Ninja World: Insect Princess from Konoha

Chapter 421 Lick it

The emergence of this fungus is an accident, as a by-product of the Nydus Worm, and if the Nydus Worm is the stable version, the Destruction Mushroom is the unstable version.

Even Maggie can't control it perfectly, and often accidentally injures herself due to various accidents.

Soon, a pure white mushroom field appeared nearby, and spores floated in the sky.

This is an extremely primitive strategy. Primitive means simple and effective. Each mushroom will release hundreds of millions of spores, and only a few lucky spores will fall in a suitable environment to grow and multiply.

But the problem is that no matter where it is, it is the right environment for the destruction mushroom.

Even in the vacuum of the universe, energy and nutrients can be transformed from radiation.

Ordinary fungi, when it reproduces again, its next generation of spores will integrate the variation of the environment into new genes, so that this group of people will achieve a tendency to perpetuate in this environment.

But the destruction mushroom is different.

Due to its simple and primitive structure, it mutates extremely quickly, and it will mutate rapidly and independently in a targeted manner depending on the environment.

Like the flu virus.

When a cell is infected with two viruses, the eight gene segments of the virus will randomly exchange with each other, resulting in genetic recombination. A small mutation will change the structure of the surface protein, thus changing its antigenic and immunological properties.

But the destruction mushroom is different.

It has a cloud gene pool, and unlike any insect with a stable genetic structure in Meiji's hands, the destroying mushroom can retrieve genetic data from Meiji's insect swarm network, and quickly reorganize its own genes according to the current situation.

Maggie can't predict what the offspring will turn into, so accidents often occur.

If it is manifested externally, it will become like this, breaking away from the characteristics of fungi.

When the mushroom field grows to a certain scale, Miki first restricts the reproduction of the fungi. If left unchecked, the mushrooms will soon eat up the entire forest, causing the fungus to infect the plague and kill all life in the forest system. .

In addition, Meiji locked the target of the attack.

That is ninja bee.

Here lies the problem, how the destroying fungus recognizes its target.

Generally, species use sensory organs to recognize the comprehensive life characteristics of species from a macro perspective.

Fungal spores cannot recognize targets in this way because their structure is too simple and primitive.

Therefore, at the microscopic level, like cells, the way to destroy mushrooms is to touch the shape, the shape of the gene, that is, hold a photo in your hand, and use it as a target for large-scale gene comparison.

But there are no absolutely identical genes in nature, that kind of thing is called cloning.

Different individuals of the same species have slightly different genes.

Therefore, the overall approximation can only be found by comparing the templates, and the accuracy of this method is not high.

The result is that if a human being is used as an example of an attack target, it would be an indiscriminate massacre without distinction between the enemy and the enemy. If the individual can escape by luck, it can only be said that the individual is not a human being in the strict sense.

For example, the difference between ninjas and ordinary humans.

The Mushroom Land, which has stopped multiplying and expanding, is quiet and beautiful. A piece of white and tender cute mushrooms stick out their heads from the ground. Due to the limited attack targets, the floating robes float in the air with the wind, and there is no trigger mechanism.

For a while, it seemed harmless to humans and animals.

Until a working ninja bee collecting nectar entered the range of the mushroom field.

For this seemingly common mushroom field in the woodland, Ninja Bee didn't have many accidents. After entering the range, his body was infected with fungus. In just a moment, a white and tender cute mushroom grew out of his body. Ninja Bee fell from the sky and died on the ground. Among the mushroom fields.

Under Miki's conditions, the efficiency of killing ninja bees in this way is really horrible. How many ninja bees can be killed depends entirely on how many ninja bees will pass through the mushroom field.

Large-scale destructive killing is completely impossible.

Although the destroying fungus has no brains, it has a complex response mechanism driven by the instinct of reproduction.

If there are no conditions, create conditions.

The autonomous mutation starts, the mushrooms release spores in pieces, then wither and die, the robe falls to the ground, and under the supply of residual nutrients from the black water juice, it grows rapidly, and another piece of new mushroom pokes its head out from the ground, then releases spores, and dies quickly , continuous reincarnation.

The fungal groups scattered in various parts of the forest share unified information, carry out rapid iterations, and fully extract all the nutrients in the area. Before the resources are exhausted, if they do not find a way, what awaits them is their own destruction.

The horror of life broke out at this moment.

In a certain repeated reincarnation, the appearance of the mushroom has changed significantly.

