Xie Xuan walked for another hour and returned to the starting point. When she arrived, Xiao Yao and Song Zhixian were already waiting at the car door.
They also noticed the strangeness of the shadow under Xie Xuan's feet at first sight.
"Your special ability?" Xiao Yao asked.
"It's gone." Xie Xuan said, "Why don't you come and try it?"
Xiao Yao didn't hesitate and stepped forward to step on her. As a result, her shadow now looked like a normal shadow and she stood there motionless, allowing him to step on her.
Her shadow really disappeared.
Xie Xuan looked at Song Zhixian, "Can you feel anything?"
Song Zhixian felt it carefully, shook his head and said, "I can't feel anything, it's still the same as before."
Xie Xuan also found it very strange. She could still feel the connection between herself and Song Zhixian, proving that her supernatural powers were still in her body.
But she now has very few superpowers at her disposal, as if most of them have run away from home along with her shadow.
But these are not the most important things now. Xie Xuan walked into the car and saw Chongming still sitting there motionless and sleeping in the same posture as when they left.
She checked the time. "It's been four hours since I woke up, but we still don't have any clues."
Song Zhixian and Xiao Yao got in the car, and the three of them sat down around the table.
"When I came back, I observed the buildings on both sides and felt that the basic logic of this field is repetition," said Song Zhixian.
Xiao Yao nodded. "This form is very common in the field, but there is a very strange point here..."
"This place doesn't feel like a domain at all," Xie Xuan said. "I've tried to use my supernatural powers to devour this place before, but the ground and buildings here are real buildings, and there's no life in them."
They were silent for a short while, when suddenly another voice appeared.
“The same thing happened with the Ecological Bureau building.”
The three of them were startled and turned around to see that Chongming had woken up at some point.
Chongming stood up and walked over, walking a little slowly and looking a little dazed.
He sat next to Xie Xuan and said, "You should have heard before that the Ecological Bureau building is essentially a building infected by Bai Ze. Such a building meets the conditions you mentioned. It looks fake, but it is a real building."
Song Zhixian suddenly realized something and said, "Generally speaking, inorganic matter will decay like humans after being infected by bacteria. However, a small number of bacteria have special properties that prevent them from decaying after infecting inorganic matter. Instead, they give the building a living quality."
Chongming nodded. "The unique characteristic of the Ecological Bureau building is its resistance to infection. But ultimately, these buildings are already part of the bacterial species, no different from the infected organism."
Xie Xuan asked, "Are you saying that there's a fungus here that's similar to Bai Ze's and has infected the original town ruins?"
Chongming said: "That's probably the case."
"What's the solution?" Xiao Yao asked, "This town seems to be constantly expanding. How are we supposed to leave now?"
Under the expectant gazes of the other three, Chongming said, "There are very few relevant cases, so it's not very valuable for reference. However, this strain of bacteria isn't as powerful as Bai Ze. Based on the expansion rate you described, the main body of this strain should be here."
Xie Xuan asked: "Weren't you sleeping just now? When did you wake up?"
"Just woke up." Chongming said, "But I can still record external information even when I'm dormant."
He paused and looked at Xie Xuan's feet. "But you, you lost your shadow?"
Xie Xuan nodded awkwardly, "Just now when I was stuck in a loop, I found that my shadow had run under the feet of another me. But after I killed that imposter, my shadow didn't come back either."
Xie Xuan saw Zhongming's thoughtful expression and asked him, "Do you have any ideas?"
Chongming nodded and said calmly, "This is a big trouble."
Xie Xuan:?
"What do you mean?" Xie Xuan asked a little nervously.
"Do you know why the communicator is strictly controlled?" Chongming said, "Because each Bai Ze in the communicator has the potential to develop self-awareness, thus breaking away from the control of the main Bai Ze and becoming a separate strain."
Chongming looked at Xie Xuan and said, "So you'd better find your shadow as soon as possible."
Xie Xuan wanted to too.
But just when Xie Xuan was about to speak, the sky outside suddenly darkened.
In an instant, night suddenly enveloped the entire town.
Xie Xuan looked at the time and it was almost seven o'clock in the evening.
"What should we do now?" Xiao Yao asked.
Song Zhixian was looking out the car window. It was so dark outside that he could hardly see anything. The visibility was even worse than in the mushroom forest.
In this situation, let alone continuing to look for clues, they will probably get lost as soon as they go out.
But at this moment, Xie Xuan and the others heard a strange rustling sound, like the wind blowing through the forest and stirring the leaves.
Xie Xuan said, "Turn on the headlights."
Chongming turned on the headlights of the car, and the front of the car was illuminated for a distance of about five or six meters.
Under the bright white light, the brand new building has an indescribable eerie feeling.
The rustling sound became louder and louder, and soon it reached them.
Under the light, the surrounding buildings looked like they had been repainted. The changes were not big, but they looked different from the original ones, and seemed to become more like a real town.
The wind swept across their RV, and the familiar feeling of sleepiness came over them again.
Xie Xuan had no other way to keep himself awake, so he could only stab the dagger into his leg.
The intense pain did make the sleepiness less irresistible. Xie Xuan turned around and found that Song Zhixian used a similar method as herself.
But Chongming looked much more at ease.
"I've disabled some permissions. It's okay now. Don't fall asleep." Chongming said, looking out the window again, "Someone is coming."
Someone is indeed coming.
Xie Xuan sensed the unique aura of a psychic. She looked at Song Zhixian, who seemed to have sensed the presence outside as well. He said with a somewhat grim expression, "There are fifteen people."
Moreover, they were all wearing identical black protective suits. If you looked closely, you would find that there were only three faces among these fifteen people, namely the three people in Wang Hua's team.
They stood outside the car like copy-pasted clones, looking up and knocking on the car body and doors, "Is anyone inside?"
There were many people speaking, but their tones were so uniform that it sounded like they were all spoken by one person.
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