Chapter 292 Fire Book
Chapter 292 Fire Book
Click click click.
Just as he finished speaking, a mycelium head in the corner began to expand strangely. Its horrible face kept twisting and swelled up like a balloon.
Lin Xian immediately felt something was wrong and said to KIKI, "KIKI, wrap it up!"
"it is good!"
KIKI immediately used the telekinesis shield to wrap the swollen mycelium head. Sure enough, the next moment, the mycelium head exploded, and the bluish-white rotten brain matter sprayed out along with the thick brown-yellow spore mist, which was tightly wrapped by KIKI's telekinesis shield.
"Disgusting!"
At this time, the other mycelium heads also began to expand continuously and rolled towards the crowd quickly.
"Come on."
Realizing the trouble, Lin Xian acted decisively. KIKI no longer held back and directly used his telekinesis to grab everyone and flew into the distance.
Bang bang bang bang!
Dull explosions continued to sound, and the center of the street where they were just now was instantly covered by thick spore mist.
"What is this? A spore bomb?" Ning Jing looked a little scared. To her, it was not that she was afraid to face the scary monsters, but this spore mist that could parasitize and devour people made her feel powerless. Fortunately, there was a telekinetic person like KIKI in the team, otherwise it would be difficult to deal with them.
"Go directly to the car city, which is two blocks away from here. Hurry up." After realizing the trouble of these things, Lin Xian had no choice but to venture deep into Yijin City. He didn't want to stay in this place for even a second longer.
Huhu~
Above the city of Yijin, the air was filled with a damp and moldy smell. KIKI held up a transparent mental shield, covering the seven people inside, and then quickly headed towards the direction of the Auto City.
Not long after, a low street appeared in front of us, and a large parking lot appeared in the back. Countless abandoned and damaged cars were piled up in this open space of the car city. There were at least hundreds of cars at a glance. At this moment, those cars were covered with fungal mats and luminous mushrooms. It was very dreamy to look at... If you didn't know that under the mushrooms was a rotten brown and yellow fungal mat.
"All the cars that can be driven away have probably been driven away." Luo Yang frowned when he saw this scene.
"It's okay, I don't want a car."
Ning Jing saw Ah Bai's face darken and couldn't help asking, "Ah Bai, what's wrong?"
"Sister Ning... I always feel like there are monsters everywhere, all staring at us..."
Ning Jing looked around when she heard that. In the dead silence of the city at night, there was a carpet of mycelium everywhere. Apart from the human fungi on the streets, there was no moving living thing to be seen.
However, she knew that Abai's perception was not wrong, so she looked at Lin Xian and signaled to him.
Lin Xian nodded: "We just need to make a quick decision. There must be some strange entity in this place. If we are marked, we must find a way to kill it with all our strength, otherwise we will definitely not be able to escape this polar night."
"Yeah." Ning Jing nodded.
The human fungus and mycelium heads just now did not leave any mark on anyone, including the giant rat that appeared in the darkness before, so even though it was strange, Lin Xian and the others still came in to look for devouring materials.
"Hey, Lin Xian, look quickly."
At this time, KIKI pointed to a large parking lot in the center of the car city: "That looks like a motorcade camp!!"
Everyone looked in the direction of the sound and saw that among the chaotic group of cars, there was an area surrounded by a circular formation, which was obviously an area used as a survival camp. Outside there were more than 50 heavy trucks serving as a defense line, and inside were various large and small daily necessities vehicles, off-road vehicles, trucks, buses, tanker trucks, solar power generation vehicles, etc. It looked like there were at least vehicles, which could be considered a medium to large fleet.
However, at this time, the convoy camp had lost all life and lights. It was completely covered with mycelium carpets and luminous mushrooms, like a circular mushroom flower bed, located in the central area of the parking lot.
"This convoy should be gone. There is no heat source at all." Ding Junyi, who was wearing Black Hawk armor, said at this time.
KIKI controlled her telekinesis and slowly fell from the air. At this moment, the Red Phoenix Order on Lin Xian and Ning Jing suddenly made a sound.
Drop drop drop.
The two reacted immediately.
"Someone left a Fire Book information package!"
"Is this convoy the Phoenix Order's convoy?"
"Not necessarily. It could have been left by the Night Walker."
Lin Xian immediately took out the Crimson Phoenix Order, opened it, and found that it was a piece of residual radio audio signal.
