Chapter 20 Stay at Home for Too Long, Become Docile

Huge creatures are advancing rapidly over the ocean.

It has been several days and nights to go in the direction of the pompom floating from the plague fungus.

At the current location, Lin's Behemoth has not found anything special. Lin only found that these pompoms seem to be able to choose a direction to move, and they are not completely floating with the wind.

Therefore, Lin's goal is more clear, mainly to the northwest of the Dinosaur Continent, where the fluffy balls floated out, and what needs to be done now is to find them and destroy them.

Lin felt that it might not be that simple. It might be their last big fortress. Although the distance between the two places is too far, the news of the destruction of the fungus here should not reach the other side.

But Lynn has a feeling this could be a war...

During the process of advancing, Lin observed and tested some marine organisms. Lin always felt that this issue needs attention. Fungi may adapt to the ocean environment. They originally crawled from the ocean to land. If the plague fungus reaches the sea , that would be troublesome, and it is estimated that it is unlikely to clean them up.

Bechymos is close to the sea surface, and releases some micro-units into the water to observe a group of fish named star sharks here. These micro-units can stick to the skin of fish in large numbers, and detect their physical conditions and other things. .

These fish seem to be in good condition. So far, Lin has not found that fungi are not afraid of sea water.

However, Lin never used seawater to attack them, because she was worried that they would develop resistance to seawater. It was really difficult to confirm the rate of change of these creatures.

What is that?

Bechymos suddenly found a huge thing floating on the surface of the sea in the distance, and that shape looked like...

...Is this an Aztec airship?

After Bechymos approached, Lin carefully observed this giant floating on the ocean. Lin still remembered that this thing was made by Aztec insects and used to float on the ocean. It can be called It is called 'boat'.

But the ship's three sail-posts were all broken. They can no longer be moved.

And there were many ships when we set off, but only one is seen here.

Bechymos released some fliers, and they flew into the holes and crevices on the ship to observe the situation inside. Lin saw that it was covered with densely packed small species of Aztec insects,

But they all looked dead, and a few were in a 'dying' state.

Monte II is not here, but in another location, in the same direction as those fungal pompoms floated from.

That being the case. I must go and have a look. It should not be infected by fungi now, otherwise the troops that Lin parasitized under its brain will die.

Bechymos speeded up and flew towards the target direction. Lin saw more and more floating fungus balls along the way, but these things would be intercepted by the troops in the air when they approached the mainland, and none of them could fly in. mainland.

Now. Lin's pterosaurs in the mainland have been living with the skeletal dragons, hunting and living with them, as if they have become the same group, and they also built a small hut for Lin's pterosaurs.

After Lin lived with them for a period of time, she also got to know them more and more. This group of skeletal dragons likes to hunt nearby, and when the water runs out, they will go to the river to get water. They are bound together by a plant root system to make a water-holding thing.

They almost always like to sprinkle salt on their food, this one is indeed more 'tasty', Lin thought about it for a while, but still didn't tell the brain worm the taste of these foods, Lin felt that it would become dependent on this food, the skeletal dragons It may have been eaten for a long time, and the body has the ability to resist, but eating too much is definitely harmful to brain worms.

Now Lin is also trying to understand the meaning of the words of the skeletal dragon, and their words are not as rich as those of the brain worm. But it also includes a lot of content. Recently, the leader seems to be planning to lead the group to the other side of the desert—the direction of the white salt sand sea to explore and find food.

They don't go that fast, but it takes several days and nights to go.

Because Lynn doesn't like to do two things at the same time, she has to deal with the situation here first.

Bechymos flew over many small deserted islands, and Lin found that there were many atmospheric slimes in the sky in this area. These strange creatures were like fish swimming in the sky. They all fled as soon as they saw Behemoth.

After flying for a while, Lin also saw a large aquatic reptile moving in the sea here, and far ahead, Lin's destination finally appeared...

A huge island. In the distance, Lin could see large mushrooms standing on the island. They were far away from the beach beaten by the waves, and spread all over the island. Obviously, the creatures on the island had been devoured by them.

Although Lin wanted to send them an incendiary bomb at this position, she stopped.

