Wasteland Border Inspector - Chapter 621
Chapter 621: Chapter 216: Demon Eye Sponge, the Powerful Fish Mimic State
As organisms that existed on Earth as early as hundreds of millions of years ago, sponges are a general term for filter-feeding organisms with many pores.
The phylum Porifera includes about five thousand species, with various forms such as tubular, forked, umbrella-shaped, cup-shaped, fan-shaped… covering almost all irregular shapes.
And what Garcia drew on the ground was a type of tubular sponge organism, but its overall form was closer to a virus structure:
A gigantic boil-like body, covered densely with countless terrifying protrusions, each surface lined with sinister patterns, looking particularly eerie.
According to the scale marked by Garcia, Cheng Ye calculated in his mind that merely the diameter of the central boil was at least two to three hundred meters, and those extending tentacles, each was at least ten meters long.
But how deep is the White Water River?
This large river, converging from the Lin River, despite the perennial water flow impact, was only about forty meters at its deepest point.
How could such a huge creature be hidden in such shallow waters?
Inconceivable.
Even the courage to face it was somewhat shaken.
Cheng Ye couldn’t help but swallow hard, but saw Garcia continuing to draw, not stopping.
As each tentacle’s tip was topped with an open eyeball, Cheng Ye instinctively turned to look at Luokuke, just meeting Luokuke’s equally shocked gaze, both of them having difficulty swallowing.
“Could the cave be right beneath this sponge?” Luokuke was the first to speak, his voice carrying a trace of uncertainty.
“Is the Immortal Object fragment inside its body?” Cheng Ye added.
Once the words were out, both fell silent,
No matter which possibility, it all circled back to facing this sponge giant head-on.
If they were to enter the cave, they had to first pass through its tentacles, and if they were to find the Immortal Object fragment, they would have to get into its tubular protrusions, even deep into the central boil.
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No wonder Garcia instinctively thought it impossible for them to complete the task, confronting such a giant source of infection, humans seemed so insignificant!
Even maintaining the courage to face it, to gaze at it directly, was hard enough, let alone entering its body to retrieve the core.
But luckily, before deciding to enter Dapo Town, Cheng Ye had already decided not to consider himself human.
Although the sponge before his eyes was not an optimistic yellow sponge, he was also not that red starfish with its butt sticking up.
Steadying himself, Cheng Ye took out the Firewood Communication and quickly typed in the words “sponge infection source” to start searching for related information.
The screen immediately displayed several pieces of related information.
As expected, all the entry descriptions of sponge infection sources differed from the one under the White Water River, with the most evident being the lack of eyeballs growing at the ends of its tentacles.
However, setting aside this point, humans had indeed discovered similar sponge mutations in other regions, and the documented characteristics and strategies offered quite a bit of reference value.
Cheng Ye browsed through them one by one, quickly stopping at a summary and muttering aloud, “Sponges, by themselves, do not possess organs capable of performing complex functions, nor do they have a central nervous system. Even when infected and mutated by the S3 virus, they haven’t developed a very high intelligence, only retaining the most primitive instincts for hunting and energy absorption.”
The lack of high intelligence meant that this giant creature’s attack patterns were more predictable, with not too many flexible and adaptive methods, reducing unknown variables in confrontation.
Unfortunately, looking through the entries below, the highest recorded level of sponge infection sources only reached Disaster Level.
Named ‘Promise Sponge,’ it was still a benign infection source.
This sponge could grant infected individuals extremely strong resistance to impacts, perfectly cushioning damage unless from instantaneously strong kinetic impacts, preventing physical harm.
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But its infection cost was quite special; the infected had to fulfill a promise they once set for themselves but never fulfilled deep down.
If they had no unfulfilled promises, they could ignore this cost.
Yet, as one grows older, it’s hard to avoid saying some unfulfilled words, like casually telling a child “I’ll fetch a star for you.” If judged by the Promise Sponge as a “promise” and impossible to fulfill, it would trigger fatal backlash instantly.
“The sponge beneath the White Water River doesn’t seem to be a benign infection source. These eyeballs…”
Cheng Ye put away the Firewood Communication, his gaze returning to the drawing on the ground.
Garcia was already finalizing it, completing the shape of the sponge.
Remarkably, considering the extremely dangerous situation he must have been in when he went underwater last night, he still managed to remember so many details:
For example, the sponge had twenty-two tentacles in total, the longest being over twenty meters and the shortest only about ten meters; the length disparity was nearly double, distributed irregularly on the boil-like body.
Additionally, the calibers of the sponge were also different; the longest had a caliber of about slightly over three meters, whereas the narrowest was only one and a half meters, resembling the entrance to an underwater cave.
“I’m not sure if this thing has any proactive aggression, but it indeed didn’t attack me…”
Garcia finished his last stroke, casually tossed the vine aside, and leaned against the concrete wall of the dock to sit down.
Last night, he went underwater from here. Now returning to the same spot, even though the sunlight refracted warmth, he still felt cold all over, his mind involuntarily flashing with those strange faces.
Luokuke took out the Firewood Communication, snapped a photo of the pattern on the ground.
The two huddled together to study it for a moment and first named the underwater infection source.
“Let’s temporarily call it Demon Eye Sponge,” Cheng Ye suggested. It was his first time naming an unknown infection source, and it felt somewhat remarkable.