Chapter Seventy-Eight: Slow Change

The war is over, and the victor belongs to the plague dragon!

…… For the time being.

The headless dragon was now standing in the midst of the newly formed lake, and although it had become a victor, it had no joy or any special feelings.

Lin estimated that the plague dragon and other plague leaders have a large number of control muscles, but can not think about the brain, the dragon should have a large and mainly able to think brain, and when she saw the dragon up, Lin felt that this kind of brain should have two or more, but no matter how many brains, its head should have one there, and now the head has been blown off, so it can't react to any emotion, I don't know if it can still think, but without vision and other sensory organs, it is difficult to move now.

The winner has a heavy price, but this creature is a masterpiece, and if it could fly, it would be near-perfect......

But now there is only one doubt, that is, the mushroom cluster that the fast growers dealt with before, it is a very conscious combination, and it is very consciously dealing with the fast ones, this thing is indeed a mystery, as if something is directing it.

But when Lin got rid of it, it was as if it hadn't happened......

But this can be studied slowly later, anyway, the current plague dragon will not move.

The Quick-Born quickly swam underwater, moving to the side of Behemoth's wreckage, which still had a lot of scattered living cells, but by this time the whole body had begun to be besieged by a large number of carrion fungi, and Lin asked the Quick-Born to tear apart some of the more cells in order to recover them.

Now those tiny fungi are estimated to have spread all over the world. Anywhere as long as there is water. There are traces of them. Here, the Rapids will slowly recycle the cells and devour the fungi to continue to grow into more complex structures, while also observing what the Plague Dragon will do next.

On the far side of the continent, some troops have already gathered and are beginning to move this way, and it is estimated that it will take some time, but Lin thinks that these plague heads and dragons are unlikely to run around.

'Gollum ......'

At that moment, Lynn suddenly heard a noise, and the Quickener was swimming on top of a piece of the wreckage of Behemoth. Lynn saw some bubbles coming out of the flesh.

That's right...... This is......

'Grunt......' A large number of bubbles suddenly appeared, and suddenly a creature with a worm-like body of two meters long burst out from under the piece of flesh, it ignored the fast-grown, but quickly swam to the surface, and then spread four wings on its back, and flew into the air.

It was only then that Lynn remembered that Monte II was still in Behemoth's body, and that it was the one who had just flown away.

It doesn't matter if it flies away, it's good to catch it back when the time comes, Lin let the quick-livers continue to devour the wreckage.

Now the storm is slowly stopping. The brilliant sunlight shone on the water through the scattered dark clouds, making everything much brighter.

Then. Suddenly, Lin heard a loud noise around the cave, and through the environment that became brighter, Lin could see directly under the water that there were many large objects gathered around the cave.

They were the leaders of the plague, and when the thunder died down, they seemed to know they could move, and they all gathered around the pit.

But they didn't do anything, they just stayed there, as if looking at the plague dragon in the cave.

I don't know how long it took the brain to shape the plague dragon in the first place, and it is impossible to recreate the head of a plague dragon with the current intelligence of the plague fungus.

'......Click' Suddenly, a strange sound sounded from one of the plague heads, and its head slowly turned, and after almost a full turn, it broke away from its neck and fell into the water with a thud.

The skull had a lot of hollow inside, so it was able to float on the water, and then the plague dragon took two steps forward and touched the section of its body to the head......

Lin then noticed that the section of the plague dragon seemed to be secreting some kind of liquid, and then stuck the head to the section.

…… Is it going to be able to move? Or does this head have vision or some other sense?

Lynn waited and watched for a while, but the Plague Dragon didn't move, it stuck its head on and stayed there as before, and the Plague Heads around the pit didn't move.

Maybe a neural connection is going on, right? Then we have to keep waiting.

In this way, a day and night passed slowly, during which Lynn kept the Rapids collecting the remains under the water, while also observing the Plague Dragon's situation......

The Plague Dragon began to change a bit, moving its limbs and making some muffled sounds.

Lynn felt that there might be some ganglion or something in the head of the plague head that could restore it, but it was certainly not as good as its own head.

It's not good to recover so slowly, because on the other side of the ocean, a large number of troops are coming this way, and there are many more troops on the mainland side than on the fungus island, and there is another giant class, the Pioneers, and Lynn has always wanted to try which is harder, the carapace of the Plague Dragon or the carapace of the Pioneers' purgatory-like infernal worms.

