The world enters the fungal world

The three of them ran wildly along the street covered with mushrooms. Li Yu saw that the mushrooms around him were becoming more and more bizarre. If some of the mushrooms he had seen before looked somewhat familiar, the mushrooms he saw now were completely beyond his imagination.

He even saw a giant, eerily beautiful mushroom growing on the exterior wall of one of the buildings. It was fiery red all over, as big as a washbasin, and had long, thin tendrils like jellyfish floating around its cap. These tendrils were also fiery red and were swaying slightly in the wind, making it look indescribably eerie and bewitching.

After running a full hundred meters, Qian Lili was already more than ten meters behind him. She could no longer run, panting heavily, bending over, almost unable to stand.

"I...I...can't run anymore..."

Li Yu heard Qian Lili's voice and stopped as well. He could see that not only Qian Lili, but also Lin Muying, who was beside him, was almost unable to run anymore. Her face was deathly pale, and she was breathing heavily, with no color in her skin.

Although Li Yu was in better physical condition than them, he was also somewhat exhausted because he had exerted too much effort to kill the monster and had run such a long distance with almost no rest.

Seeing that they had stopped, Qian Lili reluctantly continued walking towards them.

Li Yu was panting as he looked around.

The only consolation is that the monsters shouldn't have caught up with us; at least we can't see them yet.

The burning pain on the wound on her right cheek had subsided, but her right eye was getting increasingly itchy, so Li Yu couldn't help but reach out and gently rub her right eye.

After being attacked, my right eye has been blurry, but it's gradually becoming clearer. However, the itching is unbearable.

As Li Yu gently rubbed his right eye, he felt tears welling up in it again.

He felt an unusual itch in his right eye, but he didn't dare to think about it too much, because the only explanation was that his right eye was infected.

This feeling was terrifying, filling him with deep anxiety and unease, but he didn't show it.

"Li Yu, is your right eye uncomfortable?" Lin Muying noticed that Li Yu was rubbing his right eye and saw that his right eye was tearing up.

Li Yu forced himself to stop rubbing his eyes, enduring the intense itching, and said, "I don't know either. Maybe... I've been infected, or maybe I've been parasitized."

Qian Lili, who had just walked over panting, was startled by Li Yu's words and exclaimed, "Li Yu, don't scare us!"

Li Yu ignored her and looked at Lin Muying, saying, "Can you take a look at my eyes? They keep itching in waves, this is really not normal."

As Lin Muying listened to Li Yu's words, her face grew paler and paler. She softly hummed in agreement, walked up to Li Yu, took out her phone, turned on the flashlight, carefully pried open his upper and lower eyelids, and examined Li Yu's eyeballs in the light of the flashlight.

Qian Lili also came over from the side.

Lin Muying carefully examined Li Yu's right eyeball. Perhaps because Li Yu had just rubbed it, there were a lot of blood vessels around the eye. Apart from that, she didn't see anything abnormal. She turned off her phone's flashlight, shook her head, and said, "It just looks like there are a lot of blood vessels around the eye. I can't see anything else wrong."

Hearing her say that, Li Yu relaxed slightly and murmured, "I hope there won't be any problems."

Qian Lili asked nervously and anxiously, "Li Yu, Mu Ying, where do we go now?"

Under the cover of night, the surrounding area was filled with tall buildings covered in mushrooms, which looked like ferocious giant beasts from a distance.

This is no longer the Jiangcheng they know. There was a monster parasitized by mushrooms in that hotel, and they dare not go back. So where should they go now?

Upon hearing Qian Lili's question, Li Yu and Lin Muying exchanged glances and fell silent.

Qian Lili grew increasingly anxious and said, "Say something!"

Li Yu asked, "Qian Lili, what's your opinion?"

As they spoke, they took out their phones and checked them. There was still no signal, and they hadn't received any messages. It was as if the three of them had been isolated from the world and could no longer make any contact with the outside world.

When Qian Lili heard Li Yu ask this, she paused for a moment before replying, "I don't know."

Lin Muying thought for a moment and said, "If Li Yu's guess about time travel is true, then I'm afraid we won't be able to go back in the short term. We've tried all the places we could, but unfortunately we haven't been able to find the so-called passage through time."

Qian Lili's face showed fear as she asked, "Mu Ying, do you mean we're going to live here?"

Lin Muying sighed and murmured, "At least for now, it seems that's the only way."

Then she looked at Li Yu again and said, "Li Yu, what do you think?"

Li Yu noticed that his phone's battery was only half full. There was nowhere to charge it, and it wouldn't be long before the phone shut down automatically.

After carefully putting away his phone, he said, "I have a feeling that the hotel is the key, including the banquet hall where the ground collapsed."

Lin Muying nodded and said, "Yes, we heard a loud noise in the banquet hall and rushed over. After that, this series of abnormal phenomena occurred. Now, there are monkeys parasitized by mushrooms in the banquet hall. I think this may not be a coincidence, but rather a connection. I think there may be something in the collapsed pit."

Li Yu said, "Do you remember the hole that appeared above the banquet hall? It looked like something had smashed through it. We can now assume that something like a meteorite fell from the sky and hit the hotel building."

"This thing went through the hotel building, all the way to the banquet hall on the third floor, and then the floor of the banquet hall on the third floor completely collapsed, forming a deep pit."

Lin Muying nodded slightly as she listened to Li Yu's words and said, "This reasoning is quite reasonable. If that's the case, then if there really is such a meteorite, it should still be at the bottom of that crater."

"Yes, I suspect that this object, which may be a meteorite, has some kind of special ability. Whether it's the mushrooms that appeared in the hotel or even in Jiangcheng, the woman who was parasitized and eaten by the mushrooms, the black cat, or the parasitized monkeys that later crawled out of the deep pit, they were all created by this thing."

Hearing Li Yu's words, both women showed expressions of emotion. Qian Lili suddenly asked, "Do you think everything we're experiencing now might be an illusion?"

Li Yu looked at her.

Qian Lili said, "I just remembered something. I watched a fantasy drama not long ago. In the drama, there was a meteorite from outer space. This meteorite had a special ability to make people who got close to it enter an illusion without them even realizing it. I was wondering if what we're encountering is something similar? Is everything we're seeing and experiencing now just an illusion, and we're actually still in the hotel?"

Hearing Qian Lili say this, Li Yu's heart stirred slightly. Her guess was not entirely unreasonable. However, he found it hard to believe that the illusion before him was so real. Including his injuries, the real pain, and the tingling in his right eye, it all felt too real. It was so real that he could hardly believe that it was just an illusion.