Chapter 65: Past Memories

This kind of creature... is quite old compared to most other creatures. When it had memories, it was still in the deep sea, watching all kinds of sea creatures swimming in the water with its 'eyes'.

The creature's eyes seemed to be older than its memory, and it was impossible to know when it had it.

But this is irrelevant to the creature, which is a 'brain' as long as it has memory, completely defenseless or offensive, but which has its own troops: a thread-like biology……

This thread-like creature can grow continuously, foraging for all kinds of detritus in the sea.

It lived at the bottom of the ocean. At that time, it could not be regarded as a 'plague', but more like... a 'cleaner'.

As a brain with intelligence, it controls huge silk threads, these threads form an incomparably huge network, covering hundreds of kilometers around, no debris can escape its net.

Maybe the range to be controlled is too large, so a brain is needed to control the growth of the thread? No, this is not enough to explain why such a simple-structured organism can assemble the 'brain', the most complex organ in a living organism...

But this brain obviously doesn't care about this. After it was born, it has indeed completed the task very well. It keeps extending and growing the silk thread, covering a larger and larger area, and its own control is getting stronger and stronger.

This brain does not have the concept of "lifespan". Its cells are in a state of no "limit" like some sea anemones and corals. As long as it is not attacked by external forces, it will grow forever.

Therefore, it also had enough time to think, and it began to have doubts and... curiosity about the outside world.

At some point, it had a special idea that it wanted to get out of this bottom life, it didn't have to keep looking for detritus, it could get more food, like the trilobites that lived on those silk threads . Snails, shellfish and more.

The silk threads of this creature have the ability to secrete toxins. The original purpose is to prevent other creatures from attacking, but now it uses this toxin to attack other creatures. It first surrounds those slow-moving creatures with silk threads, such as snails. and shellfish, burrowing into their shells and paralyzing their bodies with venom. Or directly drill their carapaces with the dissolving solution.

It has changed from a scavenger to a predator. In the constant hunting, the growth rate of these silk threads is getting faster and faster, but it can only eat some immobile or slow creatures, and it slowly begins to feel that it cannot Only hunt those slow-moving creatures, and take a fancy to those faster-moving fish and other creatures.

However, it is impossible to catch fish with silk thread.

No matter how fast they grow, they cannot be captured, so it came up with a way...

These silk threads do not only grow by growing, they also release a kind of small balls, these small balls stick to other places and grow silk threads to proliferate, and at this time, the brain thinks of using this small ball to catch fish kind.

Releasing one globule at a time has little effect, growing too few threads and risking being overwhelmed by immune cells. But if a huge number of small balls are released at once...

It can devour any creature!

In this way, it uses this method to continuously expand its own community. It also tries to twist the silk threads together to form a ball, creating a structure that can explode to release the ball.

These silk threads are all very simple structures. They don't have organs like ordinary creatures, but they are extremely powerful. They use this method to hunt various creatures in the sea. Fish, arthropods, other corals, etc., it even created structures like mushrooms to release more small balls. At this time, Lin felt that it could be named after 'plague'.

Reading so far, Lin found some problems...

This creature is not a true fungus, and it does not appear to have a direct evolutionary relationship to fungi. Those mushroom-like structures were produced by accident. This is a very coincidental thing. The same structure just evolved between the two...

It's also possible that it wasn't a coincidence, but that it discovered the fungus and learned from it. However, there is no record of this problem in memory. The mushroom structure seems to have popped out of nowhere.

Now, they can be called 'plague fungi', and under the command of the brain, they began to spread in the sea like a real plague. No creature can resist it, only a few creatures are resistant to the solution of the plague, but They are parasites at best to the plague fungus, and the brain doesn't care much about them. It even developed on land and occupied several islands.

It can be seen here that the plague fungus grew up from the sea at the very beginning, and Lin felt that there should be some reason why they could not stay in the sea...

Although the plague devours everything, it is not invincible. In the process of continuous development, they encountered a creature that could compete with them...

It was winter at that time, the sea surface and the sky were frozen by ice and snow, and the plague fungus was also in a state of slow growth at this time. This creature was slowly traveling under the cold deep sea, and it discovered the mycelium all over the sea .

After these species saw the plague fungus, their first decision was to eat up the mycelium, because it was difficult to find food in winter. Of course, the brain of the plague also discovered this group of species, and it also planned to devour these creatures for the same reason as the other party. the same.

But after the double fight, the brain was horrified to find that this group of creatures is a powerful division of labor species, they not only have a certain resistance to the toxins of the mycelium, they will also devour those resistant parasites to Increase the resistance of your own arms.

This opponent is quite terrifying to the plague fungus. They swallowed a large number of hyphae and began to reproduce continuously. The brain will not wait there to die, but fight with it.

It figured out how to make a wider variety of lysates, infect more species, and create massive mycelium to fight the creature that was trying to eat it up.

This battle lasted for quite a long time... They were not attacking blindly, but were constantly updating their units, but the structure of mycelium is quite simple, and it is difficult to have any special changes, which puts them at a disadvantage.

But the brain has a new method at this time. It uses mycelium to infect the brains of other creatures, and then controls this creature.

The memory of this part of the area is relatively vague, and there is no detailed description of how it possesses this ability, as if it had it from the beginning...

After using this ability, the plague fungus began to fight back. (to be continued...)