"Director Yang! Director Yang!"
Yang Mei had just finished her latest report to headquarters and was about to go to sleep when her assistant rushed in anxiously with the phone in hand.
"Director, the Jiangcheng monitoring station has sent the latest news: an abnormal energy wave has been detected within the city, and the magnetic field of the mutated umbrella mushroom is rapidly decreasing!"
Yang Mei swallowed back the reprimand that was about to come out. Without even putting on her coat, she quickly got off the cot and took the satellite phone from her assistant.
One minute later, all the lights in the central command post of the entire camp came on, all the machines were turned on, and the heads of each branch rushed over with their guards.
Everyone had arrived, and before they could even ask what had happened, they saw the real-time detection feedback graph that Yang Mei had brought up.
As the image zoomed in, real-time monitoring footage flashing with unusual energy waves came into view.
In the image, the blue energy fluctuations that originally represented the S-grade mutated mushroom were rapidly fading, and the data representing the energy wave intensity was decreasing at a rate of seconds.
Nine seconds later, the blue energy wave value completely dropped to zero!
"What's going on?!" Commander Wei asked sternly.
Yang Mei didn't have time to answer him; she was directing the monitoring station to fully synchronize the monitoring data.
A short while later, a strong red energy wave radiated powerfully from the center of Jiangcheng outwards.
The red band on the screen kept flashing, and the color became more and more intense, even becoming somewhat glaringly red.
The heads of each department put on the special glasses handed to them by their assistants, and only then did the discomfort in their eyes disappear.
The new energy value kept soaring, quickly surpassing the previous value of the S-level mutated mushroom, and then went on a rampage, eventually exceeding the maximum value.
A loud "Bang!" came from the loudspeaker in front of Yang Mei.
A soldier at the Jiangcheng monitoring station exclaimed, "Sir, the new energy fluctuation is too violent! The monitoring machine has exploded!"
"It's gone! It's suddenly gone!" came another exclamation.
Inside the command center, everyone asked urgently, "What's gone?"
"It's all gone!" a soldier at the monitoring station shouted. "The magnetic field is gone, the new energy wave is gone, it's all gone!"
Yang Mei frowned instantly and quickly retrieved all the data, only to find that the abnormal values had been cleared to zero in an instant.
"Immediately dispatch reconnaissance drones to explore the center of Jiangcheng!" Yang Mei decisively ordered.
A bold guess formed in her mind, but it still needed to be verified.
The reconnaissance team immediately replied that the drone was ready to enter the urban area of Jiangcheng.
Commander Wei hesitated, then said, "There's a strong magnetic field inside the city. Any electronic equipment will malfunction if it gets close. Sending a drone in would be less effective than sending a soldier with enhanced mental abilities."
But before he could ask any questions, he heard the excited voices of the investigation team coming from the other end of the phone.
"Report! The drone has successfully entered Jiangcheng city! The strong magnetic field interference seems to have disappeared!"
"...Wait! Oh no, the drone got caught by a mutated willow tree...The drone fell to the ground, it's doomed, a mutated wildcat pounced out and destroyed the drone..."
The drone video that had just been uploaded to the big screen suddenly went black, and the image disappeared.
But you could still hear the sounds of wild cats tearing and thrashing coming from the radio.
Hearing the piercing electromagnetic noise from the drone, Commander Wei and the others exchanged shocked glances.
"The interfering magnetic field has disappeared!" Yang Mei's confident conclusion proved everyone's guess.
She said in a deep voice, "If I'm not mistaken, the S-level mutated umbrella mushroom has also disappeared."
"Impossible!" Commander Wei couldn't believe such a bizarre possibility. "For more than ten years, that umbrella-shaped mushroom had dominated Jiangcheng for thirteen years. It was a place where even missiles couldn't accurately penetrate. It practically had no natural enemies. How could it have disappeared in just a few minutes?"
"We'll find out if we send someone to investigate," Yang Mei said casually as she turned to the controller.
The one-second video that the drone had just transmitted had been successfully backed up. She clicked play, extracted the only valid frame, and zoomed in continuously, stopping at the tallest building in the frame.
Under the silvery-blue sky, atop the tall buildings, a blurry black shadow can be vaguely seen.
Yang Mei's heart raced instantly, and her breathing became rapid.
The busy sounds of Commander Wei and others issuing orders inside the room were automatically blocked out; all she could see was that blurry figure.
She took a deep breath, tapped the delete button in the upper right corner, and resolutely deleted the image and its backup.
"That video was unusable, so I deleted it. Have them upload a working video instead," Yang Mei said calmly to everyone.
The crowd, busy verifying whether the mutated mushroom had really disappeared, didn't pay any attention to what she had said.
......
With the electric light from the blooming mushrooms gone, the entire city of Jiangcheng was plunged into darkness.
The higher you stand, the stronger the wind blows; the biting cold wind of early winter makes Zhao Xiaoxiu unsteady on her feet.
She quickly crouched down, dragging the bag Zhao Gang had left behind, and hid behind a concrete building that looked like a water tower, where she was sheltered from the cold wind.
To Zhao Xiaoxiu, the night was almost the same as day, and her vision was not affected in any way.
The darkness of night provided the best cover. Zhao Xiaoxiu peeked out and looked towards the original location of the mutated mushroom. A huge, writhing mass of flesh and blood had replaced the mutated mushroom.
Zhao Xiaoxiu didn't know how long it would take for her father to digest his food, so she could only wait patiently.
Apart from moss and some vines, I didn't see any other dangerous creatures on the top floor, so it was a relatively safe place.
Zhao Xiaoxiu took out the axe and silenced gun from her bag and placed them on the ground. She then spread the soft cloth bag directly on the ground and sat cross-legged on it.
Zhao Gang didn't forget to bring a carton of yogurt for the cub before leaving home. Zhao Xiaoxiu opened the yogurt, took out a bottle, inserted a straw, and drank it from it, feeling warm inside.
After the once quiet city center lost the control of the mushroom mycelium, rustling sounds gradually began to appear.
Thanks to Zhao Gang, many of the mutated animals that were lured onto the mycelium and spores were lucky enough to escape with their lives tonight.
A mutated two-headed lizard, over five meters long, awoke from its coma to find that most of its body had been corroded away, its internal organs and bones exposed to the air. As its numb and sluggish nerves gradually recovered, excruciating pain followed.
But the two lizard heads searched everywhere for the culprit, but couldn't find it. Stimulated by the pain, they began to run around uncontrollably.
It rampaged through the abandoned streets, knocking away the White Walkers that were rising from the ground, and then, as if frightened, climbed up tall buildings, trying to find a safe place.
After finishing a bottle of yogurt, Zhao Xiaoxiu glanced at her father. His blood-red tentacles, resembling those of a multi-clawed creature from the ocean floor, had shrunk considerably.
"We should have to wait a little longer," Zhao Xiaoxiu thought to herself.
I casually took out a bottle of yogurt, stuck in a straw, and prepared to drink it, then looked up to see if there were any stars in the sky.
I didn't see any stars, but when I looked up, I was met with four bright green eyes, each the size of a ping-pong ball.
The black pupils reflected the monitor lizard's mangled body. Perhaps startled, the human cub took a deep sip through the straw and drank a mouthful of silky yogurt.
With the hand that wasn't holding the yogurt bottle, he grabbed the silenced gun next to him, aimed at the green eye on the left, and decisively pulled the trigger!
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