The world enters the fungal world

Chapter 71 Elite Beasts (Seeking First Subscription)

As soon as the sound came, Li Yu looked at the fleshy white gourd fruits and, in a daze, it seemed as if they had turned into plump, white babies.

They were crying and reaching out their little hands to him, and he couldn't help but want to go over and hold these babies.

Fang Mingxuan, who was behind him, couldn't help but step forward and bumped into Li Yu.

Li Yu was jolted awake by the impact, his mind jolted, and a cold sweat broke out on his back.

He immediately shouted, "Everyone back off!" He grabbed Fang Mingxuan and pulled him backward violently.

Originally, Lin Muying, Qian Lili, and the others had a dazed and confused look on their faces and were about to walk forward when they heard Li Yu's loud shout. They were jolted awake, broke out in a cold sweat, and retreated.

As they retreated, the faint voice in their minds immediately disappeared, but the baby's crying continued.

When Fang Mingxuan regained consciousness, his face was pale, his lips were tightly pursed, and his forehead was covered in cold sweat.

He understood what had happened and felt a wave of fear wash over him.

"Hurry up!" Li Yu shouted again, turning around and quickly moving away from the area.

The crowd followed him and rushed in the other direction.

They only stopped after they had circled around two giant mushroom thickets, leaving the vines covered in gourds far behind, and could no longer hear the baby crying.

"What kind of plant is this? Not only can it make the sound of a baby crying, but that sound can also bewitch people. We almost fell for it just now." Zou Dapeng's face was a little pale, and he was still shaken.

Qian Lili patted her chest and said, "I was so scared! It was terrifying. Luckily, Li Yu was conscious. Otherwise, if we had really gotten close to those gourd fruits, I don't know what would have happened."

Li Yu shook his head and said, "I was really lucky just now. I was only brought back to my senses by Mingxuan bumping into me."

He had just finished speaking when a deep wolf howl suddenly came from afar.

Everyone felt a chill and looked in the direction from which the wolf's howl came.

Two more low, terrifying wolf howls followed, the sound coming from the very spot where the gourd fruit was located.

Li Yu's heart skipped a beat, and he ran several steps, bypassing the mushroom patch beside him, and saw in the distance the green vines that stretched out for about ten meters.

On the other side of the green vines, five ghost wolf beasts appeared, howling at the gourd fruits on the vines.

The crowd had grown far enough away that they could no longer hear the baby cries emanating from the gourd fruits. They could only see the ghost wolf beasts howling as they slowly approached the gourd fruits.

Soon, the five ghost wolf beasts stopped in front of the gourd fruits, and the already low wolf howls disappeared.

The five ghost wolf beasts opened their blood-red mouths. Everyone originally thought they would gnaw on the gourd fruits, but instead they stretched out their blood-red tongues and began to lick the surface of the gourd fruits.

The group exchanged bewildered glances. Zhou Xigang whispered, "Good heavens, it seems even these ghost wolf beasts have been bewitched by them."

Li Yu knew that these ghost wolf beasts would lick these gourd fruits, probably because they regarded them as their own wolf cubs.

They had been misled, mistaking the gourd fruits for plump white babies, while the ghost wolf beasts probably saw them as a pack of young wolves in need of care.

They were too far away to see more than five ghost wolf beasts licking the gourd fruits.

Everyone was very curious, as these gourd fruits could emit a special, bewitching sound that could lure people or animals to them.

But what will happen next, or how to hunt these lured prey, is something no one can guess, since these gourd fruits seem to have no offensive capabilities at all.

"Let's go." Li Yu shook his head, deciding not to think about it anymore, and gestured to the others to leave.

The group quietly left, bypassing a grove of mushrooms ahead. A road appeared before them, which Li Yu vaguely remembered as Binhu Road. Not far from Binhu Road was Jiangcheng's famous Binhu Park.

In the past, Binhu Road in Jiangcheng was bustling with traffic, but now it is full of abandoned vehicles.

The vehicles were all covered with mushrooms. Among these vehicles grew all kinds of colorful mushrooms, some small and some small, no bigger than a fingernail, while the large mushrooms could grow to one or two meters tall, with huge caps resembling giant open umbrellas.

The group carefully made their way through the mushrooms, trying to avoid the unknown mushrooms while also being wary of the fungal beasts that might be lurking among them.

Fortunately, the rest of the journey was safe, and the group headed towards the South Mountain area. Li Yu kept thinking about the approximate location of the light source he had seen earlier.

Occasionally, I need to rely on my right eye to observe the swirling lights in the sky from afar to determine my location and prevent me from going the wrong way.

As the group walked along the lakeside road, they saw an overpass passing over the road in the distance. The overpass had not collapsed and was considered to be relatively well-preserved.

Various mushrooms also grow on the overpass, and there are even giant mycelia that spread down the bridge piers, looking like countless thick vines from a distance.

Suddenly, a figure rose up from the guardrail along the overpass, looking down at the crowd with a pair of eyes that faintly glowed, as if looking at a group of dead people.

Among the group that was walking towards the overpass, Li Yu was the first to sense it. He immediately stopped, looked up, and saw a fungal beast about the same size as the Ghost Wolf Beast above him.

This fungal beast has a fox-like body, but is much larger than a normal fox. Its fur is covered with umbrella-shaped fungi, its limb joints are covered with arthropod exoskeletons, and its pupils are the fluorescent color of mushrooms.

Most strikingly, it has a pair of translucent insect wings growing from its back, which are now fluttering slightly and scattering fine fungal powder.

When Li Yu saw it, his heart skipped a beat, and the booklet that recorded the fungal beasts immediately came to mind. He quickly found the matching fungal beast in it.

Elite Winged Fox Beast, a D-class elite fungal-like beast, has arthropod exoskeletons covering its limb joints, allowing it to unleash power similar to insect arthropods. Although the translucent insect wings growing from its back cannot allow it to fly, they can glide for short distances. Even among D-class elite fungal-like beasts, it is a terrifying existence.

Lin Muying, Fang Mingxuan, Zhou Xigang, and the other four people who were following closely behind Li Yu also noticed the elite winged fox beast, and their faces showed surprise.

They weren't afraid of ordinary fungal beasts, but they had only encountered two elite fungal beasts, both of which were killed by Li Yu. Now, a third elite fungal beast had appeared.

Instead of immediately attacking the group, the elite winged fox suddenly stood upright, opened its sharp fox mouth, and let out a sharp fox howl.

As it howled, howls echoed from all directions. Li Yu saw that behind the abandoned cars, from the clusters of mushrooms, one after another, fungal beasts appeared and surrounded them.

These newly appeared fungal beasts resembled smaller versions of elite winged fox beasts. Apart from being slightly smaller, their biggest difference was that they lacked the pair of translucent insect wings on their backs.