Chapter 21 Distant Relatives

There are many kinds of creatures here, such as fluorescent air jellyfish, fluorescent small arthropods, fluorescent small lizards, and a new kind of creature that Lin has never seen before. Their bodies glow like stars. , wandering in the jungle.

Lin grabbed some of them to decompose. These creatures were all infected by fungi, just like the flying dragons and locusts that Lin had seen, but the fungus infecting them was more special. At the same time, there is no way to control their behavior. They still have the habits before they were infected, and there is no predatory relationship between them. These creatures all feed on fungi, and the fungi will grow some special structures to feed them.

It feels like the fungus is feeding them, but it seems that these creatures have not been eaten by the fungi so far, maybe the time has not yet come?

Among these creatures, there is one that Lin particularly cares about. It is a small beetle whose carapace is as transparent as crystal...

A bacteria explorer found this group of creatures by a small lake. They were swimming in the water, collecting mycelium in the water.

Are these beetles... Chibcha bugs? It seems that there are only four jointed limbs, and the shape is also very similar. They should have been extinct in the Twisted Forest.

But if you look closely, it looks a little different. No matter how many there are, grab one first and disassemble it.

But when the bacteria explorers approached the water surface, these beetles ran away in an instant. They hid in the mud at the bottom of the water and moved very quickly. This feeling is quite strange, because other creatures on the island will not escape like this, probably It's been too long since I've encountered a threat, but these 'kibcha bugs' retain a sense of threat.

But although they were hiding at the bottom of the lake, they were not buried deep. The faint light emitted by the carapace on their bodies exposed their tracks. The bacteria explorer stretched out his tentacles and easily grabbed a beetle from the underwater mud.

The beetle struggled frantically as soon as it was caught, trying to bite the tentacles of the explorer with its mouth, in this environment. Their offensive awareness is still so strong, but it was easily swallowed by the bacteria explorer, and soon began to decompose.

Sure enough, this beetle is also parasitized by fungi. They are quite different from Qibcha insects, including some structures in the body, but they can be regarded as one type in general. The gap is like a large pterosaur and a small pterosaur.

Lin distinguishes species not only by their appearance, but also by their reproductive cells. If the reproductive cells of two organisms cannot fuse to produce offspring, they can be regarded as two different species. Of course, their offspring must also be able to give birth. Some of the differences are quite large Although species can reproduce together, they cannot produce offspring.

The biggest difference between the Chibcha Worms and the Twisted Forest here is that they are not division-of-labor species.

They are all the same size, and they seem to need voices to communicate with each other.

The carapaces of these beetles are very transparent like crystals, but these carapaces are actually not crystals, but are composed of a transparent chitin, with many hyphae inside, and these hyphae emit star-like brilliance in their carapaces.

The biggest difference between them and other species here is that there is no fungus in their internal organs, the fungus is only in the carapace. And it didn't extend to the brain either.

Speaking of which, the first time Lin saw fungi was at the kibcha bugs in the Twisted Forest. They grew fungi to eat. Could it be that these plague fungi were also produced by this other kibcha worm?

It doesn't look like much, and how could they produce such a destructive species? But if they were really related to these fungi, it would be better called 'Plague Chibcha'.

Sure enough, we need to continue to study, and the brain ratio of these Qibucha insects is very large. About 1.2%, a full 0.03% higher than the ancient squid!

However, Lin has never disassembled the skeleton dragon, so I don't know how many skeleton dragons there are, and the skeleton dragon may be bigger.

Next, Lin asked the bacteria explorers to return, and after confirming that the fungus here was not infectious, Lin asked some fliers to go out to explore deeper places on the island, and some of them went to track down the location of Monte II.

In the process of the pilot's exploration. Lin found a lot of those spherical structures, and they were all sending pompoms containing fungal dust out of the island, but some of them were not working, and I don't know why.

Except for a few organisms that live in fungal woodlands. There are no other animals, and there is no complex environment formed here, but a relatively common form, that is, some species rely on the fungi on this island to live, and their biological richness is not even comparable to the beach on the edge of the island Lin asked Bechymos to grab a handful of sand, and he could find dozens of creatures in it, but there were only a few kinds in the fungus forest.

Now, the two flyers who went to explore also found the location of Monte II.

What's the situation?

Lin found that Monte II was located in a clearing in the forest. It was sticking to a mushroom in the center of the clearing, as if it was stuck by something, and it couldn't move at all. A large group of Kibcha insects were coming Surrounding it, it seems to be making some noise...

Lin continued to observe for a while, and they seemed to have continued to move like this, with almost no change, but these kibuchas would occasionally 'change shifts', some staying longer would leave, and then new ones would come out of the jungle join in.

Suddenly, Lynn noticed that a kibucha was full of nervousness and ran into the group of kibuchas. It panicked and ran in front of one of the kibuchas in the group, as if talking about something. .

This kibucha seems to be the leader? Lin saw that the light on the carapace on its body was different, the color was darker, and there were more light spots. They really weren't a division-type species.

After the leader heard this, he also panicked, and then he yelled immediately, and a group of kibuchas in front of him turned around and rushed into the jungle.

Another difference is that they can't fly, they can only move by running. Lin thinks that the kibucha bug reported to the leader just now may be that Lin's bacteria detectors caught them, and now they send out troops to find them Bacteria.

These species are very weird, Lin felt that it was necessary to ask Monte II, it should understand the language of brain worms.

It's trapped there now, so let's show them what art is.

Monte II's position is about three kilometers away from the beach. Behemoth on the beach has already aimed the muzzle at the target area, and then...'Boom! ’ (To be continued...)