Chapter 3 Sweeping away the plague
A large number of small needles made a small sound as they hit the Leviathan's shell, none of them could penetrate the Leviathan's carapace, but one of them was stuck in the Leviathan's outstretched tentacle hand.
Lin felt a strange liquid pouring into her tentacles, it wasn't venom, but it seemed to have a special ingredient, like ...... Some organisms will secrete fluids in the body when they are excited, usually organisms will secrete such ingredients to make themselves excited, and the activity becomes rapid at a certain time, of course, Lin does not need it, Lin can directly put the cells in an excited state.
But why is there a bio-excited liquid in the needles ejaculated by this tree? If it's a carnivorous plant, it should shoot venom or something.
Lin controlled the constriction of the blood vessels, squeezing the liquid out, and the crack in the tree slowly closed at this time.
The overall bark of this tree is red, which is quite conspicuous compared to other trees, and the trunk is very thick, about two meters in diameter, about three meters in height, and the tree has quite dense fluffy branches and leaves.
How could such a tree, which is normal except for its color, radiate such strange needles?
Since there was only one tree nearby, Lynn planned to explore the surroundings without breaking it down, and Lynn also wanted to find out if any of the reptiles who had built a pile of bones on the other side of the canyon to ward off the fungus had survived and made it here.
Leviathan was in the jungle observing the forest creatures, while slowly moving in the direction of the mountain, all kinds of small creatures in the jungle ran in front of Leviathan, Lynn named them all and categorized them, Lynn felt that these creatures should be separated from the reptiles and put into some separate special species. For example...... 'dinosaurs'.
Lynn discovered this word a long time ago. But it has not worked. Now I've found a suitable creature to use.
At the same time, Lin also discovered another problem, the original purpose of Lin's research on biological evolution was to learn from it and evolve herself, but now almost all of it is studied because it is 'interesting', although there is nothing wrong with it, but you can't forget the original purpose of Jì.
Now that Leviathan's exploration is more leisurely, Lynn turns her attention to the sea.
The Bombarders and Behemoth are looking for traces of the plague fungus at sea beyond the continent, which has drifted to the sea after infecting the continent. The reason why they didn't cross the rift was already known to Lynn was that their fungus dust would die in the fog of the rift, apparently because the air inside the fog had an effect on them.
It's possible that some flying creatures fly out and get fungus, but they should fly through the mist and 'disinfect' when they get in and out, but there is no guarantee that 100% of the fungi will not enter it, and it may be that the creatures inside have some resistance.
If there is only a small amount of fungus, the infection grows very slowly, not much faster than ordinary fungi, and even the immune cells of ordinary organisms can destroy them at this stage, but at the same time they are infected with a large amount of fungus dust. I guess there are no creatures that can resist it.
Except for the class that Lin Xin researched.
Behemoth had now found an island infested with fungus, fifty meters long and thirty meters wide. It's small, but it's covered with a lot of plague fungi, huge mushrooms like trees, strange coral-like shapes, moss-like plush balls, soft mycelium that cover the ground, and it looks like a lot of different creatures, but they are all the same species.
Behemoth flew over the island, and after a certain distance, the fungus dust could not float to this position, at which point Behemoth opened the cannon muzzle under him, and dozens of drop pods fell from the sky with a whistling sound, hitting the ground covered with mycelium and setting off a cloud of dust like snowflakes.
These dust mist are fungus dust, plague fungi will convert their own qiē nutrients into floating and spreading fungus dust after swallowing up a qiē, all the strange structures are used to better spread the fungus dust, their different structures can occupy every air flow in the atmosphere, can ensure that most of the fungus dust can be scattered with the wind.
Although Lin thinks that if she wants to spread, it would be good to grow all the mushroom type, and the other structures are redundant, of course, the fungus has its own 'ideas', and Lin is not interested in knowing, all she has to do now is to destroy them.
The drop pod slowly cracked, and from inside emerged a huge ...... Slime.
In fact, it is a kind of soft glia creature that looks like it has a whole body, and it is not a cell, but a large number of ultra-miniature multicellular units that are only a little larger than amoebae, although they are small, but they are very capable.
As a tactic against plague fungi, Lynn felt that this was the best to use, the attack of plague fungi is very simple, very similar to ordinary fungi, their hyphae grow like the root system of plants, and then this 'root' will secrete lytic fluid, pierce the shell or bark of the organism, penetrate the area where cells flow, and then start sucking the cells, and then grow more hyphae, slowly engulfing the cells.
Their numbers and growth rate are the key to being able to deal with other organisms, and in a short period of time they are able to convert the nutrients they obtain into themselves, so that they can continue to grow.
But Lynn's slime will in turn eat the fungus to grow itself, when the fungus dust seeps into their epidermis, the inner layer of troops can secrete a faster and stronger dissolved liquid, dissolve the silk threads stretched out by the fungus, and completely decompose the fungus dust as their own nutrients, after that, the troops inside will slowly increase, and then the slime will slowly grow in size, like a fungus, covering the whole island.
Hence the name 'bacteriophage'.
This comes from the name of a virus, but that virus apparently doesn't have the ability to stop the plague fungus, so it's better to give the name to this slime.
A large number of phages released by the drop cabin, they slowly crawled on the ground covered with mycelium, after these mycelium touched their bodies, they grew like crazy, they stretched out countless mycelium and pierced into the phage's body, but these pierced mycelium were quickly dissolved, and the phage would pause at this time, and quickly transfer these dissolved mycelium to the 'core' in the body to decompose, and the core also created more troops, and then slowly moved again.
Not only on the ground, but also in the sky, the phage has to deal with all of these things, if too much fungus dust is covered, then some of them still have a chance to grow, Lynn must devour the melted residue faster and absorb it, not allowing the mycelium to get nutrients first, while the phage is constantly devouring nutrients at the core and then splitting into more troops to grow in size, and when it grows to a certain extent, Lin will create a new core and deal with more fungi.
In the midst of this tiny war, Lynn slowly encroached on the plague fungus across the island...... (To be continued......)