The world enters the fungal world

Chapter 179 The Plague Arrives (10,000 words completed, please subscribe and vote with monthly tickets)

As the iron gate closed tightly and the black-armored man left, a buzzing sound immediately erupted from the giant warehouse, which had previously only contained the sound of breathing.

Many people couldn't help but start talking.

"I'm so suffocated." Zhou Xigang couldn't help but let out a long sigh, then fanned himself with his hand.

Lin Muying tugged at her collar, clearly feeling uncomfortable as well.

Bai Xiuluo, who was sitting not far away, suddenly spoke up: "Just bear with it. If you can get through tonight, you can leave tomorrow."

Li Yu's eyes, however, fell on Hao Tie, who was sitting silently to one side.

They had all witnessed what happened between Hao Tie and Su Juan, and their hearts were filled with curiosity and doubt.

Suddenly, Wei Tian spoke up: "Hao Tie, come and sit down."

He waved to Hao Tie as he spoke.

In fact, he wasn't the only one curious; Hei Longxuan, Yi Han, Zhao Wu, and others also gathered around.

They all had curious expressions on their faces.

Why is Su Juan entering the city a second time? And why is Lingxu City refusing her entry a second time?

They only found out about all of this today.

Although Hao Tie successfully entered the city, everyone could tell that the woman in black armor who was checking him seemed to have let him in because of her initial mistake. Perhaps fearing punishment, she continued the mistake and allowed Hao Tie to escape unscathed.

Hao Tie, who had been sitting there blankly, raised his head slightly and looked at the people in front of him who were all staring at him with curious expressions. He couldn't help but reveal a bitter smile.

"You want to ask about Su Juan?" he asked straightforwardly.

Wei Tian nodded slightly, then sighed and said, "I didn't realize this woman would try to frame you even on her deathbed." He then shook his head.

"We're just curious about these two trips into the city."

Hao Tie looked at the people in front of him and suddenly revealed a strange smile. The smile was somewhat tragic, somewhat self-deprecating, and somewhat mocking.

"Do you think that once you enter Lingxu City, you can avoid tonight's fungal disaster and you'll be safe?"

Everyone was slightly taken aback by these words. Zhao Wu couldn't help but whisper, "Hao Tie, speak more clearly. Don't worry, even if we know something, we won't say anything to anyone."

Then he looked around at the crowd.

Wei Tian, ​​Hei Longxuan, Yi Han, and the others nodded in succession. Wei Tian also lowered his voice and said, "No matter what, Hao Tie came here with us from Supply Point No. 5. What we say now must not be spread. Hao Tie, don't worry, we are not that Su Juan."

Hao Tie looked somber and said indifferently, "Actually, it doesn't matter anymore. I probably won't live to see the next bacterial outbreak anyway. Once I've come to terms with it, it's nothing."

Everyone was slightly taken aback upon hearing this.

He paused slightly before looking at the people in front of him, and suddenly revealed a cold smile: "Of course, not many of you will survive; at least most of you will die."

Yi Han frowned. Li Yu looked at Hao Tie, only to find that Hao Tie suddenly looked in his direction.

Hao Tie stretched out his hand, pointing at Lin Muying, Qian Lili, and the other two sitting next to Li Yu, a strange smile on his face, though the smile was tinged with a twisted quality.

"Li Yu, I know you're very capable. Your three companions were only at the advanced stage of the Spore Realm, yet you managed to bring them into Spirit Ruins City. You are indeed amazing."

"But that's it. They'll all die on the 15th of next month. They can't escape the next bacterial outbreak."

Li Yu's heart skipped a beat, and he couldn't help but ask, "Brother Hao, could you please explain why? Is it because we came in once today, and now due to the second outbreak of the germs, we're not allowed to come in?"

Hao Tie nodded and smiled rather sadly: "You're quite clever. Yes, Su Juan is a cautionary tale. Lingxu City only gave people like us one chance."

As he said this, his smile widened, and he slowly looked around, muttering, "It's pitiful that these people who haven't reached the peak think they can escape this calamity, but in reality, they've only lived for an extra month. So, those who haven't reached the peak, they're too lazy to even register their information. Even if they do reach the peak, they only have a 50% chance of surviving. Ha, ha ha—"

Those around him felt a chill run down their spines when they heard his eerie laugh.

Wei Tian was getting impatient and said, "Brother Hao, could you explain more clearly?"

