279 Fungal City (I)

◎Zhu Ning's arms seem... a little longer?◎

Will Qi Xueliu betray the Kingdom of God?

She didn't even know the answer. Before Zhu Ning appeared in the second district, she was loyal to the Kingdom of God.

Qi Xueliu quietly clenched her hands. The choice before her was simple. Prometheus was asking her whether she wanted to connect to the human-machine joint device.

After the connection, she will become a mycelium person, which is almost equivalent to chronic suicide.

Du Yiqi looked at himself without blinking, the sea-blue light flickered. Prometheus sometimes found humans very interesting.

He likes to give limited choices and observe the helpless expressions of people.

Qi Xueliu's clenched hands gradually loosened. She raised her hand and took out a very flat box from her pocket. Inside the black velvet box lay a button-sized device. As long as it was worn, the mycelium of Prometheus would penetrate into the nerves.

It was originally one of the mission equipment. Before seeing what happened to Du Yiqi, Qi Xueliu was not so averse to it.

Qi Xueliu struggled instinctively: "Actually, there's no need..."

She stopped talking mid-sentence. What should she say? Her loyalty to the Kingdom of God? That was nonsense.

Prometheus: "Sorry, I need to clear any possible obstacles."

Prometheus' algorithm has sentenced Qi Xueliu to death, and any of her arguments seem pale.

Qi Xueliu: "I understand."

Prometheus prompted: "You need to open the panel before you can wear it."

It is impossible to access the system while wearing a helmet, so Qi Xueliu has to take the risk of opening the helmet panel. Prometheus wants to test her loyalty.

Qi Xueliu felt an indescribable shame. The other party had no expression at all, and all her struggles were meaningless.

Qi Xueliu pondered calmly, wondering why Prometheus had to purge them at this very moment. She glanced at the shadow inside the car. The so-called weapon, number 0056, hadn't moved an inch from beginning to end.

Are the weapons still effective?

Qi Xueliu had just seen that No. 0056 was very targeted. It was only targeting Zhu Ning from beginning to end and had no interest in Bai Cheng and Pei Shu at all.

Could it be that Prometheus was programmed in advance and was unable to accurately change its combat objectives?

Levi is not here, Du Yiqi's body is injured, and Prometheus has no intention of repairing it. Does he actually want to change to a body that is easier to control?

Did he take a fancy to his ability to control consciousness?

Qi Xueliu's mind was full of thoughts at that moment, wondering whether she should take the risk and escape. She was silent for a while and then raised her hand.

The helmet panel opened, and Qi Xueliu pressed the human-machine joint device against the left helix. The white mycelium immediately stretched out and pierced the thin skin. In an instant, the mycelium wrapped around its prey like hunting.

In fact, there was no obvious pain, but Qi Xueliu felt like vomiting.

Is the rejection reaction so serious?

She shuddered all over. This was not Du Yiqi's voice, but the voice of Prometheus himself. It was gentle and indifferent. He sounded as if he cared a lot, but in fact he didn't care at all.

Qi Xueliu's nerves were controlled, and she was directly connected to the other person's consciousness through her mind.

Qi Xueliu stared at the inch of land under her feet, cold sweat streaming down her face. She couldn't control the urge to fight to the death, but such childish thoughts would only make her die sooner.

Qi Xueliu took a deep breath and put the panel back on. She suddenly realized that Prometheus was not that powerful. In a simple surveillance state, he could not directly read people's memories and thoughts, but was more sensitive to emotions.

So try not to expose your emotional tendencies, so that you can be safer.

Prometheus: [Hello, Captain Qi, I will take full control of your body by default.]

Qi Xueliu suppressed her emotional reaction and said, "Okay."

After she finished speaking, she saw the shadow inside the car move. No. 0056 could indeed move. Fortunately, she did not defect without permission just now, so now was not the opportunity.

After Prometheus gained control of Qi Xueliu's nerves, he relaxed his guard and seemed satisfied with her reaction.

Suddenly, bang!

There was a strange noise in the distance, which didn't sound like gunfire. It should be Pei Shu and his men attacking.

