Chapter 128 Spore Memory (12) (1st + 2nd update) [VIP]

Bai Jinshu was startled, and his first reaction was to turn around and look at the two people behind him: "Close your eyes!"

No matter what this thing is, it is definitely not something that normal people can see.

Who could have known that Changlan's drastic measures would produce something like this.

In order to ensure efficiency, the three of them had been walking separately in the past few days, but the distance between them was not far, so that they could hear each other if they shouted.

But today after dinner, the three of them walked together without any prior arrangement, and no one said anything tacitly.

It wasn't because they were going to give up their previous search method, but because they had reached an implicit understanding between them.

Chang Lan is a very smart man. When he came to find Bai Jinshu and the others, he had already seen Guan Hongyan vomiting blood.

In order to explain her situation and the specific rules in this space, Guan Hongyan naturally explained to him why she had been vomiting blood. When she expelled Xiangcai, who was defined as "the mythical creature that caused Fei Ge's alienation or Xiaotian's death", she was counterattacked and failed.

The backlash occurred and Guan Hongyan began to vomit blood.

The symptom of vomiting blood lasted for two days. From the intermittent contact between the two groups in the past few days, we learned that Guan Hongyan has not recovered from the vomiting blood yet and has been vomiting blood for almost five or six days in a row.

Since [Not Eating Coriander] is a relatively special fixed attribute and has never failed before, they have no reference for how long this backlash will last.

But judging from the duration, something is clearly wrong.

If the naming failed, then she would just have vomited blood due to the backlash. Lu Changfeng certified that Guan Hongyan's throat was not injured, which means that the subsequent vomiting of blood was not caused by the injury, but should be the backlash.

But now that Guan Hongyan has been vomiting blood for so many days, other physical discomforts have long disappeared, and he has been mechanically repeating the action of vomiting blood. One can't help but wonder whether the naming this time is actually successful.

What she wanted to expel could not actually be expelled, and might even have always been in her body, or around her.

All the investigation team members encountered situations when they entered here where after the investigation had made some progress, the clues were cut off halfway before they had time to continue the investigation, or the people who could provide clues simply died.

This kind of thing could be considered a coincidence if it happened once or twice, but it happened so many times, and happened to every group of people, it made people suspect that their every move had been being monitored since they entered this space.

From being nearly hit to death by a truck on the way to investigating a car accident at the very beginning, to the insider met on the road and her ex-boyfriend jumping off the building for humanity, to Brother Fei who was transformed when they were about to go to the altar, to [Fan Duo] who was about to find the secret passage in the back mountain and a receptionist and guide who suddenly transformed, [Shou Ling Grand Duchy] finally found the student who took over the death biologist, and the next day received the information that the other party failed to commit suicide and became blind.

The only one who could grasp their movements in such detail was Yunling, who had been providing them with assistance.

But if it was some cultists in Yunling...there was no need for them to do such a thing.

Yunling's attitude from beginning to end was very positive, and he did not show any signs of dissatisfaction. If he wanted to hinder the exploration team's investigation, he only needed to provide false information and not help them to establish connections.

Directly transforming one's own people into a restraining creature is a waste of effort. As long as the people in Yunling who want to stop their actions are not fools, they will not choose such a troublesome method.

The knowledge that can transform an ordinary person into a C-type creature is enough to instantly shatter the sanity of anyone who learns of it.

It's not that there is no solution. We just need to divide the knowledge into many parts, let each person master a little bit, control the san check within a controllable range, and then when the time comes to implement it, each person can implement his or her own part, and this alienation can be completed.

But you have to know that in Yunling's world, the san value will not be restored automatically.

These sans have to be detained. If they want to transform three ordinary people to stop their investigation and don’t want to cause casualties, then Yunling will have to sacrifice at least a dozen people.

And every time these dozen people use this knowledge, they will suffer varying degrees of loss of sanity.

The cost is too high. There is no need to go this far to stop them, not to mention that these four groups were invited by them.

Of course, it does not rule out the possibility that there is indeed such a lunatic in Yunling, so Bai Jinshu also suspected that it was done by someone from Yunling, but after Guan Hongyan vomited blood for several days in a row, he suddenly had an idea.

What if, after they entered this world, Yunling is not the only one who is aware of their actions?

It's like the speculation that Guan Hongyan has been vomiting blood because the creature that caused her to vomit blood has been around.

What if they keep failing because there's something in the shadows watching them?

This thing, or rather this group of things, had been observing their exploration, always interfering with their actions, and often cutting off their clues after they had made new progress.

