The emergence of this fungus is an accident, as a by-product of the Nydus Worms. If the Nydus Worms are the stable version, the Destruction Mushroom is the unstable version.
Even Mei Ji cannot control it perfectly and often accidentally injures herself due to various accidents.
Soon, a pure white mushroom field appeared nearby, with spores floating in the sky.
This is an extremely primitive strategy. Primitive means simple and effective. Each mushroom will release hundreds of millions of spores. Only a handful of lucky spores will fall into the right environment to grow and reproduce.
But the problem is that for Destruction Mushrooms, no matter where they are, it is a suitable environment.
Even the vacuum of the universe can convert energy and nutrients from radiation.
When a general fungus reproduces again, its next generation of spores will incorporate the environmental changes into new genes, thereby making this population tend to persist in this environment forever.
But the Destruction Mushroom is different.
Due to its simple and primitive structure, it mutates extremely quickly. It will mutate rapidly and independently in response to different environments.
Just like the flu virus.
When a cell is infected with two viruses, the eight sets of gene segments of the virus will randomly exchange with each other, causing genetic recombination. A single mutation will change the surface protein structure, thus changing its antigenic and immunological properties.
But the Destruction Mushroom is different.
It has a cloud gene bank. Unlike any insect with a stable genetic structure in Meiji's hands, the Destruction Mushroom can retrieve genetic data from Meiji's insect swarm network and quickly reorganize its own genes according to the current situation.
Mei Ji cannot predict what the offspring will become, so accidents often occur.
If it appears externally, it will become like this, deviating from the characteristics of the fungus.
When this mushroom field developed to a certain scale, Meiji first restricted the reproduction of the fungi. If left alone, the mushrooms would soon eat up the entire forest, causing a fungal infection plague and killing all life in the forest system.
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In addition, Mei Ji locked the attack target.
That is, the ninja bee.
The problem lies here, how does the destroying fungus identify the target.
Generally, species use their sensory organs to identify the comprehensive life characteristics of the species from a macro perspective.
Because their structure is too simple and primitive, fungal spores cannot identify targets in this way.
Therefore, at the microscopic level, just like cells, the way to destroy mushrooms is to touch the shape, the shape of genes, that is, hold a photo in your hand and use it as a target for large-scale genetic comparison.
But there are no absolutely identical genes in nature. That kind of thing is called cloning.
Different individuals of the same species have subtle differences in their genes.
Therefore, the overall approximation can only be found by comparing templates, which is not very accurate.
The result is that if human beings are taken as the target of attack, it will be an indiscriminate massacre without distinction between friend and foe. If someone can escape with luck, it can only be said that the individual is not a human being in the strict sense.
For example, the difference between ninjas and ordinary humans.
The mushroom field that has stopped multiplying and expanding is quiet and beautiful. A lovely white and tender mushroom pokes its head out from the ground. Due to the limited attack target, the floating robe floats in the air with the wind and has no trigger mechanism.
For a moment it seems harmless to humans and animals.
Until a nectar-gathering worker bee entered the mushroom patch.
The Ninja Bee was not surprised by this seemingly common mushroom field in the forest. After entering the area not far away, he was infected with fungus. In just a moment, the white and tender cute mushrooms burst out of the body and the Ninja Bee fell from the sky and died.
Among the mushroom fields.
Under Meiji's conditions, the efficiency of killing ninja bees in this way is really terrible. How many ninja bees can be killed depends entirely on how many ninja bees will pass through the mushroom field.
Large-scale destructive damage is completely impossible.
Although the destroying fungus is brainless, it has a complex reaction mechanism driven by its reproductive instinct.
If there are no conditions, create conditions.
The autonomous mutation started, and the mushrooms released spores in pieces, and then withered and died. The robe fell to the ground, and with the supply of residual nutrients from the black water juice, it grew rapidly. Another new mushroom poked its head out of the ground, and then released spores, and died quickly.
, a constant cycle of reincarnation.
The fungal groups scattered throughout the forest share unified information, perform rapid iterations, and fully extract all the nutrients in their area. If they do not find a way before the resources are exhausted, what awaits them is their own destruction.
The terror of life broke out at this moment.
In a certain repeated reincarnation, the appearance of the mushroom changed significantly.
