Chapter 24: Flames and Fungi

The brilliance of the flames corresponded to the sunlight in the sky, spreading and burning in the fungal jungle.

Countless creatures burst out of the woods, crazy, aggressive, and numerous, and though most of them were reduced to charred bones under the fire of the predators, they did not stop......

"Goo......!" A cyst-covered fungal monster pounced on a group of predators who were spewing flames, and Lin immediately caused the predators to dodge, and the monster pounced into the air and landed on the ground covered by the phage, swallowing it like a quagmire like an amoeba, and countless tiny troops surrounded the fungal-infected creature, which would be disintegrated under a huge amount of dissolved liquid.

But this was just one of them, and there were many more small fungi monsters rushing out of the mushroom forest, and they did not flinch in the face of the predator's flamethrows, frantically rushing towards them with their own bodies as their only means of attack.

The predators all stand on top of the phage, they scatter to face any enemy army that rushes at them, these creatures that pounce on them will be devoured by the phage, if they don't burn to the point, and the rest will be burned by the predator, but their sheer numbers have made it impossible for Lynn's phage to continue to expand.

Plague fungus, how many organisms are infected......

On the north side of the phage, a large group of fungal monsters about a meter long appeared, and they rushed towards this direction in groups, and Lin immediately asked the surrounding predators to gather and aim the flamevent at the group of creatures......

'Whew! ’

With the glow of the flames, the flesh and blood of these creatures began to peel off and disintegrate, and finally only a skeleton fell into the flames......

Although this scenario can trigger fear in some creatures. For example, the little wyvern who is now in front of the display with the head worm will hide in fright when he sees them burnt off their skeletons. But when you burn them, they're really fragrant. If it's here, appetite might triumph over fear.

If it is infected with fungi, it does not know what will happen, and Lin thinks that the head worm may not be controlled by the fungus, or the fungus may not be able to handle its complex brain structure and lead both sides to die.

Either way, the head worm must not approach these fungi......

Thinking of this, Lynn looked at the flickering firelight around her. And those crazy creatures.

Speaking of which, I don't know how many batches of 'fungal monsters' there are.

The plague fungus seems to have infected quite a few species, but except for the first one, which is relatively large, the others are not very large, and are basically the same as predators, and many are smaller.

The 'fire-breathing' predator that Lin was using now was about two meters long and less than a meter tall, but it could shoot a pillar of fire nearly ten meters long, and the fuel it used was directly converted and extracted from the phages below her, which was used by Lin to deal with the fungal monsters that had been appearing.

Most fungi monsters are reptiles. Occasionally, arthropods are mixed up because their cortex, including the face, is covered in a large number of fungi. It is almost impossible to see what they are creatures, and their attack method is very simple, that is, to rush, some creatures with claws or sharp teeth because their claws and mouths are covered with fungi, they can't use it, they can only bump over, knock the fungus that covers themselves, and then release a large amount of miasma.

But until then, they are usually burned out, or devoured by phages.

Lin can't just burn or phage, because the green mycelium covering the ground contains water and can't burn, and the phage may be able to devour the first or second group of fungal monsters rushing in, but when they keep rushing, they will be hit by the next group before they finish decomposing, which is not good.

Now, as if the attack wasn't so violent, with only a few fungus monsters dangling around, Lynn had some of the predators go after them, while the rest dragged the fragrant and charred ones back for the phages to break down and convert into nutrients.

Lin usually doesn't see any signs of fungal monster activity, which means that they may usually hide in the underground or something, and these creatures may not be active at all, and will only appear when this fungal island is attacked.

I don't know if it was done by the Chibucha worm or the fungus itself, but it was definitely necessary to investigate.

Now that the surrounding fungal monsters have been solved, the 'queen' located in the center of the phage has begun to give birth to more predators, the queen is twice as large as the average predator, and the production speed is very fast, Lin actually originally wanted every predator to be able to give birth, but putting a production organ is too hindering, and it will affect the combat ability, so it will be concentrated on one.

The queen gives birth to small predators, they can eat the phage's nutrient balls and grow quickly, and generally arthropods need to constantly molt to grow, but the skin of small predators is always soft and does not harden until they are fully mature.

Relying on this method of rapid production, it is possible to continuously increase the number of troops directly in the time of war! Predators killed in battle are also quickly recovered and not wasted at all.

