The world enters the fungal world

"What do we do now? All these doors are locked, we can't get in," Qian Lili said weakly.

Li Yu released her, took off the mushroom-covered jacket from the crowbar, and, holding the crowbar, went to the security door on the left and inserted the sharp eagle beak into the gap below.

The security door of Zhou Xigang's house on the right is relatively intact, making it impossible to pry it open. The security door on the left is slightly deformed, with a gap at the bottom, which is just right for inserting a crowbar.

Li Yu gripped the crowbar and began to exert force. Surprisingly, it was easy; with a forceful pry, the slightly twisted and deformed security door was pried open.

A musty smell immediately filled the air.

Li Yu took a step back, looking at the large amount of iron filings and fragments scattered on the ground. He realized that although the security door looked relatively intact on the surface, it was actually severely rusted inside, like pieces of iron slag. It would shatter with the slightest force, which was why he had easily pried it open with a crowbar.

When Zhou Xi saw that Li Yu had pried open the security door, and the inside looked dark, he was about to enter when Li Yu blocked his way.

"Be careful." Li Yu said as he used a crowbar to pry open the security door completely.

Then he squinted and looked at the security door, using his right eye to observe the faint spots of light, looking for any unusual fluctuations.

Previously, in front of that abandoned car, he first observed that there were light spots fluctuating, and then a parasitic monster rushed out. This taught him a lesson: if there is danger or a monster attack, it will inevitably affect the light spots floating around, and these light spots will fluctuate.

By observing these points of light, potential dangers can be detected in advance.

However, this method is only effective in dark places, and requires focused attention to observe. Once the sky is bright, it is difficult for him to spot these faintly visible points of light.

After confirming that the fluctuations in the light spots in the room were normal, Li Yu slowly walked in.

After being reminded by Li Yu, Zhou Xi carefully looked around. Entering through the security door, there was a living room, and small mushrooms were growing everywhere in the corners of the living room.

A sofa set was placed in the middle, and opposite the sofa was a TV cabinet with a TV on it. However, the TV was now lying on the ground, and the TV cabinet looked rotten. Many small mushrooms had even grown on the sofa.

Directly opposite the living room is a large balcony, through which you can see the dim night sky.

Qian Lili and Lin Muying followed closely behind.

Just then, a strange hissing sound could be faintly heard from afar.

Li Yu immediately darted to the balcony of the living room and looked in the direction from which the hissing sound was coming.

Zhou Xigang and Lin Muying followed closely behind.

Standing on the fourth-floor balcony, they had a commanding view of the area in front of the supermarket, the abandoned car covered in mushrooms, and the three parasitic monsters they had killed. The hissing sound was coming from there.

Upon seeing this, a chill ran down their spines.

Suddenly, three dark green lizards appeared there. They looked similar to the lizards that Li Yu had killed before, with mushroom-shaped heads and lizard-like bodies.

At this moment, they were opening their blood-red mouths wide, using their serrated teeth to easily cut through the flesh and blood of the three corpses on the ground.

Their guess was right; the smell of blood had attracted the parasitic monsters, and if they hadn't escaped, they would be under attack by these three dark green lizards now.

As if remembering something, Li Yu returned to the door and tried to close the security door again. Unfortunately, the security door was severely deformed after being pried open and could only be loosely closed. It was not difficult to open it from the outside.

Li Yu frowned as he half-closed the security door.

Although the security door cannot be completely closed, this is the fourth floor. As long as they don't attract their attention, those lizard monsters shouldn't climb up to the fourth floor to attack them.

At least for now, they are much safer hiding here than on the first floor.

Li Yu could only console himself with this thought. When he returned to the balcony, he saw the three lizard monsters in the distance, each dragging a corpse, rapidly moving away.

Soon, they disappeared on the other side of the abandoned car, where there were collapsed overpass piers, their surfaces covered with mushrooms.

With their view blocked by the mushroom-covered bridge piers, the group could no longer see the three lizard monsters.

The group didn't look any further and quietly retreated back to the living room, not daring to make too much noise, for fear of disturbing the lizards that had left in the distance. If they discovered that there were living people here, there would be trouble.

"It seems there are far more of these parasitic monsters than we thought," Lin Muying said, then frowned slightly. She felt an itch in the wound on her right arm and wanted to scratch it several times, but she held back each time.

Zhou Xigang couldn't hold back any longer and said, "Damn it, this wound is so itchy."

As he spoke, he bent down and carefully rolled up his trouser leg to check the wound on his right calf.

Upon hearing this, Lin Muying was startled and asked, "You also feel your wound is itchy?"

Zhou Xigang said, "Yes." He took out his phone, turned on the flashlight, and shone it on the wound on his right calf. He found that the blood had already congealed. Not only that, but the blood holes bitten by the fangs were showing signs of shrinking. It didn't look like a serious injury. However, it was so itchy that he almost couldn't resist reaching out to scratch it.

Ignoring the mushrooms growing on the sofa, Qian Lili plopped down on it as soon as she entered the living room.

Unexpectedly, the sofa, though seemingly intact, was actually corroded and couldn't support her weight. It collapsed immediately, its surface cracking. However, she didn't care and remained nestled in the collapsed sofa, finding it much more comfortable than standing.

At this moment, she couldn't help but speak up: "My wound is so itchy. These monsters have been parasitized, and their teeth must be covered with bacteria and viruses. If we were bitten by them, could we have been infected?" She looked terrified as she spoke.

Li Yu heard them all saying that their wounds were itchy, which was the same situation as when he injured his right eye before. But now his left leg was also injured, so why wasn't the wound on his left leg itchy?

On a whim, he turned on his phone's flashlight and carefully examined his left leg. The wound showed signs of shrinking; there was no itching or pain, only a slight warmth.

"The itching in the wound must be caused by these specks of light in the air. My left leg wound is also infected with these specks, so why doesn't it itch like theirs? Is it possible that it only itches the first time you get injured and infected, and then the body adapts and the itching stops?"

Li Yu was thinking, of course there was another possibility, that is, he had eaten the white jade mushroom.

Thinking of mushrooms, he immediately felt his stomach growling again. He quickly untied the knot in his coat, picked up the white jade mushrooms inside, and stuffed them into his mouth.

Eating these mushrooms now not only quenches thirst but also seems to increase strength; of course, the more of this good stuff you eat, the better.