The world enters the fungal world

Seeing that Li Yu didn't speak, Lin Muying whispered to comfort Qian Lili: "Lili, Li Yu didn't say that this place is definitely not safe, but having weapons always makes people feel more at ease. Once we get to the third floor, we might be able to return to our original hotel. Don't be too nervous."

She was both comforting Qian Lili and comforting herself; she hoped that if she went back to the third floor, everything would return to its familiar state.

The experience I'm going through is absolutely terrifying.

Qian Lili gave a soft "hmm" and, together with Lin Muying, followed in Li Yu's footsteps.

Li Yu moved quickly, reaching the second floor in no time. He paused briefly, his brow furrowed, and he instinctively gripped the fire extinguisher crowbar in his hand.

At the top of the stairs on the second floor, the ground was covered with tiny mushrooms, each slightly larger than a fingernail, so densely packed that they sent chills down Li Yu's spine.

The ground was completely covered by mushrooms, so Li Yu had no choice but to step on them.

He could feel his shoes stepping on the mushrooms, which immediately rotted with a slight sound. A little juice seeped out from the crushed mushrooms, and when he lifted his leg, the soles of his shoes had a strange, contradictory feeling of being sticky and slippery.

Li Yu took a deep breath, trying to stay calm, and went up the stairs to the second floor. The stairs in front of him were completely covered with mushrooms.

"Everyone be careful, don't slip."

Li Yu recalled the incident where Qian Lili slipped and fell down the stairs after stepping on a mushroom, and solemnly instructed the two people following behind him.

Lin Muying responded softly. Li Yu had already arrived on the third floor first. The familiar wide corridor came into view, and the restrooms could be seen in the distance. The banquet hall was not far to the right.

Li Yu saw that a door in the banquet hall was wide open, with a red banner hanging above the door that read "Congratulations on the wedding of Fang Mingxuan and Wang Xiaoyue". The banner was originally a bright red, but now it had turned into a dark brown like dried blood, with rings of gray-green mold growing around the edges.

"Li Yu, what should we do now?" Lin Muying came to his side with a fire axe in hand.

"Let's check the situation in the hall first, then go to the restroom." Li Yu thought about how the previous sequence was that he came out of the restroom, then went to the banquet hall to check the situation inside, and then all this strange thing happened. Now the only way he could think of was to do it in reverse order, hoping to escape this terrifying world.

Lin Muying couldn't think of a better way, so she followed Li Yu, gritted her teeth, and returned to the golden doors of the banquet hall.

These golden doors were not affected by the mushrooms, but there were faint mold spots on their surfaces. Li Yu walked to the open door and looked inside.

Just like before, inside the gate, the entire banquet hall floor had completely collapsed, forming a bottomless black hole.

Above, there is still that giant hole that runs from the roof all the way to the banquet hall.

This time, Li Yu did not run away immediately. Instead, he carefully observed the area and found that many mushrooms had appeared on the walls of the hall. However, because there was no light, the place was very dark, and he could not see anything further away. He could only feel that it was completely dark.

The banquet hall was located on the third floor of the hotel. The floors above the third floor had been pierced by a hole with a diameter of more than three meters. Starting from the third floor, the hall area, along with the two floors below, collapsed into this giant pit. All the people and objects inside disappeared. Li Yu couldn't imagine what kind of force caused it.

If it were an earthquake, the entire building should have collapsed or crumbled. How could the collapse have been concentrated only in the banquet hall, with no cracks even visible in the surrounding walls?

If something like a meteorite had crashed through the building, why did it completely collapse starting from the banquet hall on the third floor?

Li Yu couldn't understand. If that loud noise was the reason they traveled through time, and now that they've returned here, if there really is such a thing as a spacetime rift, can they find the rift and return to their original normal world through it?

Having found nothing further, Li Yu could only turn around and go to the restroom to check.

He couldn't see the so-called spacetime rift, and he didn't even think that all of this was just his reasoning and speculation. Now he could only try his luck and hope that everything would return to normal after he opened the bathroom door.

Soon Li Yu arrived at the bathroom door and was about to push it open when he suddenly heard a slight sound coming from inside.

After that loud bang, there was no other sound in the entire building except for the sounds made by the three of them. All around was a deathly silence, darkness, and a faint smell of decay.

It seemed that in the entire building, and even in the entire world, only the three of them remained alive.

Suddenly, a sound came from the restroom. Li Yu was startled and saw a glimmer of hope. He felt that he might have guessed right. There really was a spacetime rift here, and the restroom was located at the edge of this spacetime rift. Entering the restroom might allow him to enter the normal world.

Although excited, Li Yu remained cautious and did not push the door open with his hands. Instead, he used the fire crowbar in his hand to push the door open.

Lin Muying and Qian Lili were right beside him. They had also heard the commotion inside and both looked excited.

With a slight creak, the bathroom door was pushed open, and Li Yu saw a person sitting on the floor inside. This person was leaning against the wall, sitting on the bathroom floor, facing them.

Upon suddenly seeing people, Li Yu was about to speak when he suddenly shut his mouth. Holding the crowbar, he trembled and staggered backward, only stopping when he bumped into Qian Lili, who was standing next to him.

Lin Muying covered her mouth, unable to help but let out a soft gasp, and also stumbled backward, her face drained of color.

The person sitting on the ground is a woman; judging from her clothes, she should be a cleaner at the hotel.

She was slightly overweight, leaning against the wall with her head tilted slightly to the right and her mouth wide open, as if she wanted to shout something.

Her skin had an eerie translucency, as if something had hollowed it out from the inside, leaving only a thin outer shell.

Through that translucent skin, Li Yu could clearly see that what was inside her skin was not flesh or bone, but a dense mass of dark red mycelium, like a tangled ball of red yarn, filling her head and body.

Even more bizarrely, two slender, dark red mushrooms grew in her eye sockets, their caps not yet fully open, curving upwards like two flowers blooming from her eyes.

Qian Lili hadn't seen it yet when Li Yu suddenly staggered backward as if he had seen a ghost and bumped into her. She gasped and helped Li Yu up before craning her neck to look into the bathroom with a mixture of curiosity and fear.

Then she saw the person who had fallen to the ground.

"Ah—" Qian Lili was not as calm as Li Yu and Lin Muying. She immediately let out a piercing scream, her legs went weak, she lost her balance, and fell down while still holding the claw hammer.

Lin Muying hurriedly reached out to help her. The two women saw that each other's faces were as pale as paper, and their eyes revealed undisguised fear.