The first moment he sensed the mycelium, Lin Qingliu, who was dozens of kilometers away, felt a heartfelt gratitude.
Yes, I am grateful.
I am glad that I was able to discover the abnormality, and I am glad that the abnormality is still within the scope of my understanding.
The most terrifying thing in the world is the unknown hidden in the secrets. Lin Qingliu is very worried that the world he lives in is a world with the unknown as its underlying tone.
He was worried that there might be a bunch of unspeakable monsters waiting at the end of the long steps to godhood, causing the whole world to change suddenly.
He even thought of the alternate world in the online jokes he had seen in his previous life—an alternate world where a time traveler liberated slaves and developed production, and then encountered a moving earl's fortress...
In short, the moment he saw the mycelium, Lin Qingliu roughly understood why Team Nian was infected.
The five people in the team did not have enhanced vision. Even Ransheng, who was able to communicate with plants to a certain extent, was unable to reach an agreement with these hyphae.
During the day, when these foreign invaders are constantly on the move, it is difficult for the hyphae to approach and infect them.
But humans always get tired, always need to rest, and always need to stay still for a short period of time...
This is the opportunity for infection.
Having figured it all out, Lin Qingliu began to wait and see.
It's not that he lacks basic empathy. On the contrary, he has actually made sufficient preparations. If the situation does not develop as he expected, he will quickly use the armored alarm to alert Wang Xiao and Su Xiaogu who are moving their bodies on the side.
The reason why Lin Qingliu was so confident had a lot to do with the second thing he told Wang Xiao.
As a versatile super ability that helped Lin Qingliu solve most of the problems in the early stage, dimensional displacement allowed him to easily sneak into most places in Hope City.
This included the exploration team's equipment depot, which looked heavily guarded.
He crushed the yellowed grass leaves after division and then implanted them into each portion of nutrient paste of Wang Xiao's team to ensure that everyone had sufficient intake every day.
All of this is deduced based on the memory of the mimic.
As mimics that are still human in appearance, how do these pseudo-humans ensure that they don't get lost in the dead grass?
Theoretically, this goal can be achieved through biofield identification, but in this wilderness covered with dead grass, the density of mycelial organisms is not enough to support the biofield to do so.
In other words, this wilderness is more like hair or nails that can sense but cannot be finely manipulated than nerves or muscles somewhere in the mycelial will.
In other words, those fake people must have some special way to pass the scrutiny of their own people.
The reason why Lin Qingliu added ingredients to the nutritional paste was to make these five humans show some mimicry properties and pass the review.
Similarly, such a mark of being a friend can also to a certain extent cover up the special biological field on Wang Xiao and Shi Jin that would cause the Supreme Will to chase them madly, and prevent a small beast tide from erupting outside the city.
Regarding this behavior of "entering the village quietly without firing a gun", Lin Qingliu privately called this tactic "crossing the river in white clothes".
Although objectively speaking, the Grand Commander's moves are a bit damaging, but when I used them myself, I found that they were really cool...
Lin Qingliu focused his attention on the direction where the three people were sleeping. The hyphae, which were only thinner than a hair, quickly climbed up the edge of the sleeping bag and stretched towards their faces in the direction of their breathing.
Lin Qingliu, who watched all this, had no reaction, and Wang Xiao and Su Xiaogu, who were in charge of keeping watch, also did not notice anything.
The two people's vigil was like the Maginot Line, making it difficult for Lin Qingliu to hold on.
On the other side, three mycelium finally entered the ears of Fresnel, Shi Jin and Beacon, and began to execute the predetermined plan to identify the identities of these outsiders.
As soon as the mycelium touches human skin, it takes root quickly like seeds.
But the diameter of these hyphae is too small to wake up the super-powered person in deep sleep.
Another two hours passed, and Su Xiaogu's night watch mission was over. She woke up Shi Jin with a tired look on her face, without noticing the spider-like mycelium around his ear.
When Shi Jin woke up from his sleep, he just stretched his body and the mycelium collapsed silently.
Long after completing their mission, the hyphae began to self-die and now look no different from ordinary dust.
Nothing seems to have changed.
At least that's what Lin Qingliu saw.
Although he was far away in the City of Hope, he did not take it lightly. He would continue to observe this team in the next few days to prevent some shameless supreme will from targeting his carefully selected believers.
A night passed without any unusual changes.
Everyone replenished their energy through sleep, which means that everyone has been sampled by the mycelium.
Before I knew it, the endless dead grass seemed to have stopped growing.
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The next day, October 11, 52nd year of the New Era.
"Captain, do you feel that the dry grass under our feet..."
“I noticed.”
Fresnel responded calmly.
"Ah? What happened to the withered grass?"
Shi Jin on the side asked nervously.
“It’s okay, it’s just that the dead grass we encountered seems to be different from the one encountered by the Nian team.
"During the whole process of their exploration, all the grass kept growing taller. By the time they returned, it had reached their necks. But here, the grass has not changed much after it has grown to the instep. Now it has only reached the ankles."
"That is to say, different situations occurred during the two explorations... It's obviously the same road, which may not be a good thing."
"Stay alert, don't get too nervous, and just follow your training."
Fresnel finished his portion first. He stood up and began to look around with his customized goggles, using the internal implant function to calibrate the direction of the team's advance.
This is also a necessary part of exploration, especially in places like forests or wilderness where it is easy to get lost. You must calibrate the direction every two to three hours to avoid getting lost.
Suddenly, Fresnel, who was observing the distance, stopped in a certain direction with a surprised expression.
He took off his goggles and looked in that direction, then put them back on with a puzzled look on his face.
"Captain, what happened?"
Fresnel organized his words and said:
"I seem to see...the end of the wilderness."
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