"Hmm. ”

Dai Lin nodded, and then directly entered the interior of the fungus cave, and naturally saw the fungus plant in the most central part of the cave at once.

Except for the fungus, there is still no hair in the rest of the place.

"It's ripe. After Dai Lin entered the fungus cave, she squatted directly in front of the fungus and began to observe carefully.

As for Ye Ren's side, naturally he would not continue to observe the fungus, anyway, he had already seen this kind of thing, so in a moment of thought, he directly used the mental link to communicate with the insect queen.

[After the worm, what did you do with that little mushroom?]

Ye Ren asked directly.

[Father, what is a little mushroom?]

Of course, the insect queen couldn't understand Ye Ren's words, so she asked with some doubts.

[Oh, that's right, it's the cave I let you open up, there is a fungus in it, I saw a sapper-type insect go in and take away the wart fruit that grows on it, I want to ask if you did something to that fungus?]

Ye Ren was silent on the surface, but in his heart, he had already asked the queen of worms.

[Is that that?]

The insect queen replied, and then admitted: [My father told me before, and told me that the plant was the source of food in the future, so I specially ordered the insect to water more insect nectar as nutrients. 】

[I see, you keep busy, I'm fine.] 】

Ye Ren nodded subconsciously, then cut off the spiritual link, walked directly in front of Dai Lin, and explained to him: "Okay, I've probably found the root of the problem, do you want to listen to it?"

"Tell me about it. ”

Dai Lin raised her head and glanced at Ye Ren.

"Hmm. Actually, it's nothing. Ye Renyi shrugged: "I told the insect queen before, saying that this place will produce its food source in the future, so this fungus plant will be planted after we leave." It received special care from the queen of worms and absorbed a large amount of nutrient solution. I don't know exactly where the absorption limit of this thing is, but that's the general thing. ”

“… It turns out that the queen used a large amount of insect nectar to ripen the fungus?"

Dai Lin nodded subconsciously, she naturally knew in her heart that the insect queen was not a real worm, but a life form with a high degree of intelligence, so it was not impossible for the other party to do this kind of thing: "Hmm... If it had been forcibly fed with a lot of nutrients, it would have grown much faster, but I didn't plan to do it because it was more than worth the cost. But I didn't expect the queen to see through this, and I thought there was something in the soil here that would make the fungus grow faster. ”

"So sometimes it's not that complicated, and you don't have to get into the horns or anything. ”

Ye Ren smiled, and then asked, "But it seems that this fungus plant should be almost mature now, should we plant it separately for a few waves?"

"Of course. ”

Dai Lin nodded, and then with a thought, the metal ribbons conjured up by the two star marks stretched out from her cuffs and cut through the fungus in a wave.

Ye Ren specially observed Dai Lin's movements very carefully, and found that this guy was really cutting at random, cutting about five or six purple-black sticks about the length of a palm on the main fungus plant.

Actually, these sticks. It's nothing more than the stem or silk of the fungus.

Here is a little bit of a general appearance of the fungus, because the fungus is not a pure fungus or plant, its life form is extremely peculiar. There wasn't even a single leaf on the plant, and from a distance, it was a mass of black-purple stuff slightly thicker than your thumb, and these things were intertwined and agglomerate, and these soft black-purple hyphae, well... Let's call it mycelium, which not only intertwine with each other, but also dig deep into the ground and split into smaller roots that absorb the meager nutrients in the rock formations.

Dai Lin at the moment. It's just a few hyphae that can be cut off, because they're all actually very tightly wound together. It's not good to separate at all, and then after cutting it off. Dai Lin used her metal ribbon to roll it hard, and the pressure caused the mycelium to be squeezed into pieces.

Then, Dai Lin used the star mark ribbon to divide the pieces into several parts and sprinkle them in the fungus hole.

"That's it?"

Ye Ren glanced at the fragments of mushrooms that were cut all over the ground, and asked.

