Vol 4 Chapter 26: Fungal heartbeat

On the ground floor of the island of fungi, Lin is preparing for a war.
Lin calculated the wake-up time of these fungal balls. Although they are different in size, the wake-up time is the same. When the sound of ‘咚咚’ is approaching a certain frequency, the creature inside will appear.
The creatures in the fungal ball are not casually infected creatures. Lin found that they are very regular, like a group of small arms, some large arms, the ability between them can cooperate with each other, and many can swim in the water, will The type of flight, many of these creatures carry plague fungi with strong erosion ability. If they attack the mainland, it is quite troublesome, although they are not likely to go there.
But no matter what, Lynn must destroy them before then.
Lin let more predators outside enter the underground cave. They don't spit fire first, but they are filled with liquid on the ground, filling each fungus ball and the ground near them.
At the same time, Lin also brought in the phage, some predators will bring smaller fungal to the phage to switch to phagocytosis, to produce more liquid with more nutrients, and the phage themselves themselves began to increase. Big, swallowing the fungal ball nearby...
Lynn calculated the time they were awake at the frequency of the fungus ball's beating. The basics found are that it takes thousands of seconds to wake up.
Time... very inadequate.
Lin still doesn't know how big this underground cave is. It may be as big as the whole island. These fungal are thousands of people. The number of Lin's troops is not enough at present, so it is necessary to rely on swallowing to get nutrients and convert more. force.
Of course, before Lin has enough troops, they will wake up.
Anyway. Let’s talk about it first!
When the predators are pouring the liquid. Those Chibu worms also ran around in the fungus ball. They seem to be watching predators, but they have not decided to attack, nor have they tried to interfere with predators.
If Lin directly fires, they will try to extinguish, but if they are burning, they are just looking at it.
They don't seem to understand it, but the liquid can't cover the entire underground no matter how it is sprinkled. It is also very humid here, and some fungal themselves have the ability to fire. These fluids are only used as ‘masking’, and Lynn must also prepare for a more powerful attack...
At the same time, Beth Moss, who was outside, also began to attack the fungus forest. Lin released more phage devotees from the beach to engulf the entire island. All of Lin’s troops began to attack the island!
On the other side of the fungus, there was no reaction, as if the initial attack exhausted all of its waking troops, and now they have no reaction.
This feeling is strange, but the attack will not stop.
Predators have been filled with liquid in a vast area of ​​underground caves, but how wide is it? Lin has not yet calculated. But it will become even wider...
They do not ignite immediately, but return to the phage. The phage continue to grow, phagocytizing nearby fungal balls.
Everything is slowly going on, with the heart-like beating of the fungus ball, and the time of their appearance is getting closer and closer...
Before that, Lin was prepared to have a deeper observation and understanding of this place.
The group of Chib's worms dangled around Lin's troops, and as they approached the fungus ball, they suddenly began to retreat deep into the cave, and Lin used the phage's nutrients to create a smaller flight. Follow them to see what the odds are.
The pilot quickly caught up with these retreating Chibha worms, and Lin found that they all got in from the ground, and there was a small hole on the ground just enough for them to pass.
Because it is a small flying aircraft, the pilot can also drill through these small holes with a diameter of only a few centimeters.
The cave is of course dark, but in the front, Lynn can see the light of the last one that enters the Chibha worm. These glowing fungi are scattered in their carapace. I don't know what it means.
The light of each Chibcha is different, but the leader is more dense. After the Qibucha insects marched in the narrow passage for a while, the surrounding area gradually widened as if it had arrived. A cave.
There are more lights on the walls here. On both sides of the flight, there is a mushroom with blue fluorescence, which is only about one centimeter high. If the flying people are too close, they will shine even more. Although I don't know what it means.
As you go deeper, the more mushrooms around you, the large number of falling hyacinths appear at the top of the hole wall, just like the roots of plants. There are many odd cloths between these hyphae. Climb and climb, they cut some hyphae and then tied them together on their backs.
It seems that they collect the appearance of these hyphae.
