Chapter 26: The Heartbeat of the Fungus
Underneath the fungus island, Lynn prepares for a ...... War.
Lynn calculated the awakening time of the fungus balls, and although they were of different sizes, they all had the same awakening time, and when the 'dongdong' sound reached a certain frequency, the creatures inside would appear.
The creatures in the fungus ball are not random infected creatures, Lin found that they are very regular, like a group of small troops, some large troops, their abilities can cooperate with each other, and there are many species that can swim in the water and fly, many of these creatures are carrying plague fungi with strong erosion ability, if they attack the continent, it will be quite troublesome, although the possibility of them going there is not high,
But either way, Lynn had to destroy them before that.
Lynn let more predators outside into the underground burrow, and instead of spewing fire first, they sprinkled the ground with liquid that sprinkled each fungus ball, and the ground near them.
At the same time, Lynn also brought in the phage, and some predators brought smaller fungal balls to the phage to convert and devour, with more nutrients, to make more combustion fluid, and the phage itself began to enlarge, engulfing nearby fungal balls......
Lynn has calculated the time it takes for the fungus balls to wake up based on the frequency of their bounces, and what has been found so far is that it basically takes thousands of seconds or so to wake up.
Time...... It's very insufficient.
Lin didn't know how big this underground cave was, maybe the size of an entire island, and these fungus balls were even more in the thousands, and Lynn had not enough troops at the moment, so she needed to rely on devouring to get nutrients to convert more troops.
Of course, they will wake up before Lynn has enough troops.
No matter what. Let's go to war first!
While the predators are pouring the liquid on the fire. The Chibucha bugs were also running around among the fungal balls. They seem to be watching the predator, but they don't decide what to attack or try to interfere with.
If Lynn breathes fire, they will try to extinguish it, but they just watch from the sidelines.
They don't seem to understand it, but no matter how much the liquid is sprinkled, it can't cover the entire underground, and it's very humid here, and some of the fungus balls themselves can't burn up. The liquid was only used as a 'cover', and Lynn had to prepare for more powerful attacks......
At the same time, Behemoth, who was outside, also began to attack the fungal forest, and Lynn released more bacteriophages from the beach to devour the entire island, and all of Lynn's troops began to attack the island fiercely!
The fungus, on the other hand, didn't react, as if the attack it had started had exhausted all of its awakened troops, and now they didn't react.
It's a strange feeling, but the attacks won't stop.
The predators have sprinkled a wide area of the underground cavern with the liquid, but how vast is it? Lynn hadn't done the math yet. But it's going to be more expansive......
They didn't ignite right away, but returned to the phage's place. The phage continues to grow, devouring nearby fungal balls.
The qiē was going on slowly, and with the heart-beating sound of the fungus balls, it was getting closer and closer to the time when they appeared......
Until then, Lynn is ready to take a deeper look at the place.
The group of Chibucha worms dangled around Lynn's troops, and as they all suddenly began to retreat deeper into the cave as the fungal balls woke up, Lynn used the phage's nutrients to create a smaller kind of flyer to track them down to see what was going on with the Chibucha.
The flyer quickly caught up with the retreating kibcha bugs, and Lynn found that they had all burrowed through the ground, and there was a small hole in the ground just big enough for them to get through guò.
Because it is a miniature flyer, the flyer can also drill through these small holes that are only a few centimeters in diameter.
The cave was dark, of course, but ahead, Lin could see the glow of the last Chibucha worm to enter, glowing fungi scattered among their carapaces, and she didn't know what the meaning was.
The light of each kibucha is different, but the leader is more dense, and after following the kibucha worm through the narrow passage for a while, the surroundings gradually widen, as if they have reached another cave.
More light began to appear on the walls of the cave here, and on either side of the flyer, there was a kind of mushroom that glowed blue, about a centimeter in height, and if the flyer got too close, they would be even brighter, although I don't know what the meaning was.
The deeper you go, the more this mushroom around, and at the top of the cave wall there are a large number of glowing mycelium that hangs down, like the root system of a plant, and there are many Chibucha worms crawling between these mycelium, and they cut some of the mycelium and bundle them together and carry them on their backs.
It's as if they collect these mycelium to eat.
