Spore Story

Chapter 776 Is it Bacterial Warfare?
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Due to the previous artificial rainfall by the elders of the Peng clan, there was a slightly pungent smell of disinfectant in the air, and it was only reduced after entering the densely wooded valley.

"Since it's anti-virus, it's fine to just spray it in the valley for a while, why do you keep it?" Xiao Lingyun asked curiously, but after leaving the field of disinfectant water, the smile on her face obviously became more. Little, it seems that she is a little bit wrong.

"Since we are looking for the source, if the disinfectant water cleans up the place, there will be no trace to be found." Kong Huan replied casually.

After using mental power to signal the Moon Spirit miners on guard at the valley entrance to work hard, everyone has arrived in the valley at this time, and many animals are driven to the only valley around this area by the smell of disinfectant, resulting in a large number of animals here. Even reaching the level of density, this is an unexpected situation.

After driving away a bunch of giant pythons and being surrounded by a swarm of mad bees, they had no choice but to suspend in mid-air, so that even though they would still provoke some flying creatures, at least they would avoid the influence of the dense animals on the ground .

At this time, because of the wings, he flew into the mid-air early on, enjoying the scene of Kong Huan and others being besieged by animals along the way, and a certain butterfly who might even take out popcorn pointed at a certain butterfly while everyone was flying into the air. Direction: "Look at Kong Huan, there are two corpses there, they seem to be dead, and there is nothing around them!"

Surprised in their hearts, the few people quickly flew towards the target regardless of leisure.

The main organisms of the Double Moon Star are still ordinary carbon-based organisms, but perhaps from a period when the small cells controlled by the void took electrodes as the cells, the energy creatures stepped onto the big stage of the Double Moon Star.

During this period, most energy creatures were unable to supply the energy consumption of the high-energy cells in their bodies. Although they were powerful, they still had to degenerate into ordinary carbon-based creatures. Slowly, the energy core that can also store energy, and thus evolve step by step, thus evolving the high-energy biological population of Double Moon Star at this time.

Among them, the most powerful high-energy creatures known are earth dragons.

Even though its main strength seems to be its huge carbon-based body, the earth dragon needs extremely high energy both to drive this carbon-based body and to digest and swallow various substances.And it is the unique organization of high-energy organisms—the energy core, which satisfies this consumption for it.

At the same time, the only known civilization-level high-energy creatures are the friends.

But naturally, since the appearance of the energy core, the high-energy organisms have achieved a great development.After the age of giant insects, and now at the end of the age of dinosaurs, high-energy organisms are co-evolving with mammalian carbon-based organisms.

After recalling these things in their minds, Kong Huan and the others had already flown to the side of the fallen high-energy creatures, but at this time the two high-energy creatures had already died.

At first glance, the corpses of these two high-energy creatures are relatively intact, and neither the bones nor the skin seem to have any damage.However, as long as you observe carefully, you can find that the internal organs of these two high-energy creatures have almost been cleaned up.But unexpectedly, the energy core was not swallowed as everyone expected. Instead, after the internal organs were swallowed, a huge number of viruses wrapped it into a black tumor-like object, which looked extremely strange.

"This is?" Xiao Lingyun moved forward curiously, as if wanting to look through it.

"Be careful, don't go there!" Kong Huan hastily grabbed the opponent.

"What did you find?" 8051, who was in charge of observing the surrounding area, asked curiously.

"It seems that this virus is not as simple as we imagined," Kong Huan leaned down and lowered the height to five or six meters, and then used his thoughts to turn the corpse across the space.

The surrounding animals didn't know that they were frightened by the death of the two corpses, so they all stayed away from this area, so the corpses were well preserved.After the shriveled skin was torn off, the empty bones and the energy core wrapped in black tumors were exposed, and Xiao Lingyun, who couldn't bear it at first, turned her head depressingly.

Although it was vaguely possible to tell what kind of creature it was from the bones, none of them did this kind of thing at this time. It was enough to tell that it was a high-energy creature just from the energy core.

"Look," pointing at the core, Kong Huan frowned and explained: "According to our first estimate, since a virus that reproduces with the purpose of devouring energy... no, it should be a germ, then after swallowing most of the body of a living thing, it should be It is to digest the energy core with the highest energy content."

"Yes," Xiao Lingyun nodded, but the movement of turning her head away made people dumbfounded.

"But this is not the case. You see, the energy core is still there, and judging from the degree of corruption of the corpse, it has been dead for at least half a day."

"Could it be that they can't bite the energy core? After all, the hardness of the energy core is comparable to that of diamond. We tested it at this time." Chu Ling questioned.

Kong Huan at least shook his head at this, and then used his thoughts to wrap a group of germs that were already black strains visible to the naked eye due to too many accumulations, exposing the inner energy core.

It was not bitten and riddled with holes as everyone thought, or it was as smooth as usual. The core that was not very regular at first appeared like a smooth ball at this time.

He casually cleaned up the germs that had been stripped from this energy core with his thoughts, using the disinfectant that he carried with him, temporarily ignoring the energy core that looked normal except for a little bleakness on the surface, and used his thoughts to support another energy core.

