312 312 Plague and War (1/2)
Fungus Island, 300 meters underground.
It's like ... another world.
It took Lin's predator troops for excavation a few days and nights to arrive here. Upon arriving at this place, Lin discovered that the island was not so simple.
This is a vast underground space, with mycelium shining star-like light covering the cave walls and the ground, some of the thicker mycelium gathered like pipes, forming a huge mushroom up to about five meters high, everywhere in the underground It's all like this, these mushrooms are only one every few meters, but they have nothing to do with fungi.
This structure has only one function-concentrated nutrients. Mushrooms can compress the nutrients transmitted by the mycelium, and finally produce a dehydrated hardened structure. This can be called 'mycoplasma'.
But Lynn seemed to have arrived too late. The predators scattered underground to find that most of the mushrooms were empty, and only one was still in operation.
These fungi are indeed consciously fighting against Lin. They secretly dissolve all the nutrients on the ground and all the fungi. Then they are transported to the bottom of the ground to compress them into 'mycetes'. Finally, these fungi are shipped away.
Lin has discovered how they were transported away. In this underground cave, there are some twisted passages leading directly to the sea, and in these passages, there are some traces of living things.
This trace ... like some large arthropod traces, some like a marine, trilobite-like creature ...
It turned out that the plague fungus transported some of the nutrients back to such deep ground, and then transported away with a marine arthropod?Because this place is deep, did Lin not notice?These marine arthropods must also be infected.
Obviously, the plague fungus wants to escape, so it sacrifices a lot of nutrients to make the illusion of self-dissolution, so that some of the remaining nutrients have the opportunity to be transported out of the island.
The manifestation of obvious wisdom, isn't it?
Lin began to see that these fungi responded slowly, but it was not like this. They were always trying to deal with Lin. It is absolutely not wrong for them to control some kind of highly intelligent creature ...
However, if you escape from here, it means that there are other fungal islands nearby, because the infected aquatic organisms cannot eat in the water, otherwise it will kill the fungi in the body, and the fungi will make the creature itself very fragile. They Can't swim far.
Lin immediately started a comprehensive search and released a large number of pilots in Behemoth, the center of Fungi Island, to investigate the nearby waters ...
It should be found without flying far.
Speaking of that, Monte II has been kept in Behemoth's body by Lynn. Lynn tried to communicate with it, and Lynn found that he was often reluctant to communicate, its ”character” and head worms and Inca swarms There is a big gap. It often shows emotions such as anger or fear. It seems that it is difficult to reach a friendly relationship with it.
If you kill it, the Aztecs will be completely exterminated, so let ’s keep it first.
In addition, Lin found that Chibucha was a very interesting creature. Lin fed them with other common types of fungi, and found that they could digest some fungi other than the plague fungus. Therefore, Lin caught a group of Chibucha. Feed them other fungi to change their habits.
The pilots who went out to explore the surrounding waters quickly responded. One of the pilots found an island seven kilometers west of Fungus Island. The island is round and about one kilometer in diameter. The whole island is covered by fungus ... …
No, it ’s not just fungi. After observing the islands for a while, the pilots found that these islands were covered with bladders with fungus monsters. This is called the fungus bladder. Well, the plague fungus directly Put them on the ground!And there are many fungus monsters that have already awakened. They are gathering at the edge of the island, as if they are preparing for something.
After the first pilot discovered the island, there was a second, and the third pilot discovered the island. Basically, these islands are all west of Fungus Island, and all are circular islands of similar size.
The structure above is exactly the same, there are a lot of 'bacterial bladders', and some fungus monsters that have already awakened.
There are a total of five of these islands, so Lyn calls them ... 'The Five Islands of Plague'.
Except for the ”five islands of plague”, no islands were seen in the nearby waters. Lynn saw marine arthropods similar to trilobites on the seaside of several of the islands. Obviously they were the nutrients that Lin discovered before. biological.
It turns out that they have transported all their nutrients to these five islands in order to create more fungi. Are they going to fight back?
Indeed, the plague fungus has this idea. The pilot found many large marine arthropods on the beaches of the five plague islands. They can be used as 'transport boats', and the fungus monsters on the island are also going to these 'transport boats.' 'Gather next to it.