Ninja World: Insect Princess from Konoha

Chapter 367 The Holy Insect Princess

Fungi are a very strange life in nature.

It is neither an animal nor a plant, but belongs to a kind of fungal kingdom alone.

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

That thing can't be called Mudun.

The project code name is tunnel worm, which is the largest insect in Maggie's hands. The tentacles that dive deep into the ground mainly eat humus in the soil, and play the role of decomposer at the bottom of the ecological niche.

It is not a fighting bug itself, but belongs to the gardener who repairs Maggie's garden.

Eve's swarm is also doing the same job, but the efficiency is not high. At most, it can be regarded as a porter. In the process of decomposition, it still relies on growing fungi, that is, growing mushrooms.

A complex ecosystem is composed of biological components and abiotic components, including sunlight, air, water and 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 according to the way of obtaining nutrients and energy.

Producers, consumers, decomposers.

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

Decomposers are extremely important in the ecosystem. Without decomposers, the remains of animals and plants will accumulate like disasters, and the substances will be locked in organic matter and no longer participate in the cycle. The function of material circulation will terminate, and then the ecosystem will collapse.

Among them, Maggie's Eve swarm, farmers who can be called fungi in disguise, are not decomposers themselves, but consumers.

Before, Maggie's swarms were basically consumers.

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

Inside, the grass-eating organisms' stomachs harbor fungal flora that break down lignin for nutrients.

In vitro, the most typical one is that leaf-cutter ants need leaves to feed fungi, and trees will die if they suffer from this kind of damage for a long time, so they will resist by secreting toxins, and the colonies that eat this kind of leaves will die in large numbers. The ant colony will be notified that the leaves are poisonous, and the ant colony that receives the instruction will change a tree.

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

Before, Miki kept saying that the ant colony is a true social creature, which belongs to the superorganism, but in the superorganism of nature, the ant colony only plays a certain social role, belonging to a close part of nature, and the competition is fierce will be eliminated by nature.

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

The sacred insect concubine connects all things.

It was inexplicably shameful to say this, and Meiji planned to do it quietly.

Infecting one by one by oneself, the development is too slow. Among them, there is a soul, and some individuals with will are not easy to directly infect. Therefore, Maggie 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.

Nydus worms were born because of this, also known as natural reformers, not only are the lowest elements in a natural system, but tools for digging underground, they are essentially props that Maggie uses to infect the entire nature.

itself is a type of fungus.

In nature, there is an imperceptible creature that dominates all creatures in the world, floats in the air, and hides in underground water. The body surface and body of the creature profoundly affect everything in the world.

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

Life lives in their guts, receiving their mysterious gifts all the time.

Fungi themselves cannot carry out photosynthesis. Needless to say, the importance of photosynthesis, and tunnel worms themselves cannot carry out photosynthesis. With the deepening of research, Maggie found that it was not necessary at all.

Unlike the interstellar Zerg's creep, Maggie has created her own creep, and the Zerg creep, which is dangerous, deadly and disgusting at first glance, without camouflage, is not in Maggie's manufacturing list.

In the heavily irradiated area in the Leaf Forest, which was almost dead, that is, near the Valley of the End and other places, Maggie found a kind of mushroom.

This kind of mushroom survives tenaciously on the dead land, and absorbs radiation to convert it into the nutrients it needs. It can almost be said to be Godzilla who eats nuclear energy.

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

A long time ago, when plants did not land on the barren land, fungi relied on this ability to stand on the ground and grow into giant mushrooms eight or nine meters high.

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

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

This turned 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 appearance of primitive lichens.

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

Plants produce lignin, which is the hard trunk to resist insects, but mushrooms, many mushrooms 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 fungus did not disappear, but moved to the hidden underground.

In the Leaf Forest, Maggie discovered a huge underground system that is more common but complex and hidden.

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

What Miki means is that the forest has a living mind, a rudimentary form of collective will.

Fungi have evolved in a different way from other biological species. They grow in a filamentous form, and the cells that make up the filaments are exactly the same.

Without organized organs and differentiation, they can still complete complex life activities. Without nerves and brains, they can complete the exchange of information. Without intestines and stomachs, they can digest and decompose almost all organic products. Without glands, they can create the most natural things complex matter.

Above ground, the fungus reproduces and spreads, characterized by fruiting mushrooms.

Underground, the fungi form a complex network, wrapping the roots of the trees, and the mycelium inserts into the roots to complete the exchange of substances and get what they need, and connect the entire forest.

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

It can also allow the trees to transmit danger signals to each other, and the entire forest is like a super life body performing complex operations.

This reminds Meggie of the planet Pandora in Avatar, which has a kind of tree that reaches the root system in a very large number to establish a complex consciousness network. Every 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, this planet Pandora is like a giant brain, and the roots of the tree are interconnected neurons. When countless neurons are interconnected, a more complex and magnificent ideology is born, that is, the indigenous Our Lady, or Planetary Consciousness Gaia.

And all life in it is a symbiosis interdependent with neurons. Although they have the law of the jungle, they always make the necessary circulation for the harmony and unity of the entire brain.

So what can you do.

That is the divine Kala connects each of us.

A world of mutual understanding between people.

This is its most basic application.

There are still many problems to be solved in order to achieve this step.

It's not a matter of a moment.

(End of this chapter)