As she went deeper, Lin noticed that there were not only mushrooms on the ground, but also many bryophytes, which seemed to live on the light of the fungus, and the fungus did not devour them, but where did the nutrients of these fungi come from?
Chibucha bugs?
The flyer arrived at an open place, where the roof of the cave was high enough to fly up completely and observe the environment, where in addition to fungi and mosses, there were also a large number of Chibucha worms, they were very numerous, scattered all over the cave, they were all doing one thing - cutting mycelium, and then piling them in the center of the cave.
Next to the hyphae pile there are a lot of small white worms, which are supposed to be the larvae of Chibucha.
They do eat fungi, but the fungi ignore them, and they are not parasitized by fungi except for their carapaces.
Lin has a speculation about their lives, it seems that although these Chibucha insects live in symbiosis with fungi, they are not controlled by fungi, they do not transmit messages to fungi, nor can they help fungi fight, and their attack behavior should be purely to protect themselves.
It's really amazing, a creature that can survive under such a terrible 'plague', they may have used some method to keep the fungus from harming themselves, just like the Chibucha worm in the twisted jungle can also control the growth of the fungus, but it would be nice if they could protect themselves like the plague fungus here.
Now, the time has come for the fungus balls.
'Click......'
A large number of fungus balls began to make a cracking sound, and in the cracks, various different fungus monsters emerged from the balls, their bodies covered in a thick layer of mycelium.
Not every fungus ball wakes up at this time, but Lin is estimated to have woken up a thousand, and their wake-up times seem to be 'set', with each batch having the same amount of time, and only a few of them appearing individually.
The moment the group of creatures came out, they began to rush in the direction of the phage, they kept letting out a strong roar, but they couldn't feel the anger, but the plague fungus itself was angry or not, but they obviously couldn't tolerate Lin here.
As they ran on the ground, they had already accumulated a large amount of burn, and they also splattered the burn everywhere as they ran, splashing on the surrounding fungal balls and their companions.
The plague fungi hadn't seen this kind of burning fluid, so they hadn't connected them to the threat right now, but were frantically rushing towards where the phages were.
Now, there are a large number of fungal monsters in all directions of the phage, and they have quite a lot of burning fluid stuck to their bodies, especially their legs.
So let's get started, and the whole cave will be fragrant!
At this moment, some of the explosive bombs placed on the ground by Lin exploded, and the high temperature generated by the fusion of the explosive components in the explosive bombs ignited the burning liquid on the ground, and the flames instantly began to spread and burn!
The entire cavern was shrouded in heat under the raging flames, and the flames crawled up the bodies of the raging fungal monsters, who roared and howled madly in the flames, and began to rampage aimlessly.
Even though some creatures were able to secrete liquids that resisted the flames, they could not resist the heat around them, and in the flames, the flesh and skeleton of these creatures slowly began to detach and fall to the ground one after another.
Lin noticed a peculiar phenomenon, after being attacked by the heat of the flames, the fungal infected creatures seemed to be temporarily uncontrollable, and they did not continue to charge but crashed everywhere, which made their casualties even more serious.
As the flames lasted, there was a lack of oxygen in the depths of the earth, and the oxygen in the depths of the earth seemed to be not very sufficient, and under the flames, the oxygen in the cave became less and less, and some fungal monsters who managed to avoid the flames also collapsed because they could not bear the low oxygen.
Lynn had long thought of this, so both the predator and the phage had spare air sacs in their bodies, and the phages themselves didn't consume much oxygen.
Now the flames were slowly extinguished, and in the cavern, only a large mass of bones and all sorts of charred black matter remained, and it was almost impossible to discern what it was.
The predators took advantage of this opportunity to begin collecting the ash residues of a qiē here, which they threw to the phages to decompose, and the phages began to grow again.
Before the oxygen is restored, the phage may be able to grow several times in size, and Lin successfully solved this siege and obtained a lot of nutrients, but next time, the plague fungus will definitely pay attention to those burning liquids, and this trick may not be used twice.
Where the flames hadn't spread, the heartbeat was still echoing, but it took about a day and night for them to wake up, so Lynn had more time to prepare.
"Hoo ......"
Suddenly, Behemoth, who was above the outer islands, heard a strange sound...... (To be continued......)
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