Gamers Are Fierce Chapter 127: Behemoth (7)
In the Waihai military base in Xingang City, the senior members of PPDC stared blankly at the images captured by the surveillance cameras on the big screen.
I saw those plant cannonballs, under delicate calculations, accurately landed on construction sites, urban parks, green belts, riversides and other areas in other urban areas,
falls on bare soil.
Pop.
The plant cannonballs burst together, erupting a large amount of catkin-like white flocs that covered the soil.
These flocs, spread out naturally, quickly grow into intricate silk-like structures like lichen moss, digging 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,
And those taller landscape trees,
Huang Huai, Phoenix wood, Eucalyptus grandis, King palm, Pu Kui...
While becoming the erosion target of lichen moss, it also became a natural springboard for mycelial expansion——
Lichen mycelium quickly corrodes the internal structure of various trees and poisons its branches, leaves and fruits.
Every flower, every leaf, every fruit,
White mold grows on its surface.
Whether it is a deciduous tree or an evergreen tree,
All the fruit fell to the ground,
Flowers wither, leaves fall off,
Some already light leaves have grown fluffy and pure white spherical hyphae,
After falling off, it floats away freely like a dandelion in the breeze,
falls elsewhere.
When it falls on the water, the pure white mycelium floats on the water 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 cracks, 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., white mycelium **** have a way-
They will spread out as much as possible to expand the area,
Waiting for other factors to take them away and spread.
For example, people.
Pedestrians on the street, panicked by the sudden white wave,
Screaming, crying and running away.
They drive vehicles, carrying clumps of cotton-like, expanding flocs at high speed.
They stepped on the carpet of white mycelium, and in places where the mycelium could not reach, they stepped on pure white footprints.
They shove, squeeze into underground dugouts, or run to tall buildings,
Completely unnoticed, the white mycelium clings to their clothing, waiting to expand.
A bird's-eye view of the entire city, as if dozens of drops of white paint were suddenly dripped into it, allowing them to flow freely.
"Mold is a general term for branched hyphae, a type of fungi.
It is characterized by more developed mycelium and no larger fruiting bodies. You can imagine an orange that has been on the shelf for a long time, and it has been placed for so long that yellow-green mycelium grows on the surface.
As opposed to branched hyphal fungi, there are fungi with larger fruiting bodies, that is, mushrooms. "
Li Ang indifferently faced Fang Xuewen's split canthal stare, and said calmly: "Mold mainly rely on all kinds of sexual or asexual spores to reproduce,
Mold spores are small, light, dry, and numerous,
Different shapes and colors, long dormancy period and strong resistance, each individual can produce tens of thousands, even hundreds of millions, billions, tens of billions, hundreds of billions of spores,
Floating with the wind, flowing with the water,
Spread everywhere, multiply everywhere, pervasive and ubiquitous.
The lichens you see are a combination of special algae and white fungal hyphae,
Like the first collaboration between algae and fungi 500 million years ago,
Algae contain photosynthetic pigments, which can carry out photosynthesis and provide the basis for the existence of nutrients and fruit for fungi,
The fungal hyphae provide water and inorganic salts for the algae to protect the algae,
At the same time, fungal hyphae can also produce a large number of mycelial spore **** that are visible to the naked eye, carrying mycelial sporophytes and algae, and continue to expand through air, water, and biological channels.
The first stage, which is the stage you see,
Lichens attach to soil and other plants, secrete enzymes and expand in situ.
Lichens at this stage are relatively fragile and harmless to humans,
If handled properly, it can be destroyed by fire,
It is also possible to use a large number of parasitic insulators such as metal and glass to create a 'fireproof tape' for isolation. "
As if to verify Li Ang's words,
A member of the PPDC at the bottom of the building controls the mecha, activates the flamethrower, and burns the white mycelium-infected ground in sight.
The flamethrower emits a faint blue flame, and wherever it goes, the mycelium melts and disintegrates,
And some PPDC members whose mechas do not have flamethrower functions saw this and followed suit, using the vector nozzles on the back of the mechas to burn each other's mechas,
Clean up the white mycelium attached to the mech.
"However, the total amount is too large, enough lichens 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 meters or even twenty meters,
Weaving a huge network of thousands of kilometers in diameter that is unimaginable under the ground,
It sprang up like mushrooms after the rain.
Human civilization does not have the technical ability to renovate the soil of an entire continent,
Neither have the technical ability to cover every piece of soil with sheet metal.
Therefore, lichens must enter the third stage. "
Li Ang said: "A large number of lichens uncontrollably burrowed out of the ground, spreading and spreading,
Even if humans burn with fire extinguishers, they will continue to burn.
There will always be new lichens, burrowing out of the ground in places beyond human reach.
The third stage of lichens will form a Prototheca-like structure - a special mushroom in the Silurian period 438 million years ago. It is a giant column six meters high and one meter thick, like a termite. Ant nest.
Lichens at this stage ~IndoMTL.com~ no longer rely on the fallen leaves of surface trees for ultra-long-range spread, because I know you will definitely try to cut down trees.
They will spontaneously erupt white dandelions fused with fungal spores and algal cells from thousands of holes in the column,
The dandelion spreads smoothly.
When falling on water, the algae cells activate, forming a water lily-like structure,
Let fungal spores have the ability to spread across oceans.
In this process, human civilization has no resistance space.
Therefore, the lichen has come to the fourth stage. "
Li Ang tilted his head and said calmly: "The fourth stage, which is the final stage,
Lichens cover 70% of the world's landmass, parasitize all large plants, and secrete enzymes that break down organic matter while plants are alive.
The soil will turn white and cannot be cultivated,
Wild trees, shrubs, flowers and plants cannot survive and no longer produce food and oxygen.
Herbivorous and carnivorous animals will die out.
This is not the end, the white fungus will begin to evolve,
Cryptococcus, Candida auris, Mucor...
They will evolve into hundreds of deadly fungi, causing damage to human hands, feet, eyes, nose, ears, respiratory tract, lungs, gastrointestinal tract, etc.
Any walking on the surface unprotected is fatal.
Human civilization was 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 entire process took three years. "
Lee Ang said calmly: "You may think this is cruel, but I call it efficient.
In my creation sequence,
Its name is,
The Pale World. "