Build a Swarm Tech Tree in Konoha

Chapter 103 Chapter One Hundred and Two
Younv Tiewan found himself obsessed with research, and accidentally dug a few big mines for himself, no, dozens of big mines, these are the shadow clones he left outside last year to maintain the illusion of daily activities.

At the beginning of the break, a shadow clone that had lasted for four months disbanded on its own initiative, making Younu Tiewan stiff for a full 10 minutes, and even almost vomited out on the spot.

Since then, several shadow clones were forced to disband due to exhaustion of chakra, which made him very embarrassed every time.

But there are exceptions. The disbandment of the shadow clone that cooperated with him in research has much less impact on him. Probably all the information that the shadow clone knows, Tie Wan has already known in the discussion and communication.

This proves that the instant return of information is not only a heaven-defying BUG of the forbidden technique, multiple shadow clones, but also the most fatal danger. Compared with this danger, the so-called chakra needs are not worth mentioning.

Either they are too smart or wise, and the separated shadow clones cannot return brand new information at all.

Or, it is a pure idiot, and the separated shadow clone does not return much information.

Sure enough, only a strong fool can play with multiple shadow clones. Anyway, he, Younv Tiewan, never dared to use multiple shadow clones except in battle.

There is a way, each shadow clone should communicate as much as possible before disbanding, so as to alleviate the discomfort caused by the sudden impact of unknown information.There are effects, but the discomfort is still uncomfortable. There is no way to do it. The mine that I dug myself, I have to bear the tears.

It took half a month to solve the shadow clone in the village, and Tetsumaru, the oil girl, was worried when she thought of leaving the shadow clone in the Land of Wind to find the giant scorpion.

Muye Village is isolated from the inside and outside, and I can't go in and out without a proper reason, even the shadow clone.He had no choice but to wait in fear until these shadow clones exhausted their chakras and then thundered.

To say a thousand words and ten thousand, I can lie flat because I don’t have to worry about the debts. These shadow clones are just trivial, and they can’t kill people.

Younv Tiewan knew that she still had a major hidden worry, and there were many, many, much bigger shadow clone thunders that would detonate at any time.Since he learned the shadow clone from Orochimaru, he has created a shadow clone, and all of them have been specially injected with a large amount of chakra, which can last for a long time. At least until now, none of them have been disintegrated and fed back.

The earliest batch of shadow clones has lasted for more than three years, and you can know how terrible this is if you think about it.

But maybe it's okay?

After all, these shadow clones were thrown into the distant stars in the sea of ​​souls in the dream.

Not sure.

Putting these uncertainties behind her, Younv Tiewan turned her attention back to the newly discovered biological samples.

The creature that he judged to be far more important than mantises is a fungal community, which was discovered in the small stone house laboratory where Younv Tetsumaru was a child. The bugs in the small stone house were all eaten by this terrible fungus and turned into fluffy exoskeleton specimens.

At that time, I didn't pay attention to it. I thought it was ordinary fungal contamination, so I cleaned it casually. I habitually put a part of the fungus in a petri dish, then disinfected it with strong alkali, and continued to play with my classmates.

In the evening, he returned to the Xiaoshiwu laboratory alone, ready to clean up the place, but unexpectedly found that the lid of the petri dish was lifted, and the fungus spread directly from the table to the other side of the laboratory table, tightly wrapping the bottle filled with culture medium.

Younv Tiewan checked carefully and found that the stopper of the culture medium bottle had been pushed open. He was shocked and hurriedly made a further comprehensive inspection.

Good guy, the one on the table is only part of it. Down the corner, the fungus has also invaded the waste water tank and the chemical agent box. In the agent box, ammonium bicarbonate, calcium phosphate, and potassium chloride were selected to avoid hydrogen Dangerous agents such as sodium oxide and sulfuric acid.

What kind of fairy fungus is this? To find the energy, water source, and minerals you need so accurately, does it have sensory organs?No, he even has the ability to think.

The point is, where did it come from?How did it appear in my lab?

Thinking of this question, Younv Tiewan became nervous, and attracted countless horseflies, ants, and moths to conduct a blanket search of her home and the five kilometers nearby.

After two days of searching and continuously expanding the scope of the search, I finally found the source of the fungus, which turned out to be the Ant Sugar Ranch run by my family.