Hao Tie took a breath, his smile fading slightly. His initial excitement gradually subsided before he slowly said, "Because Lingxu City only gives one chance. The first time you arrive in Lingxu City, no matter what your strength or level is, as long as you pay 10,000 gold coins, you can enter the city and avoid the bacterial calamity. Even if you reach the peak of the spore stage, you don't even need to pay 10,000 gold coins."

Everyone already knew this, so no one responded; they just listened silently to him.

"But those who enter once will be recorded, their information will be compiled, and if they try to enter a second time, once discovered, the consequences—you see."

Everyone was stunned.

On the 15th of every month, the night of the full moon, a terrible bacterial plague descends, and those who cannot enter a safe haven face only death.

However, in this area, Lingxu City is the only sanctuary.

"How is that possible? Only once? And then not again until the next bacterial outbreak?"

Yi Han couldn't help but exclaim in a low voice, his face filled with disbelief. He couldn't believe it.

Although he found it hard to believe, the examples of Su Juan and Hao Tie were right in front of him, forcing him to accept it.

This Lingxu City only allows entry once? The real purpose of registering information today is to prevent anyone from entering a second time.

The faces of everyone around were filled with shock. If that was the case, where should they hide when the bacterial plague struck next month?

Hao Tie ignored the horrified looks on their faces and said to himself, "The solution is to follow the new recruits to the various supply points again tomorrow morning, and then blend in with them and pretend it's your first time entering the city."

As he said this, a somewhat eerie smile suddenly appeared on his face: "Perhaps it's because too much information is entered, or the people conducting the checks and tests make mistakes. In any case, the registration and inspection information is not entirely accurate, and many times it cannot be detected even if you enter the city a second time."

When Hao Tie finished speaking, everyone finally understood.

The green mushrooms that appeared on the right hands of those women in black armor had a certain probability of being detected incorrectly. Hao Tie was lucky and was not detected, so he escaped unscathed.

Even if Su Juan reports her later, it won't matter. From the perspective of the woman in black armor, since she was wrong, then her mistake was also right. As long as she insisted that Hao Tie was doing it for the first time, she wouldn't have made a mistake.

Therefore, Hao Tie is not afraid of people talking about it, because he is the first person the woman in black armor has identified as entering the city. If anyone says that he is not, then they are saying that the woman in black armor made a mistake in the inspection and are going against her.

Even if everyone around had a few extra lives, no one would dare to offend the people of Lingxu City.

Bai Xiuluo, who had been silent until now, suddenly asked, "Did the information you heard also come from your previous group?"

Since Hao Tie was from the previous group, everything he knows must have come from what his predecessors told him, just as they are now listening to what Hao Tie is saying.

Hao Tie remained silent, which was taken as tacit agreement.

Su Juan's death was a huge blow to him, especially since she exposed him before she died and wanted to drag him down with her. This made Hao Tie's mental state unstable.

"Hey, look, the light outside has dimmed considerably." Suddenly, someone noticed that the square outside the row of windows, which had previously appeared quite bright, had suddenly become dark.

"A bacterial plague is about to strike."

This thought crossed many people's minds, and many people stood up and crowded towards that row of windows, wanting to see what was going on.

Li Yu also stood up.

He had always been curious about what exactly was going on with this bacterial outbreak.

The city of Lingxu was shrouded in a light curtain, but at this moment the light curtain above had become much dimmer.

Li Yu squeezed to the window and looked out to see the black-armored men retreating back into the city through the city gate, followed by a loud rumbling sound.

The two incredibly heavy city gates were slowly closing.

Suddenly, the inner city gates, which had been tightly closed, began to open in the distance.

Li Yu saw two rows of men and women in black armor appear inside the opened inner city gate.

"Go up to the city wall."

A majestic voice emanated from the inner city, and the two rows of men and women in black armor began to surge up the city wall via the staircase inside the magnificent black wall.

Inside this giant warehouse, a long row of windows was crowded with people. Looking out through the windows, although they couldn't see what was happening outside the city walls, everyone instinctively felt a sense of oppression and tension.

The two rows of men and women in black armor climbed the city wall stairs. However, from the perspective of the crowd, they could not see the specific situation on the city wall. At most, they could only see the two rows of men in black armor climbing the stairs and disappearing from sight.

Li Yu's right eye narrowed slightly as he looked up through the window at the sky outside.

In a short time, the countless points of light flying outside the light screen suddenly turned completely black.

