Chapter 203: Danger lurks
Endless rainforests stretch across the land, one of the planet's most precious resources.
Before the end of the day, tropical rainforests are home to more than half of the plants and animals on Earth, and biomes are changing rapidly.
Of course, after the end of the world, the rainforest turned into a hell for almost all animals.
This is also the main reason why more mutant animals have fled and occupied human cities.
What was once a paradise for them has become a paradise for strange spore creatures.
Viewed from above, anyone can be lost in the beautiful spore forest.
Colorful and strange.
It is a beautiful world that is even more unreal than the fantastic fairy tale world.
However, under such a dreamy beauty, there is a deadly killing machine.
Every spore organism is trying to evolve.
From unaware of having simple thinking, from violence and adaptation to harmony, all eccentric individuals and groups are doing their best to survive.
On this day, on the edge of the Indo-Malaysian rainforest in Asia, a silent killing is being staged.
On one side is "ant" and on the other is "poison", and of course the name is just to distinguish them.
They are accustomed to distinguishing everything by their senses, and they do not name themselves to distinguish them from other cognitions.
"Ants" are very similar to ants, in fact, in the process of evolution, they have devoured a large number of ants due to infection, and finally formed their own unique group characteristics.
Each individual is the size of a human thumb, and they are accustomed to hiding in underground burrows, and their size looks like that of ants.
Everything is their plant. The edge of the rainforest has not evolved completely, or has not evolved mosses, plants, etc. at all. They eat everything.
It can be said that at least this one is their territory on the edge. There are very few things that can threaten them.
Until today, the "poison" came.
It was a mass of special mutated spore creatures that existed in the form of fog barriers, and even looked slightly inferior to the "ants" who had already formed living beings.
But their attacks are weird, and they're also peculiar.
When it is stretched out and gathered together, it is the size of a washbasin.
The color is so vivid that it looks like a mass of crimson blood that is about to drip out.
When they disperse, they turn into a pink fog barrier again, beautiful and deadly.
No longer accustomed to life in the depths of the rainforest, presumably threatened by some other spore organism. had to move to the periphery.
Inevitably, when the "ants" and "poisons" that are preying meet, there is nothing to say at all, and there is no tentative communication or attack, and a tragic fight is directly launched.
The "ant" attack method is to suck, the ant-like palatal teeth open, through the special organ compression of the abdominal cavity to suck a mouthful of pink fog barrier.
Countless "ants", living in swarms, in this way, devour the "poison" that is difficult for the naked eye to see.
Just suck down a certain amount. The "ants" will die.
But their death was not without merit, and the black shell hardened under the sharp overdraft of the energy in the body.
Although they failed to adapt to the attack ability of "Poison" during the devouring process, they successfully used their shells to block the spread of "Poison".
In the end, it is in the initial stage of mutation and evolution, and "poison" is not capable of attacking everything. At least they can't attack the corpses of the melted "ants" and return to the colony.
And so after some time, after invading and devouring the organs of the "ants". If they can't break through the shell of the "ant", which is as hard as iron, there are three paths that await them.
One is death. Without an energy supply, they will also die.
The second is evolution. Successfully broke through the blockade of the hard shell of the "ant".
The third is mutation, perhaps they will merge with the shell of the "ant" and become a new spore species again.
On one side is invasion, and on the other side is devouring.
In this way, tens of millions of "ants" and the overwhelming "poison" launched a silent and tragic battle.
At this time, a new species quietly arrived.
Like a small spider, eight tentacles moved flexibly on the ground, and tens of thousands of face-hugging insects the size of soybean grains finally came to the tropical rainforest, or spore forest.
From the ground, bouncing from the boundless jungle stems and leaves, tens of thousands of face-hugging insects marched silently, just like the war between "poison" and "ants".
With a keen sense of life and danger, these facehuggers are aware of the fierce war, and they begin to slow down.
Without aliens to follow, there is no command.
Autonomously, tens of thousands of face-hugging insects spread far away, encircling this battlefield in a circle.
The encirclement process continued, and accidents kept happening.
The dangerous spore forests do not hesitate to show their horrors to species from outer space.
For example, when more than 100 face-hugging insects crawl over the surface of the river quietly, the "cyanobacteria" floating on the water surface suddenly cracks open and becomes a spiderweb-like form, and then swallows dozens of face-hugging insects.
However, in an instant, the wrapped "blue-green algae" unfolded rapidly, and light smoke rose from the lotus leaf-like surface, and it actually sank to the bottom of the river in a "panic".
Obviously, it is not immune to the acid invasion in the body of the face-hugging worm, and it has to vomit out the food that has already eaten in its mouth.
Also, some of the facehuggers were trapped, and when they ran through the bushes, the seemingly harmless ferns suddenly spewed out large sap of transparent sap, sticking to many facehuggers like spider silk.
Ignoring these, whether they were besieged or killed, the other face-hugging insects passed on to each other in a special way the biomorphic appearance of the spores that posed a serious threat to their safety.
There is no counterattack against any spore creatures that attack or attempt to attack them - the fight is not about the huggers, their mission is to find a host to parasitize.
For the sake of this mission, they don't even care about their own death, how can they care about individual members of the group.
Cruelty, not just against enemies, but with their own kind, they are just as cruel - whether they are aliens or facehuggers.
After surrounding, more than 1,000 of the tens of thousands of face-hugging insects were temporarily besieged or killed.
There was no rush to rush forward, quietly observing the "poison" and "ants", and each face-hugging insect communicated its own opinions in a special way.
Then, more than a dozen face-hugging insects crept up from all sides, and after approaching, the eight tentacles bent slightly, and then bounced into the pink fog barrier like bullets.
The flesh-colored bodies fell to the ground through the poison barrier, and they didn't feel anything unusual at all, and at the same time as they rushed towards the "ants" excitedly, an army of face-hugging insects surged up like a tide on all sides.
The first step of the alien army into the spore forest, accompanied by its excited impact, finally stepped firmly on this soft land. (To be continued......)