Chapter 188

"In my hometown, there is a moth that lays eggs on the grass in summer and feeds on grass leaves after hatching. After summer, the larvae will burrow underground and feed on grass seeds."

"At the same time, there is a kind of fungus in my hometown. Its spores are not digested after being eaten by moth larvae, and the fungal spores will feed on the nutrients in the larvae's body, and will also germinate hyphae, gradually occupying the body of the insect. Under the control of mycelium, it will continue to crawl towards the ground. When the worm is about to drill to the surface, the mycelium of this fungus just occupies the whole body of the worm, and at this time the worm also dies. When the next spring, the fungus germinates Breaking out of the soil, until it is mature, it begins to spread spores, and if these spores are eaten by moth larvae within a certain period of time, they can grow, and if they are not eaten, they will die."

Chen Fang doesn't know much about fungi, so he can only give an example, and this example is because he suffered from athlete's foot when he was in Blue Star. He went to Baidu after seeing the advertisement, and by the way, he also learned about the Cordyceps sinensis that is related to fungi. The cause of such a traditional Chinese medicine.

"Just now you also saw that the fluff and wings of the plague mother are made of filaments. In fact, I think it's more than that. If you get closer, you should be able to see that it is basically made of these filaments. It's done."

"That's the main reason for my judgment."

"You also said before that you can fly before you are locked in a cave, but you can't fly after you are locked in. Why is that?"

"I think it's because after being locked in the cave, the damp environment intensified the growth of fungus, and the plague mother was swallowed up."

"After the plague mother is devoured, it becomes a fungus in the shape of an oil-control plague mother."

Regarding why fungi maintain the appearance of moths, Chen Fang made a hypothesis based on his experience in reading novels and his imagination.

In the process of the fungus devouring the moth, because the mycelium will pierce all parts of the moth's body and prolong its growth, the fungus will eventually grow into a moth, and also form a growth memory. Once it is attacked and severed " Limbs", it will emit spores, trying to find a suitable host to reproduce, because no one is close, these spores will grow rapidly on the ground, the mycelium is connected with the "broken parts", and then automatically combined into the shape of a poisonous moth. The reason why simply beheading can't kill you.

"Fungi are immobile, just like ordinary plants."

"Its behavior of spreading the poisonous mist is actually spreading its spores, and when the spores are parasitic animals, they will grow very quickly."

"People who come into contact with the poisonous mist will become zombies. This is actually parasitized by spores. After a while, they will fall down and die. In fact, mycelium has swallowed all the flesh and blood, and they cannot stand without the support of bones. What's underneath is just a façade made entirely of mycelium."

Chen Fang talked eloquently, which made the big guys startled.

"I've been guarding the seal here, so I quite agree with what you said, but what does this have to do with not being able to really kill the plague mother?" A gentle-looking middle-aged man suddenly said. Man's father, Jimo Musheng.

Chen Fanghan took a moment. In fact, he said so much without mentioning the main point. He just wanted to show off. Now someone is "annoyed", so he has to talk about the main point.

"Ahem, actually, what I mean is that the reason why your ancestors failed to kill this plague mother was because they mispositioned it and killed it as an animal, so of course they couldn't be killed."

"The spores of fungi are like the seeds of plants. If you just kill the fungus, it's useless. The seeds are still there. If there is water or caves here, rich in various inorganic salts, the spores can still grow again. This is the wrong environment."

If the introduction was not a cave, but an extreme environment such as a volcano, the fungus would have died long ago.

"If you cut the grass but don't remove the root, it will grow again when the spring breeze blows, even if you kill it for another thousand years."

"Then what should we do?" Jimo Musheng asked.

"Just burn it with fire," Chen Fang said.

"Impossible, I tried this method and it didn't work, boy, don't talk nonsense if you don't understand." Wenren Duanyang sneered. He saw Chen Fang taking advantage of his daughter before, but now he doesn't like Chen Fang.

"That's right, Chen Fang, I told you before that my ancestors burned before, but they would still come back to life after a while." Jimo looked at Chen Fang puzzled, seeing how wise he was speaking before, why? Would be so mentally handicapped on this issue.

"That's because the burning wasn't thorough enough," Chen Fang added.

"What do you mean?" Wen Renzhong asked.

"I mentioned the reason of the environment before, do you see that the ground inside the seal has a lot of wet, uneven, small pits?" Chen Fang pointed to the pitted ground with countless small puddles under the plague poisonous insect in the seal explain.