At first, the mushrooms changed in various ways. After endless trials and errors, the genetic recombination collapsed, and then it quickly became stable. Gradually, the appearance characteristics of all mushrooms tended to be unified.
Then, the flowers bloomed.
But it is not a flower in the true sense, it is still a fungus.
What is buried deep underground is not the roots of plants, but the hyphae of fungi.
Pieces of small white flowers are in full bloom, pure and elegant, and the faint floral fragrance is overflowing, and the smell is wafted by the wind.
Lured by the scent of nectar, the bees from nearby and far away came.
As usual, they rushed into the flowers and worked hard to collect important nectar. Unknowingly, the spores released quietly fell on the bees.
The spores did not explode, but lay dormant.
The bee that has taken enough nectar returns to the nest with satisfaction.
Unlike Miki's insect swarm, which has an extremely detailed division of labor, in the ninja bee colony, the small ninja bees are both worker bees and soldier bees.
In a dangerous wild environment, the risk of working alone is too great, and there is a high possibility that you will not be able to come back if you go out. Therefore, most of the people engaged in collection work are experienced middle-aged and elderly bees.
There are basically no mistakes in the completion of the work.
According to the process, the bees will make an information report as soon as they return to the nest.
In the form of dancing and turning in circles, key information such as direction, distance, and time are indicated.
Ninja Bee had no doubts about the sudden appearance of this new flower field, and excitedly told her companions that more manpower was needed to collect it on a large scale.
As the bees move through the swarm and come into physical contact with each other, the spores they carry fall into the swarm.
But there’s more to the spread than that.
Bees have a stomach called a honey stomach, which bees also have and are used to store nectar.
Bug girls also have a similar storage stomach.
When the storage is full, it needs to be further processed.
At this time, the bee will spit out the nectar and feed it to another bee. This is because the invertase in one bee's body is not enough and needs the help of other bees.
This process will spread the infection to about a hundred animals.
Mouth to mouth, it is a close contact.
When the unloading is completed, the worker bees responsible for collecting will take off immediately and continue their previous work.
The goods will be moved deep into the hive. At this time, the finished honey is not the final product. The worker bees responsible for making honey will constantly flap their wings to evaporate the moisture in the semi-finished product.
Before that, there is another important task.
Process the honey and some of it will turn into beeswax, which is used to repair the honeycomb.
Repairs to the Hive are ongoing.
The semi-finished honey is very difficult to handle due to its stickiness. At this time, the bees will mix the pollen on their bodies into the semi-finished product for easy transportation and processing, and scatter it around the hive.
For fungi, an invasion is complete.
Why do fungi know the characteristics of bees?
Because Mei Ji has been conducting a lot of deep learning training on it, although the fungus has no brain, it has memory. It has done similar problems and saved them as data.
What to do, there is a clear route set by Meiji, it is very clear.
In the early stage, it expanded wildly, transformed the planet's surface environment, crushed rocks to create soil, etc., and continued to develop steadily in the mid-term. When the environmental conditions reached standards, it began to breed Zerg.
This is what Miki launched into the deep space of the universe through the Queen of Light.
It belongs to the cargo carried by the light-driven sailing ship.
What Mei Ji wants is for less crazy varieties that can spontaneously coexist harmoniously with local environmental species. Otherwise, it will cause devastating species extinction disasters for the living planet.
The bees visited the flower fields one after another, laboriously transporting nectar and spores back.
When the hive is full of honey, the previously prepared honey is moved out and transferred to the giant main hive in the center.
Theoretically, these honeys have been sterilized at high temperatures and are absolutely safe and do not contain deadly germs.
The fungi in the flower fields continue to extract nutrients from the land, transport them to the daughter organs and flowers through mycelium, and convert them into nectar and spores for the bees to take away until the nutrients in the land are exhausted and they can no longer produce quickly.
, the collected bees will not come again.
The flower field died.
And the fungus breaks out.
At night, just as the moon was rising, there was a deliberate mass outburst in hives everywhere.
The pure white mycelium grows explosively, greedily squeezing out all the nutrients around it. The mycelium spreads in sheets, emerging from the honey, from the hive, and from the body of the bee.
No flowers grew this time, just the same pure white mushrooms as before, with cute heads poking out from everywhere in the hive and from the bodies of the bees.
