Chapter 3 Sweeping Out the Plague
A large number of small needles hit the Leviathan's shell and made a small sound. None of them could penetrate the Leviathan's carapace, but one stuck in the hand of Leviathan's protruding tentacles.
Lin felt a strange liquid pouring into the tentacles. This is not venom, but it seems to have a special ingredient, like... the liquid that some creatures secrete when they are excited. Usually, creatures secrete this kind of ingredients to make themselves become Excitement, the activity becomes rapid in a certain period of time, of course Lin does not need it, Lin can directly put the cells in a state of excitement.
But why is there a liquid in the needles that this tree shoots that excites living things? If it's a carnivorous plant, it should shoot venom or something.
Lin controlled the constriction of the blood vessels to squeeze out the liquid, and the cracks in the tree slowly closed at this time.
The overall skin of this tree is red, which is quite conspicuous compared to other trees. The trunk is very thick, with a diameter of more than two meters and a height of about three meters. There are quite dense plush-like branches and leaves on the tree.
How could a tree that was normal except for its color emit such strange needles?
Because I saw only one tree nearby, Lin planned not to decompose it, but to explore the surroundings first. Lin also wanted to find out if any of the reptiles that built bone piles on the other side of the canyon to resist fungi survived and arrived. here.
Leviathan was observing the forest creatures in the jungle, while moving slowly in the direction of the mountain. Various small creatures in the jungle ran in front of Leviathan. Lin named and classified them all. , Lin felt that these creatures should be separated from reptiles. And attributed to some separate and special categories, such as... 'dinosaurs'.
Lin discovered this word a long time ago. But it has been useless, and now I have found a suitable creature that can be used.
At the same time, Lin also discovered another problem. The original purpose of Lin's research on biological evolution was to learn from it and let her evolve, but now she almost studies it for "fun". Although there is nothing wrong with it, it cannot Forget about the original purpose.
The exploration of Leviathan is relatively leisurely now, so Lin turned her attention to the sea.
The bombers and Behemoth are looking for traces of the plague fungus on the sea outside the mainland. After infecting the mainland, the fungus floated to the sea. Lin already knew the reason why they didn't cross the rift valley. Their fungus dust would die in the mist of the rift valley, and it seemed that the air in the mist had an effect on them.
There may be some flying creatures flying out of it and infected with fungi, but they should fly through the fog when they enter and leave, and then carry out 'disinfection', but there is no guarantee that 100% no fungus will enter inside. Maybe the creatures inside have some resistance of their own.
If there is only a small amount of bacterial dust, the infection will grow very slowly, not much faster than ordinary fungi. Even the immune cells of ordinary organisms can destroy them at this stage, but if a large amount of bacterial dust is infected at the same time, it is estimated that there will be no biological I can resist it.
Except for this unit newly researched by Lin.
Bechymos has now found an island infected with the fungus. This island is fifty meters long and thirty meters wide. It is quite small, but it is covered with a large number of plague fungi, huge tree-like mushrooms, strange coral-like shapes, and moss-like fluffy balls. The soft mycelium covering the ground looks like many different creatures. Actually they are the same species.
Bechymos flew to the sky above the island, and after a certain height, the fungus dust would not be able to float to this position. At this moment, Bechymos opened the muzzle below him, and dozens of airdrop pods flew from there with a howling sound. It fell from the air and hit the mycelium-covered ground, setting off a cloud of dust like snowflakes.
These dust clouds are bacterial dust. After the plague fungus devours everything, it will convert all its nutrients into floating bacterial dust. All the strange structures are used to better spread the bacterial dust. They Different structures can occupy every airflow in the atmosphere, which can ensure that most of the bacterial dust can be blown away with the wind.
Although Lin thinks that if it wants to spread, it can grow into a mushroom shape, and other structures are superfluous. Of course, fungi have their own 'ideas', and Lin is not interested in knowing. What I have to do now is to destroy them.
The drop pod slowly rips open, and from inside emerges a giant... slime.
In fact, it is a kind of organism that looks like its whole body is soft gelatin. Its body is not cells, but a large number of ultra-miniature multicellular arms that are only slightly larger than amoebas. Although it is small, it is very powerful.
As a tactic against plague fungi, Lin thinks this is the best. The attack of plague fungi is very simple, similar to ordinary fungi. Their mycelium grows like the roots of plants, and then the 'root' will secrete a solution. Pierce the shell or bark of the organism, pierce into the area where the cells flow inside, and then start to suck the cells, and then grow more hyphae, slowly phagocytizing the cells.
Their quantity and growth rate are the key to being able to deal with other organisms. In a very short period of time, they can transform the nutrients they get into themselves, thus growing continuously.
But Lynn's slime will in turn eat the fungus and grow itself. When the fungus dust penetrates into their skin, the troops in the inner layer can secrete a faster and stronger solution, which dissolves the fungus dust and sticks out After that, the troops inside will gradually increase, and the slime will gradually grow in size, covering the entire island like a fungus.
Therefore, this slime is named 'Bacterophage'.
This is the name from a virus, but that virus obviously does not have the ability to stop the plague fungus, so it is better to give this name to this slime.
A large number of phages released from the airdrop cabin slowly crawled on the ground covered with mycelium. After these mycelium touched their bodies, they grew like crazy, and they stretched out countless mycelium. into the body of the phage, but the inserted mycelia are quickly dissolved, the phage will pause at this time, and quickly transfer these dissolved mycelia to the 'core' in the body for decomposition, The core also creates more troops at the same time, and then slowly moves around.
Not only the ground, but also the bacteria dust that keeps falling from the sky. Phagers must deal with all these things. If too much bacteria dust is covered, then some of them still have a chance to grow. Lin must be more Quickly devour and absorb the melted residues, the hyphae cannot get nutrients first, while the phages will continuously devour nutrients at the core and then split into more troops to grow in size. When it grows to a certain extent , Lin will create new cores to deal with more fungi.
In this tiny war, Lin is slowly eroding the plague fungus on the entire island... (to be continued...)