"If the burning is not complete, just leave a little bacteria or spores in the small pit, as long as it is filled with water, plus the residue and ash covering it, the fungus will grow again after a period of time, and then form a new plague Worm mother, this new plague mother should shrink in size, after all, it doesn't have much nutrients." Chen Fang explained.

"So if you want to burn it thoroughly, it is best if the fire lasts for three days and three nights."

In fact, it doesn't take three days and three nights, Chen Fang said this just to be on the safe side.

Chen Fang's words made everyone fall into silence. If the plague mother can be completely wiped out as Chen Fang said, they can get away from it, but who can guarantee that what Chen Fang said is true? After all, he was just guessing.

However, Chen Fang's guess is well-founded, it's very similar to that, and someone's heart is moved.

"Father, why don't you try it? If it's what he said, we won't have to work so hard in the future." Wenren Duanyang said, although he is not happy with Chen Fang now, but he thinks what Chen Fang said is quite reasonable.

"..."

Wen Renzhong was silent, he had heard what Chen Fang said, and thought it made sense to try, but if he wanted to set fire to the plague worm mother, because of the large seal space, he could only let people go in to operate it, but once the plague The worm mother will release poisonous mist when attacked, which is mortal, so he is hesitating.

"Okay, just as he said, burn it once and see, and let me go to the person who set the fire."

Just when Wen Renzhong was hesitating, an old man with white hair and a solemn expression came over. He was Wen Ren's grandfather, Jimo Xinde.

Now that the seal has stabilized, other people also left the metal pillar and gathered around Chen Fang.

"Father, let me do it." Jimo Musheng stopped him, he knew what would happen after entering the seal, but he would not watch his father die.

"Let me do it." Jimo's expression was calm and his eyes were firm. Although she was a girl, she was not afraid of life and death.

"No, I'm coming. Don't fight me. It's just a poisonous mist. I can resist it with my physique." Jimo said.

His statement is completely untenable. Many of the people who entered the seal in the two family documents are more than a little stronger than him. They can't resist them. How can he be an exception.

"Let me do it, you are still young." Jimo Xinde shook his head and said.

However, his words did not stop the people present from the two companies from recommending themselves, on the contrary, they became more intense.

Chen Fang felt a little embarrassed when he saw that everyone except him was eager to participate in the scene. Although he was not from any of the two families, there were more than a dozen people who indicated that they could die. He was the only one who did not. It seems too cowardly.

So Chen Fangbao shouted "Quiet", and then, under the puzzled eyes of everyone, put on a look of death and said a word.

"Actually, I can go in too."

Of course, Chen Fang would say this because he was sure to get out of it completely.

But no one paid any attention to him, and everyone turned around and continued to argue about who would go in.

Seeing that no one paid attention to him, Chen Fang had no choice but to walk over, squeezed into the crowd next to Jimo and stood in the middle.

"Boy, I admire your courage, and I appreciate your kindness, but this is a matter of Jimo Wenren's family, and it will kill people, so you don't want to participate." Wen Renzhong said.

"Uh, actually it doesn't matter if I go in or not." Chen Fang scratched his bald head.

"Then why are you sticking around? Are you a monkey for us to watch? I don't know if we don't have time now." Jimo Duanyang said loudly.

As your sister's monkey, Chen Fangbai took a look at Wenren Duanyang, and said directly: "Actually, as long as you protect your whole body and don't get the spore mist on your body, you won't die if you go in."

"Didn't I say it before, even full-body protection is still useless." Wenren Duanyang looked at Chen Fang's face and felt unhappy. When he thought of Chen Fang standing behind his daughter wearing glasses before, he became angry.

If this kid is one meter closer to my daughter in the future, I will chop him with my five-meter machete, Wenren Duanyang thought bitterly.

"The full-body protection I'm talking about is to find a piece of clothing that can completely isolate the outside world without any gaps, and then go in after wearing it."

"The poisonous mist is spores, as long as the spores are not allowed to fall on people, it will be fine." Chen Fang explained.

"Um, that makes sense, but where can I find this kind of clothes?" Jimo Xinde said, and everyone fell into deep thought.

Of course everyone is happy to be able to survive, but where to find this kind of clothes is a big problem.

"Let's break up first, I'll figure out a solution for this matter." Wen Renzhong said when everyone was at a loss.

"Boy, if you can really use your method to completely wipe out the plague mother this time, our family owes you a favor." Wen Renzhong said to Chen Fang, and Jimo Xinde nodded in agreement.

"For trivial matters, we don't need favors, just give some gold coins or something." Chen Fang said.

How much is a favor worth? It's better to have some gold coins.