During the investigation in the past, I happened to meet other ninjas from the oil woman's family. It turned out that a fungal disease broke out recently, causing a large area of ​​forage to wither, which further affected the production of ant sugar.

As soon as Younv Tiewan communicated with her relatives, she quickly confirmed that the culprit was this brand new fungus.

The Ant Sugar Alliance is now deeply entrenched, with annual revenues reaching billions of taels, and it has zero tolerance for anything that threatens its own sugar production.

With one order, a large number of oil girl ninjas, Uchiha ninjas, and Hyuga ninjas gathered, and Nara, Akimichi, Yamanaka, Kurama, Moonlight and other families also came out to thoroughly disinfect all wild fungi found.

With sufficient manpower, everyone dug three feet of ground within a radius of ten kilometers, and even collected all the samples collected by Younv Tiewan, and threw them into the fire and burned them to ashes.

But this is only superficially and completely eliminated. Creatures like scientists must be killed, otherwise how will their scientific spirit be manifested?
Younv Tiewan was sure that not only did he leave a sample of the fungus, but the other companies also made small moves, and even Orochimaru came here to watch them disinfect it. Is he free?
of course not

Younv Tiewan clearly saw through the field barrier that a certain underground snake swallowed a piece of wood shards contaminated with fungus, turned into a cloud of white smoke and disappeared, and it was clear at a glance who did it.

Today's Konoha underground is full of wormholes, dense as a web, which naturally cannot be hidden from the ninjas.

Especially after Yume Tetsumaru went to the country of Kawano, the control over the mineral zerg decreased, and a small part of the worms naturally showed the nature of reproduction and survival.

They ignored Younv Tiewan's prohibition, digging around, and invading underground chambers everywhere.

The invasion naturally caused an alarm, and ninjas began to investigate, including the ninjas of the oil girl family, but they couldn't find any problems. They could only dig up piles of various worms, scorpions, and mole crickets.

The final conclusion is that Konoha's ecological environment is too good, and the population activity is too large, which leads to the extinction of some natural enemies of insects, which in turn leads to underground insect disasters. This is a natural phenomenon.

Orochimaru and Beiruhu, who are accustomed to digging holes underground, as well as the Genbu, Anbu, Intelligence Department and other departments are very displeased with the bugs around them. It will come back in a few days.

Today, a year later, everyone is used to it. When they see bugs, they will naturally take out the standing insecticide and spray them to death, then find and block the wormholes, and leave it alone.

Orochimaru, who has a flexible mind, not only uses a large group of poisonous snakes to destroy the bugs close to his secret room, but also uses these wormholes to hide his own snakes, or sneak quickly underground.

But how could this kind of stealth be hidden from the owner of the wormhole, Younv Tiewan, who naturally saw the various interactions of the snake group clearly and clearly.

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Younv Tiewan gave this fungus a name: Chrysostomum polycephalus, because when the fungus expands, it will grow multiple heads together, and when it grows mature, it will grow yellow fluff and a long rod with a transparent bubble .

The bubbles grown by the fungus are filled with spores, which are used to sow their own seeds. Once the spores successfully develop, the main fungus will spread in this direction.

The name actually comes from a certain kind of fungus from the previous life. Niu Niu even designed the traffic lines of his own city referring to the expansion path of fungi.

The reason why Younv Tetsuwan attaches great importance to this fungus is of course to make creep. The various buildings of the swarm are alive, and they must rely on infrastructure to feed them. The infrastructure of the swarm is creep.

The most basic function of the creep is to serve as a food source for the swarm, sucking down the inorganic matter in the soil, decomposing the organic matter and converting it into nutrients for the swarm to eat.

If the land is too barren and lacks organic matter, creep can also perform photosynthesis like plants, consume water to produce organic matter, and finally convert it into nutrients.

This is of course the technology that Younv Tiewan desperately wants. You must know that the brood he is building now is supported by sugar ants and oil worms. became a big problem.

Today, in order to maintain communication, we have to strictly limit the size of the brood production swarm. This is not in line with the development trend of the swarm. Finding a more efficient food source is already an urgent need that must be solved without delay.

The live slug flesh that Younv Tiewan worked so hard to obtain was not only for upgrading the breeding equipment, but also thinking about whether it could be transformed into a creep.

