In a small world … countless creatures were fighting each other.
This was a giant leaf. Here, one could feel the warmth of the sun and the scent of death … Corruptors and sword fleas were constantly clashing against each other.
A gigantic sword flea was using its blade-filled mouth to tear and devour everything around it. However, its carapace had already cracked open. Many Corruptors were crawling on its carapace, tearing at its carapace. With the help of the dissolving fluid, the gigantic creature's carapace slowly crumbled. It was broken down into smaller pieces and devoured by the Corruptors. This energy was used to create more Corruptors.
However, this was only a small battle. More Corruptors were fighting against the sword fleas. The Corruptors used their blade-like appendages to cut at the Corruptors, while the Corruptors fought back with the dissolving fluid. A large number of sword fleas were pouring out from various pipes in the leaf. Their numbers were considerable, and not only were they retaliating against the Corruptors, they were also attempting to swim up the needles that the Corruptors entered to attack Lin's floating base …
This multicellular immune army was quite interesting, although it was impossible for them to succeed.
Lin did not create any new units. Instead, she used the spider-like Corruptors to attack. They kept killing the sword fleas while destroying the other cells in the leaf. They used a large amount of dissolving fluid to divide these cells and absorb them to create more Corruptors …
As the battle continued, Lin's Corruptors slowly gained the upper hand. They killed all the sword fleas that poured out and slowly corroded the entire leaf.
If one looked at it from the outside … The giant leaf that was ten meters in diameter was slowly turning black. As the cells inside continued to die, the leaf started to rot. And from the inside, it looked as if everything had been destroyed. Rotten pieces of the leaf floated everywhere. The army of Corruptors rampaged inside. They began to attack the skeleton of the leaf. After dissolving it, they secreted a crustaceous substance from their tails as a replacement.
At this time, the leaf bones were also turning black from the outside.
The sword fleas that kept attacking had given up on the leaf. They had all retreated back to where they came from — the leaf stalk at the bottom of the leaf that was connected to the root.
Of course, Lin would not let them go. The endless army of Corruptors followed closely behind. At this time, the sword fleas did something strange. When Lin chased into the leaf stalk, she saw a large number of sword fleas hugging a round object on the inner wall of the path. They were rubbing their limbs against it. What were they doing?
Crack …!
At this moment, Lin heard a sound. Suddenly, the thick stalk of the giant leaf broke apart. This leaf with a diameter of ten meters fell down from the enormous tree root because it was broken, heavily smashing into the ground of Scorpion City …
However, there was nothing wrong with the leaf. Lin ordered the Corruptors inside the leaves to quickly gather and dissolve themselves, reassembling into flying objects that flew back to the floating base. The nutrients inside couldn't be wasted.
So that's how it is. Because the leaf was completely occupied, it directly broke off and gave up on the entire leaf? Although this wasn't common, it wasn't strange either.
However, the behavior of the Sword Fleas made Lin feel as if they were telling their 'creator' to give up on the leaves …
Did this' plant 'have any intelligence? Lin felt that it was still not easy to be sure, she still needed to investigate further.
But looking at the large number of roots here and thinking about the large number of sword fleas inside, it would be too slow to slowly invade from the inside.
It was better to clean up the roots on the ground first. The ones above were probably just 'tentacles', while the ones below were the real 'main body'.
Thinking about this, Lin had the floating base start moving. There were many weapons hidden in the ten-meter sphere. One of them was called a 'sawtooth tentacle'.
A tentacle reached out from below the floating base. At the end of the tentacle was a long and flat object made of a crustaceous substance. The two sides of the tentacle were full of sawteeth.
The sawtooth tentacle could vibrate at high speed with extremely small amplitude. Lin gently placed the tentacle on the top of the pyramid. Following a series of cutting sounds, countless wood shavings and large amounts of sap flew out. The top of the pyramid was quickly cut off by Lin's tentacle and rolled down the pyramid.
Lin looked at the tentacle that had been dyed with a large amount of liquid. Normal plant roots would not have so much liquid in them. It seemed that this was due to the large number of 'troops' in its body.
The floating base flew to the ground and used its tentacle to pick up the cut off tree root. It then opened a 'mouth' on the surface and swallowed it.
Inside the floating base, countless tiny tentacles began to decompose the tree root. The first thing Lin found in the tree root was an almost endless number of sword fleas. They were extremely large in number and usually gathered in small sacs inside the tree root. So far, she had only found five species. There were no larvae or eggs. Could it be that they were giving birth deeper inside?
