With the samples in hand, Shire's investigation speed was very fast. About thirty minutes later, Charles gathered all the mushrooms growing in the warehouse into one place, and even the place where the mushrooms grew was "purified".
"Thirty-three places... quite a lot." Lu Ning picked up a bucket of oil and poured it on the mushrooms, burning all the mushrooms to ashes. But even so, I didn't receive a notification that the task was completed. If there were no fish missed in Ciel's search, then the mushrooms had already been mixed into the human body.
She didn't know how far into the future the scene she accidentally saw was, so she tried to get closer in time.
"Char, can you directly observe whether the structure of the human body is normal?"
"It's very simple, just adjust the mode." Charles nodded the side of his head and his eyes lit up slightly, "But in this case, all my field of vision will be filled with silhouettes, and I may not be able to react if a battle breaks out. .”
"It's okay, that's fine... By the way, you've changed both eyes? I thought most people would only change one."
"There was a promotion at that time. I saw that the price and gifts were very good, so I changed them together." Charles replied.
Lu Ning: "..."
Since this was easy to handle, the most that could be done was to clean up the entire hotel and not take care of the outside of the hotel. After all, the result that Lu Ning saw was that "the hotel was blocked and burned", and the cause must be internal. And if Lu Ning was asked to pick the most suspicious place, it would of course be the room on the top floor with fragments of mushrooms. She asked Charles to go to the hotel to find someone, while she contacted Yin Xiu again and asked him straight to the point who lived in that room.
"Although I don't know why you are suddenly curious about this kind of thing, there is no one in that room at the moment." Yin Xiu replied.
"no one?"
"Yes, that room belongs to another chairman, his name is Han Lian. Since I can still remember him, it means he is not dead yet. He was the first person to be kidnapped, and he could not be found after he was lost. Come back, but I don’t see that Xuetu Electronics is particularly anxious, and his level is probably not that good." Yin Xiu laughed, "Actually, the level of the tourists we serve as chairman is also different. Yes, doesn’t it feel good to have me as your teammate?”
"Weren't you tied up too?"
"That was intentional... If you don't mention this, since you asked specifically, it means that you learned from some channels that there is something wrong with that room? Then I will take care of it." Yin Xiu responded quickly.
"Be careful, it should be Umbrella City. Do you know this organization, right?"
"The vitality is tenacious and the weakness is fire. So, after being defeated that day, do the remaining forces plan to lurk in this place to cause trouble again?"
"Not only is this a problem, I only found out about it after I was accidentally sent to the future." Lu Ning frowned, "This hotel belongs to you, right? Do you know what is haunting the door of my room on the tenth floor? ?”
"This is beyond the scope of my intelligence. I have a lot of information about visitors from other worlds, but the exploration of this world is similar to everyone else. But... I can try to check." Yin Xiu reported from there. There was a sound of typing on the keyboard, "Don't have your hopes too high."
"You should deal with the problem of that room first. I will take care of the rest of the hotel." Lu Ning sighed, "I don't want that future to come true."
"learn."
Yin Xiu hung up the phone, and the smile on her face disappeared instantly.
"She doesn't know yet..."
Wei Jia's slightly mocking voice came from the computer: "She is just as busy checking out her clue as we are, right? Yin Xiu, you are so hypocritical. You are still pretending to be peaceful at this time?"
"Wei Jia, you have to believe that I really want to cooperate with you."
"The way of cooperation is that we work hard to collect intelligence, and you sit on the Diaoyutai?"
The camera on the computer screen turned and focused on a place that looked like a haunted house. In the gloomy and empty room, there was only a rope hanging from the beam, and a corpse hanging below.
"Wei Jia, don't complain so much. You know it's best to stabilize your mentality at this time." Yin Xiu said coldly, "There is no such thing as sitting on the Diaoyutai. I won't let you guys with few special abilities do something extremely dangerous. There is only one question we have to figure out now - why Qin Zhilan hanged himself here."
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The time Lu Ning spent on the phone was enough for Charles to check the entire building. Ordinary guests might not even find out that they were being checked.
