Chapter 946 Mutated Ecology

The construction is now almost complete. …≦. …≦

Lin is looking ahead. It looks like a cave environment, and there is a huge mechanical device in this cave.

This device is now in continuous activity, assembling one piece of machinery after another inside it.

At the exit of the device, many spider-shaped machines can be seen crawling out. They climbed onto the surrounding rock walls, dug out a large amount of minerals from above and brought them back to the device. They then removed these minerals from a hole at the top of the device. Put it all in.

This is a 'machine factory' made by Lin, but this is only a small one. It will slowly increase in size so that it can better produce machinery.

And when needed, it can be quickly transformed and modified into a large number of small machines to leave this location and go to other locations.

Lin has now used it to create a lot of troops, most of which are spider machines about half a meter in size. Lin believes that the form of this multi-legged creature is indeed quite suitable for moving in various environments.

However, Lin has not used them to fight, but only used them to observe...observing various creatures here.

Using the entrance to the room, Lin distributed multiple spider machines throughout the battleship, and thus saw many creatures, including mutant residents and pseudo-gelatinous creatures.

There are indeed a lot of them, and there is a special place. Lin also discovered that there are... many connections between the mutant residents.

They are like creatures in an ecological group.

First of all, the most common ones are bloat monsters. They are the most common type of mutated residents. They are all mutated from creatures with soft bodies. Swollen monsters have no attack power. All they can do is float around. Swollen monsters also like it. Eat gelatinous creatures, but their size makes it difficult for them to catch any prey.

Only in the water can there be those immobile seedling-like pseudo-gels. Elsewhere, they can fly very fast like meat balls, and the water is exactly where the swelling monsters will not go, but this does not mean that they Food is never found. The Swelling Monster will still feed on the various corpses floating here, as well as the remaining food, especially the food sold in food stores, which is what the Swelling Monster likes very much.

Then there are the regular mutant residents. They have different shapes and are very similar to before the mutation, but they are larger than before the mutation, and occasionally they have some special abilities.

For example, the one I encountered before can secrete mucus, but most of them don't seem to have special abilities.

Just like that stink bug, it just becomes more powerful.

Of course, they don't have the original intelligence, but because their speed and strength are much faster than before, they can adapt to life here.

As for these mutated residents, their initial food was not gelatin-like creatures, but... swelling monsters.

Because their mutation requires a lot of energy, they need a lot of food, so their best targets are all kinds of prepared food, and... swelling monsters.

If there is no food around them, these mutant residents will eat the bloat.

Although they look disgusting to these residents. But the mutation will cause them to feel less disgusting. The swelling monsters will produce a gas in their bodies. Lin's research found that this gas will 'stimulate' the mutations in their bodies.

This gas will smell good to the mutated residents, make the cells in their bodies more energetic, and speed up their mutation rate, allowing them to mutate into larger forms faster.

Last time Lin saw that the centipede-shaped mutated creature didn't eat the bloated monster, the main reason was that it was full, but it still stored a lot of bloated monsters as 'spare'.

In fact, the main function of these swollen monsters is... to feed other creatures.

The swelling monster was the first to mutate. Moreover, their mutation consumes very little energy. Basically, a healthy resident can easily... mutate into it.

This kind of mutation is obviously very purposeful, not random. It mainly mutates a batch of swollen monsters for other creatures to eat.

The weak form of the swelling monster. It is easy to be captured by other mutants, and then under the 'nourishment' of the swelling monster, the first batch of mutant creatures grow up.

If it weren't for the Swelling Monster, it would be difficult for the original mutants to catch the pseudo-gelatinous creatures running around. Even those in the water would be decomposed by the seedlings before they mutated instead of eating the seedlings. Residents before the mutation would be poisoned by the seedlings, but after the mutation, they were no longer afraid of it.

The culprit of mutating the residents, the water ball, purposefully allowed these creatures to grow up and then deal with the pseudo-gelatinous creatures.

These mutated residents are now everywhere, and they are widely distributed, and if the pseudo-gelatinous organisms do not fight back, they may indeed be stopped by them.

If Lin doesn't stop it, the only creature that may affect the outcome of this... battle is the cub of the Void Bus.

Lin had seen it a few times before. It would also attack gelatinous creatures, but it would not eat them. Its main target was mutated residents.

Moreover, mutant residents are easier to catch, and they may eat a large number of mutant residents, causing the "mutant force" to become weaker and weaker.

However, Lin discovered that these were not the only mutant residents.

Many of them mutate to a certain extent and will no longer mutate, but some residents will continue to mutate.

The direction of their mutation is simple, that is, bigger...stronger.

Lin now noticed that a mutant creature had grown to a size of more than ten meters. It was originally a two-meter creature, but now it was much larger than before.

There are also some creatures that started living in groups.

Normally, mutant residents would yell at each other when they meet each other, driving other creatures out of their territory, but... now some creatures choose to live together instead of yelling at each other.

These mutated residents can hunt together, and the efficiency is much higher than before. They are all composed of different creatures, but they can work together well to fight...

Lin felt that they would continue to become stronger and stronger, and maybe when there were enough of them or they were big enough, they would be able to defeat the cub.

Therefore, if Lin wants to go to the place where the pseudo-gelatinous creatures are, she must stop these mutated residents.

However, Lin thought it would be better to capture the cub first, because Lin's troops were almost in number and should be able to capture the cub from the Void Bus.

Then... find out what happened with the previous assassination. (To be continued.)