Chapter 78 Slow Changes

( ) The war is over, and the victor belongs to - the plague dragon!

...for the time being.

This headless giant dragon is now standing in the newly formed lake. Although it has become the winner, it is not joyful and has no special emotions.

Lin reckons that the Plague Dragon has a lot of control muscles compared to other Plague Leaders, but the brain that can't think is different. The dragon should have a larger brain that can mainly think. When seeing the dragon get up, Lin thinks this There should be two or more brains, but no matter how many brains there are, there should be one in its head. Now the head is blown off, so it can't reflect any emotions. I don't know if it can still think , but without vision and other sensory organs, it is now difficult to move.

The victor also has a heavy price, but this creature is indeed a masterpiece, and it would be almost perfect if it could fly...

But the only doubt now is that the mushroom cluster that the fast-living man dealt with before is a very conscious combination, and it is very conscious to deal with the fast-growing man. This thing is indeed a mystery, as if something is directing it.

But when Lin solved it, everything seemed to have never happened...

But this can be studied slowly in the future, anyway, the current plague dragon will not move.

The fast-living man quickly swam into the water and moved to the side of the wreckage of Bechymos. There were still many scattered living cells on Bechymos' body, but at this time the entire corpse had already begun to be besieged by a large number of carrion fungi. Lin asked the fast-growing people to tear away some places where a lot of cells gathered in order to recycle these cells.

Those tiny fungi are now estimated to be all over the world. Anywhere as long as there is water. There are traces of them. The fast-growing ones will slowly continue to grow more complex structures by recycling cells and swallowing these fungi, and at the same time, they can observe what the plague dragon will do next.

On the other side of the distant continent, some troops have gathered and are beginning to move here. It will take some time, but Lin thinks that these plague leaders and dragons are unlikely to run around.

'Gulu...'

At this time, Lin suddenly heard a sound, and the fast-living man was swimming on a piece of Behemoth's wreckage. Lin saw some air bubbles popping up from under the meat.

By the way... this is...

'Gulu Gulu...' A lot of air bubbles popped out immediately, and a worm-like creature with a body length of two meters rushed out from under the piece of meat.

It ignored the fast-living ones, but quickly swam to the surface of the water, and then spread four wings on its back, and flew into the sky.

It was only then that Lin remembered that Monte II was still inside Bechymos, and it was the one that flew away just now.

It doesn't matter if it flies away, just catch it back when the time comes, Lin let the fast-living man continue to devour the wreckage.

Now the storm is slowly stopping. The brilliant sunlight shines on the water through the scattered dark clouds, making everything much brighter.

At this time. Lin suddenly heard a loud noise coming from around the cave, and through the brightened environment, Lin could directly see a lot of giant things gathered around the pothole at the bottom of the water.

It is the head of the plague. After the thunder disappeared, they seemed to know that they could move, and they all gathered beside the pothole.

But they didn't do anything, just stayed there, as if watching the plague dragon in the cave.

I don't know how long it took to shape the plague dragon's brain. With the intelligence level of the plague fungus now, it is impossible to recreate the head of a plague dragon.

'Ka...'Suddenly, a strange sound came from one of the heads of the plague, its head turned slowly, and when it turned almost a full circle, it detached from its neck and fell into the in the water.

There are many hollows in this head, so it can float on the water, and then the plague dragon took two steps forward, and touched the head with the cross section of its body...

Then Lin found that the section of the plague dragon seemed to secrete some liquid, and then glued the head to the section.

...Could it be able to move like this? Or does this head have vision or other perception abilities?

Lin waited and watched for a while, but the Plague Dragon didn't move. After sticking its head on, it stayed there as before, and the Plague Head around the pit remained motionless.

Might be a neural connection going on? Then just keep waiting.

In this way, a day and night passed slowly. During this period, Lin kept letting the fast-living people collect the wreckage under the water, and at the same time observed the changes in the situation of the plague dragon...

The Plague Dragon slowly began to look a little different. It would start to move its limbs, and then make some low-pitched sounds.

Lin felt that there might be some kind of ganglia in the head of the plague head, which could restore it, but it was definitely not as good as its own head before.

It's not good to recover so slowly, because on the other side of the ocean, a large number of troops are coming here. The troops on the mainland are much more than the troops on the island of fungi, and there is another giant army - the pioneer Or, Lin has always wanted to try, which one is harder, the plague dragon's carapace or the pioneer's purgatory worm-like carapace.

