Xie Xuan frowned, "Is this normal?"
Zhou Yuanyuan's voice was even trembling slightly. "That's not normal. Throughout our history, we've never seen a case where the concentration reaches 50% and the parasite completely loses control, and then the concentration drops on its own."
The current spore concentration detected is 40%.
The concentration dropped very quickly, even comparable to the speed at which the spore concentration dropped after the parasite was killed and the field dissipated.
In the darkness, there was no sound except their own breathing. There was no chandelier, no mushroom man, as if this area was going to trap them to death here.
Xie Xuan felt that she must have overlooked something, and her thoughts quickly went back to the past.
Zhou Yuanyuan hit the parasite, and the domain collapsed, but did not disappear. The spore concentration was decreasing, as if the parasite had been successfully killed.
Xie Xuan suddenly thought of a possibility. "Is it possible... that this infection produced two parasites?"
Ling Wenqing's whole body trembled, and he squeezed out a word with difficulty, "Theoretically... it is possible."
Zhou Yuanyuan: "So we have now entered the second parasite's territory?"
Xie Xuan shook his head hesitantly.
The mission notification was triggered when they first entered the area, but the system did not indicate that the parasite had been successfully killed. In other words...
"Will the realms... merge?"
"The domain has undergone an anomaly change and has been reclassified as a C-level reproductive type. The risk factor has increased significantly. We are contacting the Ecological Bureau to send additional teams for support."
Bai Ze's cold voice at this moment is even colder than the biting wind in winter.
The first thought that came to Zhou Yuanyuan and Ling Wenqing’s minds was “It’s over”.
[Current mission upgraded: C-class reproductive field, mission description: kill the parasite and contain the bacteria, mission completion reward: 80 points, unknown ability, mission failure penalty: death.]
Xie Xuan took a deep breath and asked through gritted teeth, "Is the probability of a domain mutation so high?"
Zhou Yuanyuan said dejectedly, "It's very low, one in ten thousand."
Xie Xuan encountered this twice in a row with a probability of one in ten thousand. Xie Xuan felt that if he could get out of here alive, he might be able to buy a lottery ticket and win the ultimate jackpot of 200 million yuan.
[The current spore concentration detected is 20%.]
The spore concentration was almost reduced to the level outside the field. Xie Xuan was not very clear what this meant, but she knew they could not just sit there and wait for death.
Xie Xuan: "The reproductive field shouldn't be very aggressive. The spore concentration is decreasing now. Let's find a safe place to hold out until support arrives..."
"The current spore concentration detected is 60%. If it continues to rise to 80%, the air filter of the protective suit will become ineffective."
Bai Ze's voice ruthlessly interrupted Xie Xuan's words.
Xie Xuan couldn't see the expressions of Ling Wenqing and Zhou Yuanyuan through the helmet, but she knew that they didn't look very good.
It's almost a death situation now.
The last time the domain changed, Xie Xuan chose to fight to the death because she had a very suitable ability at that time and had at least a 50% chance of escaping unscathed.
But now, the best she could do was hide in a cage with Ling Wenqing and Zhou Yuanyuan and wait for death.
The cage can block physical attacks, but it cannot block spore infection. Before support arrives, they are more likely to be infected and turned into fungi.
In the darkness, the three people felt heavier than ever before.
At this moment, the thick darkness around finally dissipated slowly like diluted ink, revealing the true appearance of the second realm.
This is a space composed almost entirely of white and red.
In front of them was a long pure white staircase that led all the way up to an invisible height. On both sides of the staircase, there was a small platform extending at intervals. On the platform, there was a pure white female statue kneeling and facing the height.
Apart from this floating staircase, the rest of the space seemed to be shrouded in a thick reddish fog, and nothing could be seen clearly.
Xie Xuan and the others were now standing at the beginning of this long white staircase that seemed to have no end.
After revealing its true appearance in the C-level area, the fear in Zhou Yuanyuan and Ling Wenqing's hearts was not as strong as before in the darkness.
The unknown is the most terrifying. Anything that can be traced must have weaknesses that can be broken.
Ling Wenqing had calmed down by now. He switched to a pistol and said, "I think the victim is most likely at the end of this staircase."
Zhou Yuanyuan also picked up the gun and said, "Let's go. It's better than waiting here to die."
Xie Xuan raised her eyebrows slightly, holding the dagger in her backhand, and followed Ling Wenqing up the stairs.
The stairs were completely floating in the air, and the steps were very clean and smooth, without any trace of mycelium. It was so clean that they felt like they were not in a realm.
There was no sound around, an eerie silence. Xie Xuan walked up two steps and broke the silence. "Have you ever been to a C-level area?"
Ling Wenqing: "No, a C-level area requires at least a C-level psychic to enter. I'm D-level, and Zhou Yuanyuan is E-level."
His nerves relaxed a little at this moment, and he turned to look at Xie Xuan, "You are a C-level psychic, right?"
The Ecological Bureau's assessment of the level of psychics is very loose, generally based on the comprehensive combat power assessment, but the simplest judgment standard is whether they can inactivate lower-level bacteria.
Xie Xuan, whose special ability had not yet been activated, smiled awkwardly but politely, "I guess so."
As they were talking, they had already reached the first platform of the stairs.
Just now, from a distance, I could only see the back of the sculpture kneeling on the ground, looking up at the sky. After I walked closer, the front of the sculpture came into view.
The front of the pure white statue looked like a faceless man, without eyes, nose or ears, except for a pink mouth that looked as vivid as if it were still on a living person. At this moment, this mouth was even trembling slightly as if it were alive.
Xie Xuan immediately thought of the eyes, nose and ears thrown on the dinner plate.
The mouth in front is like the missing last third of the entire human skin mask, strangely covering the lower half of the face of this faceless sculpture.
Xie Xuan frowned. "I've seen something similar in the field just now. The eyes and nose on the plate are just like the mouth on this sculpture. They move as if they're alive."
After she finished speaking, she was stunned for a moment.
If they are two different parasites, why are their territories so highly correlated?
The mouth that was not found on the banquet plate at the beginning appeared here, as if it had been waiting for them here from the beginning.
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