Chapter 109 Fungal Remains Frenzy 70 I don't believe it!
The mushroom's question came so suddenly that Nanmen Jue didn't react immediately. His mind was vast and calm, and this calmness made the mushroom misunderstand, as the emotion it conveyed was actually somewhat fearful.
"I'm sorry, Divine Messenger, I haven't been able to completely assimilate this world yet. Will God forgive me?"
A thought flashed through Nanmen Jue's mind, and he suddenly understood.
This mushroom not only possesses intelligence, but may even exceed the dimensions that this world should have. It even knows that it was sent down by the main god, and it knows its "mission"!
The task given to it by the main god is probably to assimilate all living things in this world. After this world is destroyed, it will be taken to another new world and repeat the current process... However, due to the tenacity of life and the influence of various reincarnators, this task has not been completed after three years.
Nanmen Jue's emotions fluctuated for a moment; she almost sneered, but she held back.
I don't know why this mushroom mistook her for a so-called divine messenger. Is it because she's a reincarnator? We haven't encountered a "divine messenger" before; is it because no reincarnator has found this place yet?
"Has no one else come looking for you in all this time?" Nanmen Jue asked tentatively.
"No, never. I thought God had forgotten me." The mushroom's consciousness fluctuated violently, as if it were wailing. "Was I too slow and displeased God? I didn't know those humans were so tenacious. Every time I felt like I was going to kill them all, they always managed to find a way to survive..."
Nanmen Jue looked at it coldly, but his mental fluctuations were very kind and gentle. "God has not forgotten you. It is precisely because he knows that your progress here is too slow that he specially sent me to help you."
Mushroom was overjoyed. "Really? How does the divine messenger plan to help me?"
Nanmen Jue also broke into a bright smile, "How about I help you catalyze this, and kill everyone in this world?"
This was Nanmen Jue's plan: to manipulate the Spore Mother into going on a killing spree, and in the assessment, those who died would also be considered as having been killed by her.
Her reasoning was so smooth that Mushroom didn't doubt it at all, but instead became excited, "That's great! Once we kill everyone, can I return to God's side?"
Back to God's side? Was this guy originally something that followed the main god, a mushroom planted by the main god?
Nanmen Jue scoffed inwardly, but smiled gently on the surface, "Of course, I can take you back after the mission is over."
The mushroom let out a long cheer.
Nanmenjue said, "However, you must follow my instructions. We are pressed for time and have a heavy task. If you act recklessly and delay my important matters, I will speak ill of you before God."
The mushroom was startled and nodded repeatedly, "Of course, of course, I will obey the messenger of the gods!"
What was thought to be a likely failure turned out to be an unexpected success, and Nanmen Jue finally laughed, though his laughter was cold and mocking.
She said, "Come out, it'll be easier to get things done once we're ashore."
However, the mushroom didn't move.
Nanmen Jue was slightly taken aback. Just as she thought the mushroom had figured something out and changed its mind, she sensed the mushroom's hesitant voice: "Divine messenger, I can't get out."
Nanmen Jue was taken aback. "What?"
If it can't get out, how can she communicate with it? Zhang Zhi's abilities have a distance limit; she can't stay in the seawater forever.
“When God put me here, He said I should work hard and not run around, so He put this layer of ice on me because I tend to be playful,” Mushroom said. “I can’t break this layer of ice myself.”
Nanmen Jue reached out and touched the ice, but felt nothing different. She pressed her palm harder, and several cracks appeared on the ice.
She and the mushroom were both stunned.
"Huh?" Mushroom exclaimed in surprise, "As expected of a divine messenger!"
...Nanmenjue seems like ordinary ice, perhaps it can only suppress the spore mother on its own.
Thinking about it this way, it's fortunate that no one, or rather, no reincarnator, has ever come here before; otherwise, if this mushroom were released, she probably wouldn't have needed to enter this world.
With the help of the props, Nanmen Jue exerted force under the water pressure, and her movements remained constant. She broke through the ice without much effort, and Mushroom twisted her body and squeezed out of the crack, swimming to Nanmen Jue's shoulder.
“I’m ready, divine messenger,” Mushroom said excitedly. “Let’s go and kill them all!”
Nanmen Jue smiled, glanced at the time, and saw that there was still half an hour left. She quickened her pace and swam upstream with the mushrooms.
After swimming for a while, the mushroom suddenly said, "Divine Messenger, it seems there is another soul within you. Should we eliminate it?"
It could actually sense Zhang Zhi's presence?
Nanmen Jue was stunned and didn't realize for a moment that it used the word "soul" instead of "consciousness". In order to maintain the aura of the divine messenger, she forcibly suppressed her thoughts and swallowed all her emotions, saying, "You don't need to ask me any questions."
He was ruthless and decisive enough that the mushroom immediately fell silent.
...
Just before he was about to drown, Nanmenjue miraculously surfaced.
With only a few dozen meters left to the surface, time was up. Before the props expired, Nanmen Jue took a deep breath and swam upwards at a faster pace. A few dozen meters was nothing to her, but swimming one round trip had already exhausted too much of her energy, causing her to almost suffocate in the sea.
Once out to sea, Nanmen Jue felt an intense itch on her cheek. She reached out to scratch it and touched a fluttering scale.
As a side effect of the prop, she grew fish gills.
She felt that she could go back into the sea now without fear of suffocating.
While she internally chuckled to herself, Nanmen Jue certainly didn't do it. She didn't have that much time to waste, nor was she in the mood to play such games.
However, with gills growing, she swam in the sea much more easily.
"How many parasites can you form links with?" Nanmen Jue asked Mushroom.
