Yilong began to dig down the rhizome, digging for almost fifty meters and still not seeing the roots of the plant. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Is there really a plant that grows so deep underground?" Jiro was skeptical.

"Either way, we have no choice but to dig down now." "This is the only way we can figure out the cause of the explosion." ”

Yilong didn't speak, he continued the digging work with chopsticks. The rock formation beneath Dowu Island is so hard that even a dragon can destroy it with his condensed chopsticks, and it is hard to imagine how the plant could penetrate such a deep rock formation.

After digging nearly five hundred meters deep, they finally saw the roots of the strange plant.

The dense thread-like roots stretched for several kilometers, and there seemed to be something wrapped in the roots right next to the branches. Lin Su cut off part of the roots with his hand knife, and finally revealed what was wrapped.

It was a huge creature skeleton that was more than fifty meters long, and all the flesh and blood on the skeleton had been absorbed by the roots of the plant.

Lin Su covered the entire skeleton with cold ice and moved it to the ground intact. Judging from the skeleton, it should be the skeleton of some kind of giant fox, and what is impressive is that there is a huge scimitar in the place of the forearm of this skeleton, which is still cold and shiny even after being buried in the ground for many years, as if it can cut through the mountains.

Lin Su tried to think about it for a while, and finally matched a beast that appeared in the comic with the skeleton in front of him.

The Ripper Fox, who captures level 524, a beast that lives on the lost island of the food world.

In the skies above the gastronomic world, there are islands that hover high in the sky as if they were satellites, and these islands that seem to be lost in their destinations are called Lost Islands.

There are also Lost Islands in the sky above the Eighth Continent, which is connected to the island of Dowu, and it makes sense that the Ripper Fox appeared near the island of Yudo.

However, what puzzled Lin Su was why the beast with a capture level of 524 would die at the entrance of the food world of Youduo Wu Island.

You must know that the Ripper Fierce Fox is definitely the existence at the top of the food chain here, and now it is not only dead on Yuduo Wu Island, but also appears hundreds of meters underground to become the nourishment of a plant, all kinds of unusual places make Lin Su have a bad premonition.

"What do you do with these things?" Yilong said.

"That particular plant took some of the tissue and brought it back to the UFO shells, and we might be able to figure out why the explosion occurred. As for this skeleton, the rest of the skeleton can be thrown back into the pit, and the scimitar on the forearm is a good material. ”

Lin Su had a few intact Melk Stars in his hands, and he hoped to be able to use these superb whetstones to transform the Ripper's Fierce Fox's scimitar.

You must know that the strongest thing about this beast is the pair of scimitars, which they can easily use to cut through their opponents' bodies when fighting, and the name of the ripper comes from this.

Returning to the UFO shell with what he had found, Lin Su began to study the plant. When the plant slice is placed under the microscope, all the structures can be seen at a glance.

By analogy with known plant structures, Lin Su could confirm that what they had found was some kind of giant mushroom.

"Mushrooms that can explode?" Lin Su thought of the terrifying fruit of nitro cherries. There are many plants in nature that can make explosions, and it is not surprising that there is a mushroom that can explode.

Lin Su, he was concerned about how much of this explosive mushroom was on Yuduo Wu Island.

If Duowu Island has become a dangerous minefield, then Lin Su doesn't plan to play mine warfare here.

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In the next few days, Lin Su and the others became very cautious when they went out to capture ingredients, for fear that an exploding mushroom would suddenly grow under their feet. In the evening, Lin Su would continue to study the mushroom tissue, hoping to learn more about this mushroom.

"Four bears, can the lights in the UFO shell be dimmed a little?" Jiro shouted in the restaurant, "I think the light here is a little harsh. ”

"You've got a lot going on." Lin Su walked out of his room. He went to the UFO console and turned a knob with his hand.

The lights in the dining room began to dim, and Jiro nodded in satisfaction.

The more time he spent with the UFO shell, the more Lin Su was amazed by its body structure. If it weren't for seeing that he could eat and grow up, Lin Su really thought it was a flying saucer.

Back in his room, Lin Su suddenly felt that the lights here were also a little dazzling. Returning to the console to adjust the lights in the room to the same brightness as the restaurant, Lin Su felt comfortable.

Three days passed like this, and after Lin Su got up, he found that none of them went out to collect ingredients. Everyone's reasons are surprisingly the same, the sun outside is too dazzling, or it is comfortable to stay in the UFO shell.

Lin Su felt the same way, and since that explosion, he had become more and more disgusted with bright lights. Originally, he didn't think there was anything wrong, but after seeing the performance of the three dragons, he immediately became vigilant. "Brothers, something is wrong with our situation."

"There's something really wrong, lately I've always wanted to hide in a place where there's no light, and I've never felt that way before." The Three Tigers said.

"So do we." Kataryu and Jiro also confirmed their condition.

Protect from light, protect from light...... The figure of the ripper fierce fox suddenly appeared in Lin Su's mind, and his face became very ugly.

"We may be infected with some kind of fungus." Lin Su said.

According to Lin Su's understanding, some parasites will change the living habits of the host, such as the nematode, which will make the host close to the water source, and drown in the water so that the nematode has a chance to reproduce.

The most famous case is a zombie fungus, and after an ant is infected with this fungus, its behavior is controlled by the fungus. Zombie fungi release chemicals that make it impossible for ants to see their way out of the colony, and then they climb to the height of the nearest plant and bite the leaf tightly with their jaws.

Infected ants will die here, and it won't be long before the zombie fungus grows out of their bodies and produces new spores that infect other ants.

Because the fungus is carried to higher places by ants, it spreads more easily, which increases the chance of infection.

Comparing the infection process of the zombie fungus with Lin Su's current experience, the two are almost identical.

The exploding mushroom spreads its own spores through the explosion, causing the infected to hate sunlight and eventually digging deep underground under this instinct.

Only those spores are fed by the spores that grow, and then start a new cycle of life.

And the poor infected will end up as a pile of dry bones, a witness to the crime of exploding mushrooms.