The tiger-head sea eagle and the dark giant bird descended.
From high up, all they saw were mushrooms.
The scale was immense!
Spanning over twenty kilometers, the sight made their scalps tingle.
"Captain, do mushrooms have brains?" Zhou Haiyang asked hesitantly.
"Of course not."
"Then how do we kill it? We can't decapitate it. This entire vast area is covered in mycelium, and it's all underground."
"Ruoruo, Hedong, come down with me."
Qin Feng grabbed Xiao Ruoruo and He Dong.
They dropped from the sky.
The moment their feet touched the ground, the mushrooms sensed them. The caps of several nearby mushrooms detached from their stems and floated towards them.
Xiao Ruoruo and He Dong immediately prepared to attack.
"Don't worry about them, I'll handle it!"
Qin Feng summoned his spatial shields. "Hedong, flip over the soil and rocks, expose the mycelium!"
*Bang bang bang!*
As the mushroom caps approached, they exploded.
Simultaneously,
a large number of spores were released.
Unfortunately, the vast spatial shields protected the three of them.
The explosions couldn't break through the spatial shields.
Each spatial shield was seamlessly connected, preventing any spores from entering.
"Yes!"
He Dong unleashed his ability.
The ground vibrated beneath his feet.
The surrounding soil and rocks surged, as if ploughed by a great blade.
Indeed!
As the soil and rocks were turned over, gray-white mycelium was revealed.
"Ruoruo, control the mycelium!" Qin Feng shouted.
"Yes!"
Xiao Ruoruo immediately employed her plant manipulation ability.
The mycelium was brought under control.
"But... what's the point?"
She frowned. "With my level 8 mental power at its limit, I can only control three to four hundred meters."
The honey fungus covered over twenty kilometers!
It was a vast difference.
"Slowly spread outwards, gradually increasing the control area, but expand slowly," Qin Feng said.
"Oh..."
Xiao Ruoruo diligently followed the instructions,
but she felt it was a futile effort.
The nearby mycelium was controlled, and the mushrooms were also subdued, ceasing their attacks.
Following Qin Feng's directives, she gradually expanded her control zone, but at a very slow pace.
"Captain, is this really going to work?" He Dong also felt it was useless.
"If it were animals, it would be useless," Qin Feng said with a smile.
"What do you mean?"
"When animals mutate, the higher their level, the higher their intelligence. Plants, no matter how they mutate, can't be said to have high intelligence."
Plants attacking other creatures was a primal instinct.
They possessed no high intelligence.
Their attacks stemmed from two reasons:
Either, like a Venus flytrap, they would capture insects even before mutating.
For food.
To obtain nutrients.
Or,
it was for self-protection, to prevent invaders from encroaching.
The honey fungus's attack was for the former reason.
To kill the creatures within its territory.
To obtain more nutrients from the creatures, which would benefit its growth. 138Reading Net.
Regardless of the reason, it indicated one thing.
They had no brains.
But they were absolutely self-serving!
Therefore, when Xiao Ruoruo manipulated the mycelium, it was akin to snatching its possessions, which was intolerable.
What would it do?
"Captain, something's happening!" Xiao Ruoruo suddenly exclaimed.
"You feel it?" Qin Feng chuckled.
"So much... so much mycelium!"
The mycelium was interconnected.
By controlling the surrounding mycelium, she could sense further away.
At this moment,
countless mycelia were surging from all directions.
"I get it!"
He Dong's eyes lit up. "Precisely because they lack intelligence, once they sense an intruder, and especially one controlling their own mycelium, it touches their core interests!"
It was like this:
If you walked around my house, even if it was an eyesore, I couldn't do anything.
But if you broke into my house,
took my belongings,
stole my house,
that would infringe upon my core interests!
Unbearable!
"That's the idea," Qin Feng nodded.
"When all the mycelium converges here to support, and enters Ruoruo's control range, we'll take them down in one go!" He Dong was excited.
"It's not that simple."
