Chapter 319 Parasitic Fungus,

After Yan Xia built the laboratory, he began to carefully study the current Jianmu.

After decomposition, Yan Xia found that these Jianmu themselves were no longer Jianmu, or they were no longer plants.

There are three domains and nine kingdoms on Earth. One is the bacterial domain, the archaeal domain and the eukaryotic domain, and the other is the non-cellular domain, the prokaryotic domain and the eukaryotic domain. In fact, they are all the same thing, with different names.

Among them, humans, mammals, fish, plants, fungi, etc. are all in the eukaryotic domain, which is subdivided into four kingdoms, namely the protist kingdom, the fungal kingdom, the plant kingdom and the animal kingdom.

The organisms in the protist kingdom are single-celled organisms such as plankton, which form the bottom of the earth's ecological food chain.

The organisms in the fungal kingdom are easier to identify, that is, various fungi, from the mold produced after the food is left for a long time to the mushrooms used at home, they are all organisms in the fungal kingdom.

There is no need to mention the plant kingdom and the animal kingdom.

Jianmu is not a plant now, but has become a plant-like fungus.

In the plant kingdom, there are not many plants that grow by parasitism, but many fungi are parasites. Their spores will enter the bodies of some insects and then absorb the nutrients of the insects to grow. The most famous insect parasitized by fungi is Cordyceps sinensis.

"When we left the earth, we should not have brought any fungi with us." Yan Xia did not give Jianmu fungal genes when he created Jianmu.

Ella, who was wearing a white research suit and turned into a white-haired elder sister who was almost as tall as Yan Xia, said in a cold tone: "Actually, there are. The spacecraft carried some soil from the earth, and there were fungal spores in those soils."

"But I didn't keep those spores at that time, because the road ahead was still unknown."

"But we did not inject fungal genes into Jianmu, so it is also possible that the gene fragments of the trees have mutated, allowing the plants to have similar characteristics to fungi. This may be a coincidence, but it may also be a stimulation from the bottom of the genes."

"On Earth, there are also wars between plants to capture cities and territories. Sometimes there is only one kind of plant in the middle, middle and low ecological niches in a forest. They become the absolute king of that area and use the shade of the trees to eliminate other competitors."

"And fungi are acting as the information network of plants. Plants can communicate simply through fungi like animals. Fungi and plants are in a symbiotic state. At the same time, they are also organisms in our eukaryotic domain. There may be communication at the genetic level."

This explanation is a bit far-fetched, but it is indeed possible. Even if it is a one in a billion possibility, it still exists.

Because the Jianmu Project is too big and too long.

Yan Xia is sure that Jianmu can continue to mutate over a period of more than 100,000 years. This mutation may occur dozens or hundreds of times every year. With the accumulation of the number of individuals and the number of mutations, it is not surprising that a fungus-like individual is achieved after tens or hundreds of billions of mutations.

But Yan Xia has another guess.

"Could it be that these creatures are intentionally cultivating Jianmu to achieve this effect?"

Yan Xia put a mycelium into the body of an experimental worm. This worm looks like a sea cucumber and looks very disgusting, but in fact it is a frequent visitor to the modern biological laboratory of the Federation. It contains the genes of all intelligent life in the Federation. These genes are generally in a closed state. When experiments are required, the gene fragments of that part can be turned on at will.

After the mycelium enters the body of the experimental worm, it begins to move slowly, eventually taking root in the internal organs, and then spreading to the whole body with the nutrients provided by the internal organs. The branches that spread out number billions, connecting all parts of the worm's body together.

"See? This mycelium will not absorb too much energy from this individual, but will consciously restrain itself."

It will only absorb a small amount when the host has sufficient energy, and then stop absorbing when the host has no energy.

Yan Xia carefully observed the worm, and after waiting for a few days, the worm died, and he confirmed his judgment.

"It seems that this is indeed an intentional result."

"The life span of a general experimental worm is 17 hours and 16 minutes, but this experimental worm survived for 52 hours and 18 minutes."

"The life here relies on this parasitic method to extend its life span. They have eliminated the quark robots in their bodies, but have not gone to other star countries, so their own life limit has been challenged."

"If I guess correctly, there are actually very few people here who are from the Federation, and more are newcomers to the Universe Forest Star Country."

That is, people born after the surrender of the Federation.

"Very interesting, why didn't I realize that there is a parasitic relationship that can enhance life before?" Yan Xia expressed interest.

He had always wanted to make the individual strength of creatures stronger than that of spaceships. With the change in the definition of spaceships, this has become unrealistic. The goal has since changed to starships, but when the Federation surrendered, he himself had the [Supreme God] sequence and could not challenge an advanced starship.

This is the limitation of the creatures themselves.

But Yan Xia saw another possibility at this time.

Creatures can fuse with machines and turn themselves into terrible monsters in the sequence, so why not continue to add? Keep merging, keep merging!

"Then the humans in the Federation may become monsters like Cthulhu." Ella reminded Yan Xia, who had some dangerous ideas.

Yan Xia certainly knew this concern.

"Then set up a [bag]. After opening the bag, the organism has complex genetic characteristics. After closing the bag, all genes die, leaving only the original gene fragments. As long as addition and subtraction are used reasonably, why not?"

This is sequence plus.

"This is a big topic. The sequence is already huge enough, and this is probably even bigger than the sequence."

"By then, we probably shouldn't call it the Civilization Federation, but the Monster Federation." Ella said jokingly.

Yan Xia did not comment. For him, becoming stronger is more important than maintaining bloodline.

The strengthening of technology and the strengthening of individual organisms are all indispensable. Compared with technology, the strengthening of organisms may be very slow, and each step is very small, and there is no hope, but Yan Xia still decided to work hard in this area.

The Federation needs more possibilities, rather than being stuck on one road. This is why Yan Xia wants to develop the theory of imagination resources. More roads mean more choices.

People who only take one path will stop moving forward when they see a dead end ahead, or even fall to pieces.

"I think the person who guided Jianmu to the fungus is still alive, and I want to meet him."

Yan Xia kept his word, and he soon met that person.