"Of course. Dai Lin nodded: "As long as you water some nutrient solution to ensure their growth, there shouldn't be any other problems." ”

As she spoke, Dai Lin's ribbon had already stretched, ready to pour the nutrient solution towards the ground.

"Wait ......"

Ye Ren waved his hand, interrupting Dai Lin's behavior this time, and then under the latter's puzzled gaze, he directly explained: "You don't need to do this matter, I'll contact the insect queen a little, anyway, this fungus hole must be taken care of in the future, we don't have time to watch the growth of this thing twenty-four hours a day, are you right?"

"Well, that's true. ”

Dai Lin thought for a while, and felt that what Ye Ren said did make some sense, so he nodded subconsciously: "Although this thing is theoretically a product of failure, its vitality is indeed very tenacious, even if I don't take care of it personally, there should be no problem." ”

"So just let it go. ”

After Ye Ren heard Dai Lin's words, he first said a word, and then used the psychic link to communicate with the worm, and asked the other party to call a few sapper-type insects to take care of... Or rather, guarding these plants.

Soon, the insects assigned by the queen arrived in the fungus.

Ye Ren found that the size of these sapper-type insects was obviously much larger than the original insects, and it was clear without thinking about it that the queen of insects estimated that a batch of new sapper insects had been specially produced and put into the management of the fungus.

Looking at this sapper-type insect that was only one lap larger than a medium-sized dog (golden retriever, husky), Ye Ren also knew in his heart that the queen of insects really attached great importance to fungus.

"Squeak~Goo~"

As soon as a few sapper-type insects entered the inside of the cave, they were already clearly aware of what they should do, and walked over to the scattered fungus, their jaws slightly open. The nutrient solution began to flow slowly out of it and water the surface of the fungus.

After absorbing the nutrients, the fragments of these bacteria began to slowly change.

It is soaked in insect honey with a very high nutrient content. As if they had some kind of life, these plants began to wriggle in the honey of the insects with a visible appearance. That's right, it's wriggling, those shredded or squeezed notches slowly grow some sprouts, and it's because these sprouts are growing slowly at a speed that is visible to the naked eye, occasionally hitting the ground or other pieces, so they are wriggling.

"This nutrient solution..."

Compared to Ye Ren's observation of the fungus with great interest at the moment, Dai Lin became interested in the nectar secreted by the sapper-type alien insects.

I don't know what's going on, but the nutrient solution secreted by the sapper type insects this time is of different colors, and the color of the nutrient solution secreted by several sapper type insects is completely different. Some are blood red, some are pale green, and there are amber and transparent colors, even Ye Ren is a little unsure why.

"What's wrong with the nutrient solution?" Hearing Dai Lin's words, Ye Ren thought that the other party had discovered something, so he asked.

“…”

Dai Lin didn't answer directly, but walked to the side of the sapper-type alien insect, stretched out a finger and gently dipped it in some insect honey, the crystal clear insect honey hung on her slender and slender fingers, and then Dai Lin stretched out her little tongue and licked it gently. I closed my eyes and seemed to be savoring something.

Five minutes later, Dai Lin opened her eyes.

"The nutrient concentration has increased a lot, and there are a lot more minerals and nutrients in it that we didn't have before. ”

Dai Lin's expression was a little surprised. Looking at Ye Ren, whose expression had not changed on the side, he already had a point in his heart, so he asked directly, "Did you do this?"

"Hmm. ”

Of course, Ye Ren agreed.

"Amazing abilities. Dai Lin said with a sigh, but although she was still surprised, in fact, Dai Lin had almost adapted to Ye Ren's creative methods, so she was just a little sighing at the moment, and asked by the way: "Can I bring some samples to study, the catalytic effect of this thing seems to be much stronger than the original nutrient solution." ”

"Whatever you want. ”

Ye Ren smiled: "You can do this kind of trivial matter by yourself, you don't need to ask me every time." ”

"Hmm......" Dai Lin nodded slightly.