However, they knew nothing about this enemy hiding in the dark, and instead directed their attacks at Yunling as they wished.

Is there such a possibility?

So, after the two teams met, everyone who thought of this buried this speculation in their hearts.

If this thing can judge what step they have reached in their reasoning based on their communication, and cut off their clues after they know the next step, then wouldn't it be fine as long as the reasoning process is not spoken out loud?

Chang Lan's original intention in coming to find them was indeed to let [0106] go up the mountain with them to find the secret passage.

The secret passage might really exist, but three days of fruitless results and Guan Hongyan still vomiting blood made all the exploration team members realize that the unknown thing was still around them. Their preparation to enter the village to explore was cut short in a very brutal way.

So on the last day when they were about to leave the mountains with nothing, Chang Lan took a drastic measure.

He placed his bets on the spores in this space named [Spore Memory].

The fact that the dry food from the previous few days had been consumed gave him a very natural reason. He collected mushrooms not for investigation, but because he didn't want to eat tasteless compressed food, so he planned to find something to eat in the mountains.

In order to conceal his motives, he put on a show, caught a few rabbits and picked some wild vegetables, making it look like they were just preparing to have a bite to eat.

She Mochu saw through his plan, raised his eyebrows when looking at the wild vegetables in the basket, and got the other party's assurance that "these are not poisonous."

Got it, these are all poisonous.

This was Chang Lan giving them both a heads-up in advance.

It was impossible for a mythical creature to be killed by this kind of poison. Bai Jinshu lightly brushed it off. In the spirit of "even if two fellow Taoists die, I won't die", he decided to see if Chang Lan's powerful medicine could deceive the thing that had been hindering their investigation. And did the "spores" in the name of that space refer to mushrooms?

Now it seems that I was deceived.

It was more than just a lie, the effect was a bit too good.

Shrouded in clouds and mist, the city clearly showed that something was wrong.

If he was not in a dense forest, Bai Jinshu might have suspected that the city in front of him was a mirage.

Because this is so weird.

This strangeness not only refers to the fact that the city is hidden in the mountains, but also to the appearance of this deep forest city in front of us.

It seemed to appear suddenly before his eyes.

In a blink of an eye, the city was only about one meter away from him in the fog.

It's like an unexplored area of ​​the game that is loaded all at once. Once you cross a certain boundary, a large section of the map in front will be loaded all at once.

The city now seems to have been loaded suddenly.

The fog was so thick that I couldn't see clearly what was deep in the city. I could only vaguely see the shadows of some buildings through the fog.

It seems to be built in this forest. Tall trees that block out the sun are interspersed in the streets and alleys of the city, growing out from the sides of skyscrapers, then passing through the thing that looks like a skybridge next to it, and finally falling horizontally on the small square next to it.

It’s like two layers that were once unsuperimposed have merged into each other. The line drawings on the two chapter pictures are superimposed on each other, becoming messy and strange. It is impossible to tell which lines belong to where. One can only vaguely see the outlines of the two sides from this merged layer.

As Bai Jinshu watched, he suddenly had a very strange idea.

These trees seem to be growing on the city buildings.

They don't seem to have grown out of the soil, but instead use their roots as steel bars and their branches and leaves as bricks and tiles, decorating the city in disguised ways.

At dusk, the trees in the forest block out the sun, and night always comes earlier than in the city.

The passing wind gently blew the shadows of the trees, and the branches and leaves swayed slightly. The shadows of the trees in the city swayed together, as if something was stretching its branches.

No, it was something that was actually spreading its branches.

Otherwise, She Mochu’s san wouldn’t have dropped so quickly.

Just when he was staring at the city in a daze for a few seconds, Shemochu's san value began to drop rapidly like a waterfall. If it was an ordinary person standing here, he would not only go crazy temporarily, but his san value would probably be deducted to negative.

Bai Jinshu even had time to think about what exactly he saw that caused his san value to drop.

These buildings? Those plants? Or the spreading branches and strange structures?

And... Yun Guang and the others are in danger!

He didn't know when he stared at the strange city in a daze for several seconds, then suddenly came to his senses and looked behind him.

The two people behind him still looked normal.

"What did you see?" Chang Lan blinked, "Is it a villain?"

Can't they see?

Bai Jinshu turned his head to look at the city that looked a little strange as if to confirm, then looked at his two teammates who looked normal.

Even She Mochu was dunking so hard in this city, and he was dragged for several seconds before he suddenly remembered the two teammates behind him. If they could really see it, they would have gone crazy by now.

The fact that Yunguang and Changlan can still communicate normally means that they can't see anything.

