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Chapter 448 Infection Begins

In addition to infecting flies, fungal spores can also infect cicadas. For example, there is a kind of zombie cicada whose abdomen has long turned gray and dry, and can be detached from the body with a slight touch, but these cicadas are still flying and constantly looking for another cicada to reproduce!

These cicadas are infected with a fungus called Marsh Sporangiophore. After the infection, the fungus will slowly devour the cicada's reproductive organs and abdomen. But before the entire abdomen falls off, under the influence of the hormones secreted by the fungus, these cicadas will behave more aggressively than normal!

These cicadas with "petrified" abdomens will fly around and look for possible breeding partners, performing crazy behaviors just to spread the spores of this fungus over a wider area and infect other healthy cicadas over a larger area!
The hormone that can make cicadas behave in this way is called the hallucinogen "psilocybin"!

Its powerful hallucinogenic effect can even make people lost. Of course, more people try the hallucinogenic drug "psilocybin" for the bizarre feeling of the hallucinogenic moment, but for cicadas, it is the price of death! The hallucinogenic drug "psilocybin" can make them "happily" welcome death!

In addition to these, there are also fruit flies infected with fungi, which will fly to the high branches of plants before they die, and then grow flower-like spore strains on their bodies, spreading the spores. The scattered spores may infect more fruit flies, which is absolutely terrifying!
Of course, it's not just flying cicadas and flies that can be infected by these fungal spores. Non-flying insects can also be infected, such as a kind of zombie ant. After being infected by the fungus, the behavior of the ants is not under their own control. They are completely a body infected by the fungus. They will climb onto the plants, use pliers to get under the leaves, and then hang there!
This zombie ant has fungi all over its body, including its head, thorax, abdomen and legs. However, the fungi do not seem to control the ant's movements through the head, but seem to control the muscles directly. This behavior makes people's hair stand on end. What could be more terrifying than the scene of hands and feet moving on their own without being under control!

The bad news is that there are still many fungi in nature that survive in this way, and there are even more disgusting parasites. The good news is that they do not seem to infect humans. Of course, humans still have many ways to deal with fungi, but they cannot be completely eliminated. For example, athlete's foot is caused by fungi, but it has been plaguing humans!

Of course, this athlete's foot fungus is not fatal. Compared with those insects that are tortured to death by the fungus, athlete's foot fungus is really nothing!
But now the alien spores created by David, the robot, are really a headache.

Liu Xiu looked at the cans and tubes of alien spores that David produced on the screen, and he also knew that if these alien spores were allowed to enter the atmosphere of the alien blue planet and spread in the alien blue planet, the consequences would naturally be the same as the previous Blue Planet No. 2, the blue planet that created Avatar.

Of course Liu Xiu also wanted to stop David from doing this, but reality did not allow it.

Because the Proxima Centauri where the wandering blue planet is now located is more than a hundred light years away from the alien blue planet. Because of this, even if an electromagnetic cannon is used to launch an unmanned spacecraft with a speed of 90% of the speed of light, it will take more than a year to reach the alien blue planet.

There is no need to think about it, David would not give Liu Xiu that much time.

In fact, this is true. After entering the Alien Blue Planet, the Covenant contacted the Covenant's parent company, the Weyland Bionics Company created by Peter Weyland.

Afterwards, David, as a talented actor, naturally acted like an award-winning actor, and half-truthfully told the story of the Covenant being attacked by a neutron storm while docked in a star system to recharge.

All the dormant crew members died due to the malfunction, so he piloted the Covenant spacecraft back the same way.

Of course, the shareholders and directors of Wieland Company would not completely believe David's words.

However, out of trust in the bionic people, they still let the Covenant spacecraft dock in the orbit of Blue Star and dock with the exclusive space station belonging to Weyland Company in the orbit of Blue Star.

That’s right, the reason why the Covenant spacecraft was not allowed to land directly on the surface was naturally because the Covenant spacecraft was different from the previous Prometheus spacecraft of Weyland Company.

Although the overall structure of the Prometheus spacecraft is not as large as that of the Covenant spacecraft, because it is smaller, the overall strength of the spacecraft is very high and it can naturally land smoothly.

The Covenant spacecraft is different, because it has to carry more than 2,000 people and a large number of facilities and equipment. Therefore, although the Covenant spacecraft is large, its overall strength is very low and it is simply unable to withstand the gravity of the surface of Blue Planet.

Therefore, when the Covenant spacecraft was built, it was actually built on the space station. After the various parts of the Covenant spacecraft were transported to the space station using a modular construction method, they were assembled and debugged on the space station.

With the sound of air being released from the airtight gate of the docking port, it naturally meant that the air in the space station and the air on the Covenant began to circulate.

However, it was the sound of the airtight gate opening that caused a large number of almost invisible alien spores floating in the air of the Covenant spacecraft to pour into the space station.

"Hey! Damn it, Walter, you set the atmospheric pressure on the Covenant too high!"

An astronaut in the space station who was blown into the wall by a sudden strong wind complained to David.

However, this man who was not wearing a space suit did not know how many alien spores he had absorbed in the air flow filled with alien spores just now.

You have to know that the reason why David, who is still regarded as Walter, adjusted the air pressure on the Covenant so high was naturally to allow the alien spores in the air on the Covenant to enter the space station.

Obviously, David's plan was successful, and he was not angry about the complaints and scoldings from the astronaut in the space station.

After all, there was no reason for David to be angry with a dead person.

So David still said expressionlessly:

"Let me show you the situation on the Covenant!"

After saying that, David turned around and led a group of astronauts from the space station into the Covenant.

Of course, there is nothing to see on the Covenant now. For example, the place where the hibernation capsule was originally hung is now filled with human skeletons and alien corpses. David has no choice but to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs in order to extract enough alien blood.

But before they had taken a few steps, the astronaut who had been standing in the front and had absorbed the most alien spores fell to the ground with sweat all over his face.

The reason for this is naturally not because of the heat. After all, the temperature on the Covenant is a relatively comfortable 23 degrees, not the hot 32 degrees.

The reason why this astronaut was sweating profusely was naturally because his immune system was working hard to kill the invading alien spores!
It’s a pity that the white blood cells that are very effective against ordinary bacteria are somewhat powerless when facing the alien spores, because these white blood cells are swallowed by the alien spores instead of the white blood cells swallowing the alien spores.

Of course, it wasn't just him. Other astronauts did the same thing. They all suddenly collapsed on the Covenant, sweating profusely.

(End of this chapter)