rolling up again, and something flashed past again.
(PS: Some readers questioned yesterday's "Shao Zifeng guessed that the "primitive water" will not choke because of the high oxygen content. About this, I saw someone put it forward when I was checking the information. Although there are people who popularize science below, but However, I think this statement is very interesting, so I simply added this setting to the "primitive water" in the text.
Finally, let me say that even if you really come to the sub-glacial lake one day, don't try to breathe in the water! People will die! !
Then, I will go back to my hometown tomorrow to visit the grave, and try to come back as early as possible. If it's too late, ask for a day off here in advance, and then there will be no more vacations this month! )
(End of this chapter)