It seems that She Mochu's vertical pupil is still useful. He can indeed see many mythical creatures that ordinary humans cannot see.

"Oh no," Chang Lan slapped her thigh, "Maybe that mushroom is poisonous!"

"You..." Bai Jinshu breathed a sigh of relief, twitched his lips and looked in Changlan's direction, "Didn't you say it wasn't poisonous?"

Although the implication behind this statement is that these things must be poisonous, they may still have to be pretended to be poisonous under the monitoring of unknown creatures.

Under his questioning gaze, Chang Lan: "...Didn't you say that the poison couldn't kill you?"

He took it for granted.

"There are so many mushrooms in the mountains, there must be some poisonous ones," Chang Lan touched his chin, "There are so many things in that basket, if there are some poisonous mushrooms mixed in, you can't blame me, after all, I can't tell them apart."

【？ 】

【Perform, and continue to perform. 】

[You didn't look like this when you plucked the poisonous mushroom and picked up several pieces for She Mochu with your chopsticks just now.]

[After all, your brother She is immune to all poisons. He said that even if others die, he will not die. So how can he not eat more? ]

[Fuck, even though I had already guessed that the actions of these exploration team members must have their own deep meaning, I was still shocked when I saw him directly pass it to She Mochu.]

[It's amazing that She Mochu actually ate it. 】

[Isn't Chang Lan afraid of poisoning them to death? ]

[No one knows? Fanduo is a country on trees. Changlan and his people have plant affinity, which is a natural talent of the race and is maxed out at birth. They can still control which mushrooms are poisonous but won't kill people.]

[Damn, although I have long speculated that this thing is related to mushrooms, why is it that only She Mochu can see it? ]

[Maybe his eyes are special.]

[Remove the possibility, She Mochu's eye was plucked from a mythical creature. ]

【? Do you recognize it? 】

【I recognized it.】

[That's fine. So when She Mochu said that he wouldn't die even if you guys died, he was actually hinting at Chang Lan to give him the big head of the poisonous mushroom?]

[It's possible. After all, mythical creatures are very resistant to poison, and his eyes are special.]

[Do all of you C-type investigators have 800 Heart Eyes on average? Even out your Heart Eyes to San Value, and you won't have to worry about losing San when you go to the next dungeon.]

[? Is there anyone in this live broadcast who is not from the K-space? ]

[Yes, I am going to the K-series in the next world. I am here to watch the live broadcast and learn temporarily.]

…

"Can you still hold on?" Chang Lan asked curiously, winking at him on the screen. "Do you want to call 120?"

Bai Jinshu twitched his lips at the sight of such a cheerful and cheerful person, but didn't say much.

His previous behavior proved that he must have seen something that he thought was very dangerous, so he turned around to alert others.

He had told the other two people in [Fan Duo] about his high san value and the fact that he would not fall into temporary madness before entering here.

When Chang Lan got the information that he had seen something and the investigation had made progress, he immediately realized that his method had worked.

So what he saw must exist in the area ahead. If he were to tell it here, it would most likely have many unexpected effects on these two people who could not see.

Therefore, the best way is to pretend that Bai Jinshu has mushroom poisoning and send him to the hospital, and then later when everyone gathers together, tell him what he saw in a joking way.

This is the way to preserve everyone's sanity to the greatest extent in this world of Cthulhu.

The ambulance definitely couldn't get into the deep mountains, so the group started walking in the direction where there was traffic outside the mountain.

Along the way, the closer it got to evening, the heavier the fog became in the mountains, until it even got to the point where the corners of their clothes and the ends of their hair became damp and shone with moisture.

This thing seemed to exist in every corner of the mountain. The white mist was mixed with many strange-looking creatures of the K-type, like smoke and dust that would disperse if touched. When Bai Jinshu was leaving the mountain, he tried to reach out and touch it, but found that he could not touch these things.

On the contrary, as the poisoning time increased, he saw more and more things.

When he first left the deep forest city, what appeared before him was a relatively normal forest. But as everyone gradually walked out, in Bai Jinshu's vision, the towering trees turned into pillars with strange spiral patterns. There were winding vines everywhere on the ground, but when he stepped on them, it still felt like leaves.

Many mythical creatures that existed only in Shemochu's memory emerged from the forest. A colorful smoke floated across the sky not far away, blending with the white fog like a magnificent and psychedelic dream.

Star colors.

There were also aquatic creatures that shouldn't be here. As Bai Jinshu walked, he found that there were many moving branches hanging on the branches next to him. Upon closer inspection, they were some moving tentacles.

If I remember correctly, this was the Cthulhu follower that She Mochu met when he fought alone for the first time.

