This creature … was quite ancient to most other creatures. When it still had memories, it was still in the deep sea, using its' eyes' to watch various sea creatures swimming in the water.
The creature's eyes seemed to be even older than its memory, and there was no way to know when it got its eyes.
But this was insignificant to this creature. From the moment it had memories, it was a 'brain'. This brain had no defensive or offensive capabilities, but it had its own army: a kind of thread-like creature …
This thread-like creature could constantly grow and scavenge various detritus in the sea for food.
It lived at the bottom of the sea. At that time, it was not considered a 'plague', but more like a … 'cleaner'.
As a brain with intelligence, it controlled a huge number of threads. These threads formed a huge network, covering a range of hundreds of kilometers. No detritus could escape its net.
Perhaps the range of control was too large, so it needed a brain to control the growth of the threads? No, this was not enough to explain how this creature with a simple structure could form the 'brain', the most complex organ in the body at present …
But this brain obviously did not care about this. After it was born, it had indeed completed its task very well. It continued to expand the threads, covering a larger area, and its own control became stronger and stronger.
This brain did not have the concept of 'lifespan'. Its cells were like some sea anemones and corals, in a state where there was no 'limit'. As long as it was not attacked by external forces, it would grow forever.
So it also had enough time to think, and it began to have doubts and … curiosity about the outside world.
At some point, it suddenly had a special idea. It wanted to leave this life at the bottom. It did not need to keep looking for detritus. It could get more food, such as the trilobites that lived on the threads. Snails, shellfish, and so on.
The threads of this creature had the ability to secrete toxins. The original purpose was to prevent other creatures from attacking, but now it was using this toxin to attack other creatures. First, it used the threads to surround the slow-moving creatures, such as snails and shellfish. It drilled into their shells and paralyzed their bodies with venom. Or it directly used the dissolving liquid to drill open their shells.
It changed from a scavenger to a predator. In the continuous hunting, these threads grew faster and faster, but they could only eat some creatures that were not moving or were very slow. Slowly, it began to feel that it could not only hunt the slow-moving creatures, but also fishes and other creatures that moved faster.
However, it was impossible for the silk thread to catch fish. No matter how fast they grew, it was impossible to capture them, so it thought of a way …
These threads did not only grow by growing, but they also released a kind of small ball. These small balls stuck to other places would grow threads and multiply. At this time, the brain thought of using these small balls to catch fish.
Releasing one small ball at a time was not very effective. If the number of threads that grew was too small, they might be defeated by the immune cells. But if a huge number of small balls were released at once …
It could devour any living thing!
Just like that, it used this method to continuously expand its community. It also tried to twist the threads together to form a sphere, creating a structure that would explode to release the sphere.
These threads had a very simple structure. They did not have organs like ordinary creatures, but they were abnormally powerful. They used this method to hunt all kinds of creatures in the sea. Fishes, arthropods, corals, and so on. It even created a mushroom-like structure to release even more balls. At this point, Lin felt that it was time to name it 'Plague'.
After reading up to this point, Lin discovered some problems …
This creature was not a real fungus. It did not seem to have a direct evolutionary relationship with fungi. The mushroom-like structure was created by chance. This was a very coincidental thing. The two of them just happened to evolve into the same structure …
It was also possible that it was not a coincidence. Instead, it discovered the fungus and then learned it. However, there was no record of this in the brain's memory. The mushroom-like structure seemed to have appeared out of nowhere.
Now, they could be called 'plague fungi'. Under the command of the brain, they began to spread in the sea like a real plague. No creature could resist it, and only a few creatures had the ability to resist the dissolving liquid of the plague. However, they were at most parasites to the plague fungi, and the brain did not care much about them. It had even spread to the land and occupied a few islands.
From this, it could be seen that the plague fungi first grew in the sea. Lin felt that there must be some reason why they could not continue to stay in the sea …
Although the plague could devour everything, it was not invincible. As it continued to grow, it encountered a creature that could resist it …
It was winter at that time. The sea and sky were frozen by ice and snow. The plague fungi were also in a state of slow growth at that time. This creature slowly traveled under the cold deep sea and discovered the mycelium that was spread all over the sea.
As soon as these creatures saw the Plague Fungus, their first decision was to consume all of the mycelium because it was difficult to find food during the winter. Of course, the Plague Brain had also noticed these creatures and decided to consume them for the same reason as the other creatures.
However, after the two of them fought, the brain was horrified to find that this group of creatures was a powerful branch-type species. Not only did they have a certain resistance to the mycelium's toxin, they could also devour the parasites that had resistance to increase their resistance to the mycelium's toxin.
This opponent was quite terrifying for the plague fungi. After devouring large amounts of mycelium, they began to reproduce. The brain would not just sit there and wait for its death. Instead, it fought.
It thought of ways to create more dissolving liquids to infect more species. It created a large number of mycelium to fight against the creature that was trying to consume it.
This battle lasted for quite a long time … The plague did not just attack blindly. Instead, it was constantly changing its species. However, the structure of the mycelium was relatively simple. It was difficult for there to be any special changes, which put the plague fungi at a disadvantage.
However, the brain came up with a new method. It used the mycelium to infect the brain of another creature and then used it to control the creature.
This part of the memory was relatively vague. It did not describe in detail how it obtained this ability. It was as if it had been there since the beginning …
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