Chapter Seventy-Nine: The Fungus Blanket
Mo Lan decided to level this forest, the idea was naturally excellent, and the method was very simple, that is, to hatch some zergs that specialized in "eating" plants.
Like normal, this kind of zerg is the strongest for the digestion and absorption of biological flesh and blood, and it is not impossible to devour plants, but the effect is always worse, and the efficiency is not high.
It's just that the idea is very good, but it is difficult to really realize, first of all, Mo Lan does not have suitable biological genes here, although she has a lot of herbivore genes here, but this "eating" of plants is really different.
Most organisms eat to absorb the nutrients needed in food, and then excrete the unwanted nutrients, that is, feces.
But the Zerg do not have feces such as feces...... Because the Zerg can convert all food into a kind of energy needed for survival.
Therefore, the simple ability to digest plants like herbivores is completely insufficient.
But I have to say that the strong adaptability of the Zerg gene does not need any suitable biological genes, and Mo Lan can directly transform the basic Zerg into plants.
However, this kind of transformation takes a certain amount of time, and the effect after transformation is not so good, and it needs to be continuously adjusted in the future.
Mo Lan didn't force it, anyway, as long as she solved the weird forest in front of her, she didn't really want to develop in the field of plants, or rather, the restrictions on plants were too great.
In other words, she remembered that the main gene fused by the eighth sister Sangyu was a kind of plant life, and she didn't know how the eighth sister was developing now, as if the eighth sister was the weakest besides her.
This adaptive transformation, there is still a period of time, and it just so happens that Mo Lan is looking at what results this group of players can come up with.
The so-called adaptive transformation, in fact, most creatures should have it, but it is not as rapid as the transformation of the Zerg.
Suppose a group of human beings, living in an environment with only one kind of grass and no other organisms and plants, if they can't adapt to the life of eating only grass plants, they can't live, and the people who live, in order to live better, will produce a change in order to better digest this grass and plant and absorb the nutrients in it.
It may take generations or tens or hundreds of years for humans or other creatures to go through this process.
Because of the unique genetic characteristics of the Zerg, this process of adaptive transformation only takes a few days or more than ten hours.
What Mo Lan is doing now is to convert the taste of some Zerg from biological flesh and blood to plants, because it is not caused by the external environment, it is she who forcibly transforms, so the effect will be much worse.
The difference between natural and artificial.
It's not easy for players here, a large number of people listened to the analysis of the bright and honest well, and felt that it made sense, and then went to make vines and weave ropes, ready to pull out the players' bodies inside.
But after the rope came out, how to lasso the players inside became a big problem.
Like that kind of ferrule, the best way is to throw the entire loops of the rope head into the loop, pull it in the middle of the rope, and the knot will be automatically locked.
However, the players' accurate heads are too bad, one is thrown with tentacles, which is not as strong as the human body, and the other is that the weight of these ropes is not very even, one is heavy and one is lighter.
So at this moment, there was a row of players throwing ropes into the strange woods, just like the activity stalls that set up stalls and rings on holidays, the scene was too lively, and many players were also noisily asking others to get out of the way, and he would set it.
Thanks to the stone that fell into the well, the game characters of other players are now standing in place and waiting for the set, but the game characters of the uneducated new youth are lying face down on the ground, and the difficulty of the set has suddenly increased a lot.
With the increasingly resentful sight of the uneducated new youth, he can only trouble his good brother in the dream, who makes the spiritual power of the dream swim the highest.
But this matter, no matter how high the mental power is, it can't be solved, and the dream swim barely hit it a few times, but as soon as he pulls hard, the rope loop can't be tightened at all, and he directly pulls the rope back, and his body is still lying on the spot.
On the contrary, other players really have been pulled back in the quilt, and this time the body is falling to the ground, and I don't know how long it will take to return to normal.
In fact, there are far more than the Zerg soldiers sent in by Mo Lan just now, and a few game characters that the players entered, and Mo Lan realized that something was wrong precisely because a few Zerg had completely disappeared here.
