The situation worsened
Teacher Lin looked over from the corridor and could faintly hear the squeaking and gnawing sounds of flesh and bones. The very sight of that scene was enough to make one feel uncomfortable and send chills down one's spine, not to mention that Li Ling had seen it with her own eyes.
The news of someone being bitten to death on the first floor was passed up layer by layer, and it was already noon when it reached the fifth floor.
Someone heard that Chen Lanlan had stockpiled a lot of supplies, so she went to dormitory 103 fully armed and actually found food that was well packaged and not damaged!
This caused a lot of commotion. When there was a shortage of food, people couldn't help but put on long sleeves, long pants, gloves and masks to pick up the leftovers! It's just a mouse. Not all girls are afraid of mice.
Jiang Miao heard some noise in the corridor. Such frequent deaths made her worried about some unexpected situation, so she prepared to go downstairs to check.
But as soon as I came down and before I reached the second floor, a fishy and rotten smell hit my nose, and it even spread outwards as time went on, becoming clearer and clearer.
Perhaps because the air was humid, the smell of Sun Ke’s rotting body was extremely fishy, so smelly that it was unbearable for her, a person who had experienced many harsh environments in the doomsday!
After thinking about it, Jiang Miao held his mask tightly and walked to the stairs on the second floor and looked sideways into the corridor.
——The corridor with dust floating in the air was quiet. In dormitory 207 where the body was placed, the floor tiles in front of the door were strangely and abruptly covered with fungi of various colors, slowly spreading from the inside to the outside. Black, brown, green and pink were the most common. These molds were crawling on the ground like clusters of flowers, moving slowly but with a firm goal.
At this time, a mouse that smelled the smell and wanted to run to the corpse to get a share of the spoils ran over the mold colony. The hyphae were crushed and turned into slippery mucus that stuck to the mouse's paws, causing the mouse to slip and fall after running a few steps. The broken hyphae under the mouse splashed into its oral mucosa and eyes, quickly absorbing nutrients and taking root and sprouting, and then sprouting from its eyes, nasal cavity, ear canal and mouth corners to grow into new mold. The surrounding hyphae danced in the wind, slowly invading the unconscious mouse corpse, eating away, covering, and decomposing it step by step from the inside out, and finally razing it to the ground.
When he saw the mycelium growing again from the mouse's facial features, Jiang Miao immediately took out his swimming goggles and put them on, then blocked his ear canals with memory foam earplugs, and watched intently as the mouse corpse was devoured.
What a terrifying devouring and decomposing ability. Even though she had experienced many life-and-death moments, she had never been so sweaty as she was now, as if facing a great enemy. She didn't even dare to go closer to take a look!
This kind of thing reproduces quickly and in a variety of ways, and this characteristic is more obvious in a warm and humid environment!
It has only been about four hours since the body was discovered, and it has spread from the dormitory to the corridor outside. If it continues to develop like this, the dormitory building will fall sooner or later.
Seeing that it was still spreading outward, Jiang Miao never thought that the corpse would rot into a state where mold would grow wildly in the hot and humid environment. Otherwise, she would have come secretly to throw Sun Ke out no matter what she said last night!
Coming down from the second floor, Jiang Miao arrived at the hall with a heavy heart. Many people had already gathered on the first floor. A few brave classmates were using clotheslines to rummage through the food storage area. From time to time, rats as big as a palm would scurry into the crowd and run toward the second floor.
After Chen Lanlan's body was covered with a bed sheet, it seemed as if everyone ignored it. There were even creatures hiding under the cover, eating slowly and carefully. They subconsciously ignored these things and forgot to be afraid.
The crowd finally thinned out. Jiang Miao squeezed in, took out the prepared rat poison, and quietly sprinkled it around 103, hoping that there would be no rat infestation in the dormitory building.
But thinking of the weird scene on the second floor, the rat infestation was not even a problem in front of it.
Yes, it does.
Although "it" is composed of countless hyphae, Jiang Miao feels that these hyphae seem to share a brain, with organization, discipline and erosion plan. Its mission is to occupy territory and its goal is to devour life. It wants to occupy this entire dormitory building.
At the same time, it is a bit unsolvable. Unless all the mycelium spores are destroyed, it will definitely come back. Moreover, except for the skin, any mucous membrane is a paper tiger in front of it. It only needs to get a little bit on it, and it will leave a mark, take root in your body, and start to multiply infinitely.
Such a terrifying ability made her a little scared. She decided not to act rashly. She went back to check the information and deal with it in the evening.
On the way back to 501, Jiang Miao met Jiang Xiang.
The dormitory building smelled foul. Jiang Xiang was blamed by everyone, despised, accused, and insulted. She had no place to vent her bad mood. She couldn't help but yell, "It's all your fault!"
Jiang Miao walked past with full of worry and did not react at all.
"It's all your fault! You knew he was dying, so why didn't you insist on throwing him out? Why did you let him die and rot in our dormitory, stinking up the sky, making me the sinner of the entire dormitory!"
Her eyes were full of resentment: "You are so proud of yourself, you want to show off to me how correct your decision was! What are you so proud of? Are you satisfied with everyone's behavior now, you selfish little man! You did it on purpose, you just want to make fun of us all!"
The roar was getting farther and farther away, and from beginning to end, Jiang Miao didn't even glance at her.
There is no need to argue with the blame-shifting master who puts the blame on others after suffering the consequences of her own actions, because even the bloody facts cannot open her mind, and how can a few words from you change her limited thinking?
Ignore it and be responsible for your liver. Don't argue with fools, otherwise you will get sick from anger.
In the afternoon, the scene on the second floor was seen by students who returned to Dormitory 203 to get daily necessities. Two teachers saw that the mold had grown so much suddenly and asked several students to clean it up. However, it grew again not long after it was cleaned up. The cycle seemed endless.
Now there are corpses on the first and second floors, and the stench of decay on the third floor is getting stronger and stronger. The two teachers discussed and decided to gather all the students on the fourth and fifth floors for unified management to prevent any further accidents.
However, three people in two dormitories on the third floor did not choose to move with the main group. They said that fungi cannot survive long in air without nutrients, and they just wanted to live in their own dormitories.
Maybe they didn't want to live with strangers, or maybe they just liked their own beds and were not used to living in other people's dormitories. In any case, the two teachers couldn't persuade them and just let them stay in their own dormitories.
Jiang Miao woke up in a daze. It was already ten o'clock in the evening.
The house at 501 is notorious for being haunted, and no one has moved in yet.
She put away the air-conditioning fan on the bed, got out of bed, washed up in the bathroom, then took out a Chinese fast food meal and ate dinner while watching the HCTV evening news.
The host once again elaborated on the global high temperature phenomenon, reminding the general public to take precautions against heatstroke and reduce going out during the day to prevent heat stroke. In addition, the report focused on the hardest-hit area - Ancheng.
From the satellite images, the city structure and river direction of Ancheng are completely invisible. The fog is wrapped in water vapor and the city is in a hazy state. In addition, the attack of hail has forced the entire city to press the pause button. Yesterday afternoon, the number of victims who failed to evacuate in time reached more than 30,000. Many corpses that had not been dealt with in time were lying on the spot, and were smashed by fist-sized hailstones, with blood and flesh flying everywhere.
After dinner, Jiang Miao put his things into his space and looked up a lot of solutions to mold on the Internet, but they were all only treating the symptoms and not the root cause, and the frequency of recurrence was very high.
It was not until two o'clock in the morning, probably after everyone had gone to bed, that Jiang Miao put on an isolation mask and fully armed, and quietly went to the second floor.
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