At the beginning, the mushrooms changed in various ways. After endless trial and error, the genetic recombination collapsed again, and then quickly stabilized. Gradually, the appearance characteristics of all mushrooms tended to be unified.

Then, the flowers bloomed.

But it is not a flower in the true sense, the species is still a fungus.

What is buried deep in the ground is not the root system of the plant, but the hyphae of the fungus.

Pieces of small white flowers are in full bloom, pure and elegant, and the faint floral fragrance is overflowing, and the smell drifts with the wind.

Lured by the smell of nectar, ninja bees from a distance nearby came.

As usual, they rushed into the flowers and worked hard to collect the important nectar. Unknowingly, the spores released quietly landed on the Ninja Bee.

Instead of bursting out, the spores lay dormant.

Ninja bees that have taken enough nectar return to the nest contentedly.

Unlike Maggie's swarm, there is an extremely detailed division of labor. In the ninja bee colony, the small ninja bees are both worker bees and soldier bees.

In the dangerous wild environment, the risk of working alone is too great, and it is very likely that they will not come back after going out. Therefore, most of the collectors are experienced, middle-aged and old ninja bees.

There are basically no mistakes in the completion of the work.

According to the process, Ninja Bee will report the information as soon as it returns to the nest.

In the way of dancing in circles, key information such as direction, distance, time, etc. are indicated.

For this new flower field that suddenly appeared, Ninja Bee had no doubts, and excitedly told his companions that more manpower was needed for large-scale collection.

As the ninja bees move through the colony and come into physical contact with each other, the spores they carry fall into the colony.

But there's more to it than that.

Bees have a stomach called a honey stomach, which is also used by ninja bees to store nectar.

The bug sister also has a similar storage stomach.

When the storage is full, it needs to be further processed.

At this time, the bee will spit out the nectar and feed it to another bee. This is because the invertase in one bee is not enough to use and needs the assistance of other bees.

This process spreads the infection to a hundred or so.

Mouth-to-mouth is close contact.

When the unloading is completed, the worker bees responsible for collecting will immediately take off and continue the previous work.

The goods will be moved into the depths of the hive. At this time, it is not the final finished honey. The worker bees responsible for making honey will keep flapping their wings to evaporate the moisture in the semi-finished product.

Until then, there is one more important job.

The honey is processed, and part of it becomes beeswax, which is used to repair the hive.

Hive repairs are ongoing.

The semi-finished honey is very sticky, and it is very difficult to handle when it falls on the body. At this time, Ninja Bee will mix the pollen contaminated on the body into the semi-finished product for easy handling and handling, and scatter it around the hive.

For fungi, one invasion is complete.

Why the fungus will understand the characteristics of the bee.

Because Meiji has been doing a lot of deep learning training on it, although the fungus has no brains, it has a memory. It has done similar questions and saved them as data.

What to do, with a clear line set by Maggie, it is very clear.

In the early stage, it expanded wildly, transformed the surface environment of the planet, crushed rocks to create soil, etc., and continued to develop steadily in the mid-term. After the environmental conditions reached the standard, it began to breed Zerg.

This is what Maggie launched into the deep space of the universe through the Queen of Light.

It belongs to the cargo carried by the light sailing ship.

What Maggie wants is that the less crazy species can spontaneously coexist harmoniously with the local environmental species. Otherwise, for the living planet, it will cause a devastating species extinction disaster in the local area.

Ninja bees visit the flower fields batch after batch, and work hard to transport back the nectar and spores.

When the honeycomb is full of honey, the previously prepared honey is moved out and transferred to the central giant main hive.

In theory, these honeys are absolutely safe after high-temperature disinfection, and there are no deadly germs.

And the fungi in the flower fields continuously squeeze the nutrients in the land, transport them to the daughter organs of the flowers through mycelium, transform them into nectar and spores, and let the bees take them away until the nutrients in the land are exhausted, and they can no longer produce quickly. , the ninja bees collected will not come again.

Hanada died.

And the fungus exploded.

At night, just as the moon was rising, there was a deliberate massive collective eruption in hives here and there.

The pure white mycelium exploded and grew, greedily extracting all the nutrients around it, the mycelium spread in sheets, drilled out from the honey, from the hive, and from the body of the ninja bee.

This time, there were no flowers growing, just pure white mushrooms as always, cute and cute poking their heads out from the body of Ninja Bee from all over the hive.

The small beehives everywhere were completely submerged in white.

