Chapter 2782 Living Towards Death

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Feng Yun couldn't help but feel excited. He subconsciously looked at Mu Qiuxia, only to find that she was also looking at him.

He saw the excitement in her eyes, and it was obvious that she also discovered the powerful corrosive power of the spore powder of the Locust-Eating Mushroom on locusts.

However, the two of them didn't say anything. Even as soon as their eyes touched, they looked away and then looked into the glass box together.

They plan to further observe the performance of the spore powder of the Locust Tree Mushroom.

They all know very well that penetrating the locust's shell is only the first step, and it is still early to kill them.

Due to the excellent performance of locust-eating bacteria and the need to breed them, they have to pay attention to more fungi, which will also allow them to have a deeper understanding of this type of organisms.

According to what they know, some fungi have established symbiotic relationships with other organisms.

They are afraid that the Locust-Eating Tree Mushroom also belongs to this category and has formed a symbiotic relationship with the locusts.

In this way, not only will they not kill the locusts, but they may provide some help to the locusts, which is something they absolutely do not want to see.

Fortunately, what they feared did not happen.

Instead of forming a symbiotic relationship with the locusts, the Locust-Eating Tree Mushroom has shown a powerful destructive power to them, even more severe than the damage caused by the Locust-Eating Fungus to the locusts.

In less than half an hour, they discovered that the locusts parasitized by the Locust-eating Tree Mushroom had turned gray in color and had a significant decrease in vitality, giving the impression that they were sick, and It still feels very heavy.

The situation of some individual locusts is even worse, and their bodies have become shriveled up.

Neither Feng Yun nor Mu Qiuxia intervened, but continued to observe, and then they discovered that the locust's shriveled body was not the worst situation.

Over time, all locusts get to this point and then get worse, with legs and even wings starting to fall off.

This was not over yet, soon the locusts' bodies began to rupture, and their carapace and skin began to fall off.

Eventually the entire body completely collapsed and turned into something resembling an empty shell.

No, the body of the locust is not empty. On the contrary, there are quite a lot of things inside, but they are not locusts, but the mycelium of the locust tree mushroom.

The Locust-Eating Tree Mushroom demonstrated the entire process of killing the locusts in front of Fengyun and Mu Qiuxia, which took less than two hours.

The most important thing is that all the locusts in the glass box died and no one was spared.

After the last locust died, Feng Yun and Mu Qiuxia couldn't help but look at each other, and then they both saw a hint of panic in each other's eyes.

They were all a little frightened by the ferocity of the Locust Tree Mushroom.

Although they had seen strong winds and waves, they never expected that a fungus could have such powerful destructive power.

Compared with it, the Locust-Eating Bacteria is a species that has been selected and strengthened by them, and it is not on the same level as it.

The two of them were still very responsible, and soon turned their attention to the glass box again, continuing to observe the subsequent performance of the Locust Tree Mushroom.

Based on their understanding of fungi, they are not finished after killing their host, they will continue to develop.

However, to sum up, there are generally two categories. One is to continue to grow, and the other is to enter a reproductive state and release spore powder to the outside for wider spread.

They hope that the locust-eating mushroom that killed the locusts belongs to the second type.

Although their killing power is much more powerful than that of locust-eating bacteria, and even the varieties bred and strengthened by Fengyun and Mu Qiuxia cannot be compared, this does not mean that they are perfect. On the contrary, they have problems. Yes, and it’s still a big problem.

Even its creator Mu Qiuxia's original intention was to hope that it could help her eliminate the locust army.

To do this, simply spreading your own spore powder is not enough.

She needs it to germinate and grow from the state of spore powder, so that it can produce spore powder by itself, continue to multiply, and continue to infect more locusts. Otherwise, it will be impossible to eliminate the numerical advantage of the locust army. If she wants to give them all It becomes even more impossible if it is eliminated.

Based on this, it is not a good thing that the Locust-Eating Tree Mushroom killed the locusts in such a short period of time.

If they are still unable to reproduce after killing their hosts, that is, the locusts, Feng Yun and Mu Qiuxia can only choose to abandon them, because they cannot help them achieve their goals at all.

On the other hand, if they can reproduce immediately after killing the locusts, their powerful killing power against locusts will be an advantage, allowing them to kill a large number of locusts in a short period of time.

In view of this, Fengyun and Mu Qiuxia naturally hope that they will transform into this form.

However, many times, thinking is one thing, but reality is often another thing. It is not uncommon for the opposite to occur.

This time Feng Yun and Mu Qiuxia were not lucky enough.

After killing the locusts, the Locust-Eating Tree Mushroom did not enter the reproductive state, but continued to grow, which disappointed them.

It's just that they didn't look away so quickly, but continued to pay attention to them. After all, they had learned from past mistakes, and they almost missed it not long ago.

This time they decided to be more patient and watch their growth process.

The result is that they are robbing the locust carcasses, trying to squeeze enough nutrients from their bodies for them to grow.

But when they kill the locusts, they have almost squeezed them dry. Even if they grab them, there will be no oil and water. It will help their growth very little and have almost no effect.

Not to mention that after killing the host, they have grown to a certain stage, and their demand for nutrients will increase sharply if they want to grow again.

Feng Yun and Mu Qiuxia made the same choice and did not interfere with the larvae of the Locust-eating Mushroom in the glass box.

They wanted to see how they would behave if they were severely deprived of nutrients.

The answer was revealed right before their eyes.

They began to kill each other and obtain the nutrients they needed to grow by devouring the corpses of their own kind.

