The strange beasts that were created purely for the purpose of purifying biomass have no ability to think.
It would be better to say that in order to save nutrients, Kloto was even unwilling to give them brains.
Inside that small skull is just the brain stem structure that can maintain basic reflexes, the cerebellum that allows this zombie to move, and something the size of a peanut that can barely be called a "brain."
Under the manipulation of the mycelium will Kloto, these new lives began to use their slender mouthparts to ingest the gray-black substance at the bottom of the giant pit.
As they suck vigorously, the biomass rises along their mouthparts and begins to erode the surrounding mucous membrane tissue along the way, infiltrating toxicity bit by bit.
However, the mouthparts and digestive system of these strange beasts have also been specially strengthened, so they can resist the toxic erosion for a period of time without dying immediately.
As the biomass was absorbed bit by bit, the bodies of these strange beasts began to swell like inflated balloons.
Their bellies pressed against the ground, and the snake-like scales on them stretched out with the sound of friction. The grooves and protrusions on the edges of the countless scales were firmly locked under the pressure inside the bodies of the strange beasts, forming an extremely tight self-locking mechanism.
The more biomass the strange beast ingests, the tighter the shell composed of this simple mechanical structure becomes, preventing possible splashing accidents if the skin is damaged somewhere.
Of course, the strange beasts did not understand these principles. Their limbs gradually lost their fulcrums, and their entire bodies were rapidly moving towards the direction of the ball. They no longer had the ability to move, and of course, they did not need the ability to move.
Two minutes later, the stomachs of these strange beasts had completely reached their limit. Due to the resistance provided by the skin, they could no longer continue to ingest the biomass, and because of excessive intake, their bodies began to instinctively vomit.
But how could Kroto not think of this problem?
When the strange beasts reached their limit, a piece of cartilage in their necks, pushed by muscle tissue, completely blocked their esophagus.
This is a simple one-way valve structure, so simple that it can be found in pressure wells and pneumatic tires.
The biomass ingested by the alien beast's mouthparts can still enter the stomach through the pressure generated by the swallowing action, but vomiting and stomach contraction cannot expel these biomass unless the pressure in the stomach is great enough to directly break through the obstruction of cartilage and muscle.
But this is obviously impossible, because just when the pressure is about to reach its limit——
The strange beast died from the poison.
This is the power of Clotho. After acquiring a sufficient gene pool, he can create the species he envisions like a creator.
Although these creatures have some problems with gender and reproduction, Kroto never fails in other aspects.
The hundreds of strange beasts have died, and before they died, their heads that were so small that they could be ignored had completely lost the meaning of their existence.
The neck, head, and limbs began to shrink rapidly some time before death, and the corpse that was left in the end was an elastic spherical object filled with unknown biomass, wrapped in layers of skin and scales.
Cloto observed everything in his experimental field through the gaps in the giant trees and the eyes of strange beasts.
The first batch of strange beasts have all died, and the second step of the experiment has begun.
Several hyphae spread rapidly on the ground. They soon gathered together and the tips hardened into hollow structures like injection needles.
The living needle came to a spherical object, searched for a while, and then pierced into the weak point of the spherical object through the gap in the armor.
The large amount of biomass intake has already made this ball-shaped object have the meaning of "thin skin and large filling".
However, the restraint provided by the skin and scales prevented the sphere from bursting under the action of the needles.
Under the action of internal pressure, the biomass quickly began to flow along the pipes formed by the mycelium, and Kloto's second phase of the experiment began.
The biomass here is actually no longer the kind of unknown substance that cannot be used. A large part of the toxins that he cannot analyze have been absorbed by the dead beasts, and the rest are real nutrients.
It was supposed to be like this.
But when he saw the giant tree connected to the mycelium change color in just a dozen seconds, Kloto realized his problem.
In the sea of consciousness, He quickly cut off the connection with the giant tree and the mycelium, kicking them out of his own ecosystem.
Immediately afterwards, large areas of mycelium organisms began to wriggle continuously, and the ground seemed to have turned into liquid.
The giant tree, along with its hyphae, was squeezed from all directions and finally fell into the huge pit filled with black matter, disappearing little by little in the sticky, lightless darkness.
Obviously one purification is not enough.
More than a hundred spherical objects were placed on the fungal carpet. Less than an hour later, another group of strange beasts that were slightly different from the previous group came to the vicinity of the giant pit under the guidance of the "mother".
Their mouthparts have been upgraded compared to the previous generation of monsters, and the design on their bodies is not as strong, as if they were an animal produced by natural evolution.
Aiming their sharp mouthparts at the weak points in the scales of the spherical objects, this new batch of strange beasts began to voraciously suck on the remains of their predecessors.
As their bellies were inflated, the original spherical objects began to shrink little by little.
When the last bit of biomass was absorbed into the body of the second-generation alien beast, the fungal carpet on the ground completely released its restrictions, and the corpse of the first-generation alien beast, like a shriveled ball, fell into the darkness below.
Next to the giant pit, the second generation of alien beasts were experiencing the pain of being corroded by toxins.
That being said, as a biological designer who tries to save money wherever possible, Kroto did not give these creatures the right to feel pain.
They could only feel a sense of powerlessness coming from every part of their body, and that feeling dragged their sanity, sliding little by little into the bottomless abyss.
The second generation of alien beasts died.
Kroto began to follow suit, having a giant tree create hollow mycelium to test the poison.
Unfortunately, the toxin content was still above the limit this time. Cloto ignored the faint pleas from a part of his body and pushed the giant tree into Pandora's box, which was both a source of hope and a huge terror.
The third toxic absorption began.
A group of strange beasts that were almost identical to the second group appeared around the giant pit. Like their predecessors, they were born to die and did not need consciousness to exist. Consciousness was meaningless.
Soon they completed the intake again. This was the third time of biological filtration. Cloto observed everything from all directions. While feeling his powerful thinking ability, he was also carefully watching this group of strange beasts.
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