As a result, when he arrived here, Mo Lan didn't see the corpses of the few Zerg soldiers who had lost contact, so he sent another Zerg soldier in.
So this will bring back the other players their game characters, the one Mo Lan sent in at the beginning, but she didn't let the players move.
We'll have to see how her Zerg soldiers died.
Mo Lan suddenly shifted her gaze to the direction of the uneducated new youth, and almost at the same time, she was harassing the uneducated new youth who were in the ground, and her body suddenly stiffened.
"What's wrong?" Seeing the uneducated young man who was stunned, Guangming asked out loud.
"My game character, the system says it's dead." The uneducated new youth suddenly spoke.
As soon as these words came out, the players next to them looked at the game character who was lying on the ground in the distance and belonged to the uneducated new youth.
The tentacles were still waving, and it was impossible to tell that the body was dead.
"It's really fake, it can't be a system bug." Always be suspicious of the level of the game production team, which is the quality that a good gamer should have.
"Looks like you're still alive." The Rainbow Wolf King muttered.
Mo Lan was also thinking about it, the Zerg soldier who was still standing next to him had stable vital signs, and he didn't mean to die for a while, but he didn't know why the player who fell to the ground died so quickly.
"Wait!" Bright and bright suddenly sounded, as if he sensed something.
Picking up the rope that was not in the sleeve on the side, he used his tentacles to scrape up a layer of green powder like pollen.
In just a moment, Guangming Lei found that the tentacles that touched the green powder began to twist strangely, but he himself did not feel anything.
Tong Kong reluctantly retracted, and without hesitation, he cut off this tentacle by the roots.
"I'll go, what are you doing here?" The Rainbow Pervert King was startled, and several female players were far away, but they also saw this scene and exclaimed a few times.
"It's okay, I just get the reason." Guangming Lei fell into the well and waved his hand, and as soon as he said this, he immediately attracted the attention of the other players next to him.
"After seeing this forest, I subconsciously entered the misunderstanding of thinking, that is, I felt how dangerous these trees were, so the route I chose when rushing in was a relatively wide place, some distance from the trees on both sides."
"But one of the things that inevitably happens when you enter this woods is to touch the ground."
The green powder on it was actually scraped from the ground when the rope was pulled back.
Hearing the light falling into the well and the stone touching the ground, everyone looked at the ground in the woods.
At first glance, it seems to be normal, it is a layer of soft ground that has accumulated and rotted after the leaves have fallen, revealing a slight dark green, probably some kind of grass-like plant.
But after careful inspection, it was found that the leaves on the tree were not the same color as those on the ground, which was a kind of superficial camouflage, but no one had paid close attention to this before.
"Probably some kind of creature like a fungus blanket." I've seen a lot of settings, and there's really nothing wrong with the term I'm saying now.
"Through physical contact with the ground, the spores of the fungus blanket invade the organism, controlling the body's perception until the body loses its response and is digested little by little."
The feeding method of this fungus blanket is similar to that of Molan's hatching nest, but because the hatching nest is digested with a special humrid film, the speed will be very fast, and the creatures that specialize in a certain function will naturally have a better effect than a little bit of any function.
Because the main function of the fungus blanket is to deceive the prey's body senses, the corresponding digestive ability will be lower, which is normal.
Now look at the Zerg soldier standing in place, you can find that its feet are missing, that is, it has been digested, but the vitality of the Zerg is tenacious, not to mention that the legs are a little less, even if it loses half of its body, it can live for a long time.
And the game character of the uneducated new youth, the reason why he didn't have to be so fast, was because he was lying on the ground entirely, the force area increased, and the damage he suffered was hundreds of times that of the other zerg, and the important organs in front of him were destroyed, so he naturally lost his vital signs first.
I heard that it was the spores that invaded the body, which will make several players next to them also worried, although they pulled their game characters back, but if the effect is sustained, it means that they wasted a game character in vain and pulled it back in vain.