Prometheus said in a calm voice: "Someone is going to kill the dog."

He reacted coldly, but Qi Xueliu got goosebumps.

…

Thick smoke billowed in the distance.

Since Lin Xiaofeng left, the flying car has been unmanned and has revealed its true appearance, floating in the air.

Lava was rolling in the wound on Pei Shu's forehead, and Bai Cheng's neck had become strange since she threw away the body. A human face was faintly growing on the right side of her neck, as if another Bai Cheng was about to crawl out of her body.

Pei Shu and Bai Cheng were running quickly in the grass. The dog named Levi was originally chasing Lin Xiaofeng, but for some reason suddenly gave up the target.

Pei Shu and Bai Cheng immediately chose to take action. This was their only chance and they could not let the human-faced dog join the main force.

The dog was agile and surprisingly cunning, and took the opportunity to escape from the trap set by Pei Shu and Bai Cheng.

Levi was running very fast. His right foot was hit by Bai Cheng and his back was burned by Pei Shu, but he did not slow down at all. It seemed that he could not feel the pain, and the injured parts were gradually healing.

Who would have thought that such a weird-looking thing could be a healing thing?

Bai Cheng's hatchet spun in the air and hit Levi like a dart. Levi's running speed paused, which gave Pei Shu an opportunity. The grass in front of Levi suddenly caught fire, and the flames came towards him, burning the dog's hair.

Levi had to turn around and run away. It was strange that the dog was so seriously injured, but its mobility was not affected at all. It seemed as if it could move forward even with just a handful of bones left.

Pei Shu said as he ran: "Prometheus is controlling him."

Bai Cheng heard that there were not only mysterious weapons in this battle, but also Prometheus on the opposite side who could predict their actions.

Big data models will import data, and they are now like humans playing chess with artificial intelligence. Unfortunately, humans lost hundreds of years ago.

They guessed that this Hound Operation was most likely within Prometheus's calculations, but they had to do it.

They must hold on until Zhu Ning wakes up, and before that, they must kill the dog.

…

The speed of time flow inside the contaminated area is different.

Lin Xiaofeng understood this principle very early. She didn't know how much time had passed in the outside world, maybe only five minutes, but in her eyes, she had been in this city for a whole day.

Pei Shu said that it had to conform to the logic of the contaminated area, so Lin Xiaofeng unlocked her transparent ability so that others could see her protective suit. Anyway, she had entered the contaminated area, so she was the one who knew best whether there was any contamination or not.

Don't be too conspicuous, keep it "normal".

The city was attacked by some unknown monster. She hadn't seen any other people or pollutants. It was as dark as before dawn, gloomy and very humid.

The city is much larger than the previous Blackbird City. Lin Xiaofeng should be in the city center, with several shopping malls connected together.

The pedestrian street was empty, without a single person in sight.

So far, Lin Xiaofeng has not found out any valuable information. He only knows that this city is called Jinshi, and he doesn’t even know how to act to adapt to the rules.

Lin Xiaofeng did not find a family to live with, but came to the shopping mall. He thought that the public space would not offend others. Fortunately, there was an abandoned old furniture store in the mall, hidden deep in the clothing store, and next door was a simple children's playground.

The mall was very humid, and there were a lot of mold and mushrooms growing on the ceiling. Lin Xiaofeng didn't dare to touch them.

All the cabinets in the furniture store were opened. It was estimated that someone had been collecting supplies before. There was a display bed in the middle, but it was spared from being taken away because the sheets were damp and mushrooms grew on the pillows.

Lin Xiaofeng unfolded a simple sleeping bag, spread it on the soft bed, and then put Zhu Ning on it.

Zhu Ning was very small, like the half-human-height Barbie doll that Lin Xiaofeng played with when she was a child. Because there was only a sleeping bag, after Lin Xiaofeng put Zhu Ning in place, he curled up at the foot of the bed and sat. Zhu Ning was left with only half of her body, and she still couldn't react.

There were no lights in the furniture store, and Lin Xiaofeng didn't turn on the lights to save energy. He lay on the bed and looked at Zhu Ning in the dim light.

