139 Infinite Evolutionary Potential
When a huge "jelly" appeared in front of everyone, the steel bullet warriors had already lost nearly 100 people, and through the emergency on-site sampling and analysis of the logistics troops, a simple data was immediately sent to the light brain database of everyone's power armor, looking at the information displayed on the helmet crystal prism, everyone was shocked.
This jelly mass turned out to be a kind of life form similar to a polyp, and there is no record of this creature in the federal database, so it is not certain whether it should belong to bacteria or insects, so the researchers temporarily gave it the code name "glial bacteria".
The glial bacteria are very small, and the jelly-like substance they see is formed by the aggregation of countless glial bacteria, which maintain the "body" by secreting a very high viscous colloidal fluid, and as the colloidal fluid solidifies, it forms a translucent "jelly" with an elastic surname, which becomes their new breeding ground.
This glial fungus has a very terrifying rate of reproduction and evolution, under normal conditions, they will complete a generation cycle in about an hour, but if the surrounding environment does not have the nutrients they need to reproduce and survive, they can make themselves fall into deep hibernation, completely stop any functions of the body, and maintain the body's zero consumption state with "suspended animation" until what they need appears in the surrounding environment.
Shockingly, the so-called "nutrients" needed for this thing are almost all-encompassing, they are less picky than any scavengers, metals, rocks, soil, plants, water, organic matter, inorganic matter... Even as long as there is air, they can live and taste, even if they are thrown into space, it can't die, the "shell" formed by the dead individuals wraps the surviving individuals, and they can survive in an absolute vacuum environment!
Theoretically speaking, this glial fungus is harmless, but once stimulated by the external environment, the glial bacteria in the unconscious state will have a sense of self-protection, and frantically reproduce individuals to ensure the existence of the group, and once the external threat exceeds the reproduction speed of the group, then they will begin to evolve at a high speed, so that they can adapt themselves to the external environment and continue to survive.
The fog is the "highly concentrated inorganic strong acid substance" released by external stimulation in the process of glial bacteria reproduction, which is used to decompose its own useless substances and speed up the digestion and decomposition of nutrients.
These are still simple speculative data, such as whether the high temperature and low cold can threaten it still needs further research.
At the very least, it has been confirmed that the creature is immune to energy attacks, perhaps because the bombardment of it by the steel bullet warriors just now has made it initially develop the ability to resist energy, that is, by rapidly reproducing itself, it can offset the damage of energy, and further improve the individual's resistance to energy.
The electromagnetic cannon released by the steel bullet warriors, each shot has a certain equivalent, but a cannon falls on it, at most a small part of its individual will be consumed, as long as it does not exceed its bearing capacity for a moment, before the next electromagnetic cannon falls, it has already recovered the consumed individual, and it will not be able to kill it at all.
Creatures with infinite evolutionary potential!
Everyone shuddered, how did this thing come about? This is simply an untouchable ancestor! The more you attack it, the more it evolves, until your attack is completely ineffective, and it becomes immune to it, and the things it releases in the process of evolution are dangerous substances that will die if they touch it.
When this thing is stimulated, it will gather all the individuals around it as much as possible, and use the strength of the entire race to resist the danger, and all theoretically speaking, this large mass of matter that continues to pour out of the underground pipes and gather together is the aggregate of all the individuals of this thing!
Looking at the jelly balls that crawled slowly from all corners of Area F, and the one that was increasing in size, Han Biao had to order the steel bullet fighters to avoid these slimy jelly and let them gather together as much as possible, because if you don't destroy this thing at once, even if there is only one individual left, it can remultiply to its original size in the blink of an eye, so instead of looking for this guy everywhere, it is better to wait for it to gather on its own and then find a way to deal with it.
Glial mushroom is like a powerful spring on the ground, if you don't move it, it won't provoke you, but if you step on it hard, the harder you step on it, the harder it will bounce.
But it can't be cleared of this thing, although it won't take the initiative to attack the creatures in the surrounding environment, but its instinctive foraging surname threatens the surrounding creatures, and you can know that there are no mutant bugs in the F area, and it eats up the entire F area creatures!