"You shouldn't have to worry." "Generally speaking, if they are separated from the mother, these spores should not survive for a long time, just a few hours." ”
This is determined by the species, and the spores, as an extremely small plant life, correspondingly, will not live too long, and a few hours is already the limit.
But even if it really can't be saved, this group of players doesn't care very much, anyway, it's not difficult to change the game character, it's just a matter of energy points, but it's not bad to be saved.
Mo Lan really hasn't thought about this, to be honest, she really doesn't know much about this, after all, she is a social animal who goes to work, and she focuses more on work.
However, the fungus blanket should be a good thing.
"Then these trees ......" the rainbow wolf king smacked his tongue, it is said that no plants should grow on top of the fungus blanket, and the fungus blanket can not only digest animals, but also plants.
"Let's symbiosis." It is also speculation to fall into the well.
Presumably, it is this kind of tree that provides cover for the fungus blanket, attracts attention, and allows those who are a little intelligent to observe the tree, so as to ignore the abnormality on the ground.
"Then fly in, won't it be fine?" Al is my wife's eagerness to try it, and the character she controls is the flying Mantis Humanoid Zerg 2, so I'm going to want to try it out.
At first, she wanted to go in, but her master's dog and I stopped her every day, but now I can't stop her.
"I guess, no." When Al is my wife flew in, he spoke slowly.
"Spores, but they spread through the air." In other words, although they are so small that they are invisible to the naked eye, they are actually everywhere in the air.
The existence of this kind of tree is actually to block the external wind, so that a large number of spores are active in a fixed space, and the concentration of spores in the space is maintained.
Al is my wife knows what to do, she didn't fly into the inside, she was on the edge, but not surprisingly, she flew for less than two minutes, and then fell unconsciously.
"Wait, I'm not right on this point, am I not flying? Eh, I can't stop......"
In the end, it was the dog and I who pulled Al out of my wife.
"Is there any way to get through here now?" After all, this is a requirement for the main quest.
"There are two stones under your feet, and it can't digest them." The players' ideas are one after another.
That's not necessarily, I thought about it, but I didn't say it.
"No, you can't touch the soles of your feet, there's still something in the air, you have to find a way to get the whole gas mask!" Another player retorted, but the idea wasn't much better.
In fact, this spores really don't invade the body of living beings by breathing, and the skin can also be ...... The entire gas mask is not as reliable as the entire protective suit.
However, he really thought of a way.
"Cut down the tree." Bright and honest staring at the trees that live in symbiosis with the fungus blanket.
"What?" The uneducated new youth did not react.
"Since this kind of tree can coexist with the fungus blanket, it means that it must have a side that can restrain the fungus blanket." If you don't have this ability, you would have been digested by the fungus blanket as food a long time ago, how could you develop this large scale.
"Also, the fungus blanket maintains this range and does not spread outward, maybe there are some plants around it that are targeted at it, you can look for it on the side." Another player next to him was inspired and hurriedly spoke.
At this point, the players suddenly had a goal, and they were no longer confused, and immediately divided into two teams.
Players who are more careful and patient will find out if there are any plants around that can restrain the fungus blanket, and if there is no patient player, they will find a way to cut down trees.
There is no good way, players just grind little by little, first find stones to pave a way for the ground, even if the fungus blanket can digest the stones, it is not possible to complete it in a short time, so the ground does not have to worry.
And the spores in the air, the way to deal with them is also very simple, that is, fanning.
Several players held up huge leaves, acting as electric fans, and the gusts of wind blew towards the players walking in the fungus blanket forest, not to mention fanning away all the spores, as long as the amount of spores in the air was reduced, the players could hold on a little longer.
When a player doesn't move at all, he will replace the next player, which is not much different from what he said, and sure enough, within a few hours, these game characters who were pulled out of the fungus blanket forest regained their mobility.
In this rotation, within a few hours, two trees were actually cut down.