Chapter 21 Chapter 21 Dancing Mushrooms
She was not mentally normal, and everyone present could see it. Her eyes were vacant, her hands and feet were waving uncontrollably, and her head was nodding back and forth like a chicken pecking at rice. She seemed to be in a hallucination and was very resistant to others approaching her.
To prevent her from getting hurt, Manuel held her down while the others formed a fan around her.
The compartment doors were pushed open one by one, and Ares found the culprit at the innermost side, a poisonous mushroom as thick as a wrist. It was huddled against the wall, motionless. Its cap was as translucent as white jade, mixed with pink, and the mycelium at the bottom was gathered into a ball.
I suspect she was influenced by this thing. She took off her shirt, exposing her arms, wrapped her hands around it, grabbed its roots, and hung it upside down. Now it behaves like a dead object.
He was jumping half a meter away just now, but now he is pretending to be dead. It's too late.
The black lion lying on the left shoulder walked along the shoulder to the right, along the shoulder blade, raised its foot and jumped, pouncing on the back of the hand. Seeing that it was about to hurt the suspect, Ares grabbed its neck and said, "Don't mess around." With the other hand, he held its neck, and both of them were suspended in the air.
The black lion's limbs continued to stretch out, as if trying to scratch another mushroom. It was so aggressive, what had happened to it today? Ares held it down while preparing to hand over the evidence; it wasn't safe to keep it with him.
His eyes darted around, passing Song Xiaoyu, and handed the wrapped fungus to the bee brothers. When he let go, his spirit body screamed again and tried to break free reluctantly. It was only obedient after being beaten twice.
Shan Hao first observed the vital signs and found nothing unusual. The woman was still talking nonsense, "Captain, save me, there is a monster..." He wanted to reach out to pick her up, but the other party held on to Manuel tightly, as if he were a life-saving straw. When he touched her, she kept struggling and even tore off the mask, revealing the bloody mucous membrane, but no one cared. All eyes were focused on the woman in his arms.
"Take her out first, then search this place."
The scar that had been covered for a long time felt a little cold when it came into contact with the air. Manuel didn't have time to care about other people's eyes. He clamped his upper body with one arm, tightened his arms, and grabbed his knees with the other hand, holding them tightly, allowing the other person to chrysalis in his arms like a silkworm.
The air combat team led them to the medical room.
It is impossible for pollutants to suddenly appear in the White Pagoda. People entering and leaving need to be checked, and disinfected every week, unless someone brings them in privately.
Although it can cause hallucinations, it does not seem to have a bloodthirsty nature and has lacked aggressiveness since it was discovered. So far, no one except Xu Shanshan has been affected by it and become alienated.
It looked more like someone's spirit than a contaminant. He found a detector and the indicator light showed green. Then he shone it on the black mist over Ares's shoulder, which was orange-red. He asked several people to check it, and they found some darker and some lighter colors. There was nothing wrong with the instrument.
Then this can only be the guide's spirit body, the sentinel's wouldn't be so low.
Shan Hao asked someone to check the corridor surveillance. Only a few people entered and exited the bathroom tonight. After questioning, they said that none of them had seen the mushroom and no other guide had been there.
The result was obvious. She had summoned her spirit body. Last night's drowsiness was a precursor to awakening. Now, she must have been injured by mistake. Considering that she had not met her spirit body for so many years, it was normal for her to mistake it for a monster.
With that conclusion, everyone in the room fell silent. This was the first time anyone had been frightened by their own spirit. It felt as if all the firepower had been directed at their own people. Lawrence was also stunned for a moment, looking at the spirit in his hand. His grip had loosened. The guide's spirit? He'd grabbed it a little too hard.
Xie Yifei brought a metal cage and said, "We don't know its ability yet, it may have some hallucinogenic properties. Put it in first and wait until she wakes up." Lawrence nodded, uncovered the cloth, put it in, and locked the cage door.
The woman was carried flat on her back onto a restraint bed, with straps around her neck, hands, waist, and ankles, and a rubber ball stuffed into her mouth with a bit placed on her tongue. This was originally used to handcuff alienated sentries, but today it has another purpose.
