Chapter 26 The Heartbeat of Fungi

Underneath the island of fungi, Lin is preparing for a... war.

Lin has calculated the awakening time of these fungal balls. Although they are of different sizes, the awakening time is the same. When the sound of "dong dong" reaches a certain frequency, the creatures inside will appear.

The creatures in the fungus ball are not random infected creatures. Lin found that they are very regular, like a group of small arms, some large arms, their abilities can cooperate with each other, and many of them can swim in the water. Flying species, many of these creatures carry plague fungi with extremely strong erosive capabilities. If they attack the mainland, it will be quite troublesome, although the possibility of them going there is not high,

But no matter what, Lin must destroy them before then.

Lin let more predators from outside enter this underground cave. Instead of breathing fire first, they sprinkled fuel liquid on the ground, covering each fungal ball and the ground near them.

At the same time, Lin also brought in the phages. Some predators brought smaller fungal balls to the phages to convert and swallow them. They used more nutrients to produce more fuel, and the phages themselves began to grow. Large, devouring fungal balls nearby...

Lin calculated the time it took for them to wake up based on the beating frequency of the fungus balls, and the ones found so far basically take thousands of seconds to wake up.

Time...was very scarce.

Lin still doesn't know how big this underground cave is, it may be as big as the entire island, and there are tens of thousands of these fungal balls. The number of Lin's troops is not enough at present, so she needs to rely on devouring to obtain nutrients to convert more force.

Of course, they will wake up before Lin has enough troops.

No matter what, let's start the war first!

When the predators poured the fuel liquid, the kibuchas also ran around in the fungus ball. They seemed to be observing the predators, but they did not decide to attack, nor did they try to interfere with the predators.

If Lin breathes fire directly, they will try to extinguish it. But if the fuel is sprayed, they are just watching from the sidelines.

They don't seem to understand yet, but no matter how much the burning liquid is sprinkled, it can't cover the entire underground. It's also very humid here. Some fungal balls have the ability to prevent fire and cannot be burned. These burning liquids are only used as a 'cover'. Lin must also prepare a more powerful attack...

At the same time, Behemoth outside also started to attack the fungal forest. Lin released more phages to devour the entire island from the beach, and all of Lin's troops began to launch a strong attack on the island!

On the fungus side,

It seemed unresponsive, as if the initial attack had drained all of its waking troops, and now they were unresponsive.

This feels weird, but the attack won't stop.

The Predators have sprinkled the vast expanses of the subterranean caverns with burning fluid. But just how vast? Lynn hasn't counted it yet, but it's going to be more expansive...

Instead of igniting right away, they return to the phage, which continues to grow, devouring nearby fungal balls.

Everything is going on slowly, and with the beating sound of the fungus ball's heart, the time for them to appear is getting closer...

before that. Lin is going to have a deeper observation and understanding of this place.

The group of Chibcha Worms were dangling around Lin's troops, and when the fungus balls were about to wake up, they all suddenly began to retreat to the depths of the cave. Lin used the nutrients of the phage to create a smaller flight Readers to track them down and see what's going on with this group of Kibcha.

The fliers quickly caught up with the retreating kibuchas, and Lin found that they had all burrowed through the ground, and there was a small hole in the ground just big enough for them to pass through.

Because it is a tiny flyer, the flyer can also drill through these small holes with a diameter of only a few centimeters.

The cave was of course dark. But in front, Lin could see the light emitted by the last Kibcha insect that entered. These glowing fungi were scattered among their carapaces, and they didn't know what the meaning was.

The light of each kibucha is different, but the leader's light is denser. After following the kibucha through the narrow passage for a while, the surrounding area gradually widens. It seems to be another cave.

The walls of the cave here also began to show more light. On both sides of the flyer, there grew a kind of blue fluorescent mushroom, only about one centimeter in height. If the flyer gets too close, they will brighten up even more, though not sure what that means.

The deeper you go, the more mushrooms there are around, and a large number of luminous hyphae hang down from the top of the cave wall, just like the root system of a plant, and there are many chibucha insects among these mycelia Crawling around, they cut off some mycelium and bundled them together on their backs.

It seems that they collect these mycelia to eat.