The small hives everywhere were completely submerged in white.
The bees died quickly one after another.
The fungus broke out so quickly that the densely packed swarm of bees resting on the hive had no time to react. They were permanently frozen in this scene, covered with continuous white threads.
Endless spores are released from the mushrooms and spread along the pipes built by the ninja bees. The black juice flows like a canal carrying small boats forward.
At the mouth of the hive, hyphae and spores flew together and spread out. From each hole, black juice continued to drip to the ground. Mushrooms poked their heads out of the hive ground, and spores continued to explode and sweep across.
The work bees flying around in panic outside the hive didn't know why. After being infected with the spores, their bodies were covered with white silk, mushrooms sprouted and they died one after another.
In the giant main hive, the situation is also not optimistic. Although there is a certain degree of spatial isolation, it cannot stop the invasion of the Destruction Mushroom.
The first was the giant ninja wasp. At the moment when the fungus broke out, the giant ninja wasp in the hive suddenly lost control and fell to the ground, trembling with violent convulsions.
Its body is very large, so its pain is also extremely long.
The small ninja bees around who were dealing with the daily affairs of the hive immediately noticed the abnormality of the giant ninja bees, and they all gathered around and flapped their wings neatly.
The smell of death emanates from the giant ninja wasp's body.
In panic, the bees tried to move the body away, but it was too big to move.
The dead giant bee is extremely heavy.
The white silk sticks out from the body...
Upon seeing this, the small ninja wasp immediately stepped forward to bite and block him.
But there was no stopping it. Soon, the bodies of the small ninja wasps were covered with white threads, mushrooms poked their heads out one after another, and spores exploded violently.
At the same time, in the giant hive, white threads to crystal clear honey spread out, and strong mycelium penetrated the honey and the hive, exploring around, greedily and crazily seeking more resources.
First there was a white spot, and soon it spread to the surrounding areas, with patches of white covering the original appearance of the hive. Mushrooms grew out and spores exploded violently.
These honeys are extremely nutritious and energy-rich, so you want more.
more and more!
Around the giant beehive, in the pipes that only small ninja bees can enter and exit, black juice flows out of the pipes, drips along the walls, and is instantly covered with white. Mycelium climbs up the walls, and mushrooms grow one after another.
Crazy bursts of spores.
The diffuse spores form a fog visible to the naked eye, floating in the enclosed space.
What's this?
The ninjas of the Shangliu Clan who stayed in the giant hive couldn't understand.
Everything you saw was white, and the terrifying white torrent drowned everyone, and they watched the swarms of bees continue to die.
And I can't do anything myself.
No matter how crazy you use ninjutsu, it has no effect at all.
The body was covered with spores, and soon, horrible white threads spread all over the body.
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The hyphae were swept away, and the terrible touch continued to travel through the skin of the whole body.
Something seemed to be pierced into the body, and the feeling of weakness continued to rise. From the perception, the chakra was disappearing.
Many ninjas screamed in agony as they collapsed, and then fell to the ground exhausted, unable to struggle.
The fungus touched the gene and said, well, the shape is wrong and it is not allowed to be eaten.
But my mother won't let me eat it, so I'll give it a lick and enjoy it.
This is probably what Destruction thinks.
The sound kept echoing in the closed space.
Until everything calmed down and turned into dead silence.
In the sea of white mushrooms, everything was buried under the white color. The ninja slumped on the mushrooms, watching everything in front of him in horror.
Everyone died except the people.
The silence was terrifying, with no more busy buzzing and flapping wings of the bees.
This was a shocking and complete massacre.
Seeing such a scene for the first time, the Shangshui Ninja felt not only fear, but fear.
Gone, all gone.
My invincible bee swarm, so many patient bees, are all gone.
The young girls, covered in white silk stockings, broke down and cried in unison as if they were infected by the plague.
"Wow!!! Mom!!! I'm scared!!!"
On the border between the Land of Grass and Konoha, in the hive of the true master of the upper stream clan behind, the situation is also not optimistic.
The Shenhe clan struggled to resist the fungal attack.
The line of defense can collapse at any time.
This situation has arisen because Mei Ji let her go.
No matter what, let the bee colony leave some seeds.
Meiji was so afraid of this guy that she brought all her family wealth to the battlefield.