"More … nutrients."
"Must be created."
This was … a complicated underground environment.
This place … was filled with a large number of fungus-like creatures.
Mycelia-Like strands covered the entire floor. They kept extending into the depths of the underground and into the various rooms.
These creatures looked very fungal, but their source wasn't that fungal.
Lin had been using a large number of troops to search the entire underground environment. Her main goal was to find the consciousness of the collective believers.
And Lin had finally found … the creature affected by the collective believers.
This creature was also the source of the fungus-like creatures underground. That was why Lin had decided to call them 'fungus bricks'.
This was because they were brick-shaped creatures that were about 10 meters in size.
Their outer shell could resist all kinds of dangerous substances in the void and protect their cells inside.
At the same time, Lin had also discovered that their brain cells were scattered. This was somewhat similar to their creators. Whenever they were thinking, these brain cells would gather together and give orders to their bodies, then scatter again.
And what they would usually do was to create a large number of mycelias.
Interestingly … the 'fungus bricks' were cellular creatures, but the 'strands' they created did not contain any cells.
In fact, the fungus life form that covered this place was more similar to the 'blood worms' above. They were completely different from cellular creatures.
To put it simply, a cellular organism created a non-cellular organism in its body.
The fungus bricks had a set of organs that specialized in synthesizing strands. The strands created would extend from their bodies. This was also the reason why this place was covered in these fungus-like strands.
The strands that extended out would collect a variety of substances, including nutrients for the fungus bricks and materials used to create the strands.
Their cells could rapidly synthesize this completely different life form, which was the strands … this was quite interesting.
The fungus bricks had been living in this way for a long time. Their way of life was similar to that of plants.
However, the fungus bricks weren't always like this.
After Lin had examined their minds, she discovered that they were mainly doing this to … eliminate the influence of the collective believers.
Lin had examined the brain cells of one of the fungus bricks. Although its memories were very vague, she could generally tell that it was originally one of the residents of this place.
They lived deep underground and rarely moved. As for the details of their lives … she couldn't clearly examine it.
To be more precise, they had lost most of their memories.
However, there was still a part of it that was relatively clear, and that was, at some point in time, they had all been affected by the same thing.
The mushroom brick began to behave like other creatures, and began to crazily … worship Unity.
However, they did not worship him to the end because they had the ability to create threads.
The fungus brick's ability to create threads had many other effects, one of which was … brainwashing.
The meaning of 'brainwashing' was … to wash the brain clean.
Every once in a while, the mushroom bricks would produce a large number of threads. During the production process, their brain cells would wander to the production organ and put a large amount of waste produced by the brain cells into the threads.
Simply put, this thread also had the function of excretion.
But at the same time, there were some side effects. Every time the mushroom bricks made threads, their thoughts, personalities, and many other things related to the brain would be reconstructed.
In other words, they were originally fanatically worshipping unity, but after creating the threads, their fanaticism … would disappear.
Although the memories of their worship would not change, their values would be reshaped … They would look at the matter of unified worship in a new light.
Then, slowly, the mushroom bricks would have new values and act according to the new ideas … until the next time they created threads.
Every time they created … or discharged a batch of threads, the mushroom bricks would be in a very rational state.
During this period of time, they could completely look at everything in terms of pros and cons, without any 'emotional factors' mixed in.
Therefore, the mushroom bricks could not form a religion because their ideas were constantly being reconstructed.
Even the most devout and fanatical believers would immediately doubt the meaning of their fanaticism after releasing the threads.
Even the influence of Unity could not interfere with them.
Then … they did not know how they became like this.
The threads they released not only took away the waste from the brain cells and helped them reconstruct their ideas, but they could also continue to absorb all kinds of nutrients after reaching outside.
Generally speaking, after absorbing a certain amount of nutrients, these threads would be discarded and automatically disconnected from their bodies.
Then, they would continue to release new threads.
This was the state they were in when they were still living normally.
But now, the mushroom bricks were constantly creating threads.
As long as they collected a little bit of nutrients, they would immediately use it to create threads, and at the same time, no matter how long they created, they would not break.
Thus, this scene became what they were seeing now.
As for their thoughts … they were always in a state of 'confusion'.
They almost did not think of anything, and even if they occasionally had an idea, they would immediately decide to create more threads.
From their memories, it could be seen that they were … one of the residents of this giant bridge with high intelligence.
Why they became like this, there was no record in their memories.
However, because the threads were able to collect nutrients' automatically ', they could survive even if they did nothing.
Regarding this, Lin also found it strange. The underground space was very rich in nutrients.
A lot of nutrients floated in the passage in the form of tiny fragments, and as long as they floated to the threads, they would be absorbed.
Lin felt that there should not be so much nutrients here, and that it might have been created by some other creature.
At the same time, Lin also discovered that the consciousness of the collective believers … was affecting the mushroom bricks.
But there was a very interesting situation.
That was, whenever a mushroom brick created a thread in its body, the consciousness of the collective believers would immediately leave it and move to the location of another mushroom brick.
But after another mushroom brick created a thread, the consciousness would continue to move.
Thus, the situation where Lin felt that the consciousness of the collective believers was moving around was caused by this.
This was a very interesting situation, so Lin planned to collect all the mushroom bricks.
That way, she would be able to catch it.
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