285 Fungal City (Part 7)

◎Became an unsolved case◎

Lin Xiaofeng was still carrying Zhu Ning on his back. If it was an enemy, Zhu Ning would fight back even if he only had one breath left.

Lin Xiaofeng recognized Pei Shu's voice. Pei Shu did not loosen the shackles. Lin Xiaofeng glanced at the corpses lying deep in the alley and found that they were Aunt Lan and Xiao Wu, one big and one small. There were flames burning on their bodies. The fire was not big due to the mold and moisture, and it would soon go out.

No wonder the two of them suddenly disappeared, it turned out that they were dealt with by Pei Shu.

This time, an adult had come home, and she didn't have to take care of everything alone. Before she could be happy, she saw a figure appear at the intersection of the road ahead.

Pei Shu dragged Lin Xiaofeng into the alley. Shadows fell, and they were just hidden in the blind spot. If Pei Shu hadn't dragged her away in time, Lin Xiaofeng would have run into him head-on.

Lin Xiaofeng's scalp went numb the moment he saw it. It was even more terrifying than seeing the mother and son. The person standing at the entrance of the alley was actually Qi Xueliu. Lin Xiaofeng had seen this person before and would recognize her even if she turned into ashes.

If Qi Xueliu had also come in, the others must not be far away. Sure enough, Lin Xiaofeng had already heard footsteps.

Dadada——

This is definitely the most terrifying sound you have heard since entering the Mold City. Aunt Lan and Xiao Wu have limited killing power, and that terrifying monster can split Zhu Ning in half.

Qi Xueliu stopped at the intersection of the main road, holding a gun, probably searching for clues.

Lin Xiaofeng finally understood why Pei Shu wanted to kidnap her without even saying hello. She closed her eyes and activated her ability of transparency the moment Qi Xueliu poked her head in.

Transparency is useless in polluted areas, as they will definitely know of Lin Xiaofeng's existence, but it is effective against enemies.

Pei Shu strangled Lin Xiaofeng's neck, and Lin Xiaofeng and the other three disappeared.

Qi Xueliu looked over. Levi was dead, and Qi Xueliu became a new dog. To be honest, No. 0056 definitely couldn't do such trivial work, so she was the only one who really did the work.

Qi Xueliu just heard some noise coming from here, Prometheus was still in her mind, and asked, "What's wrong?"

Qi Xueliu discovered that Prometheus could not receive his information 100% without completely taking over the body.

For example, Qi Xueliu's sixth sense now tells her that there is someone in this alley, and it is very likely that Pei Shu is hiding in it, but if she doesn't see it with her own eyes, Prometheus will not be able to perceive it.

It was another weakness. He could only use the puppet's five senses. Qi Xueliu silently took note of it. Before she completely became a mycelium man, she felt that it would not be so easy to die.

Qi Xueliu: "It's okay, it's just bad luck."

Qi Xueliu swung her legs as she spoke. The alley was full of mold, and her legs were covered with it. To be honest, this contaminated area was actually a bit troublesome.

Along the way, they killed three pairs of mold mother and son, but did not find any key clues. Qi Xueliu did not want to die at the hands of Prometheus, and of course did not want to get moldy.

Qi Xueliu looked behind her and saw that No. 0056 had disappeared again. He might be hiding in a corner, ready to hunt the target like an assassin.

Qi Xueliu asked casually, "Where's No. 0056?"

Prometheus glanced at her sideways and said, "Don't worry, he's here."

Prometheus didn't intend to say any more relevant information, and Qi Xueliu made herself look bad.

Prometheus: "Zhu Ning is half dead, he will definitely want to eat the pollution source to replenish himself. We will wait near the pollution source."

Because you know your own spark very well and can predict most of its actions, it is meaningless to search blindly. It is better to wait at the end.

Qi Xueliu still found it incredible to hear that Zhu Ning was feeding on pollution. She put away her gun. The soldiers were more capable and said, "Okay."

Now the goal is to find the source of the pollution. Qi Xueliu gave up the search and prepared to look for some clues.

Before leaving, she deliberately avoided looking at the alley she had just passed by, as if she was just passing by casually. Fortunately, something new soon attracted their attention. Not long after they walked, two figures, one big and one small, appeared in the square in the distance.

Aunt Lan and Xiao Wu appeared in front of them for the fourth time.

