Chapitre 290: Chapter 289
Countless mushroom trees were blown apart by the intense explosion. The wyvern's body was pulverized under the pressure of the shockwave. The creator of art had once again carved the traces of art upon this world.
As expected, this wyvern was quite fragile.
Bechymos slowly descended to the site of the explosion as it watched its huge body turn into powder. It released some flyers to approach the remains of the wyvern, devouring and decomposing them.
This fungus had spread quite deeply, with many of its hyphae extending into the bones. Most creatures liked to use some of the structures within the bones as hematopoietic and immune organs. Perhaps it was because the fungus had affected these parts that the wyvern became so … thin and weak.
Plague fungi could replace immune cells to kill other fungi or viruses that invaded the body, but they would also affect the structure of the organism itself, causing the organism to become weak.
From the looks of it, this was also the reason why the fungus monsters underground were easily cooked. Fungi indeed had many drawbacks.
This wyvern wasn't the biggest one. Lin believed that it could continue to grow. In fact, some reptiles had no upper limit to their growth. They would continue to grow for their entire lives. As long as they didn't die from an accident, they could still grow for a very, very long time. As for how long exactly? It was still very difficult to know.
How long they could grow was still a mystery. Generally speaking, they would die from the attacks of various fungi or viruses, or be eaten by other creatures. If there was a chance … perhaps they could grow to a considerable size.
That little wyvern should be raised properly to see how big it could grow. Right now, Cephalus was teaching it how to breathe fire. That might be a little difficult.
After this. Lin continued to attack the island. The bacteriophages kept spreading, devouring one mushroom tree after another. At the same time, the bacteriophages underground also spread, devouring the fungus spheres.
At present, the fungi couldn't form any effective counterattack.
However, they were indeed trying to find a way to counterattack.
The 'heartbeats' of the fungus spheres, which had been growing faster and faster, suddenly slowed down and eventually stopped altogether. Lin was a little puzzled as to what was going on. Lin first had the predators cut open some of the fungus spheres, only to discover something strange …
The fungus monsters inside had disappeared …
The inside of the fungus spheres had become hollow, like an empty eggshell. The same was true for many of the fungus spheres that had stopped beating. The creatures inside seemed to have suddenly disappeared.
Why did they disappear? Were they digested? The digestion rate shouldn't be that fast, or were these spheres originally empty? However, the ones that Lin had devoured earlier were not empty.
It was the same on land. Lin noticed that the mycelium covering the ground was slowly fading away, and the huge mushroom tree was turning into an empty shell like a fungus ball.
These mushrooms seemed to have digested themselves, turning themselves into an empty shell. With a gentle push, the entire tree fell to the ground, but Lin could not find where the digested nutrients went.
But Lin could guess what they were trying to do. It should be to prevent the Bacteriophages from spreading. The Bacteriophages grew by devouring fungi. If they emptied the nearby balls and trees, the Bacteriophages would not be able to continue growing.
However, the Bacteriophage could also move like a slime, albeit at a slower pace. Lin noticed that it was not only the orbs and trees around the Bacteriophage, but the orbs and trees around the Bacteriophage were also showing the same phenomenon. The plague fungus seemed to have decided to digest a large number of trees or fungal monsters …
But where were they digested to? Was it transported through some kind of small pipe? So far, Lin had yet to discover anything. The most peculiar thing was that if Lin injected the minions into some undigested trees or fungi balls, the fungi would not do such a thing. It was as if they would stop digesting once they were invaded by a foreign object.
The Kibucha Bugs were also doing something. They kept digging into the ground, as if trying to burrow deeper into the ground.
Lin didn't care too much about this. She just needed to slowly devour the entire island. Sooner or later, she would find where they were hiding.
Several days had passed since then …
Lin's progress was quite smooth. The plague fungus did not launch any more effective attacks. They seemed to have 'shrunk', and no fungal monsters appeared again. Almost all the fungi on the island were disappearing. Their disappearance was very strange. Lin could not find any scent or other traces. She suspected that they had retreated into the ground. Although there was no trace of them on the surface, she still planned to use some of her troops to dig deeper.
This was a relatively slow process. The island was too big, and since there were no intense battles going on, Lin turned her attention back to the dinosaur continent.
Recently, the Cephalopod expressed that it wanted to 'meet' Monte II face to face. However, due to the risk of Monte II hiding the fungus, Lin did not plan to bring him back to the continent.
However, that wasn't what Lin was concerned about. Instead, she was concerned about … the Humerus Dragons.
