Lin tried to control the other limbs of the creature. It was an arthropod-type creature with eight arthropods. It was about three meters in size and had a pair of wings on its side. The wings were oddly shaped like two large leaves. Its mouth was round and could be opened wide. It was clearly a creature that specialized in devouring.
Lin had never seen a creature like this in the Forest of Pillars. It might be a species unique to this place. It had a strange appearance with no joints on its body. It looked like a rock with wings.
Lin used the Brain Reader to control the creature's movements. She surveyed her surroundings.
She was currently in the middle of a forest. She had no idea where the Inca swarm lived. This was a completely unfamiliar underground world.
The Brain Worm was also unaware of the situation here. It could only retrieve a small amount of information from Montezuma's little ball of brain cells. Lin guessed that Montezuma not only hid some of his cells, but also digested some of them. This way, the Brain Worm would never be able to retrieve any information.
Montezuma's little ball of brain cells was just some kind of trigger mechanism, and it contained very little memory. It was constructed to automatically send information to the Inca insect swarm when the brain worms read the information, but until now, the Inca insect swarm did not seem to have any reaction.
Speaking of which, the Aztec swarm would not be destroyed because of Montezuma's death. The Deepsand Bus would give birth to a new leader after the death of its leader. It was unknown if the new leader would inherit Montezuma's memories. Generally speaking, without a direct reproductive relationship, they would not inherit the memories. However, if Montezuma had placed his own brain cells in the Deepsand Bus beforehand, it would be hard to say.
For now, it was better to focus on this underground world.
The creature that Lin was currently occupying had a strange body. It was troublesome to control, so Lin planned to create more Penetrators to devour the creature. She would then create her own unit before exploring.
The process did not take long. Lin quickly devoured every cell in the creature's body. After gathering all the nutrients, a new unit was born.
The creature was oval in shape. Its body was more than two meters long. It could fly in the air using airbags and jets.
Its name was' Brain Hunter '. It was equipped with small units called' Stingers'. The purpose of these small units was to invade the opponent's brain. In addition, there was another type of Collector that could fly. It was used for dissection and research.
It would be difficult for Lin's large army to enter this place without affecting the Inca swarm. As such, Lin could only rely on this unit to explore this place, and also use special methods to increase the number of Lin's troops.
The Brain Hunter flew to the sky above the fern forest. Lin planned to look for the Inca bugs first. She would study the Xiao Guang creature at the top of the cave next time. It was quite troublesome to study those things.
In the forest not far ahead, Lin saw a huge Hometree. There were many hometrees in this underground world. Each of them was about 200 meters apart from each other. The space between them was filled with dense ferns.
A Home Tree was around fifty meters in diameter. If the Home Tree here was hollow like the one outside, it could house a lot of creatures, but Lin felt it was unlikely to be hollow …
Brain Hunter flew to the nearest Hometree. While flying above the underground forest, Lin felt that the temperature here was very close to the surface. It was warm like the temperature when ice and snow had just melted. However, there was obviously no snow or rain here. How did these plants get their water?
Suddenly, Lin heard the sound of flowing water. She saw that the forest below was separated by a large river about five meters wide. The water flowed from north to south.
Lin let the Brain Hunter slowly descend above the river. She let the Collector drink some of the water.
After retrieving the Collector, Lin analyzed the composition of the water. Sure enough, the water was the same as seawater. It contained a lot of impurities that only seawater would have. However, the sea should be in the south. Why was this river flowing from north to south?
Bang! Suddenly, a fish creature jumped out of the water. It opened its mouth and tried to bite the Brain Hunter on the surface of the water. However, the Brain Hunter rose higher at an even faster speed. The fish missed.
This was a type of marine fish. Its name was' Lungfish ', and it felt like a very stupid name. It was a marine creature. The Brain Hunter quickly opened a small hole in its skin and shot a small, one-centimeter-long spike at the Lungfish in the water.
Although the spike was small, it was equipped with a full set of jet propulsion systems, and it was also loaded with a Penetrator. After it entered the water, it rushed into the gills of the lungfish at an extremely fast speed, and then found a soft place to inject the Penetrator in the spike into.
The Lungfish did not know that it had been invaded. It slowly swam away, and the Brain Hunter slowly floated up and continued to move towards its previous target.
The Penetrator would slowly grow in the Lungfish's body. Then, like before, it would eventually occupy the creature's brain and create a Brain Reader to control the creature or eat it up.