Her confusion lasted less than two minutes, her body stopped shaking, her eyes stopped rolling around, and she gradually regained clarity.
The mushroom was locked in an alloy cover. The movements inside could be seen clearly through the surveillance and viewing window. Seeing that there was no one around, it began to pull out its own mycelium, gradually crawling all over the inside. Once someone approached, it would pretend to be dead.
Why does this temper feel a bit like...
Her eyelids trembled slightly, and she was about to wake up. The first person she saw when she woke up was her superior, and the others also came over. She usually thought he was fierce, but now she felt he was reliable. Tears fell, and she could only whimper and "Mmm."
Hearing her cry, everyone rushed over and formed a circle, with worry on every face. Manuel's heart trembled, and he tilted his head to the side. Knowing that she was fine, he put on his mask again and found an empty seat to watch.
She struggled with her fingers, but couldn't lift her wrists, so she could only tilt her head to signal. Her eyes regained their spirit and focus, and she seemed to be awake again. A hand removed the object from her mouth, and she was finally able to open her mouth. "Sir, there's a monster trying to eat me!"
Tears were falling from her eyes. It was so terrifying. There were so many "ghosts" surrounding her, looking sinister and wanting to pierce her with halberds and roast her.
"Is this the monster you're talking about?"
A metal cage was brought over. Looking through the viewing window, I saw the mushroom inside. My eyes widened and I recoiled in fear. "Yes, that's it! It can jump!"
If her hands weren't cuffed, she would have wanted to hide behind him. A brightly colored mushroom that could jump—wasn't that weird? Mushrooms are fungi, not animals. They can't move. That guy, twisting the umbrella handle and jumping high, couldn't be a proper fungus at first glance.
Seeing her looking at her, the mycelium grew and even drilled into the metal, with spikes popping out. With such amazing penetrating power, Xie Yifei lifted it away, took out a higher-level isolation cover, locked it in, and turned up the temperature according to the habits of the species. Sure enough, it stopped moving listlessly after a while.
Shan Hao: "How did it appear?"
Seeing that she was getting better, Xia Guangli took the initiative to untie the straps. Her upper body gradually became free, followed by her lower body. She was finally able to sit up. A cup of warm water was handed to her, and Xia Guangli stood between her and the metal cover.
With sweat on her forehead, she began to recall the experience. After she finished her story, everyone fell silent. She looked around and said in surprise, "You don't believe it, do you? It's true!"
Seeing someone turning their head silently, their body trembling, and making a suppressed throat sound, as if they were talking nonsense, she could not hold it in any longer. "They hung me up and wanted to roast me with fire,"
Xie Yifei: "I believe you."
"Captain is still the best."
Oh, that's it? Ares pursed his lips, not saying anything.
"You're hallucinating. I'm by your side. No one can use you as a barbecue." Shan Hao looked at the isolation shield and subtly guided him, "Its pollution level is very low. It's probably not a pollutant, but a spiritual body."
"That's too bad! Who wants to scare me with a spirit?!"
She must be irreconcilable with him. These days in the White Tower, she has been working diligently, treading carefully at work and in her friendships, not provoking anyone. Why would he come to harm her for no reason? She couldn't swallow this anger. The thought of that horrific scene would probably leave a psychological trauma.
She frowned and looked angrily at every sentry present. They just puffed up their cheeks as if they were trying to suppress their laughter, which made her even angrier. She bit her lower lip with her pearly teeth. Could it be that they were ganging up on her? She pouted her mouth, feeling a little sad. She still considered them her friends.
Seeing that she couldn't figure it out and had misunderstandings, Shan Hao directly pointed it out, "That's your spirit body."
"I?"
"Yes, look," he counted them one by one, "People in the air combat team, can fungi fly?" He pointed at himself, "Spider," and looked at Manuel, "Gray Wolf, Ares is a lion, there is no one else here."
But... fungi can't jump, they can hop around, or maybe fly.
