Chapter 90 Fungal Remains Frenzy 51 "I misjudged."...
Two weeks later.
This is an abandoned amusement park. Because it used to be crowded, it should have been a hotspot for outbreaks in the early days of the apocalypse, but it did not become a lost zone. Perhaps it was because it was too remote and there were no worthwhile prey to absorb, so even the Mother Tree did not want to go there.
Therefore, all that remains here are dried bloodstains from the past few years, fragments of people, some in pieces and some in pieces, and a few low-level parasites still wandering around.
Like many large amusement parks, the Ferris wheel, located at the very center of the site and also the tallest attraction, has now stopped rotating. Half-desiccated corpses hang from its rusty steel frame. Given its size and height, one can imagine how popular it was when it was still in operation.
Nanmen Jue was currently in the highest cabin of the Ferris wheel, sitting with her legs bent and back against the wall. She was leaning her head back and breathing heavily. There was a communicator next to her. She looked tired, and her clothes were dirty. There were even faint traces of blood on her waist, abdomen and arms. She didn't look too good.
After leaving the quarantine center, she did not go directly to Ningde Town to find Ying Yao and Zhang Zhi, but instead waged a long guerrilla war against Cheng Xiuye.
She knew she had discovered Cheng Xiuye's private communication with Zhang Jin, the leader of Entropy, and that Cheng Xiuye must really want to kill her. However, she hadn't expected that she would underestimate his determination.
Cheng Xiuye wanted to kill her, and she also wanted to kill Cheng Xiuye. It was fair. The only unfair thing was that the old man stole her level, turning her advantage into a disadvantage, which made the chase and guerrilla war dangerous.
Not long after leaving the quarantine facility, Nanmen Jue noticed Cheng Xiuye's whereabouts, but for some reason, he did not show up. Instead, wave after wave of parasites and even reincarnators came to ambush her.
However, Yu Wanyan did not reappear. She did not appear whether she was trying to kill Cheng Xiuye or to kill her. This relieved Nanmen Jue of some pressure, but because of her existence, she still had to be more careful. She couldn't understand what this girl was thinking. She was too bloodthirsty and unpredictable. One second she wanted to kill her and the next she wanted to save her. She had just saved her but might want to kill her again the next moment... Dealing with her was quite exhausting.
Realizing that going directly to Ningde Town would only lure Cheng Xiuye there and bring more danger to the people there, she stopped thinking about it and went into hiding. Thus, the battle turned into Cheng Xiuye trying to find Nanmen Jue, and Nanmen Jue trying to lure Cheng Xiuye out.
After half a month of intense fighting, even someone at Jin Ming level would be exhausted, let alone now. So it was only natural that Nanmen Jue was injured. With the help of Jin Jian and Crow, she fought Cheng Xiuye to a standstill and almost wiped out all the people and parasites sent there. If this got out, the entire Samsara Space would be shocked. But Nanmen Jue still felt that the injury was very frustrating.
Damn it, a large part of Cheng Xiuye's prowess is because of her!
Although he didn't know what he had done or how he suddenly became able to command the parasites, this ability was somewhat similar to Zhang Zhi's. After confirming this, Nanmen Jue became nervous and even specially made a communicator to contact Ying Yao.
Only after confirming that Zhang Zhi and he were both alright and had arrived in Ningde Town did she feel relieved.
Even though he felt that Ying Yao was a bit unfathomable, Nanmen Jue still didn't dare to place all his hopes on him. He preferred to keep Cheng Xiuye occupied so that he wouldn't have time to look for others.
Other people held little appeal for Cheng Xiuye, but he would gladly capture all those Nanmen Jue cared about to use as leverage against him. Fortunately, Nanmen Jue had been subtly enticing him, otherwise, who knew if this heartless maniac would have randomly chosen a human base to threaten Nanmen Jue?
Thinking of his opponent as a reckless madman, Nanmen Jue scratched his head in distress. In this world, people with conscience are always more constrained.
She picked up the communicator and glanced at it, but there was no response. She then turned her head to look outside the Ferris wheel.
It was indeed very high up here. From the top, one could overlook the entire amusement park. This was why Nanmen Jue chose to stay here. She squinted slightly at the bamboo forest not far away. This place was originally part of the amusement park's landscaping design, but after losing human control, the bamboo began to grow wildly and had spread everywhere.
Bamboo is a very tenacious plant. It can grow wildly with just a little water. Moso bamboo can grow to more than a meter in 24 hours and can live for decades to a hundred years. It can survive in temperatures ranging from minus 20 degrees Celsius to 40 degrees Celsius. It is truly an admirable plant.
