Rule 147: Make use of rules

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He looked at the woods a few meters away, pointing at a pile of strange mushrooms and asked the officer in his thirties, "Cao Wei, my brother, what is that?"

There lay an unidentifiable animal carcass, which was covered with brightly colored mushrooms.

Cao Wei said to the young man who approached, "Commander Qing Huai, that is the corpse of a ring-tailed monkey, and those mushrooms growing on its body are Mushroom Bud Bacteria. Once matured, the Mushroom Bud Bacteria will explode, scattering spores that enter the animal's skin with the force of the blast, eventually leeching off the host's body to nourish the growth of new Mushroom Bud Bacteria."

Because the force of the explosion isn't very powerful, the injured animals don't die immediately.

Therefore, they continue living with those spores attached, until the spores completely drain the nutrients from their bodies.