Chapter 21 Distant relatives
There are many kinds of creatures here, such as fluorescent jellyfish, fluorescent small lizards, and one kind of new creatures that Lin has never seen. They are wandering in the jungle with stars on their surfaces.
Lin caught some of them and decomposed them. These creatures were all infected by fungi, just like Lin had seen dragons and locusts, but the fungi that infected them were more special. Some of them grew to the surface and gave off light, but they didn’t control their behavior. They also had pre-infection habits, and they didn’t prey on these creatures. Fungi-eating fungi would especially grow some structures to give them food.
It feels like fungi feeding them, but it seems that these creatures have not been eaten by fungi at present. Maybe it’s not time yet?
Among these creatures, there is a small beetle whose carapace is crystal-transparent.
A fungus explorer found these creatures by a small lake. They were swimming in the water and collecting hyphae in the water.
These beetles are … Chibucha? It looks like there are four arthropods, and they look like a twisted jungle. They should be extinct.
However, it looks a little different when you look closely, no matter how many, let’s take a look at it first.
However, these beetles ran away in an instant when the bacteria explorer approached the surface of the water. They hid in the mud at the bottom of the water and moved quite quickly. This feeling is quite strange because other creatures on the island have not escaped like this. It is estimated that they have not been threatened for a long time, but these’ Kibucha insects’ have retained their sense of threat.
But although they hid at the bottom of the lake, they couldn’t be buried deep. The tiny light from the shell exposed their tracks. The fungus explorer stretched out his tentacles and easily caught a beetle from the cement slurry.
As soon as the beetle was caught, it struggled wildly. It tried to bite the tentacles of the bacteria explorer with its mouth. In this environment, their offensive consciousness was still so strong, but it was easily swallowed by the bacteria explorer and quickly decomposed.
Sure enough, this beetle is also parasitized by fungi, and they are quite different from Chibucha, including some structures, but in general it can be regarded as a kind of gap, just like large pterosaurs and small pterosaurs
Lin distinguishes species not only by their appearance, but also by their germ cells. If the germ cells of two organisms can’t fuse to produce offspring, they can be considered as two different species. Of course, their offspring have to be born. There is a big gap. Although species can reproduce together, their offspring can’t.
The biggest difference between Chibucha and Twisted Jungle here is that they are not division of labor. The species are all the same size and seem to need sounds to communicate with each other.
These beetle crustaceans are crystal-like, but these crustaceans are not crystal, but are made of a shell-penetrating substance, and there are many hyphae in them, and their crustaceans shine like stars
The biggest difference between them and other species here is that they have no fungi in their organs, only in their crustaceans and have not extended to their brains.
Speaking of which, the first time Lin saw fungi was Chibucha contortus, where they planted fungi to eat. Should these plague fungi be another kind of Chibucha?
It doesn’t look like it, and how did they make such a destructive species? But if they really have something to do with these fungi, it would be better to call them’ Plague Kibucha’
Really need to continue to study-in addition, the brain proportion of these Chibucha worms is very large, about 12% higher than that of ancient squid by a full 3%!
But Lin didn’t decompose the skeleton dragon, and she didn’t know how many skeleton dragons there were, and it might be bigger.
Later, Lin asked the fungus detector to return and confirmed that the fungus here was not infectious. Lin then asked some astronauts to go out to the island to explore deeper places and trace the location of Monte II.
During the voyager’s exploration, Lin found many spherical structures, and they kept sending fluffy balls containing bacteria and dust to the outside of the island, but some of them didn’t work and I didn’t know what.
There are no other animals except a few living things in the fungal woodland. There is no complicated environment here, but a relatively common form, that is, some species depend on the island’s fungal life, and even the beaches on the island are not as rich as Lin’s. Let Bessemer grab a handful of sand at will and find dozens of creatures in it, but there are only a few in the fungal woodland.
Now to explore the two astronauts also found the location of Monte II.
What is this situation?
Lynn found that Monte II was located in a woodland, and it was sticking to the center of the ground. A mushroom seemed to be stuck to something, and it couldn’t move. A large group of Chibucha insects were around it, and it seemed to be whispering …
Lin kept observing them for a while, and it seemed that they kept on moving, with little change. However, these Chibucha insects occasionally’ change shifts’, and then they left for a long time, and then new ones ran out to join in the jungle.
Suddenly Lin noticed that a Chibucha bug was full of tension and ran into this group of Chibucha bugs. It ran to a Chibucha bug in the group in a panic and seemed to say something.
This Kibucha seems to be the leader? Lin saw that its shell light was different, its color was darker and its light spots were more. They were really not a division of labor species.
When the leader heard about it, he also appeared panic. He immediately shouted, and a group of Qibucha insects in front of him immediately turned around and rushed into the jungle.
Another difference between them is that they can’t fly, but they can move by running around. Lin thinks that the Chibucha bug reported to the leader just now may be that Lin’s fungus detector caught them, and now they send troops to find the fungus detector
These species are very strange. Lynn felt it necessary to ask Monte II that he should know the language of brain worms.
It’s caught now, so it can’t move. In this case, let them see what art is.
The location of Monte II is about three kilometers away from the beach. The beach Bessemer has aimed the muzzle at the target area and then …’ Bang!’
Chapter 22 Fungal warfare
An explosive bomb flew rapidly in the dark night and landed in the Chibcha swarm …
Boom!’
Before the Chibucha insects could react, they were flooded by a strong explosion. The explosion was not a shock wave, but a strong paralyzing toxin. These toxins penetrated into the breathing holes of Chibucha insects, making them paralyzed one by one and then fell to the ground.
The milli-symptom attack covered almost all Chibucha insects, but some of them escaped to the mushroom jungle.
Monte II looked at the present situation in amazement. Because the gas was directed at Chibucha, it had no effect on it. When it saw that all the Chibucha fell down, it immediately struggled wildly. It was white, which was an excellent opportunity.
However, the mushroom seems to be very sticky, and it can’t be managed. Even if it breaks free and escapes, Lin can still track it.
While flying over the jungle, Lin heard a sharp sound coming out of the jungle, screaming and running around. Lin felt their fear, and they might think that other creatures had invaded their island.
That’s true …
Lin doesn’t know what they and fungi are, but fungi, even if it becomes more’ peaceful’ here, still want to spread their words outside, so they must destroy all fungi in these Chibucha insects, and it will be done slowly.
Bessemer flew to the woodland where the mushroom Mont II was stuck, and at this moment he saw a huge figure in the middle. At this moment, his thoughts were suddenly frightened and he struggled more and more.
It has Montezuma’s memory and’ remembers’ when Bessemer attacked them.
Bessemer landed slowly and stretched out his devouring tentacles, pulling Monte II out of the ground with the mushrooms behind him and swallowing it.
Suilin continues to devour a large number of paralyzed Chibucha insects. They mainly come to study. Lin wants to see their dependence on fungi. If it is not very high, they can be thrown to other islands and see if the brain worms understand what they mean.
But first ask what happened to Monte II …
What’s even more strange is that at night in this jungle, a lot of … animals suddenly appeared in this luminous mushroom woodland.
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