Another day and night passed, and now it was the third day and night after the plague dragon was blown off its head. At this time, the plague dragon started its real activity. It climbed up, but its movements were quite clumsy, completely different from before. It tried many times but failed to climb up, and was buried by the falling mud blocks several times.

The same is true for the fourth day and night, until the fifth day and night.

These days and nights have been continuous scorching sun, and the darkness of the previous rainstorm has completely passed, and the vitality of the dragon seems to have become stronger and stronger. It used its huge claws to directly dig a channel on the wall of the cave. climbed up.

Lin found that the head glued to the dragon seemed to change its position. Before that, the head was glued to the cross-section of the dragon's body in the direction of the side face, but after several days and nights, it slowly changed to face outward.

But this head with three holes glued to the dragon's body looks really weird enough.

After the dragon crawled out, the heads of the plague also left with it, and the fast-living ones have also grown in size a lot in the past few days and nights. Now Lin can create a small flyer to follow it out to observe the situation.

The flyer followed a huge dragon and a group of plague heads. Such a large group of giant creatures walked around the island, causing the whole earth to feel like a violent earthquake. The dragon led its troops to the center of the island, and then The plague chiefs stood in a circle around the dragon, looking up at the sky.

'Boom! '

Accompanied by a sound, a large amount of liquid sprayed out like a fountain. This was not like the powerful water column before, but it seemed to be spraying water on purpose. The water was sprinkled on the surrounding land, and then the plague dragon began A large amount of mist is released.

When the mist touched the surface that had been sprayed with liquid, it immediately began to grow a large amount of bacterial dust. Coupled with the wet surface caused by the previous heavy rain, these fungi grew very quickly.

The sixth day and night.

The rainwater accumulated in the potholes began to slowly evaporate, and a large number of fungi had covered a large area of ​​the center of the island. They seemed to extract nutrients from the ground like the roots of plants, even if the liquid sprayed out by the head of the plague was exhausted. They can also continue to grow and thrive.

The group of plague leaders and dragons stayed in place, probably because they wanted to reduce energy consumption.

They remained motionless for the next few days and nights, and Lin kept observing them...until the tenth day and night.

The hyphae on the ground have grown many mushroom structures, and the surface of the canopy of these mushrooms has begun to appear green, as if they are planning to absorb light energy, although I don't know where they got the symbiotic algae.

So it turns out that the large number of self-sustaining fungi in the island of fungi should be 'planted' by the plague leader. These fungi are not like the ones Lin encountered before that only know how to devour other creatures. They will look for nutrients around them by themselves. .

It's also pretty amazing that they can develop this kind of lifestyle.

When Lin was observing them, she was also moving the underground nutrient storage room deeper, because she didn't want to move the nutrients here yet, but she didn't know if it would be discovered by the hyphae growing underground.

The nutrient storage room is in the shape of a pointed drill, surrounded by some small arthropod legs, which can rotate itself and turn downwards

The next few days and nights were relatively peaceful, and nothing special happened. Lin felt that if the ground was kept wet, their hyphae might soon cover the entire island, and some newly sprouted plants would also be swallowed up by the mycelium. .

The fast-growing man devoured the remains of Bechymos and grew bigger and bigger, but it would take a long time to grow into a Bechymos, and it had to be undisturbed. Linde waited for the troops to arrive.

Now it was night, and the pilot was relying on the airflow to fly effortlessly in the high sky, looking at the group of huge monsters below, they were still motionless.

'Om...' Lin heard a sound, which is only the sound of arthropod membranous wings flapping at high speed...

In the sky, a black shadow rushed down rapidly! The flyer immediately flapped his wings to dodge, and the black shadow spun around and rushed over again.

Under the starlight, you can clearly see the appearance of the comer...

It's Monte II.

It has a body shape like a worm, with wings on its back, and it fights with claw-like forelimbs. It may want to hunt, but Lin, a flyer, will not just let it eat it. With a shake of the flyer's figure, the color-changing cells instantly transform into The same color as the sky.

Monte II seemed to be taken aback. After looking around, he turned around and flew away.

And Lin saw that it flew in the direction of the plague dragon. (To be continued..)