Lu Yu, who was focused on Xiao Ran, didn't notice the weirdness on Gu Changfeng's face at all, and just asked again.
"What's wrong? Is something wrong?"
At this moment, Xiao Ran was looking solemnly out of the car window and did not answer Lu Yu's question immediately.
Following his gaze out of the car window, Lu Yu discovered that Xiao Ran was looking at the body of the skinny monster not far away.
"That corpse is a little weird..."
After a moment of silence, Xiao Ran seemed to have finally considered the sentence and spoke.
"Weird? What's weird?"
Lu Yu blinked and looked carefully.
Compared with yesterday, the position of the monster's corpse had not changed, except that the surface of the originally pale and skinny skin was slightly yellowish.
"There's nothing weird about it. It's still in the same shape as when it fell to the ground yesterday. It didn't even move its claws."
After looking at it for a long time, Lu Yu finally came to this conclusion.
Gu Changfeng, who was sitting in the back seat, heard the conversation between the two and curiously went to the car window to look out. With just one glance, a trace of surprise flashed across the young police officer's face and he spoke.
"That's wrong... I remember that Senior Xiaoya's skin is not so yellow..."
Of course, the "Senior Xiaoya" mentioned by Gu Changfeng refers to the skinny monster lying on the ground.
Because he had been held in the detention room for fifteen days, during these fifteen days, the skinny monster mutated by police officer Chen Xiaoya had been waiting outside the detention room, trying to get in and devour Gu Changfeng all the time.
So Gu Changfeng was forced to "observe" the monster for nearly fifteen days.
Although he couldn't say he knew much about monsters, at least he was much more familiar with the appearance than Lu Yu and Xiao Ran.
"Isn't it just that the skin has turned a little yellow? It's normal. Maybe it's due to air oxidation after death..."
Lu Yu said nonchalantly, apparently intending to ignore this minor change.
Although Gu Changfeng felt a little strange, when he heard what Lu Yu said, he immediately lost his interest in asking more questions and adjusted his sitting posture slightly so that he could lean on the back of the chair more comfortably.
"Well, it should be fine. Let's go."
Xiao Ran nodded and signaled Lu Yu to start the car, but her eyes were still staring at the body not far away without blinking.
With the soft sound of the key turning, the car engine, which had been silent all night, started smoothly.
It wasn't until the roar sounded that Xiao Ran slowly uttered two words.
"Mycelium..."
However, because the girl spoke too quietly and was obscured by the roar of the engine, the word "mycelium" did not attract the attention of Lu Yu and others.
The silver-gray car quickly drove away from the police station, leaving only a trail of smoke and dust slowly drifting on the road.
Not long after Lu Yu and others left, a secondary infection in tattered clothes wandered close to the body of a horse-level zombie.
Not only did this secondary infected body have tattered clothes, but its limbs were also incomplete.
Only half of his left arm was left, with white broken bones protruding from the dry wound.
The right arm was completely gone, severed from the shoulder, as if it had been torn off by something.
Not only that, the face of this secondary infected body with broken arms was also covered with wounds, many of which were deep enough to show bones, mixed with black mucus and filth.
The landscape further down was even more unbearable to look at. The broken intestines flowed out from the broken abdominal cavity and were just dragged on the ground casually, like a piece of useless hemp rope, covered with a lot of dust.
If such an injury were suffered on a human being, he would probably not be able to survive long ago, but on a zombie, as long as the brain and spine are not damaged, the person would still be able to move to a certain extent.
The secondary virus in the body kept driving the broken body forward, and soon it came to the body of the horse-level zombie.
If the secondary infection had the ability to see at this moment, he would be able to clearly see the weirdness of the corpse in front of him.
Just as Lu Yu and Gu Changfeng saw at the beginning, the skin on the zombie's body had completely turned yellow.
And this color changes
The reason for the change is precisely because the skin surface is covered with a large number of hyphae.
The light yellow mycelium is like a thin piece of cloth, tightly wrapping the corpse of the horse-level zombie. As long as you have the patience to look carefully, you can find that these mycelium are squirming regularly.
Just like seaweed growing on the bottom of the sea, swaying silently in the invisible ocean currents, using the corpses below as nourishment, blooming with vigorous vitality.
As the secondary zombies continued to approach, these regularly squirming hyphae seemed to sense something and began to slowly pile up in the direction of the secondary zombies at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Gradually, the yellow color on the corpse became uneven, with thick yellow spots appearing on the parts closest to the secondary zombies, while the parts farther away began to become sparse, gradually revealing the pale and dry skin underneath.
"Ouch..."
The secondary infected body with incomplete limbs sniffed the corpse in front of it with its broken nose, and let out a series of low roars that were similar to whimpering.
Its low intelligence does not allow it to make judgments on the situation at hand, and all it can rely on is instinct.
The breath coming from the broken nasal cavity told the secondary infection that the corpse in front of him seemed to be a delicious meal.
And around this delicious meal, there wasn’t even a single one of its kind trying to grab the food.
You must know that in normal times, a secondary infected body with incomplete limbs like it cannot monopolize food at all, and has no choice but to pick up scraps among similar species.
But now the situation is different. There is a complete corpse in front of it, and it is not an ordinary corpse, but a mutant with a high concentration of virus source.
The broken nose received wrong information, and the wrong information induced limited instincts, and the limited instincts made this poor secondary infected body make the most stupid move.
Linked to each other, step into the abyss.
The secondary infected body opened its mouth in excitement, and without any choice, bit directly at the corpse in front of it.
The body that had been decayed by mycelium had already become fragile and was soon reduced to pieces by the bites.
There is no black mucus gushing out like a fountain, and there is no muscle and fat full of virus-derived substances.
