4.6 Billion Year Symphony of Evolution
288 Fungus Heartbeat
Under the fungus island, Lin is preparing for a ... war.
Lin has calculated the wake-up time of these fungus balls. Although they are of different sizes, the wake-up time is the same. When the sound of 'Dump' is about to reach a certain frequency, the creatures inside will appear.
The organisms in the fungus ball are not casually infectious organisms. Lin found that they are very regular, like a group of small arms, some large arms, their abilities can cooperate with each other, and many can swim in the water. The type of flight, many of these creatures are carrying plague fungi with extremely strong erosion ability, if they attack the mainland, it will be quite troublesome, although it is said that they are not likely to go there.
But no matter what, Lynn must destroy them before then.
Lynn let more predators outside enter this underground cave. Instead of spewing fire first, they sprinkled the ground with flammable liquid, sprinkling each fungus ball and the ground near them.
At the same time, Lin also brought the bacteriophage in. Some predators brought the smaller fungus balls to the phagophage for conversion and phagocytosis, with more nutrients and more fuel, and the bacteriophage began to increase. Big, devouring nearby fungal balls ...
Lin has calculated the time of waking up with the frequency of the fungus ball's beating, and what she found is basically that it takes thousands of seconds to wake up.
Time ... is very short.
Lin does n’t yet know how big this underground cave is, maybe the size of the whole island, these fungus balls are thousands, and the number of Lin ’s troops is not enough at present, so you need to rely on swallowing to get nutrients to convert more force.
Of course, before Lin had enough troops, they would wake up.
Anyway, let's talk about the war first!
When the predators sprayed the flammable liquid, those Chibucha worms were also running around in the fungus ball. They seemed to be observing the predator, but did not decide to attack, nor did they try to disturb the predator.
If Lin fires directly, they will try to extinguish, but if they spray the liquid, they will just look aside.
They do n’t seem to understand yet, but no matter how they are sprinkled, they ca n’t cover the entire underground. It ’s also very humid here. Some fungus balls have fireproof ability and ca n’t be burned. These flammable liquids are only used as a cover-up Lin must also prepare a more powerful attack ...
At the same time, Behemoth outside also began to attack the fungal forest. Lin released more bacteriophages from the beach and began to devour the entire island. All of Lin ’s troops began to attack the island strongly!
On the side of the fungus, there was no reaction. It seemed that the initial attack had exhausted all its waking troops, and now they had no reaction.
This feels weird, but the attack will not stop.
The predators are already sprinkling the vast area of the underground cave with fuel, but how wide is it?Lin hasn't calculated yet, but it will become broader ...
They did not immediately ignite, but returned to the phagocytes, which continued to grow and devoured nearby fungal balls.
Everything is proceeding slowly, with the heart-beating sound of fungus balls, the time when they appear is getting closer and closer ...
Before that, Lin is going to make a deeper observation and understanding of this place.
The group of Chibucha worms swayed around Lin ’s forces, and as the fungus ball woke up, they all suddenly began to retreat deep into the cave. Lynn made a smaller flight with the nutrients of the bacteriophage. The followers go after them and see what is going on in this group of Chibucha.
The pilot quickly caught up with these retreating Chibucha insects, and Lynn found that they had drilled in from the ground, and there was a small hole on the ground just enough for them to pass through.
Because they are tiny pilots, pilots can also drill through these small holes that are only a few centimeters in diameter.
The cave is of course dark, but in front, Lin can see the light from the last Chibucha worm entering, and these glowing fungi are scattered in their carapace, I don't know what it means.
The light of each Chibucha is different, but the leader is more dense. After following this Chibucha in a narrow passage for a while, the surroundings gradually widened as if to another A cave.
There are more bright lights appearing on the cave walls here. On both sides of the flight, there is a mushroom that emits blue fluorescence, only about one centimeter in height. If the flight is too close, they will be brighter. , Although I do n’t know what it means.
The deeper you go, the more mushrooms around you. There are a lot of light-emitting hyphae falling down at the top of the cave wall, just like the root system of the plant. There are many Chibucha insects between these hyphae. Crawling around, they cut off some mycelium and tied them together on their backs.
As if they collected these mycelia for consumption.
