Chapter 129 Spore Memory (13) (1st update + 2nd update + 0.5 update) [VIP]

What will the knife cut if it really chops down?

Sitting on the ambulance, looking at the blood-red sky outside the window and staring at the compound eyes in the sky that had been staring at him for a long time, Bai Jinshu was still thinking about this problem.

It is now certain that Chang Lan must have tampered with his food after recognizing that a certain type of mushroom is poisonous. The dosage should be on the edge of not being lethal or leaving any serious sequelae, but enough to cause him to hallucinate.

Otherwise, so many of the Ke-type creatures from She Mochu's memory wouldn't appear before his eyes.

Yes, Bai Jinshu doesn’t think these things really exist in this world.

First of all, there is the color of stars. This thing is a manifestation of color. In She Mochu's memory, it is not any known substance, but it presents a colorful color characteristic, like a colorful psychedelic fog.

Before it matures, the Star Color will suck the vitality of a large number of creatures, including living things that can walk and move, as well as plants and crops planted on the ground. Wherever it sucks, the land will become a complete wasteland, and nothing can be grown from it anymore.

If the Star Color really exists here, then there would be no such dense vegetation in this mountain forest.

He was in a trance, and the starry sky in front of him turned into normal clouds in the sky.

The second is the Cthulhu followers. These things should only appear in places with water, such as rivers, lakes and seas. The most common ones are in the sea. You can always see the shadows of these little things in some places by the sea.

But it shouldn't appear in the mountains and forests, let alone in such deep mountains and forests. The abilities they have are not enough to allow them to leave the water source.

Most of the known Ke-type creatures on Earth to Shemochu have their own preferred ethnic settlement areas. Some more powerful mythical creatures will also leave there, but their followers will not leave in most cases.

Not to mention that they were practically sealed in the water and couldn't leave at all.

Yunnan Province is not a coastal city. If this thing really exists, it should not appear there.

The branches and leaves on the tree swayed left and right, and the soft leaves folded into arcs like tentacles.

Next are the hounds, which do not belong to Earth. They are mythical creatures that will only follow the time traveler until they die.

The last time he saw the Hound was because he was one of the time travelers, so what about this time?

This time, the objects hunted by the hounds did not appear. Without the abnormal time on the time traveler to guide them, how could these things cut through space out of thin air and enter this world?

The linear time earth is not the most suitable living space for them. They can only move freely in the deepest part of the angular discontinuous time island that humans cannot reach.

If hounds really exist, then the first thing they should do after leaving the time rift is to head towards the time traveler they have located, and there is no way they would be wandering in the forest.

In the well-protected forest, the indescribable creature that was a hunting dog a second ago suddenly turned into a wild animal and ran away.

And, finally.

Bai Jinshu's gaze fell on the sky outside the window.

The sky full of compound eyes seemed to lock onto him in an instant and stare at him.

The sky seemed to grow lower.

This thing will indeed get lower and lower, and its arrival generally foreshadows the destruction of the world. When these eyes lower to a certain height, the whole world will be doomed.

but……

My sight flickered, and there was only sunset glow in the sky again.

This scene of being in the world of the enemy one second and then being in normal space the next second made people feel dazed. Bai Jinshu withdrew his gaze and really didn't want to look at it any longer.

"What kind of mushrooms did the patient eat?" the nurse next to him said anxiously, "Did you bring them?"

After saying this, the nurse in the ambulance began to pat his arm: "Is the patient still conscious? Can you answer?"

Maybe he stared at the sky for too long without moving, which led the nurse to think something happened to him.

Bai Jinshu didn't react immediately and missed the best time to respond. When the nurse thought he was unconscious and was about to approach him, he realized it belatedly and looked away: "Okay, I'm fine."

"Are you really okay?" The nurse obviously didn't believe it. She leaned against the window and took a look outside. "Don't, don't, don't get up. Just stay like this. We'll be at the hospital soon. You're a little unconscious now. Don't move."

"I recognize the mushroom you have. Locals often eat it. I guess you didn't cook it well enough." Seeing Bai Jinshu's bad face, she thought she had said something too harsh, and quickly added, "Just make him vomit and wash his stomach. It's not serious."

Bai Jinshu nodded and looked at the huge corpse behind him without saying anything.

That is... the snake king who failed to be summoned at She Mochu’s high school graduation ceremony.

Its body was so huge that a small ambulance could only fit its head.

The pointed head was lying on the empty bed next to the ambulance. In the two empty eye sockets where the eyeballs should have been lost, a pair of silver-gray pupils were still shining brightly.

Even, it would turn its head from time to time and stare at him meaningfully.

