Chapter 50 Plague and War

The island of fungi, at a depth of 300 meters underground.

It's almost like...another world.

It took several days and nights for the predator team that Lin used for digging to arrive here. When she first arrived at this place, Lin discovered that this island is actually so difficult.

This is a vast underground space. Mycelium shining like stars covers the cave walls and the ground. Some of the thicker mycelium gather together like pipes to form a huge mushroom with a height of about five meters. It is everywhere underground. It's all like this, these mushrooms have one every few meters, but they have nothing to do with fungus monsters.

This structure has only one function - to concentrate nutrients. Mushrooms can compress the nutrients transmitted by the mycelium, and finally create a dehydrated hardened structure, which can be called 'bacteria cheese'.

But Lynn seemed to have come too late. The predators spread out to search underground, and found that most of the mushrooms were empty, and only one was still functioning.

These fungi were indeed consciously fighting against Lin. They secretly dissolved all the nutrients on the surface and all the fungus monsters, and then transported them deep underground to compress them into 'fungal cheese', and finally transported the fungal cheese away.

Lin has already discovered how they were transported away. In this underground cave, there are some twisted passages leading directly to the sea, and in these passages, there are traces left by some creatures.

This trace... seems to be the trace of some large arthropods, some of which seem to be left by a marine, trilobite-like creature...

So, the plague fungus transported part of the nutrients back to such a deep underground, and then transported them away with a marine arthropod? Because this place is very deep, didn't Lynn notice it? These marine arthropods must have also been infected.

Obviously, the plague fungus wanted to escape, so it sacrificed a large amount of nutrients to give the illusion of self-dissolution, allowing some of the remaining nutrients to have a chance to be transported out of the island.

A show of obvious intelligence, no?

Lin began to see that these fungi were slow to respond, but this was not the case. They have been thinking of ways to deal with Lin, and it is absolutely not wrong for them to control a creature with higher intelligence...

However, if you escape from here, it means that there are other fungal islands nearby, because the infected aquatic organisms cannot eat in the water, otherwise it will kill the fungi in the body, and the fungal pair will make the organisms themselves very vulnerable. Can't swim very far.

Lin immediately launched a comprehensive search. Behemoth at the center of the fungal island unleashes a large number of fliers,

To investigate the nearby sea...

You shouldn't have to fly very far to find it.

Speaking of which, Monte II has been imprisoned by Lin in Behemoth. Lin tried to communicate with it, and Lin found that it is often not willing to communicate. There is a big difference. It often shows emotions such as anger or fear, and it seems difficult to reach any friendly relationship with it.

If you kill it, the Aztec will be completely extinct, so let's save it for now.

In addition, Lin found that the Chibcha insects were very interesting creatures. Lin fed them with other common types of fungi and found that they could digest some fungi other than the plague fungus, so Lin caught a group of Qibucha insects. Try feeding them other fungi to change their habits.

The fliers who went out to explore the surrounding seas quickly responded. One of the fliers found an island seven kilometers west of the fungus island. The island was circular with a diameter of about one kilometer. The entire island was covered by fungi... …

No, it's not just fungi. After observing the islands for a while, the pilots found that the islands were full of pouches containing fungus monsters. This is called 'fungus sac', the plague fungus directly placed them on the ground! Moreover, many fungal monsters have already woken up. They are gathering at the edge of the island, seemingly preparing for something.

After the first flyer discovered the island, a second flyer and a third flyer discovered the island. Basically, these islands are all west of Fungi Island. And they are all circular islands of about the same size.

The structure above is also exactly the same, a lot of 'fungus monster sacs', and some fungi monsters that have woken up.

There are five islands in total, so Lin called them...'Plague Five Islands'.

Except for the 'Plague Five Islands'. There are no islands in the nearby sea area. Lin saw trilobite-like marine arthropods on the seashore of several islands. Obviously, they are the creatures that Lin discovered before to transport nutrients.

It turns out that they transported all the nutrients to these five islands in order to create more fungus monsters. Are they planning to fight back?

Indeed, the plague fungus had this idea. The pilots found many large marine arthropods on the beaches of the Plague Five Islands. They can be used as 'transport boats', and the fungus monsters on the island are also going to these 'transport boats'. 'side gathering.

