287 Fungal City (Part 9)
◎Zhu Ning can attack him in return◎
Lin Xiaofeng's ankle felt tight and was almost broken by Aunt Lan.
The moment she was caught, a guillotine fell from the sky, but the mold healed quickly after being cut off, and even new colonies grew at the incision.
The mold was fermenting in the air. Aunt Lan and Xiao Wu grabbed Lin Xiaofeng's feet with one hand each. The ground was slippery, and her center of gravity was at the back. She was dragged down by Aunt Lan and Xiao Wu, with half of her body hanging in the air.
In an emergency, Zhu Ning grabbed the edge of the rooftop. The advantage of Bai Cheng's body bag was highlighted. No one knew how it was tied, but Zhu Ning and Lin Xiaofeng were tightly connected. Relying on Zhu Ning's hand, the two barely avoided falling down.
But this posture was an intimate contact with Xiao Wu. Xiao Wu was lying under the roof like an upside-down spider. Due to inertia, Lin Xiaofeng's forehead hit Xiao Wu's head.
Aunt Lan's body was incredibly soft. The broken parts re-fused and actually tried to wrap themselves around them.
Zhu Ning hung one hand on the edge of the rooftop, and pressed the other hand on Xiao Wu's face.
There was mycelium behind the protective mask, and the facial features were all covered with hair. The mycelium was soft and had strong regeneration ability. Zhu Ning used so much force that his palm actually sank into Xiao Wu's brain.
From Lin Xiaofeng's perspective, it was a very strange scene. Half of Zhu Ning's arm was sunken. Logically speaking, a child's brain would not have such a large space, but it was like a bottomless pit, swallowing Zhu Ning's arm whole.
Zhu Ning's arm was newly grown, and its skin was covered with mold. It looked like it was about to merge with Xiao Wu and become a part of the monster.
Lin Xiaofeng looked very anxious, but didn't know how to help. Her two abilities were useless here. Pei Shu next to her also saw it. He wanted to report the situation to Zhu Ningxin, but when he turned around, he saw that his boss had been eaten by mold.
Pei Shu's special ability was the most useful here. He rubbed two fingers together to create a small flame, wanting to deprive Zhu Ning and Lin Xiaofeng, but then he heard Zhu Ning yell, "Don't come over!"
Pei Shu stopped and saw black mucus spreading out of Zhu Ning's body. Xiao Wu and Aunt Lan had more and more mold on their bodies, and Zhu Ning also had more and more black mucus on his body. It was simply a "parasite competition", whoever had more would win?
Zhu Ning's new system installation process is halfway through. The black slime has been working fine. Both sides are soft objects, like two non-Newtonian liquids colliding with each other, and they cannot blend at all.
This is not the source of pollution. Black slime does not like to eat ordinary pollutants. It is not nutritious and tastes bad.
Zhu Ning's arm sank deeper and deeper. She closed her eyes and began to read Xiao Wu's memory. The pollutants outside the wall could easily cause madness, and they were irregular in nature. Reading memories was very dangerous.
Sure enough, when Zhu Ning activated the skill, she understood why the mind was called the mind. Her mind suddenly became like a bottomless ocean, with a huge and noisy amount of information pouring in, which was a terrifying whisper with no regular pattern.
The world before my eyes twisted into countless pieces and then reassembled, forming a monster before shattering again, repeating this process like constantly shattered glass.
There is no logic at all. It is not the memory of one person, but the memory of countless people, the memory of a city, and the memory of countless passers-by.
Mixing, merging, and shouting at each other for no reason.
Zhu Ning was in contact for only one second before the fragments of memory penetrated into the surface of her brain like shards of broken glass. Her already chaotic skull was stinging so much that she almost went crazy.
If she were given another chance, she would never read the minds of creatures outside the wall.
Zhu Ning's eyeballs were covered with black mucus, her face gradually became distorted, and mold grew on both sides of her cheeks.
