Under the scorching sun, the blue ocean reflected the warm light. A small island covered in white sand sat quietly in the center of the ocean. Schools of fish gathered around the island and swam slowly under the surface, chasing after plankton. All kinds of marine arthropods gathered on the island, enjoying the warmth brought by the light.
But this peace did not last for long.
Far away from the island, the sea suddenly roiled, and then the sky was shrouded in darkness. However, these black shadows were not an ocean storm, but an army … in the middle of action.
Countless flying creatures flew across the sky. They were of different shapes, but their target was the same. There were so many of them that they blotted out the sky. The creatures gathered around the island immediately scattered in fear, fleeing into the depths of the ocean and disappearing without a trace.
Under the rolling waves, a huge worm-like creature was swimming. Its special shell shone brightly under the sun. It spun its body and swam straight in the ocean. It had no intention of turning around in the face of the island in front of it.
The moment the island touched the creature's head, the entire island was instantly smashed to pieces by the force of the rotation. Countless pieces of rock flew everywhere, and the island was reduced to sand in the ocean.
The drill's test results were good. Lin did not prepare any land or sea troops, only a combination of air force and pioneers. Lin wanted to end the battle quickly.
Among all of Lin's troops, there were very few with hard shells. Among them, the pioneers had the heaviest armor. Their armor was almost all obtained from the rocks near the underwater volcano. It was melted and reshaped, then mixed with spider silk to create a super-hard, pressure-resistant shell. The pioneers' heads were strong enough to drill through many hard rocks. This should include the Plague Dragon's shell. Now that the Fungus Island was not far away, Lin would soon know the result.
Something strange was happening on the Fungus Island.
Initially, the dragon and the Plague Dragon did not move. However, the Flyer had seen Monte II fly toward the Plague Dragon and fly into the Plague Dragon's head, which was stuck to its severed head.
Lin did not know what was going on at first, but after the fast-growing Flyers grew larger, Lin released a new Flyer. This Flyer had comprehensive sensory organs. Only then did Lin realize that the Plague Dragon had been sending out some sort of signal.
These signals came from the center of the Plague Dragon's body, probably located in its ribs. They were emitted from the holes on its back. There might be another brain of the dragon in the ribs. Only a brain could emit such signals. In fact, the signals of the Plague Dragon were quite similar to the signals emitted by the brain in the underwater cave.
Since that brain could attract Gu Kuo, then it could indeed attract Monte II.
But what would happen if they were attracted? Lin's Flyer followed Monte II and flew into the head to take a look. It was entangled by the mycelium and was struggling to break free.
It didn't seem to be dancing towards the signal source like Gusquido, and why would the Plague Dragon send out a signal? Was it to attract other creatures? Lin noticed that any creature with a more developed brain would be attracted to this signal …
Perhaps this type of signal was specifically used to attract the brain. Their goal of attracting the brain should be … to control the brain.
Indeed, this was the only reason, and they were especially attractive to the more intelligent brain. Although a few days had passed, Monte II was still tied to a large number of mycelium in his head. He didn't seem to be harmed at all. Lin had been using a slime-like shapeshifter as a parasite in Monte II's body, but she didn't notice anything invading Monte II's body.
However, the Plague Dragon did not just stay put. It started doing something else — digging holes in the ground.
The Plague Dragon dug a few deep holes, then had the Plague Dragon spray liquid into them, allowing the mycelium to grow inside. Lin also discovered that the Plague Dragon had a habit of eating large mushrooms. When the Plague Dragon approached the mushrooms with its head, a large amount of mycelium would extend out from the three holes on its head to wrap around the mushrooms and absorb them.
The Plague Head could not lie down, but some of the mushrooms would explode, releasing floating pom-poms. The pom-poms could float up to the Plague Head's head for them to eat.
These methods of replenishing nutrients were really interesting. Lin suddenly felt that it was a pity that this species was about to go extinct.
However, there was no need to think too much about it.
Following this, the Plague Dragon and the others used various methods to obtain nutrients from the island. Their main method was to absorb nutrients from the ground and photosynthesize, slowly covering the entire island with their mycelium. At first, Monte II was still struggling madly when it was stuck to the mycelium, but it gradually stopped moving. Based on its reactions, Lin could tell that the Plague Dragon's actions were also different.
At first, the Plague Dragon only dug the ground, then had the Plague Head spray liquid into it. Later on, it would purposely observe the consumption rate of each Plague Head so that they would not overuse themselves, effectively taking turns to use their spraying ability to grow the mycelium.
After that, the Plague Dragon would purposely dig up more nutritious soil. These places were usually moist and contained a lot of nutrients.
Although Monte II's body had not been invaded, Lin suspected that there was some sort of information exchange between it and the Plague Dragon. Did it increase the Plague Dragon's intelligence?
Recently, the Plague Dragon had dug up a place right above a nutrient storage room. Although this room had already sunk into the depths of the island, there was still a chance that it could be dug out.
However … Lin's army could already see the shadow of the Fungus Island in the distance.
Right now, the sun had just risen, so Lin immediately increased her speed. The Plague Dragon and the others were spreading their mycelium from the center of the island, so the mycelium had not yet reached the edge of the island. Otherwise, they would have noticed Lin's approach. Although fungi didn't have eyes, they did have some sort of sensing ability.
After reaching the vicinity of the island, Rin first ordered a large number of air forces to disperse around the island, while the Pathfinder's body directly swooped into the rocks at the edge of the island. The soil and rocks inside were like soft pieces of meat that were squeezed to the sides by a great force. The Pathfinder rushed straight into the island and headed straight for the 'Plague Dragon' at the core.
Lin wanted to test the Pathfinder's power first, so she had the Pathfinder attack the target first. Of course, the Pathfinder might also be surrounded.
But that didn't matter, she just had to let the Pathfinder destroy them all! [Astronomy]
PS: Thanks ~ Wujun ~ Ice's feather ~ for the tip ~
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