Fusionist

Luo Jiang already had a faint feeling in his heart at this moment, that Chu Cheng might really get better.Yan Jing continued: "Chu Cheng is probably parasitized by that kind of plant, and now he is no longer one of us. Given his danger, I think it is best not to bring him back to the base, nor Let him continue to follow us."

"Wait, Dr. Yan, what do you mean? You mean Ah Cheng is completely hopeless? He was parasitized. It's only been a few hours. How can you just say give up? We have Jin Xu here, he But it can manipulate plants. That kind of moss should also be a plant, I don't believe that Jin Xu can't get it out!"

Ye Donghua didn't want to believe this at all. He, Luo Jiang, and Chu Cheng all came from the same team, and how many times they went through life and death together.Obviously the other party didn't even have any injuries on his body, he just touched the centipede, so why would he give up his comrade in arms.

Before Jin Xu could speak, Yan Jing sighed and said, "It's not that I want to give up on him, I guess Jin Xu won't be of much use either. Let him try if he can't."

Jin Xu tried to get rid of the moss from Chucheng's body under the pressure of a group of people. At first, a little moss really flowed out of Chucheng's ear.Ye Donghua saw that the moss was made out, so he fed Chu Cheng a piece of that fruit.Chu Cheng woke up, with a look of surprise for the rest of his life, and then asked Su Jie to untie him.

Luo Jiang closed his eyes, turned his head and asked Yan Jing: "Dr. Yan, what's going on, why are all the moss coming out, and Ah Cheng hasn't recovered yet."

Chu Cheng said anxiously from behind: "Why didn't I recover, am I already cured?" However, Luo Jiang ignored the other party at all, and gave Chu Cheng another bottle of anesthetic.

Could it be that he couldn't recognize what his brother's eyes looked like.It was really the original Chu Cheng. After waking up, the first thing he did was not to ask for untied, but to ask Yan Jing and the others to check themselves to make sure that he would not infect his comrades with that terrible thing.This person who doesn't think about his comrades at all is still the parasitic Chu Cheng.

"Have you ever heard of zombie ants on Earth?" Yan Jing asked.

"Zombie ants?" "What's that?"

"There is such a thing on our earth? Is it a legendary thing like a zombie virus?" Ye Donghua looked surprised.

Yan Jing shook his head and said: "This has nothing to do with the zombie virus. This kind of zombie ant is a kind of ant parasitized by fungi. This fungus will make its own spores parasitize the ants. After the ant is parasitized, its Its behavior is completely out of its own hands, and everything is decided by the fungus in its body.

The fungus manipulates the ants into places that suit them.Let the opponent die, and then grow new spores from the opponent's corpse, infecting other passing ants.This moss is probably a similar creature.

After they infect a species, they will let this species infect as many creatures as possible, so that they can spread themselves as much as possible.This kind of thing may be similar to the spread of spores, but the moss in the centipede's body should not be mature yet, so we escaped. Only Chu Cheng was unlucky and got infected when he came into contact with the other party's blood.

Judging from Chucheng's current performance, the infected people basically have no self-awareness, and they are completely puppets of this moss.I don't think this kind of moss can be regarded as a complete plant. It is estimated that Chucheng should still have that kind of spore in his body, so it is difficult for Jin Xu to get rid of it. "

"Then Ah Cheng is really hopeless." Luo Jiang stared blankly at Chu Cheng. He couldn't believe that the other party's consciousness had actually died out unconsciously during the rest yesterday, and it was replaced by a kind of unconsciousness. Horrible plants for stuff.

Yan Jing said helplessly: "If possible, I also want to save him, but I don't know how to get rid of the spores in his body, even if I get rid of them, I don't know if his brain can be restored. If I'm not wrong, this hole might be where the moss grows. He's been trying to bring us in just now, probably to let us be parasitized together, and then we'll bring this moss back to the base and infect it. more people."

Gu Sen's scalp tingled when he heard it. Sure enough, it's dangerous down here. If you don't pay attention, you won't even know how to die.

"Then we have been here for so long, we must have been infected with that terrible spore." Jin Xu said nervously.

"It should be fine. If we could be parasitized just by standing here, then Chucheng wouldn't have been trying to drag us in just now. It is estimated that only by entering here can we be parasitized successfully."

Jin Xu couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief: "Why don't we go up first, it would be bad if there are other parasitic monsters around here."

Although Chu Cheng was parasitized, Luo Jiang and the others didn't think about leaving the other party here, let alone killing the other party.After all, it's just that Yan Jing thinks the other party is hopeless, maybe someone at the base can rescue him.

Jin Xu grabbed the wrapped Chucheng with vines, and was about to send it up, when he heard a sound like metal rubbing from the bottom of the cliff.Jin Xu first turned his head to look at Su Jie, and then quickly realized that this could not be the sound made by Su Jie, and the direction of the sound came from further below.

When I probed it, there seemed to be something black and murky stirring under the cliff.Gu Sen and Luo Jiang could see more clearly, those dark things were nothing but countless insects.

I don't know how many of these insects there are. They can see almost all these insects in their line of sight, and they are almost endless.

