The kitchen knife fell and pinned the protruding hand to the ground. The bleeding effect was produced as expected, and the blood flowing out from the wound on the hand showed a gem-like blue color.
"Disguise, or parasitism? It doesn't matter." Lu Ning looked at the person still struggling on the ground from above. No, this is definitely not a human being.
"Who are you?" Lu Ning squatted down, pulled out the kitchen knife, and threw it on the treadmill next to him. The blue blood adhered to it and soon began to darken.
But no response.
"Isn't it okay if it's not flesh and blood?" Lu Ning took out a piece of cloth and wiped the blood on the kitchen knife, then threw the cloth away.
"How many things are there like you? Maybe they were once human, but they are no longer considered such." Lu Ning evaluated this person in a calm and cold tone, "What changed this place? The blue blood just now, When wiped, the viscosity is much higher than that of human blood."
She raised her head suddenly and looked upward.
The flames have burned holes in the ceiling above the head. The not very strong state has long been unable to support a person hiding on it, but what if it is not "a person"?
Lu Ning saw pairs of flashing blue light spots.
"Hiding up there?" Lu Ning smiled, "Sure enough, after tearing the body into this state, many things will be much easier. However, how are you going to attack now that it has become like this?"
She responded with a scream, and a creature above rushed towards Lu Ning. The reason why it was called a creature was because compared to the one that barely retained a human shape, it was already wrapped in a large amount of fungi, with only Moldy eyeballs and slime-soaked teeth are barely distinguishable. The moment Lu Ning heard the sound, she pointed at the ball and chopped it down in the air.
"Only one is down." Lu Ning shook off the blood again. He raised his head and glanced up. Except for this impulsive one, everyone else was still huddled up and looking down cautiously...Have they been beaten so hard that they didn't dare to act rashly?
Lu Ning could recognize the ball that he chopped off. Its shape was very similar to the one in Umbrella City among the destructive organizations that he had seen during the previous encirclement and suppression on Yuye, except that that one had a complete human body, and this one was There is only one ball left.
It seems that someone has found their weakness, but although they used this weakness to cause devastating damage, they failed to actually kill them all.
what is the reason? Now this is what Lu Ning is more curious about. She has not noticed any discomfort so far, which shows that Umbrella City is not strong enough for airborne infections. She had no direct contact with blood, and it is unclear whether the disease was transmitted through blood contact.
But it was still a good opportunity. If Umbrella City was severely damaged here, then she might as well take the opportunity to kill them all.
There were no clues here, so Lu Ning quietly evacuated and continued looking upstairs. The situation found on the middle floor is basically the same. Hidden in the corners are some people with only part of their body left, and this part does not even need to include the head. The human head seems to mean nothing to the fungi.
Lu Ning chopped down a few of the aggressive ones, but she didn't go up to the others who were seriously injured. She always felt a little unsafe.
Just wandering around like this, she reached the top floor. This is probably where the chairman and the person in charge live. Compared to downstairs, not even the door was damaged, leaving only a lot of scorched marks.
Of course, this couldn't stop Lu Ning. After she made sure that the electronic lock on the door had completely stopped working, she forced the door open. There were not many rooms on the top floor. There was almost nothing left in the first one, and most of them were burned. , some household metal ones still have a skeleton. Having said that, this fire is powerful enough that it can even melt some metal. The temperature is not what ordinary fires can reach.
When he pried open the third door, Lu Ning immediately raised his hand to cover his mouth and nose. There was a lot of black ash in the room, and there were even some fragments left in the room, which looked like broken mushroom caps.
Wasn't it burned down? Lu Ning didn't go into the house. She seemed to have found the source of the explosion? No, not entirely sure yet. She continued her work, prying open entire floors of rooms.
Only that room contained the remains of the mushroom. The remaining rooms had been burned, but nothing similar. Other than that, no one was found on the entire floor.
