Chapter 63 Parasites in the Ring World
These prosthetics transformed by the "Nano-Disaster" seem to have experienced some fluctuations in consciousness under the reinforcement of electronic implants.
Although they are still "docile", they have become more active.
The castrated spirits were supplemented by mechanical consciousness, and they began to think about the meaning of their own existence. The past that was once "food" has long been regarded as a history that needs to be remembered.
After countless repeated reflections, they vaguely believed that this happened because of the gap between species.
Maybe they will embark on the path of "assimilating" all organisms after multiple generations.
This is why Li Wenyuan named them "Assimilation Fighters".
However, it will take a long time for them to take this step, and the influence from the physical body cannot be eliminated in a short time.
Now they are very gentle and have begun their glorious labor under the instructions set by Li Wenyuan in advance.
And Li Wenyuan came to the control center of the second segment of the ring world.
"I hope the remaining three stages of the ring world won't be filled with disgusting people..."
This first experience in the ring world has given him a lot of disgust. If the creatures in every ring world are similar to insects, he really wants to ask the human beings face to face how they accepted these creatures because of lard in the first place.
thing.
The scientific research spacecraft swept over the second control center and found that it was in an "abnormal" damaged state.
"This is..." Hui Feng glanced at it, and then his expression instantly turned disgusting.
I saw a large number of fungus-like creatures densely attached to the control center, and the mucus they produced was all over the control center, everywhere in the east and west.
Although the control center does not appear to be damaged, it is likely that its interior is filled with this strange fungal organism, which is what caused the "destruction" of the control center.
Li Wenyuan also saw this scene and felt a little surprised.
Looking at it, the surface of this ring world is not covered by such fungal organisms. They seem to be limited to this control center.
So who brought them?
He was just about to ask Gray Wind if he could use nanorobots to clean up these disgusting-looking things, when he suddenly discovered many abnormal signals.
At the same time, Gray Feng, who was sitting directly outside the scientific research spacecraft, also noticed something and instantly formed a nanostorm.
But outside the distant sky in the ring world, dozens of fighter-like aircraft were attacking them at several times the speed of sound.
If that's all, the most unusual thing is that strange fungal organisms similar to those in the control center also grow on the surfaces of these high-speed aircraft.
As if they could control machinery, they launched dozens of missiles from a distance, with clear targets directed at the scientific research spacecraft.
Even though these missiles were all disintegrated by the nanostorm formed by the gray wind midway, their special situation still surprised Li Wenyuan.
"...kind of inferior weapons level, only atomic age technology. But what are those fungi?"
Without any further hesitation, the fleet staying in space directly carried out space strikes, accurately destroying the incoming aircraft.
Li Wenyuan launched a drone and began sampling the fungi scattered throughout the control center.
But I didn't expect that a bigger change would begin.
The fungi seemed to have sensed the arrival of the drone, and instantly erupted into a mass of white fungal spores, forming a dense "snowflake" in a short period of time.
The drone was unable to dodge and was instantly enveloped by these fungal spores. If there was not a layer of shield blocking these spores, it might have turned into the miserable appearance of the control center.
Li Wenyuan's eyes narrowed, and he tentatively asked the drone to extend its mechanical arm, hoping to extract some spore samples for analysis.
However, they found that the machine arm was parasitized the moment it touched the spores, and then the fungus began to extend along the robotic arm toward the drone, as if it wanted to grow all over the drone.
At this moment, he even felt that the connection between the drone and himself was much weaker, and he felt like it was on the verge of collapse.
Without any hesitation, he directly ordered the drone to explode and explode into a firework.
After seeing the terrifying parasitic ability of these fungi, Li Wenyuan directly said to Gray Feng:
"Don't get close to these things yet. They seem to be a special kind of fungus that can parasitize machinery. If you get entangled, it will be a bit troublesome..."
As he spoke, he looked over without hearing Gray Feng's response, but saw a horrifying scene.
It was seen that although Gray Wind still maintained his human appearance, his body was covered with the same fungus as the control center, making him look like he was parasitized.
"You..." Even his virtual world was shaken this time. Could it be that even the "Grey Goo Storm", a crystallized disaster that could swallow everything, couldn't resist the parasitism of these fungi?
However, the next moment, the fungi on Gray Feng's body suddenly turned into a piece of nano dust, and then began to revolve around her.
It turns out that those fungi were transformed from her nanorobots and were not really parasitized.
She herself showed a happy expression: "How is it? Have you been scared? I have wanted to try what it feels like to be scared a long time ago. Is it okay this time?"
The nano dust reattached to Gray Feng, and there was a small nano ball floating on her hand, which looked like a fungal spore that she had captured.
Seeing that Li Wenyuan didn't respond for a long time, she said with some exaggeration: "You don't really think that this inexplicable fungus can parasitize nanorobots, do you? Their individual spores are even larger than individual nanorobots, so how can they parasitize them?"
Although what Gray Wind said made sense, Li Wenyuan was really frightened just now. At that time, he was thinking about whether to use the fleet to blow up this place and the world around Gray Wind, and then collect the remains of the nanobots to see if he could rebuild them.
Resurrect her.
However, seeing the current situation, his high-spirited heart temporarily dropped, and he said with a bit of laughter and tears:
"I have to admit, you are really talented at transformation...Okay, have you got samples of these fungi?"
Although Gray Wind still wanted to show off, seeing him talking about business, she talked in detail about the data she had obtained from the captured spores:
"This kind of fungus can parasitize machinery... Of course, it can only parasitize ordinary machinery. Nanorobots like me are helpless."
"To be precise, their parasitism is to replace the wiring of the mechanical creation with mycelium, and then their fungal entities will become tiny processing units, replacing the original processor of the mechanical creation."
"It seems that they only parasitize mechanical bodies, but I think living things are also within their parasitic range. If I am not mistaken, the underground of this ring world area may already be covered with their mycelium."
"I think they've even developed a certain intelligence."
The nanoball in Gray Wind's hand opened a small opening, only to see the spores, which were invisible to the naked eye, eager to escape as if they were alive, and then were caught back by the surrounding nanorobots.
Looking at the very active appearance of the spores, he looked at the control center below which was still bathed in the "ocean of fungi".
Li Wenyuan said with some emotion: "What kind of things did humans take in back then..."
Chapter completed!