Lin's Pterosaur had always been with the Humerus Dragons. Occasionally, it would help them hunt, such as discovering prey in the sky. The Humerus Dragons also treated the Pterosaur as … a strange existence.
Why was it strange? The Humerus Dragons treated the Pterosaur differently from how they treated normal members. For example, they would give the Pterosaur food first, or pile a pile of bones next to it. They also built a 'hut' for the Pterosaur, but it was made of bones.
It was a strange feeling. They seemed to treat the Pterosaur as something more special than their leader.
Among the Humerus Dragons, Tucker was the closest to Lin's Pterosaur. He liked to spend time with Lin's Pterosaur, and when they talked, his hut was also built next to the Pterosaur's hut.
And now, it was a rather special day. The Humerus Dragons' leader had gathered all of its members together to make a special decision.
They were going to leave this place.
During the recent battle with the fungus, Lin had been observing the situation here. The Humerus Dragons' hunting rate was not very high. They lived at the border of the Salt Wasteland, so there were very few prey to begin with. They would often go days and nights without any prey. Although Lin did not know why they chose this place in the first place, the Humerus Dragons' leader had already decided that it was time to leave.
After staying with them for a while, Lin understood some of their words. Indeed, they did not have any complicated words, but they still contained a variety of meanings.
Lin tried to teach them some of the Cephalopod's words, but they had a hard time understanding them. It probably had something to do with the fact that their brain did not have any special knowledge of language. Even so, they still had their own language.
Now, the Humerus Dragons were in a circle in the hut. A few of their hatchlings were playing around them. At this moment, the Humerus Dragon leader was speaking in the middle.
"Caw caw, woo, matata, ka." The Humerus Dragons' leader was making all kinds of sounds. It was roughly saying that it was going to leave and decide which direction to go. Suddenly, it raised its forelimb and pointed into the distance while shouting.
At this moment, the Humerus Dragons who were hunting around immediately followed suit.
At this moment, they decided to head towards the direction of the Salt Wasteland!
Lin thought that it would be better to go to the forest or the river, but Lin would not interfere with their decision. They seemed to prefer places with less species than places with more species. Perhaps they were avoiding predators.
Although the Humerus Dragons could use all kinds of things to fight, they were not very powerful. The Humerus Dragons that Tucker came from were considered to be more 'bold'.
After the Humerus Dragons' leader decided to leave, all of them began to prepare. They first took out a lot of things from their huts.
Lin found that they would collect a lot of things, usually sharp stones, dinosaur claws, or horns of Horned Dragons. These things were not necessarily used, but they liked to pile them together.
When they left, they did not know which to take with them.
Their bodies could store more energy, so they could endure hunger for a long time. Therefore, they were not in a hurry now.
Besides, they also had a way of preserving food.
The Humerus Dragons would wrap some meat in salt and bury it under the hot sand that was sprinkled by the sun. This method could remove the moisture on the meat, making it dry, salty, and hard. It seemed to be able to be preserved for a long time, but it would become very … unpalatable.
The main reason was that it would be very salty. 'Salty' was used to describe the sense of taste. The Cephalopods would occasionally mention this word. The sense of taste was also a kind of tactile sense. Most arthropods and reptiles had a special organ for the sense of taste, called the 'tongue'.
The sense of taste was used to distinguish whether the food was harmful or not. Some creatures could even sense distant targets through their sense of taste. However, the Cephalopods would have some feelings towards their brain due to their preference for taste. The members of this group of Humerus Dragons also had such a preference.
Sometimes, even if they knew that eating too much of a certain taste would be harmful, they still liked to eat it. The Cephalopods loved barbecue. It seemed that when their brains grew bigger, they would be more easily affected by these feelings and lose their ability to judge.
However, the Humerus Dragons were more 'rational' than the Cephalopods. They knew what would be harmful if they ate too much.
Before they buried the meat, they had to do a lot of things, such as cutting off some parts of the meat. Not all parts of the meat could be used. They had to be carefully selected. Lin was very curious about how they learned these things. It probably had a lot to do with them living by the salt sea.
However, eating such salty things would lead to a lack of water. The Humerus Dragons used a kind of flexible dinosaur skin to make the shape of a pouch to store water.
After packing up, each Humerus Dragon brought a lot of things with them. Most of them were plant roots wrapped around their bodies, jerky, bone pieces, stones, and water pouches.
Now, they were about to face an endless white desert … It was a fantasy.
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