Life Dungeon Game

At that very moment, the front of the SUV collided with the shadow blocking its path.

Those human-shaped, manipulated 'monsters' were easily smashed into pieces like tofu; their muscles had long since melted away, replaced by dense white mycelium.

Upon seeing this, Aini's gaze froze.

She should have found the scene horrifying and disgusting, but the first thought that arose deep in her mind was 'delicious'.

Those mushrooms that fell off people and were smashed into pieces must be incredibly 'delicious'.

I'm so hungry, I really want to try it.

He saw his daughter's blank expression in the rearview mirror. Shouting was no longer effective. He didn't slow down, and the speeding car ran over the mushrooms.

Dense white mushrooms began to appear on both sides of the road.

This seems to be a field of mushrooms, an endless expanse of pure white mushrooms.

It stretches to the horizon, where the dark clouds meet the earth.

The smooth mushroom caps, glistening with raindrops, reflected alluring colors in the dim light.

As more and more mushrooms appeared around him, He Ao's desire grew stronger and stronger, as if another force was controlling his body, urging him to step on the brakes, stop, and enjoy this perfect delicacy.

Pure white sap splattered onto the rain-soaked wheels.

Annie, who was behind him, climbed up from the back seat, trying to take control of the car, but he pushed her back down.

The two of them continued to repeat their actions.

At the same time, one shadow after another was knocked away by him.

The white mushrooms on the road are becoming fewer and fewer.

Until the dim sky completely darkened and the whole world fell silent,

There wasn't a single white mushroom left on the road.

He Ao finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Looking back, Annie, exhausted and no longer tempted, was fast asleep in the back seat.

He turned on the headlights, slowed down, and continued driving slowly.

The rain is gradually subsiding.

The wilderness at night is extremely dangerous; you never know where a strange beast might suddenly leap out.

Unlike those 'people' controlled by mycelium, powerful alien beasts have some solid parts in their bodies. If you crash into one at high speed, there is a high probability that neither the person nor the vehicle will be saved.

Furthermore, visibility is very short at night, so you have to slow down.

The air was still filled with that strange, peculiar fragrance—the sap from the white mushrooms that had splashed onto the SUV—but it gradually dissipated as the rain washed it away.

He knew very well what they had just encountered.

Ghost mushroom.

This is a mushroom-like thing that can lure animals to eat it, and then take root and sprout in their bodies, growing wildly on their flesh and blood.

After being consumed by a host, it drives the host to find the host's population and lures more life forms to become its 'bacterial substrate'.

If the host dies on its way back to the colony, it will use mycelium to control the host's body to continue moving forward until the host's body collapses and a new ghost mushroom falls to the ground.

Or it may reach the host's population cluster, attracting more life forms to eat the ghost mushrooms on the host.

According to Ronald's recollection, once infected with the Ghost Mushroom, there was almost no cure.

Only a raging, continuously burning flame can completely incinerate the mycelium of the ghost mushroom.

The last time He heard about Ghost Mushroom was during Ronald's dungeon.

At that time, he rescued a boy outside the Wilderness Wanderer Factory. The boy told Heo that he had seen a vast expanse of dense 'Ghost Mushroom Fields' outside Dawn City, and that the boy's parents had also died from Ghost Mushroom infection.

Thinking about this, He Ao realized that with such a huge swarm of ghost mushrooms in the area they had just passed through, even if He Ao's gang convoy hadn't encountered those wilderness wanderers, they would probably have been wiped out.

Thinking about it this way, it's also possible that those wilderness wanderers discovered the ghost mushrooms here, so they chose to strike first and steal the convoy's belongings.

After all, once the convoy entered the area covered by the Ghost Mushroom, even if everyone died, the Wilderness Wanderer wouldn't dare to go in and take those things.

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Wilderness wanderers all know one rule: 'Stay as far away from dangerous things as possible.'

This is one of the rules that allows wilderness wanderers to survive in the wilderness.

However, judging from the fact that the convoy chose to take this route, it should have been safe before, at least when the convoy last took this route.

The time between two such convoy trips is generally no more than one month.

