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A large area of mutant creatures, this kind of thing that can continue to evolve, even if it is Jin San, he can't be sure, he can completely control the appearance of all kinds of unexpected changes, so this makes Jin San an abnormal headache. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Safely spawning a large number of life crystals is the ultimate goal of Jinsan, and to do this, creatures without intelligence are naturally safer and more reliable than creatures with intelligence.

This reminded Jin San of the product of the Assassin virus, which is a product of the Assassin virus, and animals and plants infected with the Assassin virus will die after condensing life crystals.

If the animals and plants infected with the Assassin virus condensed the life crystals can continue to devour other creatures and continue to strengthen their own life crystals, such a mutant should not cause him trouble, right?

In this regard, there is actually a fantasy creature that is easy to remember, it has all the requirements of Jin San, and this fantasy creature is a zombie.

Although zombies are the product of fantasy, their evolution is to grow by constantly plundering various resources, zombies have rotting bodies, so the purpose of their eating is not to strengthen themselves, but for the spar in its head.

This is the same as Jin San's purpose, zombies are a kind of thing that only eats and does not pull, no matter how much zombies eat, they will digest it, and they have no wisdom, only the instinct to devour, so that they can better give birth to life crystals.

This kind of thing is simply too much in line with Jin San's vision.

It turns out that the virus of Jin Sanwan is still relatively general, and he also discovered a virus called "prion", which is a virus that only contains protein, but it can invade the nervous system of animals. to achieve the purpose of breeding yourself!

In addition to this virus, which controls the nerves of living beings, there is also a zombie fungus that is even more terrifying.

This is a fungus that lived 48 million years ago. Able to change and control the behavior of ants by releasing chemicals. Make it its own puppet until the ant finally dies.

Evidence of the horror of this fungus, known as the "zombie fungus", was found on fossilized leaves from the Messer Fossil Pit near Darmstadt, Germany, which lived about 48 million years ago.

This parasitic fungus has evolved the ability to control the animals it parasits since ancient times, even before the uplift of the Himalayas.

Currently, the fungus still lives on Earth. Usually parasitic on carpenter ants.

Carpenter ants are often infected with this parasitic fungus when they pass through forest meadows before returning to the canopy nest, and their behavior is controlled by the fungus from then on.

The fungus grows in the ant's body and releases chemicals that affect the ant's behavior, making it a "zombie ant".

Some "zombie ants" have since left their colonies and wandered alone, looking for fresh leaves.

The "zombie ants" controlled by the fungus no longer have their own behavior and life, and the last stage of their life is also the most painful and terrifying.

In the last hours of life. "Zombie ants" will crawl underneath the leaves they are in and bite the central vein of the leaf with their jaws, trapping themselves on the leaf, while the parasitic fungus is also locked onto the leaf.

This leaf becomes an "ant's grave". The ants that are inhabited by this fungus are all like this, maybe in the range of one square meter. You may be able to find 20 to 30 'ant graves'.

They are usually found on top of leaves at a certain height above the ground, and will bite tightly into the main veins of the leaves before dying.

On the canopy of trees or on forest ground cover. This fungus can not grow, however. "Zombie ants" usually die on the leaves in between, i.e. at a certain height above the ground, but not at the height of the canopy, an environment where the humidity and temperature are most suitable for fungi to survive.

When a "zombie ant" dies, the parasitic fungus sprouts from its head, produces spores and "launches" onto the forest ground cover at night, infecting other ants.

Infected ants will use all their strength to bite the leaves before they die, and they will use so hard that they will leave their last marks on this world.

They use their jaws to create small holes in the leaves, creating a very special bite mark in the shape of a clear dumbbell.

Because in most cases, this behavioral control, while powerful, is short-lived and generally does not leave a permanent imprint.

Only a small fraction of all parasitic organisms have evolved the ability to manipulate host behavior.

Zombie fungi, capable of infecting ants, taking over their brains and exercising "mind control", were originally thought to be a single species called "zombie fungi", but in reality there are 4 distinct populations.

All four known populations of the fungus live in Brazil's Atlantic rainforest, which is rapidly changing due to climate change and deforestation.

Each fungus has the best ant prey for them, which means that there are thousands of species of zombie fungi living in tropical forests around the world.

