The world enters the fungal world

As night falls, the Century Garden Hotel shines like a dazzling pearl in the city.

At this moment, a lively wedding banquet is underway in the banquet hall on the third floor of the hotel.

The hall was brightly lit and the atmosphere was lively. Li Yu's face was slightly flushed, and he was clearly drunk as the alcohol took effect.

Today is Fang Mingxuan's wedding day.

As Fang Mingxuan's best friend, Li Yu drank quite a bit of alcohol to shield Fang Mingxuan from drinking.

The two were classmates at Jiangcheng University, lived in the same dormitory, and were so close they were practically inseparable. Now, only a year after graduation, Fang Mingxuan is one of the first in their class to get married, and quite a few classmates have come to attend Fang Mingxuan's wedding today.

The bride, Wang Xiaoyue, was also an acquaintance of Li Yu. They were in the same year but different departments. She and Fang Mingxuan had been together since they were in college, and now they had finally tied the knot.

Li Yu knew that Wang Xiaoyue was already more than three months pregnant. They were getting married because of the pregnancy, and they had no choice but to get married. Otherwise, once Wang Xiaoyue's pregnant belly became visible, her clothes wouldn't be able to hide it anymore.

More than a dozen college classmates came today, sitting at two tables. Those who could drink all sat at one table. Of the more than thirty tables at the wedding banquet, their table was the most lively.

After graduation, everyone went their separate ways, and the opportunities to meet became fewer and fewer. Many of us hadn't seen each other for over a year. We were especially happy to see each other today, and several of us were already drunk.

Sitting opposite Li Yu was a beautiful girl with bright eyes and white teeth, about the same age as him. Her cheeks were slightly flushed from drinking, making her even more radiant and charming. She stood up, holding a glass of baijiu.

"Li Yu, I salute you."

Her name is Lin Muying, and she was also Li Yu's college classmate. When they were in school, Li Yu and she got along well and had some ambiguous interactions, such as holding hands and putting their arms around each other's shoulders, but they never managed to break through the barrier and become boyfriend and girlfriend.

After graduation, Lin Muying left Jiangcheng and returned to her hometown to develop her career, and the two never saw each other again.

At first, the two often chatted on their phones, but their contact gradually decreased, and they haven't been in touch for a long time now. Today, Fang Mingxuan got married, and Lin Muying came to Jiangcheng, so the two met again.

After not seeing her for over a year, Li Yu felt that Lin Muying had changed a lot. She was much more mature than when she was in school. Her youthful naiveté had faded, and she had gained a more mature and charming womanly allure.

When Li Yu saw her stand up to toast him, he also picked up his wine glass and stood up.

After Lin Muying finished speaking, she picked up a glass of baijiu and drank it down in one gulp.

Li Yu had already drunk quite a bit, and he had intended to suggest that the two of them have a casual drink, but he didn't expect Lin Muying to finish a whole glass of baijiu.

After finishing her drink, Lin Muying stood there looking at him with an indescribable expression in her eyes.

The group of classmates at the same table watched Lin Muying down a glass of baijiu in one gulp. They all knew a little about the ambiguous relationship between Li Yu and Lin Muying in college.

"Li Yu, you're still the most charming. Lin Muying only had a few sips of wine with me just now."

"Lin Muying downed her drink, Li Yu, you can't back down."

"Cheers! Cheers!"

Everyone was making a fuss. Li Yu looked at Lin Muying standing opposite him and found himself in a dilemma. He could only grit his teeth and gulp down the white wine in his glass.

Everyone cheered, and several students clapped their hands. The enthusiastic atmosphere attracted the attention of other guests at several other tables around them.

After that one drink, Li Yu knew he was going to get drunk tonight. As the wine went down his throat, his stomach churned.

He waved his hand and said, "I'm going to the restroom." With his last bit of consciousness, he forced himself out of the banquet hall and went to the hotel restroom, where he vomited profusely.

Fortunately, he vomited up most of the alcohol he had drunk, and he became more sober. He carefully washed his face with water at the sink and looked at himself in the mirror, wiping the water droplets off his face.