Lin Xiaofeng could do nothing but hang there. She looked at Pei Shu anxiously. Pei Shu was squatting on the edge of the rooftop, holding a protective mask in his hand, waiting quietly beside Zhu Ning.
Zhu Ning's hand turned inside Xiao Wu's body. It felt quite sticky, like stirring a bucket of porridge with his arm.
Her fingers groped upwards, and two fingers came out, touching Xiao Wu's forehead from inside.
Zhu Ning felt that the chaotic memory fragments were sinking deeper and deeper, the glass shards were thick, and there was even blood dripping from the surface of his brain.
Finally, Zhu Ning grabbed a fragment from it, and the bloody glass fragment reflected a spot of light.
On the rooftop of the unfinished construction site, a little boy wearing a gas mask reached out and pushed the little girl hard, causing her to slip and fall with a bang.
"Apologize!" In the next scene, Aunt Lan grabbed Xiao Wu's arm and yelled, "Come with me and apologize!"
Xiao Wu looked at Aunt Lan gloomily like a stubborn bull. She suddenly took two steps back as if she had seen a ghost.
boom--
Zhu Ning's brain was about to explode. She gritted her teeth and quickly withdrew her hand before the system she had not installed collapsed. She only saw this little bit.
"Pei Shu!" Zhu Ning shouted, holding on to the edge of the roof, and using the force to flip over to the roof.
When she moved, the mold followed her like a shadow. Aunt Lan and Xiao Wu could no longer make out the human shape. The huge mold was twisted, and there seemed to be countless human faces inside, trying to pull Zhu Ning down again.
Pei Shu was waiting for this moment. As soon as Zhu Ning finished speaking, flames shot out. The mold that was originally trying to surround Zhu Ning stopped growing, like a marshmallow being pinched and quickly collapsed.
The flames burning the mold emitted a foul smell. The mold in the entire building seemed to have received some call and was squirming wildly. Pei Shu then lit a circle of fire and surrounded the three people inside.
Pei Shu had previously wondered if there was a source of pollution here, but it seems not.
Zhu Ning's face turned a little blue. Mold grew under her eyes. She hadn't had a good rest to begin with, and she almost lost half her life after all this trouble.
Pei Shu: "What were you doing just now?"
Zhu Ning was helped to sit up by Lin Xiaofeng. Because of the mold on her face, her expression was extremely cold. "I read his memory."
"..." Pei Shu paused and commented objectively: "You are crazy."
He didn't know how to describe Zhu Ning's behavior. It seemed that Zhu Ning might be even crazier than the source of pollution.
That is the pollutant outside the wall. No one knows what is in the brain. If it reads the memory of some so-called evil god, Zhu Ning will leave it here, and Prometheus will not even need to come to hunt it down.
Zhu Ning breathed deeply. Her arms were completely covered with mold, as if she had a tattoo on her arm, and there was no clean skin at all.
Zhu Ning: "Prometheus's best skill is gathering information. If he can cheat, why can't I?"
When Zhu Ning said this, she felt a dull pain in her head, as if there were a lot of glass shards on her head. Prometheus' progress must be faster than hers.
Pei Shu was speechless. This was a fight between two cheating players and he couldn't get involved.
Pei Shu: "Why are you reading now?"
I have encountered this mother and son a few times before, why didn’t I try to check my memory before?
Zhu Ning: "I wonder if each mother and child pair has different key memories, increasing the probability."
She could only do this once. She would never want to look at the brain of the pollutant unless it was absolutely necessary. It was too scary. She almost collapsed.
Zhu Ning adjusted his breathing and said, "Tongtong was pushed down by Xiaowu."
Pei Shu: "I guessed it. There are gas masks all over the place."
There was a pile of abandoned building materials on the ground, and an eye was sticking out from the steel bars. It looked like countless human heads were buried. This was the situation Pei Shu wanted to report just now.