In other words, at least a month ago, there were no ghost mushrooms in the area they had just passed through, and this timeframe might actually be even shorter.

By that calculation, the growth rate of the Ghost Mushroom is too fast.

Ronald's knowledge of the ghost mushroom was limited to the information his father had collected and the accounts of a few wilderness wanderers who had entered their camp.

There is very little knowledge about ghost mushrooms in the entire wilderness.

Because once people see this thing, most of them are lured by it, and an entire wilderness wanderer camp or family is wiped out overnight.

In this situation, simply surviving and escaping is the limit, let alone conducting research.

However, even something like the Ghost Mushroom cannot appear out of thin air.

Since there were no Ghost Mushrooms in that area before, someone must have brought them there.

For some reason, He Ao remembered what the boy had said about the vast 'Ghost Mushroom Plains' he had seen outside Dawn City.

Where does it originate?

Then he shook his head.

Limen City is located north of Chenxi City, several hundred kilometers away.

The boy walked straight ahead and eventually arrived at the south gate of Dawn City, which means that the Ghost Mushroom Field is located in the southern part of Dawn City.

Meanwhile, the convoy that He was with was heading north to the city of Irons.

One in the south and one in the north, the distance is even greater.

Ghost mushrooms are generally spread solely through the actions of animals.

Of course, this situation is not impossible. For example, you might encounter a particularly fast beast that runs for a long time and travels directly from Dawn City to Inner Gate City.

It's also possible that there were already ghost mushrooms in the vicinity, and these ghost mushrooms came from nearby.

However, there is another possibility.

What if someone could carry the Ghost Mushroom's spores and move around?

A word popped into He Ao's mind.

'sowing'

He then banished the word from his mind; the possibility was still too slim.

However, he remained wary of the ghost mushroom.

Given the characteristics of the Ghost Mushroom, if it appears in a densely populated fortress city, the consequences will be almost devastating.

Moreover, He Aogang personally fought against the Ghost Mushroom and discovered some information he had never known before.

The allure of Ghost Mushrooms is cumulative; the more of them you have, the stronger the allure.

The 'corpses' controlled by the ghost mushrooms also exhibit a certain tendency to move in unison, rather than being chaotic instinctive movements.

In other words, these 'corpses' were under certain 'command'.

This command couldn't possibly come from those dead corpses; it most likely came from the Ghost Mushroom.

Ghost mushrooms are very likely to possess some kind of 'intelligence'.

It's unclear whether this "wisdom" is genuine wisdom or simply a more advanced hunting instinct.

For Heo, these ghost mushrooms are a potential danger.

There are hardly any roads in the wilderness. If Heo goes back and takes this road again, he will definitely encounter these ghost mushrooms again.

He Ao shook his head, temporarily clearing these thoughts from his mind.

He glanced at his sleeping daughter in the back seat through the rearview mirror.

These ghost mushrooms might need to be dealt with, but his priority right now is to find a place where he can communicate and provide supplies.

The place he had just passed, which had been devoured by the Ghost Mushrooms as nutrients for growth, should be the wilderness wanderer camp nearby.

Normally, the same area cannot support two wilderness nomad camps.

I don't know where the next wilderness camp will be.

If all else fails, we'll have to try to find a family of wandering nomads in the wilderness.

Just then, He Ao's gaze sharpened slightly as he looked ahead.

In the depths of the night, the headlights of two cars slowly appeared.

Chapter 437 The Goal (Long Chapter, Requesting Monthly Tickets)

An SUV was driving towards us from the opposite direction.

He Ao gradually slowed down the car.

At this moment, the other party also noticed He Ao and slowed down their car.

He picked up his binoculars and took a look. The other side was too far away to see clearly what was inside the car, but he vaguely felt that the car looked familiar.

Just then, he suddenly realized something. He stepped on the brake, but not all the way down, and then took a bottle of purified water from the storage box and placed it on the brake.

He then suddenly turned sideways and squeezed into the back seat through the gap between the driver and passenger seats, pulling Annie, who was fast asleep against the back seat cushion, down and placing her against the back of the passenger seat cushion.

"Ah, Dad, what's wrong?"

Annie woke up with a start.

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