The world enters the fungal world

Zhou Xigang immediately shut his mouth. Just now, he had also heard a faint hissing sound coming from downstairs. He, Lin Muying, and Qian Lili all got up and quietly went to the balcony.

Li Yu was the first to arrive at the balcony, carefully concealing himself while looking down.

They were on the fourth floor, with a commanding view of everything below.

On the ground downstairs, eight dark green lizards had appeared at some point, hissing as they tore at the corpses of the five parasitic monkeys and Yu Xiang and his wife.

Upon seeing the group of dark green lizards, all four men wore grim expressions. In particular, seeing the corpses of Yu Xiang and Jiang Yan being devoured by them, they felt an indescribable sense of oppression.

However, the four of them could only watch helplessly.

The group of dark green lizards that appeared were similar to those that everyone had seen before. They surrounded the corpses, hissing continuously, and seemed quite excited.

Suddenly, a huge, dark green figure appeared in the alleyway ahead.

The four people hiding on the fourth-floor balcony looked astonished when they saw the huge, dark green figure.

Li Yu frowned, a look of seriousness appearing in his eyes.

The lizard that just crawled out of the alley was also entirely dark green, but it was much larger than the group of dark green lizards that had appeared before, with a body length of over three meters.

What's most striking is its tail. Unlike the ordinary tails of other lizards, its tail is like a huge mushroom stalk, with a ball covered in dark green scales at the end, making it look like a scaled hammer.

It crawled out of the alley, suddenly raised its head slightly, and made a hissing sound.

As it made a sound, the eight dark green lizards stopped tearing at the corpse on the ground and looked up at it.

It stopped making a sound and slowly approached the group of dark green lizards, its hammer-like tail swaying rhythmically from side to side.

As it crawled over, the eight dark green lizards immediately showed signs of retreating, seemingly somewhat afraid of it. As it drew closer, they quickly retreated to both sides and made way.

Then, it came to Yu Xiang's corpse on the ground, lowered its head, opened its foul-smelling mouth, and began to eat.

The other dark green lizards stood silently to one side, watching it eat.

"It seems to be the leader of this group of lizards; they are all afraid of it," Li Yu heard Qian Lili whispering beside him.

Li Yu frowned, glanced at her, and gestured for her to be quiet.

Although she spoke very softly, it would be troublesome if these lizards had sensitive hearing and heard what was happening here.

Finally, the giant lizard finished eating, stopped eating, and hissed. The dark green lizards that had retreated to the sides then approached again, but instead of eating, they dragged the corpses on the ground toward the alleyway.

Finally, the dark green lizards dragged the corpses and disappeared behind the bridge pier lying on the ground in the distance.

The four of them only breathed a sigh of relief after watching them completely disappear from sight.

Then there was silence. For a long time, none of the four spoke, each seemingly lost in their own thoughts.

It was Qian Lili who broke the silence first. She clutched the hem of her clothes tightly, her eyes red: "What do we do now? Are we just going to hide here and eat mushrooms forever?"

For her, every minute of those days was torture.

"Muying, I feel so uncomfortable. Staying in this godforsaken place, there's no water to even wash my face, let alone take a shower." Qian Lili looked at Lin Muying, her voice already trembling with tears.

Although she gained the ability to spray a special substance from her chest, she didn't care about this ghostly ability at all. She was willing to pay any price just to return to the world she was familiar with.

Lin Muying had always been very clean, and Qian Lili's words resonated with her. She had just been enduring it all along, but upon hearing Qian Lili's words, she sighed, frowned, looked at Li Yu and Zhou Xigang, and said, "Lili is right. What should we do next? We can't just keep hiding here."

Zhou Xigang said nonchalantly, "Don't worry, there's always a way out. As the saying goes, 'When the car reaches the mountain, the road will eventually be clear,' and 'When the boat reaches the bridge, it will turn around.' Can a living person die from holding their pee? Don't worry, I will find a way to get you out of this predicament. You can completely trust me. The difficulties are only temporary."

He remained optimistic. Despite being in a situation where there seemed to be almost no hope, he was still full of fighting spirit. He firmly believed that he was the protagonist and that he would eventually achieve great things.

Qian Lili said anxiously, "You've come up with a plan? Then tell me! What plan have you come up with to let us go back?"

Zhou Xigang stroked his chin and said, "Didn't I say that time travel is a one-way street? It can only take you to the future, not back to the past. The solution I'm talking about is to find a way for us all to live well, not to take you back."

Upon hearing this, Qian Lili was devastated and said with a face full of despair, "Is it really impossible to go back?" She couldn't imagine the horror of spending her whole life in this hellish place.

Before Zhou Xigang could say anything more, Li Yu suddenly said, "Maybe we can go back."

Upon hearing this, Qian Lili immediately looked at him as if she had grasped a lifeline, and hurriedly said, "Li Yu, are you serious? That's great! I remember you were smart back in college, you must have a way, right?"

Lin Muying and Zhou Xigang also looked at Li Yu. Zhou Xigang shook his head and said, "Li Yu, don't try to comfort her. It's impossible for her to go back."

He didn't seem to care whether he could return to his original world; he only cared about how to survive in this world and live a wonderful life.

Li Yu narrowed his eyes slightly and said, "I didn't comfort her. As we discussed before, the focus now is on the Century Garden Hotel. What exactly smashed through the hotel and opened the time-space portal? If we want to go back, we must find this thing to solve the mystery."

Qian Lili hesitated for a moment before saying, "But aren't there a group of parasitized monkeys over there? How are we going to look for things?"

Li Yu nodded and said, "That's right, so what we need to do now is figure out how to get into the hotel."

Lin Muying frowned slightly and said, "Li Yu, you mean...?"

Li Yu glanced at her and said slowly, "It's simple. Once we become strong enough, we won't need to fear those parasitic monkeys, and we'll naturally be able to enter the hotel."

Lin Muying understood Li Yu's meaning and asked, "But how can we become stronger?"

Li Yu's eyes gleamed slightly as he said, "Eating mushrooms, these white jade mushrooms can enhance our physical abilities and strength. Although the enhancement isn't particularly noticeable, it's definitely happening, affecting our bodies..."

He took a deep breath before saying, "It's mutating."

Zhou Xigang was stunned for a moment before he hurriedly corrected him, "It's not a mutation, it's evolution. We are all evolving."

He thought about the special abilities that Li Yu and the others had acquired, and about the incredibly powerful kick he had delivered back then. This was indeed evolution.