"It's raining."
There were sporadic rain marks on the floor-to-ceiling glass. Xie Xuan withdrew her gaze and slapped the display screen, which had turned black again and was about to go out of action.
One hundred years after a certain country discharged nuclear contaminated water into the sea, rainy days are extremely dangerous.
One hundred years ago, marine fungi mutated due to nuclear contaminated water. After these mutated fungi were brought back to the surface by a tsunami, the crisis of spore infection swept all mankind.
Once humans are infected by mutant spores, most of them will rot and die directly, while a small number will be parasitized, temporarily forming a small parallel space to breed more spores.
Humans were forced to move inland and build high walls, and the surviving humans formed a new country - the Human Confederation Republic.
But high walls cannot prevent the arrival of the rainy season, and the rainy season is the season when mushrooms grow and reproduce rapidly. Every rainy season, a large number of spore infections will occur within the high walls.
Xie Xuan traveled here half a month ago. Before she traveled here, a certain country was carrying out its first round of nuclear contaminated water discharge into the sea despite opposition from countries around the world.
District 6, where the original owner lived, was built on the land of Xie Xuan's homeland, which she was familiar with. The original owner had no parents, no friends, and she traveled between the convenience store where she worked and the apartment she rented every day.
Xie Xuan quite likes this kind of life of eating and waiting to die.
August is the rainy season in District 6, and the radio once again broadcast the precautions for the rainy season.
"Dear residents, District 6 is currently experiencing the rainy season. We ask that residents refrain from traveling on rainy days. If you must travel, please take protective measures. If you encounter an infection, please report it to the Ecological Bureau promptly..."
It seems that no one will come anymore.
But just as Xie Xuan left the cashier counter, an electronic voice of "Welcome" suddenly came from behind her.
Xie Xuan paused. Customers entering the store on a rainy day usually wasn't a good thing.
A childish voice sounded behind Xie Xuan, "Big sister, can I take shelter from the rain here?"
Xie Xuan turned around and saw a little girl about eight years old who was soaked all over.
She was holding a bionic cat in her arms and stood on the doormat very politely without coming in. She just looked at Xie Xuan timidly with moist eyes.
The automatic door, which sensed the little girl's presence, couldn't be closed. The rain from outside drifted in sporadically, leaving a few water marks on the light-colored floor mats.
"...No." Xie Xuan said with a dry throat.
The little girl looked disappointed, but she still said politely, "Sorry to bother you."
The rain outside was getting heavier and heavier, and at this moment, the automatic door that had been unable to close suddenly closed.
Pale yellow mycelium slowly emerged from the scattered water marks on the pads of the feet. In the blink of an eye, mycelium also began to grow on the body of the wet little girl.
The little girl was infected.
Xie Xuan skillfully lowered her head and opened the terminal, but before she could even click on the emergency call from the Ecological Bureau, thick fog suddenly filled the air. At the same time, the signal in the upper right corner of the terminal interface went straight to zero.
Xie Xuan: …
It's over, this is the worst. The little girl has become the victim of the parasite and the area has been formed.
When Xie Xuan was cursing in her heart, a flat voice sounded in her mind again.
[Current mission has been opened: E-level reproductive field, mission description: kill the parasite, contain the bacteria, mission completion reward: 20 points, unknown ability, mission failure penalty: death.]
【User: Xie Xuan
Age: 20
Health: 100/100
Spirit value: 100/100
Ability: Not activated
Abilities: None
Props: None]
[Newbie gift pack: Sharp Dagger is being distributed.]
[The current spore concentration detected is 25%. When the concentration reaches 100%, the spores will mature and release, and everyone in the area will mutate. Please kill the parasite before the spores mature.]
The system also appeared when Xie Xuan just crossed over, but apart from giving her a useless system panel at the beginning, it never appeared again.
The system was silent at best, but when it did, it suddenly started a mission that would kill her if she failed.
Xie Xuan doesn't want to die yet.
The fog was getting thicker and thicker. Xie Xuan took out the sharp dagger and held it tightly in his hand, without making any rash moves.
Several stores around the convenience store have been closed since the rainy season. Xie Xuan is almost certain that she is the only unlucky person dragged into this area.
The area was very quiet, so quiet that Xie Xuan could hear the sound of the mycelium growing rapidly on the ground.
The fog was so thick that Xie Xuan only had half a meter of vision left. Xie Xuan half-knelt down and saw pale yellow mushrooms emerging from the mycelium on the ground.
Article 7 of the Mushroom Picking Guide: The parasites are the core of the infection, and the mushrooms around them will definitely grow the fastest.
Xie Xuan stood up and walked forward in the direction where the mycelium was most luxuriant.
She was counting her steps.
The convenience store was small and filled with shelves, but Xie Xuan walked nearly a hundred meters without any hindrance in the thick fog and still couldn't find the little girl.
The direction was right. The mycelium on the ground became denser and denser, and grew so fast that before Xie Xuan took the next step, her shoes were covered by the mycelium.
The subtle crisp sounds of mushrooms being crushed became more and more frequent, and the mist filled with the smell of decay and the unique smell of mushrooms suddenly moved.
Xie Xuan's pupils suddenly shrank, and her body quickly leaned back, using an extremely perfect waist bend to avoid the huge cat claws that stabbed out from the thick fog.
Perhaps realizing that his sneak attack had failed, the thick fog in front of Xie Xuan began to slowly dissipate, revealing a huge, blurry shadow.
It was the silhouette of a two-meter-tall cat, and next to it stood a little girl just over one meter tall.
Article 29 of the Mushroom Picking Guide: The domain of the parasite will magnify the parasite's inner thoughts, distort reality, and create a special environment that is irrational. Do not try to find logic within the domain.
Xie Xuan doesn't need logic, she just needs to survive.
Holding the dagger tightly in his backhand, Xie Xuan lowered his center of gravity and ran in the fog.
But the big cat's movements were much faster than Xie Xuan's. Xie Xuan didn't even see the big cat's outline change before its sharp claws pierced through the thick fog and reached her.
Xie Xuan rolled on the ground in a panic, and with the sound of mushrooms shattering, a wet feeling spread across his back.
The current spore concentration detected is 40%.
Spores can infect almost anything, living or non-living, but parasitism specifically refers to the infection phenomenon that occurs in a certain area after infection.
If the spores are swallowed by the parasite, the person will become a mutant, but if unfortunately the spores are swallowed by the parasite, the person will die.
Once the spore concentration exceeds 40%, it means that the parasite begins to lose control, and the possibility of becoming a mutant will drop to zero when the concentration reaches 50%.
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