"Master, are you okay?"
Fulan looked at Lin Qingliu who was laughing quietly for some reason and felt inexplicably worried.
"It's okay, we'll leave once you finish your business."
Lin Qingliu turned his attention from the sweeping robot's perspective back to the outside of Hope City, planning to wait for Fran to deal with matters within the Holy Fire Meow Meow Cult before taking her to the forest to do some work.
Unexpectedly, after hearing this, Fran shook her head:
"As long as I'm not here, they'll definitely mess things up. There's no rush to deal with those things after we come back."
Lin Qingliu thought for a few seconds and nodded:
"Okay, that's it, we'll set off now."
Leaving behind a group of strange beasts that were free to divide the territory outside the red line, Lin Qingliu and Fulan began their adventure outside the city.
Now is the best time to explore outside the City of Hope. After just repelling a wave of beasts, the forest controlled by mycelium is in a recovery period after being weakened, and there are few exotic beasts to be seen inside.
With the deliberate restraint of the man and the cat, the biofield reactions of the two were suppressed to a very low level.
Lin Qingliu grabbed Fran Fate by the scruff of the neck and began to use Flash to move quickly, and soon arrived near a foggy forest.
They were heading to Lin Qingliu's first destination.
The empty space where thousands of hibernation capsules are sleeping.
Lin Qingliu reached out and touched the gray bark around the forest. Blue-black lines began to appear on his entire arm, as if his entire body was assimilated by the tree.
These lines spread upward little by little to the chin, making his disguise more deceptive.
At this time, in the biological field of these trees, Lin Qingliu and Fulan were undoubtedly their own people.
It was afternoon outside, and Lin Qingliu and Fulan continued to go deeper into the forest. The white fog above was getting thicker, but there was no sign of it descending to block their vision.
Lin Qingliu could clearly feel that there were spores in the surrounding air that were invisible to the naked eye and were floating in the air currents.
He silently activated his ability, causing the spores to completely decay and turn into ashes the moment they came into contact with him.
Lin Qingliu also created a layer of biological protective clothing on Fran's body to prevent his little follower from suddenly rebelling while walking.
After exploring for a while, Fran pointed to the top of a big tree:
"Master, look."
Lin Qingliu looked up and saw a big tree that was much thicker than a normal tree.
The blue-gray bark was covered with spiral wrinkles. In one of the wrinkles about ten meters from the ground, a bubble emitting a faint green light hung there abruptly, as if the tree had been infected by some unknown bacteria.
Lin Qingliu stopped and watched for a while, and with his amazing eyesight he determined that as time went by, the green light of the bubble fluctuated within a very small range of brightness.
Moreover, the bubble was constantly expanding and getting bigger, as if a strange beast was being bred inside it.
And in other gaps of the tree, there were also some green or blue lights flickering, just like the moment when life was born in the mother's womb, but the bubble-like substance had not yet formed.
Although he had seen a similar scene in Fran's dream a long time ago, this somewhat bizarre reproduction method undoubtedly caused a certain shock to Lin Qingliu.
For mycelial life forms, gender seems to be a redundant thing, and may even be on the iteration list of mycelial will.
If a person on Earth were to watch this scene for a few minutes, he or she would be convinced that he or she is not on Earth.
Lin Qingliu's gaze pierced through the translucent membrane that was nurturing the embryo and looked inside. He seemed to see an embryo of a strange beast that was somewhat similar to a hedgehog.
“This is the green cocoon.”
He murmured to himself:
“This description is really apt.”
Fran looked at the green cocoon high up, and seemed to remember herself from who knows how long ago.
After a while she asked:
"Master, do you want to destroy it?"
Lin Qingliu shook his head:
“No hurry.”
If it is a cocoon of a fourth or fifth energy level beast, he will definitely not hesitate to take action.
But the green cocoon monsters were so weak and numerous that if they were to be eliminated one by one, Lin Qingliu’s other plans would probably be ruined.
Lin Qingliu looked at the cocooned tree and asked Xiang Fulan:
"After walking for so long, this tree is the only one that can give birth to strange beasts. Do you think this tree is special?"
Fran thought for a moment and said:
"From my perception, among all the symbiotic systems built by mycelium-related organisms within a certain range, this tree is indeed more advanced and can allow nutrients to flow to itself, just like... just like..."
"Tax collector?"
Fran was stunned for a moment, then nodded vigorously:
"Yes, yes, that's the feeling."
“That is to say, a single large tree cannot breed strange beasts. Whether it is the hyphae existing in a normal form or relying on plants in the forest, they are all the basis for the production of strange beasts.
"Only by spreading the mycelium and the forest can we obtain enough nutrients and produce a beast tide."
As Lin Qingliu spoke, he recalled in his mind the distance between himself and Hope City at this moment.
His current distance from the city wall is not much different from the distance from the outer city wall to the spire, only a few dozen kilometers.
Fran discovered that the neatly stacked hibernation capsules were less than two hundred kilometers away from here.
The rules there were completely different from those in other places in the forest. Although Fran wanted to observe it closely, she had no way to do it without disturbing the will of the mycelium.
Therefore, that area should be considered the core area of the mycelium.
Although this distance is already the limit for the humans in Hope City, it is not far considering the perspective of the entire planet.
There is almost no difference in gravitational acceleration between this planet and our home planet. If the physics knowledge from the previous life is still applicable, we can easily infer the approximate size of this planet.
Although the proportion of ocean and land is still not very clear, Lin Qingliu does not think that the mycelium will simply place its core area so close to humans.
The reason why the rear area is called the rear area is because it is safer than other places.
Although the Mycelium Will is not smart, it is not a fool. The fact that it sets rules around the hibernation capsule shows how much it values these things.
Well, there is no reason for Him to place these valuables in an area where they would be seen, it is totally illogical.
Unless there was some unavoidable factor that forced Him to do so.
Maybe... an idea came into Lin Qingliu's mind: Maybe the mycelium life as a whole is in the shape of a band rather than spreading out all over.
interesting……
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