290 Mold City (End)

◎It was these two minutes that saved her life◎

Moon Street.

Qi Xueliu saw a figure, and under the manipulation of Prometheus, she had to carry out the mission and kill Pei Shu.

She raised her gun and stopped shooting at the mold man, but instead shot at Pei Shu's shadow.

It seems that this is Zhu Ning's arrangement: Pei Shu against Qi Xueliu, and Zhu Ning against the weapons.

The flames continued to burn, becoming more and more intense, reaching the point where they interfered with vision. If someone suddenly attacked at this moment, Qi Xueliu would not be able to see clearly at all.

For a moment, the mold actually took a few steps back and was unable to move forward.

The disadvantage of fire-based supernatural attacks is that this is to clear the area for Qi Xueliu. Qi Xueliu uses mind control, and for a moment all the objects around her are moving.

The blue ring on her forehead was still flashing. Prometheus still hadn't fully controlled her. It seemed that all his attention was on Zhu Ning.

Qi Xueliu's attention was also not on Pei Shu. Although she seemed to be attacking the enemy, she was actually thinking about herself.

This was the best opportunity for her to escape from Prometheus. Qi Xueliu had already raised one hand, trying to unplug the human-machine joint device, but at this moment, she felt a burning sensation on her back.

As if she was close to the fire, someone raised a torch behind her, and in the flames, Pei Shu's true face appeared behind her.

…

No. 0056 arrived at the 6th floor. His body looked terrifying, a mass of twisted black lines.

The door was ajar, and a rotten smell was coming out from inside. Zhu Ning opened the door?

0056 has been completely controlled by Prometheus. He is actually looking at the world through 0056's eyes. The corridor on the sixth floor is very narrow and there is no space leading to the seventh floor.

Zhu Ning was cunning and cautious, and he had considered the possibility that Zhu Ning might hide in the corridor and deliver a fatal blow to him.

But it was quiet here. The silk thread was drawn twice at different angles, but no target was found.

Zhu Ning actually went in, panicking and losing his way? There were wolves in front and behind, and tigers behind. Either way, he was doomed.

He wondered if he should just wait there for Zhu Ning to be killed by the pollution source, but that would easily allow Zhu Ning to devour the pollution source first.

He pushed open the door and a cold atmosphere filled the room.

Prometheus was an information animal, relying on collecting information to feed into data models and calculate the most likely outcome. But now he realized that he actually knew very little about the source of the pollution.

He didn't want to confront the source of pollution directly unless necessary.

On the wall opposite the door, the doctor's body had almost completely merged with the mold.

There was no trace of Zhu Ning inside. She must have used transparency to hide herself. Where was she?

He guessed that Zhu Ning would devour the source of pollution, and he caught up too quickly, which should have interrupted Zhu Ning's "eating process".

According to his guess, Zhu Ning should be not far from the wall.

His eyes flashed, and a piece of mold next to the armrest of the sofa moved. Zhu Ning's ability to become transparent could not hide all traces.

Found it.

A whoosh sounded in the air—

There was the sound of the whip again. The whip was raised in the air and fell down with a swish. Where the black line rolled over, the moldy sofa was quickly cut into several pieces, which should also include the person sitting on the sofa.

Things went smoothly, but 0056 did not see a corpse, nor did he see any blood. Even if Zhu Ning became transparent, he would still bleed.

The thread must have brushed against something. It clearly hit something, but no result was seen.

The black silk thread swirled in the air, smashing the sofa and coffee table. Zhu Ning might have been bleeding but he didn't see it because he was hidden under the sofa.

The results of Prometheus's calculation model are very bad. He should leave this damn place immediately because there is too little information. He has always been an information animal, relying on input data to deduce the results.

This time he had no reliable information.

It was strange, the prey was hit but there was no trace.

He controlled No. 0056 to take two steps forward. The ground under his feet was soft. He entered the mold city. Mold was everywhere, which was very common. In addition, No. 0056 was a two-dimensional person, and his feelings were naturally different from others, which led to him not realizing anything at first.

It was not until he was so close to the "corpse painting" that he could touch it with his hand that 0056 felt something wrong under his feet, as if he had stepped on a piece of overly rotten fruit peel.

He lowered his head and saw a person's limp neck.

A woman's body was rotten all over, and her body had merged with the floor, forming a colorful carpet. Due to the severe mold on the floor, the human shape was submerged in it and could not be seen at all. The human eyeballs flowed to the left foot, and the human toes were embedded in the chest.