"How many?" Lu Ning asked in a low voice when she saw Charles coming downstairs.
"Ten, just right." Ciel had a bit more blood smell on his body, "Two of them are not completely infected, so I want to ask you how to deal with them."
"Ask me?" Lu Ning glanced at Charles and seemed to notice something.
Ciel followed her, saying that she wanted to observe what love was, but there had been so many things going on recently that she had forgotten about it.
"Someone I know?"
In the utility room, two people were tied there, a man and a woman, with some blood on their bodies. It seemed that Charles had used violent methods to subdue them.
The male Lu Ning vaguely remembers that he was one of the photographers who came with the car at the beginning, and he can be regarded as "acquaintance"; while the female is familiar in another sense, it is Che Nai, and she will be shooting later, so she stays. I haven’t left the film and television base yet.
Lu Ning's eyes darkened slightly.
The photographer was someone she actually knew, but to Lu Ning, he was no different from a stranger. The only thing that needed to be considered was how to continue shooting if the photographer died.
As for Che Nai... she wouldn't really regard her as the phantom of her deceased friend, but judging from the brief conversation after the two parties got to know each other, Lu Ning also had some affection for the other party.
"What are the symptoms of the other eight deep infections?"
"The brain has been occupied by toadstool mushrooms, which can spray out the spores in a 'flowering' manner at any time. The state is quite dangerous, so I didn't stay and burned them all. Anyway, a few people would die here without being noticed." Ciel replied.
"Are these two equally hopeless?"
"The skills I have are not yet good enough to perform this kind of mycelium stripping operation. Maybe the nobles can. Moreover, many parts of their bodies have been eaten away by the toadstool fungus. Even if it is stripped, they will probably be semi-paralyzed in the future."
"What a shame." Lu Ning stepped forward, squatted down, and gently patted Chen Nai on the shoulder.
A few seconds later, Che Nai woke up, opened his eyes, and saw Lu Ning. His first reaction was not to panic or yell, but to look around.
"Che Nai, are you awake?" Lu Ning asked softly.
"Hmm... dizzy." Che Nai shook her head. Of course she also saw Ciel standing at the door. It was such a big place, so Ciel stood at the door, blocking all the ways to leave.
"Lu Ning, am I going to die?" Che Nai smiled.
"Yes, your body is parasitized by something. Do you feel it?" Lu Ning also answered her in a very gentle voice.
"I didn't feel it, but... there was something wrong with my intuition. My energy was a little weak, and I had to sleep two more hours every day. I originally thought it was a matter of age, or that my schedule was not good recently... but it turned out to be such a big deal. Ah..." Che Nai's eyes were a little blank and looked out the window.
Lu Ning reached out and patted the photographer again, making him wake up. His energy was even more exhausted, and his eyes were bloodshot. Although he was a little excited about Lu Ning's words, he quickly calmed down.
"You two, unfortunately, this world is no longer the same as the one you know. You are parasitized by a creature and you will probably die soon." Lu Ning said directly.
"Ha, it sounds like filming a movie." The photographer lamented.
"It's a pity that this is a fact. You two, I can't let you go. To put it bluntly, you have become a source of infection that can break out at any time. I must nip all this in the cradle."
"Then...can you let me take a look?" Che Nai suddenly said, "That thing that parasitized us?"
Lu Ning signaled to Charles, who took out a knife from his pocket and threw it to Chen Nai.
"It has already parasitized into your body. You can see it if you cut the skin." Ciel whispered.
Lu Ning untied the rope for the two of them. Chen Nai grabbed the knife and scratched his arm, picking out some blue filaments from under the skin. They were not obvious, but they were already rooted in the flesh. The photographer also cut himself with a knife. He laughed sadly and held his head.
"It seems that we have indeed reached this point. I... It's not that I don't want to resist, but my body is very tired, and I am afraid that a lot of energy has been sucked away by this thing." Che Nai squinted his eyes, as if he was about to fall asleep. , "But if I die, those who know me will definitely investigate this matter thoroughly..."