"Alright. It's almost clear that it's the problem with the nutrient solution of the queen worm. ”

Ye Ren said as he spoke. While touching the head of the sapper-type insect passing by him, he didn't know why it gave Dai Lin a feeling that he was smiling and touching the dog's head. Then, Ye Ren took his hand back: "Given that the catalytic process of the nutrient solution after the insects is beyond the budget, the cultivation and cultivation of bacterial plants are also much easier, which should be considered good news." ”

"That's right, at this rate, it won't be long before the mycelium is fully formed. ”

Dai Lin also nodded.

"I'm going to find the worm queen next, what about you?" Now that the reason is clear, Ye Ren naturally has no reason to continue to stay in the fungus, so Ye Ren took the initiative to speak and asked Dai Lin.

"I went back and continued to observe the real body of the virus. ”

Dai Lin replied.

"Well, I won't bother you. Ye Ren nodded, then waved his hand, and left the fungus hole, walking towards the center of the hive.

At Ye Ren's speed, nature quickly reached the center of the hive.

"After the worm, how is the replacement of the old and new insects?" As soon as he saw the huge body of the insect queen, Ye Ren couldn't wait to ask.

"Squeak~" The insect queen snorted softly, and then used the psychic link to speak.

[Father, the replacement work is only a small part of the work, because the number of insects in the hive is not small, and even if my production speed is maximized, I will not be able to complete the replacement in a short period of time. 】

"It's okay, there's no rush on this. ”

Hearing the insect's tone of being a little worried and afraid of being blamed, Ye Ren waved his hand: "I have something else to tell you this time." ”

"Squeak?"

The queen screamed in confusion.

"Before, I created two kinds of insects, and I plan to let you produce them first, and I'll also take a good look at the specific parameters, and test them by the way. Even if the insect queen does not use the psychic link to communicate, Ye Ren still understands what the other party means: "And I want to test some specific performance of the worm hive network, this is not easy to get, so let it go for the time being." ”

[Father, so what I need to do now is to produce two new kinds of children, right?]

The queen asked.

"That's right, I'll call them marine aliens and transporting aliens. ”

[Okay, I'll do it now.] 】

The queen didn't care what Ye Ren called these two insects, in fact, it had nothing to do with it, so after giving birth to the eggs of other insects, her abdomen immediately began to wriggle again, ready to give birth to the two insects that Ye Ren needed.

"Hmm... It's good to produce a few roving sea worms first, but the transport worms are too big to move. ”

Ye Ren touched his chin and commanded.

[Okay, Father.] 】

The queen answered, and her abdomen immediately squirmed, and then an egg was born almost in the blink of an eye.

"Huh, so fast?"

Ye Ren was also slightly stunned, this was almost only a second or two, and sure enough, the production of such a small and not particularly powerful class as the roving sea worm was fast?

It's like a mobilizer in the Red Police.

Well, off topic.

In short, the topic returned to Ye Ren again, he was also a little surprised at the moment, walked over and took the initiative to pick up the black eggshell that was not as big as a table tennis ball, and then looked at it carefully.

It didn't take long for the egg shell to burst open, and a clear and slightly viscous liquid flowed out, and the sea worm also appeared in front of Ye Ren.

"Tsk~"

The little sea worm that had just been born chirped softly at Ye Ren.

"Hmm... It's no different from what you imagined. Ye Ren carefully observed this sea worm, although the body structure of the sea worm may be very powerful in the water, but this is the ground after all, so at this moment, this little sea worm can't stand up at all, and has been lying in Ye Ren's hands.

"Queen worm, follow me to the ocean passage. ”

Ye Ren saw that the sea insect the size of a ping-pong ball in his hand slowly turned into the size of a palm, and he didn't say much, after all, he couldn't see whether this thing was in his mouth or not on the shore, so Ye Ren ordered, and planned to take the insect queen to the bay first, and planned to produce the transport-type alien insect to take a look. (To be continued)

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