Chapter 1021 Ecological Disaster

"'Eye of Airspores' is different from our fungus, their spores must parasitize on the corpse of an animal, absorb the flesh and blood of the host to develop into a larva, then take root in the soil, absorb nutrients, and develop into a mature 'Eye of Airspores '."

"In just a few years, the gophers and bats in the canyon were slaughtered by the 'eyes of air spores', and became the nourishment for these evil spirits to breed their offspring. The animals that escaped the killing by the 'eyes of air spores' were also killed. Forced to migrate away from the 'Eye of Air Spores', the canyon has become increasingly deserted and dead, like a cemetery."

After listening to the description of Jun Wang, Qiao An was deeply touched.

The changes in the canyon can be described as a vivid example of the huge damage caused by invasive species to the ecological environment, causing the local biological chain to be on the verge of collapse.

In the end, even the culprit that caused this ecological disaster, the "Eye of Air Spores", was inevitably backlashed by the laws of nature. Now it is impossible to find enough animals in the canyon to serve as hosts for the spores, so they have to migrate to the outskirts of the canyon to reproduce their offspring. Find new habitats.

The parasitic reproduction method of "eyes of air spores" constantly squeezes the living space of other animals and plants, including mushroommen. Wherever their footsteps expand, ecological disasters will spread.

This is not entirely because the "Eye of Air Spores" are evil in nature and selfish. In fact, their intelligence level is not as good as that of "Phantom Mushrooms", and they may not have the consciousness of actively doing evil, but they are only multiplying according to their survival instincts.

The root of the disaster is not that the "air spore eyes" are bad, but that they are too powerful compared to other local creatures.

High-level predators such as tigers and lions are either solitary creatures or have low fertility, but "Eye of Air Spores" has no such innate constraints. It has both strong strength and strong fertility. There are no local natural enemies that can Restricting their momentum of crazy expansion, they will fall into a vicious circle of "the strong get stronger" and "the weak get weaker", leading to the collapse of the entire ecological chain.

If you want to prevent the ecological disaster from intensifying, a feasible strategy is to introduce natural enemies that can restrain the "eye of air spores", so that the local biological chain can form a closed loop again.

Joan and his fellow explorers from the surface world are now shouldering the mission of playing the role of the natural enemy of the "Eye of Air Spores"—at least the fungus king and his tribe have such expectations for them.

When he was lost in thought, the spore monitor lizard had already entered the hinterland of the canyon and stopped slowly.

Joan and the others stood up from the monitor lizard's back one after another, and looked into the distance with the help of the miner's lamp.

The surrounding terrain is relatively flat, and there is a large area of ​​mushrooms more than two feet high growing. The straight stalks bear a huge spherical cap, and there are thick and short hyphae like petals extending from the surrounding area. From a distance, it looks like Dwarf sunflowers of the surface world.

Joan slid down from the lizard's back, walked in to observe the "sunflowers" swaying in the wind, and found that the organ that resembled a sunflower disc was actually an eyeball-shaped fruiting body.

Although he has known for a long time that the image of the "eye of the gas spore" imitating the image of the "beholder" is a very common phenomenon of mimicry in nature, and it is not a real eyeball, but he has witnessed the larvae of this supernatural fungus and seen the "eyeball "The pupils and irises are so lifelike, the pupils and irises are so fake, I still can't help but feel my scalp tingling.

"Little mage, don't touch them, or they will explode!" The fungus king warned seriously.

Qiao An quickly retreated to the safe zone, and cast the 2-ring "Inner Vision" to check the details of the "Eye of Air Spores".

Among the six attributes of the "Eye of Airspore" larvae, the constitution is only 2 points, and the intelligence is less than 1 point, which is lower than the larvae of "Fungal Man" or "Phantom Mushroom".

There are only 2 physical attributes, indicating that this fungus is very fragile. The fruiting body is like a balloon inflated to the limit. When it is hit by an external force, it will explode, erupting highly toxic spores, which fully complies with the warning issued by the fungus king.

What really surprised Joan was that the larvae of the "Eye of Airspores" had ridiculously low intelligence attributes, which were only equivalent to the level of insects.

This level of intelligence does not have complex self-awareness at all, and generally speaking, it does not have the motivation to do good or evil, so it cannot be called good or evil.

This is generally the case for animals and plants in the natural world, but for supernatural creatures, this seems a bit different.

Joan had to worry that if the mature bodies of the "Eye of Airspores" also had this level of intelligence, then they probably did not have the tendency to be good or evil. Neutral creeps don't work.

In order to verify his concerns, Joan took out the "Branch of Irminsur", intending to release positive energy and irradiate the larvae of "Eye of Airspores" to see if they could be killed.

"Little mage, don't rush to do it yet."

The fungus king once again showed a cunning smile on his face.

"If you use that branch to deal with the larvae of the 'Eye of Air Spores', they will all be wiped out in an instant. Seeing this, the 'Eye of Air Spores' in the air knew that there was no hope of rescuing their offspring, so they could only run away in all directions. If we want to protect ourselves, we will not be able to catch them all."

Joan nodded without expressing any objection.

The fungus king turned his head and waved his hand, beckoning his guards to come forward, ordering them to use slings to deal with the explosive "Eye of Airspore" larvae.

Twenty mushroom man guards swung their slings at the same time, throwing pebbles as big as fists, and accurately hit the "eyeball" of the "Eye of Airspore" larvae.

The destructive power of the roaring stones breaking through the air is enough to smash these fragile fungi, and the moment the "eyeball" is damaged, the high-pressure gas filled in the body of the "eye of air spore" larvae violently erupts, as if one by one The punctured balloons exploded one after another, spraying out a large number of spores.

These spores with barb-like flagella, once attached to the animal's body surface, will automatically drill into the blood vessels, release toxins, make the host body exhausted and die, and absorb the nutrients from the corpse to develop into a new "eye of air spore" larval plant .

Joan raised his hand to release the "Wind-Making Technique", and Audrey and Holden also showed their innate ability "Manipulation of Air Flow", and jointly created an atmospheric curtain to blow away the spores floating in front of them.

Those adult "eyes of air spores" watching in the air saw their offspring being slaughtered, and as the fungus king expected, they couldn't hold back their anger, waving ten mycelium tentacles that looked like eye stalks, and floated down one after another. Trying to stop the Mycotic Guard from committing a crime.

Joan took a deep breath, and suddenly held up the "Branch of Irminsur", arousing a burst of positive energy.

The silver radiance radiated, covering several "Eye of Air Spores" flying low in the sky, but it failed to cause the slightest damage to them.

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