The doctor had turned into corpse water, and even his bones had become moldy due to the pollution.

The moldy doctor's feet were right next to the wall, reflecting the "corpse painting" on the wall, making it impossible to tell which one was the real doctor.

When people enter a room, their first sight will be attracted by the "corpse painting" on the wall, and they will ignore the ground under their feet. Even if they look at their feet, it is difficult to immediately recognize that it is the shape of a human body.

The soles of No. 0056's feet rotted rapidly, and at the same time, his body collapsed rapidly. He was just a paper man, and the parts that could rot were fewer than those of others.

Compared to the mold erosion of Aunt Lan and her son, this was real decay. A rare sense of fear came over him, and his legs went weak, his paper legs trembling, and they were about to melt into corpse water.

0056 made a very rational decision and immediately sent out the black thread. He did not attack any monsters, but chose to attack himself.

After a burst of silk thread passed by, No. 0056 cut off his legs cleanly and efficiently. A silk thread connected to the ceiling, allowing his body to create some distance from the ground. His reaction speed was already fast enough.

But the mold corrosion could not be stopped. The severed part was immediately covered with new corpse fluid, and soon he even had difficulty breathing.

It's useless.

He has been locked in by the mold, and all struggles are meaningless. He is doomed to die.

When he was having difficulty breathing, a trail of blood appeared in front of his eyes. Strands of blood first lost their transparency and seeped out in mid-air.

Then the true face of the owner of the wound was revealed. Zhu Ning was lying on Lin Xiaofeng's back. She squatted on the low cabinet next to her, and neither touched the painting of the corpse on the wall nor the corpse on the ground.

Zhu Ning's eyes were covered in mold, with only a bit of clean skin left on her forehead, making her look like a monster in this polluted area.

Three minutes ago, Zhu Ning entered the doctor's house and subconsciously walked to the wall. He stretched out his hand to try to swallow the source of pollution, and then his body became limp and he and Lin Xiaofeng melted together.

Afterwards, mold came out of the woman's mouth on the wall and wrapped around Zhu Ning, causing him to die.

This is the scene in the danger prediction. This talent will only accurately play two minutes after one's death. After receiving the death notice, Zhu Ning recalled it carefully, not missing any details.

When she heard the noise from 0056, she finally realized what was wrong. She recalled the walls, the entrance, the air conditioner as an important clue, and even considered details such as the takeout box. She even wondered if she had walked into the wrong room.

But what she had always ignored was the abnormality of the floor. Normally, humans die on the floor, so how could they die on the wall?

Zhu Ning died for the first time because he stepped on something he shouldn't have, triggering a hunting trap in the contaminated area.

Zhu Ning entered the room, avoiding the corpse on the floor this time and following the furniture. She quietly waited near the sofa.

She deliberately made a noise, and although she was working on the table, she ended up making a dent in the sofa.

Spider silk can be used for long-range attacks, and can also move a piece of mold remotely.

0056 really made a move. The black thread cut through Zhu Ning's right arm. Her entire arm was cut off, but the black mucus wrapped it in advance, covering up all the blood and preventing it from flowing out. Zhu Ning did not make a single groan of pain, and even her breathing did not change.

Prometheus understood Zhu Ning, and Zhu Ning understood him.

This person would never leave unless he was sure that he was completely dead. Even if he killed someone, he would still check the body.

Zhu Ning didn't need to do anything. He just had to wait for him to step on the doctor's corpse water. It didn't need to be a large area, just a small part would be enough.

No. 0056 is two-dimensional, and his field of vision is naturally limited. People have peripheral vision to detect danger. It is difficult for a normal person like Zhu Ning to see any clues, and it is even more difficult for him to detect information that cost his life.

Finally, Zhu Ning waited for that moment.

One of his feet stepped into the area of ​​corpse water, which was corroded by mold, just as Zhu Ning had predicted.

There was a two-minute information gap between Zhu Ning and Prometheus, and it was these two minutes that saved her life.

It was also the first time that she looked at the true face of No. 0056 so carefully. He was really a piece of paper, perhaps even thinner than a real piece of paper.

He cut off both legs himself, and the severed lower limbs fell into the doctor's corpse water, floating as light as two pieces of paper.

Prometheus' first reaction was to mobilize Qi Xueliu for support, but suddenly he was shocked to find that Qi Xueliu's human-machine combined device had been pulled out.

