The years I was a pirate in Interstellar

Chapter 198 Land of Bones, Mother of Tai Sui

"Hey, what are these? My minced meat, my ether, it's gone, it's gone."

Looking at the pile of white skeletons in front of him, Kailan wanted to cry but had no tears.

From a distance, she saw that this was a place of hidden treasures filled with silver brilliance, but when she took a closer look, she found that the gold and jade were scattered inside. What kind of valuable high-energy ingredients are these? They are all embedded in the stone walls. on the skeleton.

And the silver reflection seen by Kailan in the distance is only because the bones are covered with a layer of shriveled white hyphae. Because of the grating effect, these worthless bones look like those white bones in the distance. The valuable minced meat is shining with a silvery white brilliance, but in fact the two things are very different from each other.

"If you think about it, you will know that such rare objects cannot appear in large numbers on such a low-grade planet."

The angry Kailan stared and said angrily:

"Reinhardt, don't make sarcastic remarks there, don't think that if you don't have a salary, the captain can't cure you!"

"Ha ha."

Reinhardt smiled.

This alien thorn!

Kailan gritted his teeth, thinking of going with Tate, they both wanted to slam this arrogant guy who was looked down upon by everyone on the ground and beat him up.

"It seems that the so-called mother of Tai Sui is an impoverished creature that ingests the nutrition of these corpses underground."

Ordinary organisms are eutrophic organisms, which can survive and reproduce normally only when the outside world is rich and normal in nutrition, while some organisms that live in a particularly harsh environment and cannot find enough living substances in the outside world will form a set of eutrophic organisms. My own special way of survival can either be able to sleep for hundreds of thousands of years, or form a self-sufficient miniature ecosystem in my body.

This kind of creature can survive with very little nutrition. Obviously, this so-called Mother of Tai Sui is such a creature. Relying on the hundreds of millions of bones buried underground on this planet, I don’t know how many years it has survived. It is a rare creature. life form.

The more you go inside, the higher the proportion of bones on the stone wall. Later, the stone wall has become a wall of bones, and what attaches to these bones is no longer those shriveled hyphae, but vitality and full of vitality. Fresh mycelium with elasticity and moist feeling.

The mycelium layer is getting thicker and thicker, until the bones are no longer visible, replaced by mycelial blankets made of these mycelium, and on these thick mycelial blankets, some white flesh grows Chunks' are like small nutrient storage warehouses, and these meat chunks are the high-value high-energy food that Balaz said, minced meat.

"I didn't expect this thing to grow like this. So, those dug up by the locals are actually the 'seeds' left by mycelium after degeneration?"

"It's about the same, but to be precise, those secondary growths are all bait, or feed, released by the mother of Tai Sui."

"Feed? How is this possible?"

Kailan was shocked when he heard the words. According to this strange robot, the Tai Sui Mother is deliberately feeding the refugees on the surface of the planet.

She guessed that these are the extremely poor trophic organisms of the mother of Tai Sui, but it does not mean that it does not need to absorb nutrients from the outside world at all, and this barren planet, even the hundreds of millions of corpses buried deep in the ground, have survived for a long time. After the years, the nutrition is almost consumed, and these mothers of Tai Sui are focusing on the refugees who immigrated to this planet for various reasons.

As long as you pay some negligible price, you can harvest fresh bones from far away. The refugees live on the surface of this barren planet, and their bones after death are also called the rations of the mother of Tai Sui, which is similar to the feed used by human beings. Farming chickens and ducks for meat is no different.

"Because it's just 'feed', not seeds, so it can't be planted, right?"

Hum nods his head, silently dismissing Kailan's guess.

"It seems that the mother of Tai Sui has wisdom no less than that of human beings."

With a sigh of emotion, Kailan narrowed his eyes slightly, and began to worry about gains and losses in his heart. If the other party is just a beast without wisdom, the situation is naturally the best, so why not do something bad?
But since the other party has a lot of intelligence, the situation is completely different. If a pig can live for tens of thousands of years, it is also a god pig, let alone a alien life that dares to feed humans as rations.

Don’t think that with the current level of technology and civilization that humans have mastered, there is no need to be afraid of these low-level indigenous lives that can’t take a step beyond the planet in a lifetime. You must know how many human planet explorers fall into these strange planets every year. And in the hands of dangerous life, which can survive in the universe and continue to this day, which one is not an ecological winner after hundreds of millions of years of evolution?
The heroic captain Pon Appia once said, never put the height of human civilization on yourself and despise other life in the universe, this is an extremely stupid and irresponsible behavior for your own life.

"Be careful!"

Kailan sent a warning message to Reinhardt next to him through his smart phone.

As the tunnel deepened, the tunnel became narrower and narrower. At the beginning, three people could stand side by side, but now they can only advance one by one. It's not that this silly looking robot cut corners when digging the tunnel, but those creeps It grew layer after layer, squeezing the originally spacious tunnel into its current appearance.

Finally, the three of Kailan came to an extremely spacious underground cave after squeezing through an entrance that was already covered with creepers. It is unknown whether it was formed naturally or was corroded by these fleshy fungus. , Kailan was instantly shocked by the beautiful scenery here.

"It's so beautiful here!"

Unlike the slippery and sticky creeps outside, this place is empty and dry, and there are no disgusting looking bacteria like fat meat. The spacious cave is not dark, with countless blue stars Flickering on the top of the cave, it is extremely gorgeous, illuminating the entire cave.

On the ground floor, there are circles of water pools similar to milkstone pools, layer upon layer.In the center of the cave, a huge water pool stands out, like a huge stone wine glass is placed here, and a clear transparent liquid flows out of the 'glass', and this is the sum of all the water in the water pool in the entire grotto. source.

"Is the mother of Tai Sui here?"

Unlike the Mother of Tai Sui that she imagined was wrapped in a large group of meat fungus in the center, Kailan's wide-eyed Di Liuyuan didn't see any creatures that looked like the so-called 'Mother of Tai Sui'.

Dabai robot nodded, and shouted at the huge 'wine cup' standing in the center of the grotto:
"Stanislava Segovia, I'm looking for you again, come out and meet me."

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(End of this chapter)