Qin Feng gave a wry smile.
The appearance of Sea King was an accident.
In his previous life,
he knew about these killer whales but not where they would land, nor the exact time.
With Sea King's help, dealing with the twin-headed crocodile was easier.
However!
Even without Sea King's appearance, he would have fought the twin-headed crocodile alone!
Only by obtaining a level 9 crystal could he break through.
Only when Xiao Ruoruo broke through could they deal with the honey fungus.
Otherwise...
It would take too long to break through by absorbing low-level crystals.
By the time Xiao Ruoruo broke through,
the honey fungus would likely have also upgraded!
Yet, even if Xiao Ruoruo had just broken through, she still wouldn't have had an overwhelming advantage.
In the air,
on the backs of the birds,
everyone's expression changed.
As far as the eye could see, the ground was undergoing bizarre transformations.
It looked as if countless insects were burrowing underground.
They could see many places wriggling.
"Ruoruo!"
Qin Feng thrust two level 6 crystals into Xiao Ruoruo's hand. "Absorb them quickly, replenish your mental power!"
"I still have plenty of mental power..."
"Stop talking nonsense!"
Qin Feng's expression was grave as he shouted into the sky, "Everyone, be on high alert, prepare for battle!"
Battle?
Everyone was bewildered.
The honey fungus was large, yes.
But its offensive capabilities...
posed no threat to them, these top experts.
Their attack power was very limited.
Why was the captain taking this so seriously?
*Boom!*
A colossal tremor shook the ground from all directions.
Gigantic objects burst from the earth.
Mushrooms!
Much larger than the ones they had seen before.
Each one towering over ten meters!
"Ruoruo, retract your control range!" Qin Feng roared.
"Huh?!"
"Do as I say!"
"Yes!"
Originally,
Xiao Ruoruo's controlled mycelium had covered an area of two to three hundred meters.
But Qin Feng told her to retract.
On the other side,
hundreds of giant mushrooms formed a massive encirclement.
They stood hundreds of meters apart.
Qin Feng, Xiao Ruoruo, and He Dong were trapped in the center.
*Bang!*
*Bang!*
*Bang!*
The mushroom caps exploded.
Vibrant, multicolored mist spread out.
That mist...
wherever it touched,
all plants turned black and withered.
It was highly toxic!
"Everyone, come down!"
Qin Feng shouted. "Join forces with me for defense!"
More spatial shields appeared, forming a giant spatial dome.
Except for the tiger-head sea eagle, which was too large and Qin Feng told it to leave first, everyone else descended to the ground and was protected by the spatial dome.
The mycelium, which had covered over twenty kilometers, retracted to a size nearly manageable for Xiao Ruoruo.
When the mycelium was spread out widely,
the density of mycelium per unit area was small,
and the mushrooms were also weaker.
As the mycelium retracted, the mushrooms it spawned experienced a surge in size and power.
Plants' instincts were to grow and expand.
Normally, they would spread out as much as possible.
However, when their core interests were threatened, they had to eliminate the intruders.
Retracting the mycelium!
Intensifying their combat power!
The moment the mushroom caps exploded, a vast amount of toxic fog permeated the air.
But this was by no means their only attack method.
In fact,
the potent poison was merely an appetizer.
After the mushroom caps exploded,
billions of spores dispersed into the air.
Previously, the mushrooms were small, and their spores were also small, their attack method being parasitism.
Now,
the mushrooms had grown a thousand to a hundred thousand times larger.
Each spore was the size of a marble.
*Swish!*
Billions of spores emitted sharp whistling sounds as they hurtled towards the giant spatial dome.
"Holy crap!" Liu Pi stared, dumbfounded.
There were too many!
The closest spores hit the spatial dome first.
Like rain hitting banana leaves.
Upon impact,
the space visibly warped.
The spores actually contained spatial power!
The level 8 spatial shields were incredibly strong, but they couldn't withstand the sheer number of spores.
In the blink of an eye,
the spatial shields shattered one by one.