Chapter 287: Double Symbiote

In a tiny world...... Countless creatures are fighting.

It's a huge leaf in the middle of a tree, where you can feel the warmth of the sun and the smell of death...... There is a constant conflict between the Eroders and the Sword Fleas.

A huge sword flea was frantically biting and devouring the surrounding qiē with its bladed mouth, but its carapace had cracked, and many eroders were lying on its body, tearing at its shell, and with the help of the dissolving liquid, the body of the giant creature slowly cracked, they were broken into smaller pieces, and devoured by the eroders, and this energy would be used to generate more eroders.

But it was only a small battle, and more of the Encroachers were at war with the Typods, slashing the Eroders with bladed arthropods, and the Eroders fought with dissolving fluids, and there were so many of them gushing out of the various pipes in the leaves, and they were not only fighting back against the Eroders, but they were also trying to swim up through the needles that the Egroders had entered, attacking Lynn's spherical floating base......

This army of multicellular immunity is quite interesting, although it is impossible for them to succeed.

Rather than doing anything else, Lynn attacked purely with spider-like Eroders, who were constantly killing the sword fleas while also destroying the other cells within the leaf, using a large amount of lysate to dissolve and divide these cells, and absorbing them to create more Eroders......

Through the constant fighting, Lynn's encroachers slowly gained the upper hand, slaying the sword fleas that poured out and slowly corroded the entire leaf.

If you look from the outside. You can see that the giant leaf with a diameter of ten meters is slowly beginning to change color and turn black. With the continuous death of the cells inside. The entire leaf also decayed, and inside, it looked as if it had been destroyed, scattered with rotten fragments scattered everywhere, and the army of eroders was rampant inside, and they began to attack the skeleton of the leaf, dissolving it, and secreting chitinite from its tail as a substitute for support.

At this time, you can see that the leaf bones are also starting to turn black.

The constantly attacking sword fleas have abandoned this leaf. They all retreated back to where they came from, the petiole at the base of the leaf that connected to the root.

Of course, Lin would not let them go, and the endless army of eroders followed, and at this moment, the sword fleas made a strange move, and when Lin chased into the passage of the petioles, she found a large number of sword fleas holding a round object that grew on the inner wall of the passage, and rubbing them on it with their arthropods, what the hell were they doing?

'Click......! ’

At this moment, Lin heard a voice, and suddenly, the thick petiole of the giant leaf broke. The ten-meter-diameter leaf fell from the massive roots of the tree as it broke, and slammed into the ground of the Scorpion City......

But there doesn't seem to be much of a problem inside the leaves. Lynn had the erosion insides of the leaves quickly gather and dissolve themselves, reassembling into flying objects and flying back to the floating base, the nutrients in which they could not be wasted.

I see, because the leaves are completely encroached upon, do you just cut it off and give up the whole leaf? This one is uncommon, but it's not a strange look.

But the sword flea's previous behavior made Lin feel as if they were telling him to give up the leaves......

Does this 'plant' have intelligence? Lynn doesn't feel like it's easy to be sure, and she needs to investigate in depth.

But looking at the large number of tree roots here, and thinking about the huge number of sword fleas in it just now, it seems that the speed is a little slow if it slowly invades from the body.

It's better to clean up the roots on the ground first, the ones above are probably just tentacles, and the ones on the ground are the real 'bodies'.

Thinking about it, Lin let the floating base start to move, this ten-meter-diameter sphere hides a lot of weapons, and there is a kind of so-called 'jagged tentacles'.

Beneath the floating base is a tentacle that ends in a long, flattened object made of chitin, and is flanked with serrations.

This jagged tentacle can vibrate at high speed with extremely small amplitude, and Lynn gently placed the tentacle on the root of the tree wrapped around the top of the pyramid, accompanied by a cutting sound, countless wood chips flew out with a large amount of sap, and the root at the top was quickly completely sawed off by Lynn with the tentacles, rolling down the pyramid.

Lin looked at the tentacles that had been dyed with a large amount of liquid, and there was not so much liquid in the roots of ordinary plants, which seemed to be because it had a lot of 'troops' in its body.

The floating base flew to the ground, picked up the broken root with its tentacles, and opened a 'mouth' on the surface to swallow it.