Lin had previously considered letting the class enhance the ability to regenerate, in fact, this ability is not very good, if you want to regrow a forelimb, you need to eat the same weight of nutrients as the forelimbs, but it is not casual growth, there is space in the body of the class to put the nutrients of the reserve, it is better to put more muscles.

Now, Lynn's forces were swiftly recovering and devouring, and as night approached, Lynn devoured a large number of fungal monsters—the fragrant remains of the roasted skin.

These nutrients were formed by Lin into a force, and Lin planned to use this force to explore the nearby underground, and the holes under the floating pompoms were supposed to be the passage to the 'nest' of the plague fungus.

Nest seems to be a very strange word, does it refer to a very old nest?

Lin dispatched a hundred predators first, they had both claws and flame-breathers, but without the phage supply, their own fuel would not be sprayed for a few seconds, but anyway, they were just allowed to explore first.

Lynn found the nearest cave, which was bottomless and completely covered in darkness, and the predators rushed into it quickly, sprinting as fast as they could, no matter what the traps were.

Because they're used to step on traps.

Surprisingly, there were no traps inside, and the originally narrow space became larger and larger, and Lynn made some predators glow, and the cave instantly became brighter.

This cave ......

It's a normal feeling.

Surrounded by rocks and dirt, Lin also thought that the cave wall should be covered with fungi, there are indeed some hyphae on the cave wall, but there are not many of them, the whole cave is vertically down, and Lynn's predator can hook the cave wall with its claws so as not to fall.

Since it was a vertical cave, the fungal monsters probably didn't climb up from here, but Lin still wanted to see how deep it was.

Lynn directly caused one of the predators to let go of its claws and fall from the cave wall, and the surrounding scenery swept past the predators at high speed, lasting for several seconds before stopping......

'Smack'.

The predator landed on a soft ground and was unharmed.

The predator looked down and found that the ground was indeed covered in mycelium, and there was quite a lot of ...... on it Chibcha bugs.

The moment the predator spotted them, the Chibucha worms swooped down! They make a constant high-pitched sound and intend to besiege predators.

They were greeted by a blazing fire.

In front of the predator, a group of Chibucha insects instantly fell into a sea of fire, and the flames instantly burned when they touched the ground covered by mycelium, illuminating the entire area much brighter.

"Squeak!" A large swarm of Chibucha insects jumped up from the ground, and they pounced on the predator, constantly biting at it with their forelimbs and mouths.

At the same time, there is another group of Chibucha worms coming out of the depths of the cave, all of them carrying a mushroom, they run to the flames, throw the mushrooms on their backs into the fire, these mushrooms explode as soon as they touch the fire, and the large amount of liquid that bursts can extinguish a large area of flames.

I see, extinguishing the fire with this method? It feels really different from the plague fungus outside, and the Chibucha worm doesn't seem to be able to directly tell the fungus to let the fungus secrete mucus to stop the flames?

So if the fire is too big, they can't stop it!

The next moment, all the predators on the rock wall above jumped down, and the moment they landed on the fungal carpet, they spewed a stream of flames around them, and the burning spread along the mycelium, and the small mushrooms thrown by the Chibucha worm could not stop the flames sprayed by so many predators, and finally they simply threw away the mushrooms and all escaped.

By the light of the flames, Lin realized that this was a huge cave space, which seemed to be quite wide, as if it had hollowed out the ground, and it was probably the same as all the other caves under the pom-poms, and the big hole that the predators jumped down from was just one of them......

Now the light of the flames is slowly dissipating, and the mycelium on the ground is not very wide, but Lin is not ready to burn this place so quickly, at least study it first.

The predators gather together and head in one direction of the cave, and if they disperse, they can indeed observe more, but they may also be killed one by one.

Lin walked in a random direction, in this huge cavern, there were pillars everywhere that seemed to be used for support, and there were a large number of mycelium around the pillars, and suddenly, Lin noticed that two pillars were side by side, and there seemed to be something between them.

The predators approached and shone their light into the middle of the pillars, where both pillars had a large spherical structure with a large number of hyphae, on which there was a clearly visible creature look......

This,I think it's a fungal monster.,The fungus seems to wrap these creatures in the ball, and it's not just that......

The predators spread their light and shone it into the surrounding caverns, where there were plenty of balls of these creatures. (To be continued......)

PS: Thank you for the commuter pass ~MrCity~

PS: Because there is something to do, I sent it early~