Chapter 54: The Path of the Assassins

In the Plague Head's body, Lynn saw nothing but darkness, surrounded by what seemed to be some pipe-like structure, and the pipes were covered with a large number of mycelium, and the Melters rode the sea water into these pipes to go deeper.

However, there is a constant 'click' sound all around, and it seems that the whole place is constantly shaking.

This feeling, Lynn felt very obvious......

'Boom! Suddenly, with a dull underwater explosion, the head broke away from the Plague Head's neck and floated to the surface.

Some of the Melters who hadn't yet gotten into it saw this in the sea, only to see a hardened purple crust around the Plague Head's broken neck, which seemed to prevent the water from entering, and it was now like a giant headless creature that was retreating into the depths of the sea step by step.

The severed head floated on the surface of the sea, and the melters including Lin found that the structure inside began to autolyze, and the cells in it began to disintegrate themselves, releasing a huge amount of dissolved liquid, and it only took dozens of seconds for the skull to dissipate into a layer of heterochromatic grease on the sponge, and Lin didn't even have time to observe the structure inside.

This is a very clever thing to do, but Lynn doesn't know if it has this autolysis mechanism in its own right, or if it is deliberately autolyzed specifically to prevent Lynn from decomposing and understanding it......

But now the Plague Head has no head, it can no longer continue to attack, its huge body is now in the sea motionless, but Lin will not let go of this opportunity, all the Melters quickly swam towards the Plague Head, if on land, even if the Melters have a chance. It takes a long time to kill a creature that large. But now in the sea. They only need to get water into each other's bodies, and they can easily solve the head of the plague.

"Goo......

The Head of the Plague seemed to sense something, and it took great strides and continued to retreat, each heavy step stirring up countless sands and dust on the seabed and scaring away the fish that were hiding within.

Then, the Plague Head began to swing back and forth, and a strong stream of water spread through its body. The tiny Melter was suddenly swept away by the strong current, unable to get close to its target.

Moreover, it continued to shake, and it was a strange feeling to watch a creature with no head and only two legs swaying around in the water.

In that case, Lin felt that she could ignore it and just watch it here, now that the Plague Head had no attack power, and on the sea, the battle seemed to be suspended. The army of the plague fungus was almost blocked by the wall of fire and could not advance, and could only be attacked by the air force. But under Lynn's bombardment, no class could get close.

The fungus was attacking the island with all its might, but Lynn wasn't just focused on it.

In the distance, another force had approached the 'Plague Five', which had set off before the war had even begun, and had rounded the back of the fungus's army, and now Lynn had searched for the island where the wise leader was most likely to be hidden.

Mainly rely on information, if it is the brain of a division of labor-type species, it will rely on some ways to command the troops, it may be smell information or current information, and Lin detected which island has the largest amount of information, and on the third island, the troops used for detection feel some wonderful smells, and they are constantly emitting outside the island.

So it was decided that it was here, and a large number of troops slowly approached the edge of the island......

The Strikers are a new class of troops known as the 'Assassins', and as the name suggests, they are there to assassinate the 'brains' of fungi.

They climb up to the island from the edge of the beach, and using their color-changing skills, they dodge the fungal 'gaze' and quietly make their way through Island Three.

The ground here is covered with mycelium, and like the fungus island, these fungi are no longer infectious, but have grown large mushroom structures and algae to absorb light energy, and now the island is full of broken fungus sacs, and almost all of them have gone to fight......

There is one exception, which Lynn calls the 'Big-Eyed Dragon', which looks like a reptile, only half a meter long, with exceptionally large eyes and well-developed eyesight, and they are usually located under those large mushroom umbrellas, and they can be seen constantly looking around, as if to see if there are any intruders around them.

Lynn's assassin troop weaves between mushrooms, unnoticed with a slow pace, the assassin is one and a half meters long, only a little larger than the predator, and similar in appearance to the predator, but with many 'hidden weapons' hidden on his body, which are used to kill targets instantaneously.

The assassin headed in the direction where the smell was strongest, and Lynn felt that it was constantly emitting the smell from the center of the island.

