Chapter 65: Memories of the Past
This creature ...... It was quite old for most of the other creatures, and for as long as it can remember, it was still in the deep sea, watching all kinds of sea creatures swim in the water with its 'eyes'.
The creature's eyes seemed to be older than its memories, and it was impossible to know exactly when they had them.
But this is inconsequential to the creature, which has been a 'brain' since it has memory, and this brain has no defense or attack at all, but it has its own troops: a silky creature......
This silky creature grows and feeds on all sorts of detritus in the sea.
It lived at the bottom of the ocean, and at that time it was not a 'plague' but more of a ......'cleaner'.
As an intelligent brain, it controls a vast network of silk threads that cover hundreds of kilometers around it, and no debris can escape its web.
Maybe it's because the scope of the silk thread is too big to be controlled, so a brain is needed to control the growth of the silk thread? No, this is not enough to explain why this simple structure of biology can combine to form the 'brain', the most complex organ in living organisms at present......
But this brain obviously doesn't care about this, after it was born, it did a good job of completing the task, it continued to let the silk thread extend and grow, the coverage area became larger and larger, and its own control power became stronger and stronger.
This brain does not have the concept of 'lifespan', its cells are in a state of no 'upper limit' like some sea anemones and corals, as long as it is not attacked by external forces, it will grow forever.
So it also has plenty of time to think. It began to have doubts and ...... with the outside world Curious.
At some point. A particular idea popped up at it. It wants to get out of this bottom life, it doesn't have to keep looking for crumbs, it can get more food, such as trilobites, snails, shellfish, etc., that live on those silk threads.
The creature's silk thread itself has the ability to secrete toxins, which were originally intended to prevent other creatures from attacking, but now it uses this toxin to attack other creatures. It first surrounds slow-moving creatures such as snails and shellfish, burrows into their shells and paralyzes their bodies with venom, or directly drills open their carapaces with the dissolved liquid.
It changed from a scavenger to a predator, and in the constant hunting, these silk threads grew faster and faster, but it could only eat some creatures that did not move or were very slow, and it slowly began to feel that it could not only hunt those that moved slowly, but also those that moved faster fish and other creatures.
However, it is impossible to catch fish with silk threads, and no matter how fast they grow, they cannot be caught. So it came up with a way to do it......
These threads don't just grow by growing, they also release a kind of ball. These balls stick to other places and grow silk threads to multiply, and then the brain thinks of using these balls to catch fish.
Releasing a small ball at a time has no effect, and if too few threads grow, it may be defeated by immune cells, but if a large number of balls are released at once......
It can devour any living thing!
In this way, it uses this method to expand its colony, and it also tries to wrap the threads together to form a sphere, creating an explosive structure to release the balls.
These threads are very simple structures, it does not have the organs of ordinary creatures, but it is extremely powerful, it uses this method to hunt all kinds of creatures in the sea, fish, arthropods, other corals, etc., it even creates structures like mushrooms to release more small balls, at this time Lin thought it could be named after 'plague'.
Reading this, Lynn found some problems......
This creature is not a real fungus, it does not seem to have a direct evolutionary relationship with the fungus, and those mushroom-like structures were created by accident, which is a very coincidental thing, and the same structure happened to evolve between the two......
It's also possible that it's not a coincidence, but that it discovered the fungus and then learned, but the memory doesn't record the problem with this, and the mushroom structure seems to have just popped up out of nowhere.
Now, they can be called 'plague fungi', under the command of the brain, they began to spread in the sea like a real plague, no creature can fight it, only a few creatures are resistant to the dissolution of the plague, but they are only parasites to the plague fungus at best, the brain does not care very much, it has even developed to the land, occupying several islands.
It can be seen here that the plague fungus originally grew from the sea, and Lin felt that there was some reason why they could not stay in the sea......
Although the plague devours a qiē, it is not invincible, and in its constant development, they encounter a creature that can compete with them......
It was winter, the sea and the sky were frozen in ice and snow, and the plague fungus was in a state of slow growth, and the creature slowly traveled under the cold deep sea, discovering the mycelium that was all over the sea.
When these species saw the plague fungus, their first decision was to eat all the mycelium, because it was difficult to find food during the winter, and of course the plague brain also found this group of species, and it also planned to devour these creatures, for the same reason as each other.
But after the double fight, the brain was horrified to find that this group of creatures is a powerful division of labor species, they not only have a certain resistance to the toxins of the mycelium, but it will also devour those resistant parasites to increase the resistance of its own troops.
This opponent is quite terrifying to the plague fungus, they devour a large number of hyphae and then begin to multiply, and the brain will not wait there to die, but fight it.
It managed to create more kinds of dissolving, infect more species, and create massive mycelium to fight the creature that was trying to eat it all.
The battle lasted quite a long time...... They don't attack blindly, but they are constantly updating their classes, but the structure of the mycelium is quite simple, and it is difficult to have any special changes, which puts them in a weak position.
However, the brain has a new method at this time, which uses hyphae to infect the brains of other creatures, and then uses this to control this creature.
Memories of this part of the area are vague, and there is no detailed indication of how it has this ability, as if it had it in the first place......
After using this ability, the plague fungus began its path of counterattack. (To be continued......)