Chapter 1024 Spore Research (Ⅰ)
"Phantom mushroom" is not a supernatural mushroom in the typical sense.
Creatures such as mushroom man and "eye of air spores", as well as most "activated plants", constructs, and undead creatures, have no blood circulation system in their bodies, and of course there is no blood or similar bodily fluids, "Mythical Blood Interpretation "It is impossible to analyze the magic configuration and supernatural imprint in this kind of creature.
This is a major flaw!
Joan frowned deeply, looking stern.
How can we make up for this shortcoming?
As far as the existing spell configuration of "Mythical Blood Interpretation" is concerned, there is no room for magic power to make up for this loophole.
Joan can only accept the reality and admit that with his current spellcasting ability, he can't fill this loophole for the time being. He can only wait for the improvement of spellcasting ability in the future, and then carry out a comprehensive upgrade of "Mythical Blood Interpretation" and configure a higher magic power level , it may be possible to make up for this shortcoming.
But looking at it from another angle, if one day in the future, the "mythical blood interpretation" is perfected, blood is no longer needed as a material for casting spells, and biological materials such as fur can also achieve the analysis function, then this spell can still be called "blood magic". Interpretation"?
This is no longer a scientific question, but the scope of philosophical research.
Joan sighed softly, temporarily suppressing these distracting thoughts of no practical value, made a specimen of the Phantom Mushroom corpse, and put it in a backpack.
After cleaning up the dissecting tools, Joan took out his pocket watch and glanced at it. After confirming that more than half an hour had passed, he returned to the round mushroom table and opened the lid of the clear ice storage box.
The fully frozen "Eye of Airspore" larva has a thick layer of hoarfrost on its body surface, which looks like a hard and brittle large icing lollipop.
The inside of the eyeball-shaped fruiting body of the "Eye of Airspore" larvae is filled with high-pressure gas, and if it is directly pierced, a violent explosion may occur.
Qiao An first freezes the larvae of "Eye of Airspores". According to the ideal gas equation, under the condition that the volume of the fruit body remains constant, the internal air pressure will decrease synchronously with the body temperature, which is what people often say "expands with heat and contracts with cold".
If the "Eye of Airspore" larva is regarded as a sealed container, the internal air pressure will be greatly reduced, and when Joan dissects it, it will not be so easy to explode.
However, for the sake of safety, Joan still moved the frozen "Eye of Airspore" larvae near the bedroom window, and put down the round table to serve as a cover.
He hid behind the table, with only half of his face exposed, cast the "Mage Hand", remotely controlled the scalpel, floated in the air to the frozen "eyeball" 20 feet away, took a deep breath, and stabbed it in!
Qiao An didn't care about the scalpel any more, she shrank her head and hid behind the table, listening with her ears up.
The explosion he was worried about didn't happen, but there was a whistling sound of exhaust near the window.
Joan felt relieved and quickly put on the gas mask.
The sharp exhaust sound lasted for about two minutes, and then gradually weakened until it completely subsided.
Joan hid behind the table and waited until he couldn't hear the slightest movement before he bravely stood up.
Walking to the window, the larvae of "Eye of Airspores" have exhausted most of the gas in their bodies and become shriveled.
Joan opened the window, let out the dirty air, and used a "magic trick" to restore the "Eye of Airspore" larva to normal temperature, and then cut it open with a knife.
On the inner surface of the "Eye of Airspore" larvae, there is a layer of soft and moist fluff, which looks a bit like amniotic membrane.
At the top of these hairs, there are tiny spiny particles hanging, which are the spores of the "eye of air spores", and those spiny tissues are actually the flagella of the spores.
The spores of the "eye of gas spores" not only contain strong toxins, but also can parasitize in the flesh and blood of animals, absorb nutrients crazily, causing the host to exhaust itself and die soon after.
The corpse of the host will provide fertilizer for the growth and development of the new generation of "Eye of Airspores".
Joan carefully collected these spores, put them into a reagent bottle, and conducted more in-depth research in a laboratory environment after returning to school. Try to extract the "spore eye toxin" from it to further enrich the casting materials of "Poison Strike".
Putting the bottle of dangerous fungus into the storage bag, Joan rubbed his hands, and then checked the five bottles of spore samples presented by King Fungus.
These five bottles of spores are all collected from the fungus family, but not all mushroom people have all five kinds of spores, especially the last bottle of green spores, only the fungus king himself has it, which can be called a rare treasure.
Five types of spores, all containing luminescent substances.
The bottle of spores that emit red fluorescence contains some kind of pheromone, which the mushroom people often release when they encounter danger, sending a distress signal to the nearby clansmen.
In the underground world where the air flow is relatively less intense, the "alarm spores" erupted from the fungus man's body can quickly spread a hundred yards away in a short time.
The mushroommen who received the spores could empathize with the fear and pain of the callers when they sounded the alarm, and most of them would rush to rescue them as soon as possible.
Joan still remembered that yesterday when the tentacle monster attacked the mushroom child near the river beach, the moment the other party realized that his life was being threatened, he sprayed out a large amount of these flashing red fluorescent spores. Many mushroom people were alerted and came to the rescue.
In addition to "alarm spores", there are two supernatural spores that all myconids can generate in their own bodies, and are an indispensable prerequisite for meditation gatherings, namely "psychic spores" and "psychedelic spores".
Joan attended the meditation meeting of the mushroom people last night, and is already familiar with these two kinds of spores.
"Spiritual spores" are the medium for the communication between the mushroom man and the outside creatures, which can overcome the barriers of race and language, and enable the mushroom man to communicate directly with all intelligent creatures in the diffusion space of the "spiritual spore".
The "psychedelic spores" emitting blue fluorescence, Joan initially thought it was a hallucinogenic neurotoxin similar to "muscarine". It's more complicated than I expected.
First of all, it is certain that the toxicity of "psychedelic spores" is far less than that of some notorious poisonous mushrooms. After ingestion, it will only cause slight physical discomfort and hallucinations, and it will not be life-threatening.
The so-called "psychedelic spores" may just be a misunderstanding of the spores. Joan suspects that the "psychedelic spores" themselves cannot stimulate the nerves to produce hallucinations, and it is more likely that the "psychic spores" work together to form a "bridge" ", to convey the picture in one person's mind to another person truthfully.