Everyone was startled by Shu Meizi's screams,

Looking for prestige, I saw the area around the surface that had been corroded by the [secondary strong acid ball].

There were clumps of white hyphae like slender tentacles, shaking and growing, looking like countless white nematodes.

Seeing these mycelium, Er Yi breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile: "It's okay! It is estimated that this kind of mycelium is everywhere here......

But before he could finish speaking, his face changed, and he quickly released the spell [Exploring the Earth] looked down, and then shouted: "It's not good! Run!"

As he spoke, he rushed to the depths of the fog, and the people who couldn't react instinctively ran along the second one after a while, but they didn't understand why they ran.

I saw that Er Yi was running left and right in front of him for a while, and then stopped, Shu Meizi said puzzledly: "What's wrong? Why don't you run again?"

"I can't run away!"

Two Yi smiled wryly and pointed to the place they had just run.

Wherever they passed, piles of dirt bags or turf had risen on the ground, and one after another humanoid monsters were struggling to crawl out of the dirt, and some of them even had broken strips of cloth hanging on their bodies.

"What is this?"

Everyone was taken aback: "White-haired zongzi?"

They have seen spore zombies, and the electricians who were parasitized by parasitic fungi before are not the same as the humanoid monsters that appear now.

At this time, the white-haired zongzi that came out of the ground can only be said to have a general human shape, with a brown-black skin covering the soil, like a freshly dug potato, whether it is the head or the body and limbs, it looks extremely bloated and deformed.

One leg was swollen like a melted elephant, one leg was slender like a reed stick, one arm was thick like a battering ram, and one arm was short and only half cut off, severely disproportionate, and covered with a layer of wriggling hyphae that looked like their hair.

"This is not a white-haired rice dumpling......"

"Strictly speaking, they're not even spore zombies!"

"If you don't guess wrong, parasitic fungi will go through several stages of growth after parasitizing on living things!"

"The first stage is the 'incubation period', that is, the foxes and electricians we have encountered, although they have shown the phenomenon of being parasitic by hyphae, but they have not completely lost the signs of biology. ”

"The second stage is the 'growth period', that is, like the wild boar we just killed, by controlling the brain, nerves, muscles, and limbs of the organism, to turn it into its own puppet, and hunt a lot of food to ensure that the host survives, but also provide a steady stream of nutrients for itself, so as to continue to grow. ”

"The third stage is the 'maturity period', that is, these 'white-haired zongzi' in front of us, after a long period of growth in the body of the organism, they will completely mature and grow into the brain of the organism to grow a strain bulb that can reproduce, and gradually replace the parasitic host. ”

"Because they live in the host all year round and need bones to support the hyphae, they usually retain the form of the host before their death, so what kind of creatures they parasitize on and what kind of form they have when they mature...... These 'white-haired zongzi' in front of us should be the soldiers of various countries stationed on Axin Tuchi Island back then!"

Er Yi looked at the more and more humanoid monsters gathered around him with some nervousness, and said seriously: "Maybe we should call these parasitic fungi that have completed their growth, that is, the mature second-generation mother plant, 'Spore Man'!"

"And outside of these three stages, the parasitic fungus will have a very special state. ”

"That is, in the stage of the 'incubation period', before the parasitic control of the host brain is completely completed,"

"Parasitism fails because the parasitic organism is too small to provide enough nutrients to the parasitic fungus, or the host dies during the parasitism. ”

"At this time, the parasitic fungus, which has lost the possibility of further evolution, will use the hyphae to directly seize the host's body, and transform it into a 'spore zombie' to protect the population and hunt prey and collect nutrients for the mother plant. ”

Er Yi stared vigilantly at the "Spore People" who only kept surrounding them, but did not attack them, and said, "I can't be sure if they have other more detailed stages, and I can't be sure if they have thinking ......."

"They still have thoughts?"

Everyone was immediately shocked, and Fat Tiger was surprised: "Aren't they plants?"

"Strictly speaking, they are neither 'plants', nor 'animals', nor 'bacteria', they are 'fungi'!"

"They have certain animal characteristics, such as 'chitin' in their cell walls, they don't need photosynthesis, they absorb substances through decay (digestion) to obtain nutrients, but they grow like plants......"

As they spoke, they were surrounded by a large number of spore creatures and spore zombies, and it was difficult to explain why they did not have a "mind".

Now that he has been surrounded, Er Yi is not in a hurry, but points to the spore people who flickered in the dense fog, and said to Fat Tiger and Shu Meizi: "These mature individuals we see now are actually their raw (beep~) organ ......"

"What's that?"

The fat tiger's hairs stood on end, and he said in horror: "You said this thing is reproductive (beep~)?"

"yes, what are you so surprised for?"

"Fungi reproduce by spreading spores, and the organ that spreads spores is naturally their (beep~) breeding organ!"

Er Yi turned his head and looked at the fat tiger with an innocent face: "Don't you know? In principle, the mushrooms you have eaten before, such as enoki mushrooms and oyster mushrooms, are actually the same thing as these things in front of you......

A group of people looked at the group of humanoid raw (beep~) devices around them speechlessly, and thought about the oyster mushrooms they had eaten before, and suddenly felt tired and didn't like to feel that they couldn't face any kind of mushrooms in the future.

"Wait!?"

"Forget about the oyster mushroom, it's good to digest it!"

Fat Tiger suddenly said with a frightened face: "Then the enoki mushrooms I used to eat...... I'll see you tomorrow, wouldn't it be equivalent to me being 'what' by these mushrooms?"

Everyone didn't think about it in this way, but when he said it, they suddenly felt so awkward.

Er Yi twitched the corners of his mouth, and said speechlessly: "! Do you dare to be a little dirtier?"

Seeing the two girls glaring at him, Fat Tiger laughed dryly, and changed the topic: "Then what are they doing around us now?"