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There are many kinds of creatures here, such as fluorescent empty jellyfish, fluorescent small arthropods, fluorescent small lizards, and a new creature that Lin has not seen, their bodies glow like stars. , Wandering in the jungle.
Lin grabbed some of them to decompose. These creatures were infected by fungi, just like the dragons and locusts that Lin had seen, but the fungi that infected them were more special, and some of them grew to shine on the body surface. At the same time, they do not control their behavior. They still have the habit of being infected before, and there is no predation relationship between them. These creatures feed on fungi. Fungi will grow some structures to give them food.
It feels like the fungus is feeding them, but at present it seems that these creatures will not be eaten by the fungus, maybe the time has not come yet?
Among these creatures, there is a kind of Lynn who is particularly concerned about it. It is a small beetle whose body shell is crystal clear ...
A bacteriologist discovered this group of creatures by a small lake. They were swimming in the water, collecting mycelium in the water.
These beetles are ... Chibucha?It seems that there are only four arthropods, and the shape is very similar. They should be extinct in the twisted jungle.
However, it looks a little different carefully. No matter how much, grab one first and break it down.
But when the bacteria probe approached the water surface, these beetles ran out in an instant. They hid in the mud under the water and moved quite quickly. This feels very strange, because other creatures on the island will not escape like this, it is estimated to be It hasn't been a threat relationship for a long time, but these 'Chibucha insects' retain their sense of threat.
However, although they hid at the bottom of the lake, they were not buried deep. The slight light from the carapace exposed their traces, and the bacteria detector reached out their tentacles and easily grabbed a beetle from the mud under the water.
The beetle struggled frantically as soon as it was caught. It tried to bite the tentacles of the bacteria detector in its mouth. In this environment, their offensive consciousness was still so strong, but it was easily swallowed by the bacteria detector. Go inside, and soon began to break down.
Sure enough, this beetle is also parasitized by fungi. They are quite different from Chibucha, including some structures in the body, but in general can be counted as a category, the gap is like a large pterosaur and a small wing Like the dragon.
Lin is not only looking at the appearance of the species, but also the germ cells. If the germ cells of two organisms cannot be fused to produce offspring, they can be regarded as two different species. Of course, their offspring must also be able to produce. Some gaps are quite large. Although the species can reproduce together, the offspring cannot.
The biggest difference between Chibucha and twisted jungles here is that they are not divisional species, they are all the same size, and they seem to need sound to communicate with each other.
The carapace of these beetles is very transparent and looks like crystals, but these carapaces are not actually crystals, but are made of a transparent shell substance with many hyphae in them. These hyphae glow like stars in their carapace.
The biggest difference between them and other species here is that there are no fungi in their internal organs, the fungus is only in the carapace, and it does not extend to the brain.
Speaking of which, Lin first saw the fungus, that is, Chibucha in the twisted jungle. They planted the fungus to eat it. Could it be that these plague fungi were also made by this other Chibucha?
It doesn't look very similar, and how can they make such a devastating species?However, if they are really related to these fungi, it would be better to call it ”The Plague Chibucha”.