"Hey, hey...here...this is the Yefeng team, hey, hey...I'm the deputy captain Liu Zhong."
"We can't evacuate anymore... tsk tsk... there's a large-scale fungal spore infection here, and all the zombies are..."
"Sizzle... the spores will quickly invade the brain and cause hallucinations. Firepower attacks will be ineffective. Sizzle... the parasitic things will be attracted by sound and light... Don't open fire, don't get out of the car, don't turn on the lights, sizzle... we can't get out at all... the fungi in the entire city are alive, alive!!"
"We were forced to hold out here for three days. The captain led the exploration team to discover a secret research institute underground of the Crimson Pharmaceutical Group... They were studying polar night and this mycelium. They demolished the roads and destroyed the bridges so that those entering the city would have no way to go. Then they captured the survivors and used them as experimental specimens for mycelium experiments. Our people fought with them, but it was too late. Survivors or members of the Phoenix Order who received this message must wipe them out. This mycelium is more terrible than a virus and will bring a devastating crisis to mankind. We can no longer leave!!"
"Chi...! We can't... break into their research institute. It's just under that building! Ah!!! Something is growing in my head!! Ah!..."
drop……
The Huoshu radio signal disappeared, and everyone suddenly felt the atmosphere turn cold.
"Crimson Pharmaceuticals? Them again?!" Ning Jing frowned.
Lin Xian asked: "Do you know this organization?"
Ning Jing nodded and looked at Abai: "Behind this pharmaceutical group is an adventist organization called Crimson World, which is very mysterious. Abai and Xiaoqing were captured by them before..." When she said this, she swallowed her words and looked at Abai.
Everyone looked at Abai and found that his face was full of fear and terror.
On the other side, Lu Xingchen looked at Abai with a slightly gloomy expression.
"Crimson Pharmaceuticals..." KIKI quickly searched with her phone, and immediately found the target: "Oh, really, it's at No. 223, Nanda East Road, Crimson Pharmaceuticals Group Yijin Branch, which used to be the leading scientific research enterprise here."
"It turns out that the tracks and bridges were destroyed by them. How despicable!"
Lin Xian immediately tried to transmit the information back to the train with the communicator with a gloomy face, but he was shocked to find that the signal had been completely interrupted. The signal poles he had reserved along the road had been covered with various hyphae and were completely scrapped.
"It's troublesome."
"What should we do, Captain Lin, should we retreat?" Luo Yang said cautiously at this time.
Lin Xian shook his head and looked at the human bacteria in the shadows around him: "It's no use retreating. Without the track, we can't leave Yijin at all. Once we are entangled by those human bacteria on the train, no one can escape."
"This group is one of the best in the global pharmaceutical field. Not only is it financially powerful, it also has very authoritative research in the fields of genetics and cancer control." Ding Junyi said at this time: "According to the information revealed in this fire book, they can continue to conduct research here, which proves that they have the means of protection, and they must have done some basic research on this kind of mycelium. If we find this group of people, we may be able to find a solution."
"Makes sense!"
Lin Xian nodded immediately. He looked in the direction of the joint train track and said in a deep voice, "After I get enough materials for the track here, we will go to Crimson Pharmaceuticals to investigate. If this group of people is still there, we can either kill them or find a way to isolate the mycelium through them. I have a feeling that even if the track is repaired, it won't be that easy for us to leave!"
To build the track, one must pass through the city, and it is a slow process that will cause a lot of noise. Even if Lin Xian, who possesses mechanical abilities, can quickly manufacture the track along the way and have the track laying machine lay it, it is still more than 20 kilometers long and one must also consider obstacle clearance. It is almost impossible to completely avoid the attack of mycelium.
After realizing the current situation, Lin Xian immediately prepared to adjust his strategy
"Do you mean that we should go to this pharmaceutical group and get the solution to mycelium from them?" Ning Jing asked.
"Is it possible that people from this organization are also monitoring us?" Luo Yang said at this time.
"Strictly speaking, the mycelium network has the ability to transmit information and hunt. From a biological perspective, the entire bacterial community can be understood as a whole. The largest organism in the world is actually a fungus, so your worry is not unreasonable." Ding Junyi said at this time: "Our train must have been targeted by some creature in this city."
"Then we should take the initiative." Lin Xian said anxiously, "And we have to be quick. Once these things attack our train, we won't have any strategy to deal with them." He pointed to the heavily armored doomsday truck in front of him.
