Chapter 50: Plague and War

An island of fungi, three hundred meters underground.

It's like ...... Another world.

It took several days and nights for Lynn's predator troops to reach the place, and when she first arrived at the place, Lynn realized that the island was so simple.

It was a vast underground space, with starry mycelium covering the cave walls and ground, and some of the thicker mycelium gathered together like pipes to form a huge mushroom about five meters high, which was everywhere underground, and there were one of these mushrooms every few meters, but they had nothing to do with fungi.

The function of this structure is only one - to concentrate nutrients, and the mushroom can compress the nutrients transmitted by the mycelium, and finally make a dehydrated hardened structure, which can be called 'mushroom cheese'.

But Lynn seems to have arrived too late, and the predators have scattered underground to find that most of the mushrooms are empty, and only one is still functioning.

These fungi are indeed consciously fighting against Lynn, they secretly dissolve all the nutrients on the surface, all the fungi, and then transport them deep underground to compress them into 'mushroom cheese', and finally, transport these mushroom cheeses away.

Lynn had discovered how they had been transported, and in this underground cavern, there were twisted passages leading to the sea, and in these passages, there were traces of some creatures.

This trace...... Like the traces of some large arthropods, some like the remnants of a marine, trilobite-like creature......

So the plague fungus transports some of the nutrients back to such depths and then transports them away with a marine arthropod? Because the place is deep. So Lynn didn't notice? These marine arthropods must have been infected as well.

Apparently. The plague fungus wants to escape. To this end, it does not hesitate to sacrifice a large amount of nutrients to create the illusion of self-dissolution, so that some of the remaining nutrients have a chance to be transported out of the island.

Apparently the expression of wisdom xiàn, isn't it?

Lin began to see that these fungi reacted very slowly, but this was not the case, they had been trying to find a way to deal with Lynn, and they would never be wrong to control some kind of creature with higher intelligence......

However, if you escape from here, it means that there are other fungal islands nearby, because infected aquatic organisms cannot eat in the water. Otherwise, it will kill the fungus in the body, and the fungus pair will make the organism itself very vulnerable, and they will not be able to swim far.

Lynn immediately launched a full-scale search, unleashing a large number of flyers in Behemoth in the center of the fungal island to survey the nearby seas......

You shouldn't have to fly far to find it.

Speaking of which, Monte II had been kept in Behemoth's body by Lynn all along, and Lynn tried to communicate with him, but Lynn found that he was often reluctant to communicate, and his 'personality' was very different from that of the head worm and the Inca swarm, and he often had feelings of anger or fear. It seems that it is difficult to reach any friendly relations with it.

If it is killed, the Aztec worm will be completely extinct. So let's keep it first.

In addition, Lin found that the Chibucha worms were very interesting creatures, and Lin fed them with other common species of fungi, and found that they were able to digest some fungi other than plague fungi, so Lin caught a group of Chibucha worms and tried to feed them other fungi to change their habits.

The pilots who went out to explore the surrounding waters quickly responded, and one of them found an island seven kilometers west of the fungus island, which was round and about a kilometer in diameter, and the entire island was covered in fungus......

No, it's not just fungi, the flyer approached the islands and observed for a while, and found that these islands were full of fungal sacs, which were called 'fungus monsters', and the plague fungus directly put them on the ground! And there are a lot of fungal monsters that have woken up, and they are congregating at the edge of the island, as if they are preparing something.

After the first flyer discovered the island, the second and third flyers discovered the islands, and most of them were in the direction west of the fungus island, and they were all round islands of about the same size.

The structure on it is exactly the same, a lot of 'fungus monsters', and some fungal monsters that have woken up.

There are five of these islands, so Lynn calls them ...... 'Five Islands of Plague'.

With the exception of the 'Five Plague Islands', there were no islands in the nearby seas, and Lynn saw trilobite-like marine arthropods on the shores of several of them, apparently the same creatures that Lynn had discovered transporting nutrients earlier.

It turns out that they have transported all the nutrients to these five islands in order to create more fungal monsters, and plan to fight back?

Indeed, the plague fungus had this idea, and the Flyer found a number of large marine arthropods on the beaches of the Plague Islands, which could be used as 'transports', and the fungal monsters on the islands were congregating next to these 'transports'.