…

Pei Shu held Lin Xiaofeng's hand very tightly. If he hadn't controlled the strength, he would have almost strangled Lin Xiaofeng to death.

After a very long time, when the sound was almost inaudible, Pei Shu finally let go of her hand. He was almost driven crazy because he was not sure whether she was pretending to leave but was actually lying in ambush nearby.

With their team, they would be completely wiped out if they were attacked again.

As soon as Pei Shu let go, Lin Xiaofeng's supernatural power could no longer cover him, and a complete figure immediately appeared in the alley.

Mold was growing in the alley, and Pei Shu's back was moldy in just a short while.

Pei Shu asked, "How is Zhu Ning?"

"Not...dead..." Zhu Ning replied listlessly.

Lin Xiaofeng suddenly felt the presence of living people. Finally, she was not alone. Lin Xiaofeng thought about it and cancelled her special ability, allowing Pei Shu to see Lin Xiaofeng's protective suit and Zhu Ning behind her.

Pei Shu checked Zhu Ning's body. As soon as he touched it, he felt that Zhu Ning's body temperature was so high that he could fry an egg. The temperature was too high. Even a computer would be burned through.

Pei Shu asked, "How many injections did she get?"

"Two needles," Lin Xiaofeng said, "I'll use them sparingly."

Pei Shu: "Don't save it. The enemy is right in front of us. Use everything you have. If you don't use it anymore, you will have no chance."

Zhu Ning: “…”

Lin Xiaofeng took off the body bag. Because of the fire control, the mold in the area did not spread anymore, so he felt a little relieved.

She injected all the injectable drugs, and needles were scattered all over the floor. After two minutes, Zhu Ning's fever began to subside and his mind became a little clearer.

Lin Xiaofeng took a look and saw that Pei Shu was also covered in mold. How did he get here by himself?

"By the way," Lin Xiaofeng asked, "Where's Sister Bai?"

Pei Shu paused before saying, "Dead."

A dog exchanged for Bai Cheng's life, and Pei Shu felt confused when he thought about it.

Lin Xiaofeng's head buzzed, thinking he had misheard. Dead? Didn't they say undead?

Pei Shu didn't know what to say, "Two bodies are dead, maybe they are not dead."

Pei Shu had always been very efficient in his speech, but now he was a little confused, stimulated by Bai Cheng's death.

Zhu Ning was also stunned. She asked a key question: "Did Bai Cheng say anything before he died?"

Huo Wenxi said that Bai Cheng is an immortal and will definitely not die.

Pei Shu: "He mentioned a place name, I don't know what it means, maybe it's for us to take over the next Bai Cheng."

Pei Shu could only think of this possibility. Bai Cheng's head flew out, his mouth opened and closed, and he said an address. Pei Shu was an investigator and just happened to know where it was.

Zhu Ning: "Go find it."

She had no strength and spoke briefly.

Pei Shu: "I can only look for it at the next stop after I get out."

Pei Shu was watching the sentry outside the wall and whispered, "Bad news, Prometheus is coming in with that killer weapon."

Lin Xiaofeng just saw it, so did their previous plan completely fail?

"I just found out the model of that weapon is 0056," Qi Xueliu had mentioned it earlier. Pei Shu frowned. "I heard a little about it when I was at the Lu family. It seems to be a newly developed weapon by the Federation. Its performance is not very stable. They were planning to release it for sale. Lu Yao was interested in buying one for fun and asked me to inquire about it. A local tycoon got the first payment and bought it as a bodyguard. He was later found tragically dead at home."

Pei Shu finally felt familiar. "That rich man and his thirty top psychics were all killed. They were chopped into dumpling fillings. When outsiders opened the door and saw the minced meat on the ground, they went crazy. Later, they were recycled and never seen again. I wonder how good they are now."

Dumpling filling... Lin Xiaofeng had a bitter face and said, "Teacher Pei, you are really good at making analogies."

"While I'm still alive, I'm going to let you know something," Pei Shu said pessimistically. "I've seen 0056 from the front. He's a paper figure, or two-dimensional. You can only see him clearly from the front. If he turns sideways, you'd hardly notice him."

It is truly an incredible power. Bai Cheng was able to escape only by sacrificing Pei Shu, but the problem is that there are not so many Bai Chengs to attract their attention, and now there are only a few of them left.

