The world enters the fungal world

Li Yu licked his lips, gripping the fire crowbar tightly. He felt his mouth was dry and parched. Of the three, he was the only one who remained relatively calm.

The woman sitting on the ground was motionless, her body almost entirely consumed by mushrooms; she was clearly dead. Li Yu looked around and, without realizing it, the number of mushrooms around him had increased again.

Could these seemingly ordinary mushrooms really eat people? Would they become like this woman, their bodies parasitized by the mushrooms, their flesh and blood eaten away, leaving them as empty shells?

Li Yu could hardly imagine how painful and terrifying the process was. What was even more terrifying was that he returned here, but did not enter the so-called time-space passage, nor did he return to the world he was familiar with before.

"Li...Li Yu, what do we do now? Should we go in?" Lin Muying reached out and tugged at Li Yu's sleeve, her voice trembling slightly.

She had always been considered one of the bravest girls, even braver than many boys, but seeing this scene before her, she couldn't help but feel terrified.

According to Li Yu's original plan, they were to go into the restroom to check the situation and hopefully find a time portal. But now that a person had died from being parasitized by mushrooms, how could they dare to go in casually? Nobody wanted to be the next one.

Li Yu licked his lips, feeling increasingly parched, his throat feeling like it was on fire. He didn't know if it was because of the alcohol he had drunk earlier, or something else in the air.

Shaking his head slightly, Li Yu knew that the presence of mushrooms in the restroom meant that even if they entered the restroom, they wouldn't be able to find the time portal. Without entering the time portal, they couldn't return to their original world.

Because in their normal timeline, these mushrooms wouldn't exist in this hotel.

"Look around. If there really is a spacetime rift, it must be within the distance between the banquet hall and the restroom. Let's all think about the route we took back then. Maybe the spacetime rift exists somewhere along the route we took before."

Just as Li Yu was speaking, he suddenly noticed that the woman sitting against the wall in the restroom suddenly swayed and fell to one side.

The incident was so sudden that all three of them were startled. The two women shrank behind him, while Li Yu gripped the fire crowbar tightly with both hands, his eyes fixed on the fallen woman's body.

A dark shadow suddenly darted out from the corner of the restroom and landed in front of the fallen woman's body.

This is a cat that is completely black.

In this deathly silent building, this was the first time they had seen a living creature besides the three of them.

The black cat approached the woman's face, sniffing at the corpse, and poked at her head with its paws, as if trying to wake her.

The same thought popped into the minds of all three: this black cat might be the woman's pet, unaware that its owner was dead, and thus trying to wake her.

After several attempts with no response from its owner, the black cat retracted its paw, suddenly turned its head, and looked at the three people outside the bathroom.

Upon seeing this, Li Yu felt a chill run down his spine.

A wound split open in the center of the black cat's forehead, from which a large number of dark red mycelia, as thin as hair, crawled out. These mycelia intertwined, as if embedded in the black cat's eyes, nose and mouth, appearing indescribably eerie in the dim light.

"Meow--"

The black cat opened its mouth and suddenly let out a low, somewhat hoarse cry. Li Yu saw that its fangs were showing in its open mouth.

"Everyone, retreat!" Li Yu shouted, taking a step back. He saw the black cat suddenly turn around and pounce on them.

The black cat was very fast; when it pounced, it was like a dark shadow.

Qian Lili panicked, clutching the hammer tightly with both hands, and retreated backward.

Li Yu knew that the black cat had been invaded by mushrooms and might end up like the woman, eaten up by the mushrooms until it was just an empty shell. But now it had gone mad and wanted to attack them.

He gripped the fire extinguisher crowbar tightly in his right hand and swung it at the black cat that pounced on him. At this moment, he couldn't be soft-hearted; he just wanted to kill the black cat as soon as possible.

Although Li Yu aimed his crowbar at the black cat that pounced at him, the fire extinguisher missed and the cat dodged it.

Suddenly, Li Yu let out a muffled groan and stumbled backward. The black cat was too fast. In that instant, it dodged the crowbar, leaped into the air, and jumped extremely high. Its outstretched claw actually scratched Li Yu's right cheek.

Li Yu let out a miserable groan, feeling a burning pain in his right eye and right cheek, and his vision blurred for a moment.

