Chapter 63 "Parasite" in the ring world
These prosthetics transformed by the "nano plague" seem to have some fluctuations in consciousness under the strengthening of electronic implants.
They are still "docile", but more active.
The castrated spirits are supplemented with mechanical consciousness, and they begin 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.
Among countless repeated reflections, they vaguely believed that this happened due to the estrangement between species.
Maybe they will take the path of "assimilating" all organisms after many replacements.
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 started honorable labor under the instructions set in advance by Li Wenyuan.
And Li Wenyuan came to the control center of the second ring world.
"I hope that the remaining three ring worlds will not be full of disgusting guys..."
This first experience of circumnavigating the world has already given him a lot of disgust. If the creatures in every circumnavigating world are similar to insects, he really wants to ask in person why human beings took in them 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..." Gray Wind glanced at it, and then his expression instantly became a little disgusted.
I saw a large number of things like fungal organisms densely attached to the control center, and the slime they produced hung all over the control center, everywhere.
Although the control center does not appear to be damaged, it is likely that its interior is also overgrown with this peculiar fungal organism, and it is these things that caused the "destruction" of the control center.
And Li Wenyuan also saw this scene, feeling a little surprised.
Looking around, the surface of this section of the ring world is not covered by this kind of fungal organisms, and they seem to be limited to this control center.
Then who brought them?
He just wanted to ask Gray Wind if he could use nano-robots to clean up these disgusting looking things, when he suddenly discovered many abnormal signals.
At the same time, Gray Wind, who was sitting directly outside the scientific research spacecraft, also noticed something, and instantly scattered a cloud of nano storms.
But outside the distant sky in the ring world, dozens of fighter-like aircraft are attacking them at several times the speed of sound.
If it’s just that, the most unusual thing is that the surface of these high-speed aircraft also grows strange fungal organisms similar to the control center.
As if they could control the machinery, they released dozens of missiles from a distance, with a clear target on the scientific research spacecraft.
Even though these missiles were all disintegrated by the nano storm formed by the gray wind halfway, their special situation still surprised Li Wenyuan.
“…a bit of a low-level weaponry, only the technology of the atomic age. Just what are those fungi?”
Without much hesitation, the fleet staying above the space directly carried out space strikes, accurately destroying those incoming aircraft.
And Li Wenyuan released a drone and began to sample the fungi that spread all over the control center.
Those fungi seemed to have sensed the arrival of the drone, and instantly burst out a white fungal spore, forming a dense "snowflake" in a short time.
The drone couldn't dodge in time, and was immediately covered by these fungal spores. If it weren't for a shield to block these spores, it might also become the miserable appearance of the control center.
Li Wenyuan's eyes were fixed, and he tentatively let the drone extend its mechanical arm, wanting to extract some spore samples for analysis.
But found that the moment the machine arm touched the spores, it was parasitized, and then the fungus began to extend along the mechanical arm to the drone, as if it wanted to be full of drones.
At this moment, he even felt that the connection between the drone and himself was much weaker, and he felt a precarious feeling.
Without any hesitation, he directly ordered the drone to explode, turning into a firework.
After seeing the terrifying parasitic ability of these fungi, Li Wenyuan said directly to Gray Wind:
"Don't get close to these things, they seem to be a special kind of fungus that can parasitize machinery, if they are entangled, it will be a bit troublesome..."
While talking, he didn't hear Gray Wind's response and looked over, but saw a horrifying scene.
Although Gray Wind still maintained a human appearance, his body was covered with the same fungus as the control center, as if he had been parasitized.
"You..." Even his virtual world was shaken this time. Could it be that even the "Grey Gu Storm" that can devour everything in the crystallization of disasters can't resist the parasitism of these fungi?
But the next moment, the fungi on the surface of Huifeng's body suddenly turned into a cloud of nano-dust, and then began to revolve around her.
It turned out that those fungi were transformed by her nano-robots, and they were not really parasitized.
And she herself showed a happy expression: "How is it? Are you scared? I wanted to try what it feels like to be scary a long time ago. Is it okay this time?"
The nano dust reattached to Gray Wind, and a small nano ball floated on her hand, which seemed to be the fungal spores captured by her.
Seeing that Li Wenyuan didn't respond for a long time, she exaggeratedly said: "You don't really think that this inexplicable fungus can parasitize nano-robots, do you? Their spores are even larger than individual nano-robots. How can they parasitize?"
Although what Gray Wind said was very reasonable, Li Wenyuan was indeed frightened just now. At that time, he was thinking about whether to use the fleet to blow up this place and the world of Gray Wind Belt, and then go to collect the wreckage of nanobots to see if he can rebuild the world. revive her.
But seeing the current situation, his high-hanging heart temporarily fell back, and he said dumbfoundedly:
"I have to admit, you are really talented in shapeshifting... Well, you got samples of these fungi?"
Although Gray Wind still wanted to show off, seeing him talk about business, he talked in detail about the data she got from the captured spores:
"This fungus can parasitize machinery...of course, it can only parasitize ordinary machinery, and they have nothing to do with nano-robots like me."
"Their parasitism is precisely to replace the circuits of mechanical creations with hyphae, and then their fungal entities will become tiny processing units, replacing the original processors of mechanical creations."
"It seems that they can only parasitize mechanical bodies, but I think organisms are also in their parasitic range. If I am not mistaken, the underground of this ring world area may already be covered with their hyphae."
"I think they've even developed a certain intelligence."
The nanosphere in Gray Wind's hand opened a small opening, but the spores that were hard to detect with the naked eye seemed to be alive and wanted to escape eagerly, and then were caught back by the surrounding nanorobots.
While seeing the spores being very active, they looked down at the control center still bathed in the "ocean of fungus".
Li Wenyuan said with some emotion: "What kind of stuff did humans take in back then..."
(end of this chapter)