Chapter 28 Journey in the White Desert

Countless mushroom trees were broken and scattered under the strong explosion, and the body of the flying dragon was shattered under the pressure of the air waves. The art creators once again carved traces of art on this world.

Sure enough, this flying dragon is quite fragile.

Seeing the huge body turned into powder, Bechymos slowly landed above the explosion point, releasing some flyers to approach the blown-up bones of the flying dragon, devouring and decomposing them.

This fungus can spread quite deep, and there are many hyphae extending into the bones. Most creatures like to use some structures in the bones as hematopoietic organs and immune organs. It may be because the fungus has affected this place that this flying dragon will change. So... so skinny.

Plague fungi can replace immune cells to kill other fungi or viruses that invade organisms, but they also affect the structure of the organism itself, and then the organism becomes vulnerable.

From this point of view, it is also the reason why the underground fungus monsters are easily cooked. Fungi really have many disadvantages.

This dragon is not the biggest. Lin thinks it can continue to grow. In fact, some reptiles have no growth limit. They grow all their lives. As long as it does not die due to accidents, it can grow for a long, long time , as for how long? It's hard to know right now.

How long they can last is still a mystery. Generally speaking, they will always die due to various fungus or virus attacks, or be eaten by other creatures. If there is a chance... maybe they can grow to a considerable size.

That little flying dragon, you should take good care of it and see how big it can grow. Now the head worm is teaching it to breathe fire, which may be difficult.

After that, Lin continued to attack the island, and the phages continued to spread, devouring one mushroom tree after another, and the phages underground also expanded at the same time, devouring those fungal balls.

Currently. Fungi are unable to form any effective counterattack.

They do, however, find ways to fight back.

The 'heartbeat' of the fungus balls that was getting faster and faster suddenly began to turn slower and slower, and finally even stopped completely. Lin was a little surprised what was going on. Lin asked the predator to cut some fungus balls, but found a wonderful thing...

The fungus inside is gone...

The inside of the fungus ball became hollow, like an empty egg shell. The same goes for many non-jumping fungal balls, the creatures inside seem to have suddenly disappeared.

Why is it gone? Has it been digested? Digestion speed should not be so fast,

Or are these supposed to be empty? But before Lin devoured a lot, it was not empty.

It was the same situation on land. Lin found that the hyphae covering the ground began to slowly recede, and the huge mushroom tree turned into an empty shell like a fungal ball.

These mushrooms seem to digest themselves. It completely turned itself into an empty shell, and the whole tree fell to the ground with a slight push, but Lin couldn't find where the digested nutrients went...

But Lin can now guess their intention to do this. It should be to prevent the spread of the phages. The phages grow entirely by swallowing fungi. If they empty out the nearby balls and trees, the phages will indeed not be able to continue to grow.

but. Phages can also move like slimes, although it is relatively slow, and Lin found that not only the balls and trees around the Phages, but also balls and trees in other places began to have this phenomenon, the plague The fungus seems to have decided to digest a large number of trees or fungi monsters...

But where exactly are they digested? Is it transported through some kind of tiny pipe? At present, Lin has not found anything. The most peculiar point is that if Lin injects micro-units into some undigested trees or fungal balls for observation, the fungi will not do this kind of action. It seems that once it is invaded by foreign objects, it will Stop this self-digestion.

The group of kibuchas were also in motion. They began to dig the ground continuously, as if they wanted to drill deeper into the ground.

Lin doesn't really care about these things, just slowly devour the entire island, and sooner or later they will find their hiding place.

Now, several days and nights have passed...

After that, Lin's progress was quite smooth, and the plague fungus did not carry out any effective attacks. They seem to have 'shrunk', and there are no fungus monsters reappearing. Almost the fungi on the entire island are constantly disappearing, and they disappear very strangely. There was no scent or other traces. Lin wondered if they had indented into the ground. Although there was no trace on the ground, she still planned to use some units to dig deep to see.

This is a relatively slow process, the island is too big, because there is no fierce battle, Lin turned her attention back to the 'Dinosaur Continent'.

Recently, the head worm said that it wanted to 'meet' Monte II face to face, but because of the risk of fungus hidden in Monte II, Lin didn't plan to bring it back to the mainland.

What Lin paid attention to was not this problem, but something about... Skeletal Dragon.