These fungi seem to be very strange, giving Lin a different feeling...

Bechymos slowly approached the island. These huge mushrooms didn't respond, they didn't form a cannon to shoot here, they seemed to know nothing...

In this way, Lin can also study them. The color is one of their weird points. The 'umbrella' at the top of these mushrooms is actually green.

Lin has seen many plague fungi, they are basically three colors, gray, red or purple, this green one makes them look like... plants.

Moreover, even the hyphae on the ground are actually green. Lin asked Bechymos to release some bacteria detectors, and let these protective units eat some mushrooms and mycelium for monitoring.

This feeling...is really strange.

After the bacteria explorers ate some fungi, when they were decomposed, Lin found that they were indeed plague fungi, but they didn't grow like the plague fungi on the distant island. In fact, they didn't grow at all, and they didn't attack cells. They seem to have lost the infectivity of common plague fungi...

And those green parts are the same as plants, used to absorb light to obtain nutrients, but there are some differences, fungi do not grow those green structures by themselves, but are different creatures from them, a kind of green algae gathers in large quantities The green that appears there.

Fungi have reached a symbiotic relationship with them, which makes them almost like plants, which can obtain light energy, and the mycelia on the ground are the same.

Do these fungi lose their ability to infect by absorbing the nutrients of green algae? Moreover, the bacterial dust released by these fungi is not that contagious. They are more like plants falling on the ground and then growing out, but they will only grow when there are no mushrooms nearby.

At the beginning, when she saw that the fungi on the island were growing so prospering, Lin thought that they hadn't eaten up the island, which is why they grew so well. Generally, the fungus would slowly wither after eating up the island.

But here is the complete opposite. They may have stayed for a long time, and after eating up the entire island, they realized that they were about to perish, so they figured out this way to continue living.

I don't know if those fungus balls flew out from here, but some sounds can be heard from a distance here.

Lin sent out more fungus explorers to observe everywhere, while Behemoth flew to the beach and stayed there without moving. Although these fungi don't seem to be contagious, you still need to be careful.

this is……

When flying to the beach, Lin noticed that there was a pothole with a diameter of more than two meters on the beach. It seemed that something had dug here. Bechymos released a predator to drill into this cave to investigate. The cave was very deep, and the inner wall It has also been reinforced, and Lin found a lot of broken egg shells inside.

This one belongs to the Aztecs... Speaking of which, Monte II is also in this place.

It seems that it has reached a very deep part of the island, wait for the explorers to slowly explore that position before looking for it.

Some bacteria explorers flew into the jungle, and Lin found the source of the noise. In the jungle, there were some huge spherical structures, which would continue to expand and release those fluffy balls.

The fungus dust contained in the pompom still has the original strong aggressiveness, and they are exactly the same as the large number of plague fungi that Lin had destroyed before.

This one is really special. Although they have become 'peaceful' here, they are still highly contagious to the outside world.

Moreover, these spherical structures have a ring of hyphae on the ground connected to it, and these hyphae are connected to nearby mushrooms. It can be said that all the mushrooms in the surrounding jungle are providing energy to these balls.

They are trying to spread outside with all their might! It seems that even if they are trapped on the island, even if they figured out a way to continue to live, they still don't forget to keep spreading and aggressing.

Sure enough, it is a very troublesome species. Lin may "purify" the entire island, but for now, let's investigate first. The island is quite large, maybe tens of kilometers or even hundreds of kilometers wide, but the fluffy balls that float out are not That's a lot, so I'll have to take a look, maybe they've drifted in another direction, maybe there's some other secret inside.

In addition to the green mushrooms and hyphae, there are many fungal structures that mimic the shape of plants on the island. They are all covered with green algae, and they are now completely dependent on this life.

When the fungi explorers were exploring in the jungle, the sky gradually darkened. These fungi suddenly showed a strange side. They began to emit bursts of light one after another. All the fungi shone like stars. It looks quite beautiful.

They may do this to provide light to the green algae, but this energy conversion does not seem to be cost-effective, and there may be other purposes...

What's even more strange is that after nightfall in this jungle, many... animals suddenly appeared in this glowing mushroom forest. (to be continued...)