Apart from rearing large numbers of sword fleas, the tree root itself was not the same as other plants. It had a muscle-like structure that allowed the entire tree root to move. It was also connected by a structure similar to nerves.
Although it was similar, it was still quite different from animals. It was more 'primitive', like the newly formed muscles. However, it was enough for it to move ….
At the same time, this tree root did not seem to have the ability of a normal tree root. Its skin was sealed, so it could not absorb nutrients or water. It was probably absorbed by another part.
There was no way to fully understand it just by looking at this small part. Let's get rid of them quickly.
"Coo …." At that moment, Lin heard a sound. A tree root drilled out from the ground. There were two five-meter-long diamond-shaped leaves growing from its front. The leaves slowly opened up, revealing a large amount of mucus inside. At the same time, a large amount of odor was emitted from it ….
This odor smelled like nectar. Normally, plants would use this odor to attract other creatures to spread their reproductive cells or to eat them ….
However, this odor was much stronger and more attractive. Even the skeletal dragons outside the city could smell it.
It seemed to be using this to lure the floating ball? Unfortunately, it was completely ineffective against Lin. However, Lin still pretended that it was effective and slowly floated over.
The moment she got close, the two leaves instantly clamped together. A large amount of mucus stuck to the floating ball. However, the floating ball was too big and the leaves could only stick to a part of it.
'Is this the only way to attack? I don't know why, but I feel a little disappointed ….
'No, this is ….'
Lin suddenly noticed some white threads emerging from the mucus of the leaves. There were more and more of these threads, and they grew upwards and gradually wrapped around the entire floating ball.
Lin should have seen these threads before. There's no mistake … this is mycelium! 'This plant can create mycelium? And this isn't ordinary mycelium … It feels very similar to plague fungi, but there are some differences. '
The mycelium seemed to be trying to find a crack on the surface of the floating ball to burrow in. At the same time, it secreted a dissolving liquid. Lin immediately secreted a liquid from the floating ball. This liquid quickly mixed with the mycelium outside, and then ….
'Whoosh!'
After a burst of light, the mycelium around the floating ball was reduced to ashes. The leaves that were stuck to the floating ball also loosened. The tree root seemed to have realized that the situation was bad and began to shrink back into the ground.
However, the floating ball rushed up faster than it and used its serrated tentacles to cut off its' head 'along with the two leaves.
The broken tree root shrank back into the ground, but Lin now had a new research object.
After swallowing the two leaves into her body, she immediately made a new discovery.
Although it looked like a leaf, it was actually a predatory organ. Furthermore, it had the ability to resist fire. The floating ball had burned it just now, but it didn't seem to be affected much. It was still filled with Sword Fleas, and there were many sacs that secreted mucus.
However, these sacs didn't just secrete mucus, they also contained something else … bacterial dust.
Or rather … primitive bacterial dust. It was the kind of fossilized fungal dust that Lin found under the salt flats. Their structures were almost the same, and this one was alive.
However, this leaf had already grown mycelium, and the mycelium that wrapped around the floating ball just now was just an extension of the leaf.
Moreover, this type of fungal dust didn't seem to grow randomly, while plague fungi would grow wildly as soon as they encountered nutrients. It was very different.
With this in mind, Lin took out some of the mycelium and placed it inside the floating ball. It secreted some nutrients and soaked it in ….
Suddenly, the mycelium began to absorb nutrients and grow rapidly. Lin immediately sprinkled it with a dissolving liquid, and the fungus was quickly decomposed.
So that's how it grew. So its growth depended on its target? When it was inside the leaf, it didn't grow at all even though it was surrounded by absorbable water and nutrients. However, when it encountered other nutrients, it would absorb them without hesitation.
Speaking of which, the word 'hesitation' sounded strange. What was' hesitation '?
In short, the mycelium should be the same as sword fleas, a symbiotic organism inside the 'creator's' body. No, 'subordinate' would be more appropriate. Primitive mycelium had a simpler structure and didn't grow as quickly as plague fungi outside, but that was only in comparison. It was still much stronger than normal fungi.
Lin felt that the fungus could be used as an offensive weapon and a decomposer. In other words … the 'creator' wasn't just the origin of carnivorous plants, but also the origin of plague fungi? Floating astronomy.
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