Chapter 698 Controlling Variation

"Sometime a long, long time ago... not too long ago, actually, when fungal infections started to appear in the cities."

"Instead of trying to roll on the ground, you tried to escape from the city screaming, but you didn't notice that there were a lot of bacteria dust already rolling in the air, and they came to a certain place."

...The bacteria dust sank into the sea.

Maya has a lot of speculation about this series of situations...it thinks that the main process should be like this.

A fungus dust that has not started to "germinate" will not die due to seawater, so they can... be preserved in the seawater environment.

For some reason, these bacteria dust gathered in a large amount in one place... which is where the trench is now.

There must be something in it, some creature or something else, that transported the fungus dust into the sea, and transported it to the... place where the waste was buried.

In fact, the waste was not buried there at first, but was directly thrown into the trench, and no one went down to dig the seabed to bury the waste.

But I don't know how it was buried later, but that's not the point... The point is that after the fungus dust reached the sea, it began to grow there.

Close to the place where the waste is placed, the bacteria dust will be affected by the 'radiation' of the waste, and their cell nuclei begin to undergo rapid changes.

The nucleus of fungi is different from that of ordinary organisms. Most of the information in them has been 'encrypted' and is quite complicated, but it will also be 'mutated' by various influences.

These mutations are random, most are useless or harmful, but some are beneficial.

It is different from ordinary creatures. The fungus itself has a rather special...system to solve this kind of problem. The fungus dust that has produced various harmful mutations will be absorbed by other fungus dust, and it will not grow after it is identified as harmful.

Bacterial dust with beneficial mutations will grow rapidly.

Maya doesn't know how the fungus judges whether its various mutations are harmful or harmless to the current situation. Probably this is... something they only know.

Because of this particular system. They are basically not afraid of any viruses, because the fungal cells infected by the virus will immediately stop functioning, and the virus cannot spread between them.

However, most viruses are directly absorbed by fungi as food.

However, a small number of viruses that can infect the nucleus will encounter this situation of being unable to spread. No virus has been found to harm fungi.

This may be that there are more secrets hidden in the complex structure in their original nucleus... Maya guessed so, it seems that Lin has studied it before. But none of this was discussed with Maya.

So the fungus is able to use the waste to mutate itself a lot quickly, and then come up with a useful one.

In conclusion, under the influence of waste materials, a special kind of bacterial dust is produced. These bacteria dust can secrete a layer of substance like grease.

They themselves seem to sacrifice the ability to spread at high speed, but they are able to use these oils to filter out a large amount of nutrients in seawater.

They cannot completely resist seawater, and they will not grow in seawater, but they will not die either, but will slowly secrete oil to cover their bodies.

They then allowed their highly infectious fungal counterparts to inhabit the oil, so they wouldn't be affected by seawater.

At first glance, the fungi weren't... very powerful.

Because they cannot directly resist seawater. At the same time, the growth rate is not very fast. Although it can "live" for other fungus dust, other fungus dust can't do much in the sea.

And then Maya found out. These 'grease fungi' have other uses as well.

That is to strengthen that deep-sea behemoth—the plague dragon.

The behemoth ate all the fungi growing at the bottom of the trench when they found them. Although Maya's blasters didn't directly see it eating fungi, they later disappeared from the traces on the ground and the large fluorescent fungi will be able to judge.

And after the giant beast ate it, its body also changed... Its injuries have recovered, and its muscles have also strengthened, and its speed has become faster. Strength becomes stronger, as does protection.

The original behemoth did not dare to attack the submarine force directly. But now it dares to attack at will to eliminate this army.

Maya can think so. It is possible that the fungi themselves are not used to expand on the seabed, but are only used to feed the behemoths, and these things can greatly strengthen the behemoths.

And the target of the fungus...should still be the land. The giant beast's attack here is just a "snap from the east to the west". Soon the land will also be attacked by the fungus, and because the Void People pay attention to this place, the defense on the land will become weaker.

...Because there is nothing to do in a daze here, so Maya speculated a lot, and told the dean some ideas.

...Meanwhile, at the Dean's side...

"Is that how you feel?"

The dean is staying in his own laboratory, replying to Maya's message: "I have other ideas about fungi, but now I have more important things to deal with."

Thinking about it, the dean pressed the screen of contacting Maya and opened another screen.

'boom! '

When the screen opened, there was an explosion, and a large amount of smoke and fire appeared in the headmaster's field of vision.

"Don't let it get there!" "Get rid of them!"

Here is the first colony of the new world, where the sound of explosions and shooting echoes, dozens of metal spiders are now forming a circle, and within their circle is a huge circular gate - the astral gate .

And around them, there are a large number of robbers holding weapons.

The patriarch bypassed the united band of thieves and let the metal spiders come here, but before the patriarch opened the door...the group of thieves suddenly appeared outside the colony, and they immediately attacked the colony.

Most of the residents in the colony escaped or were killed. The thieves attacked near the astral gate without hindrance, and then launched a crazy attack on the metal spider of the patriarch. During the battle, the patriarch killed many thieves , but the thieves also destroyed many metal spiders.

Now the only remaining metal spiders are fighting under the door, and they are all a spider opening the door under the cover.

The door isn't that easy to open, it's tightly sealed, so the best way to do it is to... melt it open.

One metal spider took care of the job, the others protected it, and now it's almost done.

It can be seen in the melted chasm...behind this door is a whole new world, not the cue ball of the Void, not a world that any of the patriarchs know.

The only thing that can be confirmed is...there is full of life. (to be continued)