The Siege by the Mycelium Torrent

Worse still, the Parasitic Mycelium on the surface of the Central Navigation Star suddenly stretched toward the Starvault-IX, forming a silver "Mycelium Torrent" moving at ten kilometers per second.

The Siege by the Mycelium Torrent and the Development of Anti-Parasitic Coating

The Star Core Thruster of the Starvault-IX roared at full power, its exhaust spewing a golden beam a hundred meters long as it tried to escape the Mycelium Torrent. But the Parasitic Mycelium seemed almost alive, tracing the starship's course through the void. Its speed surged from ten to fifteen kilometers per second, and in just thirty seconds it caught up with the vessel. Silver strands wrapped around the tail thrusters like a rising tide. Their energy output plunged by 40%, the Starvault-IX's speed dropped sharply, and the ship began to tremble.

Even more deadly, the Star Track Parasites on the mycelium swarmed over the hull like ants drawn to blood. Their hooked chests gripped the gaps in the armor, while the Energy Injectors on their abdomens jabbed at the metal like poisonous needles. "137 Parasitic Spore injection points detected on the armor!" Shipboard AI's alarms blared one after another. Chu Yunyi quickly activated the "Star Core Pulse Wave." Golden energy expanded outward in a ring from the ship, knocking more than three hundred Parasites off the hull and into the void. But more kept pouring out of the mycelium, even piling on top of one another to form a "Parasite Cluster," hoping their combined weight would crush the hull armor.

"We have to develop a coating that can resist parasitism!" Chu Yunyi switched the starship laboratory to emergency mode and analyzed the parasitic mechanisms of the Star Track Parasites. Studying the captured Parasitic Spore samples, he discovered that the spores needed to achieve "Bio-electric Signal Matching" to invade