Sometimes it looked like a corpse, and sometimes it seemed to be alive. Just now when the nurse was speaking, the snake's tongue was on the nurse's shoulder, allowing her to talk to Bai Jinshu without knowing anything.

Another trance.

The snake king's head became a ventilator in the ambulance.

Another illusion.

The shock of seeing so many C-type creatures in the mountains just now was too great. For a moment, this huge sense of crisis attracted Bai Jinshu's attention to these C-type creatures, and his heart and eyes were immersed in this illusion.

If it weren't for the biggest flaw in the final illusion, his synchronization rate might have risen to 100% without any forced trance.

Fortunately, this 100% lack of a djinn will not actually have any impact on his human identity, which is a blessing in disguise.

Bai Jinshu touched the dark brown teardrop mole under his other eye and briefly recalled everything he had just seen.

Now that I think about it, what I saw on the mountain was most likely a superposition of human vision and the vision of mythical creatures.

One of the reasons why he felt that the deep forest city was strange was because it was like two unrelated layers were forcibly merged to create an incongruous product.

But what if the city came from the sight of mythical creatures, and the forest came from human eyes?

Everything that follows comes from She Mochu's memory, or they are creatures that he has really experienced, seen with his own eyes, or killed with his own hands, or they are things that he knows exist, knows how to deal with, and knows where they will appear. Only that city is not one of them.

That thing had never appeared in She Mochu's memory.

If everything he saw after falling into the hallucination were the creatures in his memory, then that city should be real.

Bai Jinshu quietly looked at the triangular head spitting out letters on the bed opposite him.

But this thing is not. This is the most unbearable part in She Mochu's memory, and it is also the one that is most likely to arouse his anger and trigger his desire to attack.

The door of the ambulance suddenly opened, and a nurse pushed a stretcher and walked quickly along the hospital corridor.

The body of the snake king was incredibly long. Its head might still be resting on the bed of the ambulance, while its body kept spreading backwards into the corridor of the hospital. When Bai Jinshu was pushed through the corridors by the nurse, the snake's tail kept appearing in his sight, like a lingering ghost, flashing a faint green light.

What a pity, Bai Jinshu thought indifferently.

He is Bai Jinshu, not the real She Mochu himself.

If She Mochu was really here, the moment he saw this thing, he would attack it desperately until he died.

But he won't.

When Chang Lan was about to pay the bill, she stuffed something into his hand. When Bai Jinshu opened it when he was alone, he saw that it was a few small mushroom petals.

In the car, when the nurse asked Changlan what they had eaten, Changlan only gave one.

The nurse was a native of Yunnan Province and recognized the mushrooms. She knew that it was not a highly poisonous species and that it was completely edible if cooked. Only one of the three people had symptoms, so it was possible that he was the only one who ate the uncooked ones in the pot.

But what Changlan stuffed into his hands...

Bai Jinshu's mouth twitched.

This thing, at first glance, is not a normal mushroom that humans can eat.

Although there were only a few petals, even someone like him who knew nothing about mushrooms could see that these petals were shining with an unusually beautiful luster, and any normal person who picked them would not think that they were edible.

This kind of mushroom should be the one Changlan gave him to eat.

The one he showed the nurse was another, harmless one.

Different mushrooms contain different toxins. If the toxins are mild, there is no serious problem and the poisoning time is relatively short. Just as the nurse said, all you need to do is induce vomiting and wash the stomach.

But this kind of...

Bai Jinshu narrowed his eyes and observed these mushroom petals. This kind of thing definitely cannot be solved by inducing vomiting.

Inducing vomiting can only prevent the subsequent absorption of toxins, but the toxins that have been absorbed must at least be treated with antidote drugs to avoid subsequent problems.

If it's just vomiting...

The absorbed toxin should still be taking effect, which means that if he doesn't take medicine, he will remain in this poisoned state for a period of time.

She Mochu's physique is much better than that of normal people, and his metabolism is very fast, so there will be no sequelae. This hallucination buff should not last more than half a day on him.

Chang Lan only knew that he was not a human, but she didn't expect his physique to be so flawed. She gave him these mushroom petals probably because she was afraid that something might happen to him, so she left him a hint in advance, letting him know what kind of mushroom poisoned him. If there was a problem, he was still in the hospital, so she could tell him and solve it quickly.

Bai Jinshu threw the mushroom petals into his pocket, pressed the flush button on the toilet, and poured in the saline solution handed to him by the nurse.

The snake king in the hallucination was coiled on the partition of the bathroom cubicle, spitting out its tongue enthusiastically below.

