Through simple conversations along the way, El has basically understood the current situation.

After a brief discussion, the three decided to go all out and burn the batch of nutrient paste that had not been transported away in time.

The mycelium is indeed tenacious, but it is not yet strong enough to withstand flames of several hundred degrees.

But things changed faster than they imagined.

As the three people's pace gradually slowed down, they slowly stopped in the middle of the yard.

"The atmosphere isn't right."

"Is that even necessary?"

"Isn't this one of your men?"

"I said I'm not the leader in name only."

"Is that why they look like they want to eat you?"

“It’s hard to say.”

“Crash!”

There was a crisp sound of glass breaking, and half of Li Rui's body, with blood all over his face, appeared outside the second-floor window.

He looked at El who had come to the center of the yard and shouted:

"Boss, hurry up, something's wrong!"

The next second, his lower body seemed to be hit by an incomparable force, and he flew out of the window.

His body turned perfectly one and a half circles in the air, and finally his head hit the ground with a dull thud.

Looking at the corpse whose head was tilted to an incredible angle, Zhuang Mian swallowed his saliva even though he had seen a lot of big scenes recently.

"This is……"

"The nominal leader of Ashes."

El replied calmly.

Ji Yongxing frowned slightly. As a researcher who puts human life first, he didn't like El's cold attitude towards human life.

But his observation told him that there seemed to be something wrong with the body.

At this time, a head popped out of the window on the second floor again. It was a human with bloodshot eyes and dark green saliva flowing from his mouth.

When he appeared at the window, everyone in the yard couldn't help but look over.

But unlike the hostility they showed towards Ji Yongxing and the other two, their gazes towards the second floor were mixed with fear and joy.

The man with drooling mouth shouted loudly:

"Follow the Lord's will and kill those who cannot hear the Lord's voice!"

“Ouch!”

The man's words seemed to have detonated the most primitive anger in people's hearts. At his command, the people around him gathered towards El and the other two.

Unlike traditional zombies or zombie-like creatures, they obviously still retain basic judgment, but they are unable to control their own bodies and really want to teach the three people in front of them a lesson.

At this moment, the corpse on the ground with its head tilted to the waistband suddenly trembled like a carp, and then with the sound of friction between bones, the neck and the head slowly turned back to their normal position.

Li Rui slowly got up from the ground and came to El as if he saw a savior.

"Boss, are these two... reinforcements?"

El sighed inaudibly, thinking of his own abilities and those of the two people around him, and said half jokingly and half sincerely:

"According to the current situation, you should be the most capable fighter among the four of us."

Li Rui's joyful expression suddenly froze on his face.

Seeing the sudden change in his expression, El sneered and said:

"You have seen my abilities. I am not very good at fighting. The only option I have is a sure kill.

"As for these two..."

Zhuang Mian and Ji Yongxing, who were well prepared, had already pulled out their pistols from their holsters.

“Not much different from mine.”

A look of joy immediately returned to Li Rui's face, but he soon understood what El meant -

Those were their people, and most of them were under control. Even though they were all unemployed vagrants, they were still an important part of the Ashes.

This human touch is still important.

So the task of repelling his former subordinates and breaking through with a few people fell on Li Rui.

But this task was much simpler than he thought.

Following his training as a law enforcer, Zhuang Mian fired a warning shot into the air when the crowd approached.

But this sharp and piercing sound seemed to awaken the most vulnerable part of those people's hearts.

Perhaps it was because the mycelium had not yet completely taken control of the body, and after the gunshot, those people stood there and slacked off.

Seeing this, Li Rui quickly used his special skills, fought off a few people and left the yard with El and the others.

The drooling observer on the second floor was not annoyed at all when he saw this. With just a gesture, he made the humans whose consciousness was partially controlled by the mycelium run towards the storage room of the nutrient paste.

Similar incidents are occurring at dozens of locations in the outer suburbs, where gang members who have trouble making ends meet are regular customers of most of the nutritional paste production lines.

Maybe their methods are different, but they will always use the channels they are familiar with to get enough food.

More and more people are being controlled by mycelium.

More and more people are acting as relays of the great consciousness's whispers.

More and more people are affected and start taking nutritional paste.

A wave of humanity began.

As for those who eat very little or prefer insect products, they fell into extreme panic in this doomsday-like scene.

Some of them hid at home, enduring the noise coming from all directions in their heads.

Some walked out of their homes and instinctively ran towards the safest place in their minds, which was the inner city.

As for those individuals who were completely controlled, they slowly gathered towards the city walls of the outer city.

They will cooperate with the beast tide outside, today, right here, to completely capture the outer city area where 80% of humans live!

In the outer city, watching the residents fleeing in all directions, El and his two companions were making their final efforts.

Zhuang Mian was contacting his teammates, asking them to destroy all the nutrient paste they could find before this bizarre mental plague spread over there.

Ji Yongxing was contacting Zhou Zhuo. Through his recent experience, he thought of a theory related to the strange beast in the archives that had never been verified.

Biofield.

If this conjecture is correct, then the extinction of mankind may come earlier than one guesses.

If the human population is drastically reduced in a short period of time, the biological fields belonging to the alien beasts and mycelium will be able to directly interfere with humans who have not yet been infected.

If that happens, everything will be irreversible.

---

On the inner city wall, Fresnel's 25th Squad welcomed an unexpected guest in their defense area.

"Hello, I'm 'Weightless', and here are the transfer orders for the Fresnel team."

After confirming the different events that would be encountered in the inner and outer city areas, many super-powered teams made new arrangements.

Most of these teams are better at dealing with alien beasts rather than humans, including the 25th Team, which is capable of large-scale killing and precise control.

The transfer order was quickly read out, and everyone knew that a wave of beasts not seen in a decade was approaching.

"But...how do we get to the outer city walls?"

Wang Xiao looked at the fat man in front of him and spread his hands. Although he could transform himself, he couldn't make himself grow wings.

The fat man looked at Wang Xiao and smiled, then repeated:

"My code name is - Weightlessness."