"This is Team 19 Chongming, can anyone hear me?"
When Xie Xuan and Xiao Yao followed the water flow to leave the body of the giant leech, they heard Chongming's voice coming from the communicator.
"I can hear it." Xie Xuan replied.
Xie Xuan dragged one person, and Xiao Yao dragged the other two people to the ground. This time, the ground was covered with dense mycelium.
They finally arrived at the place where the fungus was, but Chongming didn't know what happened and got there before them.
The light here was still dim, but when Xie Xuan stood up and raised his head, he was stunned.
Amidst the dark red mycelium all over the ground, a pure white area appeared. Above this pure white area stood a man wearing a black protective suit, and at his feet lay two people also wearing protective suits.
Xie Xuan walked over and asked, "Chongming, what's going on now? Don't get involved in the domain."
"No." Chongming looked at Xie Xuan. "I asked Ding Qiaoyun and Yang Jiayue to back the car out 500 meters. I came here alone to find you."
"Did something happen outside?" Xie Xuan asked.
Chongming said expressionlessly, "Team 18's car melted, like it was completely infested with the infection."
Xie Xuan was silent for a moment, "Are the two people next to you from Team 17?"
Chongming nodded, "These two were the ones who stayed in the car and were also swept into the area."
Xiao Yao coughed lightly and said, "We can discuss this later. The most important question now is where is the fungus?"
Chongming looked up and said, "It's up there."
Xie Xuan and Xiao Yao raised their heads together and saw that five meters above their heads, there was a huge dark red fungus with a radius of at least one meter, which was rising and falling slightly like breathing.
Just as Xiao Yao was about to raise his hand, Zhongming said coldly, "Don't strike again until you're sure you can kill him with one strike."
Xiao Yao paused, "What do you mean?"
"It can escape," Chongming said. "You should have noticed by now. This fungus creates many domains, like a sphere cut into countless cones. All the domains overlap where the fungus is located, but the fungus can easily abandon some domains and escape to another place."
Chongming's explanation was rather abstract, but Xie Xuan and Xiao Yao didn't need to understand it too clearly. They only needed to know that unless they could kill the enemy with one strike, they would have to spend a lot of time searching for the fungus in these overlapping areas.
"So do you have any good ideas?" Xiao Yao asked.
"Originally, I was planning to destroy all the other areas except this one one by one, but since you happened to be here, there is no need to go through so much trouble."
Chongming looked at Xie Xuan, smiled and said, "It's your turn."
"Huh?" Xie Xuan was a little confused. "I can't guarantee that I can kill it with one strike."
"You can do it." Chongming said and raised his arm.
Something seemed to be moving under the black protective suit, completely propping it up. Chongming reached out and grabbed the back of Xie Xuan's collar. Before she could speak, he took a stance and threw Xie Xuan out like a iron ball.
"Hey--!" Xie Xuan didn't expect Chongming to be so reckless. The key point was that he was so strong that he threw her like throwing a chick.
But the person was already in mid-air, so Xie Xuan could only quickly adjust her posture. The black mist quickly dissipated, and the huge fungus that was originally a few meters away from her was also approaching rapidly.
The light on the helmet was still working, and Xie Xuan could clearly see that under the mycelium on the surface, there was indeed a huge heart-like thing rising and falling.
Xie Xuan grasped the dagger with her backhand, and when the distance was only half a meter, she suddenly raised her hand and dropped it.
The sharp dagger directly cut through the mycelium on the surface, revealing a liquid underneath that looked like half-coagulated blood.
Due to inertia, when the fungus began to shrink rapidly into the wall, Xie Xuan also rushed into the fungus.
The rapidly repairing bacteria completely enveloped Xie Xuan. Xie Xuan vaguely heard Xiao Yao's voice calling from the communicator: "Xie Xuan!"
But Xie Xuan couldn't hear what was said afterwards.
The field of vision had completely turned a deep red, and a strong fishy smell came in through the air filter of the protective suit. After the sound in her ears returned to extreme silence in an instant, Xie Xuan heard a regular heartbeat.
It wasn't her heartbeat, but the heartbeat of the bacteria.
"Bang—bang—"
Regular and powerful, like a very vital creature.
Xie Xuan's supernatural power is running at full capacity, but the bacteria are also trying their best to infect her.
They both knew the other would make a delicious meal, and neither was willing to concede defeat early.
"Bang—bang—"
Xie Xuan felt that the vitality absorbed by her superpower was becoming more and more abundant, but she seemed to be able to see the dark red vitality flowing into her blood vessels through her superpower.
She actually began to listen carefully to the heartbeat of the fungus involuntarily.
She didn't know how long it had been, but the only sound in Xie Xuan's ears was the regular and loud heartbeat, and she realized that it was her heartbeat.
The heartbeat of the fungus was in sync with her heartbeat; they were one.
After this thought came into Xie Xuan's mind, he suddenly felt a pain in his temple, and then he heard Chongming's voice.
"What are you doing?!" Chongming sounded a little angry and incredulous. "Xie Xuan, I told you to eat it, not to be eaten by it!"
Xie Xuan woke up with a start. There was still blood in front of her, but she could feel that the sticky liquid had completely wrapped around her body, biting her like countless leeches.
The subtle pain only reached her senses after she regained consciousness. Xie Xuan saw that both her health and spirit value had dropped to 60 on the system panel. She gritted her teeth and said, "I know."
After she was unknowingly infected by the fungus, her supernatural powers were scattered like a pile of sand, and now Xie Xuan has to gather them together again.
It was like another force pulling at her own flesh and blood. Xie Xuan actually felt that she had some empathy for the mouse that was stuck in the mouse trap.
The black mist began to devour the liquid biting Xie Xuan's body bit by bit, but the bacteria would not just sit there and wait to die.
The surrounding liquid was rapidly cooling down, and the icy feeling she had felt when she first fell into the pool reappeared. Xie Xuan couldn't tell for a moment whether this was an abnormality in her senses after she had hallucinated or if it really had become that cold.
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