The island is not large, and the assassin quickly approached the center of the island, which Lin had not seen before, because in an area in the center, there were several large mushrooms that were constantly spraying a purple mist into the air, and the whole area was shrouded in purple mist, which was not clear in the sky, but after entering, the assassin found that the fog here was not very thick.

After entering the purple mist area, the assassin closed the breathing holes and used the oxygen stored in his body to breathe, these mists contained a lot of fungus dust, and the ground here was similar to before, full of mycelium, but there were no large mushrooms growing anymore, like an open space.

If there is some kind of creature with high intelligence, it should hide in some hole, not outside...... Wait, what's that?

On a flat surface, Lynn saw a tentacle-like protrusion, about two meters high, and the surrounding area was empty, it was very conspicuous...... Not only is it visually conspicuous, but also in terms of smell, the tentacles are emitting a lot of scent, and Lynn even feels some signals similar to electric currents.

Lynn had the assassins scatter and surrounded the tentacles, and one of the assassins slowly walked over and stretched out his claws to stab the tentacle.

The moment the claws touched, the tentacles shrank into the ground with a 'whoosh'.

"Gah!" Suddenly there were countless cries from the mushroom trees around the clearing, which were made by the big-eyed dragons crawling under the mushroom umbrellas, and they jumped off the mushroom umbrellas and rushed to the center of the clearing in groups.

"Quack......?" But when they rushed in, they saw nothing but empty areas......

The hidden effects of the assassin are completely integrated with their surroundings, and can even simulate smells, so the fungus may have to control an echolocation creature to find them.

Although the big-eyed dragons had not yet seen the enemy troops, they still did not leave, but did not move around the clearing.

Lin ignored them, just now the assassin stabbed the tentacle with his claws, and had already released a miniature unit inside, it positioned the tentacles, and found that the tentacles had shrunk into the ground nearly thirty meters deep.

The hole it left behind was just big enough for an assassin to pass through guò, and Lin asked the assassin to slowly walk towards the hole in front of the eyes of the big-eyed dragon, even if it was moving, they didn't notice.

One by one, the assassins burrowed into the holes of the tentacles, which were so narrow that they could only line up to enter, but the passages would eventually become more and more wide......

Here it is......

After walking more than thirty meters deep, the assassins did enter a large space, because it was dark around, and Lin asked one of the assassins to make an echo to explore the surroundings......

'Click. As the echo echoed through the cave, the assassins spotted a scene that amazed Lynn...... There are actually three ...... in this cave. Head!

It was the head of the head of the plague, and the echo sent their appearance perfectly into Lynn's thoughts, they were exactly the same as those seen at sea, and they were the same size.

But the heads are placed horizontally on the ground, which means that they don't seem to be connected to the body, and the head of the plague was really created? And it's made separately.

The Assassins slowly moved through the Plague Head's head, exploring the depths, while Lynn had several of them dig into the Plague Head's 'mouth' and find that it was a hardened passage with nothing special.

These are probably 'unfinished products', maybe the body is the body, and the head is just a launcher.

However, this cave is not large enough to hold a body, so I don't know where the body was made......

'Click. Suddenly, an unidentified white object appeared in the echo image, and everything Lynn had never seen before would appear white.

It appeared to be a large creature, with its lower body belly rather large, dragging on the ground like a fat worm, with eight pairs of arthropods around the abdomen for movement, and the upper body standing high and three pairs of sharp claws around the body.

This creature is very peculiar, very much like the queen of the division of labor species in terms of size, but it has a lot of combat limbs on its body, and it is only here, I don't know if it is a highly intelligent creature of plague fungus control, but the smell and electrical signals are constantly emitted from the tentacles on its head......

In that case, let's get rid of it first......

Thirty of the assassins entered, and Lynn spread them apart, and from her body came a pair of elongated limbs, which ended in small open spikes containing a potent toxin called 'fungal disintegrin', which interrupted the connection between the fungus and the infected organism, disintegrating the hyphae within.

The assassin's shot made no sound, and small spikes sprinted through the darkness and stabbed into the creature's fat belly.

'Bell! A small voice rang out, and the seemingly soft belly actually flicked open the small needle shot by the assassin, and the creature instantly noticed this small sound, and it roared violently, and with this roar, the whole cave instantly lit up! (To be continued......)