It’s been a long time.
Lin Qingliu easily figured out who the guy opposite him was, or who the consciousness in this temporary body was.
This is exactly the mycelial will that fought against itself in the biofield space of all surrounding life forms when the infection incident broke out in the outer city area.
He had the advantage of being at home, and with the blood rain falling, he successfully defeated the opponent's will that had infiltrated into Hope City through the biological field.
Half a year later, at this moment, these two guys who perhaps cannot even be called human beings meet again under such circumstances.
Before this, the two sides had never actually met each other, but only recognized each other's existence through the biofield.
"It's amazing that you would come out and come to our world."
The body made of insects began to speak more fluently, its adaptability far exceeding that of humans, and its tone was like a mixture of the voices of several super-powered people just now.
Lin Qingliu snorted disdainfully:
"You can let your clones enter Hope City, why can't I come out?"
The tone of the shell on the other side fluctuated slightly:
"That part of 'us' was indeed cleared out by you. No wonder all the biofields disappeared in an instant without leaving any trace.
"But there is still a difference between you and us. We can feel it. This is your true self. You are very bold."
Lin Qingliu nodded and did not intend to hide this fact:
"How dare you? Do you think you can kill me here?"
"Of course not. You and we both know that no one can be the winner now."
The body made of insects seemed to be imitating Lin Qingliu in front of it. The originally blank face gradually began to show edges and corners, and the facial features had begun to take shape.
"Our power cannot be as concentrated as yours, and your power cannot cover the entire continent. You cannot wipe out all of us."
Lin Qingliu did not object to the facts stated by the Mycelium Will. He thought that this was also the reason why the other party took the initiative to communicate with him instead of directly attacking him.
Whether on the physical or spiritual level, he and the mycelium will now represent two extremes.
On one side, it is extremely concentrated, with power from multiple paths converging on one person; on the other side, it is extremely dispersed, to the point that every mycelium is extremely fragile, but can never be completely eliminated.
"You are talking so much nonsense. If you want to fight, fight. If you want to talk, talk. Talking about these nonsense here does not seem like your intelligence should be used."
Lin Qingliu, who was floating in the air, showed impatience. The humanoid body opposite him was becoming more and more like a human. Just now, the hands that were originally as hard as wood even had gaps between the fingers.
Lin Qingliu hated this kind of clumsy imitation behavior. Combined with his understanding of the previous experiences of Wang Xiao, Fresnel and others, he could clearly perceive that imitation and learning seemed to be an instinct of mycelium. Of course, this was also one of the instincts of most intelligent creatures.
"It is you who disturbed 'our' research and destroyed our..."
The body paused as if searching for a matching word in the vocabulary:
"laboratory."
Lin Qingliu shook his head:
"This may not matter to you, after all, you will decompose the corpses of your own kind, and alien beasts will devour each other, but for humans, this is an insult."
"It can be seen that this is also one of the special features of the concept of 'human beings'."
The shell seemed to have really become a human being, a researcher, and the tone of his speech became much more serious:
“When we assimilate these humans, we always encounter resistance at the level of will. The reasons why they are unwilling to assimilate with us are similar to what you said.
"We have no way of understanding it, perhaps because we are a higher level of life."
Before Lin Qingliu could refute, the body continued:
"You have no way of defeating 'us' because although your strength is concentrated, it has not reached its limit.
"If you rely on your own uniqueness to assimilate all the humans in that city and lead them with your will, then..."
"Then what's the difference between me and you?"
Lin Qingliu interrupted the body's speech:
"Don't discuss such stupid issues with me in the future. I'm not interested in talking about it, and you don't deserve to hear it.
“Perhaps you still have plans to cooperate with me, but it has been impossible since you killed the first human, so I rejected it as well.
"You even copied and stole your ability to think from humans. I don't know how you can call yourself a high-level life form.
"Next, I want to see to what extent your advanced life form has expanded. If you feel offended, you can try to kill me."
The humanoid body was not provoked at all, and perhaps "He" did not have such emotions.
In response to Lin Qingliu's words that sounded like a declaration of war, He simply nodded:
"Then, there will be an unprecedented wave of beasts attacking your city."
Lin Qingliu was not moved at all:
"Then let's see who is faster!"
The next moment, a black shadow jumped to Lin Qingliu's side, and then the whole space seemed to be distorted in an instant, and everything disappeared on the spot, leaving only a body that was exactly the same as a human except for the color standing there.
At this moment, the face of the body began to twist and twitch rapidly, like the moment of cell division.
A few seconds later, He who had split up ended stared blankly at the place where Lin Qingliu disappeared. His mouth opened, and the chirping of insects condensed into a human voice that was indistinguishable between male and female:
"He's gone."
Another face appeared on the right side of the shell's head. A crack suddenly appeared at the mouth, and another voice said:
"Protecting 'our' brains."
At the same time, a crack was formed on the left side of the head, where the third face was located:
“I’m already doing it.”
A slightly smaller face now appeared at the back of the head:
“Wow~”
No one paid attention to this unclear voice. After a while, the face in the front said:
"He doesn't want to cooperate with us. The plan is going to fail again."
"He can't understand the existence of higher life forms. That's his problem."
“Are we really a higher order of life?”
"As long as we can win, we are."
“Wow~”
Countless cracks on the twisted and gnarled tree trunks emit faint light.
One by one, green or blue translucent cocoons began to grow at an unimaginable speed.
The speed at which these biological cocoons expanded seemed to have reached a limit. With the expansion of each cocoon, the trees that condensed them became withered.
In the forest at dawn, countless tiny lights illuminated the ground covered by thick fog, and humans were about to face the shortest beast tide.
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