Unable to accept this reality for a moment, Xia Guangli turned around, took the isolation cover, and brought it to her. Through the surveillance, she saw the pink mushrooms inside. They were short, plump and beautiful, with very long mycelium. They looked delicious, but she couldn't imagine their combat power.
The dream of being a free-flying bird was fading away from her. A rabbit would be fine, or even a blade of grass?
After understanding the relationship between the two, she was not so scared anymore. She put her palm on the metal surface and saw that the guy inside was also growing mycelium towards this side. The strange thing was that it seemed to be only this long. When one became longer, the other became shorter.
Forget it, I've already traveled through time, so why bother talking about physics?
"Little guy, what use are you?" As soon as she said this, she felt that she was a little too utilitarian. It was just a newborn baby.
She looked at Xia Guangli and asked, "Can you open it?"
Worried about losing control, Xia Guangli held the isolation shield away and put on gloves. "Don't rush to touch it. It can't control its abilities well yet."
"Okay," the cover folded up, its tentacles were ready to move, wanting to jump out and get closer to its owner, but it was afraid of being attacked by this group of people. The "cat" just now was scary enough.
Always prepared, seeing that it was relatively well behaved, the others breathed a sigh of relief.
"Hi," she greeted with a slight nod, "Can you hear me?"
It made a circle because the mycelium cannot break, like a crooked Arabic numeral nine, which means yes. This is too weird. You don't even have ears, so why can you hear?
"Can you see it?"
It's still a circle. Wow, the mouth opens to both sides. My superpower bacteria, "Do you know me?"
It made a heart shape with its hands. Oh my goodness, it really was her spirit form. They were two sides of the same coin. She couldn't help but complain, "Why are you trying to scare me?"
It began to form wavy lines, seemingly unsure of how to express itself, and finally drew an X. Because his own spirit form often got into trouble, Ares couldn't help but defend it. "It probably couldn't control itself and didn't mean to do it," the mycelium agreed.
Forget it, there's no need to make things difficult for yourself. Everyone makes mistakes.
"Not next time." It made another circle.
"Okay, then come here."
Then everyone saw a jumping mushroom leap from the air to the fence of the restraint bed, then jumped onto her legs, poked it with their hands, only to see the other party curl herself up into a ball again.
Weird, so weird. She felt a little lost, but it was always familiar. She brainwashed herself into thinking that mushrooms actually moved, and it was no big deal. Fungi were nature's decomposers. Without us fungi, how could the carbon cycle flow normally? I was amazing, I was proud.
Think like this and gradually accept it.
The woman watched for a while, and instead of showing the resistance that everyone was worried about, she started playing with it. However, the other party shyly avoided her and only allowed her to touch the fungus's whiskers, but not the fruiting body above.
"Okay, let me give you a name."
The pink of its umbrella cap was flowing, and it was obviously looking forward to it. "How is Xiaobai?"
Unexpectedly receiving such a perfunctory name, it angrily drew a cross to express its dissatisfaction.
"If you don't like it, how about the pink one?" She teased it on purpose as a small revenge.
"Xu Shanshan," she raised her head and the commander said, "Try to take it back." It seemed that he was worried that she would have the same mental problem as Ares.
"Can you go back?" She didn't know how to do it, so when she asked, the other party suddenly disappeared. So she spread out her hands and looked at everyone.
"I'm sorry, everyone, for making you worry."
A farce came to an end. The tension and excitement of this night made everyone's heart go up and down like a roller coaster. After resolving this crisis, Lian Xiong Jing's heart was gone, and only gratitude and fear remained.
There was no further attempt to stay or persuade her to stay, and the subsequent performances were cancelled. A group of people sent her back to the dormitory, and more people kept joining until the elevator issued a warning. She had no choice but to get off and watch them leave.
"I'll ask for leave for you tomorrow, so you can have a good rest in the dormitory."
"Tomorrow is my first day at work?" She looked at her superior and asked doubtfully. He stared at her gloomily until she lowered her head and retracted her question.
"Stay in the dormitory and have a good rest." There is no room for negotiation, and no more unexpected situations are allowed to happen.
"Yes, sir!"
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