Chapter 287 Double Symbiosis

In a tiny world... countless creatures are fighting.

This is a certain huge leaf, where the warmth of the sun and the breath of death can be felt... There is a constant conflict between the erosive and the sword flea.

A huge sword flea is frantically biting and devouring everything around it with its sharp-edged mouth, but the carapace on its body has been cracked, and many erosives are lying on its body, biting its shell, With the aid of the solution, the body of this giant slowly disintegrates, they are broken down into smaller pieces, and swallowed by the erosive, the energy will be used to generate more erosives.

But it's just a small battle, and in more places the erodes are at war with the sword fleas, slashing the erodes with their blade-like arthropods, and the erodes are fighting with the lysate, the large number of sword fleas plunging from the leaves. The pipes poured out from all over the place, and there were quite a lot of them, and they not only fought back against the Erosor, but also tried to swim up through the needles that the Erosor entered, attacking Lin's spherical floating base...

This multicellular immune army is really interesting, although they are unlikely to succeed.

Lin did not make any other new units, but simply launched an attack with spider-like erosives. They continued to kill the sword fleas, and at the same time, they were also destroying other cells within this leaf. Cells lyse and divide and absorb them, creating more erodes...  

Under the constant battle, Lin's Erosors slowly gained the upper hand, and they killed all the sword fleas that came out. and slowly eroded the entire leaf.

If you look from the outside, you can see that this giant leaf with a diameter of ten meters is slowly starting to change color and turn black. With the continuous death of the cells inside, the entire leaf also rots, and inside, it looks like everything has been destroyed. There are all kinds of rotten pieces scattered everywhere, and the army of erosives is rampant. , they start attacking the skeleton of the leaf, after dissolving it. The chitin is secreted from the tail as a support substitute.

At this time, it can be seen from the outside that the leaf bones are beginning to turn black.

The attacking sword fleas have abandoned the leaf, and they all retreat back to where they came from—the petiole at the base of the leaf that connects to the root.

Of course Lin would not let them go, and the endless army of erosives followed, and at this moment, the sword fleas made a strange move. When Lin chased the passage of the petiole, Lin found a large number of sword fleas hugging them. A round object that grows on the inner wall of the channel and is constantly rubbed against it with its arthropods. What are they doing?

'Crack...! ’

At this time, Lin heard a voice. Suddenly, the thick petiole of the giant leaf broke apart, and the leaf with a diameter of ten meters fell from the huge root because of the fracture.

It smashed heavily on the ground of the City of Standing Scorpions...

But there doesn't seem to be a big problem inside the leaves. Lin let the erosives in the leaves quickly gather and dissolve themselves, and reassemble into some flying objects to fly back to the floating base. The nutrients in this cannot be wasted.

It turns out that because the leaves are completely occupied, so just cut it off and give up the whole leaf? Although this is not common. But not strange.

But the previous behavior of Jian Flea made Lin feel as if they were telling the 'creator'. Let it give up like leaves...

Does this 'plant' have intelligence? Lin feels that it is not easy to determine now, and further investigation is needed.

But looking at the large number of tree roots here, and thinking about the huge number of sword fleas inside just now, if it slowly invaded from the body, it seems that the speed is a bit slow.

It's better to clean up the roots of the trees on the ground first. The ones above are probably just 'tentacles', and the ones below the ground are the real 'body'.

Thinking about it, Lin let the floating base start to move. There are many weapons hidden in this sphere with a diameter of ten meters. There is a kind of called 'serrated tentacle'.

A tentacle protrudes from the bottom of the floating base. The end of this tentacle has a flat and long object made of shell matter, and the sides are covered with serrations.

This kind of serrated tentacles can vibrate at high speed with a very small amplitude. Lin gently placed the tentacles on the roots of the tree wrapped around the top of the pyramid. With a sound of cutting, countless sawdust accompanied by a lot of sap flew out, and the tree at the top flew out. The roots were quickly sawed off by Lin's tentacles and rolled down the pyramid.

Lin looked at the tentacles that had been dyed with a lot of liquid. Generally, there is not that much liquid in the roots of plants. It seems that this is because there are many 'troops' in its body.

The floating base flew to the ground, picked up the broken root with tentacles, and opened a 'mouth' on the surface to swallow it.

