Gamers Are Fierce - Chapter 1128

[Chapter 127 Behemoth (7)]

In the Waihai military base in Xingang City, the senior members of PPDC stared at the pictures on the big screen and captured by the surveillance cameras.

I saw those plant cannonballs, under the delicate calculation, accurately landed on construction sites, urban parks, green belts, riversides and other areas in other urban areas, and

landed on the exposed soil.

Snapped.

The plant cannonballs exploded together, and a large number of catkin-like white flocs erupted, covering the soil.

These flocs, spread out naturally, quickly grow into intricate silk-like structures like lichen moss, dig into the ground,

and further grow root structures similar to advanced plants to absorb nutrients from the soil.

White lichen moss is centered on bare soil and spreads efficiently by erosion.

The lawns, flowers, and shrubs in the green belt seem to be gradually infiltrated by white fuel and covered with a thick layer of moss,

while those taller landscape trees, such as

yellow locust, poinciana, eucalyptus, king palm, and palmetto

are becoming While the lichen moss erodes, it also becomes a natural springboard for mycelial expansion. The

lichen mycelium rapidly corrodes the internal structure of various trees and poisons its branches, leaves and fruits.

Every flower, every leaf, every fruit

has a white mold growing on its surface.

Whether it is a deciduous tree or an evergreen tree,

all the fruits fall to the ground, the

flowers wither, and the leaves fall off.

Some of the light leaves have grown fluffy and pure white spherical hyphae.

After falling off, along the breeze, it seems Floating away like a dandelion,

falling somewhere else.

When it falls on the water, the pure white mycelium floats on the surface and drifts along the water, waiting to be naturally carried to the shore soil by the current to expand along the river.

When it falls on the concrete pavement, the pure white mycelium will follow the gap, pass through the concrete, and find the soil.

Even if it falls on inorganic objects such as bus roofs, high-rise glass windows, metal billboards, etc., the white mycelium balls have a way

to spread them out as much as possible, expand the area, and

wait for other factors to take them away and spread.

For example, people.

Pedestrians on the street were terrified by the sudden white wave,

screaming, crying and running away.

They drove their vehicles, carrying clumps of cotton-like, expanding flocs at high speed.

They stepped on the carpet made of white mycelium, and stepped on pure white footprints where the mycelium had no time to reach.

They shoved, squeezed into underground dugouts, or ran to high-rise buildings,

completely unaware that the white mycelium clinging to their clothes, waiting for an opportunity to expand.

The bird’s-eye view of the entire city seems to have been suddenly dripped with dozens of drops of white paint, allowing them to flow freely.

“Mold is a general term for branched mycelium, which is a type of fungus.

It is characterized by a relatively developed mycelium and no larger fruiting bodies. You can imagine an orange that has been on the shelf for a long time, it has been left for too long, As a result, yellow-green hyphae grow on the surface.

In contrast to branched hyphal fungi, there are fungi with larger fruiting bodies, that is, mushrooms.”

Li Ang calmly faced Fang Xuewen’s split canthal stare, and said calmly: “Mold mainly rely on all kinds of sexual or asexual spores to reproduce.

The mold spores are small, light, dry, and many.

Different shapes and colors, long dormancy period, strong resistance, each individual can produce thousands, even hundreds of millions, billions, tens of billions, hundreds of billions of spores,

fluttering with the wind, flowing with the water,

everywhere Propagation, reproduction everywhere, ubiquitous, ubiquitous.

The lichens you see are a special complex of algae and white fungal hyphae.

Just like the first cooperation between algae and fungi 500 million years ago,

algae contain photosynthetic pigments, which can carry out photosynthesis and provide fungi with The foundation of nutrition and sturdiness, while the fungal mycelium

provides water and inorganic salts for the algae to protect the algae.

Algae continue to expand through air, water, and biological channels.

In the first stage, which is the stage you see,

lichens will grow on the soil and other plants, secrete enzymes, and expand in situ.

Lichens at this stage are relatively fragile and harmless to humans.

If handled properly, they can be burnt out by flames,

and a large amount of parasitic insulators such as metal and glass can be used to create ‘firebreaks’ for isolation. ”

As if to verify Li Ang’s words,

a PPDC member at the bottom of the building controlled the mecha, activated the flamethrower, and burned the ground infected with white mycelium in sight. The

flamethrower erupted with blue flames, wherever it went . , the mycelium melted and disintegrated,

and some PPDC members whose mechas did not have the flamethrower function saw this, and they also followed suit

. White mycelium.

“However, the total amount is too large, enough for lichen to enter the second stage. ”

Li Ang, who stepped on the plant carpet, said casually: “They will dig deep into the soil,

the deepest point can reach ten or even twenty meters, and

weave a huge network in the ground with a diameter of thousands of kilometers that is unimaginable for human beings

. Mushrooms have sprung up from the surface.

Human civilization does not have the technical ability to renovate the soil of an entire continent,

nor does it have the technical ability to cover every piece of soil with metal plates.

Therefore, lichens will inevitably enter the third stage. ”

Li Ang said: “A large number of lichens burrowed out of the ground uncontrollably, spreading and expanding.

Even if humans burned them with fire extinguishers, they would continue to burn.

There will always be new lichens that burrow out of the ground in places beyond the reach of humans

. The three-stage lichen will form a Prototheca-like structure, which is a special mushroom in the Silurian period 438 million years ago

. Lichens, no longer rely on the fallen leaves of the surface trees for ultra-long-range spread, because I know you will definitely try to cut down the trees.

They will erupt on their own from the thousands of holes in the column, which is a fusion of fungal spores and algal cells. Dandelion,

dandelion, expands with the wind and water.

When it falls on the water, the algae cells are activated to form a water lily-like structure,

so that the fungal spores have the ability to spread across the sea.

In this process, human civilization did not resist space.

So, Lichens have come to the fourth stage.”

Li Ang tilted his head and said calmly: “In the fourth stage, which is the final stage,

lichens will cover 70% of the world’s land, parasitize all large plants, secrete enzymes, and live in plants. time to decompose its organic matter.

The soil will turn white and cannot be cultivated, and

trees, shrubs, flowers and plants in the wild cannot survive, and no longer produce food and oxygen.

Both herbivores and carnivores will die out.

This is not the end, white fungi will begin to evolve,

Cryptococcus, Candida auris, Mucor

will evolve into hundreds of deadly fungi, which are harmful to human hands, feet, eyes, nose, ears, respiratory tract, lungs, stomach Intestinal damage, etc.

Any act of walking on the surface without protection will be fatal.

Human civilization has been forced to huddle in a limited number of underground cities, relying on canned food and worm farming factories to obtain protein.

And on the surface,

land, sea, mountains, snowfields, deserts,

everything will be dyed white.

The whole process took three years. ”

Li Ang said calmly: “You may think this is cruel, but I call it efficient.

In my creation sequence, it is called,

Pale World. ”

[End of this Chapter]