"In three days, we will all forget, forget that people died, and forget that you existed in this world." Lu Ning explained calmly, "Maybe it sounds uncomfortable."
"Yeah...it's very sad. I want to be a star, and I originally wanted to be remembered by the world...but now, isn't there nothing left?"
Che Nai slowly closed her eyes: "I'm very tired, please don't make me suffer."
"I... I want to ask." The photographer suddenly spoke, and Lu Ning looked at him. The man also lowered his hands holding his head, "Are you the ones who specialize in dealing with this matter? Then... then I want to know, will this world get better? Will it become what we knew before? Is that so? Or...is this what the world is originally like?"
Hearing this question, Che Naidu opened his eyes again and stared at Lu Ning.
"...It will change, but whether it is good or bad, I cannot give a guarantee." Lu Ning answered.
The photographer and Che Nai couldn't help but feel a little disappointed, but the time had come, and Ciel came over, and the hint was already obvious.
"As you two said, you won't have much pain. Just treat it as a dream that you won't wake up from."
"It sounds like you've already tried it..." Chana forced a smile.
Lu Ning turned around and walked towards the door, letting Charles take action.
"But I woke up..."
[Disaster 1 mission is completed and will be settled after the scene ends. 】
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The service staff at the base do not live in hotels. There are a large number of dormitories in the first and second districts. There should be some in other districts as well, but Lu Ning doesn't know where they are. She only knew that if something happened, these service personnel and security guards would rush out from everywhere immediately, and the number of people could not be predicted at all.
However, the Fans Association does not have so many problems. Plenty of time and free status allow them to investigate most things on the surface. Zhan Qiuxin and Li Chengfu are now standing next to the staff dormitory building in District 20. Zhan Qiuxin is still holding a cigarette, which is the only spot of light in the dark night.
"We once had a companion, right?" Zhan Qiuxin breathed out, "What is Pu...?"
"Urashima phenomenon." Li Chengfu handed over his mobile phone, "Even the name can't be saved in the Crow APP. I can only write down the final message for our companion's death through insinuating notes."
"Who told you about the Urashima phenomenon?" Zhan Qiuxin asked.
"...Aifelik, the chairman of Rufus Real Estate." Li Chengfu said, "He had someone contact me, and I met with him."
"And you're afraid to say it in front of me."
"It's always not good to be in two different situations. I can't judge your character very well, but I won't do it now."
At this time, it is impossible to turn off the lights around the employee dormitories. After all, there are still night shift employees and people who have just got off work. But now it is completely dark. Rather, the entire base was in a blackout.
"The Urashima phenomenon is a person who travels through compressed time in a short period of time. The time itself has not changed, but the surroundings have changed. Of course, there is another derivative phenomenon of this phenomenon, that is..." Zhan Qiu took a breath. Smoke, "Urashima Taro's box."
This is manifested in the phenomenon as a certain trigger point. Once a person trapped in the Urashima phenomenon touches the "box", his time will immediately synchronize with the compressed time. For most people trapped in the Urashima phenomenon, the result It is "death".
"This is how our teammates died." Zhan Qiuxin threw the cigarette butt at his feet and stamped it out. "Although he recognized the Urashima phenomenon, he accidentally touched the switch of the box and never came back. Urashima" The degree of danger in the island phenomenon is completely uncertain. After all, when time is not synchronized, it is difficult for external things to penetrate time and cause damage, even if it can be recovered after breaking away. But once you touch the box, you are not far from death. .”
She looked around.
"Li Chengfu, pay attention, we don't know where the box is now, and we can't open anything easily."
"I know. I'm sorry for hiding it before." Li Chengfu said sincerely.
"It's nothing. What kind of person is Aifelik? Can you tell me?" Zhan Qiuxin walked to the staff dormitory.
"He? This man is very smart and knows how to hide his clumsiness, but I think he has a kind of natural arrogance. He probably comes from a relatively high social status." Li Chengfu snorted coldly, "I just made a deal with him .”
