Deep underground in Konoha, a huge root system explores and advances.
Different from the fine root network connecting many trees on the upper layer, these root tentacles are much larger, ranging from several meters in diameter to tens of meters thick.
As a special root system for drilling holes, there are various ways of drilling holes.
Like hyphae, they grow and burrow through the soil.
The growth force of life is particularly strong. Even the hard walls and stubborn rocks of reinforced concrete will squeeze out a gap with their tenacious vitality during the process of sprouting and growth.
The advantage is that it is stable and the construction noise is low. The disadvantage is that it is slow and it is not easy to gain weight.
There are many hidden spaces dug out by humans in the underground of Konoha, such as ant nests arranged in a criss-cross pattern. The entire underground is basically as empty as insects.
This situation became even worse after Meiji moved in.
Day after day, Miki would be diligent and diligent in digging holes under Konoha.
I think back to when MC, Mei Ji could stay underground for half a year, so she was an underground king after all.
Just like building a secret castle, digging holes is simply not fun.
Miki's happiness is so simple and boring. If she digs out a shiny little gem along the way, she will be happy for a long time. And every hidden underground room in Konoha is a blind box treasure box waiting to be opened to Miki.
Even if you open it and see it is all garbage, you will still enjoy it.
Thanks to Meiji's diligence and efforts, the underground space structure was destroyed.
The effect is like termites building a dam, which will be whitened sooner or later.
In order to prevent the earth from suddenly collapsing, the entire village spiraled up to the sky. The huge root system of the Nydus Worms acted like the roots of plants and trees, and played a role in solidifying the soil.
When the underground digging of Konoha later became clear, Miki's eyes naturally turned to the forest outside the village.
If you gradually explore outward by growing, the upper layer of mycelium is fine, because it is thin enough, and it only takes a few taels of flesh to spread over. The huge roots underground need to stretch to a certain distance, which will not be possible in a short time.
things accomplished.
So, how did Miki dig from Konoha to the border of the Kingdom of Wind?
The solution is to reproduce, which can also be simply understood as dividing the offspring like the slug fairy.
There are two ways of division, one is to release spores and complete a life cycle, that is, reproduction, and the other is to replicate and divide itself like a slug.
The two modes are preserved to resist natural risks. When encountering difficult diseases, the cicada can also be dragged through reproduction to shed its shell, so as to avoid being thrown away in one pot.
The interesting thing is that the gametes of Nydus worm are called sex cells, and their gender is determined by three loci, namely A, B, and C. Each strain can form gametes of eight genders, and A has sixteen.
Version B has fifteen versions, and C has three versions, which can form sixteen times fifteen times three, a total of seven hundred and twenty genders.
Meiji has both genders you can understand and genders you don’t understand.
Through gamete reproduction, the zygote begins to form, undergoes mitosis, and becomes a mass of protoplasm with many nuclei.
This period is called Metamorphosis.
In Iwagakure Village, the little bugs spit out by the parasitized ninja were all this.
The characteristic is that at this stage, there are various directions of complete metamorphosis.
What she can become depends on Mei Ji’s gene pool.
It looks like a slug and can crawl, move and eat like crazy.
When the food is exhausted, these deformed bodies will gather together and then form a network shape, changing the surface area according to food, water, oxygen, etc. This period is called the vegetative period, and it has basically turned into the complete form of the Nydus Worm.
If you have accumulated enough nutrients before, you will already be very large once you take shape.
So what should Miji do to carry out an expedition to expand her sphere of influence?
One is the release of spores.
Tunnel worms will produce fruiting bodies, which release spores, which rupture after falling in the wind. After falling to the ground, they form amoebas, accumulate nutrients, burrow into the soil, and mature into reticular bodies, that is, hyphae and hyphae.
The mycelium docks with each other and recycles redundant and overlapping mycelium lines to form a huge network covering the forest.
It is not 100% successful in breeding, but it is large in quantity and can be fully managed. With the accumulation of time and quantity, it gradually spreads and colonizes the forest.
Therefore, he tried to build a light sail exploration system and launched a large number of spores into the universe.
It was launched, but not completely launched.
Because the following is missing, Mei Ji doesn’t know what is happening with the insect spores in the universe, whether they have deviated from their course, or whether they have successfully landed on the planet.
The conclusion is that an expense was wasted in a hot head, and a lesson has been learned.
The second is division.
