Meng Chao's fingertips sprayed out a pale golden arc of electricity.

Wrap a few harvesting blades around the cable and scrape off some samples of the mulch.

He put the covering samples, the light green liquid extracted from the body of the deformed monster, and the strange green lichen under the crystal microscope to study.

Sure enough, they have discovered something that is extremely active between animal cells, plant cells, and fungal cells.

Meng Chao asked Long Feijun and others to come over and observe.

He himself pondered.

"I have an idea, or rather, a question."

After everyone had seen it, Meng Chao said, "Have you ever thought about where monsters come from? I mean, like the 'Seven-Star Wolf Spider', which can combine the characteristics of arthropods and mammals.

Or a monster like the 'Gryphon' that can combine ligers and falcon-type monsters, it must not have evolved naturally, there must be some...'modulator', right?"

Long Feijun and the exploration team members looked at each other and nodded at the same time: "That's right."

"And this kind of modulation that 'combines the most ferocious characteristics of various animals in an attempt to create the most powerful carbon-based biological weapons' has a high probability of failure, because the organs and motor functions of most animals are fundamental

If they are incompatible, if you are not careful, you will have a situation like this small saber-toothed tiger with two wings on its ribs. The different organs will contradict each other. Let alone fighting, even survival will become extremely difficult."

Meng Chao continued, "So, the modulators must conduct a lot of experiments to fuse part of the organs of countless monsters. No, we can't talk about fusion yet. They should be 'stitched' together, and select those with stronger combat effectiveness and longer survival time."

Longer varieties, abandon those patchwork failures.

“This process is somewhat like the optimization and screening of seeds in our human gene farms. After generations of screening, we can naturally get the crops we need most.

"The Kirigakure Realm is the 'gene farm' of monster civilization, no, more accurately, it should be the 'laboratory'.

"The mastermind of the monster civilization stitched together a large number of deformed and ugly monsters in the depths of the Kirigakure, and then released them to observe their traits, combat effectiveness, and survival time, and analyze whether there was any possibility of further modulation.

"If the 'combat parameters' and 'survival time' are relatively good, they can be further modulated or copied in large quantities to become the 'tide of beasts' we see."

As everyone continued to think along Meng Chao's train of thought, they all showed expressions of sudden enlightenment.

"How to explain the super active cells contained in mosses, lichens and deformed monsters?" Long Feijun asked.

"I think this is some kind of...'biological glue'."

Meng Chao said, "The so-called 'monsters' are the organs, characteristics, and traits of different animals across categories, or even animals and plants, sewn together. This will inevitably trigger an extremely strong rejection reaction, with two or even three sets of completely different organs."

If they cannot coexist, then they need to use 'biological glue' to stick them together.

"Originally, a monster whose organs were forcibly pieced together might not survive more than three to five hours.

"After being bonded with 'biological glue', it may survive for three to five days or even longer.

"We originally thought that monsters were the product of natural evolution, and we overestimated their survival time. Three or five days is naturally far from enough.

"But if some of the monsters are artificially prepared for the purpose of attacking Dragon City, as long as they can survive for three to five days, that's enough."

Long Feijun nodded repeatedly, thought for a while, and then asked: "Then, why was this mysterious 'biological glue' not found in the monsters captured by Longcheng in the past?"

"Two possibilities."

Meng Chao stretched out two fingers and said, "Either, those monsters are all 'mass-produced' monsters that have been successfully tested, and their organs are already perfectly compatible, so there is no need to use 'biological glue' to bond them."

"Either this kind of weird cells have been integrated into the monster's body in a more mature and secretive way, and our current biochemical technology cannot detect them.

"Wait, if that's the case..."

Meng Chao suddenly stopped talking.

Looking at the green lichen in the distance, which was too strong to be real, I began to think silently again.

Suddenly, he threw the small saber-tooth tiger with two wings on its ribs far away towards Lichen.

Cut into eight pieces, the bloody monster corpse fell into the emerald green lichen, causing a green tide to surge.

As if being stimulated, countless lichens stretched out tiny green threads from the depths of the fungus blanket, wrapping the monster corpse tightly.

At first, the monster's corpse was as high as a hill.

Soon, it lowered its head and shrunk amidst a sound of "chi-liu-chi-liu, chi-liu-chi-liu".

After about a minute, the lichen returned to its original state, as if nothing had happened.

Only one body is missing.

Meng Chao signaled to Long Feijun to let the exploration team burn the lichen.

The two exploration team members stepped forward again and raised their flamethrowers.

The lichen turned to ashes, revealing the tiny bones underneath.

