Chapter 2793 Concept

"More... nutrients."

“It must be made.”

This is a...complex underground environment.

Here... there are a lot of fungus-like creatures everywhere.

The ground was covered with mycelium-like thread structures, which continued to extend deep into the underground and into every room.

These organisms look very fungal, but their origins are not so fungal.

Lin has been using a large number of troops to search the entire underground environment, mainly to find the consciousness of the collective of faith.

And Lin finally found...the creature affected by the collective.

This creature is also the source of these fungus-like organisms underground, so Lin decided to call them "fungus bricks".

Because they are ten-meter-tall creatures in the shape of bricks.

Their outer shells can resist various dangerous substances in the void and protect the cells inside.

At the same time, Lin also discovered that their brain cells were in a dispersed state, which was somewhat like the creator. Whenever they thought, these brain cells would gather together and issue commands to the body, and then disperse again.

What is usually done is just to produce a large amount of mycelium.

What's more interesting is that... the 'bacteria bricks' themselves are cellular organisms, but the 'silk threads' they create do not contain any cells.

In fact, the life form of the fungi that cover this place is more similar to the "blood worms" mentioned above, and is completely different from cellular organisms.

Simply put, a cellular organism produces a non-cellular organism in the body.

There is a set of organs inside the fungus bricks that specialize in synthesizing silk threads. The silk threads produced will extend from around their bodies. This is why this place is covered with a large number of these fungus-like silk threads.

The outstretched threads collect a variety of substances, including nutrients for the fungus bricks and materials used to make the threads.

It's interesting that their cells can rapidly synthesize this life form that is completely alien to themselves, namely silk thread.

This is how mushroom bricks survive, and their lifestyle is similar to that of plants.

However, mushroom bricks have not always been like this.

After Lin examined their thoughts, she found that they did this mainly to... eliminate the influence of unity.

Lin tested the brain cells of a fungus brick. Although the memories inside were vague, she could generally know that they were originally one of the residents of this place.

They live deep underground and rarely move around, so it is impossible to detect the details of their lives.

To be precise, they have lost most of their memories.

However, it still has a relatively clear memory that they were all affected by unity at some point.

The fungus bricks began to worship unity madly, just like other individual creatures.

However, they were not worshiped to the end because they had the ability to make silk threads.

The ability of fungus bricks to create silk threads has many other effects, one of which is... 'brainwashing'.

This 'brainwashing' means...cleaning the brain.

The fungus bricks will produce a large amount of silk threads every once in a while. During the production process, their brain cells will wander around the manufacturing organs and put a large amount of waste produced in the brain cells into the silk threads.

Simply put, this silk thread actually has the function of excretion.

But there are also some side effects. Every time the fungus bricks produce silk threads, their thinking, personality and many other things related to the brain will be reshaped.

In other words... they originally worshipped unity very fanatically, but after creating the silk threads, the fanatical feeling of worship... disappeared.

Although the memory of their past worship will not change, their values ​​will be reshaped...they will rethink the issue of unified worship.

Then slowly the fungus bricks will have new values ​​and act according to the newly formed ideas... until the next time silk thread is produced.

Every time a batch of silk threads is produced... or discharged, the fungus brick will be in a very rational state.

During this period of time, they can look at everything completely from the perspective of pros and cons, without any "emotional factors" involved.

Therefore, fungus bricks as organisms cannot form any religion because their concepts are constantly being rewashed.

Even the most devout and fanatical believers will immediately doubt the meaning of their past fanaticism after releasing the silk thread.

Even the influence of unity cannot disturb them.

Then... they don't know how they became like this.

In addition to carrying away waste from brain cells and helping them reshape their ideas, the silk threads they emit can also continuously absorb various nutrients after extending outward.

Generally speaking, after absorbing a certain amount of nutrients, these silk threads will become discarded and automatically disconnect from their bodies.

Then they continue to produce new threads.

This is how they used to be when they were still living normally.

Today's mushroom bricks are constantly producing silk threads.

As long as a little bit of nutrients is collected, it will be immediately used to make silk thread, and no matter how long it is, it will not break.

Hence the scene we see now.

As for their thinking... they have always been in a 'confused' state.

They hardly think about anything, and even if they do, they immediately decide to make more silk.

From their memories, it can be seen that they are among the most intelligent residents in this giant bridge.

There is no record in my memory of why they became like this.

However, because the silk threads can collect nutrients completely 'automatically', they can survive even if they do nothing.

Lin was also a little surprised about this, that is, this underground space is full of nutrients.

Many nutrients are floating in the channel in the form of tiny fragments, and they will be absorbed as long as they float onto the silk threads.

Lin felt that the nutrients here shouldn't be so abundant, and might have been created by some other creature.

At the same time, Lin also discovered that the consciousness of the collective of faith... was influencing these fungus bricks.

It's just a very interesting situation.

That is, every time a mushroom brick produces some silk threads in its body, the consciousness of the collective will immediately leave it and transfer to the location of another mushroom brick.

But after another mushroom brick produces a thread, it will continue to move.

Therefore, what Lin had felt before, as if this collective consciousness was teleporting everywhere, was caused by this reason.

This is a very interesting situation, so Lin’s plan is to collect all the fungus bricks.

That's how you catch it.

In fact, Lin has almost collected them all now.