Zombie fungi After infecting ants, four newly discovered zombie fungi will spread their spores in different ways.

Some form thin "infection nails" that protrude from the body of the infested ants and infect passing ants.

Others grow "explosive" spores inside infected ants, which they shoot when other ants get close to the carcass, hitting unsuspecting passers-by and turning them into zombies.

After infecting ants, the fungus quickly eats nutrients from zombie ants and begins to carve out "colonies" outside the body.

Once the ants move to the area where they are best suited to grow and spread their spores, they will kill the ants with a killer attack.

Ants are not the only hosts of zombie fungi, as some other insects also fall prey, and wasps may be infected by the fungus Cordyceps, which has not yet been officially named or documented.

Cordyceps fungi are the product of evolutionary competition between hosts and parasites, which means that fungi usually lock on to a host, and if that host becomes extinct, the end of the fungus will come.

Unlike ants, many other insects that fall victim to zombie fungi have difficulty telling what they are after the spores have spread throughout their bodies.

For example, flies and crickets can also fall prey to zombie fungi, and scientists still know little about the fungi that turn crickets into zombies.

Some fungi have a backup plan after producing spores if the spores fail to infect ants within a day of being released.

This is, the spores on the ground will slowly grow a second-order spores, and when an ant passes by, they will immediately seize the opportunity to attach to the ant.

And these dangerous and deadly fungi are not without natural predators, Jin San has discovered a fungus that can save these poor ants, a fungus that can castrate "zombie fungi", a "zombie fungus anti-zombie fungus", called double parasitic bacteria.

This double parasite is able to parasitize the "zombie fungus" and destroy the spores of the vast majority of the "zombie fungus", so that only about 6.5% of the spores can survive, so even if there is a large group of zombie ants around, the rest of the healthy ants will rarely be infected.

It is with such a layer of insurance that Jin San dares to rest assured and boldly study zombie fungi, even if this zombie fungus cannot be fully used by Jin San, and it cannot make the animals and plants that died after being infected with the assassin virus stand up again, this zombie fungus is also very useful to Jin San.

Jin San made the biological warship, naturally to make the shell of the biological warship as strong as possible, and to do this, it was natural to let the biological warship evolve its shell into a high-grade alloy in the process of evolution, so that it could withstand the blow of jùliè.

But to really do this, animals and plants are absolutely not okay, if the body of an organism becomes an all-metal structure, whether it is an animal or a plant, it is generally impossible to continue to live.

Zombie fungi are different, if this thing is used well, it can control dead things.

Even if the virus can't control the dead corpses to continue evolving, it doesn't matter.

As long as it can control the dying bio-battleship and let the bio-battleship continue to live, only by living can the bio-battleship evolve more powerful.

When the biological battleship is transformed into alloy according to the opportunity of the golden three, then it will face the wēixié of death, and at this time, use the zombie virus to continue to control the biological battleship and let it continue to live, so that it can continue to evolve and may become a more advanced battleship.

With this aspect of consideration, Jin San naturally spared no effort to study zombie fungi.

Jin San has been researching this area since he got the cancer virus, but he didn't have a certain plan at that time, but the appearance of zombie fungi made Jin San's thoughts clear.

This kind of thing actually combines life and death, so that the boundary between life and death begins to become chaotic, and the battleship is of course a dead thing in people's impressions, but with the appearance of zombie fungus, this boundary becomes not so clear.

If Jin San can make a breakthrough in this regard, you won't be able to tell whether the creature infected by the zombie fungus is dead or alive.

If the fifth-order mutant mushroom cultivated by Jin San was infected by this fungus, what would be the situation?

At that time, the mutant mushroom will not be afraid of the full metalization of its body, because even if it is all metal, it will not have the wēixié of death.

If you want to use the zombie fungus, the first thing Jin San has to do is to cut off its source of infection, otherwise this uncontrolled fungus is likely to become extremely dangerous.

Bacteria are a kind of prokaryotes, the main feature is that there is no nuclear membrane, and its genetic material is scattered in a relatively fixed area within the cytoplasm, called the nuclear region, and the outer edge of the bacteria is wrapped with a layer of cell wall, which is generally made of polysaccharide polymerization, and bacteria can reproduce themselves, so the reproduction ability of zombie fungi is super strong. (To be continued.) )