When he first saw Xiao Wu wearing a gas mask, he thought Aunt Lan was worried that something might happen to her child, but Zhu Ning read his memory and found that Xiao Wu had been wearing it for a long time.
Lin Xiaofeng asked: "Why?"
She didn't understand why one child would push another down for no reason.
Zhu Ning: "I don't know. Maybe we won't have the chance to find out."
After so many years of death, many details of the truth are vague. He may have been a born evil child, or he may have acted on a whim, or he may have simply wanted to try it out of curiosity.
There are no answers to the questions, including why they went to the top floor, why Tongtong believed Xiaowu, how they met, and how Xiaowu was finally acquitted.
This is no longer important, what is important is the law of pollution.
Pei Shu: "The source of the pollution is in this mother and son's home?"
They ruled out the crime scene, which left only two possibilities.
Zhu Ning neither confirmed nor denied it. After catching his breath, he stared at the burning mold on the ground. Aunt Lan and Xiao Wu were killed again.
It's really nothing lethal and can be easily handled by a professional, but why does it keep recurring?
Zhu Ning asked, "What do you think they are doing?"
Doctor Sheng is Tongtong's mother. She lives on Moon Street. Aunt Lan and Xiao Wu have always said that they want to go to Moon Street for treatment, but they always seem to be going around in circles and can't get close.
Pei Shu didn't understand. He had no parents, and many of the Federation's artificial humans didn't have traditional family concepts.
Lin Xiaofeng next to him suddenly said, "Apologize?"
If she encountered such a thing, regardless of whether Lin Xiaofeng was the one who did it, Su Qingqing would definitely take Lin Xiaofeng to apologize.
We are both single mothers, but your child died while mine survived. This in itself requires an apology, even if it is done in front of others.
Zhu Ning nodded: "What if everything we experienced was from a doctor's perspective?"
Lin Xiaofeng frowned, as if it made sense.
Maybe Aunt Lan felt guilty, so she took Xiao Wu to find a doctor to apologize.
The doctor couldn't accept it and refused directly, but Aunt Lan and Xiao Wu were still around. He could see them at the bus stop and at the next intersection.
You can always see a mother and son, one big and one small. Xiao Wu holds a flashlight in his hand and even flicks it boredly while waiting, with no intention of apologizing.
He was clearly the murderer, the child was a demon, and the mother was powerless to control him and could only indulge him. Why should I seek her forgiveness? Did her child deserve to die?
"Please forgive us."
"The child is ignorant. You are a good person."
The doctor didn't want to forgive, and others even said that the doctor's moral character was not noble enough, but in the doctor's eyes, Aunt Lan and Xiao Wu were the devil themselves.
The devil is everywhere and keeps reappearing. He waits at the hospital gate when I get off work, in the parking lot when I drive, and when I am waiting for the traffic light, I turn around and see Aunt Lan holding Xiao Wu's hand and wandering at the intersection.
She opened the window and found Aunt Lan and Xiao Wu waiting for her downstairs.
"We are looking for the Holy Doctor."
She went to work as usual and called the next patient. Aunt Lan walked in holding Xiao Wu's hand.
"You are a saint, please forgive us."
The internet was flooded with criticism of irresponsible parents. Gradually, this matter even exceeded the doctor's tolerance limit and she was almost driven crazy.
Later, whenever the doctor saw two shadows, one big and one small, on the road, he would be afraid.
When she turned around, the child pointed at her and yelled, "Mom! There's someone here!"
The doctor stepped back, finding it hard to imagine why a child would look at her in such an innocent tone, as if seeing something new.
Aunt Lan caught up with him and apologized, patting Xiao Wu's arm, but she was unable to stop him.
Apologize, apologize, the most meaningless thing in this world is apology.
Zhu Ning: "The mold initially spread through the air conditioning system. Xiao Wu's family was very poor and didn't have air conditioning installed."