As he stepped out of the restroom, two young women stood outside, seemingly waiting for him.

One of them was Lin Muying, and the other was also familiar to Li Yu. Her name was Qian Lili, and she was one of the dozen or so old classmates who came to attend Fang Mingxuan's wedding.

Upon seeing Li Yu, Lin Muying's face showed concern.

"How are you?" She regretted for forcing Li Yu to drink that glass of wine. As she spoke, she handed Li Yu the tissue she was holding.

Qian Lili was holding Lin Muying's arm, glancing at Li Yu, then at Lin Muying, her eyes filled with a mischievous glint.

Li Yu took the tissue and wiped the water droplets from his face that were still wet from washing his face. Just as he was about to speak, he suddenly heard a loud "boom".

The incident was so sudden that all three of them were startled. Qian Lili was so frightened that she screamed "Ah!" and instinctively grabbed Lin Muying's arm.

The loud noise came from the banquet hall in front of us; it was as loud as thunder.

Li Yu's first thought was that something had happened in the banquet hall. Without bothering to talk to the two women anymore, he rushed towards the banquet hall in front of him.

Lin Muying was much calmer than Qian Lili, and turned around to follow closely behind.

Qian Lili clutched her chest, her face turning pale.

The golden doors of the banquet hall were tightly closed. They had only heard a loud noise, but could not see what was happening inside or hear any voices. When Li Yu pushed open the tightly closed golden doors in front of him, he was suddenly stunned.

The once lively and bright banquet hall became deathly silent. The more than thirty tables of food and drinks in the hall, along with the two or three hundred people attending the wedding banquet, had all disappeared, and the floor of the entire banquet hall had become a giant crater.

This pit has no bottom; it's like a bottomless abyss.

It looked as if the thirty-odd tables of food and people had collapsed into the bottomless abyss below along with the hall floor.

Above the hall, a huge hole with a diameter of over three meters appeared, running from the third floor to the roof. Looking up, one could see the night sky through the hole.

The three women, Li Yu, Lin Muying, and Qian Lili, lost all color in their faces. Qian Lili couldn't help but scream and stagger backward.

Li Yu thought of the thunderous sound he had just heard, and looking at the scene in the hall, he wondered if something had hit the building and caused the entire banquet hall to collapse. Coincidentally, the two or three hundred people who had just attended the wedding banquet, along with all the food and drinks, had fallen down.

Lin Muying realized what was happening and, while following Qian Lili back, immediately thought of calling the police to help.

Li Yu also turned around immediately.

"Quick! Get out of here first!" Li Yu grabbed Lin Muying. Thinking that the building had been pierced and even the banquet hall had collapsed, the entire building was in danger and could collapse at any time. The most important thing now was to escape the building and then find a way to rescue people.

Lin Muying's hand was grabbed by Li Yu, and she realized that the most important thing now was to escape from here.

Li Yu had just pulled Lin Muying a couple of steps toward the elevator when he suddenly realized something strange.

Tonight, Fang Mingxuan and Wang Xiaoyue weren't the only couple holding a wedding at the Century Garden Hotel; there were several couples. It's safe to say that the Century Garden Hotel was bustling with activity tonight. With the hotel staff also involved, such a loud noise must have alerted many people, who would have rushed over to check on the situation.

As a result, in this spacious lobby, apart from the three of them, there was no one else in sight.

This phenomenon is highly abnormal.

Rushing to the elevator, Li Yu found it stopped; the buttons were unresponsive, and she didn't know if there was a power outage or a malfunction.

"Take the stairs!" Lin Muying immediately reminded Li Yu upon seeing this.

They were on the third floor, and could leave the hotel quickly by going down the stairs.

Li Yu nodded and ran towards the stairs first, with Lin Muying following closely behind.

Qian Lili was completely flustered and followed behind the two men with a panicked expression.

The three of them quickly found the stairs and went down them.

Li Yu was shocked by the sudden and significant change that happened tonight, breaking out in a cold sweat. The effects of the alcohol had mostly dissipated, and he was now completely sober.