Bai Jinshu looked in the direction where he spit the letter and saw a spider web in the corner of the toilet. It must be quite old. There was a thick layer of dust on it, and there was a lot of crystal mucus of unknown origin.

Snakes eat these small insects.

At the edge of the spider web, the black spider was moving slowly, as if trying to return to the web.

Bai Jinshu took one last glance at the spider web, then looked at the snake head spitting out its tongue above his head, then he opened the door and walked out with the cup in his hand.

There was a cleaning lady cleaning outside the bathroom. She was startled when she saw him coming out: "There's someone here! You scared me."

Bai Jinshu raised the cup in his hand and said, "I'm sorry, I didn't know this place couldn't be used today. The nurse asked me to come here to induce vomiting."

The nurse in the inpatient department pointed to this bathroom and said that no one was in it today and that this bathroom was cleaner.

The other party did ask him if he needed any other assistance, whether he could see clearly, whether he could walk and so on. However, Bai Jinshu himself did not show any signs of being disturbed in his movements, and he did answer the questions clearly and fluently, so the nurse reminded him a few words to come back to him if he really couldn't vomit, and then let him in.

"I didn't say you can't use it," the auntie stopped wiping the side of the sink with a mop in her hand, stood up and looked at him, "Okay then..."

"By the way, I have cleaned the place. You didn't throw any garbage in there, did you?" Seeing Bai Jinshu shaking his head, the cleaning lady nodded and said, "Then just throw the garbage in your hand into the big trash can at the door."

"This cup is..." Bai Jinshu originally wanted to say that this cup was not a disposable paper cup, it might be the nurse's own cup, and he had to return it.

"Oh, it's the cup for the gastroenterology department," the cleaning lady said in a skilled tone, "I've seen many people like you who come to the hospital after eating poisonous mushrooms. Your cup is disposable, and no one on the sixth floor wants it. Just throw it away."

After saying this, she turned around and continued cleaning.

Bai Jinshu threw the cup in his hand and looked out through the bathroom door.

The nurse who brought him here was no longer there. It seemed that the hospital was indeed very busy. The cleaning lady recognized that he was holding a cup from the Department of Gastroenterology, so the nurse should also be from the Department of Gastroenterology.

There are many people suffering from wild mushroom poisoning in hospitals in Yunnan Province. Generally, those with severe wild mushroom poisoning are sent to the emergency room, and those who come out of the emergency room are mostly hospitalized in departments such as gastroenterology or infectious diseases, which are the departments that receive food poisoning.

Yun Guang was waiting at the door. When he saw him coming, he whispered, "The nurse has been led away by Chang Lan. We exploration team members are considered illegal immigrants. We definitely don't have any ID to register. Ask Yun Ling to handle your medical information."

"Here comes..."

"Hua Sibo," Yun Guang said, "During the past few days that we have been in the mountains, Shouling's receptionist and Hua Sibo have been staying in Yunling's isolation site. There has been no tendency of alienation. When I was about to register just now, I called Xiao Hua, and he said that Yunling thought the alienation might be caused by other reasons, so they let them out first. They are still upstairs now."

Bai Jinshu nodded.

According to their analysis, the two groups of alienated guides were most likely alienated into the K-type creatures because they discovered some key evidence.

Once Yunling's reception and guide become alienated, the first thing the exploration team members from external organizations will face is life-threatening danger. For example, the direct loss of two members in [Fan Duo] resulted in the inability to carry out subsequent actions, which was a sign that they were preventing the exploration team from continuing their investigation successfully.

In this case, then Wasber's alienation certainly has little to do with Yunling. Whether he will get into trouble actually depends on whether they have grasped the key clues.

Even if they get hold of the key clues, it may not be Wasber who gets into trouble.

And now... they undoubtedly hold a key clue.

"Guan Hongyan and the others..." Bai Jinshu looked at Yun Guang, who shook his head slightly.

This means they have left the deep mountains.

He had just seen something in the mountains. Regardless of whether he was able to see this thing because of mushroom poisoning or because there was really something there, Yun Guang would definitely not let them stay in that mountain any longer.

Besides, their goal has been achieved.

Bai Jinshu did see some strange things when he was poisoned, and these things were most likely the root cause of those people going crazy.

It seems that if everyone is like him, then those who are poisoned by the mushrooms will be the main force that goes crazy.

Thinking of this, Bai Jinshu looked around calmly and said, "Then I'll go up first. Food poisoning should require hospitalization. Which department should I go to?"

"The ambulance came in to take you to the emergency room," Yun Guang looked at the text message interface in his hand, "Xiao Hua said that you were admitted to the gastroenterology department."