Perhaps it is a matter of time, the spherical shape of the surface of this energy core does not mean that the previous one is much more neat.

"See what?" Kong Huan turned to look at the three people behind him.

"One thing, these germs didn't devour the energy core aimlessly from the beginning of contact, thus making it riddled with holes, but they didn't stop devouring it, but deliberately polished the originally irregular energy core into a round shape. Like a ball, in this case..."

Unable to figure it out, 8051 finally shook his head.

"I can't quite figure it out either."

Kong Huan randomly wrapped these two energy cores with thought power, but did not completely clean up the germs on the two cores, but allowed them to move freely, but was limited to the area wrapped by thought power.

For him, it only needs to compress the thought power in one area, and the gap of thought power can be narrowed to the nanometer level, so as to avoid being escaped by micron-level germs.

"On the surface, it seems that these germs are autonomously devouring germs to reproduce, but in fact, they are not devouring aimlessly. I have a feeling that they deliberately use the body energy of high-energy organisms as reproductive energy to reproduce After the huge population is produced, the energy core is wrapped, but it does not kill the chicken to get the eggs."

"Kill the chicken to get the egg?" Everyone frowned.

"Indeed, everyone knows that the energy core is actually independent of the individual organism to a certain extent at the moment of formation. Therefore, even if the organism dies, the energy core can absorb sunlight or dissipate it under natural conditions. The electromagnetic and other energy in the air is converted into its own reserves, so as to recover autonomously."

"In other words, the energy core is actually a self-charging battery, so it's okay to say that."

He casually made a small cloud with a bottle of disinfectant that he carried with him, created a small area of ​​rain around the two corpses, and made sure to infiltrate every minute and every bit of the surrounding area to eliminate the remaining germs. m altitude.

"You don't want to say that these simple germs, after consciously cleaning the surface of the energy core to form a spherical shape with the largest coverage area, use the battery energy core polished into a ball as a long-term energy source?" 8051 Some uncertainly asked: "If this is the case, doesn't it mean that these germs already have basic consciousness or something like that? But don't forget, in the natural evolution of Double Moon Star, as long as there is self-awareness Creatures will enter the jurisdiction of the will of the planet."

"I won't forget this, after all, my wife is a purely natural will of the wild planet." Kong Huan looked at 8051 with a playful smile.

"Do you want to die that much?" 8051 blushed slightly, and glared at Kong Huan angrily.

"Of course not," Kong Huan quickly waved his hand.

"Forget it, get on with business!"

"Yes, stay for the jokes." Waving their hands, Kong Huan and the others took turns to scan the surroundings with mental power to confirm the situation in the valley and continue the discussion.

However, Xiao Lingyun accidentally said: "What if it's not the native bacteria of Double Moon Planet?"

This silenced everyone.

At this time, apart from those from Shuangyue Xing, who else is probably clear at a glance.

And this has indeed pointed out a path for everyone, and at the same time it is likely to indicate a fact.That is, the Zerg has changed its strategy and no longer sends troops directly. Instead, after obtaining a lot of biological data from Double Moon Star, it starts to attack the enemy in a way unique to biological civilization.

Bacterial warfare, which may be out of conscience in the mechanical technological civilization of human beings, which belongs to the same species, is forbidden.But that's not the so-called lofty spirit, it's just because they belong to the same species. If someone launches a germ warfare, God knows if that thing will hurt the enemy and kill himself at the same time. After all, this little thing is hard to defend against.

If you think about it carefully, there are quite a few self-destruct tools that humans know.

But among different species, this is the most effective way. As far as the Gonggu Zerg knows, the so-called bacterial warfare prohibition treaty in the cosmic civilization is only aimed at the Zerg who is specialized in biotechnology.But the problem is that the Zerg did not join the big family of cosmic civilization, but fought against it.

In this way, they can be used without psychological pressure.

These things are not clear to Kong Huan and others, but it does not prevent them from thinking of similar situations.

A few people didn't think of it before, mainly because Shuangyuexing had never appeared before.The high-level people who inherited the illusory knowledge didn't realize it, but when they met at this time, a shadow suddenly filled the hearts of everyone.

"This, that, isn't it necessarily true? Remember many years ago, didn't we discover a bacterium that devoured cells? As a result, we only made a simple vaccine, and the whole family never appeared again. If you have any questions, say, haha." Seeing the silence of the crowd, even she was a little scared, so Xiao Lingyun hurriedly made jokes, trying to ease the atmosphere.

At this moment, there was a commotion in the group of animals ahead.

"Go and have a look." Without any explanation, everyone turned into shadows and disappeared in place, and appeared in the sky above the riot site the next moment.

"Animal group frame?" After seeing the specific situation, everyone was a little confused.

"Take care of him, let's see if there are any high-energy creatures first, Xiao 8, take care of these animals and order them to stop fighting." Kong Huan directly gave the order.The few people were not dissatisfied with this, but the immediate conclusion made people a little curious.

"Are they all high-energy creatures?"

