Fungus is a very strange life in nature.

Neither an animal nor a plant, it belongs to a kingdom of fungi.

It can be seen from this that Bai Jue's spore technique is not Wood Release.

That thing can't be called wood escape.

The project codename is Tunnel Worm, which is the largest insect in Mei Ji's hands. Its tentacles that dive deep underground mainly eat humus in the soil, playing the role of decomposer at the bottom of the ecological niche.

It is not a fighting bug per se, but is positioned as a gardener who repairs Meiji's flower garden.

The Yinfu insect swarm is also doing the same work, but the efficiency is really not high. It can be regarded as a porter at most. In the decomposition process, it still relies on growing fungi, that is, growing mushrooms.

A complex ecosystem is composed of biotic and abiotic components. Abiotics include sunlight, air, water, soil, etc.

They provide energy, nutrition and living space for living things.

Biological components include all living things, which are generally divided into three categories based on how they obtain nutrients and energy.

Producers, consumers, decomposers.

Plants are producers, animals are consumers, and decomposers mainly refer to organisms such as fungi and bacteria that engage in saprophytic life.

Decomposers are extremely important in the ecosystem. Without decomposers, the remains of animals and plants will pile up, and materials will be locked in organic matter and no longer participate in the cycle. The material cycle function will cease, and the ecosystem will collapse.

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Among them, Meiji’s Yinfu insect swarm is a disguised farmer of fungi. They are not decomposers themselves, but consumers.

Before, Meiji's insect swarm was basically consumers.

The scale of its development is directly proportional to the scale of the fungus farm, that is, the current resource level of the environment. In wild ant colonies, even the behavioral patterns of the ant colonies are affected and dominated by fungi.

Inside the body, the stomachs of grass-eating organisms have colonies of fungi that break down lignin to obtain nutrients.

In vitro, the most typical one is that leaf-cutting ants need leaves to feed fungi, and trees will die if they are exposed to this kind of damage for a long time. Therefore, they secrete toxins to resist. The colonies that eat the leaves will die in large areas, and the fungi will The ant colony will be notified that the leaves are poisonous, and the ant colony that receives the instruction will switch to another tree.

Conversely, the fungus also tells the ant colony what flavor of leaves it likes to eat the most.

Previously, Mei Ji has been saying that ant colonies are truly social creatures and belong to super-individuals. However, in the super-individual nature of nature, ant colonies only play a certain social role and are a close part of nature, and the competition is fierce. will be eliminated by nature.

If all individuals are a part of nature, cells are connected to each other, have thoughts and wills, are connected to all things through nerve lines, and are collectively called the mother of nature, then what should it be like.

The sacred insect queen connects all things.

This sentence was quite embarrassing to say, so Meiji planned to do it quietly.

Infecting one by one through oneself, development is too slow. Among them, there are souls, and some individuals with will are not easy to directly infect. Therefore, Meiji needs convenient and easy-to-use tools.

Direct infection is not possible, but physical infection and influence can be achieved to achieve a certain degree of symbiotic relationship.

This is how the tunnel worm was born, also known as the natural transformer. It is not only the lowest element in a natural system, but also a tool for digging holes underground. It is essentially a prop used by Meiji to infect the entire nature.

It is a type of fungus.

In nature, there is an invisible creature that dominates all living things in the world. It floats in the air and lurks in the groundwater. Its surface and body deeply affects everything in the world.

They are fungi, forming a unique world of their own.

Life lives in their intestines and has been receiving their mysterious gifts.

The fungus itself cannot perform photosynthesis. Needless to say, the importance of photosynthesis is also unnecessary. The Nydusworm itself cannot perform photosynthesis. As the research deepens, Mei Ji finds that it is not necessary at all.

Different from the interstellar Zerg creep, Mei Ji created a kind of creep that is unique to her. The Zerg creep that is dangerous, deadly and disgusting at first sight, without any disguise, is not on Mei Ji's manufacturing list.

In the heavy radiation area in the Konoha forest, which was almost reduced to a dead place, that is, near the Valley of the End and other places, Miki discovered a kind of mushroom.

This kind of mushroom survives tenaciously on the dead ground, absorbing radiation and converting it into the nutrients it needs. It can almost be said to be the Godzilla that eats nuclear energy.

It may seem outrageous and exaggerated at first, but this is actually a traditional ability of fungi.

Long ago, before plants landed on the barren land, fungi relied on this ability to tower over the earth and grow into giant mushrooms eight or nine meters high.

They are bombarded with radiation from the universe and grow accordingly.

Not only that, fungi can secrete a digestive enzyme that digests almost all substances, thereby decomposing minerals and other substances from rocks to obtain nutrients and other substances.

This transformed the barren land into soil, providing the most basic conditions for plants to land.

Among them, they have reached a symbiotic relationship with plants, forming the original lichen appearance.

When the forest system was formed and the era of giant insects arrived, these giant fungi disappeared from the surface.

Plants produce lignin, which is a hard trunk, to resist insect damage, but mushrooms, many of which are still in the diet of insects, are much easier to digest than plants.

And with lignin, plants are better at competing for living space on the surface than mushrooms.

But the fungi did not disappear, but moved to the hidden underground.

In the Konoha Forest, Miki discovered a more common, but complex and hidden huge underground system.

The forest is alive, well, of course the forest is alive.

What Mei Ji means is that the forest has a living mind, a prototype of a collective will.

Fungi have evolved differently from other biological species and grow in filamentous forms. The cells that make up the filaments are exactly the same.

Without organized organs and differentiation, it can still complete complex life activities; without nerves and brains, it can complete the exchange of information; without a stomach, it can digest and decompose almost all organic products; without glands, it can produce the most powerful food in nature. complex matter.

On the ground, the fungus is characterized by fruiting bodies, mushrooms, and reproduces.

Underground, fungi form a complex network that wraps around tree roots. Mycelium inserts into tree roots to complete the exchange of materials, get what each needs, and connect the entire forest.

This is nature’s Internet, which not only allows trees to communicate with each other, such as the above-mentioned communication between ant colonies and trees through fungi.

It also allows trees to transmit danger signals to each other, and the entire forest is like a super-living entity performing complex operations.

This reminds Meiji of the Pandora planet in Avatar, where a kind of tree reaches the root system through an extremely large number to establish a complex network of consciousness. Each living body is integrated into it, and its free will is independent of the network, connecting and communicating with each other.

To put it more bluntly, Pandora is like a giant brain, and tree roots are interconnected neurons. When countless neurons are connected to each other, a more complex and magnificent ideology is born, that is, the indigenous The Holy Mother, or planetary consciousness Gaia.

All life forms living in it are symbionts that are interdependent with neurons. Although they prey on the weak and the strong, they always make necessary cycles for the harmony and unity of the entire brain.

So what can be done.

That is, the Divine Kara connects each of us.

A world where people understand each other.

This is its most basic application.

Achieving this step still requires many issues to be resolved.

It's not a momentary thing.