Ninja bees died quickly one by one.

The fungus broke out extremely fast, and the densely packed bee colony resting on the hive had no time to react, and was permanently frozen in this scene, covered with white silk all over its body.

Endless spores were released from the mushrooms, spreading along the pipeline built by Ninja Bee, and the black juice flowed like a canal carrying small boats forward.

At the mouth of the hive, mycelium and spores flew together and spread out. On each hole, black juice dripped on the ground continuously. The mushrooms poked their heads out from the hive floor, and the spores continued to explode and sweep.

The work ninja bees fluttering around in panic outside the hive don't know why. After being infected with spores, they crawled all over their bodies with white silk and grew mushrooms, and then died one after another.

In the huge main beehive, the situation is also not optimistic. Although there is a certain degree of space isolation, this level cannot stop the invasion of the destruction mushrooms.

The first is the giant ninja bee. At the moment when the fungus broke out, the giant ninja bee in the hive suddenly lost control and fell to the ground, shaking violently.

Its size is large, so its pain is also very long.

The small ninja bees who dealt with the daily affairs of the hive noticed the abnormality of the giant ninja bee immediately, and gathered around them, flapping their wings neatly.

The smell of death emanated from the body of the giant ninja bee.

The ninja bees wanted to move the body away in panic, but it was too big to move.

The dead giant bee was extraordinarily heavy.

White silk sticking out of the body surface
Seeing this, the small ninja bee immediately stepped forward to bite and block.

But it was unstoppable, and soon, the body of the small ninja bee was covered with white silk, mushrooms poked their heads out one after another, and the spores erupted violently.

At the same time, in the giant honeycomb, white silk spread out from the crystal clear honey, and the strong mycelium pierced through the honey and the honeycomb, probing around, greedily and frantically asking for more resources.

First there was a white spot, and soon, it spread to the surrounding area. Pieces of white covered the original appearance of the hive, mushrooms grew out, and spores exploded violently.

These honeys are extremely nutritious and energetic, so want more.

More!More!
And around the giant beehive, in the pipes that only small ninja bees can enter and exit, the black juice flows out along the pipes, drips along the walls, and is covered in white in an instant, mycelium climbs up the walls, and mushrooms grow out one after another. The spores erupted wildly.

The diffuse spores formed a fog visible to the naked eye, floating in the enclosed space.

what is this?
The ninjas of the Shangshui family who stayed behind in the giant beehive couldn't understand.

All they saw was white, and the terrible white torrent submerged everyone, watching the bee colony continue to die.

And I can't do anything.

No matter how crazy you use ninjutsu, it doesn't have the slightest effect.

The body was covered with spores, and soon, the terrifying white silk spread on the body.

It only spread on the body surface, the clothes could not escape the death, the metal surface was covered with mycelium, the cutting edge lost its sharpness, the food, medicine and water it carried were swept away by the mycelium, and the terrible touch continued to travel on the skin of the whole body .

Something seemed to have pierced into the body, the feeling of weakness continued to rise, and in the perception, Chakra was disappearing violently.

Many ninjas broke down and screamed, then collapsed and fell to the ground, unable to struggle.

The fungus touched the gene, um, the shape is wrong, so it is not allowed to eat.

But my mother didn't let me eat it, so I licked it and had a good time.

Destruction probably thinks so.

The sound echoed continuously in the confined space.

Until it all calmed down and turned into dead silence.

In the sea of ​​white mushrooms, everything was buried under the whiteness. The ninja sat slumped on the mushrooms, staring at everything in front of him in horror.

All but the people are dead.

The silence was frightening, and there was no more buzzing and fluttering of busy bee swarms.

This is a shocking, down-to-earth massacre.

It was the first time for the ninja on the upper water flow to see such a scene. Apart from fear, he was still afraid.

Gone, all gone.

My invincible bee colony, so many ninja bees, are gone.

The young girls covered in white silk broke down like a plague infection and cried in unison.

"WOW!!! MOM!!! I'm scared!!!"

On the border between the Country of Grass and Konoha, the situation in the hive of the master of the Shangshuiliu Clan in the rear is also not optimistic.

The Shenhe family struggled against the fungal attack.

The defense line will collapse at any time.

Such a situation would come about because Mei Ji let her go.

In any case, let the bee colony keep a seed.

Mei Ji was really afraid of this guy, so she brought her entire family fortune to the battlefield.

(End of this chapter)