The world enters the fungal world

The seven people went downstairs and found that the corpses of the seven lizards they had killed were still there, but they were covered with a layer of fuzzy fungal seeds, which would soon be completely covered.

Li Yu looked up slightly. The sky had completely darkened. Perhaps because the sky was full of fungal seeds, although the moon appeared in the sky, it looked fuzzy, as if it were covered with a layer of fuzz.

Zhou Xigang turned to the group behind him and asked, "Where do we go next? We've picked all the white jade mushrooms in front of the supermarket. Should we head straight to the hotel, or look for more mushrooms first?"

Qian Lili said, "How about we go to the hotel and look for white jade mushrooms along the way?"

She thought that since they didn't know where the white jade mushrooms were anyway, she might as well head in the direction of the hotel and maybe she would find them by chance.

Lin Muying nodded in agreement.

Li Yu suddenly asked, "Mingxuan, Wu Limei, when you arrived at the security team's location earlier, did you find a large tree with a lot of green vines wrapped around it?"

Fang Mingxuan nodded, pursing his lips. Wu Limei hummed in agreement and said, "Yeah, what's wrong?"

Li Yu said, "The hotel banquet hall collapsed, forming a deep pit. We need ropes to get down, but most of the things here have been corroded by fungi, so even if we find ropes, it won't be of any use. However, these vines that you mentioned are wrapped around the big trees, which might be useful as ropes."

Wu Limei's eyes lit up and she exclaimed, "I remember that these vines have some very small mushrooms growing on their surface. Each vine is about the thickness of a finger, so they should look quite tough. We should really go and take a look."

Li Yu nodded slightly: "Okay, then let's go there and see if we can find any white jade mushrooms along the way."

Seeing Li Yu say this, everyone agreed. Even Zhou Xigang knew that a deep pit had collapsed into the hotel's banquet hall. Without ropes, they couldn't go down. If they wanted to enter the hotel, they had to find ropes or something else first.

"That big tree is in that direction," Wu Limei pointed between the two residential buildings.

Just as Li Yu was about to walk over, he suddenly let out a soft exclamation, as if he had made a discovery. He stopped, changed direction, and walked to the nearest dark green lizard carcass.

"These corpses are a bit strange." Lin Muying said as she walked over. Just now, she had also noticed that something was wrong with these corpses.

Although the lizard carcasses were covered with a layer of fuzzy mushroom seeds, obscuring their true appearance, Li Yu still noticed that the lizard carcasses seemed to have become much smaller, which was somewhat strange.

Li Yu was startled when he swept away the fuzzy mushroom seeds on the surface of the corpse with his foot, revealing the carcass of a dark green lizard inside.

In just half a day, the dark green lizard's corpse dehydrated and turned into a dried-up corpse, becoming skin and bones, as if all the flesh and blood had disappeared.

Lin Muying hurried over to the second lizard corpse, swept away the mushroom seeds on it, revealing the corpse underneath, which was another lizard corpse that had turned into a dried-up corpse.

Others also came over.

Upon seeing the two desiccated lizard corpses, Qian Lili exclaimed in surprise, "What happened?"

Li Yu frowned, his eyes narrowing slightly, hoping to make a discovery by utilizing the special ability of the pupil fungus.

Unfortunately, apart from the ubiquitous specks of light, nothing particularly noteworthy has been discovered so far.

Zhou Xigang said, "These lizards were parasitized by mushrooms. After they died, the parasitized mushrooms should have eaten away all the flesh and blood from their bodies, so it's not surprising that they became dried corpses."

Qian Lili said admiringly, "Zhou Xigang, you're amazing! You're quick-witted."

Zhou Xi glanced at her and said, "Idiot, isn't this simple thing obvious?"

Lin Muying nodded slightly, feeling that Zhou Xigang's analysis made a lot of sense. After all, they had seen a woman's corpse that had been eaten to the point of being an empty shell in the hotel bathroom a few days ago. Although the corpse had not become a dried-up corpse, it was not far off.

Li Yu frowned and remained silent. If, as Zhou Xigang said, these corpses had their flesh and blood eaten by the parasitic mushrooms inside them, then where are these mushrooms now?

He found no mushrooms on these mummified lizard carcasses.

"Let's go." Although Li Yu didn't completely agree with Zhou Xigang's statement, he didn't have a better explanation at the moment, so he could only leave. They didn't have time to stay here and study the lizard corpses.

After that, the seven people started walking towards the two residential buildings. According to Wu Limei, after passing through this community, there was the local security team, and not far away on the other side of the security team was a large tree covered with green vines.

The group moved slowly, constantly searching for white jade mushrooms in their surroundings.

Although they saw two similar white mushrooms along the way, Li Yu and the others carefully examined them and found that they were only somewhat similar in appearance to white jade mushrooms, but were not the same species. They also smelled faintly foul and did not seem edible, so the group dared not pick them.

Just as Li Yu was about to leave the residential area, he suddenly stopped, a strange look on his face, and turned to look at a building not far away.

This was also a residential building, but most of it had collapsed. At this moment, in Li Yu's eyes, countless points of light were converging on this residential building, faintly forming a sea of ​​light under the night.

"Li Yu, what's wrong?" Wu Limei asked curiously when she saw Li Yu stop and stare at the partially collapsed residential building in the distance with a strange look in his eyes.

Li Yu waved to her, then gripped the crowbar in his hand and walked towards the collapsed residential building.

Since so many points of light have converged above, perhaps there is something inside this residential building.

Seeing Li Yu suddenly walk towards the building, everyone else looked in his direction. Lin Muying trusted Li Yu and immediately followed.

With Li Yu and Lin Muying leading the way, everyone else followed suit.

As they approached, they saw a large number of twisted, giant tree roots growing from the mostly collapsed apartment building. These roots extended from the shattered walls of the building, and many more broke through the ground, merging with the remaining sections of the building's walls.

Everyone was somewhat surprised to see so many thick tree roots.

"It seems that the reason this building collapsed was because of these tree roots, but there aren't any trees this big here. How could there be such thick tree roots?" Zou Dapeng was somewhat surprised.

Li Yu didn't speak, but instead walked around the mostly collapsed residential building from a distance, heading to the other side. He quickly walked half a circle around the building before stopping, a look of shock on his face.

After circling around to the other side of the residential building, the group discovered that the twisted tree roots extending from the wall had intertwined with each other, vaguely forming a huge cavity.

From a distance inside the cavity, one can see dense white mycelia, some thick and some thin, probably numbering in the thousands.

In the darkness of the night, these mycelia are wriggling, constantly moving and contracting along the thick tree roots and the still-standing building walls.