"Ouch!" Qian Lili suddenly exclaimed from behind. She must have stepped on something, because her foot slipped and she fell backward down the stairs.

The fall was quite severe; Qian Lili gasped in pain, clutching her buttocks, unable to get up for a long time.

"Lili." Lin Muying rushed forward to help Qian Lili, who had fallen to the ground.

Li Yu turned around and saw a crushed mushroom on the steps.

Someone had left a palm-sized mushroom on the stairs. In her panic, Qian Lili didn't notice and stepped on it. The mushroom was crushed, and she slipped and fell down the stairs.

Li Yu felt it was a bit strange that a mushroom had appeared here, but he didn't think much of it. The most important thing now was to escape from here.

He grabbed Qian Lili's other arm as she fell to the ground, and together with Lin Muying, they helped her up and continued running down the stairs.

The banquet hall where they attended their wedding was on the third floor. Now, the banquet hall on the third floor, along with the two floors below, has collapsed, forming a terrifying, bottomless pit. A huge hole with a diameter of over three meters has also been pierced through the top. The entire structure of the hotel building will be affected, and no one knows when the building will completely collapse.

Every second you stay here increases the risk.

Fortunately, they had already gone down to the second floor, and after going down one more flight of stairs, they arrived at the lobby on the first floor.

With the help of the emergency light next to the stairs, Li Yu discovered a strange phenomenon: on the stairs leading to the first floor, he saw two more palm-sized grayish-white mushrooms.

These mushrooms don't look like they were scattered here by someone; they look like they grew out of the marble steps.

However, this is really strange and completely impossible. How could mushrooms grow out of these marble steps?

Li Yu felt that the things that happened tonight were becoming increasingly bizarre.

Just as Li Yu was about to grab the handrail on one side of the stairs, her heart suddenly skipped a beat. There were many small mushrooms growing on the handrail leading down the stairs.

These mushrooms, barely larger than a fingernail, were huddled together, so densely packed that they almost completely covered the stair railing below.

Li Yu has a mild case of trypophobia. Just one glance made his scalp tingle and the hairs on his body stand on end. He didn't dare to look any longer and immediately raised his head to look ahead.

Go down these stairs and you'll reach the lobby on the first floor.

Li Yu remembers the hotel lobby as magnificent, with crystal chandeliers hanging from the five-story-high ceiling, Italian imported marble flooring, and a giant backdrop wall with gold leaf trim behind the reception desk.

At this moment, the lobby is still the same lobby, and the crystal chandelier is still there, but now the chandelier is covered with a layer of grayish-white fuzzy mycelium, and a large number of thin and dark red filaments hang from the bottom of the chandelier.

The marble countertop at the reception desk was also covered with tiny mushrooms, no bigger than a fingernail, densely packed together. The gold leaf on the background wall had peeled off, revealing the blackened and moldy wall behind it, which was also covered with a large number of grayish-white mushrooms.

The lobby was filled with an indescribable stench of decay and mold, as if it had been abandoned long ago.

The two men helped Qian Lili up the stairs to the lobby on the first floor. They were all dumbfounded by the bizarre and terrifying scene before them, and their blood seemed to freeze.

"How...is this possible..." Lin Muying murmured, her face filled with disbelief.

Qian Lili was so frightened that her legs went weak. If Li Yu and Lin Muying hadn't been supporting her, she would have collapsed.

Li Yu's legs were also trembling slightly. He was trying hard to control himself and calm himself down.

Everything in the hotel had been normal until that sudden, thunderous bang, and everything seemed to change, becoming something he couldn't understand.

"Let's go!" Li Yu almost roared from his throat, trying to bolster his courage. He dragged Qian Lili along the lobby and rushed towards the hotel exit.

The glass of the revolving door at the exit was shattered, with glass shards scattered all over the ground. The metal frame of the revolving door was twisted irregularly, as if it had been hit by some enormous force.

The three of them rushed out as if they were fleeing.

Just as he rushed out of the hotel, Li Yu suddenly stopped, his pupils contracted sharply, his mouth opened slightly, and his face showed an expression of extreme terror.