The main body of the Tunnel Worm split open directly, and one of its tentacles broke off and transformed back into the form of a juvenile amoeba. Compared with the former amoeba, because of its large size, it needs to support huge organs and skeletons, and then it digs a hole and heads north.
The shape resembles some kind of giant worm.
In order to quickly drill holes, a certain degree of specialization is also required.
At first, it secretes acid to break through the ground. The acid of the Slug Immortal is very powerful, but under high-intensity work, it is easy to stop eating. It is really impossible to vomit it out, and there is not a drop left. Especially when encountering certain substances, the acid cannot move anymore.
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I followed Mei Ji and loaded up the soil escape. It had some effect, but not much. The problem was that the soil layer was loosened but not gone. When encountering some large rocks and rocks blocking the road, I still had to stop eating.
Just bite the stone with your teeth. Your teeth will break easily.
Simply, Meiji installed the drill simply and crudely.
Therefore, we had to pick up the biological gear mechanical structure discovered long ago and continue to develop it in depth.
A small flagellar motor imitating a single cell of a flagellum is constructed into an enlarged version of the biological muscle transmission rotor.
The characteristics are that it has low energy consumption, is cheap and affordable, and is suitable for high-strength continuous shaft rotation.
It has now become Meiji's standard drilling tool. It can be drilled underground according to the planned route, and it can be recycled when not in use.
It is worth mentioning that the drill bit itself, a physical metal drill bit, can be used. Meiji collected a lot of minerals while digging holes. Add a little of this and a little of that, and they will grow out of the integrated shell, which can be called shell matter.
Without technology, it all depends on blindness, but due to the problem of matching ratio, it has always been unsatisfactory.
With many things at hand, Mei Ji lost her patience and became irritable. She changed her mind and installed a barrier.
The strength of the barrier is freely controllable, and the rotation is driven by muscle rotors.
The problem was solved, and then the engineering equipment was optimized by Miji into a melee weapon. It made its first appearance half a month ago, driving a certain Uchiha underground for hundreds of streets.
The rock formations along the way were no different from tofu in front of Mei Ji.
Having said that, why bother digging holes underground?
It is to build a hidden underground transportation network and quickly and covertly transfer the insect swarm.
In the past, not only did they take such a hidden route when they raided the Kingdom of Winds, they avoided Sunagakure's detection and successfully raided right under their noses.
When dealing with Kumogakure, the underground passages built also played a role.
In addition to being concealed, large heavy units can also be quickly transferred and deployed through waterways.
Otherwise, Meiji's crocodiles will crawl to the front line and the day lilies will be cold.
Currently, Meiji is digging holes into the complex waterway system in the Rain Country, deploying the evil beast in the water, the giant crocodile Gustav.
You like to guerrilla, right? You like to dig holes, right? You like to hide in the grass and squat in the river, right?
Meiji also likes it.
The terrain of the rainforest, with its complex and developed water network, is a natural battlefield for ambushing young geniuses in the water.
To put it bluntly, once the water network is occupied, it will cut off the transportation network for Amegakure to move guerrillas, divide the battlefield, and then lock the area where the ninja troops are located.
In addition, digging holes is also for resources.
There are rich resources underground. A long time ago, Meiji used biogas to generate electricity and provide it for the operation of lighting equipment in the underground base.
At that time, Orochimaru was like a country bumpkin entering the city, and he almost fell out of town.
Minerals and the like are not of much use to Meiji for the time being, but they can subsidize the household, which is not too little.
There are many mines with owners in Konoha. Meiji went straight to the target from underground, and no one has ever discovered it.
Well, there are treasures in heaven, materials and earth, and the virtuous will live there.
There are still more undiscovered and unowned resources.
Such as natural gas, such as oil and so on.
For natural gas, tunnel worms are used to pull pipes. From now on, the village will basically say goodbye to the era of briquettes.
As for petroleum, as a sediment of biomass, Meiji was considering whether it could be eaten and how it should be eaten so as not to kill herself.
Are there any creatures in the world that can eat oil?
have!
When she discovered this anaerobic archaea, Meiji was ecstatic.
As the blood of the industrial age, oil is the most important thing.
A huge piece of pie suddenly fell from the sky and was delivered to Mei Ji's mouth. Mei Ji was a little dizzy at the time.
Now Meiji has announced that all the oil fields are my vegetable fields. Whoever gets a share of the pie will be the one I care about.