Deep Space Evolution: Clans

Chapter 139 Grows too fast and collapses
After the main body of the fungus died, the hyphae scattered throughout the Pavana rainforest did not die.

After being separated from the control of the main body, these hyphae no longer have self-awareness and are completely relying on instinct to carry out various activities.

But even if there is no longer the control of the subject's consciousness, the degree of evolution of these hyphae is there.

The emergence of composite organisms is inseparable from the hyphae left by bacteria.

Even if these extremely powerful species lose control of the main consciousness of the bacteria, they still have the evolutionary advantages they once had.

Along the way, Yuan would not have paid attention to the tiny mushrooms growing everywhere in the rainforest if he had been reminded by the producers in Tanan.

Now it seems that these mushrooms may be grown from the hyphae left by the bacteria.

It’s just that after losing the bacteria, these hyphae can no longer grow to a large size.

This batch of mushrooms was originally supposed to be the last gift left to the tribe.

But now, there is a little bit of mycelium left behind, perhaps due to accidents, so strange things like composite organisms have appeared.

"I think you should take a bite and see if your stomach can digest anything."

The Tanang producer thought for a while and suggested Yuan take a bite.

"It's not a living thing. I shouldn't be able to eat anything."

Despite what he said, Yuan still took a sip.

As expected, he tasted nothing.

The gastric juice directly digested these complexes of fungi and cells, leaving nothing behind.

"Perhaps we can feed it some evolutionary matter." Yuan said, picking an evolutionary leaf from the Tanan producer and placing it on the surface of the composite creature.

Maybe he smelled a familiar smell. The composite creatures moved faster than the producers of Yuan and Tanan imagined!

In just one minute, many tiny hyphae grew on the biological surface.

Yuan leaned down and looked at these hyphae carefully.

Almost identical to the hyphae of the spore producers.

However, when observing these hyphae, Yuan also thought that it seemed that his eyes should evolve.

Some can't see clearly.

The hyphae in the composite organism soon completely wrapped the evolved leaves.

But the speed of digestion is not ideal.

"It looks like it will take a day or two to digest."

After observing for a while, Yuan came to the conclusion: "If the digestion speed is this, it is a bit too slow."

Hearing Yuan's words, Tanang producers didn't think so.

"It's just a fungus. How fast can you make it digest? It's not even a blood relative, which is good. If it can become a blood relative, it may be able to enhance its abilities in this area."

"I hope so."

As Yuan spoke, he picked off the evolved leaves of Tanan Producer, and then covered them on the surface of the composite organism, eventually covering the entire composite organism.

"With so many nutrients, aren't you worried about its indigestion?"

"Since the bacterial structure is there, I think it shouldn't be possible."

Yuan was waiting in the rainforest, waiting for the evolution of composite creatures.

For ordinary creatures to evolve into blood relatives, they really only need to ingest the evolutionary essence.

But not the producers.

Although the birth of the producer seems to be derived from the essence of evolution.

But it’s not like this method has never been replicated before.

Without exception it was a failure.

Ordinary evolutionary qualities do not seem to make a plant a producer.So where do these evolutionary qualities that enable plants to become producers come from?
Evolutionary qualities cannot always appear out of thin air.

If a plant wants to absorb the evolutionary essence, the only way is to absorb it through its roots, which must be rooted in the ground.

Could it be that it happened to take root in a place with such special evolutionary qualities?

So where did these special evolutionary qualities come from?

Yuan couldn't understand.

He knew too little.

While Yuan was thinking, the evolution of composite organisms was quietly proceeding.

The fungus' hyphae noticed the familiar smell, and immediately mobilized nutrients from the body to grow countless hyphae to wrap the evolved leaves.

The absorption method of evolved leaves is very simple.

It can be broken down and eaten in various ways.

However, these huge leaves are indeed a bit too big for the hyphae.

And as the mycelium digests the leaves.

Evolutionary elements began to continuously enter the inside of the fungus.

The familiar feeling makes the fungus immediately want to grow.

As a member of the composite life form, when the bacteria notice that the fungi are digesting external food, they also take action to fight for food.

After these nutrients that have never been ingested enter the bacteria, they immediately bring it a new experience.

It is also ready to start evolving.

But their life structure at this time is as a member of a composite life form, so some things are not decided by one or two of them.

The cells sensed the existence of nutrients in the evolutionary matter and began to spontaneously plunder the evolutionary matter absorbed by fungi and bacteria. After the slime mold noticed the problem, it also began to plunder the evolutionary matter inside the cells.

In this way, fungi and bacteria cannot evolve quickly because their evolutionary qualities have been taken away. This means that they must absorb the evolutionary qualities of the outside world faster.

These evolved leaves, which were originally thought to take a day or two to be digested, disappeared after one night.

At this moment, the complex creature began to undergo huge changes inside.

Since fungi are originally part of bacteria, it is difficult for hyphae that have evolved to the luxuriant stage to evolve again.

Therefore, the fungi automatically judge that things like evolutionary qualities are not of much use to them.

Therefore, when faced with the competition for bacteria and cells, fungi began to exhibit a Buddhist state.

It starts not eating the evolutionary essence, it eats the rest of the nutrients.

As mentioned before, cells are the most susceptible to change.

After receiving sufficient evolutionary material from the fungus, the cells at this moment have begun to change.

It is dividing rapidly.

This nutrient transit station begins to divide rapidly, changing from its original single-cell structure into a multi-cell structure.

Thanks to the changes in cells, slime molds can also obtain more evolutionary qualities.

Fungi don't have much thought, all they want is to expand themselves continuously.

Slime molds and bacteria simultaneously selected for the ability to proliferate.

For fungi, proliferation is almost full.

Then, under the watchful eyes of Yuan and Tanan producers, the composite creature, which had grown half a meter overnight, began to collapse.

Multiplication occurs too quickly for the outer layers to maintain structure, so the entire composite organism begins to swell from the middle.

Eventually the underlying structure could no longer support it and collapsed.

(End of this chapter)