Nanmen Jue stared at the bamboo forest, his brain, which had barely rested for the past two weeks, suddenly becoming somewhat dazed.
As the weather grew hotter, she felt stifled in the cramped private room, a few drops of sweat trickling down her face.
But like a seasoned hunter, she made no move to cause the box to shake or attract attention.
The two weeks of encirclement and counter-encirclement had tempered Nanmen Jue's mind, making her more composed. As long as she couldn't move, she could sit still for a whole day and night.
Suddenly, she narrowed her eyes.
Just now, the bamboo forest seemed to move slightly, like the ripples of a breeze, with gentle waves spreading among the bamboo leaves. But when Nanmen Jue looked up at a tattered colorful flag not far away, the thin fabric remained completely still.
The surroundings were eerily quiet; for a moment, even the sound of air moving seemed to stop. Nanmen Jue stared intently at the bamboo grove, his hand gently reaching for the gun on his thigh.
She didn't know how many bullets were left in the gun after the series of battles, but at long range, no weapon was as effective as a gun.
However, even now, there has still been no warning.
The communicator was silent, the crows made no sound, and neither of the two layers of defense set up by Nanmen Jue issued a warning, but she trusted the intuition she had honed in life-or-death situations!
Nanmen Jue decisively reached out and fired her gun the instant she opened the door. Each shot accurately struck the subtle ripples in the bamboo forest. After a few shots, a gust of wind suddenly rose, and Nanmen Jue's half body was already out of the private room, with only one hand hanging on the door. The wind blew past her ear, lifting her messy hair and revealing a pair of sharp eyes on her slightly pale face.
The ripples in the bamboo forest stopped, and so did Nanmen Jue.
After a few seconds of absolute silence, Nanmen Jue suddenly exerted force on his arm gripping the door frame, flipped himself upwards, and hooked his ankle onto the railway track.
In that instant, a gaping maw suddenly appeared from below and bit the private room where Nanmen Jue had just been!
The shattered fragments scraped past Nanmen Jue's body. Seeing this huge creature emerging from the bamboo forest, even she, who was used to struggling in the apocalypse, had her pupils shrink.
This is a giant python with a bluish-green body, but its originally smooth scales are almost invisible. The snake's body is covered with a thick layer of mycelium. Unlike the blood-red mycelium, these mycelium are grayish-white, like a giant net wrapped around its body, resembling a rotting mushroom covered with spores.
This mushroom was extremely ferocious. First, it bit through the compartment, and then it reached out to bite Nanmenjue, who was hanging on the railway track. Nanmenjue quickly flipped over and slid down the circular track. The giant python coiled its huge body and snaked along the track to chase after her, just like the serpent of Midgard in mythology.
With her back pressed against the rails, Nanmen Jue quickly turned around and fired several shots. The bullets hit the giant snake's open mouth, having almost no effect. So she stopped wasting bullets and switched her left hand the instant she shoved the gun back into her thigh. The white bone knife slid from her fingertips, and she stopped her downward slide with her hand in a claw shape, turning around to meet the giant python!
Nanmen Jue doesn't like using guns. Guns are only the most effective means of dealing with long-range attacks, while her real advantage lies in close combat!
Compared to the giant python's size, Nanmen Jue was tiny. The python's blood-red eyes were almost half the size of Nanmen Jue, but the moment she turned her head, her aura overwhelmed it. As she charged towards the python, a ferocious smile appeared on her face.
She wasn't just running around randomly. On this narrow track, she nimbly twisted and turned, sliding down. If the giant python wanted to bite her, it had to follow her path. Although it was huge, its body wasn't heavy, which meant that during the chase, it gradually moved in the way Nanmen Jue wanted, until it twisted itself into a pretzel.
Because of its entanglement with the railway tracks, it was unable to avoid the approaching figure of Nanmen Jue. Or rather, it had never imagined that humans could move so fast in its lifetime. In its shocked and bewildered eyes, Nanmen Jue's half body entered its open mouth, and then with a "plop," a white scalpel pierced out from its eye.
Nanmen Jue pierced its brain and eyes, and the huge parasitic python coiled on the twisted tracks of the Ferris wheel, no longer moving.
A loud cry descended from the sky, and crows hovered anxiously back and forth beside the dead body of the giant python.
Nanmen Jue emerged from the python's mouth, his face covered in blood. He wasn't surprised to see that the crow was unharmed, but simply asked in a low voice, "What happened?"
