Xingtie: My silly online friend is actually a raccoon!

As the Licker was blown in the head, a strong smell of blood filled the entire carriage.

The skinless, dark red corpse lay across the aisle, its claws still embedded in the metal plates of the carriage floor. Its tongue dangled from the corner of its mouth, and saliva mixed with dark red blood pooled on the floor.

Black Tower frowned slightly, took out a glass bottle, unscrewed the cap, and sprinkled some of the light gray powder inside onto the Licker's corpse.

"What is this?" Lu Ze walked over, his gaze falling on the slowly dispersing powder.

"The spores I mentioned yesterday."

Black Tower glanced at Lu Ze, then resealed the bottle, giving the impression of sprinkling seasoning while cooking.

Upon hearing Black Tower's words, Lu Ze immediately became interested.

Yesterday, she described this thing in such a fantastical way in the car, and now I finally have the chance to see it for myself.

Silver Wolf and Qi Lin also curiously joined in, and the four of them gathered around the Licker's corpse, quietly watching the entire process of this miniature life evolution under the faint blue light of the Nightstone.

As the powder landed on the licker's corpse, a fine layer of white down first appeared.

Immediately afterwards, a gray mushroom bud the size of a grain of rice swells up from the tip of the downy hairs. The mushroom bud expands and opens its cap at a speed visible to the naked eye. In less than half a minute, it grows into a mature mushroom the height of a finger joint.

A ring of pale gray spore mist was simultaneously sprayed from beneath the umbrella-shaped canopy. After the new spores landed on other parts of the corpse and the blood on the wall, they immediately began to germinate and grow again, like an ever-expanding fungal net that enveloped the entire corpse.

The bloodstains on the wall dried and faded at a visible speed, as the nutrients were drawn away by the mycelium and instead nourished clusters of plump mushrooms.

About a minute later, the Licker’s silhouette completely disappeared, leaving only a lush clump of mushrooms in its place.

Lu Ze had already heard Black Tower describe these spores in the car yesterday.

Only now, witnessing its proliferation rate firsthand, did he truly understand what terrifying thing the Black Tower had produced in less than half an hour.

The pungent smell of blood in the carriage was replaced by the fresh scent of mushrooms and herbs, and Lu Ze secretly rejoiced that this stuff had no effect on living people.

Otherwise, given the amount of spores he just inhaled, his stomach would probably be full of mushrooms by now.

Speaking of growing mushrooms in your stomach...

"Old woman, are you sure you added materials for a bountiful destiny and not for breeding?"

Silver Wolf pointed at the cluster of mushrooms that shimmered with a bluish hue under the night-blooming stone light, his gray eyes filled with disdain.

"This reproduction rate is almost catching up with that of real crickets."

Just as Black Tower was about to retort, Lu Ze, who had been deep in thought, suddenly asked a question that shocked everyone.

"What do you think of the taste of these mushrooms?"

Black Tower looked up at Lu Ze with some surprise, clearly not expecting him to ask such a question.

"Why don't you give it a try?" A hint of eagerness flashed in her purple eyes.

"Eek~"

Silver Wolf pulled Qi Lin back two steps with a look of disgust, wanting to get away from these two perverts.

Lu Ze looked at their reactions, shook his head and smiled.

He was just saying it casually; how could he possibly eat a mushroom that grows by consuming corpses? He's not a glutton.

bang-

The train wheels made a screeching sound as they scraped against the rails, and then the train suddenly slowed down.

The four people leaned forward slightly due to inertia, and the dim yellow light from outside the carriage shone in through the open windows, illuminating the cluster of mushrooms on the floor with distinct light and shadow.

They have arrived at their destination.