The giant vortex of light in the sky transformed into a black vortex, slowly rotating and pressing down.

Meanwhile, from the depths of the inner city, an endless stream of light was being released, stretching out a curtain of light that supported the slowly descending black vortex.

Suddenly, a terrifying roar of a beast could be faintly heard from afar.

The beast's roar was like a mountain collapsing and the earth splitting; even though everyone was hiding in the warehouse, they all felt a tremor in their hearts.

A terrifying feeling arose in everyone's hearts: the legendary bacterial plague that could bring destruction had descended.

Li Yu saw this and his heart trembled. He vaguely understood what the bacterial disaster was.

On the night of the full moon on the fifteenth, the fungal spores that were originally flying everywhere and were the only light spots will turn into countless black light spots.

Li Yu couldn't describe the bizarre scene he witnessed, and he couldn't help but secretly activate his "Eye of Truth and Delusion."

Upon seeing this, his heart trembled even more. He saw a huge source of light hidden deep within the inner city, formed by countless mycelia.

It spreads outwards in all directions through the ground.

It was this light curtain, formed by countless mycelia, that protected this last pure land, preventing the countless black specks of light from entering.

He is now certain that the source of this bacterial outbreak is these black specks.

Li Yu understood that the countless points of light he had seen before were actually fungal spores, and now, the color of these fungal spores had changed.

Through the light screen and the black fungal spores flying everywhere, Li Yu could vaguely see the full moon rising in the sky.

At this moment, the full moon was shrouded in a layer of dark clouds, like a black hole appearing in the void, or like a demon's open eye.

Looking down from a high vantage point, surveying the world below.

Li Yu was shocked by the astonishing changes outside.

Suddenly, another huge roar came from afar. Judging from the sound, it was even more intense than the previous roar, and it was much closer.

Many of the more than a thousand people in the black warehouse felt a jolt in their chests, overwhelmed by an indescribable sense of oppression and fear.

Then came a series of deafening roars, like war drums, one after another, rising from afar. This was followed by earth-shattering howls and screeches, one after another, some near, some far.

Everyone felt the ground shaking; the terror was indescribable.

Although everyone was locked inside the huge warehouse and couldn't see what was happening outside, they felt their souls tremble just from hearing the terrifying roars and howls of the beasts.

A sense of fear rose from my heart, an overwhelming feeling of impending doom.

Suddenly, they heard angry roars coming from the majestic city wall.

These angry roars and beastly howls intertwined, like a war song, and the whole world seemed to have fallen into a kind of madness.

Li Yu listened silently, watching the light emanating from the depths of the inner city grow ever more intense, seemingly struggling to resist the overwhelming darkness pressing down from above.

Suddenly, he thought of something.

The Mother of Bacteria at the center of Supply Point No. 5 also has a similar light screen, although it is much smaller and can only protect an area of ​​about 200 meters.

Could it be that a similar fungal mother grows deep within the inner city of Lingxu City?

If true, the level of this fungus mother growing deep within the inner city of Lingxu City is definitely far superior to that of Supply Point No. 5.

Supply Point No. 5 lacks the sturdy walls of Lingxu City, and it is not guarded by these unfathomably powerful black-armored men. Li Yu does not know whether Supply Point No. 5 has already fallen.

Inside the huge warehouse, a deathly silence fell over the more than a thousand people. No one spoke; only heavy breathing could be heard.

Outside the city, the roars grew increasingly violent as Li Yu watched as countless dark points of light danced wildly in the sky.

Suddenly, he noticed that the light curtain covering Lingxu City had not only dimmed considerably, but was also fluctuating violently.

The light curtain seemed unable to withstand the slowly pressing dark light spots from above and was collapsing downwards.

This discovery made his heart sink, and he couldn't help but open the "Eye of Truth and Delusion" again.

In his "Eye of Truth and Delusion," he saw countless luminous mycelia hidden deep within the inner city, forming an enormous pillar of light that was extending upwards and soon reached the sky.

At the end of the pillar of light, above the void, nine blurry halos were faintly visible in his "Eye of Truth and Delusion".

These nine halos are invisible to normal eyes, not even to Li Yu's pupils. Only the "Eye of Truth and Illusion" can vaguely perceive them, making them seem both real and illusory.

This discovery startled Li Yu, and he suddenly opened his eyes wide. The nine halos then vanished, making him almost doubt whether what he had just seen was an illusion.