Yin He had not shown any knowledge related to "fire" before. Although she could make a judgment, it was not necessarily her who made the move. If she had to choose one, Lu Ning would prefer the one from Tianma Studio she met that day. people.
Although she did not listen carefully to the people at Tianma Studio, she saw from a distance that people at Tianma Studio could freely control thunder and lightning. For the mantra, all kinds of knowledge that can have natural effects have universal properties and can induce thunder. Most of them can control the fire a little. But in this way, this room will not be occupied by people from Tianma Studio, otherwise it will not end up burning down the hotel.
She stabbed the remains of a mushroom with a kitchen knife, turned and walked downstairs, found a mushroom man hiding in the room, and stabbed the remains into his body.
The change happened almost instantly. A large number of small blue-green mushrooms began to appear on the body of the mushroom man. These disgusting fungi squeezed out a large amount of blue blood from its body, and after the blood flowed out, it was not the same as before. It darkened, and instead grew fine down, which began to spread out like a blanket.
This thing... looks like a carpet of bacteria, but it just needs a sufficient supply of nutrients? It was probably because all the energy accumulated in the body had been sucked out before, but now the piece of debris that was penetrated brought more energy?
Lu Ning chopped the mushroom man into pieces again with a few knives, then returned to the first floor to check the blackened hotel map, and then found the manager's office.
This place is not very big. Lu Ning vaguely remembers that some of the management staff did not stay in the hotel for a long time. The base was newly opened, and the middle and high-level management were in a state of deficiency. Many people had to take care of several places. The hotel usually has a lobby manager permanently stationed there.
And she wasn't disappointed - she found the safe. Although many items in the office were burned, the safe held on. Lu Ning spent some time destroying the lock of the safe, and then took out the saved documents and information from inside.
Guest list.
After all, the guests this time were all specially invited. It was more like an event involving the entire hotel than an ordinary check-in. This list was an arrangement plan that had been prepared long ago. Even if it was later changed from this plan If there is any difference, it won't be much different.
The check-in arrangements for all guests in this hotel were finally displayed in front of Lu Ning.
She was already flipping through the information very quickly, and soon discovered the gaps in the list. In addition to the fact that the chairman and principals of the six investors are not on the list, there are also many people who should be on the list but are not. For example, among the three directors, only Beimuda actually lived in the hotel, and the names of the other two directors were not on this list.
In addition, Lu Ning also remembered a lot of the celebrities invited this time, and at least three-tenths of them were not on the hotel's reception list.
Of course there are other hotels here at the base, but this is the only one that opened at the beginning. Excluding those who came later, if the earliest people didn't make arrangements here... where would they be? Unfortunately I can't find the information here.
Lu Ning rummaged through the safe again and found another personnel appointment and dismissal list, and this time she saw the time on it - compared to the "reality" of her arrival, this time was further back. In other words, What is happening here is indeed something that will happen in the future.
In addition, there are some important documents, such as salary slips, activity budgets and the like, which are also locked in the safe. If you think that the documents placed here are more important documents, then these documents are at least for the manager. These are all major matters that must be dealt with clearly.
Finally, there are two contracts, one is the food supply contract, which belongs to the kitchen, and the other is the maintenance service contract here. The counterparty to the contract is Dawen Lock Industry.
After Lu Ning read all the information carefully, she folded them up and stuffed them into her arms, and then walked towards the door.
It was unrealistic for her to kill all the mushroom people in the hotel by herself. Although she was not infected, she did not dare to let the flesh and blood of the mushroom people touch her. For Lu Ning, there are many ways and choices to deal with the problem, and it is best to eliminate the trouble.
As she walked out of the hotel door, the hotel burned by flames behind her disappeared immediately. The people around her didn't seem to notice Lu Ning's sudden appearance at the door. It was only after a few seconds that her phone rang.
Lu Ning didn't answer, turned around and walked into the hotel. Since the relationship between the two is nothing more than the past and the future, then the things there can naturally change here. But who was responsible for suddenly going to the hotel in the future?
Click.
