The silvery-white electric snakes illuminated the sky above the forest like daylight. The deafening roar echoed for more than ten kilometers. The rage pouring down from the sky could be vaguely felt in the direction of Hope City.
The heavy rain made the already slippery and soft ground become one piece. Countless tiny electric snakes moved along the hyphae between the hibernation capsules, using their own heat to kill the hyphae while also giving those brains the final dignity.
At the moment the lightning struck, Lin Qingliu released his ability of the [Time] channel, leaving the hyphae helplessly feeling the main brain being wantonly destroyed.
The number of hibernation capsules here is only one-fourth or one-fifth of the total number. Lin Qingliu knows that after today's lesson, the mycelium will inevitably hide other matrices deeper, but at this moment, they must pay the price for everything they have done to mankind.
The roaring thunder and lightning seemed to have thrown some of the hyphae into disorder. The tree branches that had originally used optical camouflage to quickly change color to hide themselves began to twitch and change colors randomly like squids that had been chopped.
The earth began to surge, and the plants continued to cycle through withering and blooming, as if they were trapped in the River of Oblivion between life and death.
Amidst the countless strange or beautiful scenes, there seemed to be a huge whimper of pain.
After just a few minutes, the dark clouds dispersed and the sun once again shone on the earth.
But the place was no longer as orderly as it was before Lin Qingliu's visit.
The entire land was covered by an intricate network of charred vine-like substances. It was a completely dead mycelium network, and the nearly one thousand hibernation pods underneath it were completely destroyed.
Hundreds of fires were burning fiercely, and countless trees were dancing strangely in the flames.
With this as the center, the area within dozens of kilometers fell into a strange silence, as if it could not receive any commands after its head was cut off.
In the forest of strange beasts, the eardrum-piercing screams are constantly echoing.
That body made of insects and that childish face at the back of the head are turning up the volume to the maximum like a real baby.
With every roar and every scream, dozens or hundreds of insects died because they were unable to maintain this chirping state.
However, more insects will fill the positions of their dead companions more quickly, and continue to output high-frequency sound waves that can really kill people.
The sound waves passed through countless trees, causing the cocoons of the strange beasts that were hit to die instantly and turn into a horrible gray and rotten color.
There were also many strange beasts that had just hatched successfully, but they fell down inexplicably on the spot without even having the chance to drink a drop of nutrient solution produced by the plants.
Their bodies were not wasted; the mycelium extending from beneath the ground quickly wrapped them into another form of cocoon.
Bubbles produced by rapid decay and digestion are released from the gaps in the mycelium, and the whole scene is weird and disgusting.
This is the anger of the mycelium will, but it is just impotent rage. The sound is still fading away little by little, like the ebb tide at the sea, one wave lower than the other.
The face also began to shrink gradually, and finally disappeared completely like a withered flower.
The other three human-like faces seemed accustomed to this, and they quickly began to move, from an area of 90 degrees per person to a 120-degree area, standing on the ground like mythical creatures with three heads and six arms.
"We were slower than him and we lost."
A face said.
"The beast tide has begun to gather. It's not too early for us to lose."
The other face refuted without any change in tone.
"That's it. Once this matter is over, we will proceed with a new splitting process."
The last face said:
"It's just a pity, we thought it was almost integrated into success."
"First attack humans."
"What about the individual just now?"
"Don't worry about him. He will definitely defend himself if humans are attacked. There is no point in destroying our bodies here."
"How long will it take for the carrier to be gestated?"
"Three minutes."
As soon as the words fell, the body made of insects suddenly collapsed, and the majestic biological field that gathered from all directions dissipated.
The insects seemed to have encountered great fear and began to flee in all directions, but they failed to achieve their goal.
In a mycelial ecosystem, no energy should be wasted.
Dense hyphae entangled their feet and climbed up to the connection between their head, chest and abdomen, tightening and cutting off bit by bit.
With the sound of shells breaking, these temporarily created insects were completely recycled.
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The ground at the matrix began to surge again, but this time, both the scope and intensity were beyond the reach of Quicksand and his copied abilities.
The originally docile ground revealed its hideous side at this moment, like a hungry beast devouring the charred hibernation pods.
The ground cracked, allowing the man-made objects to fall into gaps dozens of meters deep, and then suddenly closed to crush them completely, leaving no possibility for the mycelium to be recovered.
The reason why the gap was not opened lower was because Lin Qingliu knew that when it reached a depth of 100 meters, the crust of this somewhat weird planet would turn into a bizarre substance like normal temperature magma.
Ji Yongxing hasn't figured out that thing yet, and he can't think of how to use it for the time being.
Looking at the deep forest below where demons were raging, Lin Qingliu was unable to match it with anything he had seen in his dream.
Not to mention the problem of plants, these plants are most likely grown after the mycelium obtains the biological gene bank and assimilates and grows, so they have the style of my hometown but also have a gray or purple evil feeling.
Compared to this creature whose origin could be guessed, Lin Qingliu was more concerned about where the huge ring-shaped spaceship, which was hundreds of meters high and had a radius of several kilometers, had gone at this moment.
The hull of the spacecraft and most of the partitions and spires are obviously made of the same material. Even if the mycelium is an ultimate organism, it is unlikely to obtain the energy required for its own growth from devouring metal materials.
So, where did my huge spaceship go?
Lin Qingliu was puzzled. Even though most of the things in it had been moved away by the mycelium, he always felt that there must be some useful things left.
The bloodline belonging to the Junk King is awakening, but there is no one to recover it, which makes Lin Qingliu feel a little lost.
At this moment, waves came from the gray fog in the distance. It was in the opposite direction of Hope City, even farther away than the Monster Forest and Matrix Square.
Even though he couldn't see anything unusual, Lin Qingliu could still sense a slight change through the fluctuations in the biofield.
Something appeared over there, constantly absorbing nutrients like a newborn embryo, expanding its own biofield, as if it was about to come into this world.
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