As it got deeper and deeper, Lin found that there were more than mushrooms on the ground, and there were many mossy plants that seemed to depend on the light of fungi, and that the fungi did not swallow them, but where did the nutrients of these fungi come from?
What about Chibu?
The flying man arrived at an open place where the top of the cave was of sufficient height to fly completely to observe the environment. In addition to fungi and moss, there were a large number of odd cloths, and they were numerous. Distributed throughout the cave, they are all doing one thing - cutting the hyphae, and then they are piled in the center of the cave.
There are many small white worms beside the hyphae, which should be the larvae of the Chibbug.
They do eat fungi, but the fungi ignore them, and their bodies are not parasitic by fungi except for the carapace.
Lin has a speculation about their life. It seems that although this group of worms is symbiotic with fungi, it is not controlled by fungi. They do not transmit information to fungi, nor can they help fungi fight. Their attack behavior should be Purely protect yourself.
This is wonderful, a creature that can live under such a terrible 'plague'. They may have used some method to prevent the fungus from harming itself. It is like twisting the chimera in the jungle to control fungal growth. But it is like the horrible creatures of the plague fungus here. They can protect themselves very well.
Now, the time for the fungal ball has arrived.
‘咔...’
A large number of fungal begin to make a cracking sound. In the cracks, various fungus monsters are drilled from the ball, and their bodies are covered with a thick layer of hyphae.
Not every fungus ball wakes up at this time, but now Lin estimates that he has woken up thousands of times. Their wake-up time seems to be 'set' well, each batch has the same time, only a few It is a single occurrence.
The moment the creatures came out, they began to rush toward the phage. They continued to make strong screams, but they could not feel the anger, but the plague fungus itself was not angry, but they did not know, but they Apparently, Lin is not here.
While these creatures are constantly running on the ground, they have been glued with a lot of liquid, and they are also sprinkling all over the running, sprinkling on the surrounding fungal and companions.
The plague fungus has not seen this kind of liquid, so they have not yet linked them to the threat, but are madly rushing to where the phage is.
Nowadays, a large number of fungal monsters appear in all directions of the phage, and they have a lot of burning liquid on their legs, especially in the legs.
Then let's get started, the whole cave will become fragrant!
At this moment, some of the bombs that Lin placed on the ground exploded, and the high temperature generated by the fusion of the explosives in the bomb ignited the liquid on the ground, and the flame began to spread and burn!
The whole cave was shrouded in the heat under the flames of the rushing flames. The flames climbed onto the bodies of the mad galloping monsters. They roared wildly in the flames, screaming, and began to aimlessly rampage.
Even if some organisms can secrete a liquid that resists the flame, they can't resist the high temperature around them. In the flame, the flesh and skeleton of these creatures slowly begin to separate and fall off, and they fall to the ground one after another.
Lin found a special phenomenon. After being attacked by the high temperature of the flame, the creatures infected by the fungus seem to be temporarily out of control. They will not continue to charge but will hit everywhere, which makes them more dead and wounded.
During the duration of the flame, there was an oxygen deficiency. The oxygen in the depth of the underground seemed to be not enough. Under the burning of the flame, the oxygen in the cave became less and less, and some fungi that successfully escaped the flame. It is also because of the unbearable hypoxia.
Lin had long thought of this kind of thing, so there are spare airbags in the predator and the phage, and the phage itself does not consume oxygen.
Now the flame is slowly extinguished. In the cave, only a large piece of shin bone and various kinds of burnt black matter are left, and it is almost impossible to see what it was.
The predator took the opportunity to start collecting all the ash residue here, and they threw it into the phage to break down, and the phagosome began to grow.
Before the oxygen recovery, the phage may be able to grow several times. Lin successfully solved the siege and obtained a lot of nutrients, but next time, the plague fungus will definitely pay attention to the liquid, this may not be used. Twice.
The flames didn't spread to the position, but they still echoed the heart-like beating sound, but they needed to wake up for about a day and night, so Lin had more time to prepare.
"call……"
Suddenly, Behemoths over the outer island heard a strange voice... (To be continued, please search for astronomical literature, the novel is better updated faster!
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