Lin's pterosaur has been staying with the skeletal dragon group, occasionally helping them hunt, such as finding prey in the sky, and the skeletal dragon also completely regards the pterosaur as a... wonderful existence.

Why do you say it is wonderful? The way they treat pterosaurs is not the same as how they treat ordinary members. For example, they will give food to pterosaurs first, or pile a lot of bones around pterosaurs. They also built a 'shed' for pterosaurs, but it is Made of bones.

It feels strange, as if they think of the pterosaur as something more special than the leader.

Among the skeletal dragons, Tucker is closer to Lin's pterosaur. It prefers to stay with Lin's pterosaur, as if talking or something. Its hut is also built next to the pterosaur's hut.

But now, this day is a special moment, the leader of the skeleton dragon gathered all the members together, and they will make a special decision.

Gotta get out of this place.

During the recent war with fungi, Lin has also been observing the situation here. The prey capture rate of the skeletal dragons is not very high. They live on the border of this salt wasteland. Originally, there are very few prey. There were several consecutive days and nights when they could not get prey. Although they did not know why they chose this place in the first place, the leader already felt that he was going to leave. Recently, for many consecutive days and nights, they did not find any prey.

After staying with them for a while, Lin understood some of their words. It is true that they do not have complicated words, but they still contain various meanings.

Lin tried to teach them some brain-crazy words, but it was difficult for them to understand. It probably had something to do with the part of their brain that didn't have a special language. Even so, they still had their own language.

Now, the skeletal dragons are forming a circle in the shed, and several cubs are playing near them. At this time, the leader of the skeletal dragons is speaking in the middle.

"Quack, woo, rattle, click." The leader made various sounds, which roughly meant that he was going to go far away, and at the same time decided which direction to go. Suddenly, he raised his forelegs to go far away. Pointing to it, he yelled at the same time.

At this time, the skeletal dragons who were hunting around immediately followed suit.

At this moment, they decided to head towards the barren salt sea!

Lin thought it would be better to go to the forest or the river, but Lin would not interfere with their decision. They seemed to prefer places with less dense species than areas with rich species, perhaps to avoid predators.

Although the skeletal dragons can use all kinds of things to fight, they are not very powerful. Tucker's original skeletal dragon group is relatively 'bold'.

After the leader decided to go out, all the skeletal dragons began to make preparations. They first took out a lot of things in their sheds.

Lin found that they collect a lot of things, usually sharp stones, dinosaur claws or horns of ceratopsians, etc. These things are not necessarily used, but they like to pile these things together.

Instead, they don't know which one to take with them when they leave.

Their bodies can store more energy, so they can endure hunger for a long time, so they are not in a hurry now.

And they also have a way of preserving food.

Skeletal Dragon wrapped some meat in salt and buried it under the hot sand sprinkled by the sun. This method can remove the moisture from the meat and make the meat dry, salty and hard. It seems that it can be preserved for a long time. But it's going to be very... unpalatable.

The main reason is that it is very salty. 'Salty' is used to describe the sense of taste. Brainworms occasionally mention this word. Taste is also a sense of touch. Most arthropods and reptiles have organs dedicated to taste. Call it 'tongue'.

Taste is used to distinguish whether food is harmful or not. Some creatures can even perceive distant targets through taste. However, brain worms will appear to like the sensations produced by taste on the brain. Members of this group of skeletal dragons also have this performance. They Among them, you will like different tastes.

Sometimes even though they know that eating too much food that produces a certain taste is harmful, they still like to eat it. Brain worms are very fond of barbecue. It seems that their brains become bigger and they will be easily affected by these feelings and lose their judgment. ability.

However, skeletal dragons are more 'sensible' than brain worms. They know that eating too much of something is harmful.

They have to do a lot of things before burying the meat, such as cutting off some parts of the meat, and not all parts of the meat can be used, so it must be carefully selected. Lin is very curious about how they learned these things. It should also have a lot to do with them living in the salt sea.

However, eating this kind of very salty food will lead to water loss. Skeleton used a relatively flexible dinosaur skin to make a pouch shape to store water.

After cleaning up, each skeletal dragon brought a lot of things, most of which were wrapped around the body with plant roots, dried meat, bone chips, stones, and water bags.

Now, they will face the endless white desert... (to be continued...)