"This convoy was not defeated by guns and artillery."
Looking at the dozens of survivors' vehicle camps wrapped in mycelium blankets with everything inside rotten, Lin Xian realized the seriousness of the situation. These fungal spores and human bacteria were almost impossible for the Infinity to defend against, and it didn't even dare to open fire to fight back.
Ning Jing and Luo Yang both nodded solemnly upon hearing this.
"That makes sense. With such a long train line, once a chain reaction occurs, the situation may get out of control immediately." Luo Yang said.
"Then let's go meet this group of people." Lu Xingchen said coldly: "It's a good deed for me to get rid of the harm to the human race."
Ning Jing's eyes flickered, and she took a deep breath: "I didn't expect these things to be so difficult to deal with. Now it seems that they are much more troublesome than the attacks of the strange bodies."
"Don't be so pessimistic." Ding Junyi said at this time: "At least for now, these hyphae have not shown great aggressiveness. As long as we keep quiet, there are still many things we can do."
"Ah."
Lin Xian and his companions landed in the parking lot at this time. He wasted no time and immediately began to devour the large trucks in the convoy.
[Swallowed successfully, mechanical source points +20, mechanical swallowing skill proficiency +10]
[Decomposition: Obtain high manganese steel * 10, hot-rolled forged steel * 10, cold-rolled dual-phase steel plate * 5, ordinary carbon steel * 20, non-metallic foam material, non-metallic composite material...]
[Swallowed successfully, Mechanical Origin +15]...
While Lin Xian was devouring, KIKI and Ding Junyi looked around the convoy and discovered that there was not a single corpse in such a large convoy.
"Why is there no one left?"
"They should have all turned into human fungi." Ding Junyi looked towards the huge parking lot. In the darkness, there were many densely packed black shadows. They had different shapes and strange hyphae growing on their bodies. The hyphae vines on their legs were connected to the ground, and their roots were connected together.
Ding Junyi looked at the dense mycelium network under her feet and couldn't help saying, "I remember there was an experiment that used the fission network of Physarum polycephalum to design the city subway network. The root system of this fungus is like a real information network that can transmit information. Now the whole Yijin City is covered like this, just like what I said..."
"Ah, you mean, each of these human bacteria may be a sensory terminal, like a monster's tentacle, monitoring us?!!" Luo Yang was the first to react, and said with a somewhat grim expression.
"If the mycelium has consciousness, then yes." Ding Junyi replied calmly. As soon as this was said, the others suddenly felt a little creepy.
Lu Xingchen impatiently stepped on a mycelium vine and broke it. He always felt that there was some kind of energy flowing inside it. At this time, he said with frustration: "I really want to burn it clean with fire."
"Hey! You want to blow us all up?" KIKI spat at him immediately after hearing this: "I asked you to come along not to cause trouble, don't move."
"Oh~" Brother Huo shook his head helplessly.
At this time, Abai suddenly took a few steps back and moved closer to Ning Jing.
"What's wrong, Bai?"
Ah Bai pointed at the abandoned cars everywhere and said, "They... are all looking at us."
Several people looked up upon hearing this. At this moment, everyone discovered strangely that there seemed to be a lot more human bacteria around them, and they were accompanied by a crackling sound, as if they were moving slowly.
"Are they surrounding us?"
“We didn’t turn on the lights.”
"It's not just the light. We have heat and bioenergy. They have already regarded us as prey."
"Mycelium?"
"That would be great." Ding Junyi frowned slightly and said, "If it is the instinct of this mycelium, it would be simpler, but if not, then we are in big trouble."
Lin Xian, who was speeding up the swallowing, said at this time: "Don't move, if they keep coming closer, we will swallow them in the air!"
Kakakka~
Kakakka~
As time passed, it was 20:10 and the atmosphere around began to become weird. More and more humanoid ghosts stood in the darkness. They moved slowly, and their joints made extremely strange and subtle sounds. They slowly gathered towards the convoy in the middle.
The team members surrounded Lin Xian in a defensive formation, looking at the fungi that were getting closer and closer with vigilant expressions.
Wow~Wow~
Cars kept disappearing under Lin Xian's remote swallowing, and a large amount of debris in the cars fell to the ground, leaving behind an empty fungus framework.
