Chapter 25 War Reserve

Fifty, seventy, one hundred... two hundred...

The predators were running fast in the vast and dark underground space. There were huge fungal balls everywhere, and there was a creature in each ball. Lin was counting their number.

These balls vary in size, some are only a few centimeters long, and some are more than ten meters long. Because the roof of the cave is about 30 meters away from the ground, it can hold very large objects, and the number of these balls is far larger than their size. Scary, the deeper you go in the cave, the denser they become.

Lin now knew why there were so many fungus monsters attacking in the first place. Although she still didn't know how they climbed up through the vertical caves, at least it proved that there were a huge number of them.

When the number exceeds a thousand, the predator goes deep, and can still see almost endless fungal balls.

Lin has already begun to doubt,

Why do we need so many fungus monsters here? As a defensive force, no, their number has exceeded the level of 'to defend a place'... They are preparing for a war!

Lin was not wrong in thinking at first, these fungi can consciously control a living being, and then use them as their own troops...

The creatures in these fungal balls seem to be in a state of deep sleep and motionless, but they are not. If you listen and look carefully, you will find that they will make a beating sound like a heart. Some balls beat very slowly, while others Soon, they all have one thing in common: faster and faster.

Lin speculates that they may have been asleep for too long, so it will take some time to wake them up, but it can be confirmed that they are all alive and in the process of waking up!

In that case, burn them all before then!

The exploring predators immediately sprayed flames at the surrounding fungal balls, just when Lin thought she could smell the barbecue again...

'Crack...'

Suddenly, Lin heard a voice.

The predators stopped breathing fire, and the flames they sprayed began to burn and spread wantonly, and the predators also gathered in the direction where the sound came from.

A creature has awakened...

The sounding fungus ball is more than four meters tall. Accompanied by the sound, it slowly cracked open like an egg shell, and then, a huge head protruded from the crack.

This is... a beetle?

With the bursting of the whole fungal ball,

A giant creature appeared in front of the predators. The body of this creature was covered with hyphae, but the original black carapace could still be seen. It has six sturdy jointed limbs, and three fungal cysts that are constantly shrinking and expanding on both sides of its body.

Fungus Is Providing Oxygen to This Giant Beetle? They actually know how to preserve these giant insects in this way.

"Woo...!" The giant beetle let out a roar, and it suddenly ejected a thick purple mist from its mouth, hitting the two predators right in front of it.

As soon as the predator came into contact with the purple mist, the carapace of the whole body was instantly corroded and festered. This seemed to be an extremely powerful solution. Not only that, but their bodies are also invaded by a large number of hyphae.

What this beetle spits out is fungal dust that maintains the ability to infect!

The two predators soon festered and were unable to move. The phages should be able to cope with this kind of attack, but it is impossible for the muscle cells in the predator's body to be transformed into troops with the ability to resist.

At this moment, the beetle began to prepare to spray other predators, and the predators immediately spread out to completely surround the beetle. At the moment they surrounded the beetle, several flames spewed towards it.

"Woo..." In the flames. The beetle kept shaking its body, and the fungus on its body secreted a layer of mucus, completely covering it. The flames couldn't keep burning on it, and some predators had already sprayed out the burning liquid in their bodies.

The beetle immediately turned around when the flame was extinguished, and a thick spray of fungal dust instantly sprayed on the surrounding predators, but this time the predators had already reacted in advance and quickly retreated to avoid the attack.

At this time, the predators rushed to the beetle together. They climb onto the beetle's back and cut through the fungal skin with their sharp claws, piercing the shrinking and expanding sacs.

Every time the predators cut these skins, a large amount of miasma would emerge from the opening, but the predators could temporarily close the breathing holes without being affected. At this moment, the beetle let out a roar. It started to swing all its jointed limbs, and began to charge wildly underground.

'Boom! ’ The beetle slammed across the surrounding stone pillars with its body, squeezing some of the predators on the side of its body into a pulp, and then it continued to rush towards the next pillar. It seems that it wants to use this method to deal with the predators on its body,

But now the predators all jumped off the beetle, because they had cut open those few cysts.

"Woo..." The beetle didn't seem to notice, it was still running, but at a slower and slower speed...

'boom! ’ The huge body crashed to the ground, and the beetle never moved.

The predators now go to the beetle and observe carefully. Those sacs are indeed used to breathe for it. It seems that the ability of this beetle is quite perfect. In fact, it does not rely on its own strength, miasma, bacteria dust, Wait, these are the abilities of the plague fungus. It is better to say that the beetle is like a carrier than to use the beetle to fight.

However, it is also because the predator can pick up on the skin of most creatures, coupled with their jumping ability, makes it difficult for giant creatures to attack them.

Now the corpse of the beetle is beginning to change, and the hyphae are growing at a speed that can be seen by large creatures. They seem to be preparing to recover the corpse of the beetle...

Some of the predators that still had fuel shot out flames, and the carcass of the beetle burned up, the fire-resistant liquid it secreted before had been spilled dry in the course of its run.

Now the beetle is dead, but the fungus is still alive. However, they have no reaction to the burning of the predators. Before, they could respond quickly and secrete arson. It seems that the reaction speed of these fungi should be related to the brain of the beetle. .

This is just the first one.

The sound of 'boom...boom...' was constantly heard around, which meant that there were still countless creatures waiting to wake up, and the fire that the predator set before did not know when it was extinguished.

Chibcha bugs.

There are many kibcha bugs around watching the predators in the dark, and some predators have sound detection ability, so they can find them.

They are hidden in this cave, and they seem to be inseparable from the fungus, but they don't seem to be able to command the fungus.

What is going on with these creatures? (to be continued...)