Another day and night passed, and it was now the third day and night since the Plague Dragon's head was blown off, and then the Plague Dragon began to make its real move, and it began to try to reach the edge of the crater, trying to climb up the cave wall, but its movements were quite clumsy, and it was completely different from before, it tried many times but did not climb up, and was buried several times by the falling mud.

And so it was with the fourth day and night, until the fifth day and night.

These days and nights were scorching sun, and the gloom of the previous rainstorm was completely over, and the dragon's vitality seemed to become stronger and stronger, and it dug a passage directly into the cave wall with its huge claws, and climbed up from here.

Lin noticed that the head on the dragon seemed to change position, and the head was glued to the section of the dragon's body in the direction of the side face, but after a few days and nights, it slowly changed to face outward.

However, this three-hole head sticks to the body of the wyvern, and it looks really weird.

After the dragon crawled out, the plague heads followed it away, and the Swift Ones had grown in size over the past few days and nights, and now Lynn could make a small flyer to follow out and observe the situation.

The Flyer followed the giant dragon and a group of plague heads, such a large group of giant creatures walked around the island, so that the whole land seemed to have a violent earthquake, only to see the dragon with its troops to the center of the island, and then the group of plague heads stood in a circle beside the dragon and looked up at the sky.

'Bang! ’

With a loud sound, a large amount of liquid sprayed out like a fountain, not the previous jet of water, which was a bit like it was deliberately sprinkling, and the water was sprinkled in the surrounding land, and then the plague dragon began to release a large amount of mist.

The fog immediately began to grow a large amount of fungus dust when it hit the surface of the ground that had been sprinkled with liquid, and combined with the damp surface of the previous rainstorm, the fungus grew very quickly.

The sixth day and night.

The rainwater from the craters began to evaporate slowly, and a large amount of fungus had covered a large part of the surface in the center of the island, and they seemed to draw nutrients from the ground like the roots of plants, and they could continue to grow and thrive even if the liquid sprayed by the plague head was exhausted.

The plague heads and dragons remained motionless, presumably trying to reduce the loss of energy.

They remained motionless for the next few days and nights, and Lynn watched them the whole time...... Until the tenth day and night.

The mycelium on the ground has grown many mushroom structures, and the surface of the canopy of these mushrooms has begun to appear green, as if it is intended to absorb light energy, although it is not known where they got the symbiotic algae.

I see, the fungus island originally had a large number of fungi that would feed themselves should be the first of the plague and their 'species', these fungi are not like the ones that Lin encountered before who only know how to devour other creatures, they will find their own nutrients around them.

It's amazing that they've developed this way of life.

When Lin was observing them, she was also moving the underground nutrient storage room to a deeper place, because she didn't want to touch the nutrients here for the time being, but if she left them like this, she didn't know if they would be discovered by the mycelium growing underground.

The nutrient storage room is shaped like a sharp drill with small arthropod legs around it that can rotate itself downward

The next few days and nights were relatively calm, nothing special happened, and Lynn felt that if the ground was wet all the time, their mycelium might soon cover the whole island, and some of the newly sprouted plants would also be swallowed by the mycelium.

The Quick-Growers devoured the remains of Behemoth, but it would take a long time to grow into a Behemoth, and they would have to wait for the troops to arrive.

It was night, and the flyers were flying effortlessly in the air high in the air, looking at the group of behemoths below, they were still motionless.

'Buzz......' Lynn heard a sound that could only be seen when arthropod mannous wings flapped at high speed......

High in the sky, a black shadow rushed down! The flyer immediately flapped his wings to dodge, and the black shadow after the flutter spun around and rushed again.

Under the starlight, you can clearly see the appearance of the comer......

It was Monte II.

It was shaped like a worm, with wings on its back, and fought on its front limbs like sharp claws, and it may have wanted to hunt for food, but Lynn was not going to eat it casually, and the flyer's body flickered, and the color-changing cells instantly changed to the exact same color as the sky.

Monte II seemed to be flustered, and after searching around it, he turned his head and flew away.

Lynn saw it, and it flew in the direction of the plague dragon. (To be continued......)