Capítulo 160: Chapter 159
Inside the salamander's body, Lin quickly decomposed and transformed all of the salamander's flesh. After eating the salamander until only a layer of skin was left, a new type of soldier slowly crawled out from the skin.
It was called a 'Shapeshifter', similar to the Infiltrators. It was a slime type of soldier, capable of changing its body color and shape at will. Its entire body's cells were in a changeable state. The Shapeshifter's transformation speed was faster than the Infiltrators', the colloidal substance on its skin could completely seal off its scent, so Lin believed that it would be impossible to find it this time.
Speaking of which, what exactly is a slime? This word kept popping up in Lin's mind. In fact, other than the slime worms, Lin had never seen any creatures that could freely change their body shape.
Looking at the pile of food in the warehouse, Lin didn't smell anything rotten. Perhaps the Inca insects had some sort of method to resist decay.
The Shapeshifter crawled to the entrance of the warehouse, which was blocked by the Incan insects with a wooden plug. However, the Shapeshifter was able to shrink its body and squeeze through the gaps in the plug.
After squeezing out of the plug, Lin saw the tunnel she came from. This wooden tunnel was circular, about half a meter in diameter. On the way here, Lin also saw many forks in the tunnel, most likely leading to other rooms.
This tunnel was very similar to Lin's and the headworm's cave system. There was a main tunnel that led to different rooms with different functions. It seemed that many creatures liked this kind of structure.
However, the tunnel here was too narrow, even the slightly larger insects couldn't get through.
Lin also noticed that there were some glowing creatures on the walls of the tunnel. They were multicellular and only about half a millimeter long. They were very similar to the ones at the top of the cave.
The Shapeshifter stuck to the wall and slowly crawled. It had completely changed its body to the color of wood. Occasionally, a small swarm of black bees would walk through the tunnel, but they didn't notice the Shapeshifter.
It seemed that the disguise was quite successful.
The Shapeshifter slowly moved forward, and soon, Lin reached a place with three forks in the tunnel.
This place seemed to be called a crossroad, and if she kept going forward, it should be the way out. Then, there were only two sides left, which way should she go? After thinking for half a second, Lin decided to split the Shapeshifter in two, each going in a different direction.
The Shapeshifter on the right found that the tunnel was slowly going up. In the end, it even became vertical. The shapeshifters stuck to the wall and slowly climbed up. The shapeshifters on the left found that the end of the passage had widened, and they had reached a room.
A dazzling light came from the room. The shapeshifter entered and saw a wonderful scene.
The whole room was circular, and on the inner wall, there were many spherical objects. A three-meter-long arthropod was in the center of the room, and it kept producing these spheres at the end of its abdomen. And lined them up neatly on the wall.
This seemed to be a queen-type creature, but the eggs it laid were all very strange. The center emitted a bright red glow. The slime slowly climbed up the wall. When it approached the eggs, Lin could clearly feel that the temperature of these eggs was quite high. It felt like a hot spring.
Could there be some kind of strange army in these eggs? Did it need such a high temperature?
Lin wanted the shapeshifter to enter the egg to take a look. Suddenly, a loud noise came from the entrance of the room. A swarm of black bees rushed in from the entrance.
Lin saw that they were still dragging the salamander with only a piece of skin left. That was a quick discovery. They seemed to have thought that something had sneaked in through the salamander's body.
The black bees began to search the room. Lin had the shapeshifter stick to the shell of the egg and turn into the same color as the egg.
The black bees checked all the eggs one by one. When one of the black bees checked the egg wrapped in the shapeshifter, it suddenly screeched.
They had discovered it?
All the black bees surrounded it. Without any hesitation, they tore the shapeshifter apart, chewed it into powder, and swallowed it.
If the shapeshifter was chewed up, it would be very difficult for Lin to invade other creatures. The scattered cells would be easily dissolved. However, the shapeshifter had some small spheres wrapped in a shell. When these spheres were swallowed by the black bees, they could still invade.
However, Lin didn't know if the black bees could be controlled. If the Inca swarm had something like a brain worm, they would definitely discover it.
In any case, she would hide inside the body of this black bee for now. At the same time, Lin had the shapeshifter on the right change its internal structure, changing its scent to be very similar to that of a tree. The black bees might have discovered some of Lin's scent in the salamander's skin, which was why they were able to identify her.
In fact, no matter how it was done, the scent would still exist. As long as it moved in the air, it would inadvertently leave behind a lot of debris. The problem was how to make the opponent's olfactory system determine whether it was' harmful 'or' harmless'. Lin's shapeshifter could create a scent that most creatures would find harmless or hard to detect. For example, the scent of a stone. Normally, there wouldn't be any special reaction to this scent. However, the black bees could still search the salamander's skin. After removing the salamander's scent, they would determine another scent inside the skin, the shapeshifter's scent as' harmful 'and track the shapeshifter down.
Scent was a very profound problem. From this aspect, it could be seen that the Inca swarm's sensory organs were quite developed.
After analyzing how the Inca swarm found the shapeshifter, Lin decided to change the shapeshifter's scent every once in a while so that the swarm wouldn't be able to track the shapeshifter down.
Then, Lin had the shapeshifter continue moving up the tunnel. As she moved down the vertical tunnel, Lin noticed that the space around her was getting wider and wider. After walking for a while, the tunnel was already about 10 meters wide. At the same time, there were many large insects crawling on the walls of the tunnel.
Some of the beetle-type insects were flat and long. Their abdomens were filled with a bright light. Lin suspected that they were hatched from the eggs. Lin could feel that their abdomens were filled with the same high temperature as the eggs, which also served as a source of light.
However, Lin believed that there was more to their use than that.
Aside from these 'High-Temperature Bugs', Lin also saw many other types of bugs. Some of them were large and heavily armoured, while others were small and had sharp teeth all over their bodies. Some of them even had many round holes on their bodies, which were stuffed with round eggs.
There were many different types of Inca swarm here. These strange insects filled the entire tunnel. Lin suspected that the entire Hometree was occupied by them. Many black bees were shuttling back and forth under the feet of these strange insects. They were carrying food to feed and take care of these insects. However, these insects didn't move at all, as if they were only responsible for eating and staring blankly.
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