Chapter 329: Rooted in the Earth, Shepherd
Life form is a very interesting word.
It encompasses the whole process of how an organism grows, how it feeds, and how it reproduces.
The white wolf possessed by Xu Yunshu should theoretically be a carnivorous predator.
This creature, which is naturally in a predatory position, is naturally stronger than a predatory creature such as the six-eyed rabbit.
The chances of being promoted to a high-level predator are also much higher.
And now, the white wolf clone trapped in the belly of the fungal creature has begun to transform its life form.
This transformation starts from the outermost layer.
First comes the outermost layer of fur, then penetrates into the skin, then the muscles and organs, and finally the bones.
This transformation of life forms seems to be completely irreversible.
Xu Yunshu didn't have any way to stop the transformation, and his wild instincts didn't show much fear.
There was even a slight hint of joy, as if this transformation was beneficial to the organism.
He didn't know why at first, but when the transformation of the entire life form was completed, Xu Yunshu finally understood why his wild intuition had such a reaction.
The white wolf doppelganger turned into a mycelial creature.
His body still has the appearance of a white wolf, whether it is organs, bones, or muscular hair, all of them are the same as before.
But all organizations are no longer the material they used to be.
They all turn into hyphae – or, rather, hyphal material of some texture.
Bones seem to be more like the materials that the Yakuza have been using, while muscles and organs are made of soft materials like swamp floors.
Xu Yunshu immediately realized how the predators he had seen before had transformed into mycelium.
Because they themselves have been assimilated into fungal organisms.
With the end of this transformation process, Xu Yunshu unexpectedly found that he could actually move normally.
After transforming into a fungal creature, he no longer felt sluggish in the body of this huge fungal creature, and the range of motion of his joints expanded many times, as if the time-freezing magic that had blessed his body had completely disappeared.
Xu Yunshu can move freely in the body of fungal organisms.
He is like a swimming fish immersed in water, which can not drown, but can swim freely.
On the surface, he seems to have escaped from his confinement.
But in fact?
Xu Yunshu tried to swim his body.
His body composition is now almost identical to that of a fungal creature, and this strange mycelial material seems to be able to blend with each other.
In other words, Xu Yunshu's white wolf clone may be understood as being digested.
It's just that this digestion is not complete.
He can still keep his individuality, and even if the clone of the crystal clusters dies, his thoughts will not stop.
Because the body that carries the mind still exists.
This state is very peculiar, so strange that Xu Yunshu doesn't even know if his doppelganger is really dead.
Before he could figure it out, a wild instinct that had never existed before surfaced in Xu Yunshu's heart.
This instinct was very strange, it didn't ask Xu Yunshu to hunt anything, or instruct him on how to seize energy in order to move up the rank.
Its requirements are simple, poke down the hyphae.
It seems that if you do this, you will have endless benefits.
Xu Yunshu struggled with his wild instinct for a moment, and then let it go.
Wild instincts, in theory, do not harm living beings.
If instinct prompts him that the downward growth of mycelium will reap the benefits, then there is a high probability that this is the case.
There is a small probability that it is a trap for fungal organisms.
But there's no other direction to explore anyway at the moment, so let's try it and see what happens.
Xu Yunshu controlled his body, which had already turned into a fungus, and "swam" downwards until he reached the bottom of the creature that had turned into a modular pillar.
Unlike the head of this strange fungal creature, the tail of this thing seems to have only a thin layer.
This columnar fungal organism resembles a ball of viscous substance, which is crumpled into a columnar structure.
After Xu Yunshu arrived at the predetermined position, he relaxed his body, and according to the guidance of his wild intuition, he let his body exude thousands of mycelium and stretch towards the bottom.
The hyphae penetrate surprisingly easily.
Xu Yunshu can direct the mycelium growing on his body to penetrate into the outside of the creature through the skin of the fungal creature.
But that's the end of it.
This fungal organism seems to have a special mechanism.
When Xu Yunshu poked out too much mycelium, the epidermis of the whole creature suddenly tightened, making it extremely laborious for Xu Yunshu to poke out the remaining mycelium.
If there were no external causes, there would be no escape from this fungal doppelganger alone.
However, after Xu Yunshu's mycelium poked out of the surface of the fungal organism, it took root into another strange substance.
The hyphae have no tactile organs, and they can only report to Xu Yunshu that their growth is blocked.
Just when Xu Yunshu was feeling strange, a faint energy began to flow in endlessly towards his body.
His mycelium can actually absorb energy!
At this moment, Xu Yunshu finally figured out the question he had been questioning.
Why is it that the predators who are captured and ground into pure positive energy dust on Crystal Cluster Island are basically fourth- and fifth-level existences?
It's not because fungal organisms catch high-level predators and die, it's quite the opposite.
They will only catch their prey indiscriminately.
Adhering to the principle of proximity.
As long as it's a creature with wild instincts.
When these creatures are captured by fungal creatures and transformed into fungi all over their bodies, wild instincts will naturally alert them, driving them to root at the bottom, using mycelium to absorb the energy of the underground.
In this cage-like world, predators trapped in fungal organisms have nothing to consume energy, and their bodies are also anomalized, and they do nothing at all except desperately absorb energy.
Xu Yunshu was stunned and observed the surroundings.
In other words, these fungal creatures are actually herders?
They capture wild species, then raise them in captivity, let these creatures absorb energy with mycelium for a long time, raise themselves fat and strong, and finally send them to the slaughter line, where they are ground raw by the ball mill and turned into pure energy dust?
This...... Is the way this creature survives so weird?
Then again, since they have the ability to grow mycelium, why don't they just absorb the energy themselves?
Is it simply because of the wild instincts of predators that drive them to desperately absorb energy?
After Xu Yunshu discovered this truth, his thoughts were a little messy.
Although there are a few things that people can't figure out, the entire energy intake process of the swamp fungus group has been clearly displayed in front of him.
He recalled that the creepy eyes of the Crystal Cluster Island clone when he encountered the creature trapped in the module pillar were really understandable now.
If it were him, he would be trapped in the swamp for hundreds of years in the case of immortality and immortality, and when he opened his eyes every day, he would take root in the earth and absorb energy......
Then sooner or later, one day, he will go completely insane.
Of course, for these fungal creatures in the swamp, the so-called madness and ruthlessness mean nothing to them.
After all, no matter what kind of neurosis this group of predators is suffocated, the final outcome is nothing more than a crushing of bones and ashes, turning into energy dust.
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