Zhu Ning's condition was getting worse and worse, and she was covered in sweat. Lin Xiaofeng helped her wipe it several times but it was useless. She unbuttoned Zhu Ning's collar, and under her vest, the red lines twitched slightly under Lin Xiaofeng's gaze.

Pei Shu was present before and the situation was urgent, so Lin Xiaofeng couldn't take a close look at Zhu Ning's body. Now she had the chance. She lifted up her vest, and Zhu Ning was unconscious and let her do whatever she wanted.

The red lines indeed grew from the heart. The lines on the left side were much denser, and they looked like some kind of strange tattoo on the chest.

When did this grow? Why didn't she know about it?

Lin Xiaofeng and Zhu Ning had never discussed anything about Song Zhizhang's death. She sometimes wanted to talk about it, but Zhu Ning was very evasive and now he didn't even tell her about the abnormality in his body.

Lin Xiaofeng resented the bad Zhu Ning and felt that Zhu Ning did not treat her as a relative.

Lin Xiaofeng checked Zhu Ning's "wound" again. Only half of Zhu Ning was left. The cross-section of her wound was a bit scary, but Lin Xiaofeng was not afraid. The incision was covered with black mucus. That stuff was not a stagnant pool, but was gently wriggling around the wound.

When Lin Xiaofeng lifted Zhu Ning's left arm, black mucus flowed down.

Lin Xiaofeng was checking as usual. Ever since Zhu Ning was injured, she would check the wound whenever she had time, fearing that it would fester.

But she couldn't see any clues through the black mucus, nor could she tell whether the wound was rotten. After checking, Lin Xiaofeng wanted to put the severed limb back into her, but she just held the half arm and didn't move.

Was she seeing things? Zhu Ning's arms seemed... a little longer?

Zhu Ning had been wearing a protective suit. The mysterious weapon split her in half very suddenly, cutting off the protective suit and arm together. Now her left arm is one finger longer than the protective suit, and because it is covered with black mucus, it is actually difficult to see.

Lin Xiaofeng pulled at the edge of Zhu Ning's arm, and the black mucus seemed to be annoyed by her and automatically moved away a little, which became more obvious at this glance.

The color of that piece of meat was different from other parts of the body. It looked like bones had just grown out and it was covered with a layer of muscle. The top layer of skin had not yet grown fully, and it looked bloody.

Lin Xiaofeng gestured and confirmed that Zhu Ning had really grown a new arm, just like a carrot growing out of the mud.

After seeing this, she wanted to cry. She always felt that if Zhu Ning grew taller, he would grow a new arm and two new legs.

Lin Xiaofeng took a deep breath to calm herself down. The current situation was not that bad. She just had to take care of Zhu Ning according to the plan.

Lin Xiaofeng wanted to give Zhu Ning another injection of antipyretic agent, but he also thought that the amount was too little and he had to use it sparingly.

She took out the kettle, wet the handkerchief, and covered Zhu Ning's forehead with it. She had used up the last drop of water in the kettle, and she should have gone to get more water. At this time, Lin Xiaofeng suddenly turned the kettle and found a black spot at the bottom of the kettle.

She touched it and found it was a piece of mold?

The edges of the mold are very fuzzy, and the overall color is black and gray, with a hint of bluish. If you look closely, it looks like some kind of furry animal.

When did the mold start growing? I've only been here for a day, and already there's mold under the kettle?

The kettle is made of stainless steel. On the contrary, Zhu Ning's wound is almost exposed to the air. If there is rotten flesh on the cross-section of the wound, it will be easy to rot and get infected. Could it be that Zhu Ning will also grow mold on his body?

Lin Xiaofeng stood up and wanted to wrap Zhu Ning tightly in a body bag.

Dadada——

At this moment, footsteps were heard behind Lin Xiaofeng, like the footsteps of a child, suddenly running past her.

When she turned around, she saw the white screen windows in the furniture store shaking. Lin Xiaofeng felt a little cold on her back. This was deep in the mall, where did the wind come from?

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