The world enters the fungal world

"Okay." Li Yu did not refuse. He knew that in the current situation, the most important thing was to conserve his strength so that he would be able to cope with any unexpected events.

Zhou Xigang interjected, "Then we'll have one person take turns on duty, and the rest of us can sleep. Lin Muying, you'll be on duty for now. Wake me up in the second half of the night, and I'll take your place."

Lin Muying nodded in agreement, and Qian Lili suddenly said, "You three go to sleep first, I'll be on duty."

She knew that she was only alive because of the three of them, and that she hadn't done anything at all. She felt embarrassed, and the only thing she could do to help was to cover for Lin Muying and let the three of them get some sleep.

Li Yu was somewhat surprised that Qian Lili was so conscientious. He glanced at her before saying, "For safety's sake, everyone should stay in the living room and rest instead of sleeping in the bedrooms. Let's go to each room and see if there's anything we can use."

The house was filled with a musty smell, and mushrooms were everywhere. Most of the clothes and furniture were infested with fungi. Leaving Qian Lili in the living room, the three of them went to each room to carefully search for anything usable.

Li Yu entered a bedroom, which was the master bedroom. The window looked like it had been damaged by some external force, with signs of damage on the edges and shattered glass scattered all over the floor.

The security bars outside the window were twisted and deformed, large enough for a monster like a parasitic monkey to crawl in, which alerted Li Yu and made him more vigilant.

In the middle of the bedroom was a large bed, 1.8 meters wide, with a wedding photo hanging above the headboard. However, the photo was now covered with small mushrooms, obscuring the faces of the bride and groom.

The mattress was already rotten; the whole bed fell apart with just a little effort from Li Yu.

This made him shake his head, realizing that in this Jiangcheng, which had been devoured by fungi for countless years, apart from the buildings that could barely hold on, everything else had been eroded by the fungi and was no longer usable.

His eyes fell on the crowbar in his right hand. In his right eye, he could vaguely see specks of light passing through the crowbar, as if the crowbar itself could not block the light.

Even in this room, he always carried a crowbar for self-defense. In this eerie world, even if the house seemed safe for the time being, Li Yu dared not be careless.

He walked back into the living room and found that Lin Muying and Zhou Xigang had also come out of the other rooms. Lin Muying shook her head at Li Yu, clearly having gained nothing and found nothing useful.

"I remember this house used to be lived in by a newlywed couple, but this is now Jiangcheng, many years later. I wonder what happened to that couple after that?" Zhou Xigang said as he walked out.

Qian Lili, nestled in the collapsed sofa, suddenly said, "Zhou Xigang, your house is right next door. Aren't you curious about what's happened there now?"

Zhou Xigang said indifferently, "What's there to be curious about? It's just like what's right in front of us, with mushrooms growing everywhere, and all sorts of rotten items and decaying furniture."

Li Yu originally wanted to see if there was anything he could put on the ground as a mat, but it turned out that nothing could be used.

Right now, all I can do is lie down and sleep. Anyway, my clothes are already filthy, so I don't care if there are mushrooms or thick dust on the ground.

Li Yu was so tired that he almost lay down, closed his eyes, and quickly fell asleep.

Although he was asleep, his right hand remained tightly gripping the fire crowbar.

Afterwards, Qian Lili was left to keep watch, while Lin Muying and Zhou Xigang also found a place to sleep. Originally, Lin Muying was a woman who loved cleanliness, but now, in this place where everything was corroded by fungi, she could only endure the nausea and make do for one night.

Li Yu didn't know when she woke up. When she opened her eyes, it was pitch black all around her, and she couldn't see anything.

Lin Muying and Zhou Xigang, who used to sleep with him in the living room, were nowhere to be seen, and even Qian Lili, who was curled up on the sofa saying she was on duty, was nowhere to be seen.

"Feed..."

Li Yu tried to make a sound. He remembered that he could see countless points of light in his right eye, but now he could not see anything. He could only move slowly in the darkness. Thinking of the crowbar, he tightened his right hand, but found that the fire crowbar had disappeared at some point.

He felt a little panicked; he had never encountered such absolute darkness before. Suddenly, he saw a faint light appear in the darkness ahead.

He started running towards the light, getting closer and closer, until finally he saw those faint points of light.

However, at this moment, these points of light formed the shape of a huge, blurry, circular pupil.

Among these points of light, there was pitch blackness, like a black hole hidden deep within a black pupil, rhythmically and slightly contracting, like a living thing.

Li Yu stared at the black hole, a strange and indescribable feeling rising in his heart. He felt as if he were being watched, and even felt that the other party was "alive".

"Who are you?" he couldn't help but ask.

Then a faint, almost imperceptible voice echoed in my mind.

"I am...you..."

"...Pupil Fungus..."

Suddenly, the light that formed the pupil spread out in all directions, and the black hole at the center suddenly revealed its true form: a giant mushroom, as black as ink and as large as the sky.

The incident happened suddenly. Li Yu exclaimed in surprise and opened his eyes abruptly, only to find himself sleeping in the living room. Lin Muying was sitting not far away, and upon hearing his exclamation, she turned her head to look at him in astonishment.

Li Yu's right hand tightened slightly as he realized he was holding a crowbar. He suddenly understood that the bizarre experience he had just had was a dream.

"How long have I been asleep?" Li Yu took a deep breath and noticed that the living room was slightly brighter. Looking towards the balcony, he saw that the previously dark and gloomy sky outside had brightened up a bit.

This bizarre and terrifying night has finally come to an end.

"Did you have a nightmare?" Lin Muying asked softly.

Li Yu nodded slightly, his mind still replaying the bizarre yet terrifyingly real dream he had just had. He thought about the strange eye formed by points of light in his dream, and the faint, indistinct words he had heard.

"Am I... Pupil Fungus...?" Li Yu asked himself silently, then gently touched his right eye.

My right eye has become so unusual because it's actually infested with parasites? Or is the parasite called a "pupil fungus"?

Was that dream it was communicating with itself?

But why say "I am you"? Is it to express that they have now merged into one and are no longer separate?

The situation was getting increasingly strange. Li Yu felt that intense hunger rising in his stomach again. Fortunately, there were still quite a few white jade mushrooms left from what he had picked earlier. Lin Muying and Zhou Xigang didn't dare to eat them, so he picked up a few mushrooms and ate them.

Pulling up the left leg of his pants to reveal the original wound, he discovered that the two bite marks from the lizard had disappeared, as if he had never been injured at all.