Chapter 1148: Behemoth (7)

At the Offshore Military Base in Xingang City, the senior leaders of PPDC

stared blankly at the pictures taken by the surveillance cameras on the big

screen.I saw that those plant shells, under delicate calculations, accurately landed

on construction sites, urban parks, green belts, riversides and other areas in

other urban areas.Landed on bare soil.Snapped.The plant shells exploded, spewing out a large number of white flocs like

catkins, covering the soil.These flocs, naturally spread out, quickly grow out of intricate silk-like

structures like lichen and moss, and plunge into the ground.And further grow root structures similar to advanced plants, absorbing

nutrients from the soil.The white lichen moss is centered on the bare soil, which erodes and expands

efficiently.The lawns, flowers, and shrubs in the green belt seem to be gradually soaked

with white fuel and covered with a thick layer of moss.And those taller landscape trees,Yellow locust, poinciana, large leaf eucalyptus, king palm, palm sunflower...While becoming the target of lichen moss erosion, it has also become a natural

springboard for mycelial expansion—Lichen hyphae quickly corroded the internal structure of various trees and

poisoned their branches, leaves and fruits.Every flower, every leaf, every fruit,White mold has grown on its surface.Whether it is a deciduous tree or an evergreen tree,All the fruits fell to the ground,The flowers wither, the leaves fall off,Some leaves that are already light, because they grow fluffy and pure white

spherical hyphae,After falling off, following the breeze, drifting away freely like a

dandelion,Landed elsewhere.When falling on the water, the pure white mycelium will float on the surface

of the water, drifting along the water, waiting to be naturally carried by the

water current to the soil on the shore, and expand along the river.When it falls on the cement road, the pure white mycelium will follow the gap,

through the cement, looking for the soil.Even if it falls on inorganic objects such as bus roofs, high-rise glass

windows, metal billboards, etc., the white mycelium ** can do it—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.The pedestrians on the street were terrified by the sudden white wave.Screaming, crying and running away.They drove the vehicle, carrying masses of cotton-like, swelling floc, driving

fast.They stepped on the carpet of white mycelium, and stepped on pure white

footprints where the mycelium could not reach it.They shoved, squeezed into underground air-raid shelters, or rushed to tall

buildings,Without even noticing, the white mycelium clings to their clothes, waiting for

the 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 hyphae, a type of fungus.Its characteristic is that the mycelium is relatively developed, and there is

no larger fruit body. You can imagine the orange that has been placed on the

shelf for a long time, and it has been left for too long, so that the surface

of the yellow-green hyphae grows.In contrast to branched mycelial fungi, there are fungi with larger fruit

bodies, that is, mushrooms. "Li Ang calmly faced Fang Xuewen’s splitting gaze, and said calmly: “Mold

relies mainly on various sexual or asexual spores to reproduce.Mold spores are small, light, dry, and many,Different shapes and colors, long dormancy period, strong resistance to

resistance, each individual can produce tens of thousands, even hundreds of

millions, billions, tens of billions, and hundreds of billions of spores.Drifting with the wind, flowing with the water,Spread everywhere, reproduce everywhere, pervasive, omnipresent.The lichens you see are a special complex of algae and white fungus hyphae.Just like the first collaboration between algae and fungus 500 million years

ago,Algae contains photosynthetic pigments, which can carry out photosynthesis,

and provide nutrients and solid foundation for fungi.The fungal hyphae provide moisture and inorganic salt to the algae, protect

the algae,At the same time, fungal hyphae can also generate a large number of visible

hyphae spore balls, which carry mycelium and algae, and continue to expand

through air, water, and biological channels.The first stage, which is the stage you see,Lichens will grow on the soil and other plants, secrete enzymes, and expand on

the spot.The lichens at this stage are relatively fragile and harmless to people.If handled properly, it can be burned out by flames,It is also possible to use a large amount of metal, glass and other parasitic

insulators to make "fire-resistant belts" for isolation. "Like 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 ground that is infested with white

mycelium in his line of sight.The flamethrower emits a faint blue flame, wherever it goes, the mycelium

melts and dissipates,Some members of PPDC who didn’t have flamethrower function in the mechas saw

it, and they also wittily followed suit, using the vector nozzles on the back

of the mechas to burn each other’s mechas.Clean up the white hyphae attached to the mecha."However, the total amount is too large, enough lichen to enter the second

stage."Li Ang, who stepped on the plant carpet, said casually: "They will plunge

deeply 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 humans

cannot imagine,Then spring up like bamboo shoots out of the ground.Human civilization does not have the technical ability to renovate the entire

continent's soil.Nor does it have the technical ability to cover metal plates on every soil.Therefore, lichen must enter the third stage. "Li Ang said: "A large number of lichens drilled out of the ground

uncontrollably, spreading and expanding,Even if humans use fire extinguishers to burn them, they will continue to

burn.There will always be new lichens, burrowing out of the ground in places beyond

human power.The lichen in the third stage will form a structure like Protoglyph-a special

mushroom of the Silurian period 438 million years ago. The shape is a giant

column six meters high and one meter thick, just like termite nests.Lichens at this stage, UU Reading no longer rely on the

fallen leaves of the ground trees for ultra-long-distance transmission,

because I know that you will definitely try to cut down trees.From the thousands of holes in the pillars, they spew white dandelions fused

with fungal spores and algae cells on their own.Dandelion rides the wind and expands.When falling on water, the algae cells will activate and form a water lily-

like structure,Let fungal spores have the ability to spread across the sea.In this process, human civilization has no room for resistance.Thus, lichen came to the fourth stage. "Li Ang tilted his head and said calmly: "The fourth stage is the final stage.Lichens cover 70% of the world's land, parasitize all large plants, secrete

enzymes, and decompose their organic matter while the plants are alive.The soil will become white and cannot be cultivated,Wild trees, shrubs, flowers and plants cannot survive, and no longer produce

food and oxygen.Both herbivores and carnivores will die.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 harm to human hands,

feet, eyes, nose, ears, respiratory tract, lungs, and gastrointestinal tract.Any behavior that walks on the surface without protection will be fatal.Human civilization is forced to shrink in a limited number of underground

cities, relying on canned food and earthworm breeding factories to obtain

protein.And on the surface,Land, sea, mountains, snowfields, deserts,Everything will be dyed white.The whole process took three years in total. "Li Ang calmly said: "You may think this is cruel, but I call it efficient.In my creation sequence,Its name,The pale world. "