This saber-toothed tiger with two wings on its ribs is only the size of a lynx.

But with a pair of wide wings, it weighs several hundred pounds.

But it was swallowed up by lichen in a minute.

Even the bones have countless pinprick-like holes, as if they had been soaked in highly corrosive acid for a long time.

It seemed that if they burned the lichen later, not even the bones of the saber-toothed tiger would be left.

Moreover, not far from the saber-toothed tiger corpse, they also found more traces of monster corpses.

Because they had been devoured by lichens for so long, these monster corpses were really only left with bits and pieces of bones.

But there are quite a lot of them. According to Meng Chao's identification, there are at least dozens of different monsters, with the toughest claws, teeth and horns.

"This makes sense. Since Kirigakure is a large natural laboratory, why don't we see too many corpses of 'experimental subjects' and 'failures' here?"

Meng Chao said, "The weird cells contained in these green lichens are not only magical 'biological glue', the lichens themselves are also natural 'scavengers', able to devour the weak and the strong among the experimental subjects and devour the dead losers."

Re-decomposed into the most basic raw materials and energy, perhaps, in some incredible way, it can be transmitted back to the ultimate lair of the monster civilization, allowing the 'master brain' to conduct a new round of modulation.

"Now, there's only one question left.

"These emerald green lichens must have smelled the blood on the monster corpse, and their activity increased sharply, swallowing it up.

"Will human blood also arouse their strong reaction?"

As Meng Chao spoke, the harvesting blade whirled, cutting a small wound on his fingertip, and brought it to another piece of lichen not far away.

A drop of blood seeped out of the wound, and before it fell, it aroused the reaction of the lichen under the finger.

Several clusters of lichen hissed out green threads, greedily asking for blood.

Meng Chao dripped blood into the lichen.

It's like ice water dripping into a boiling oil pan, causing a harsh "squeak, hiss, hiss" sound.

He squeezed another drop of blood onto the edge of the lichen, about twenty or thirty centimeters away from the lichen, on the scorched ground.

Two clusters of lichen smelled the smell of blood and squirmed hard.

But among them, a cluster of lichen that was farther away only moved five centimeters before shrinking back.

The remaining cluster successfully licked the blood droplets, and as the wisps of bright red spread among the emerald green, it became more beautiful and intense.

Meng Chao threw another drop of blood one meter away.

This time, none of the lichens were moved.

"They can't sense flesh and blood one meter away?" Long Feijun asked.

"No, it's not cost-effective."

Meng Chao said, "Activate your super vision and you will find that when I threw the blood one meter away, several green threads protruded from several clusters of lichens, and the direction of the Korean blood trembled a few times.

"It should have sensed it, but the energy consumed in mobilizing the entire colony to squirm is far more than a drop of blood can make up for, so it is too lazy to move.

"If it were not a drop of blood, but a human being covered in wounds and bleeding profusely, I believe they would have worked tirelessly to sweep us over."

This sentence gave everyone goosebumps.

"It seems that the most terrifying thing in the Kirigakure is not any monster, but these weird lichens?" Long Feijun murmured.

Meng Chao agreed with his judgment.

They tentatively named these dangerous lichens "green tides."

After repeated tests, it was discovered that the green tide has extremely strong mobility and regeneration capabilities. It can invade the bodies of animals and plants, devour flesh and blood, steal nutrients, multiply indefinitely, and even cover the entire jungle.

The good news is that the psychic power of the extraordinary has a strong curbing effect on the green tide.

And they are afraid of fire, so they can be temporarily eliminated with flamethrowers and incendiary bombs.

If it were fired from a train gun, a heavy incendiary bomb filled with fire crystals might even be able to completely solve the problem.

Of course, when it comes to "complete solution", it's best not to have anyone standing next to you.

Otherwise, it will literally be "burned together".

Beyond that, there's more good news.

After testing the parts of the portal, technicians pieced together all the parts needed for a portal.

Then it's just a matter of taking the time to assemble it.

After the psychic frenzy caused by the carpet bombing subsided, the correspondent also established contact with the other nine exploration teams and the rear, and established the tactical data link.

Except for the Kunpeng, which was attacked by a UHV transmission tower and had to call for long-range fire support, the other nine exploration teams all made it deep into the jungle without any danger.

Before the spiritual magnetic interference became strong again, they successfully shared each other's positions and the latest topographic and landform maps, and the level of exploration of the Kirigakure Territory increased to more than 60%.

"Since the personnel are all in order, we will march towards the sinkhole in ten groups according to the original plan!"

The strange green tide made Long Feijun feel frightened.
Chapter completed!