Because Nanmenjue scolded him in the sea, Mushroom is still a little nervous. "I... I can communicate with everything in the world that is parasitized by mycelium."
Nanmen Jue was taken aback, then heard Mushroom say, "When I was in the sea, I could only sense the strongest part, but now that I'm out, I can control all the mycelium."
Nanmen Jue suddenly understood. It turned out that the main god had put a cage in it not because he was afraid it would run away to play and not work, but because he was afraid it would work too hard and kill this world too quickly.
“…Control all the mycelium and launch an attack on everything living in the world,” Nanmenjue said. “There are a few people you can attack, just to make a show of it, you can injure or maim them, but don’t actually kill them.”
Mushroom didn't dare ask any more questions, and just nodded repeatedly, "I understand."
The sea dragon snake that was on its way to deliver the message was the first to sense the call and quickly came to meet Nanmen Jue. Nanmen Jue climbed onto its head, let out a long sigh, and looked at the indistinct land in the distance.
From this moment on, the world will become a complete hell, and she will never be able to turn back.
...
In Ningde Town, all the surviving reincarnators gathered together, and the atmosphere was unusually solemn.
Mo Gui lay on the bed, desperately trying to get up, but Ji Chengying pressed him down. His eyes were red as he said, "I still don't believe it. I'm still alive and well. It was Brother Jue who performed the surgery on me. If it weren't for him, I would have died long ago! Died countless times! Now you're telling me Brother Jue wants to kill us? Nonsense! It must be that guy surnamed Ying who's the problem, otherwise why would Brother Jue kill him!"
"Don't you understand yet? This is what Nanmen Jue admitted himself!" Deng Erhuai's face was pale, one arm was in a sling in front of her chest, and her eyes were red. No one had ever seen her so distraught since they met in this world. She was almost roaring at Mo Gui, "Mo Gui, you have to have a conscience! Can't you see what Ying Yao has done? It's not like he didn't try to save you!"
"I just don't believe that Brother Jue is really a serial killer!" Mo Gui roared. "You want me to see what Ying Yao has done, but why don't you look at what Brother Jue has done? If he wanted to kill, why would he save people again and again? It just doesn't make sense!"
Wei Chongru sat blankly to the side, then suddenly spoke up: "Then, Zhang Zhi and Guan Junren, so he...?"
When the question was raised, everyone fell silent.
Several pairs of eyes turned to Lu Yunxiao, who simply shook his head bitterly, "I don't know."
Mo Gui grasped at this like a lifeline, "So you didn't actually see Jue kill them! You only saw Hailongshe swallow Ying Yao. Honestly, how much do we really know about Ying Yao? That guy has never been one to mingle with others! Maybe he's just hiding his true nature too well?"
Still no one spoke, but even in Deng Erhuai's eyes, a glimmer of hope appeared.
What if? What if Nanmen Jue really has his reasons and doesn't want to tell them?
No one wanted to believe that Nanmen Jue had really changed his personality and become the madman who was rumored to be heartless and insane, killing without hesitation. They looked at each other, as if hoping to get some support from each other based on their shared feelings.
"I'm going to find Brother Jue." Mo Gui tried even harder to get out of bed. "I'm going to find him and get some answers!"
This time, even Ji Chengying couldn't hold him down, or rather, she didn't want to. They all wanted an answer.
Suddenly, Wei Chongru, who was facing the window, widened his eyes, revealing an uncontrollable fear, and his voice changed as he asked, "Look, what's that?"
Everyone turned around instantly. In the distance, the seawater surged up and poured into the city... And along with the seawater came some huge things that could be seen from this distance!
A high-level parasite!
Meanwhile, parasites of all levels, hidden in every corner of the town, began to appear, as if they had received a unified command, and started to devour any flesh and blood they could catch!
Soon, screams and wails rose from all directions, their mournful cries lingering and piercing, exceptionally poignant.
The reincarnators were pale-faced, and the same suspicion arose in everyone's mind, carrying an aura of terror, but no one was willing to voice it.
Ji Chengying had gotten used to being a nurse lately, and she was about to rush out to save someone when Wei Chongru grabbed her arm.
“It’s no use,” Wei Chongru said in a low voice. “This is a situation we can’t handle… I know you might say I’m selfish, but run! If we don’t run now, it will be too late.”
He closed his eyes as he said this. It was a perfectly ordinary concept in this cycle of reincarnation, but now, speaking of it evoked a sense of shame, causing his heart to clench.
This wasn't entirely due to morality. He had genuinely worked and fought for these people, almost losing his own life in the process. The emotions he developed far exceeded those of an ordinary NPC. It would have been heartbreaking for him to abandon the people he had protected for so long.
It seems that, without realizing it, he had truly come to believe that these were living, breathing people, not cold, disposable game data.
He thought he would be criticized for saying such things, but a cold hand was placed on his shoulder. Deng Erhuai, who had been leading the way when Nanmen Jue was not around, said in a low voice, "Lu Yunxiao, carry Mo Gui on your back. I'll help you. Xiao Ying, follow along. We'll leave as quickly as possible."
No one objected, and everyone acted silently and efficiently. However, just as Lu Yunxiao carried Mo Gui on his back, the door to the room was suddenly kicked open.
Everyone looked over warily. The mask was still properly covering his face, but Ying Yao, who was dripping wet, appeared in front of them.
"Ying Yao?" Mo Gui was the first to shout, filled with unparalleled joy, "Weren't you dead?!"
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Author's note: I overestimated myself. I'll go back to the main hall tomorrow. _(:з)∠)_
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