"The current spore concentration detected is 70%. If it continues to rise to 80%, the air filter of the protective suit will become ineffective."
Bai Ze was still broadcasting diligently, but no one could hear him.
This is a room without any light. It is very narrow, only about ten square meters, but it is very high. There is no ceiling and it extends upwards as if there is no end.
In the middle of the room, lay a young woman in black protective clothing. Her brows were furrowed, her face was pale, and she looked quite painful.
Under the helmet, one could see glowing blue mycelium slowly spreading across her body.
If Xie Xuan was still conscious, she would see that her mental level had dropped to 50, and her health had also dropped below 80.
But Xie Xuan is still experiencing the cycle of killing and being killed in the illusion. The hopeless cycle is bringing her spirit to the brink of collapse.
In the darkness, countless grayish-white moths were flying down from the top and landing on Xie Xuan's body. After laying grayish-white eggs on Xie Xuan's body, they strangely melted into grayish-white mycelium covering the eggs.
As time goes by, the eggs begin to hatch and become a second, larger group of moths, which go on to lay a second batch of eggs that then melt into mycelium.
More and more moths were filling the small room.
Next to this room, there are two rooms exactly the same as this one.
Zhuo Guangyu was the first to enter this place, but he and Wen Xu woke up at about the same time.
"Huh..." When Zhuo Guangyu woke up, he felt as if his body was covered with a thick layer of something.
It was pitch black all around him. He tried to sit up, and the room was immediately filled with dense sounds like the flapping of moth wings.
Zhuo Guangyu is now very weak. The countless deaths in the illusion have made him very confused. Only after he was injected with a sedative did he feel that he could feel his body again.
He raised his hand and turned on the light on his helmet. The moment the light turned on, Zhuo Guangyu thought he saw a gray-white vortex rushing towards him. Then, countless moths rushing towards the light crowded in front of his helmet, so that he could only see the gray-white wings and black eyes squeezed together.
Zhuo Guangyu immediately turned off the lights, "Wen Xu, Xie Xuan, are you all right?"
After waiting for a while, Zhuo Guangyu heard Wen Xu's weak voice, "I'm fine."
Zhuo Guangyu was thinking, "What's going on over there? I'm locked up in a small room with no light and moths everywhere."
"I'm almost there," Wen Xu said, "but I saw mycelium on my body. We must be very close to the parasite."
"Break the wall directly?" Zhuo Guangyu asked a little uncertainly. After the last time the floor was blown up, he now had a psychological trauma about this violent demolition method.
Wen Xu was obviously a little hesitant, "Xie Xuan hasn't woken up yet."
Zhuo Guangyu was silent for a few seconds. "She may not wake up, but if we act quickly, we may be able to eliminate this area before she is fully infected."
That being said, they don’t even know how to get out of this predicament.
"The top is empty," Wen Xu said suddenly. "The moth must have come down from the top, so the top must be the exit."
Zhuo Guangyu touched the wall, but before he touched the wall, he caught a handful of moths.
He tried to forcibly create a gap in the wall so that he could climb up, but the wall recovered very quickly, and it regenerated almost as soon as he destroyed it.
"But how do we get up there?" Zhuo Guangyu was a little puzzled.
While Zhuo Guangyu and Wen Xu were already searching for the location of the parasite, Xie Xuan was still fighting an unknown enemy in the illusion.
She had no idea how many times she had killed and been killed. This time, she took the most extreme approach. From the moment she woke up in the hospital, she killed everyone she saw.
The pure white interior of the Ecological Bureau had been dyed red. The hospital gown on Xie Xuan had turned different shades of red. The clothes, which were constantly covered with new bloodstains, began to drip blood.
Xie Xuan was tired. She had just woken up, but her spirit was exhausted as if she hadn't slept in a week.
Her head ached so much that it felt like someone was stirring a knife inside it, and the whole world was shaking.
The severe headache made the world she saw covered with a layer of white light, and her ears were ringing. The "buzzing" sound became louder and louder, making her so irritated that she wanted to dig her brain out.
Xie Xuan could no longer smell the strong and pungent smell of blood, but she still felt nauseous and wanted to vomit. She staggered to the door of the Ecological Bureau, holding on to the wall as if she was drunk.
Outside the door stood two haunting figures.
"Xie Xuan, where are you going?" Wen Xu asked with a smile.
Zhuo Guangyu next to her didn't say anything, but just looked at her with a pair of gray eyes.
Xie Xuan didn't know how many times she had been killed by "Zhuo Guangyu" and "Wen Xu" here. Once, she managed to kill both of them by chance, but when they died, Xie Xuan suddenly felt a sharp pain in her heart and began another cycle of reincarnation.
She couldn't get out. This thought lingered in Xie Xuan's mind. She tried all the methods, but she just couldn't leave.
Xie Xuan felt that she might die here.
Maybe it's good to die like this, without having to worry about the continuous amnesia left by the original owner. Anyway, she doesn't have any good friends or relatives, so no one will be sad for her death.
She is really tired.
Xie Xuan lowered his head and saw the dagger in his bloody hand.
Perhaps because she was really about to die, Xie Xuan actually started to think about some irrelevant questions, such as where did the system get this dagger and send it to her?
Xie Xuan received so many mission rewards from the system, but none of them was more useful than this dagger given as a benefit to novices.
There is also this ability on the system panel that still shows as unactivated. We can't wait until she dies to activate it.
In a flash, Xie Xuan suddenly thought of something.
The inactivated state might be similar to the dormant state of the symbiotic spores in her body, due to a lack of energy to wake them up.
The law of survival among spores is the law of the jungle, just like symbiotic spores obtain energy by devouring their own kind. What if she feeds some other strains of bacteria to the strains that have not yet been activated in her body?
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