In the body of the floating base, countless tiny tentacles began to decompose this tree root, the first thing Lin found in the root of the tree was an almost endless number of sword fleas, they are extremely numerous, usually gathered in some small sacs in the roots, so far only five species have been found, no larvae or eggs have been found, could it be that they give birth in a deeper depth?

In addition to keeping a large number of sword fleas, the tree root itself is different from other plants in that it has a muscle-like structure that allows the entire root of the tree to move, and a nerve-like structure that connects it.

It's similar because it's still quite different from animals, more 'primitive', like the muscles that have just been formed, but it's enough to make it move......

At the same time, the root does not seem to have the ability of ordinary roots, its epidermis is closed, so it cannot absorb nutrients or water, and it is estimated that there is another part to absorb it.

It's obvious that you can't fully understand these small parts and solve them quickly.

"Goo...... At this moment, Lin heard a sound, a tree root came out of the ground, and there were two diamond-shaped leaves about five meters long in the front of it, and the leaves slowly opened, and a large amount of mucus could be seen inside, and a large amount of smell was emitted from it......

The smell smells like nectar, and plants often use this smell to attract other organisms, allowing them to spread their germ cells on their own, or to eat them......

But the smell is much stronger, and it has a stronger appeal, even the dragons far away from the city can smell it.

It seems intent on luring the float ball with this? It's a pity that it didn't have any effect on Lin at all, but Lin still pretended to have an effect and slowly floated over.

The moment it approached, the two leaves instantly clamped, and a large amount of slime stuck to the floating ball, but the floating ball was too big, and it could only stick to a part.

Is it only the same way to attack? I don't know why, but I'm a little disappointed......

No, this is......

Lynn suddenly noticed that some white threads appeared in the slime of the leaves, and these threads grew more and more, and grew upward, gradually binding the entire floating ball.

This silk thread, Lynn should have seen it, yes...... It's mycelium! Can this plant make hyphae? And this is not your average hyphae...... It feels a lot like a plague fungus, but with a few differences.

The mycelium seemed to want to find some crevice on the surface of the float and drill inward, and at the same time secreted a dissolved liquid, and Lin immediately secreted a liquid from the body of the floater, which quickly mixed with the mycelium outside, and then ......

'Whew! ’

After a burst of flames, the enveloped mycelium had disappeared, and the leaves that had stuck to the floating ball had loosened, and the roots seemed to realize that something was wrong and began to retract into the ground.

But the floater rushed up faster than it, using its serrated tentacles to cut off its 'head' and the two leaves.

The broken roots were still retracted, but Lynn now had a new subject to study.

After swallowing those two leaves, a new discovery was made.

Although it looks like a leaf, it is actually a predatory organ, and it has the ability to prevent fire, and the floating ball also burned it just now, but it doesn't seem to be affected much, it is still full of sword fleas, and there are many sacs that secrete mucus.

But these sacs not only secrete mucus, but also contain something...... Fungus dust.

It should be said that it ...... The primitive fungus dust, the petrified fungal dust that Lynn had found under the salt ground, was almost identical, and this one was alive.

However, there are good mycelium growing in this leaf, and the hyphae that wrapped the floating ball just now are just sticking out of it.

And the fungus dust doesn't seem to grow casually, while the plague fungus grows like crazy as soon as it encounters nutrients.

Thinking about it, Lynn got some fungus dust out and put it in the body of the floating ball, secreting some nutrients to soak it......

Suddenly, the fungus dust began to frantically absorb nutrients and grow, and Lynn immediately poured the dissolved solution, and the fungus was quickly decomposed.

I see, does it still depend on the object of its growth? When inside the leaves, it does not grow at all, despite being surrounded by absorbable water and nutrients, but when it encounters other nutrients, it absorbs them unceremoniously.

It feels strange to say that the word politeness is very strange, what is politeness?

In short, these fungus dust should be the same as the sword flea, belonging to the symbiosis in the body of the 'creator', no, I feel that the title of 'subordinate' is more suitable, the primitive fungus dust because of its relatively simple structure, it is not as rapid as the plague fungus that Lin saw outside, it is only relatively speaking, it is still much stronger than ordinary fungi.

Lin thinks that fungi may be acting as attack weapons and decomposers, which means that ...... 'creators' are not only the origin of carnivorous plants, but also ...... The origin of the plague fungus? (To be continued......)

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