254 254 The Plague Against Everything (1/2)

The reaper is dying.

Under the constant sprint of the locust swarm, Lin probably cut off hundreds of 'plague locusts'. They are quite fragile and have no resistance, but they are like a horrible plague like their name.

At the moment when each locust is cut off, its broken body will release countless fine powders. These powders are very similar to the ”bacterial dust” used for fungal reproduction, because the harvester's eyes are farsighted and cannot be seen clearly. The close-up microscopic view, so Lin did not notice this powder at first.

This dust-like powder has characteristics that the fungus does not possess. They have a very strong adhesion ability. They adhere to the wing of the harvester in large quantities, blocking the air outlet of the harvester, and then the ”bacterial dust” begins to grow. They directly It absorbs the guts' viscera and blood sticking to the reaper's wings, and begins to grow in various shapes, ranging from fungus-like 'mushroom' forms to spreading blanket-like forms like ground, and at the same time, it produces a solution. , Trying to penetrate the harvester's hard shell and drill into the harvester's body.

This kind of biological attack is similar to fungi, but it grows faster and absorbs nutrients much faster than fungi. They continuously drill the hard shell of the harvester a little bit, and then penetrate the harvester's body, piercing the cells inside to quickly absorb them.

The harvester does not have any special resistance. In order to fly fast, most of them are muscle cells. Only a small amount of gland cells can secrete chitin, but they cannot stop the surge of fungi. The fungus quickly grows and erodes in the harvester. , And blocked the air vents, they grew a layer of mycelium on the surface of the reaper, wrapped the reaper, wrapped around the blaster on the reaper, and finally the reaper could not continue to fly, from the air Fall into the sea.

Because the parts of the reaper's eyes are also corroded, Lin can't use it to see things clearly, because the fungi in the body are still exploding, and they will die soon.

It turns out that these locusts seem to be just the carriers of this powerful fungus. They may have some special symbiotic organisms. The locusts provide the fungus with the ability to move, the fungus erodes other creatures, and finally eats the whole island and then leaves with the locusts.

At present, Lin does not see what level of intelligence they have, nor does it know whether it is a divisional species, they may only eat it all the time.

However, the fungus that grows so fast can indeed be called a ”plague”. The new type of fungus has not yet fully understood them, and this is much stronger than the twisted jungle. They can even drill. The high-hardness shell of the harvester, although it is said that there is no ability to prevent corrosion in order to strengthen the hardness and sharpness.

In this case, it is necessary for the troops to make adjustments, but now there is no time.

The wandering plague, which has appeared above the sea level, will approach the island where Lynn is.

But since this is the case, then test the infection ability of this group of plagues.

The white sand beach is full of forts, and Lin let the head worms command. The purple locust swarm that is covering the sun is close to the sky above the sand, and can be at any time ...

”shooting.”

At this moment, all the turrets pour out the warheads in the body. They dissolve the shell sand and reshape them into a sharp shape. This warhead has a rotating jet port that can directly crush the target.

Lin let the head worms see the situation on the whole battlefield. The head worms seemed to be attacking on time. The limbs of the locusts that were shot by the turret continued to fall, and the dust in their bodies spread out, just like a sandstorm.

The dust on the beach has no nutrients and can not grow, and some fungi that just stick to the scattered locust limbs suddenly start to grow. They grow long silk threads or pompon-like spheres, but they It stopped shortly before reaching the fort, and the scattered limbs and debris were not enough nutrients to allow the fungus to grow.

So it seems that they will indeed use locusts as nutrients to grow, but only after the locusts have died.

The locust swarm did not stop. They ignored the fort, but rushed towards the green-mossy plain behind the beach. They slammed into the ground and then ... died.

This group of locusts smashed their crushed bones and bones on the mossy plain at the fastest speed ...

Is this suicide?Do they use suicide to let the fungus grow?

Although the locusts committed suicide, they looked very regular. Their bodies did not pile up. Each one hit the empty space without locusts, making the bodies dense and not stacked. On their bodies, they quickly emerged. The white hyphae extend around and cover the moss on the ground. These mosses are quickly eroded by the fungus. The fungus extends into the interior and extracts the nutrients of the moss to generate more fungi.

The growth rate of these fungi is abnormal, but Lin found a characteristic that when they engulfed the moss, they did not grow as fast, and the fungus that grew out of the locust corpse is not fast. Unlike ordinary creatures, there may be something special in the locust body Ingredients can accelerate fungal growth.