Plague fungus...... A war is being prepared.

This time, the fungal monsters didn't seem to be as fragile as Rin had encountered before, and their appearance was not wrapped in cystic fungus, but like hardened carapaces, and there were many large creatures in them, and even Lin had seen quite a few wyverns.

Lin was almost certain that the extinction of the wyvern was caused by the plague fungus.

The Flyer couldn't get too close to the islands, but Lynn believed that on one of the five islands, there was an infected, highly intelligent creature who was directing the war......

Now, these fungal monsters are gathering in large numbers with only one goal - to fight back against the fungal island that Lynn has occupied.

They have quite a lot of troops, although the five islands together are not as big as the fungus island, but because of the previous large-scale self-dissolution, Lin did not get a lot of nutrients, and it can be said that the troops on the island are less than the plague fungus.

But...... It's really funny.

It's interesting to watch Tucker and their lives, but the war is also very exciting for Lynn.

Just let them come! Lynn will be ready to show off her latest masterpiece to the creature known as the Plague! And then like a devastating devastation, destroy all of them without a single cell!

For Rin, creating a zào is just as fun as ruining miè.

The fungus's army is gathering and Lynn is starting to assemble her own troops.

Lynn's phages have taken over many parts of the island, and now, Lynn has begun to convert this large mass of 'slimes' into a large base, using the nutrients obtained here to produce troops, and some of the nutrients are made into large green carpet trees, which Lynn wants to grow quickly all over the island, constantly absorbing the sun's light energy as a subsequent nutrient supplement.

As for the core of the combat units...... What should we make? In what way? Flame? Claws? A miniature and crazy multicellular army?

Either way, it's going to be fun......

Over the course of several days and nights, Lynn was rapidly building bases and troops out of existing nutrients, while the Flyers were monitoring the movements of the Plague Islands, and the army of Plague Fungi was constantly 'waking up', emerging from the fungus sacs and crawling onto an aquatic creature on the shore to wait for dispatch.

They have indeed been strengthened, and instead of being covered in hyphae and swollen cysts as before, they now look like they have a shell like arthropods, which must be made of sclerotic fungi, and there are reptiles and arthropods, and there are many large marine creatures among them, which are used for transportation, and as soon as they come out, they run into the water, and then let a large number of land troops ride on their backs.

These transporting creatures that ride the good fungal monsters swim to one of the islands and gather together, and these aquatic creatures seem to be completely sealed from water, relying on some porous structures on their backs to breathe or eat.

Both sides were preparing at a similar pace, and as more and more fungal monsters gathered at sea, Lynn's forces also appeared on the west side of the island, and on the beach, Lynn gathered her forces while a steady stream of troops continued to be produced.

The preparation lasted about three days and nights, and there were no fungal sacs left on the five plague islands, and almost all of them had awakened and become part of the plague army.

According to preliminary estimates, there may be more than 100,000 of them, and since the flyers only fly around the periphery, the actual number of them should be much higher than that.

Lin believes that these creatures should be basically creatures on various islands or in the nearby sea, and as long as these creatures have the habit of coming ashore, they may be infected and controlled.

Moreover, those five islands, the fungus island that Horin now occupies, should be the 'base camp' of plague fungi, otherwise there would not be so many troops, and they would not want to retake this island...... Or are they not trying to recapture it, but simply feel that Lynn is a great threat?

After the assembly, all the sea creatures carrying the fungus began to line up, they were arranged in rows, looking very neat, some large species in front of them as the front, there were many small species around them, and there were many fungal monsters flying in the air.

Lin can sneak up on them at sea, but it seems that land warfare is more interesting, observing the structure of the fungal monster's army, Lin found that almost all of them are in the war, and there are no troops left behind, so three troops are prepared here, one is on the island beach for defense, and the other two are going to sneak up on the 'Plague Five Islands' during the fight to see if they can find the infected intelligent creature.

Lin thinks that this intelligent creature may be the 'brain' of some kind of division of labor species after being infected, if it can't be found, these two troops will attack in the back, anyway, if the army is solved, it is useless to have brains.

Either way, it looks like it's going to be an interesting war...... (To be continued......)

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