"Is it someone from the Ecological Bureau's Shelter Department?" Xie Xuan asked.
"They should be." Xiao Yao nodded. "It's about time they showed up. Otherwise, they might as well change their name to Logistics Department and come collect our bodies."
Xiao Yao said sarcastically, but it still wasn't enough. "I thought they were hiding under the 'umbrella' and had forgotten how to find the entrance to the domain."
Xie Xuan laughed, "Then we just need to find a safe place and wait for them to deal with the parasite, right?"
Xiao Yao pondered for a moment, "They should have just entered the area not long ago. I will go and share some information with them, otherwise they will probably waste a lot of time again."
Xie Xuan and Xiao Yao are high-level psychics who can resist the infection of increasingly high spore concentrations to a large extent, but ordinary people who are implicated cannot do so.
Xie Xuan said without hesitation: "I'll go with you. There used to be a giant tree here that could continuously create bubbles for ventilation, but now the tree has been cut down by me. You will drown soon after leaving the cage."
Xiao Yao raised his eyebrows slightly, "Do you have a way to control the movement of this thing?"
Xie Xuan nodded and released his mental power to attach to the transparent cage.
I don’t know if it’s because the transparent cage itself is Xie Xuan’s own ability, but Xie Xuan can control the cage with ease, and even consumes very little mental energy.
Deep under the water, a cage was moving in an unreasonable and rapid manner in one direction.
A few minutes later, Xie Xuan finally controlled the cage to the vicinity of the black shadow, but after arriving at the place, their hearts suddenly sank.
It was true that the black shadows they saw were from the Ecological Bureau's Containment Department, but these two people had completely lost their vital signs.
The helmet also had a two-way visibility function, revealing a pale, sunken face underneath the helmet, as if it had been sucked dry by a vampire. There was also an umbilical cord connected to their navels, but unlike the umbilical cord that Xie Xuan had seen at the beginning, which was like a "丫" and connected to three places, this one only connected to two places.
One was a deceased member of the containment team, and the other...
"Bang!" The transparent cage was suddenly hit violently. Xie Xuan staggered and subconsciously used the control technique to stabilize the cage. When he raised his head again, he saw a fish head in front of him.
This fishman was about two meters tall, with hands exactly like those of a human pressed against the wall of the transparent shelter. Xie Xuan saw the gills on both sides of the fish's head rising and falling slightly. Under Xie Xuan's gaze, the fishman turned his head to the side, and his round black eyeballs were pressed against the wall, looking at Xie Xuan, constantly moving up and down and left and right.
Xie Xuan got goosebumps.
The discomfort caused by the two-meter-tall fishman in front of her was much stronger than that caused by the ten-meter-tall fishman, especially the pair of hands that looked exactly like a human's and were stuck to the wall.
This made Xie Xuan feel a sense of separation and confusion between his own race and those of other races. If it was a ten-meter-tall fishman, Xie Xuan would have undoubtedly believed that it was an alien race.
But the fishman in front of him was making such vivid expressions with his fish head, just like a living person.
"Xie Xuan!" Xiao Yao said in a low voice.
Xie Xuan suddenly came back to her senses. She didn't know when, but her spirit value on the system panel had dropped from 89 before the fishman appeared to 83.
She was almost infected by the spirit, just because of a glance with the fish man.
"The people in the shelter department are in trouble." Xie Xuan turned his head and stopped looking at the merman. At present, it seems that this cage can still withstand the attacks of the newborn merman.
Xiao Yao's face darkened slightly. "This place is more troublesome than I thought. We may not be able to sit and wait for the containment department here to deal with the parasites."
Xie Xuan had a sense of anticipation. "After all, we both have trouble-making tendencies. Otherwise, we wouldn't be in the middle of a performance and then be attacked by a suicide bomber."
Xiao Yao was still in a good mood to laugh under such circumstances, "If there's a chance, I'll take you to see a real luminous elf performance again."
"Forget it." Xie Xuan waved her hands quickly. "I don't think there will be a more exciting performance of luminous elves than this one."
But Xiao Yao seemed to have suddenly thought of something and asked Xie Xuan seriously, "Have you seen even a single mycelium since you came in?"
Xie Xuan began to recall carefully, from the beginning when she was thrown into the water as bait, to encountering the giant tree and the hatching mermen, to entering the kitchen and seeing the dissected merman waiter, and finally to meeting Xiao Yao and the shattering of the glass.
There is not a single hyphae from beginning to end.
This also means that "we haven't really entered the heart of the parasite hiding place."
Xiao Yao paused for a moment, then continued, "The heart of the parasite, where the fungus resides, is definitely not completely devoid of fungus mycelium. Infected objects can behave exactly like normal things, but fungus cannot. It's the only thing that can't be disguised."
In the time it took to say just a few words, the transparent cage was already surrounded by fishmen over two meters tall. They were stacked in layers around the two-meter square cage, their round black eyes glued to the wall, staring at Xie Xuan and Xiao Yao inside.
Judging from the number, Xie Xuan cut down the giant tree but still failed to save the other people trapped in the bubble.
"Where are we going now?" Xie Xuan kept her gaze fixed on Xiao Yao opposite her.
Xiao Yao was the same. He looked at Xie Xuan and said, "Up there is the breeding room where you first entered. There are two fishmen acting as Zhang Zheping's adoptive parents. Down there is the kitchen and dining room, where Zhang Zheping himself and the diners who eat him live."
If Zhang Zheping was the parasite, and if she was Zhang Zheping, Xie Xuan's mind was working rapidly.
She had built a field that constantly repeated the most painful experience of her life. Where would she put the core that supported this field?
She would put it at the source of all this tragedy.
Just as Zhang Zheping himself said, he put an end to all of this at the beginning of everything on the same snowy night in winter.
"Up." Xie Xuan and Xiao Yao said in unison.
Xie Xuan immediately controlled the cage and started to move upwards, but this time because the cage was full of fishmen, moving forward became extremely difficult and slow.
Xiao Yao pressed his hands against the wall. "Is this cage heat-resistant?"
Xie Xuan was stunned for a moment, "Why don't you try it?"
Xiao Yao may not know the popular saying in the era before Xie Xuan traveled through time, "Try it and you will die." He directly activated his supernatural power, and the orange-red flames burned out of thin air in the water against common sense.
However, the price of setting fire underwater, which goes against common sense, is the exponential consumption of supernatural powers. After Xiao Yao barely set a circle of torches and drove away all the fishmen hanging on the cages, he was so tired that he began to sweat.
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