Xingtie: My silly online friend is actually a raccoon!

Silver Wolf: (ᗜ ˰ ᗜ)……

Silver Wolf knew that now was not the time to act out.

The rest of them weren't afraid of the zombies. Lu Ze had her trump cards; her own body was just a clone created using Ether, not to mention the Black Tower.

But among them were also people like Qi Lin, who was just a high school student who had only recently learned to fire a gun.

Even if Ada Wong is highly skilled, she is still just an ordinary agent.

If we continue to suppress our strength and allow the zombie horde to continue growing, problems will inevitably arise sooner or later.

She turned her head and called out to Luze, "Luze Beast! Release the seal!"

Luze shot down a Licker that was trying to pounce from the side and was preparing to retaliate.

"Need not."

A lazy voice came from the back of the group.

It was Heita, who had never joined the group. She pulled out several palm-sized glass bottles, each containing some grayish-white powder.

Luze and the others had seen this before; it was spores.

Black Tower casually tossed the glass bottles toward the area where the zombie horde was most concentrated.

The glass bottle traced several arcs before crashing onto the ground in the center of the horde of corpses and shattering.

The powder instantly kicked up a cloud of dust, which spread through the air like a thin mist, enveloping the zombies in the front row.

At first, nothing happened.

The zombies continued to surge forward, and the Lickers continued to crawl rapidly across the ceiling, as if the powder were just ordinary dust, having no effect whatsoever.

Ada Wong frowned slightly, not understanding what the little girl was doing.

However, changes soon began.

The zombies in the front row that were the first to come into contact with the spore dust began to slow down.

A layer of fine white down appears on their skin surface.

The downy hairs grow extremely fast, emerging from the pores at a speed visible to the naked eye and spreading all over the body.

Even the lickers were not spared.

The same white mycelium began to appear on their exposed muscle tissue, initially as scattered patches, but soon they merged together and covered their entire body.

The mycelium grows longer and denser, thicker and thicker, as if it were covered with a white velvet blanket.

Meanwhile, these mycelium-covered zombies and lickers became increasingly slow.

Their bodies are visibly shriveling up, as if the mycelium is frantically absorbing their nutrients.

The nearest zombie staggered two more steps, then its legs gave way and it collapsed to the ground, unable to get up again.

Its body continued to shrivel as it fell, its skin tightly wrapped around its bones, like a mummy that had been dried for hundreds of years.

"You know what," Lu Ze said, looking at the zombies being covered in mycelium, when he suddenly remembered a joke, "with a layer of white hair, even these zombies look quite handsome."

"Eek~"

Silver Wolf let out a disgusted snort and frowned as he glanced at him.

"What kind of lousy analogy is that? It's disgusting."

Lu Ze smiled, clearly Silver Wolf couldn't understand his joke.

As they were speaking, the mycelium had already grown to a critical point.

They begin to unfurl their tiny caps from the top, the white caps rapidly expanding, and then with a "poof," they expel a new cloud of spore dust.

One of the umbrella-shaped caps sprayed out spores.

Then there are ten.

One hundred.

Thousands upon thousands.

Countless spores and dust erupted from the zombies, forming a gray-white wall of mist that covered the entire horde.

The zombies that followed plunged into the spore mist, and then began to grow mycelium, wither, and open their caps, spraying out even more spores.

The whole process took less than three minutes.

When the spore dust finally settled slowly and the air became visible again, the scene in front of the five people had completely changed.

The original horde of zombies has disappeared.

Instead, a gray-white mushroom forest appeared.

Those once menacing zombies and lickers have now become "culture mediums" covered with thick mycelium and with umbrella-shaped caps on their heads, fixed in place in various poses, like a bizarre mushroom sculpture garden.

The entire restaurant B instantly became so quiet you could hear a pin drop, with only the hum of the nutrient solution circulation pump and the occasional faint cracking sound of a spore cap breaking.

Ida Wong stood at the edge of the mushroom grove, her amber pupils slightly constricted.

She instinctively took a step back, covered her mouth and nose with her hand, and scanned the zombie remains covered in mycelium with wary eyes.

She had carried out countless missions and seen many ways to die, but this was the first time she had ever seen someone die by being drained dry by a mushroom.

"It's fine."

Lu Ze noticed her reaction and comforted her gently.

"These are spores developed by the Black Tower specifically to suppress zombies; they are harmless to humans."

Ida Wong lowered her hand, but her gaze still held deep surprise and doubt.

She turned to look at the petite girl wearing a beret.

This girl looks only thirteen or fourteen years old and seems uninterested in anything.

She couldn't believe it.

How could this girl create such a terrifying thing?