After all, live slugs are not only slugs, but also immortals who master natural energy. Can they be developed into infrastructure for absorbing natural energy?

However, the gap between these two species is too great. Let alone progress, there is no idea at all.

That's why this kind of "smart" fungus makes Younu Tiewan feel like a treasure. It's a fungus. It's the same as the creep of the swarm. It's smart enough to find resources by itself, so the potential should not be too great.

In view of the fact that this thing is registered in Konoha Village, Yume Tetsumaru chose to conduct research in a laboratory 600 meters underground, which is beyond the detection range of all investigative methods in Konoha Village. be noticed.

Even if Nagato came to Konoha Village in the future to fight and tear off the [-]th floor of the land, it would not be affected in any way.

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After some research, Younv Tiewan discovered that this is not a single flora, but a complex flora consisting of fourteen to twenty different fungi.

The reason why he couldn't determine the total number was because there were six types of fungi that could change from other fungi. For a while, he couldn't be sure whether these fungi were different forms of one fungus, or two symbiotic fungi.

The complexity of the world of fungi is far more exaggerated and wonderful than that of animals and plants. It is not uncommon for one fungus to swallow another fungus. It is not uncommon for the two to interact and support each other to form a symbiosis, and it is not uncommon for them to part ways suddenly during the symbiosis.

More than a dozen kinds of fungi got together and were influenced by something. They exchanged genetic material with each other, adjusted their own attributes, formed a primary division of labor and cooperation, and turned into a higher-level life.

Younv Tiewan guessed that the most likely cause of this change was some kind of virus.

Even the fungi did not exchange genetic material, but the virus was incorporated into the genes of the fungi after it invaded, just like chlorophyll invaded plant cells.

It's just that this virus invasion takes itself as a commonality, linking these invaded fungi into a whole.

The process of fungal differentiation is still proceeding rapidly, which makes the fungal mass more active than single-celled organisms, and the response to the environment is becoming stronger and faster.

Correspondingly, the fungal group's demand for energy is also increasing, which gives Younv Tiewan a chance to intervene.

He mixed praying mantis tissue into the culture medium and fed it to the fungus mass, which gradually got used to this food and gradually changed itself to adapt to the tissue of the decomposing swarm.

As time went by, even no medium was added, and only biological tissues of praying mantises were added, and the fungal mass gradually became a food habit that was good at digesting praying mantises.

But everything has its pros and cons. When the fungal mass adapts to mantis meat as food, the fungal mass becomes edible by the praying mantis.

At this point, even if the first step in the development of the creep blanket has been completed, Younv Tiewan is already very sure that this thing is really what he wants.

Immediately, the four Tetsumarukage avatars in charge of the live slug flesh and blood research group stopped the project of live slug transformation into creep, and concentrated on the research topic of live slug cell intensive colonization.

The next step is to induce a wider range of diets on the fungal mass, which requires constantly mixing various fungi with them, so that the fungal mass continues to expand its own diet: meat, skin, blood, leaves, grass, wood, fungi.

In this process, various mutants are constantly produced, most of which will perish due to gene collapse, and the rest will easily become weak, and many will mutate themselves and become unsuitable for mantises to eat.

These are unsuccessful mutations that can only be destroyed completely.

The fungal clusters that can successfully adapt to the new recipe and have not mutated themselves are one of the few. Every success can make Younu Tiewan excited.

Over time, Younu Tiewan obtained fourteen successful fungal groups, and the next step was to crossbreed these fungal groups to finally obtain a super fungal group compatible with all recipes.

This process will be full of failures, disappointments, crashes, and take an untold amount of time, despite the fact that once it's done, Younv Tetsuwan will get the real creep, the base model.

The full version of Creep also has to be able to heal the swarm, power structures, and cover the swarm to disrupt enemies during combat.Only the recipe must be compatible with all organic matter to meet the needs, the minimum lower limit must also be able to digest coal and oil, and must have the ability to be self-sufficient in photosynthesis.

But there is no need for Younv Tiewan to do this work in person, just leave it to Shadow Clone, and he doesn't have time to continue researching.

The new mission was sent from Hokage, and after going around several times, it fell on his head.

However, Yume Tetsumaru was not recruited to join a certain legion, nor was it to perform ninja missions, but to go to other places for a long-term garrison to protect Konoha's assets.

(End of this chapter)