The performance officially begins.

The dancer danced gracefully in the pool filled with Noctiluca scintillans. Her white insteps drew beautiful arcs with blue spots of light in the water, and her skirt, with water droplets, outlined graceful curves in the air.

She looked like a real luminous elf. When she bent down, her wide sleeves were soaked with water. When she stood up, the water droplets on her sleeves had a faint blue fluorescence, drawing a rainbow-like arc in the air.

And this blue fluorescence actually left a blue trail slowly in the air like a firework that had not yet burned out. As the dancer bent down, stood up, and bent down again, more and more blue light spots slowly sank in the dim light like fireflies.

"I don't think this part is included in the performance online. Is this a new addition?"

Xie Xuan heard the person in the front seat who had previously asked if there would be a sudden outbreak of infection whisper to his companion.

"...Do you think it's possible for water droplets to stay in the air for so long?" The other person's voice was trembling.

The dancer on the stage seemed to have noticed something was wrong at this time. She messed up her bending movements and fell into the pool.

At this moment, the water in the pool suddenly turned fluorescent blue and splashed onto the stage like spilled paint. But what was even more terrifying was that the water was still spreading outward in defiance of gravity.

Xie Xuan and Xiao Yao looked at each other in the dim light, feeling like two unlucky people with a natural tendency to accidents who felt a sense of sympathy for each other.

"It's infected! Run!"

Someone in the crowd shouted, and the shout was like a drop of water falling into a frying pan, immediately making the entire audience boil.

The middle seat in the front row that Xiao Yao and Xie Xuan had specifically chosen at the beginning has now become the most difficult seat to leave. There are two emergency exits, and now all the people are blocking the aisle between the seats.

"Who locked the door? Open it!"

Amidst the noisy sounds, a figure walked slowly onto the stage.

The host who just opened the show was wearing a mask and an evening gown as if he was going to a masquerade ball. He walked to the center of the stage, stepping on the blue liquid that was almost covering the entire stage.

Behind him, the dancer who had been dancing at the beginning had already been swallowed up by the Noctiluca scintillans that had turned into an infected creature.

The man first bent his fingers and tapped the microphone. Amid the amplified "bang, bang" sounds, someone finally turned around and noticed him.

This of course included Xie Xuan and Xiao Yao, who had been sitting in their seats without moving from the beginning.

"Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. My name is Zhang Zheping..."

"Let us out!" someone in the crowd shouted and interrupted him.

But Zhang Zheping took off his mask calmly, revealing a very ordinary and unmemorable face.

Xie Xuan had a bad feeling. She turned to ask Xiao Yao, "Do you have a tranquilizer gun with you?"

Xiao Yao looked at Xie Xuan as if she was a fool. "How could I possibly have it with me? I'm not a member of the security team. Possessing a firearm when not on duty is a felony."

Xie Xuan simply asked without holding out hope, "Do you have any good ideas to make him stop committing crimes?"

Xiao Yao glanced at her sideways and said, "If you're good at throwing knives, you can try to see if you can send him away directly."

Xie Xuan was silent, "Then it wasn't him who committed the crime, it was me."

Xiao Yao smiled and patted Xie Xuan on the shoulder, "Sit down, I'll take care of it."

On the stage, Zhang Zheping was still calmly narrating his life story, but someone had already rushed to the front of the stage in fear and anger, wanting to beat someone up.

Xiao Yao was among them, but he suddenly stopped when he was about to step on the blue liquid that was spreading down the steps of the stage.

"Back off!" Xiao Yao shouted, "Don't step on the blue liquid on the ground!"

But it was too late for him to shout. Someone had already stepped into the blue water. As soon as this person stepped in, he screamed in pain and fell into the blue liquid.

What was splashed were not water droplets at all, but fish the size of a fingernail!

These fish have sharp, shark-like teeth, and their fins emit a flickering blue light. What allows them to flow on the ground like liquid is the blue mycelium spreading from their bodies.

Those who had originally planned to go on stage and ask Zhang Zheping to open the door screamed in fear and rushed towards the door again.

In the chaos, the two people who initially fell into the blue fish school had nothing left.

Xie Xuan also realized the seriousness of the problem at this time. She stood up and walked towards the door one by one, passing the empty seats.

The most urgent thing is to open the door and let ordinary people leave.

Xie Xuan squeezed to the edge of the crowd swarming the door and said, "Move aside, I have a way to open the door."

The crowd was in a stalemate for half a minute, and when Xie Xuan urged for the third time, they finally made some space for Xie Xuan.

Without hesitation, Xie Xuan took out the dagger and slashed it at the door lock, but what she didn't expect was that just when the tip of her knife was about to touch the door lock, something suddenly pressed against her lower back.

Before Xie Xuan could even identify what it was, she felt something piercing her body.

Xie Xuan lowered her head. In the dim light, the tip of the knife that had stabbed out of her abdomen was not stained with blood and was frighteningly bright.

“…Murder!!”

The crowd fled in terror again.

Xie Xuan swallowed the blood rising in her throat and quickly reached behind her back to grab the arm of the person who had inserted the knife into her body.

Unexpectedly, the murderer's arms were very thin. Xie Xuan pulled out the knife directly, grabbed the murderer's wrist with a clever force, turned around and put the knife on the murderer's neck.

The moment Xie Xuan pulled out the knife, she was ready to buy treatment agents from the system, but the symbiotic spores probably stored a lot of energy after eating a fellow spore in Taikang Hospital last time. After the knife was pulled out, the symbiotic spores spontaneously began to repair the wound on Xie Xuan's abdomen.

If the symbiotic spores could be fed and the fact that they were spores could be ignored, Xie Xuan felt that they would be a very good wet nurse.

Theoretically, if the symbiotic spores stored enough energy, Xie Xuan could become immortal.

The murderer, whose neck was clamped by a knife, was not paying attention to the blade that had been pressed into his skin, but to the blue mycelium that was rapidly spreading on the wound on Xie Xuan's abdomen.

"Why can you control mycelium?"

Xie Xuan was confused. "Really? Zhang Zheping on the stage can also control mycelium?"

In the dim performance hall, Xie Xuan couldn't see the murderer's expression, but she could tell that he was a thin man in his thirties.

At this moment, under Xie Xuan's gaze, the man's face began to turn pale and shriveled rapidly. In just a few seconds, he turned into a mummy as if he had been sucked dry by a vampire.