Kong Huan, who was about to lower the altitude, was dumbfounded by the conclusion of Xiao Lingyun's report;

And then Chu Ling waved her wings and told him that there were many high-energy creatures wandering around the periphery, who seemed to want to come over, but were frightened by the animals in the inner circle and did not dare to enter;

8051 then used actions to confirm the influence of the planet's will, and at the same time showed that these scarred animals were native animals.But even though they reluctantly withdrew from this place, the high-energy creatures did not stay away, but stared at this place with greedy eyes from the outer circle.

"What's the situation, is there anything good for high-energy creatures here?"

Animals also have intelligence, but it is not high, but they instinctively pursue things that are better for survival, which can be said to be both desire and belief in survival.However, when Kong Huan expressed his doubts, 8051, who is the will of the planet, had already discovered the real situation by scanning the core area of ​​the group of animals that had previously wrapped up the fight.

"I'm afraid things are not as simple as you think," 8051 waved and led the crowd to land. After avoiding some tall trees tens of meters high, everyone was able to see the situation at the bottom clearly.

"Meteor crater," Kong Huan explained the situation at the scene, and immediately found in the center of the crater... a large number of pools containing the blood of high-energy creatures: "What does this mean? The blood accumulated after killing animals in the crater, turned into blood Chi, it feels similar to the blood sacrifice in fantasy stories."

"Although it's different, it's not too far off." 8051 nodded to signal for everyone to observe carefully.

Soon, Kong Huan also understood the mystery.

"I see."

"The blood produced by the slaughter of a large number of high-energy organisms has become the source of nutrition for these germs. In this crater, the germs can multiply rapidly, and then spread the germs through animals that are close to the blood pool after the slaughter. It feels like an animal It’s like killing the blood sacrifices to these germs and summoning the evil germ king.”

"Be serious!" Kong Huan was hit on the top of the head with a hand knife, his face full of helplessness.

"Be serious, too," two hand knives landed on the heads of the snickering little rabbit and the big butterfly one after another, feeling a lot more relaxed and changing to a serious expression: "The question is, why do these high-energy creatures come here?" fight here?"

"It's simple, there's something in the ground that attracts them."

"what?"

"Just look," 8051 blinked mysteriously. Although the matter looks dangerous, as long as the source is found, it will not be too difficult for her who controls the entire planet, and she will not use this kind of thing to Hone your buddies.

Half a minute later, the blood in the blood pool was wrapped and lifted into the air by Kong Huan and the others with their thoughts. The surrounding animals didn't care about it. Obviously, they didn't pay attention to the blood and germs.

The lethality of the disinfectant water is still strong. Although it took three bottles because of too many germs, it also cleaned up the germs that took a long time to reproduce. After that, the crater returned to its normal appearance, revealing a spherical thing at the bottom.

"Hey, why didn't you discover your mental strength just now!" Xiao Lingyun first exclaimed.

Chu Ling also nodded in agreement, but also failed to discover the emptiness of what was clearly at the bottom of the blood pool, so she understood.

"The germs have blocked the mental power from investigating the interior. If the Zerg really did it, then I'm afraid the Zerg will also find out that we can use the mental power to scan." After 8051's explanation, Kong Huan immediately thought of this situation: " But since we have the ability to isolate mental power scanning, we used mental power many times during the war, so it’s no wonder the bugs didn’t find it.”

"What is this?" When the object at the bottom of the crater was dragged by the force of thought and flew toward the people in the air, the surrounding animals visibly became agitated, obviously attracting everyone.

A little bit in a trance, but Kong Huan recovered after a short while, looking at the things in front of him that looked like mechanical products, he was a little dignified, but also a little funny.

"Although it can exude the temptation to high-energy creatures, even I am a little bit moved. The effect of this little thing is very good, made by Zerg?"

"Konghuan, you have studied the mechanical products inside the Zerg Meteorite Base, shouldn't you draw conclusions?" 8051 casually threw the small thing to Konghuan, and Konghuan immediately used his thoughts as if wrapping the two energy cores before, tightly Wrapped up this little thing.

"From the perspective of the production process, it does have the style of bugs, rough, and even smells like Zerg slime, but it is not completely sure, and it should be brought back to the laboratory for analysis."

This is also what it should mean, everyone nodded.

"But it's funny to think that the Zerg have to use mechanical products in order to avoid system protection."

"That's just temporary." 8051 poured cold water on it.

The illusory smile also stopped abruptly, and the system protection is now almost related to Bai Nong.In at most one year, Bai Nong will have to complete his long-delayed system task, so that friends can increase the evolution of heaven and man at the level of original humans and winged humans.But by then, it also heralds the complete disappearance of system protection.

At this point, both friends and insects are really "treating each other honestly".

"So we don't have much time."

"Indeed." Everyone nodded.

"This little thing also explains why the high-energy creature rushed over desperately, because it was tempted by it." After the thought power was completely wrapped, the eyes seemed to have lost their target, and the animals who stood still for a while and then dispersed, to the ones shaking their wings. Chu Ling turned her head to look at the little thing in front of Kong Huan.

"But how do you explain the germs?"

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