Aunt Lan told Lin Xiaofeng this information when she first met her, so it sounds like it should be true.
When global pollution spread, the doctor stayed indoors every day to avoid the mother and son and the media, and she didn't even dare to go online.
The house was piled with takeout boxes, the bowls in the sink had long been moldy, and her mental breakdown became the source of the global pollution outbreak.
Everything Lin Xiaofeng experienced when she entered the Mold City was just an exaggeration of the doctor's experience back then. Lin Xiaofeng thought carefully about it. Aunt Lan spoke gently and Xiao Wu looked very innocent. She could even think of the scene where Xiao Wu was sitting on the table, swinging his feet and pointing at his reflection on the wall.
He obviously looks like a good person, but one always feels that something is wrong. Sure enough, as long as Lin Xiaofeng shows his back, he will be attacked.
Zhu Ning: "This is all just speculation. We may need to go to the doctor's house again to find real evidence."
Zhu Ning received little information and made no conclusion.
Lin Xiaofeng thought for a moment and asked, "So, did the doctor take revenge?"
After the pollution spread, everyone in the city died, including Xiao Wu and Aunt Lan. This question was too humanistic and Pei Shu couldn't answer it. In his eyes, everyone was a victim of pollution. The case of that year had long been buried in history. Mold's thinking prevailed, and it seemed no longer important now.
Lin Xiaofeng asked again: "The doctor is in charge of all this? We can leave as long as we resolve her resentment?"
"No," Pei Shu said, "the pollution only intercepted this part of the logic."
Pei Shu corrected their understanding of the pollutants outside the wall. The main cause was not a certain person. Unlike the pollutants inside the wall, the source of pollution here could only be regarded as a source, and there was no resentment.
The mold city has formed its own complete ecosystem, they are just repeating a pollution pattern.
Pei Shu: "For example, humans initially learned the laws of birds and invented airplanes, applying them to the field of aeronautical manufacturing. However, airplanes and birds are two different things, especially with the Federation's latest technology. They only share a certain set of laws, and birds can't understand what airplanes are specifically."
Pei Shu is worthy of being a teacher. His examples are quite appropriate. That’s the truth. Zhu Ning also learned from it.
Lin Xiaofeng asked: "Why wasn't it here when you came last time?"
The last time Pei Shu came here, there was only mold and no living people. He replied, "This is outside the wall. It may have been dormant last time. Another possibility is that it has been invaded by alien species. Borrowing the logic here, Aunt Lan and Xiao Wu you saw are really another kind of creature."
Lin Xiaofeng got goosebumps all over his body. The bodies of Aunt Lan and Xiao Wu were still in front of him.
Pei Shu: "The mother and son's home and Moon Street, there are only two places to choose from. I guess the latter is the source of pollution, and the former is the way to survive."
If this is a horror story from a doctor's perspective, and this logic is really valid, then the last place she wants to go is the mother and child's home, so that's the safest place.
Pei Shu asked, "Run away?"
Now that a way out has been found, the next step should be to evacuate the contaminated area.
Zhu Ning: "Why are you running? I need to eat."
Pei Shu: “…”
There are two locations in total. I don’t know how Prometheus understands this story and where he will choose to wait. Zhu Ning is looking for the truth here in order to find a possibility of counterattack.
Prometheus didn't waste time at all by coming to the abandoned construction site, as Zhu Ning was already behind in the game.
Pei Shu looked at the mess and asked, "I've always wanted to know how you were going to do it."
If a fight were to take place, what positions would he and Lin Xiaofeng be in and what roles would they play?
Zhu Ning only had half of it, and her lower limbs couldn't grow back for a while. Moreover, half of her face was covered with mold. If she endured it two more times, she would die.
Zhu Ning paused for a moment and said, "That paper man attacked me by surprise."
Last time, Zhu Ning didn't know about this thing, and he stood there like a stake and was chopped in half. This time, Zhu Ning could turn around and attack him.
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