She didn't doubt that Crow had betrayed her. At this point, the countless times they had fought side by side were enough to prove that Crow was on her side. Moreover, based on the previous tests, she knew that although Crow's identity seemed very powerful, he was greatly restricted in the cycle of reincarnation, only slightly stronger than an ordinary crow. Therefore, Nanmen Jue would not arrange for Crow to do anything dangerous, but only place him in key positions for sentry duty.
Because Nanmenjue trusted Him, he placed Him in a crucial position. Therefore, when He stopped working without issuing a warning, Nanmenjue almost suffered a great loss.
Nanmen Jue fell down, and the crow followed her to the ground, its black beady eyes looking at Nanmen Jue's waist. "Nanmen, you've been parasitized."
Oh, I've already suffered a huge loss.
This giant python was a parasite close to Grade A. If Nanmen Jue were still the same Nanmen Jue, dealing with it wouldn't be too dangerous. She used her quick thinking and skill to kill it, but it wasn't without risk. When she entered the python's mouth, its teeth pierced Nanmen Jue's side, where there was already a wound, and the hyphae were implanted there.
Nanmen Jue wiped his face and looked down at his waist. Several grayish-white fungal filaments were wriggling in the wound like living things, trying to burrow inside.
She lifted the hem of her clothes, bit down on it, and raised the scalpel to cut into the soft flesh on her waist.
A sharp, intense pain, followed by a slight tremor, caused Nanmen Jue to bite down hard on his clothes, cut off the infected flesh, and toss it aside.
He took out a green hemostatic talisman and applied it. Nanmen Jue's face turned even paler, but his breathing remained steady.
The crow said, "Why didn't you use the potato chips Ying Yao gave you earlier?"
"This is just an elite monster; there's a big boss to come," Nanmen Jue said in a hoarse voice. "Cheng Xiuye hasn't even shown up yet; how can I dare to use my trump card first?"
There was another reason she didn't mention: the probability of advanced parasites appearing recently had been increasing, and she couldn't easily use her trump card for survival.
The crow walked over on its two claws and used its slightly stiff feathers to press against Nanmen Jue's body. Nanmen Jue closed her eyes briefly, then spat out a mouthful of blood, thus completing the use of the prop. Her complexion actually improved somewhat.
The crow explained what had just happened: "I was controlled by a defensive item that was used against me, preventing me from breaking free for the time being. I just saw Jin Jian; he's alright."
As they were talking, Jin Jian rushed over from a distance. Seeing Nanmen Jue's state, he gasped, his eyes filled with terror. "Sir, I didn't..."
Nanmen Jue raised her hand to indicate that he was alright. It was far too easy for a near-A-level parasite to hide from Jin Jian. A cold smile appeared on her pale face. "It seems that half a month of guerrilla warfare has finally made them realize how important Xiao Nuo is to me. Xiao Nuo, you're probably in big danger later."
With Crow around, Nanmen Jue essentially has an extra eagle eye, which is a major advantage for her in dealing with enemies stronger than herself. After realizing the trouble Crow poses, Cheng Xiuye and the others will definitely do everything in their power to eliminate Crow first.
The crow nodded, showing no emotional reaction to the matter.
Jin Jian looked at the crow with great awe. At first, he thought the crow was just a high-level prop, just like the others. But the life-and-death battles over the past few days made him realize something was wrong. Nanmen Jue was obviously treating him as an equal intelligent being and respecting him. The crow was indeed showing that it was more than just a prop.
He didn't know what a crow was, but he knew that in this cycle of reincarnation, one shouldn't ask questions that shouldn't be asked.
Jin Jian said in a low voice, "Have we failed this time?"
They lay in ambush here to lure out Cheng Xiuye. Nanmen Jue deliberately showed her face beforehand, even at the cost of getting injured, just to let Cheng Xiuye know she was here. They planted explosives throughout the amusement park, intending to severely injure him even if they couldn't kill him.
As for where the explosives came from, we have to thank the quarantine facility for their assistance.
However, to their surprise, after using a prop to specifically stop the crows, all they got was this one thing.
Even if this giant python is very strong, after fighting with Nanmen Jue for so long, they couldn't possibly be unaware that it couldn't kill Nanmen Jue.
Since they knew Nanmen Jue was here, why didn't they come and kill her themselves...?
Nanmen Jue's brows suddenly furrowed.
She immediately reached for her communicator in her pocket, only to find that it had automatically shut down due to the impact. Before she could even speak, Jin Jian quickly handed her his.
Nanmen Jue lowered his head and operated the machine for a while, then stood up with a cold expression.
She was a little unsteady, and Jin Jian tried to help her, but she waved her hand and refused, her expression somewhat unpleasant.
“You misjudged him,” she said softly. “His target is Zhang Zhi.”
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