Although it can eat inorganic matter, it is clear that it is more interested in organic matter, who will not eat meat, but gnaw stones and iron?
Because there was nothing to do with this guy, everyone could only avoid its vicinity as much as possible, and watched the small group of individuals slowly move towards the "main body", but the small group that was initially attacked by Han Biao and them absorbed a large number of individuals, and after the volume increased to the size of a two-story building, maybe they didn't continue to feel threatened, and actually stopped gathering individuals, and moved slowly, and those small groups of individuals who were approaching it also stopped approaching and moved aimlessly.
Han Biao was thinking about whether to let the Gunball Warrior bombard it another round when David, who was standing on the side. Fleistone suddenly activated the power armor on his body, rushed up quickly, and slashed down with an axe, only to see a huge scratch appear on the round body of the glial fungus, but before David's second axe fell, like the surface of a pond cut by a branch, the scar almost healed immediately after David's axe.
No need to explain, everyone understands, this guy is immune to physical attacks!
But because of David's attack, those scattered microglial specimens leaned back towards the main body.
Maybe David was too close and felt the glial bacteria of the "food", and suddenly a "tentacle" rolled out of his round body and rolled towards him, just when everyone was startled, "Be careful! Before he could utter his shout, David fell backwards, kicked his feet violently, and scurried back with a nimble movement that did not match his burly and majestic body.
Nodding to Han Biao, David's voice hidden under the power armor helmet reached Han Biao's ears through the communicator: "It seems that we need to continue to attack it, but the amplitude and frequency of the attack should not be too fast, otherwise it will cause its rapid evolution and violent reaction...", after speaking, he stood back in the team of the Iron Lion interstellar mercenary team led by him, and fell silent again.
What everyone didn't know was that in the internal channel of the Iron Lion Interstellar Mercenary Squad, a group of Iron Lion mercenaries had a brief conversation:
“… Who is in charge of this area? ”
"Chief... It's like an 'aphid'..."
"Why didn't you hear any information about this creature?"
"This... Need to contact it now? ”
"No, maybe it didn't know that D.87 gave birth to this creature... Inform it later to investigate the glial fungus, and within 100 hours, I will see the details sent to my light brain. Also, inform the 'queens' of all regions to keep an eye on the mutation and evolution of creatures in your jurisdiction! I won't allow this to happen out of my control again! ”
"Yes, Chief..."
Perhaps due to frequent stimulation, the speed of glial bacteria increased rapidly, and after about three and a half hours, all the glial bacteria in the entire F area gathered together, forming a large group that occupied thousands of square meters of ground.
During this period, more than a dozen high-level mutant insects were encountered in Area D one after another, and Han Biao and their rapid response team had to dispatch people to help, and even Han Biao ran several times, but because of the unknown surname of this glial fungus that had never appeared, the people did not dare to let the steel bullet soldiers mess around, and they had been taking turns to send people to sit in control to prevent accidents.
Britney urgently summoned the scientific research team of the genetic laboratory of the Xingchenhua family to carry out experimental research on glial bacteria on the spot, trying to find the weakness of this invulnerable guy, but in just a few hours, she could not fully understand this unknown creature.
As far as the existing research knows, the individual glial bacteria are very weak, in addition to immunity to physical attacks, a single glial fungus has no resistance to almost any form of damage, whether it is high temperature and cold or the energy of various castes, it can easily destroy it, but once this thing gathers together, it is simply invincible!
Unless it can be isolated in an environment where it is completely detached from nutrients, and then summoned a super-powerful attack that is beyond its capacity for a split second, nothing can completely kill it.
The only thing to be thankful for is that this thing is not very self-aware, it only responds to external stimuli, and if it is not provoked, there is little danger, and it does not seem to have much interest in leaving the area, otherwise there is probably nothing that can stop it.
This made Han Biao and them a little clueless, should they just leave this guy here? In case it came out that day, who would take what to catch and eat?
"Or... Shall we divert it to other areas? Maybe it can help us eat all the bugs? "Han Biao has a bad idea-
(To be continued)