Yun Guang understood him tacitly and walked towards the elevator with him.

Bai Jinshu walked along the hospital corridor while observing the situation inside.

The mushrooms he ate should be related to tryptamine compounds or hallucinogens. The hospital corridor in front of him, which should have been deserted and composed of white and blue, now looked colorful and lively in his eyes.

Besides... this corridor is too busy.

It's simply a meeting of the C-type creatures.

A large part of human perception of the environment is made up of vision. When an element of illusion is added to what we see, it is almost impossible to walk like a normal person.

Fortunately, there are handrails along the hospital corridors to accommodate patients with limited mobility.

The things in front of him filled the entire corridor in chaos. Bai Jinshu shook his head, and then he heard Yun Guang's caring voice: "Do you need help?"

Bai Jinshu extended his hand unceremoniously.

With Yun Guang's support, he slowly moved into the hospital elevator step by step, and then spoke calmly under the gaze of a group of compound eyes: "Press the elevator button, it should be the sixth floor, right?"

He remembered that the cleaning lady said it was the sixth floor.

"You've already pressed the sixth floor button?" The square-faced man standing in front of the elevator panel turned his head and looked at him curiously, "Can't you see?"

"Ah? Oh," Bai Jinshu raised his eyes slightly, not looking blind at all, his face was very natural, "I didn't notice."

In his current field of vision, those round buttons are eyes that move with his movements. How can he possibly see which buttons are pressed and which are not?

"It's okay," the man seemed talkative, "I'm going to the sixth floor too. Are you going to the gastroenterology department as well?"

"Yeah." Bai Jinshu didn't want to talk more and nodded slightly.

"I went to see my buddy. This idiot got poisoned by mushrooms again. How about you, buddy?"

Bai Jinshu curled his lips and said, "I was poisoned by the mushrooms."

Square-faced man: …

The square-faced man: "Uh...that's not what I meant."

There was an awkward atmosphere in the air for a moment.

Yun Guang tried to smooth things over by saying, "It's okay, it's okay. I've been to Yunnan Province a lot, and I know everyone who hasn't been poisoned by mushrooms."

"Yes, yes, yes," the man quickly replied, "I have been poisoned, too. I have been poisoned, too."

He seemed to want to say more, but someone new came in and shouted, "Excuse me, level six."

"Press it, press it——" the square-faced man had no choice but to raise his head and respond.

After a few seconds: "Sixth floor, thank you."

"I pressed——"

The hospital's elevator is deeper and larger than ordinary elevators, and the elevator button is on the side instead of the front, which results in many people not being able to see which floor they arrive at after entering, and having to ask others to help press the button.

The man standing next to the elevator button pressed the button countless times before the elevator door finally closed.

The sixth floor of the hospital is not considered high-rise. There are escalators on the first to fourth floors. Generally speaking, only patients on the fifth floor and above will take the elevator. No one stops on the first five floors, so the elevator arrives quickly.

Soon, Bai Jinshu found out how mild his symptoms were.

The entire sixth floor is filled with patients suffering from fungus poisoning.

People like him who can tell that what they see is an illusion are extremely rare.

The square-faced man walked out of the elevator while shouting, "Hey, stop pushing, stop pushing. We're all coming out of the sixth floor. Can't you go slower?"

"There are too many people..." He sighed as he walked out of the elevator, "Every year at this time, the gastroenterology department is full of people suffering from fungus poisoning. Slow down."

A man waving passed behind him.

The man walked unsteadily, waving his hands, and almost hit Bai Jinshu who was standing next to him.

"Sorry, sorry," the young girl next to him had a face full of shame and apologized to everyone around her. "My friend... got mushroom poisoning. I sent him here for an IV drip."

“Huihui—” Her friend stopped what she was doing and looked in her direction with tears in her eyes, “You are going too far!”

"What's wrong with me, ancestor..." Huihui slapped her forehead in despair, "Go, go, go, go quickly, please, don't you feel ashamed?"

"I saw you flying in the sky without me!" Her friend's face was full of accusations.

"When will I be able to fly in the sky?" Huihui complained speechlessly, "That's enough, brother, can we quickly get the drip?"

"But...but," the guy who was poisoned by the mushrooms looked unwilling to give up, "You stepped on my little man to death."

Huihui: "...Then I'll go to your left?"

The two of them were so lively that they attracted a lot of people's attention. Huihui looked like she was about to get rid of the three-bedroom apartment: "Will they step on me to death? Let's go."

“There are villains on the left… too…” Her buddy’s eyes were filled with tears, “The ground is full of villains, you are so cruel, you killed someone, you will be arrested.”