In the sea of ​​fire, Pei Shu accurately pressed on Qi Xueliu's solar plexus, and the bloody mycelium was forcibly pulled out. Zhu Ning once said that they should act separately.

Pei Shu still didn't quite believe what he said. He always thought that he had fire-related abilities, and the best way to use them would be to fight against the pollution source in the Mold City.

Zhu Ning was left with only half of his body, but he remained resolute: "Teacher Pei, your mission is to eliminate Qi Xueliu's human-machine combined device."

Pei Shu: "Not killing people?"

If there is such a good opportunity to approach from behind, why not kill the other person?

Zhu Ning: "No need."

Regardless of whether Qi Xueliu is loyal or not, as long as she loses contact with the commander responsible for giving orders, there will definitely be an opportunity to take advantage of.

But Pei Shu didn't expect that Qi Xueliu seemed to want to escape very much. When Pei Shu approached her, she didn't even pretend to resist and let him unplug the human-machine joint device.

Prometheus lost a puppet.

Prometheus can only achieve his goals through manipulation. Once he loses contact with the puppet, he will be out of reach.

This is the disadvantage of only controlling the puppet. After losing control, the opponent will only run away instead of continuing the mission. This is fundamentally different from Zhu Ning’s teammates.

Qi Xueliu would never work for him.

From teammate settings to information asymmetry, Prometheus lost miserably in these two aspects.

0056 had mold growing on his arms and the black lines on his body were still twitching. He actually wanted to take the opportunity to kill Zhu Ning.

No. 0056, no, or it was too late for Prometheus to think clearly. The place where Zhu Ning died once would also become his burial place, and the speed of death would not exceed thirty seconds.

The woman on the wall opened her mouth wide, and mold spurted out like ants.

The black line of 0056 did not rise, and the whip-like sound never rang out in the air again.

The paper was completely devoured.

The mold thickly wrapped around 0056's body. The piece of paper had no weight at all and was easily swallowed up without even a black line left.

Lin Xiaofeng watched helplessly as the mold engulfed her. She had only acted as Zhu Ning's tool from beginning to end, without having to use her brain at all. She just went wherever Zhu Ning pointed. Every step was so dangerous that she thought she was doomed.

But now she was not completely sure that she was out of danger, because this place was still in the contaminated area, 0056 was dead, and the doctor's body was still there.

Lin Xiaofeng was sitting on the table near the doctor, squatting with Zhu Ning on his back, maintaining a precarious balance.

They had come all the way by relying on the furniture, but now the sofa had been chopped up by 0056, and their retreat was gone.

Zhu Ning did not act immediately. Du Yiqi was not a threat. He was only breathing his last breath and it was easy to deal with him. The difficulty lay with Qi Xueliu, the captain who sniped him. If she became Prometheus's new puppet, things would change again.

Zhu Ning waited for a while, but Qi Xueliu did not come to support him, which meant that the situation below was under Pei Shu's control.

The plan went smoothly, except for a slight deviation. Zhu Ning had previously thought of eating the pollution source first and then killing 0056, but now it's the opposite.

The results are similar.

Zhu Ning stretched out his arm again. He had anticipated the danger and tried it before, so he avoided many detours.

The black slime spread out. It was a very strange scene. The black slime condensed into a hand in mid-air, like the arm of a monster reaching out from the void.

The doctor on the ground and the doctor on the wall are a whole. Stepping on the doctor on the ground is like stepping on the tail of a monster, and of course you will be attacked.

The black slime covered the wall and accurately found the location of the heart. The slime's palm reached into the mold-covered corpse and was not attacked.

This moldy city is like a three-dimensional representation of the doctor's heart.

The death of her daughter, the mother and son who kept apologizing, and the moral pressure that could be seen everywhere on the Internet, her heart felt like it was moldy, squeezed by the mold inside, and she couldn't breathe at all.

After her death, this logic was requisitioned by fungal contamination and continued to be exploited in another form.

Zhu Ning closed his eyes and gently retracted his fingers, as if pinching the doctor's heart in the void.

The world outside the wall is a world where the strong prey on the weak. The mold devoured 0056, and Zhu Ning devoured the mold.

With a "puff", Zhu Ning clenched his fist and blood-red contaminated spores scattered in all directions. They did not stay for long and as if they felt some suction, they immediately rushed towards Zhu Ning.

The contaminated area was decontaminated.

At this moment, Zhu Ning heard a ding sound in his mind, very crisp and so new, it was the sound of the new system.

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