Zhu Ning listened in silence. No wonder he'd seemed to be suddenly attacked earlier. If it were two-dimensional, wouldn't his vision only be forward, not to the sides? After all, only three-dimensional space allowed for peripheral vision.

Pei Shu probably felt the atmosphere was depressing and wanted to say something, "The good news is the dog is dead, no one will be tracking it."

Having lost their only locator, they are now trapped in the same contaminated area as Prometheus.

Pei Shu took a look at the corpse. After the mother and son died, they merged into two mold people. The surface of the mold was stung by the flames and burned black.

Pei Shu had seen this thing before. It was not about resurrection from the dead, but about infinity. Every pair of mother and child was brand new.

"This place is different from when I was here before. Back then, we just set fire to it, but now there are living pollutants." Pei Shu: "Let's have a meeting and consolidate the information. How much do you know about the contaminated area?"

Lin Xiaofeng was just worried about having no one to tell the information he had just received, so he immediately told everything he had just read in the newspaper.

Pei Shu frowned as he listened, "That's right, I'm saying the opposite of what you said, just listen."

"After I came in, I encountered a strange mother and son. At first, I followed their logic and realized that they were looking for a doctor. But I didn't go with them. I wanted to find Moon Street on my own and start with the target doctor."

Lin Xiaofeng: "And then we met again?"

Pei Shu: "Yes, every time I encounter it, it's the same as the first time, but mental pollution is repetitive, so it's quite normal."

Lin Xiaofeng silently took note of this and decided not to be afraid when he saw the same thing in the future.

Pei Shu: "I have been following the path they pointed out to me, while looking for clues about the Holy Doctor."

Lin Xiaofeng listened carefully. She only knew the information about the mother and son and knew nothing about the doctor.

Yes, why do we need to look for it? Is it to cure the disease?

Pei Shu: "This doctor is quite famous. She often does free clinics and is a well-known expert in oncology. Her child died. She was a single mother, and suddenly her child was gone."

It turned out to be a female doctor. Lin Xiaofeng remembered the newspaper he had just read and asked, "How did he die?"

Pei Shu: "Falling from a building."

Lin Xiaofeng still couldn't think of what it had to do with Aunt Lan. Could it be that Aunt Lan was a professional aerialist and she witnessed the scene?

"Is it a surprise?" Lin Xiaofeng asked.

"I don't know," Pei Shu said. "It's not that I don't know, it's that no one knows. There's no surveillance. The building hasn't been put into use yet, so the surveillance hasn't been installed."

This is not their world. The surveillance coverage is wide and it is easy to lose some information.

Pei Shu, a true professional investigator, had even more information. He said, "Two children went up to the rooftop to play, and one of them fell. There were all sorts of theories: suicide, saying she jumped from the building due to academic pressure. There was also the child murder theory, saying the surviving child pushed her. There was also the third-party theory, saying there was a murderer at the scene, but they were never found. Then something happened in this city: a mold infection. The unsolved case is completely unsolved."

Pei Shu: "Anyway, it's become an unsolved case."

Lin Xiaofeng was silent for a moment. The information Pei Shu had obtained basically matched the newspaper's, except that the doctor's child had died. He asked, "Why are they looking for a doctor?"

Why do you need to see a doctor? Why does it keep happening?

Pei Shu: "I don't know."

There still wasn't enough information, so Zhu Ning asked, "What are Aunt Lan and Xiao Wu now?"

Pei Shu pondered and said, "You can think of them as creatures from another world."

Pei Shu: "They are completely different from what you see inside the Great Firewall. They have no rationality and no human logic. They may have been driven by some so-called resentment, but the pollution outside the Great Firewall is very deep. I have observed that they have long lost their human thinking and can only repeatedly pollute. If you were good at persuading them with words before, I can tell you clearly that it is impossible. There is no need to try to communicate."

Aunt Lan and Xiao Wu are already things from another dimension, just like an ant talking to a human. If you want to influence the other person, you have to make sure they can understand.

The contamination here is actually quite simple. It's just that I repeatedly encounter a mother and child, and then I'm always attacked. There's more and more mold on my body, but I can't find a way to get out.

Lin Xiaofeng's calf was infected, Pei Shu was infected on his back, and the most seriously injured was Zhu Ning. Because she was not wearing protective clothing, the mold on her neck grew larger and larger, and it felt like half of her neck could be broken if touched.

