Chapter 63 The War in the Crystallization
What exactly is going on?
Before, I saw a mantis shrimp guarding the crystal, and then an ancient squid came to feed the mantis shrimp, and then the ancient squid began to dance around the crystal... But now, after Lin entered the crystal, she found two Tiny armies in crystallized inner wars.
Lin felt that she had seen too many incomprehensible things in this day and night... But Lin felt that the answer should be very close. Lin observed the two armies fighting in the crystal, and they completely ignored Lin's drillers. The driller is also constantly fighting.
The fungus ball on one side of the battle should be from the plague fungus, and the arthropod... Lin felt as if she had seen it somewhere... It seemed to be under the deep sea. By the way, Lin found this kind of arthropod on the bottom of the sea before Humans, their wreckage is piled up in the deep sea in large quantities. Although the body is much larger, it can be said that the length of the two is exactly the same...
Why would something found in the far deep sea appear here in miniature? And still fighting with fungus in this strange crystal?
Lin found that although the two sides fought fiercely, the attrition rate seemed to be about the same, so neither side gained an advantage. At the same time, Lin also found that the source of their troops was the same-the brain of the crystallization center, which occasionally dropped some fungi to the left Ball, and then dropped some arthropods to the right, these dropped units soon joined the ranks of the war.
Both types of troops are thrown from the same brain? Why does it do this? Do you build your own troops and fight yourself? It would be different if they were practicing tactics... But Lin couldn't see what tactics they were playing, they were just fighting crazily.
It seems that there are quite a lot of lunatics encountered here, but those secrets must be hidden in the mind. Lin just needs to get into that brain...
thinking. Lin immediately made the driller open its drill-like head. It devoured the surrounding creatures in war with big mouthfuls. They were crushed in the body by the driller, and then the nutrients were slowly transferred to the back, and began to rapidly create flying structures.
They ignore the drillers even when they are constantly devouring them, and these creatures seem to have only one behavior pattern - kill each other.
But because the speed of troop replenishment is about the same as that of depletion, this may never be done, and the corpses left by both sides after the war will be eaten quickly. It can be said to be a never-ending battle...
If there is no situation, Lin estimates that they will keep hitting. Now, the driller is constantly constructing a kind of floating ability in the body, and a bladder is slowly swelling in the driller, which allows it to float slowly. stand up.
Because of its small size, it is easy to fly.
Flying away from the battlefield where they were fighting, the driller approached the 'brain' inside the crystal. In fact, Lin has never confirmed whether this thing is a brain, and the driller flew above the brain. Afterwards, the floating sac on its back exploded and landed on top of its head.
Lin felt that the inspection should be done without harm, so the driller just made some small wounds on it first. Instead, some tiny drillers are released from the mouth to enter the wound, mix into the blood vessels, and investigate the structure of the brain...
It will take some time, and it is not something that can be done quickly.
Outside the crystallization, the group of ancient squids were still dancing continuously, their emotions became more and more excited, if this continues, they might really go crazy...
The ancient squid here has already filled the clearing with crystallization, but the number of ancient squid is more than that, and there are more ancient squid located outside the clearing of crystallization. These ancient squid did not dance, but crowded around to watch.
Lin can feel that they really want to go in and dance. Lin speculates that those dancing inside should be the stronger ethnic groups nearby, while the weaker ethnic groups can only stay outside and watch.
Lin felt that if they had this kind of time, it would be better to hunt more and make themselves stronger...
Lin asked some assassins to investigate the surroundings for a while, and found that most of the ancient squids had indeed gathered, but apart from the ancient squids, no other creatures seemed to be affected. It seemed that the signal only had an effect on the ancient squids.
Accompanied by the continuous dancing of the ancient squid, Lin found that the frequency of the only echo egg with sound became higher and higher, as if it was dancing with them.
This place is full of wonderful feelings, but no matter how crazy it is here, Lin didn't find anything special outside. Whether it's the plague army or the plague leader advancing in the sea, their movements have not changed at all... …
What is the point of all this?
Drillers are exploring the situation...
The micro-driller first circled around the whole body of the brain, and Lin found that it was indeed... a brain, but besides the brain, there were ordinary organs that occupied only a small amount of space, some of which were used to store nutrients, and some Part of it is used for reproduction, yes, it is to produce things like mycelium balls...
In addition, most areas of this brain are in a dormant state, and there are very few parts that are in operation. One part is responsible for sending strong signals. I don’t know why, it is indeed related to the group of ancient squids dancing. The signal affected those ancient squids. Although the area sent was small, it was enough to send a very strong signal.
The nutrients of the brain mainly come from the mycelium connected to it. Lin estimates that these mycelium have been connected to the mushrooms on the Plague Island, and they transport nutrients here from the surface...
This thing is not like an ordinary creature, it is indeed like a piece of meat, it has no limbs, no ability to move, is this really the brain of a fungus? It is indeed possible.
But these are not the most peculiar places, Lin found that this piece of meat is not just one brain, but... two.
That's right, this piece of meat is made of two brains glued together, one is the brain that Lin has detected before, and the other is only one-tenth the size of the previous one, how to judge that they are different brains? This one is fairly simple, since the location they're connected to...is a battlefield.
Just like the battlefield below, within this piece of meat, the two brains are also engaged in war. They constantly dispatch a large number of cell troops to attack each other. The smaller brain has no hyphae to transmit nutrients to it. , so it will also plunder the nutrients of the larger brains, while the larger ones are pure and crazy attacks, but although it is large, its troops are not as elite as the small ones, and each attack will cause more casualties, and then the wreckage is destroyed Take the small ones as nutrients.
But the small one has no way to completely invade the big one. Its troops are not very large and can only be used for defense in its own territory... (to be continued...)