During the devouring process, Lin Xian discovered that all the internal components of these survivor tanks that had been running well seemed to have aged by ten years, but the information in the fire book information package was no more than 10 days old. This made him more wary of this kind of mycelium. If the Infinity was climbed by this thing, it would be a disaster.
"They are getting closer!" KIKI said anxiously at this time.
"Let's go up!"
Lin Xian shouted immediately, and KIKI immediately took 7 people to fly more than ten meters in the air. Not long after, the place where they had just stood was filled with people coming from all directions.
At this time, Lin Xian had already devoured more than half of the vehicles in this convoy, and the materials in the decomposition center were constantly expanding. At the same time, his mechanical source points and devouring proficiency were also rapidly improving.
Lin Xian finally realized his wish to devour the parking lot. It had been a long time since he had devoured such a large amount. If the situation had not been a bit strange at this time, he could have completely devoured all the cars in the parking lot by remote devouring.
"Lin Xian!"
KIKI then shouted to him, "Look down."
Lin Xian, who was concentrating on devouring, looked down at the parking lot and found that under the feet of the densely packed human fungus, the tangled roots of the fungus blanket seemed to be glowing faintly, with some kind of light red halo flowing from it like blood.
Everyone noticed this phenomenon at this time. The red flow gradually became brighter and clearer, and the red light became more intense. The entire bacterial network on the ground was like blood flowing, as if the entire area was breathing in a rhythmic manner.
Seeing this scene, Lin Xian also realized that something was wrong. He immediately stopped the swallowing action in his hand. When he was about to ask KIKI to lift everyone up just in case, in the corner of his sight, a floating luminous fungus suddenly fell slowly from beside his shoulder. The luminous fungus emitted a white and pink lively glow, and the mushroom cap was as light as goose down or dandelion.
Lin Xian's eyes immediately froze. At this moment, KIKI saw it and screamed.
"Lin Xian, be careful!"
As soon as he finished speaking, KIKI immediately held up a large telekinetic shield to cover everyone. The floating mushroom caps were instantly shaken by the telekinesis, and exploded in the air with thousands of tiny white spots of light, like a dreamy sand mist.
"On our heads!"
When everyone looked up, they discovered that countless white and pink tiny mushroom caps were floating down from under the black cloud. They were suddenly shaken open by the telekinetic shield, and the entire top of their heads was covered with sand mist, which then slid down quickly and landed on the human mushrooms below.
In an instant, those human fungi began to mutate violently. A large amount of white hyphae emerged crazily from the human fungi, and then quickly broke through the body and proliferated. The torso and limbs burst and fell off, leaving only the head rolling away. Then the whole human fungus turned into a strange mushroom more than one meter high, with horrible tumors all over its body. Countless hyphae grew from the neck into a beautiful-looking mushroom cap, which swayed in the wind, and a large number of spores fell everywhere.
Lin Xian and the others' faces changed drastically when they saw this scene. It had not been a minute since the white mushroom spores fell to the ground, but they had actually divided and multiplied to this extent.
"How strange, it seems like this thing is only floating above our heads!" Luo Yang looked at the sky and shouted in surprise.
Lin Xian took a look and found that only this area was floating, so he immediately said to KIKI: "Hurry, let's get out of here."
Wow~
KIKI immediately led the team to fly towards the distant airspace. After flying for several kilometers, the number of mushroom caps floating around obviously decreased a lot. At this time, Lin Xian looked back and found that the sky above the car city was raining glowing mushroom caps like a rainstorm, while other places were as quiet as before.
Ding Junyi looked at the network of fungal mats surging and breathing on the ground of the city and said, "Sure enough, the fungal community of this entire city is a large biological network. We stayed in one place for too long just now, so the fungal network responded to us."
Soon, the mushroom caps floating in the sky seemed to have located their position and began to fall from above their heads.
"What should we do now?"
"Let's go directly to that Crimson Pharmaceutical Group. If we go back to the train now, we will just wait for death!"
"it is good!"
After devouring those twenty or so heavy trucks, Lin Xian's decomposition center had obtained a lot of materials, which might be a little short of the track materials he estimated. So while flying towards the direction of Crimson Pharmaceuticals, Lin Xian asked KIKI to grab some abandoned cars on the road and devour them in the air.
Lin Xian's premonition was correct. At this moment, the fungal carpets all over Yijin City seemed to have come alive. As their team flew through the air, the mycelial roots on the ground continued to flash blood-red light.