"I'll go." Goosen murmured.With a bang, the insects flew out from the bottom of the cliff.Like countless thick dark clouds, layered on top of each other.

Luo Jiang was the first to encounter these bugs, and a dense electric current gushed out from his body.All of a sudden, large patches of bugs were scorched black by the electricity, and fell down with crackling noises.But what everyone didn't expect was that when these bugs died, their tails collapsed, and streams of dark blue liquid spewed out from the inside. This liquid evaporated at an extremely fast speed after encountering air. .A cloud of blue smoke formed.

The vines that came into contact with the blue smoke began to wither one by one.Those withered places also began to spread upwards rapidly, and they were about to swallow the entire vine.

This fog is highly poisonous!And it is highly penetrating and highly poisonous!This thought flashed through everyone's minds, and in just a few seconds, the poison was about to spread to the vines in their hands.And not only that, the blue smoke below is also spreading upwards.

In desperation, Su Jie took out a large ball of metal from the space, blocked the poisonous fog for a while, and then used the metal to make a few temporary footholds for the others on the cliff.

But this can only block the poison, those insects seem to have discovered their group of delicacies, and swarmed towards the crowd.Gu Sen could see the glistening blue mouthparts and sharp feet of these bugs.This thing is definitely carnivorous!If this thing is not poisonous, they will kill it if they kill it. Even if there are a little more bugs, they will not take this kind of bugs seriously, but they dare not do it lightly at this time, for fear of getting them out The poisonous smog is increasing.

"Quick, all go down." Gu Sen noticed with sharp eyes that all the bugs seemed to avoid the mossy cave.

Several other people also saw this situation. It seemed that they had to go in even if they didn't want to go in. But before going in, they had to be prepared.

Su Jie wrapped the other people with a thin layer of metal. This metal was specially formulated by him. It is very soft and can be worn on the body more docilely. It has little effect on the movement and can be used as a protective clothing. up.

Several people put on their gas masks and hid in the cave.Those bugs still wanted to go in a little bit unwillingly, it seemed that they really coveted the flesh and blood of this group of people.

A group of people went a little further in, but the bugs stopped following them. After circling outside the cave for a while, they finally left.Gu Sen looked around in fear, for fear of encountering the kind of moss that can parasitize the human body, but fortunately, that thing did not appear here.

The entrance of this cave is only three or four meters wide. After entering, it suddenly becomes clear, and the space suddenly becomes larger.It was different from what everyone had imagined. Originally, they thought that after they came in, they were all gray-brown moss.But within more than 100 meters from the entrance of the cave to the corner, they did not see that terrible plant.

The walls and the ground of the cave are a strange off-white color, and there is no living thing in the cave. Goosen used ultrasonic detection and found that there are some moss-like plants growing behind the corner, and the closer they are, the more they are. .

After Yan Jing looked around, he began to grope around.After turning around for a while, he asked Su Jie to drag Chu Cheng over.The anesthetic extracted from the orange plant was really effective. Chu Cheng was dragged around like this, but she didn't show any signs of waking up.

"Dr. Yan, what are you going to do?" Luo Jiang was a little puzzled.

Yan Jing had just dug out a pile of off-white soil from the ground, and he asked Su Jie to drag Chu Cheng with metal, and dragged him to the pile of mud.After about ten minutes, Chu Cheng frowned slightly, and his body began to struggle backwards, as if trying to avoid something.

"What's going on here?" Ye Donghua was taken aback.

Yan Jing pointed at the soil with a happy face and said, "This should be something that can restrain that kind of moss."

"What did you say?" Everyone stared at the gray-white soil under Yan Jing's feet for an instant.

Yan Jing pointed to the corner of the cave, "Look at this place, there is no moss."

"What's the matter without moss?" Gu Sen was a little confused.

"Actually, I've always been curious. This kind of moss is so domineering. No matter how you say it, they shouldn't shrink to one place. With the characteristics of this kind of moss, it should spread everywhere very quickly. With such a strong parasitic nature, why not What about spreading? Either their growth is restricted by the environment, or there is a species here that can restrain them.

Just like voles and goats on the prairie, the reason why they are not flooded is because there are animals that specialize in them at the top of the food chain.

When I entered the cave, I observed the situation in the cave. The environment here should still be very suitable for moss growth, cool and humid.But why is there no such moss here?Have you ever thought about it. "

Everyone was stunned for a moment, where did they think about this problem.

Yan Jing smiled, "There is a strange substance in the soil here. This kind of substance is particularly abundant, accounting for almost 40.00% of the soil composition. There are also rocks on the cave wall, which also have this kind of substance. This There are no insects or other species in the cave, the only difference is the substance in the soil. So I wanted to give it a try, and it turned out that Chucheng did respond to this thing."

Now several people stared at the dirt, because everyone was wrapped tightly, and no one could smell anything.As for Yan Jing, it is also because he is a blender of the soil system that he can easily distinguish the difference in the soil here.

"Can this soil save Ah Cheng?" Luo Jiang asked expectantly.

Yan Jing shook his head, "I'm not sure about this. If the special substance in it can be extracted, maybe it's possible, but don't put too much hope on it."