Underneath the pale, dry skin, there are only numerous pale yellow hyphae.
These hyphae were like expired marshmallows, dense and complicated, and with the biting movements, they quickly covered the entire body of the secondary infected body.
After taking two bites, it seemed that something was wrong. The secondary infected body raised its head in confusion, and blinked in confusion with its eyes covered by white mist.
"Ouch?"
A slightly confused voice came from the throat of the secondary infected body. Its limited IQ made it unable to understand the situation in front of it.
But soon, the hyphae attached to the secondary infected body began to grow crazily, so fast that they even made slight rustling sounds.
The secondary infected body attached to the mycelium also fell to its knees with a plop. The previous excitement was no longer on its broken face, and only extreme pain remained.
A large number of mycelium formed an airtight layer of living yellow cloth, completely covering the body of the secondary infected body. As time passed, the frequency of the zombie's struggle gradually decreased, and finally it lay motionless on the ground.
All the sounds returned to calm, and the secondary infected bodies were still wandering around the streets.
The only difference is that the zombies who originally wanted to stay away began to no longer avoid it, as if the corpse lying on the ground was no longer a threat to them.
Of course, there's nothing attractive about it either.
These secondary infected bodies seemed to be unable to sense the scene happening at the door of the police station and completely ignored it.
The mycelium melted and disintegrated, and the bitten horse-level zombie corpse began to decay rapidly. When blown by the breeze, it turned into a puff of yellow-black smoke.
The skin and flesh rotted away, suddenly revealing the dense white bones inside. If you look carefully at this time, you can find that these white bones are covered with dense pinhole-like holes.
It looks like rotten wood that has been eaten away by termites.
On the other hand, the secondary infected body lying on the ground was now covered in thick mycelium, and it could only be vaguely judged to be humanoid from its appearance.
The sun was gradually obscured by clouds, and the originally clear sky began to darken.
First there was a flash of light, and then there was a rumble.
There was a hint of moisture in the air, and the city that was about to fall into the night ushered in the third rain after the disaster.
Continuous thunder and lightning flashed from the north, like the claws of an angry beast, ruthlessly tearing at the sky.
Unlike the previous two rains, the third rain was neither as pattering as the first rain nor as torrential as the second rain. The amount of rain was moderate, but it was mixed with a lot of lightning and thunderstorms.
It's like the God of Heaven is angry in the sky, holding thunder across the sky and the earth!
The zombies wandering in the city, whether they were secondary infected bodies or mutated pure viruses, shrank their necks and hid in the buildings, as if they were afraid of something.
Of course, it's definitely not because of fear of thunder.
Pure thunder will only make these blood-eating and flesh-eating monsters feel irritated, and even arouse their ferocity to some extent.
What these zombies fear is what comes after thunder - rain.
The thunder and lightning raged for nearly five minutes, and finally raindrops began to fall from the sky. Unlike the transparent water drops in the past, the color of the rain this time actually had a faint red color.
It was as if some naughty child had knocked over the red paint, which turned into a light red color that was about to be dyed but was not yet dyed. It fell on the ground and among the buildings, and blossomed into small bloody flowers one after another.
Zombies with healthy limbs and able to move freely had already hid between the buildings when the rain fell, relying on the reinforced concrete before the disaster to avoid the red rain.
But those zombies who are missing arms and legs, or simply lose the ability to move, are not so lucky.
The light red rain fell on them, and a layer of fine fluff was formed in their breathing.
All zombies with velvet growing on their bodies, without exception, become extremely violent and begin to attack all living creatures around them indiscriminately.
Fortunately, most of the zombies that did not escape were "defective goods" with missing arms and legs. Even if they were affected by the rain and became extremely violent, it did not cause much chaos, but there were some more violent roars in the rain curtain. , making those who heard the sound feel cold all over their bodies.
Among these defective products that were soaked in the rain, included the secondary infected body that had eaten the corpse of a horse-level zombie.
When the rain first fell, the yellow hyphae on the surface of the secondary infected body did not show any change, but slowly became a layer of light red as time went by, making it look a bit strange.
But as time passed, these strange rainwater seeped into the corpse wrapped in mycelium. The silent corpse suddenly seemed to have been plugged into high-voltage electricity and began to twitch irregularly on the ground.
There was no roaring or yelling.
Just a quiet twitch.
If there was any sound, it could only be the sound of the heart beating from inside the body.
For some unknown reason, this secondary infected body that ate the corpse of a horse-level zombie and was later infected with a yellow fungus was reborn in the light red rain!
The lump of flesh that had been dead in the chest began to beat again, and the pumping black mucus slowly turned red, from viscous to thin, from stagnant to flowing.
The minced meat is reorganized and the short limbs are regenerated!
The yellow mycelium seems to have some strange reaction with the red rain, like two manipulators with ulterior motives, directing a horrifying scene that no one is watching.
"Rumble..."
There was another burst of thunder, and the secondary infected body that was lying on the ground and twitching suddenly sat up from the ground. The hyphae on the surface were torn apart by the hands inside, revealing a thin face.
"Ah--"
The sound of loud inhalation echoed in the light red rain curtain, and the owner of the skinny face, the secondary infected body wrapped in hyphae before, desperately breathed air.
"Hoo, ho... I, where am I..."
A slightly shrill male voice sounded, and the owner with a thin face looked at his lower body still wrapped in mycelium in confusion, and said to himself.
If Lu Yu and others had not left at this time, their jaws would have dropped to the ground in shock when they saw this scene.
Because this thin face was none other than the face of the thin man sitting in their car begging to be diverted to Yunlong Town - Yu Libo...