As she went deeper and deeper, Lin found that there were more than mushrooms on the ground, and there were many mosses. They seemed to live on the light of the fungus, and the fungus did not devour them. But where did the nutrients of these fungi come from?
Is Chibucha Worm?
The pilot reached an empty place with a sufficient height at the top of the cave. It can fly completely to observe the environment. In addition to fungi and moss, there are also a large number of Chibucha insects. Distributed throughout the cave, they are doing one thing-cutting the mycelium, and then stacking them in the center of the cave.
There are many small white worms next to the mycelium pile, which should be the larvae of Chibucha.
They do eat fungus, but the fungus ignores them, and their body is not parasitic by the fungus except the carapace.
Lin has a speculation about their lives. Although it seems that this group of Chibucha worms coexist with the fungus, they are not controlled by the fungus. They will not send messages to the fungus nor help the fungus fight. Their attack behavior should be Just protect yourself.
This is really wonderful. A creature that can survive under such a terrible 'plague'. They may have used some method to prevent the fungus from harming itself, just like the Chibucha in the twisted jungle can also control the growth of the fungus. Yes, but terrible creatures like the plague fungus here can protect themselves very well.
Now, the time for fungus balls has come.
'Click ...'
A large number of fungus balls began to make a crack-like sound. In the cracks, various fungus monsters drilled out of the ball, and their bodies were covered with a thick layer of mycelium.
Not every fungus ball wakes up at this time, but currently Lin estimates that she has awoke thousands of times. Their wake-up time seems to be 'set'. Each batch has the same time, only a few Appears individually.
The group of creatures started to rush towards the bacteriophage at the moment they came out. They kept roaring loudly, but they could not feel the emotion of anger, but they did n’t know whether the plague fungus itself was angry or not, but they Obviously, Lin is not allowed here.
While these creatures are running on the ground, they have stuck a lot of fuel, and they are also splashing these fuels everywhere on the run, splashing on the surrounding fungus balls and their companions.
The plague fungus has never seen this kind of flammable liquid, so they have not yet connected them to the threat, but are rushing frantically towards the place where the bacteriophage is.
Now, a large number of fungus monsters have appeared in all directions of the bacteriophage, and their body, especially the legs, have a lot of flammable liquid stuck on them.
Then let's get started, the whole cave will become fragrant!
At this moment, some of the explosive bombs that Lin placed on the ground exploded. The high temperature generated by the fusion of the explosive components in the explosive bombs ignited the fuel liquid on the ground, and the flame began to spread and burn instantly!
The whole cave was shrouded in high temperature under the raging flames. The flames climbed on the bodies of the rushing fungal monsters. They roared and howled in the flames, and began to aim aimlessly.
Even if some creatures can secrete fluids that resist flames, they cannot resist the surrounding high temperature. In the flames, the flesh and skeleton of these creatures slowly start to separate and fall off, one by one to the ground.
Lin discovered a special phenomenon. After being attacked by the high temperature of the flames, the creatures infected by the fungus seem to be temporarily out of control. They will not continue to charge but hit everywhere, which makes them more deadly.
During the duration of the flame, an oxygen deficiency condition began to appear here. The oxygen in the depth of the underground seemed to be not enough originally. Under the flame, the oxygen in the cave became less and less, and some fungi that successfully avoided the flame The blame also fell down because he could not bear the hypoxia.
Lin had long thought of this kind of thing, so both predators and phagophages have spare airbags, and the phagophage itself does not consume much oxygen.
Now the flames are slowly extinguishing, and only a large amount of bones and various kinds of burnt black matter are left in the cave, and almost nothing can be seen.
The predator took this opportunity to start collecting all the ash residues here, they threw these things to the bacteriophage to decompose, and again the bacteriophage began to grow continuously.
Before the oxygen recovers, the bacteriophage may grow several times in size. Lynn successfully solved the siege and gained a lot of nutrients, but next time, the plague fungus will definitely pay attention to the burning fluid, this trick may not work Twice.
Those flames did not spread to the position, still echoing the heart-beating sound, but they need about a day and night to wake up, so Lin has more time to prepare.
"call……"
Suddenly, Behemoth over the island outside heard a strange sound ...