Wasteland Fungus Foraging Guide

Xie Xuan transmigrated to a wasteland world over a hundred years later.

Marine fungi, initially affected by nuclear-contaminated water, were brought back to land by a tsunami, and a spore inf...

Chapter 95 White Mycelium on the Wall

The infected Tian Kaikang had been almost eaten by the symbiotic spores, leaving only a shriveled moth skin lying on the ground.

Xiang Zihan, who was killed by Tian Kaikang, was also lying in a pool of blood. His chest was torn open and most of his internal organs were missing.

The surrounding environment has not changed much. It is still in the hospital ward. The clean and spotless ward is filled with white light of unknown origin.

Xie Xuan half-knelt down and closed Xiang Zihan's eyes. When she stood up, she heard Wen Xu's voice beside her.

"Zhuo Guangyu, how is the situation over there?"

"Not very good." Zhuo Guangyu sighed, "It's useless. I can't find anyone else."

Xie Xuan asked, "What do you mean you can't find anyone else?"

Wen Xu said in surprise: "Xie Xuan? You're awake too?"

Xie Xuan: "I just woke up, and Xiang Zihan and Tian Kaikang are already dead."

Wen Xu fell silent. Zhuo Guangyu asked, "What happened after you entered the realm?"

Xie Xuan: "I lost my memory after entering the domain. At first, I met my former captain, Ling Wenqing. He was recuperating in this sanatorium from a severe infection. He led me to kill the so-called parasites. At that time, I saw a giant moth, but now it seems that they were other humans who were implicated and not fully infected."

"Moth?" Zhuo Guangyu pondered. "I haven't seen any in this area yet, but it should be related to the moths we saw outside the area."

Xie Xuan continued, "The first time Ling Wenqing killed the moth, he took out the eggs from its body and ate them. After that, I lost my memory and had to start over. The second time, the captain took me to kill a parasite and asked me to eat the eggs with him. I felt something was wrong, so I killed the captain. The third time I lost my memory and started over, the captain disappeared. When I was about to kill the parasite alone, I found Xiang Zihan, who looked like a moth. When Bai Ze was about to intervene, she was killed by Tian Kaikang, who suddenly discovered that he had been infected."

"Oh." This time it was Wen Xu who sighed.

Xie Xuan hadn't been fully conscious before, so she hadn't heard Bai Ze's report in full. Now she couldn't help but ask, "Besides the three of us, are there any others?"

"All C-class psychics have been wiped out. Of the B-class psychics, only Tian Kaikang has died. However, no one besides you has regained consciousness yet. The situation is not optimistic."

Xie Xuan suddenly felt an inexplicable sense of suffocation. "If that's the case, why did they allow C-level psychics to participate in this mission?"

"Because it's not just A-level psychics, B-level psychics aren't as easy to find either. Within the B-level realm, aside from the high survival rate of A-level psychics, B-level and C-level psychics are actually pretty much the same, and..."

Wen Xu paused, and Zhuo Guangyu finished the rest of the sentence, "If Bai Ze wants to intervene, the ability level of the person being intervened is actually not that important."

"Except Xiang Zihan, all other C-level psychics have been intervened by Bai Ze." Wen Xu said this in a trembling voice and calm tone.

Xie Xuan felt a little suffocated.

"None of this matters anymore," Zhuo Guangyu said. "We need to find a way to reunite first. Xie Xuan, Wen Xu and I just tried. The safety passage at the end of the corridor doesn't connect the upper and lower floors. No matter which way we go, we'll only end up on the current floor. The window outside the ward is like an abyss. There's a high probability that there's no way back."

When Xie Xuan heard this, she immediately thought of the light rail station. "The last time Xiao Yao and I went on a C-rank mission together, we also encountered a similar situation. It was at a light rail station. The train cars and the station itself were connected end to end, so we couldn't leave. However, the platform could connect the cars when the train arrived at the station."

Wen Xu and Zhuo Guangyu replayed the experience that Xie Xuan had just described.

Because the two A-level psychics had a high resistance to the mental infection of the B-level field, they were not infected by the mental infection and fell into the amnesia cycle at the beginning. The longer Xie Xuan stayed in the cycle, the longer the two of them searched aimlessly in the empty corridors and wards.

Xie Xuan is the only one who has escaped from the amnesia cycle, and they must find clues from Xie Xuan's memory.

"It started with Ling Wenqing, and only after Ling Wenqing was killed did it move to Tian Kaikang. This means that the floors between Xie Xuan and Tian Kaikang were likely independent. Because the missing character needed a new one to continue infecting Xie Xuan, Tian Kaikang was able to move."

After Wen Xu finished speaking, Zhuo Guangyu echoed, "This kind of movement can't happen out of thin air. There must be a hidden passage connecting the various floors."

While they were talking, Xie Xuan had already walked to the window of the ward.

Outside the window, there was a thick gray fog, just as Zhuo Guangyu had described. Xie Xuan tried to fire a shot at the fog, but the bullet did not break through the fog and left no trace. Instead, it seemed as if it was swallowed up the moment it came into contact with the fog.

The passage was not outside the window. Xie Xuan had originally thought that these infected moth-like people should have flown in from outside the window, but now it seemed that the outside of the window was indeed very dangerous.

Xie Xuan tried to use the control technique to investigate the situation outside the window and downstairs, but it was completely different from the previous feeling of ease. Xie Xuan's mental power spread out, but it seemed to be stuck in a quagmire.

Her mental power seemed to flow into a bottomless pool, and the objects around her showed no signs of being able to be controlled at all.

Xie Xuan immediately stopped this futile attempt after his spirit value dropped by five.

At this moment, Xie Xuan suddenly saw a bit of snow-white mycelium appearing in the corner of the window.

This white was different from the grayish-white mycelium they saw on the facade of the sanatorium. It was very white, just like the white of the communicator on her temple.

Is it Bai Ze?

"I saw some white mycelium on the window. Is Bai Ze infecting this area?"

Wen Xu and Zhuo Guangyu pondered for a few seconds, "It's possible. Theoretically, Bai Ze can do it."

Xie Xuan couldn't help but move closer to these white hyphae. They were slowly spreading on the outer wall. Against the backdrop of the grayish-white fog, they looked particularly white.

They grow very slowly, as if they are resisting some powerful force.

At this moment, Xie Xuan suddenly saw something bulging slightly under the wall covered with white mycelium.

Xie Xuan stared at the bumpy undulations on the wall as if possessed.

I don’t know how long I looked at it, but these small bumps finally cracked.