"Pfft," the square-faced man couldn't help laughing, "Sorry, sorry."

Hui Hui gnashed her teeth and said, "...I will turn myself in when you finish the drip. Go, go!"

"But, but you can't step on them to death," the guy argued, "I saw you can fly, why don't you fly away?"

Huihui: ...

Such conversations are happening quite frequently in the Department of Gastroenterology.

Bai Jinshu walked along and found that except for patients like the square-faced man who came to visit the sick, most of the people in the corridor were poisoned patients.

There is no reason left in a poisoned person.

Someone was lying on a large bed in the inpatient department, stretching out his arms and legs and moving them around in the air. People who looked like his bad friends gathered around him and laughed at him, “Record it, record it.”

"What are you doing, Brother Liu?"

The "Brother Liu" replied vaguely: "Fish, catching fish."

"Why don't you go down to the river? There are so many fish in it."

"I'll hold this one, and we'll have steamed fish tonight when we get home! That one, the one that swims slowly, go catch it, hurry up!"

Brother Liu pointed in the direction of the door.

Bai Jinshu stood at the door, watching the man who was "swimming" and saw many light things like bubbles floating around him.

He stretched out his hand and reached in the direction Brother Liu pointed, but touched nothing.

Brother Liu slapped his thigh and said, "Look! Someone caught him!"

His friends burst into laughter.

There was someone twisting and turning in the corridor, saying that he was Super Mario and could enter the water pipe with just a jump.

The girl next to her should be her best friend: "I told you that you were crazy playing games... Did you jump into the water pipe to save the princess?"

"No," the girl smiled, turned around and hugged her best friend, "I'll go save you."

"Thank you, I'm glad you still thought of me even though you were poisoned," her bestie rolled her eyes, "Hurry up and sit down! I'm having an IV, stop rolling the needle!"

"Why--"

"I told you to sit down!"

"Nurse, nurse, the needle has rolled!" Her best friend quickly got up and went to find the nurse.

Bai Jinshu stood by and looked at the person who was twisting and turning.

"Is the water pipe here?" He squatted down and pointed in the direction to the side.

"Yes," the girl nodded, "Do you want to jump in too?"

"I won't jump." Bai Jinshu stretched out his hand and grabbed the open space, then stood up as usual.

Beside her was a plant base that was as tall as a tree stump, but the plant seemed to be a hollow pipe, looking like a passage buried deep underground.

The majority of people shouted that they could see the villain.

Some of these little people can fly, some can run, and some can walk on walls and stand on people.

But these people's opinions are surprisingly consistent.

As we walked along, we found that many windows on this floor were sealed, probably to prevent unconscious patients from jumping out or having accidents. The nurses who were walking back and forth skillfully avoided the patients who were shouting something, and walked through the corridors skillfully carrying the IV racks.

It is the season when wild mushrooms mature recently. This floor is packed with patients who are receiving intravenous drips coming and going.

"Senior - Senior She." Someone called his name.

"Here." Yun Guang said.

"Senior, the hospitalization has been arranged. You can go there directly later." It was Hua Siber, whom I hadn't seen for many days.

"By the way, Senior, are you okay? I heard you were poisoned?"

"Nothing," Yun Guang said with a smile, "It's not serious. Sorry for bothering me."

"It's okay, it's okay," Hua Sibo waved his hands repeatedly, "Senior, I'll go get the medicine first. Your bed is over there. Changlan from the other group is here."

By the time Bai Jinshu found his bed, Chang Lan had already started chatting with the nurse.

He was a man who was very good at getting close to people. Even though the nurse was still angry with him on the phone just a few minutes ago, now she was chatting with him very happily.

"How do you feel now that you've induced vomiting?" Seeing Bai Jinshu, the nurse asked with concern, "Do you feel dizzy? Is your breathing smooth? Is there anything in your eyes?"

"I'm asking you about villains?" Chang Lan leaned over and touched his chin. "But, aren't villains the most common thing that poisoned people see?"

"Not necessarily villains," the nurse thought for a moment and said, "but generally speaking, villains are the most numerous."

"Among the patients we see in a year, 80% say they can see ghosts. It has become a meme on the Internet that people eat mushrooms and see ghosts," the nurse said with a smile. "In this department, ghosts are the most common thing all year round."

Bai Jinshu raised his eyebrows.

"Then is there a possibility..." Chang Lan lowered his voice mysteriously, "In fact, the vision of these people poisoned by mushrooms has been upgraded, and what they can see are actually things that we can't see?"

The author has something to say:

Poisonous mushrooms can damage the liver, kidneys and brain nerves, so don't eat them intentionally (loudly)

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