In the body of the floating base, countless tiny tentacles began to decompose the root. The first thing Lin found inside the root was the almost endless number of sword fleas. They were very numerous and usually gathered in some small sacs in the root , Only five species have been found so far, and no larvae or eggs have been found. Do they produce in deeper depths?

In addition to feeding a large number of sword fleas, the root itself is different from other plants. It has a muscle-like structure that allows the entire root to move, and is connected by a nerve-like structure.

It is similar because it is still different from animals, and it is more 'primitive', like those muscles that have just been formed, but it is enough to make it move...

At the same time, this tree root does not seem to have the ability of ordinary tree roots. Its epidermis is closed, so it cannot absorb nutrients or water. It is estimated that there are other parts to absorb it.

It's obvious that you can't fully understand just looking at this small part, so solve them quickly.

"Gu..." At this moment, Lin heard a sound, a tree root emerged from the ground, and there were two diamond-shaped leaves about five meters long in the front section, and the leaves slowly opened. , you can see that there is a lot of mucus inside, and a lot of smell is emitted from it...

This smell smells like nectar, and plants usually use this smell to attract other creatures, make them propagate germ cells for themselves, or eat them...

But this smell is much stronger and has a stronger appeal, even the dragons far outside the city can smell it.

It seems that it intends to lure the floating ball with this? It's a pity that it didn't work for Lin at all, but Lin still pretended to be effective and slowly drifted past.

At the moment of approaching, the two leaves were instantly clamped, and a lot of mucus stuck to the floating ball, but the floating ball was too big, and it could only stick to part of it.

Is this the only way to attack? I don't know why, but I feel a little disappointed...

No, this is...

Lin suddenly found that some white silk threads emerged from the mucus of the leaves. These threads became more and more, and grew upward, gradually tying the entire floating ball.

Lin should have seen this thread, that's right... this is mycelium! Can this plant make mycelium? And it's not a normal mycelium... It feels a lot like the plague fungus, but it's a little bit different.

The mycelium seemed to want to find a gap on the surface of the floating ball to drill in, and at the same time secreted a solution, Lin immediately secreted a liquid from the whole body of the floating ball, which quickly interacted with the bacteria outside. Silk got mixed up, and then...

'call! ’

After a burst of flames, the wrapped mycelium was gone, and the leaves that had stuck to the floating ball were loosened. The root seemed to realize that the situation was not good, and began to retract into the ground.

But the floating ball rushed up at a faster speed than it, and used its serrated tentacles to cut off its 'head' and even the two leaves.

The broken root still shrank back, but Lin now has a new subject to study.

After the two leaves were swallowed into the body, a new discovery was immediately made.

Although it looks like a leaf, it is actually a predatory organ, and it has the ability to prevent fire. The floating ball also burned it just now, but it doesn't seem to be affected much. It is still full of sword fleas, and there are a lot of secretions. Sac of mucus.

But these sacs not only secrete mucus, but also contain something... bacteria dust.

It should be said... The original fungus dust is the petrified fungal dust that Lin found under the salty ground. Their structures are almost the same, and this one is alive.

However, there are well-grown hyphae inside this leaf, and the hyphae that just wrapped the floating ball just stick out from it.

Moreover, the dust of this fungus does not seem to grow casually, while the plague fungus grows wildly as soon as it encounters nutrients.

Thinking about it, Lin took out some bacterial dust, put it in the body of the floating ball, and secreted some nutrients to soak it...

Suddenly, these fungus dust began to absorb nutrients and grow like crazy, Lin immediately sprinkled it with the solution, and the fungus was quickly decomposed.

So it turns out, does it grow depending on the object? When inside a leaf, it doesn't grow at all despite being surrounded by absorbable water and nutrients, but when it encounters other nutrients, it absorbs it unceremoniously.

The word politeness feels strange. What is politeness?

In a word, these fungus dusts should be the same as sword fleas, belonging to the symbiotic organisms in the body of the 'creator'. No, I feel that the title of 'subordinate' is more suitable. The original fungus dust has a relatively simple structure, and there is no plague fungus that Lin saw outside. Growing so fast, it is only relatively speaking, it is still much stronger than ordinary fungi.

Lin thinks that fungi may act as attacking weapons and decomposers, that is to say... the 'creator' is not only the origin of carnivorous plants, but also... the origin of plague fungi? (To be continued...)