At the same time, in the darkness and shadow corners, a large number of mycelium heads began to roll, and the mushroom caps growing everywhere on the ground of the city streets swayed in the wind and began to continuously spew out spore mist. In an instant, the city that originally looked clear and lively under the luminous mushrooms seemed to be covered by brown and yellow spore mist. The mist continued to expand and rise, gradually shrouding the city of Yijin in the mist of spore mist.
Seeing this scene, Lin Xian immediately said to Kiki: "Quick, take us over!"
"it is good!"
"These bacteria have started to spray spore mist. Will there be any accidents on the train?!" Luo Yang said nervously.
"There's no point in worrying. I hope they can hold on and not make any noise or light."
On the other side, Shi Diyuan and Chen Sixuan on the joint train saw a sky full of brown and yellow spore mist rising from the sky above the city and immediately sensed the danger.
"Quick, turn on the internal circulation of all air circulators, and find something to block the gaps at the connection between the cars!"
"Use a wet rag!"
"Also, the ventilation ducts and sewage pipes in the bathroom must not allow spores to enter the carriage!"
"The communicator can no longer contact Captain Lin and the others. What should we do?" Shuqin said
"They will find a way. We must follow Lin Xian's request and not make any noise. Cut off the power to the entire car!"
"it is good!!"
"Everyone, put on your gas masks, no skin should be exposed!"
Chen Sixuan looked solemn, and she and Shuqin checked everyone's protection one by one. Even though there was a train as protection, the people on the train did not dare to be careless, and even put on the winter clothes they had worn in the snow.
All of a sudden, more than 4 people quietly took action. They found all kinds of things they could use and began to seal up the possible gaps and holes in the carriages. The doors of every carriage on the Infinity side were closed just in case. The combined train became completely quiet, as if the air was frozen, and fell into silence.
A few minutes later, thick, dim yellow spore fog began to cover the train like a tsunami, and soon completely submerged the train. A thin layer of yellow spores began to cover the windows.
On the other side, as mushroom caps kept falling from the sky, KIKI led Lin Xian and a few others to fly quickly in the sky, and soon they saw a triangular single building covering a large area in the industrial area of Yijin City. The original building wall had been transformed into a high wall electric fence, covered with thorny iron nets, and there were machine gun sentry towers every few dozen meters. It seemed that it was built to deal with the zombie crisis. At this time, the sandbag bunker outside the wall had collapsed long ago, and the sand and the fungal carpet were glued into a honeycomb-like tumor. The barrel of a heavy machine gun was twisted into a twist by mycelium, and the unfired bullets on the ammunition chain grew black mushroom caps like wood ears.
The huge triangular main building was covered in glowing fungal carpets and various fungi, like a huge tumor incubator. Countless purple-black hyphae tumors were scattered around the building's periphery. The glowing tumor skin was translucent, and when you looked closely, you could actually see the outline of a human figure inside. There were also security zombies wrapped in hyphae, and some staff members in research suits. Of the four blue characters [Crimson Pharmaceuticals] on the roof, only the two characters "Crimson" were vaguely visible.
"What kind of fungus is this? It can actually eat people!?"
As a group of people approached from the air, KIKI immediately frowned. The scene in front of him looked extremely bizarre and terrifying. These mycelium networks were like some kind of internal organs and were extremely disgusting.
"The mycelium here is denser, which means we are very close to the core of the fungus." Ding Junyi looked at the brown-yellow spore mist rising up around him and said, "These spores are also flammable. We must be careful."
The entire city was covered in spore mist. If an explosion occurred at this time, the power would be unimaginable. Looking at the overwhelming spore mist, Lin Xian frowned deeply. Even if he had a defensive measure like the AT force field, he was not sure he could survive such an explosion.
At this moment, he suddenly discovered something.
"KIKI, come closer."
"where?"
"There!" Lin Xian pointed in the direction of the main building of Crimson Pharmaceuticals.
At this time, Lin Xian saw several special black experimental vans parked horizontally in front of the building. They had been wrapped in fungal mats. KIKI led Lin Xian and others to fly over, and then KIKI tore off the fungal mats, revealing a logo symbol on the van.
It is a triangular symbol.
Lin Xian and KIKI had seen this symbol before. It was the logo on the special metal box containing the Silver Dragon Hundred Thousand Disaster Plants that Uncle Wu from the Big Eagle Team gave to him when he just left Hengshanguan City!
(End of this chapter)