Gamers Are Fierce

At the offshore military base in Xingang City, PPDC executives stared dumbfounded at the images captured by surveillance cameras on the big screen.

I saw those plant cannonballs, with exquisite calculations, accurately landing on construction sites, city parks, green belts, riverside and other areas in other urban areas.

It fell on bare soil.

Snapped.

The plant cannonballs exploded in unison, ejecting a large amount of white catkin-like material that covered the soil.

These flocs naturally spread out and quickly grew into intricate thread-like structures like lichen and moss, which penetrated into the earth.

And further grow a root structure similar to that of advanced plants to absorb nutrients from the soil.

White lichen moss centers on bare soil and erodes efficiently.

The lawns, flowers, and shrubs in the green belt seem to be gradually saturated with white fuel and covered with a thick layer of moss.

And those taller landscape trees,

Sophora japonica, Poinciana, Eucalyptus macrophylla, King palm, Palm palm...

While becoming the target of erosion by lichen and moss, it also serves as a natural springboard for the expansion of hyphae——

Lichen hyphae quickly corrode the internal structures of various trees and poison their branches, leaves and fruits.

Every flower, every leaf, every fruit,

White mold grew 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 of the already light leaves have fluffy and pure white spherical mycelium.

After falling off, it floats away freely like a dandelion in the breeze.

Fall somewhere else.

When it falls on the water, the pure white mycelium will float on the water and drift along the water, waiting to be naturally carried to the shore soil by the current and expand along the river.

When it falls on the cement pavement, the pure white mycelium will follow the cracks, pass through the cement, and look for soil.

Even if it falls on inorganic objects such as bus roofs, high-rise glass windows, metal billboards, etc., the white mycelial balls can still find a solution——

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 were frightened by the sudden white wave.

Screaming, crying and running away.

They drove vehicles, carrying clumps of cotton-like, ever-expanding floc, and drove rapidly.

They stepped on the carpet paved with white mycelium, leaving pure white footprints in places where the mycelium could not reach.

They pushed and squeezed into underground air raid shelters or rushed to high-rise buildings.

Completely unnoticed, the white hyphae clung to their clothes, waiting for an opportunity to expand.

The aerial view of the entire city looks like dozens of drops of white paint were suddenly dropped into it, 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 are no large fruiting bodies. You can imagine an orange that has been left on the shelf for a long time. It has been left for so long that yellow-green mycelium grows on the surface.

Opposite to branched hyphal fungi are fungi with larger fruiting bodies, which are mushrooms.

Li Ang calmly faced Fang Xuewen's eye-splitting gaze and said calmly: Molds mainly rely on various sexual or asexual spores to reproduce.

Mold spores are small, light, dry and numerous,

They have different shapes and colors, long dormancy periods, and strong resistance. Each individual can produce thousands, even hundreds of millions, billions, tens of billions, or hundreds of billions of spores.

Drifting with the wind, flowing with the water,

Spread everywhere, reproduce everywhere, pervasive, and omnipresent.

The lichens you see are a complex of special algae and white fungal hyphae.

Just 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 to the algae and protect the algae.

At the same time, fungal hyphae can also produce a large number of mycelial spore balls that are visible to the naked eye.

Carrying mycelial spores and algae, it continues to expand through air, water sources, and biological channels.

The first stage, which is the stage you see,

Lichens grow on soil and other plants, secrete enzymes, and expand on the spot.

Lichen at this stage is relatively fragile and harmless to humans.

If handled properly, it can be burned to death by flames.

It is also possible to use a large amount of metal, glass and other parasitic insulators to create ‘fireproof strips’ for isolation.

As if to verify Li Ang's words,

A PPDC member at the bottom of the building controlled the mecha, activated the flamethrower, and burned the ground infected with white mycelium in sight.

The flamethrower emitted blue flames, and wherever it went, the mycelium melted and disintegrated.

Seeing this, some PPDC members whose mechas did not have flamethrower functions also cleverly followed suit and used the vector nozzles on the backs of the mechas to burn each other's mechas.

Clean off the white mycelium attached to the mecha.

However, the total amount is too large for lichens to enter the second stage.

Li Ang, who was stepping on the carpet of plants, said casually: They will penetrate deeply into the soil.

The deepest point can reach ten meters or even twenty meters.

A giant network with a diameter of thousands of kilometers that is unimaginable to humans is woven underground.

Then they sprouted out of the ground like mushrooms after rain.

Human civilization does not have the technical ability to renovate the soil of an entire continent.

There is also no technical ability to cover every soil with metal sheets.

Therefore, lichens must enter the third stage.

Li Ang said: A large number of lichens emerged from the ground uncontrollably, spreading and expanding.

Even if humans use fire extinguishers to burn them, they will still burn.

There are always new lichens emerging from the ground in places beyond human reach.

In the third stage, lichens will form a structure like Protothecospora, which is a special mushroom from the Silurian period 438 million years ago. It is shaped like a giant column six meters high and one meter thick, like a termite nest.

At this stage, lichens no longer rely on the fallen leaves of surface trees for ultra-long-distance spread, because I know you will definitely try to cut down the trees.

They will erupt white dandelions that are a fusion of fungal spores and algae cells from thousands of holes in the column.

Dandelions ride the tide and expand.

When dropped on water, the algae cells activate, forming a water lily-like structure.

Allowing fungal spores to spread across oceans.

And there is no room for human civilization to resist this process.

Thus, lichens have reached 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 organic matter while the plants are alive.

The soil will turn white and cannot be farmed,

Trees, shrubs, flowers and plants in the wild cannot survive and no longer produce food and oxygen.

Both herbivores and carnivores will become extinct.

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 act of walking on the surface without protection will be fatal.

Human civilization is forced to huddle in a limited number of underground cities and rely on canning and earthworm farming factories to obtain protein.

And on the surface,

Land, ocean, mountains, snowfields, deserts,

Everything will be dyed white.

The entire process took three years.

Li Ang said calmly: You may think this is cruel, but I call it efficient.

In the sequence of my creation,

Its name is,

Pale world.