Pei Shu looked at Zhu Ning worriedly, fearing that she would die before she could hold on.

Zhu Ning himself, whether out of care or out of mind, remained remarkably calm. He asked, "Have you found the source of the pollution and eaten it?"

Pei Shu carefully considered Zhu Ning's suggestion. "Among so many mothers and children, one of them might be the real source of contamination, but we can't be sure."

Zhu Ning: "What's your suggestion?"

Pei Shu: "The mother and son's home, the crime scene, and Moon Street where the doctor is located are the most likely locations."

"It could be the exit, or it could be the source of the pollution. It's impossible to be sure." Pei Shu knew too little information. This place was completely different from when he came here before.

"Also, Prometheus may be waiting for you in these places." Pei Shu said this with dismay.

This is like being attacked from both sides, leaving very little room for escape.

Zhu Ning: "Will Prometheus also be contaminated after entering?"

Prometheus is a mushroom, and this is mold. Who will win if they fight?

Pei Shu: "Absolutely. As long as the pollution source here doesn't change its owner, everyone who comes here must abide by the rules."

Zhu Ning pondered, there was still one last chance, to use the characteristics of the pollution source to kill Prometheus. Now they entered the same arena, like two teams fighting, whoever got more information would win.

The author has something to say:

Thank you to the little angels who voted for me or provided me with nutrient solution between 2023-07-06 17:05:09 and 2023-07-07 16:22:41~

Thanks to the little angels who threw the grenade: Echizen Ryoma Mixuan’s girlfriend, 65698965 1;

Thanks to the little angels who cast mines: 2 in the hall; Penguin shouldn't go to the galaxy to doubt, Qizi, daily daze, 67218235, yiyi, 34733367, 65698965, Jierou only cares about you, 48532585, Yuanyi 1;

Thanks to the little angels who irrigated the nutrient solution: Flowers Bloom and Shadows Fall 80 bottles; Peach Peach Knows Wine, Dusk Dye 70 bottles; Ask the Great One to Add More 54 bottles; Night Deep Fragrance Spreads in the Empty Courtyard, Pa Wa 40 bottles; ●^● 34 bottles; Little Sheep 33 bottles; Aww Aww Aww, Thousands of Perceptions 31 bottles; A Piece of Wind-Dried Cake, Good, Sleepy and Already Asleep, Fish Who Wants to Fly, Bali, Wu Yunhan, Jiu 30 bottles; Recently I Like DNA 23 bottles; Su Yaoyao丶, Claw Monkey with Vinegar, Western Expedition Guest, You Xi, qA, Heartfu 20 bottles; Yingfeng Buzhen 15 bottles; ◇A Piece of Glass◆, Someone Like you, vlaams, Rukawa Kaede's girlfriend, Monkey Soju House, I'm free for half a day, Yeah, Sixty Cats, Maria, Pine Nuts, Tired and sleepy, 24054888, Cute, Electric cars have been in meetings for several years, Alazyperson, Zhou Sheng, Soft words 10 bottles; Argumentative father 9 bottles; 30008297, Book Hydrogen, Happy little hamster 8 bottles; Aspartame, Xianyu does not include shipping, Mangshi 6 bottles; The later it gets, the more I want to read novels, Aoi, I am Lazy Sheep in my rebirth, WWW, Orange has no head, Beige Paradise, Xi Ming 5 bottles; The big sister who doesn't eat celery 4 bottles; Fathead Fish, Read More, Special Encounter 3 bottles; 48532585, Penguins Shouldn't Go to the Milky Way Suspect 2 bottles; Hot Pot Flavor Juju, Hee Hee, ufdatrnvpgyz, Salty Fish, Yellow Vegetables, Neurasthenia (~o~), Spring Flower Letter, Not a Small Mahua, Playing Bad Green Beans, 40973968, Zhang Zhenyuan Let Me Lie Down and Kiss, I Only Love Paper Girls, 56524804, Jump Jump Jump, Want to Eat Hot Pot, Chunbi, Fairy Godmother, Tamio, Study Hard and Make Progress Every Day, Megaa, Yu Yu Doesn't Eat Fish 1 bottle;

Thank you very much for your support. I will continue to work hard!