Feng Yun couldn't help but feel a little dazed as he watched their hyphae stretching like snakes, launching a fatal blow whenever they got the chance.

He felt that what he was seeing now was not a fungus, but a monster, and it was also a bloodthirsty and cruel monster.

However, after the initial shock, Feng Yun quickly regained his composure and continued to watch the performance in the glass box with great interest.

He wanted to know whether there was a strain that devoured all the others of its kind and eventually grew, or whether none of them grew up and all died on the way.

What eventually emerged was the first one, a strain that devoured all the others, but it failed to truly grow.

After it devoured the last of its kind, there was a huge gap in size from the locust-eating mushroom that Fengyun saw Mu Qiuxia cultivated not long ago, not even one-tenth of the latter.

Seeing that the final winner became quiet, he stayed in the middle of the bottom of the box, his roots deep into the soil, as if he wanted to get nutrients from the soil.

Fengyun knew this was impossible.

The soil put into the box has been screened and is very barren. In the natural environment, it is almost the same as a desert without any grass.

Even if the strain that finally survived squeezed out all the nutrients in the soil, it would still not be enough for it to grow, not to mention that this was simply impossible.

To some extent, the winner at this time is already in a desperate situation.

Fengyun is still looking forward to what kind of performance it will have next.

According to his experience, the more extreme the environment, the more intense the performance will be. In this process, it is often the easiest time to have unexpected and unexpected performances.

Fengyun hoped that this strain entrenched in the glass box would bring him some surprises. He had not felt this way for a long time.

After the strain stayed in place for a while, perhaps it realized that it couldn't extract much nutrients from the soil, so it started to move.

Like a human being, it first retracted its stretched roots, and then used them as its own feet to move in the glass box.

After many fruitless searches, it chose the glass box as its target, as if it wanted to break it, get rid of its restrictions, and obtain better growth conditions.

What it did was not wrong, and it was even progressive in a certain sense. Not only was its approach not wrong, it might actually be the only choice.

It just underestimates how strong the glass box is.

Even though its tentacles can easily penetrate the locust's body, it still has no way to get hold of the glass box.

This is actually very normal.

Mu Qiuxia specially found him to customize this box and made many requests.

He also put a lot of thought into it, and it is considered a fine item among the artifacts he refined. Its biggest feature is that it is strong, very strong.

Despite the ferocity of the final winner, there was still no way to defeat it. After repeated attempts, it had to give up and gave up the idea of ​​breaking the glass box to obtain itself.

In fact, it is not true that it cannot come out of the glass box. The breakthrough point is the small hole left by Fengyun on the box.

With its current size, it is not impossible to drill out of these small holes if it works hard.

It's a pity that no matter how supernatural it behaves, it is still just a fungus. Not to mention that it cannot be compared with intelligent creatures like humans, even compared with some things with higher intelligence, it is far inferior.

Therefore, it can only be trapped in a glass box until the end of its life.

Feng Yun looked at it, and finally leaned against the box wall and stayed silent, motionless. He even felt compassion for it and wanted to help it, but he finally held back.

This was a perfect opportunity to observe it, and he didn't want it to be ruined.

In addition, he also has a feeling that it should not sink like this, and it should have other manifestations.

What happened next once again proved that Feng Yun's intuition was very, very accurate.

After a while, the strain really started to move. It first moved to the middle of the box, and its body began to dry up quickly.

Less than an hour had passed, and it had almost completely followed the footsteps of those of the same kind he had killed, and became shriveled up.

Compared with when it was at its strongest, its size was less than half, and the trend of shrinkage did not stop because of this, but instead accelerated.

When its size shrank to one-third, Feng Yun couldn't help but hesitate a little whether to intervene.

If this continues, it will really die.

For a moment, he was a little undecided and subconsciously looked at Mu Qiuxia, as if he wanted to get some suggestions from her.

He did get the proposal from her, and it was a very obvious hint.

When she saw him looking towards her, she seemed to have guessed what he was thinking, and immediately shook her head at him.

Without even thinking about it, Fengyun decided to follow Mu Qiuxia's instructions. After all, she was more professional than him.

She was right, at least it wouldn't cause too big a problem.

This is also the case.

When the strain shrunk to one-fifth of its original size, a hole suddenly opened in its body, and then the hole quickly grew in size, almost splitting it in two.

At the same time, something smoke-like escaped from its wound.

"It's spore powder."

He recognized them almost at a glance, and he also recognized that they were almost identical to the spore powder he collected from the adult Locust Tree Mushroom.

"Spore powder can actually be produced in this way?"

Fengyun couldn't help showing surprise when he saw that the Locust-Eating Tree Mushroom trapped in the glass box was actually producing spore powder in this way.

He really didn't expect it.

But after the initial surprise, he soon became happy again.

This is enough to prove that the Locust-eating Tree Mushroom has the ability to infect locusts on a large scale. If used properly, it can even become a major help in eliminating the locust army.

After just a moment's thought, Feng Yun ingested the spore powder from the glass box, gathered it into a ball, and handed it to Mu Qiuxia's hands.

"Yun, don't worry. Get ready right away."

As soon as Mu Qiuxia got the spore powder, she immediately understood what Feng Yun meant.

He asked her to continue testing with them. The most important thing was to test whether the spore powders were active enough, and then confirm whether they were still lethal to locusts.

Not long after, she came to Feng Yun and told him that he was almost ready, but now she was missing him.

Feng Yun followed her and soon saw a very familiar scene: a large glass box with a thin layer of soil at the bottom and many locust eggs lying on it.

There were also gusts of wind swirling in the box, just in the form of smoke.