Lin Muying was shocked to see Li Yu injured. She grabbed a fire axe and swung it at the black cat.

The black cat was only focused on attacking Li Yu. Although it scratched Li Yu's right eye, it couldn't avoid Lin Muying's fire axe. It was hit in the abdomen and back by the axe and immediately fell heavily to the ground.

Although it was fast, it was ultimately just a domesticated pet cat with weak attack power. It let out a miserable cry when hit by the fire axe, and the sound of bones cracking echoed from its abdomen and back.

Li Yu was injured and felt liquid flowing out of his right eye. The black cat's claws were very sharp. Not only was his right cheek injured, but his right eye was also likely damaged, and he might even go blind.

His anger and fear reached their peak. Seeing the black cat that Lin Muying had beaten and thrown to the ground, he swung a fire extinguisher crowbar and smashed it down on the cat.

The black cat fell to the ground, its back twisted, clearly badly injured. Unable to avoid the impact, it was struck solidly by the fire extinguisher's crowbar. It let out a piercing scream, which was particularly eerie in the dark and empty hotel. Immediately afterward, a large amount of blood gushed from the black cat's mouth and nose.

Hearing the sound of bones cracking inside the black cat's body, Li Yu knew it would most likely die, but fearing it might still hurt someone before it died, he stepped forward and swung the crowbar again.

The stick struck the black cat squarely in the neck.

This fire-fighting crowbar is over 1.2 meters long, forged from carbon steel, and is high in strength and impact resistance. It is also quite heavy. When Li Yu swung it down, it caused considerable damage.

Li Yu heard a sound coming from the black cat's neck where it had been hit, and more blood gushed from its mouth and nose. The black cat's body was twisting and twitching, unable to get up and attack anymore. Soon it stopped moving and was confirmed to be dead. Only then did Li Yu breathe a slight sigh of relief.

Lin Muying approached him, looked at the wound on his face, and showed a worried expression.

"Let me see your wound."

Li Yu let Lin Muying examine the wound on his right cheek carefully. Qian Lili, seeing that the black cat had been killed, finally recovered from her panic and said in a trembling voice, "This cat seems... seems to have been parasitized by the mushrooms, which is why it went berserk and attacked us. We... should leave here quickly."

She grew increasingly frightened, clutching the claw hammer in both hands and constantly glancing around at the dark corners, fearing that another cat-like creature might emerge from them.

Lin Muying saw a wound on Li Yu's right cheek. The wound was about seven or eight centimeters long and had just grazed Li Yu's right eye. Fortunately, the wound was not deep and it seemed that the eye was not injured. There was not much bleeding, but once the wound heals, it may leave a scar.

Lin Muying felt inexplicably sad at the thought that Li Yu's beautiful face would be disfigured.

"It should be fine, it wasn't scratched too badly. How are your eyes feeling?" Lin Muying comforted Li Yu.

As she spoke, she took out a pack of tissues she always carried with her, and carefully pressed the tissues against Li Yu's wound.

"I'm worried that the cat might have viruses or bacteria on its paws, and I don't know if the wound will get infected. We should get to a vet as soon as possible..."

Just as Lin Muying finished speaking, she suddenly realized that there were mushrooms everywhere here. She was afraid that the entire Jiangcheng had been invaded by various mushrooms, and no one knew what other places had become. Even if they found a hospital, would there still be doctors in the hospital?

Li Yu closed his right eye and pressed a piece of paper against the wound.

Hearing Lin Muying say that the wound wasn't deep, and that the stinging pain in his right eye was gradually lessening, meant that his eye shouldn't have been injured, he breathed a slight sigh of relief.

With a mournful face, Qian Lili couldn't help but say, "Do you think... we might also be infected by the mushrooms and die here...?"

Her voice was trembling with tears. First, she saw the woman who had been eaten by the mushrooms until she was just an empty shell, and now she saw the black cat driven mad by the mushrooms. She felt like she was about to have a mental breakdown.

Li Yu felt a burning pain in his wound and listened to Qian Lili's sobbing voice. He felt an indescribable irritation. The appearance of the black cat just now gave him a very ominous feeling. If this black cat could be parasitized by the mushroom and go crazy to attack them, then what about other creatures?

Suddenly, a soft "ah" came from behind them.