High Above

"It's okay, it's just pure synthetic sugar. It needs to be catalyzed to become a psychedelic anesthetic. Let's just stir it with water, it's pure nutrition."

Ian himself has a clean rock body, and he is not afraid of general parasites and toxins, but he also has a silver chip. Of course, he knew that the sugar water he was waiting for others to drink was fine.

However, he actually has some emotions: "Giant golden mushrooms will not take the initiative to kill symbiotic beasts through symbiosis—they will make the symbiotic beast's body harder and stronger, and the host can get stronger power. And the giant golden mushroom can also go to more places to spread spores, generally speaking, it is a win-win situation in all aspects.”

"However, after a long time of symbiosis, as the mycelium spreads in the body, the symbiotic beast will inevitably become a semi-fungal creature, become restless, and finally simply bury itself and regard itself as a A giant golden mushroom."

This is a transformation, not pure parasitism, and there is a big difference between the two.

This is obviously the case with the fort giant tortoise. It no longer feels that it is a turtle, but a moving mushroom.

If it had to be explained from this angle, the Giant Golden Mushroom would indeed drive people crazy.

However, something strange.

Ian can probably guess that the reason why the cave where the giant golden mushrooms are located is cold, and all of them are heat-loving metal-based life forms, may be due to the problem of the heat dissipation system of the ruins—when the ruins dissipate heat abnormally, the original ice here will The cold will be converted into a high-heat cave suitable for their activities and survival, and there is an endless source of water, which is a very precious settlement.

But, why are all the giant golden mushrooms shrinking in this small cave instead of spreading outward?

Soon Ian knew the answer.

——Of course it's not strong enough, it's suppressed here by other monsters!

As the giant golden mushrooms and flying flame soldiers fought in the entire cave, the strange sweet fragrance began to spread, and there were rustling sounds from the distant caves and underground rivers. Immediately afterwards, in Ian's vision of foresight, there was More than a dozen monster-level blue mist appeared!

Among them, there are even some parasitic beasts parasitized by brain-eating worms!

Seeing this scene, Ian almost gasped. He immediately motioned to Yisen who didn't know why to speed up, and he immediately reversed his direction and ran towards the direction that didn't lead to the underground river or the underground lake.

He has fully understood.

——When the ruins dissipate heat abnormally, the giant golden mushroom will be activated, and the mellow sugar liquid it produces will attract many surrounding monsters, even infected beasts that are parasitic!

Although the brain-eating worms are terrifying, they are defeated by the giant mushrooms without brains and the symbiotic beasts controlled by giant mushrooms with no brains.

During this process, the giant golden mushrooms will be eaten by monsters, so that they can obtain food for reproduction and advancement. After all, it is a special nutritional product for earth sublimators that even Ian wants to take for a long time. The value is indeed extremely high.

And some giant golden mushrooms will also obtain their own symbiotic beasts by virtue of the intoxication brought by the high concentration of sugar mist, and use the corpses left after the battle as nutrients for the growth of the mushroom group.

When parasitic beasts are wiped out by symbiotic beasts and other monsters, they will also infect some monsters and wild beasts.

The resources of the three parties circulate each other in this way.

Every time the heat dissipation is abnormal, it is a large-scale resource exchange, a nutrient cycle!

The abnormality of the ruins has been going on for many years, and it has even become the cycle of this underground ecological cycle... forming a whole set of underground ecological system.

But this time, the arrival of Feiyan's soldiers activated the activation of the mushroom group in advance.

Although Ethan didn't know what happened, he also keenly sensed that there was a lot of life around him—he was somewhat of a genius in alchemy, and he quickly figured out the key to the problem, and he immediately felt the same way as Ian. Without saying a word, he buried his head and ran away.

But there are too many monsters and beasts rushing towards the Giant Mushroom Cave. Even Ian, who has a vision of vision, can't avoid them all.

Just when he was about to turn to go to the cave above, suddenly a gust of high-heat and fishy wind came from diagonally above his nostrils!

It was a giant red-clawed cave bear that had been parasitized for a long time, a cave maker that could heat its own metal claws and easily dig a cave in any rock wall.

Ian had expected it a long time ago, and with a leap, he took Yisen and took a big step towards the side and rear, avoiding the violent claws that were enough to break through the steel armor.

"Sure enough, sensing Yisen and I's more active thinking, did you give up the giant fungus to hunt us?"

He had known for a long time that there was a cave bear in front of him whose trajectory overlapped with them, but because many monsters and beasts noticed the two and their strength before, they avoided them, so Ian wanted to see if the parasitic beast had different modes of action.

Sure enough, the behavior patterns of the parasitic beasts were selected based on the level of mental activity, or in other words, 'spiritual power'.

At first, Cave Bear was only conscious of them and did not take any real action, but when he noticed the fluctuation when Ian used the vision of vision, he immediately rushed towards him like a madman.

Not only that, but there was also the faint sound of an appointment behind him. It was impressive that many parasitic beasts who had gone towards the Giant Mushroom Cave before started to track Ian and the others.

"It's no wonder the previous parasites took the initiative to attack me. What a troublesome place, troublesome bugs."

Although he already knew it, it is impossible for Ian not to foresee the horizon, and he can only break through at this moment.

The cave bear was fit and charged again. This kind of bear was not tall compared to Terra's kind, but it was about 2.5 meters on average. Its pounce was powerful enough to crush Ian and Isengard together.

But against it, it didn't even take Ian's shot.

Isengard reached out and pointed to the lower body of the giant bear.

Although after being parasitized, the parasitic beast basically does not use the following thing, but it still has the necessary neurofeedback. The parasite just replaces the brain, and it cannot completely control every slightest movement of the body.

Therefore, in an instant, under the corrosive poisonous fire created by Isengard, the cave bear fell to the ground with an indescribable and extremely tragic wailing cry, and the pounce became weak and slow, and was easily released by the two of them. avoid.

"It's really useful!" After doing such an indescribably cruel thing, Isengarde was very excited, his face was flushed, and even his eyes had a lot of light: "Thank you, Ian, I didn't expect to attack here to be so useful ..."

"Learn from you in combat, it's true!"

"follow me?"

Hearing this, Ian was a little puzzled, he didn't show his penchant for attacking the lower body, at most he just attacked the weak point according to ergonomics... Hmm, it seems that this is the reason?

But in any case, Ian is really not suitable for fighting with Master Goser behind his back, and it is a great thing for the team that Isengard can learn fighting skills.