As she got deeper and deeper, Lin found that there were not only mushrooms on the ground, but also many bryophytes. They seemed to live on the light of fungi, and the fungus did not swallow them, but where did the nutrients for these fungi come from?

Chibcha bugs?

The flyer arrived at an open place. The ceiling of the cave is high enough that it can completely fly up to observe the environment here. In addition to fungi and moss, there are also a large number of Qibucha insects gathered here. There are a lot of them. Distributed everywhere in the cave, they are all doing one thing - cutting mycelium, and then pile them in the center of the cave.

Next to the pile of mycelium are many small white worms, which should be the larvae of Chibcha.

They do eat fungi, but the fungi ignore them, and they are not infested by fungi except their carapaces.

Lin has a speculation about their lives. It seems that although this group of Chibcha worms live in symbiosis with fungi, they are not controlled by fungi. They will not send information to fungi, nor can they help fungi fight. Their attack behavior should be Just protect yourself.

This is really amazing, a creature that can survive such a terrible "plague", they may have used some method to prevent the fungus from harming themselves, just like the kibbza in the Twisted Jungle can also control the growth of fungi Yes, but terrible creatures like the plague fungus here can protect themselves very well.

Now, the time for the fungus balls has come.

'Crack...'

A large number of fungal balls began to make cracking sounds, and in the cracks, various fungal monsters drilled out of the balls, and their bodies were covered with a thick layer of mycelium.

Not every fungus ball wakes up at this time, but Lin estimates that thousands of them have woken up at present, and their awakening time seems to be 'set', each batch has the same time, only a few is a single occurrence.

The moment this group of creatures came out, they began to rush towards the direction of the phages. They kept making strong roars, but they couldn't feel any anger. But I don't know if the plague fungus itself is angry or not, but they Obviously, Lynn couldn't be tolerated here.

And when these creatures kept running on the ground, a large amount of fuel liquid had been stuck to them, and at the same time, they also splashed the fuel liquid everywhere during their running, splashing on the surrounding fungal balls and their companions.

The plague fungi have never seen this kind of burning liquid, so they haven't connected them with threats yet, but are rushing frantically to where the phages are.

Now, there are a large number of fungus monsters appearing in all directions of the phage, and they have a lot of burning fluid sticking to their bodies, especially their legs.

So let's get started, and the whole cave will become fragrant!

At this moment, some bombs that Lin placed on the ground exploded, and the high temperature generated by the fusion of explosive components in the bombs ignited the burning liquid on the ground, and the flames began to spread and burn instantly!

The entire cave was shrouded in high temperature under the surging flames, and the flames climbed up the bodies of the running fungal monsters. They roared and howled crazily in the flames, and began to rampage aimlessly.

Even though some creatures could secrete liquids that resisted the flames, they couldn't resist the high temperature around them. In the flames, the flesh and skeletons of these creatures slowly began to separate and fall off one by one on the ground.

Lin discovered a special phenomenon. After being attacked by the high temperature of the flames, the fungus-infected creatures seemed to be out of control for a while. Instead of continuing to charge, they bumped around, which made their deaths and injuries even more serious.

During the duration of the flame, a lack of oxygen began to appear here. The oxygen deep underground seemed to be insufficient. Under the burning of the flame, the oxygen in the cave became less and less, and some fungi that successfully avoided the flame The monster also collapsed because of the unbearable low oxygen.

Lin has long thought of this kind of thing, so both the predator and the phage have spare air sacs in their bodies, and the phage itself doesn't consume much oxygen.

Now the flames were slowly extinguished, leaving only a large piece of bones and various charred black substances in the cave, and it was almost impossible to see what it was.

The Predators took this opportunity to collect the ashes of everything here, which they threw to the Phages to decompose, and the Phages began to grow again and again.

Before the oxygen is restored, the phage may be able to grow several times in size. Lin successfully resolved the siege and gained a lot of nutrients, but next time, the plague fungus will definitely pay attention to those burning liquids, and this trick may not work twice.

The places where the flames didn't reach were still echoing with the beating sound of a heart, but it took about a day and night for them to wake up, so Lin had more time to prepare.

"call……"

Suddenly, Bechymos heard a strange sound over the outer island... (To be continued...)