As she walked towards the back, Lu Ning heard the sound coming from the corridor wall.
She raised her hand and pressed the button on her watch, then continued walking forward. A faint fishy smell has gradually spread along the corridor. Since Hai has launched an attack, there will be more. She still has to be highly concentrated while avoiding being polluted by a sea of knowledge - this is quite difficult.
Lu Ning has never been very good at the training of controlling her thinking. Her problem of overthinking has never changed. Being able to stop thinking while thinking about it is sometimes possible, but sometimes it is difficult to do. However, Hai's attack happened to be aimed at this weak point, which made Lu Ning feel a little irritated.
The water stains spread along the wall, forming the shape of a picture, but Lu Ning walked through the corridor without squinting, making all this useless. She was concentrating, concentrating on what she wanted to do, and avoiding being distracted by external objects.
She came to the back kitchen. It was already past the meal time. There was no one here except for a few chefs on duty. And because they had nothing to do, several chefs were gathering around the lounge to play cards. Lu Ning Pharmaceutical could do it with a little effort. He sneaked into the kitchen without them noticing.
When she arrived in the kitchen, a clicking sound sounded from above her head, and the lights suddenly dimmed, but at the same time, Ciel had quietly slipped in through the window.
Without Lu Ning's instructions, Charles had already "seen" the enemy's position. He took out an object that looked like a tennis ball from his pocket and threw it to the ceiling. The golden roots pierced into the ceiling, and then the outer skin peeled off, and a muddy yellow eyeball twisted and looked downward.
"Gazer, send it back." Ciel whispered.
His eyeballs twitched, and the liquid inside suddenly began to surge. A large number of bubbles appeared like boiling water, and became increasingly turbid. After more than ten seconds, its roots began to wither, and a new layer of skin appeared on the surface. It grew out, wrapped the eyeball, fell down, and was caught by Ciel. He picked it up and examined it before his eyes, shook his head and stuffed it back into his pocket.
"Did you specifically look for targeted items?"
"We will always encounter these types of things. The nobles sell props that can deal with many different types of threats. As long as they can afford it, they will sell them."
The nobles seemed to be quite generous in this regard, but it was just incidental for Lu Ning to ask Charles to handle this matter. The important thing was another matter. She walked to the ingredients warehouse, opened the door, and began to inspect the warehouse.
"Do you smell any moldy smell?" Lu Ning sniffed. Maybe she should find Ana over. She could probably smell the smell directly with her nose.
"What are you looking for?"
"mushroom."
Charles frowned, a little confused about what Lu Ning meant, but he still pointed at a box: "The dry goods are all put in that box. If you are talking about fresh mushrooms... they probably don't exist here.
The fresh ingredients in the kitchen are all thrown out the same day they are brought in. Now it is already past ten o'clock in the evening, and the fresh ingredients have long been used up.
"It's not this kind of mushroom, it's a weirder mushroom." Lu Ning looked up and then looked around - the food library is actually not small. After all, there are a lot of people eating in the hotel every day. If you want to go through it one by one I'm afraid it will be difficult to find what you are looking for.
But isn’t that thing afraid of fire?
Lu Ning asked for a lighter to light up, and approached the boxes and pockets containing the ingredients one by one.
When she passed a brown bag with rice, the bag suddenly squirmed. Lu Ning and Xiaer immediately thrust their weapons into it. When the bag burst, some sapphire blue blood splashed out. Lu Ning immediately He dodged, but Ciel didn't. A shield suddenly appeared and blocked the blood.
Phase shift shield, did Ciel modify it into his own equipment so quickly?
"Is this the mushroom?" Charles raised the dagger and picked up a bulb with several blue mushrooms growing on it. It was still twisting. Lu Ning put the lighter to it and burned the mushroom to ashes.
"Well, it looks like there's more than one. Let's look for it first. If you find it, shoot and kill." She glanced at the rice in the bag and added, "Please take some samples from this bag to see if there are any spores attached."
