Chapter 63: War in the Crystal
What the hell is going on?
I saw a mantis shrimp guarding the crystal, and then an ancient squid came to feed the mantis shrimp, and then the ancient squid began to dance around the crystal...... And now, after Lin entered the crystal, she found that there were two miniature armies fighting in the inner layer of the crystal.
Lynn felt like she had seen too many incomprehensible things in one day and night...... However, Lin felt that the answer should be very close, and Lin observed the two armies fighting within the crystal, completely ignoring Lin's drillers, and fighting non-stop beside the drillers.
The fungus ball on one of the sides of the fight should be the plague fungus, and the arthropods...... Lynn had a feeling as if she had seen it somewhere...... It seems to be under the deep sea, by the way, Lin found this arthropod on the bottom of the sea before, and their wreckage was accumulated in large quantities in the deep sea, although the size is much larger, but it can be said that the two are exactly the same......
Why do things found in the distant deep sea appear here in miniature? And still fighting with the fungus in this strange crystal?
Lynn found that despite the fierce fighting, the attrition rates seemed to be about the same, so that neither side had an advantage, and Lynn also discovered that their armies were all coming from the same source - the brain in the crystallization center, which occasionally dropped some fungal balls to the left and then some arthropods to the right, and these dropped units quickly joined the ranks of the war.
Both of these troops were thrown from the same brain? Why would it do that? Do you build your own troops and fight yourself? If it's a practice of tactics, it's different...... But Lin didn't see any tactics they were fighting, they were just fighting like crazy.
It seems that there are a lot of crazy people I have met here, but those secrets must be hidden in my head. Lynn just needs to get into that brain......
Thinking. Lynn immediately asked the driller to open his bit-like head. Gulping down the war-torn creatures around them, they are crushed by the drillers and slowly transfer the nutrients to their backs, beginning to rapidly create flying structures.
Even as the drillers continue to devour them, they ignore the drillers, and these creatures seem to have only one pattern of behavior - killing them all.
However, because the rate of replenishment and attrition of troops is about the same, this may never be done, and the corpses left behind by both sides after the war will be eaten quickly. It can be said that there is a never-ending battle......
If nothing else, Lynn reckoned that they would have kept fighting, and now, the driller was constantly building a kind of levitation ability in his body, and a sac slowly bulged up in the driller, allowing it to float slowly.
Because of its small size, it is simple to fly.
Flying away from the battlefield, the driller approached the 'brain' in the crystal, and Lynn actually never confirmed whether it was a brain or not, and the driller flew above the brain. After that, the floating sac that burst off the back and landed on the brain.
Lynn felt that it should be done without harm, so the driller only made some small wounds on it at first. Instead, some tiny drillers are released from the mouth into the wound, mixed into the blood vessels, and investigated the structure of the brain......
It takes some time, and swimming in a 'brain' of more than two meters is not something that can be done quickly.
Outside of the crystals, the group of ancient squid is still dancing, and their emotions are getting more and more excited, and if this continues, they may really go crazy......
The ancient squid here is already crowded with crystallized clearings, but there are more ancient squid than that, there are many more ancient squid located outside the crystallized clearing, and these ancient squid do not dance, but crowd around the periphery to watch.
Lin could sense that they wanted to go in and dance, and Lin assumed that the stronger ones dancing inside should be the stronger ones in the neighborhood, while the weaker ones could only stay outside and watch.
Lin felt that they might as well hunt more and be more aggressive if they had this kind of time......
Lin asked some of the assassins to investigate the surroundings for a while, and found that most of the ancient squid had indeed gathered, but no other creatures other than the ancient squid were affected, as if that signal only had an effect on the ancient squid.
As the squid continued to dance, Lin noticed that the only echo egg with a voice was making more and more noises, as if dancing with them.
There was a sense of wonder here, but no matter how crazy it was, Lynn didn't find anything special outside, neither the plague army nor the plague leader advancing through the sea, their movements didn't change......
What is the meaning of this qiē?
Drillers are exploring the situation......
The microdriller first circled around the brain's body, and Lynn realized that it was indeed a ...... The brain, but in addition to the part of the brain, there are ordinary organs that occupy only a small place, some of which are used to store nutrients, and some of which are used for reproduction, yes, to produce those things like mycelial balls......
In addition, most of this brain area is in a dormant state, there are very few parts in the function, there is a part that is responsible for sending strong signals, I don't know why, it is indeed related to the group of ancient squid dancing, Lynn feels like it is deliberately sending signals to affect those ancient squid, although the sending area is small, but it is enough to send a very strong signal.
The brain's nutrients come mainly from the hyphae that connect to it, and Lynn estimates that these hyphae are connected to the mushrooms above Plague Island, where they transport nutrients from the surface......
This thing doesn't look like an ordinary creature, it does look like a lump of meat, it has no limbs, it has no mobility, is this really a fungal brain? It's quite possible.
But these are not the most peculiar places, and Lynn discovers that this piece of meat is not just a brain, but ...... Two.
That's right, this piece of meat is stuck together with two brains, one is the brain that Lin detected before, and the other is only one-tenth the size of the previous one, how can you tell if they are different brains? This one is fairly simple because of the location they are connected to...... It's a battlefield.
Just like the battlefield below, within this piece of meat, the two brains are also at war, they are constantly sending a large number of cell troops to attack each other, the smaller brain because there is no hyphae to transmit nutrients to it, so it will also plunder the nutrients of the larger brain, and the big one is a pure and crazy attack, but although it is large, but the troops are not as elite as the small one, each attack will kill and wound more, and then the wreckage will be taken by the small one as nutrients.
But the small ones can't completely invade the big ones, and their troops are not very large, so they can only be used to defend their own territory...... (To be continued......)
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