The plague fungus... is preparing for war.

The fungus monsters this time seem to be less fragile than the ones Lin encountered before. They are not wrapped in cystic fungi, but hardened carapaces. There are many large creatures in them, and Lin even saw a lot of them. flying dragon.

Lin can basically be sure that the extinction of the flying dragon is caused by the plague fungus.

The flyer can't get too close to the islands, but Lin believes that on one of the five islands, there is an infected highly intelligent creature, which is directing the war...

Now, the massive gathering of these fungus monsters has only one goal—to launch a counterattack against the fungus island occupied by Lin.

They have quite a lot of troops. Although the five islands combined are not as big as the fungus island, because of the previous large-scale self-dissolution, Lin didn't get much nutrition. It can be said that the troops on the island are less than the plague fungus.

But...it's really interesting.

It is interesting to observe Tucker and their development and life, but the war is also very exciting for Lin.

Just let them come! Lin will prepare her latest masterpiece to show this creature named Plague! Then, like a destructive force, destroy them all without a single cell left!

For Lin, creation and destruction are equally fun.

The fungus' army is gathering, and Lynn is starting to assemble her own.

Lin's phages have occupied many places on the island. Now, Lin has started to transform this huge group of 'slimes' into a large number of bases, using the nutrients obtained here to produce troops, and part of the nutrients are made into large green monsters. Carpet trees, Lin wants these trees to grow all over the island quickly, absorbing sunlight energy continuously as follow-up nutrient supplement.

As for the core combat troops... what should we build? How to attack? flame? Talon? A tiny, crazy multicellular army?

Either way, it's going to be interesting...

During several days and nights, Lin was rapidly using the existing nutrients to create bases and troops, while the fliers were monitoring the movements of the Five Plague Islands, and the army of the plague fungus was constantly 'waking up'. Appeared in the middle of the sea, and then climbed onto an aquatic creature on the coast to wait to be dispatched.

They have indeed been strengthened. They are no longer covered with hyphae and cystic swellings like before. Instead, they now look like they have a layer of arthropod-like shell, which should be made of hardened fungi. The troops have Reptiles and arthropods, among them are many large marine creatures, they are all used for transportation, they ran into the water as soon as they came out, and then let a large number of land troops ride on their backs.

These transport creatures that take the fungus monster will swim to one of the islands and gather. These aquatic creatures seem to have completely sealed their bodies from water, relying on some hole-like structures on their backs to breathe or eat.

Both sides prepared at about the same speed. When more and more fungus monsters gathered at sea, Lin's troops also appeared on the west side of the island. On the beach, Lin gathered the troops together, and at the same time there was a steady stream of troops continue to be produced.

The preparation lasted for about three days and nights, and there were no fungus sacs on the Five Plague Islands. Almost all of them woke up and became part of the plague army.

According to preliminary estimates, their number may be more than 100,000, because the fliers only fly around the periphery, so their actual number should be much more than this.

Lin believes that these creatures should basically be creatures on various islands or nearby seas. As long as these creatures have the habit of going ashore, they may be infected and controlled.

And those five islands, the fungal island occupied by Helin now should be the 'base camp' of the plague fungus, otherwise there wouldn't be so many troops, and they wouldn't want to take back this island...or they didn't want to take back , just simply feel that Lin is a huge threat?

After the assembly was completed, all the sea creatures carrying fungi began to line up. They lined up in a row and looked very neat. Some large species were in the front as the vanguard, and there were many small species around them, flying in the air. There are many fungus monsters.

Lin can sneak attack them at sea, but it seems that land battles are more interesting. After observing the army structure of the fungus monsters, Lin found that almost all of them participated in the battle, and there were no troops left behind. Therefore, three troops were prepared here. The island beach was used for defense, and the other two teams went to attack the 'Plague Five Islands' during the fight to see if they could find out the infected intelligent creature.

Lin thinks that this intelligent creature may be the infected 'brain' of a division-of-work species. If it can't be found, the two troops will attack from behind. Anyway, if the army is dealt with, brains alone are useless.

Anyway, it seems that this should be an interesting war... (To be continued...)