That battle chapter was even jokingly called the Novice Village, saying that there would never be such an easy boss to fight in the next few hundred chapters. She Mochu, who had a bottomless sanity and was not crazy at all, went in and out seven times with a machete, and almost achieved genocide in it.

Bai Jinshu stretched out his hand to touch the tentacle, but it flexibly retracted it.

There are even hounds here.

The space-time rift suddenly opened on the side, and something that looked like a wolf and a dog jumped out from it. This creature, which always followed the time-space travelers, now appeared here for some reason. Unlike the mutated form seen in "Those Who Left Me", this thing was more like the hound in She Mochu's memory.

Looking up towards the sky, the black sky was filled with layers of compound eyes, which were moving condescendingly along with the movements of She Mochu and the others, and the saliva in their eyes was almost overflowing.

This thing... seems to be the original form of some kind of restraining creature in the chapter that was updated after I came out of [Those Who Left Me].

This creature was keen on collecting other people's eyes, and at one point forced She Mochu and his teammates into a desperate situation. Finally, the matter was resolved after he gave away the eye of a snake king.

That eye was also the beginning of his suspicion that his acting would affect the real world.

Speaking of eyes…

She Mochu's gaze suddenly fixed on the road ahead.

A huge corpse was lying across the forest path ahead.

He suddenly began to tremble uncontrollably, a tremor that was not based on fear.

It is based on the will to fight.

This was... the last scene he saw before he passed out at his high school graduation ceremony.

This is the evil god summoned during that ceremony.

This call cost the lives of more than a thousand graduates and more than a hundred teachers, but ironically it failed in the end.

Or, it almost failed.

The evil god that was summoned was an incomplete avatar, and just this one avatar took away more than a thousand lives and almost devastatingly changed the rest of the lives of more than a thousand families.

Later, after Shemochu entered the University of Michigan, during his darkest period, he once again knocked on the door of the sect with a knife.

This time, the sacrifice with himself as the sacrifice was successful.

The summoned evil god was defeated by She Mochu, who had merged half of his body, with the help of the protagonist's Buff. His eyes became She Mochu's eyes, marking the beginning of his becoming a legendary investigator.

Why is this thing here?

She Mochu's right hand began to tremble unconsciously. It was the hand holding the knife.

In countless midnight dreams, the more than a thousand lives lost at the high school ceremony and the snake king summoned by this evil god almost permeated his nightmares.

Do you want to... kill again?

His eyes, which were always drooping, raised up, flashing a bloody light.

The knife that had been with him since his early school days seemed to be back in his hand.

One step, two steps, three steps.

She Mochu stopped suddenly.

wrong.

This evil god, this evil god that looked exactly like the one in his memory, had eyes.

It has a pair of complete eyes.

She Mochu suddenly stopped where he was, and slowly, as if to confirm, touched his eyeball.

He gave away one eye in the last battle, and now there is one left in his eye. So why are the eye sockets of this evil god, whose two eyes should have been plucked out by him, not empty?

unless……

This is an illusion.

The knife in his hand suddenly disappeared.

Suddenly, another pair of extremely deep, extremely distant, and extremely long eyes appeared in his memory.

Bai Jinshu took a step back suddenly, and was supported by the startled Yun Guang: "What's wrong?"

"Nothing..." Bai Jinshu lowered his eyes and pulled the corners of his mouth lazily, "I already said that I ate poisonous mushrooms. I just saw the little man. I have never seen him before. I thought it was novel, so I looked at him a few more times."

"Let's go," he looked down the mountain, "Changlan, have you called 120? I don't want to be poisoned to death on the mountain. It's so embarrassing."

Chang Lan hurriedly said, "...I beat him."

The 120 ambulance even scolded him for going up the mountain to seek death.

"The ambulance told us not to move them up, and I said, 'You can still move?' The nurse scolded me badly."

Bai Jinshu raised his eyebrows and walked down the mountain again: "You deserve this."

In a corner where no one was paying attention, he lowered his head and opened the foundation's backend.

Synchronization rate: 90%

This was the first time that he pushed She Mochu to such a high level of synchronization without the help of a spirit.

Just at that moment.

He almost thought he was She Mochu.

If the knife really chopped down, what would be hit?

The author has something to say:

The part about the eyes is not a grammatical error. Brother Jiamu is such a god that can only be described with abstract words instead of concrete words.

I am so tired from flying today. Tomorrow I will definitely be very tired!

The first 20+ will receive a random 40 red envelope. I was in a hurry today and didn't have time to post a delayed comment.