This method seemed very scary. Lin could use the Penetrator to invade other creatures' immune cells and do whatever she wanted.
Why did it feel like a very scary method? It was indeed much scarier than normal hunting.
The Brain Hunter was already within 30 meters of the Hometree. Looking up, the countless branches and leaves on the side of the Hometree blocked all the light, so there were no ferns in this area. The ground was flat rocks and sand, and there was a group of salamanders crawling on the ground.
Salamanders were very common, but these half-meter long salamanders were green and Lin had never seen them on land. So, they became the Brain Hunter's next target. The Brain Hunter aimed at one of the salamanders and shot a small spike.
When the spike released the Penetrator, Lin was besieged by the immune system. This salamander did not use immune cells. Instead, it filled its blood with a strong toxin. As long as the Penetrator came into contact with the toxin, a large part of its flesh would be dissolved. However, the salamander's own cells were not affected. With this ability, the Brain Hunter easily killed the invading Penetrator.
This was very interesting. Some creatures did have strong immune systems, but what about this?
The Brain Hunter opened a large hole on its body and shot out a wasp. The wasp's tail was like a curled silk thread. The wasp flew to the salamander's head, stretched out its tail, and pierced the salamander's ear hole.
Usually, arthropods relied on their antennae or body hair to sense sound. However, reptiles and salamanders relied on the small holes on both sides of their heads. Lin called them 'ear holes'.
The wasp inserted its tail into the ear hole and released some egg-shaped objects. These egg-shaped objects quickly extended a large number of antennae and inserted them into the ear hole to suck the salamander's body fluid.
As soon as they felt the toxin, they would retract their antennae and wait for the toxin to dissipate before continuing to suck. Since the salamander could not secrete the toxin into the ear hole, the salamander could not kill them. During the sucking process, Lin would also absorb a small amount of the toxin and decompose it. Soon, she would be able to develop a method to resist the toxin.
After the method was completed, these egg-shaped objects would split open and a small Brain Reader would emerge. The Brain Reader would use its antennae to dig into the salamander's body and swim towards its brain.
No matter what kind of immune system it was, Lin would have a way to deal with it. Normal cellular immune systems were the easiest.
When the Brain Reader reached the brain, Lin suddenly noticed a large group of creatures running out from the other side of the tree. They were … the basic Inca army: Black Bees.
Finally, the Inca army.
Lin had the Brain Hunters fly a bit higher to avoid being noticed by them. The Black Wasps then surrounded the salamanders, causing them to huddle together in fear and roar at the Black Wasps. Lin noticed that the Inca Swarm's Black Wasps didn't attack them, instead, they carried over a few dozen of those silk-spitting insects on their backs. They continuously spat out silk threads at the salamanders. As the number of silk threads accumulated, the salamanders' limbs and bodies were slowly being glued to them, unable to move anymore.
Then, the Black Wasps stepped forward and dragged the encircled salamanders back.
This included the salamander that had its brain occupied.
The Brain Hunter flew above the Inca army. Lin noticed that they had walked to the roots of the Hometree. They carried the salamanders into a cave that was less than half a meter in diameter.
It seemed that the Brain Hunter could not continue to follow them. The Inca army's nest might be inside the Hometree. Did that mean that this place was hollow?
Lin began to pay attention to the Brain Reader in the salamander's brain. She had it quickly devour the salamander's brain and dissolve its eyeball to replace the eyeball that Lin made herself. Lin needed to observe the environment inside the tree.
However, she could not do this quickly. When Lin was about to finish the eyeball, the Inca army had already carried the salamander far inside.
She might not be able to see much of the place this way, but it did not matter.
Fortunately, there were not many threads stuck to the salamander's eye, so Lin could see her surroundings clearly. Now, the Black Bees were carrying the salamanders, including Lin, into a wooden tunnel that was not very spacious. There was nothing special around them, but it was very bright, as if there was something illuminating them.
Finally, the Inca army moved the salamanders to a more spacious place. This seemed to be a room in the tree. It was more than ten meters wide, and it seemed to be a place to store food.
Lin saw that there were all kinds of fish, arthropods, reptiles, and other creatures. They were all trapped by a large number of threads. Other than the fish, these creatures were all still alive. In addition, there were also a large number of plant leaves and seeds. The Inca army piled these things up in the room as if they were not afraid of them rotting.
The salamanders were also piled together with the fish. Then, the Inca army left. After they left the room, they carried a round log and blocked the door of the room. The room suddenly became dark …
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