What the hell was going on?
Previously, she saw a mantis shrimp guarding the crystal, and then an ancient squid came to feed the mantis shrimp, and then the ancient squid started dancing around the crystal … But now, after entering the crystal, Lin found two miniature armies fighting inside the crystal.
Lin felt that she had seen too many incomprehensible things in this day and night … But she felt that she was very close to the answer. Lin observed the two armies fighting inside the crystal. They completely ignored Lin's Explorer and kept fighting beside it.
The fungal ball on one side of the battle should be the plague fungus, and the arthropod … Lin felt like she had seen it somewhere before … It seemed to be in the deep sea. That's right, Lin had found this arthropod at the bottom of the sea before. Their remains were piled up in the deep sea, and although they were much bigger in size, they looked exactly the same …
Why would something found in the deep sea appear in a miniature form here? And why were they fighting against the fungi inside this strange crystal?
Lin found that although both sides were fighting fiercely, their attrition rate was about the same, so neither side had the upper hand. At the same time, Lin also found that the source of their armies was the same — the brain in the center of the crystal. This brain would occasionally throw some fungal balls to the left, and some arthropods to the right. These units that were thrown out quickly joined the ranks of the battle.
Did both types of troops come from the same brain? Why would it do that? Did it create its own army to fight against itself? It would be different if they were practicing tactics … But Lin couldn't see what tactics they were using, they were just fighting crazily.
It seemed that there were a lot of lunatics here, but those secrets must be hidden in the brain. Lin just needed to enter the brain …
She thought. Lin immediately had the Explorer open its drill-like head. It began to devour the surrounding creatures in the battle. They were crushed inside the Explorer's body, and then the nutrients were slowly transferred to its back, quickly creating a flying structure.
Even if the Explorer kept devouring them, they ignored the Explorer. These creatures seemed to have only one mode of action — to kill the other side.
But because the replenishment rate was about the same as the attrition rate, this might be a never-ending task, and the corpses left behind after the battle would be quickly eaten. It could be said that the battle would never end …
If nothing else happened, Lin estimated that they would continue to fight. Currently, the Explorer's body was constantly constructing a kind of levitating ability. A sac-like object slowly bulged out of the Explorer's body, allowing it to slowly float.
Because of its small size, it was easy to fly.
Flying away from the battlefield, the Explorer approached the 'brain' in the crystal. Lin had never confirmed whether this thing was a brain or not, so the Explorer flew above the brain on its head. The Explorer flew above the brain, and then exploded the floating on its back.
Lin felt that it should be inspected without harming the brain to begin with, so the Explorer only made a few small wounds on the brain. Instead, he released some smaller creatures from his mouth to probe the wound and infiltrate the blood vessels to investigate the structure of the brain …
This would take some time. Swimming the brain of more than two meters was not something that could be done quickly.
Outside the crystal, the group of ancient squids were still dancing. Their emotions were getting more and more agitated. If this continued, they might really go crazy …
The Ancient Squids had already filled up the space with the crystal, but there were more of them. There were even more Ancient Squids outside the crystal. These Ancient Squids did not dance, but crowded around the periphery to watch.
Lin could feel that they wanted to go in and dance. She guessed that the ones dancing inside were the stronger tribes nearby, while the weaker tribes could only watch from the outside.
Lin, on the other hand, felt that it would be better for them to spend their time hunting so that they could become stronger …
Lin had some Assassins investigate the surroundings for a while and found that most of the Ancient Squids had gathered. However, other than the Ancient Squids, no other creatures were affected. It seemed that the signal was only effective on the Ancient Squids.
As the Ancient Squids continued to dance, Lin noticed that the echo egg, the only one with sound, was making sounds at a higher frequency, as if it was dancing with them.
This place was filled with a strange feeling, but no matter how crazy this place was, Lin didn't notice anything out of the ordinary. Be it the plague army or the Plague Lord advancing in the sea, their movements didn't change at all … …
What was the point of all this?
The Explorer was trying to figure out the situation …
The Mini Explorer first circled around the brain, and Lin found that it was indeed a brain. However, other than the brain, there were only a few ordinary organs that took up a lot of space. Some were used to store nutrients, and some were used for reproduction. Yes, they were used to produce things like mycelium spheres.
In addition, most of the brain was in a state of hibernation. There was only a part that was responsible for sending out strong signals. For some reason, it was related to the Ancient Squids dancing. Lin felt that it was deliberately sending out signals to affect the Ancient Squids. Although the area was small, it was enough to send out a strong signal.
The brain's nutrients mainly came from the mycelium connected to it. Lin guessed that these mycelium were connected to the mushrooms on Plague Island. They transported the nutrients here from the surface …
This thing did not look like an ordinary creature. It did look like a piece of meat. It had no limbs and no ability to move. Was this really the brain of a fungus? It was very likely.
However, this was not the strangest part. Lin found that this piece of meat did not only have one brain, but … two.
That's right, this piece of meat was a combination of two brains. One was the brain that Lin had probed before, while the other was only one-tenth the size of the previous one. How could she tell if they were different? It was quite simple. Because the place they were connected to … was a battlefield.
Just like the battlefield below, the two brains in this piece of meat were also at war. They constantly sent out a large number of cell troops to attack each other. The smaller brain did not have mycelium to transmit nutrients to it, so it would plunder the nutrients of the larger brain. Meanwhile, the larger brain would attack in a frenzy. However, although it was large, its troops were not as elite as the smaller one. Every time it attacked, it would suffer more casualties, and the remains would be used as nutrients by the smaller one.
However, the smaller one could not completely invade the larger one. Its troops were not many and could only be used to defend its territory …
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