Humid and warm.
Densely packed fine particles floated in the air of the underground parking lot, and they appeared as shadows under the white light of the flashlight. At first glance, they thought they were full of dust.
But Lu Jia and the others involuntarily tightened the protection on their faces. They knew that these tiny particles were not ash, but spore dust released by the fungi.
"It's so hot here, and the concentration of spore dust is also very high... I said Lu Jia, we must have missed it..."
Lu Yi, who had finally been quiet for a while, spoke again.
Lu Jia glanced at his companions behind him, and then at the dark red blood vessels on the carpet.
"I don't know. If we miss this, there won't be many opportunities left for us..."
After hearing this, Lu Ding, who was following behind, answered.
"Kyoto Underground City."
After hearing this brief reply, Lu Jia nodded slightly.
"Indeed, according to the content recorded on the memory chip, there is indeed a patch of fungus in the underground city of Kyoto, but it is not clear whether the life energy level has reached the Omega level..."
Lu Jia sighed and continued walking forward.
"Anyway, let's check here first. Judging from the appearance outside, there is a chance that the bacterial brain has not been destroyed."
However, not long after Lu Jia finished speaking, a squirming sound suddenly came from the darkness deep in the underground parking lot.
It was like a giant slug crawling slowly on the slippery carpet.
The three of them looked at each other and read fear on each other's faces.
The Acanthus fungus does not make such a sound, after all, it is just a mutated fungus.
Being able to make such a noise proves that there are other mutant creatures in the underground parking lot!
"Lu Ding, can you tell what it is?"
Lu Jia turned around and looked at his last companion.
Lu Ding shook his head and gave a negative answer.
"I can't tell, but he should be a big guy..."
The three of them were silent again.
Finally, Lu Yi spoke tentatively, "Then shall we go..."
"Go, be careful."
After being asked by Lu Yi, Lu Jia seemed to have made up his mind and continued walking forward.
When Lu Ding and Lu Yi saw this, they naturally followed him without saying anything.
As the three of them went deeper, the surrounding fungus blanket became thicker and slipperier, and the space became narrower, giving people a suffocating feeling all the time.
At this moment, the dark red blood vessels half-hidden under the fungus blanket have reached the thickness of an adult's waist, and are lined up on the wall like water pipes, leading to deeper darkness.
The goal is very close.
However, just as they were about to reach the end of the dark red blood vessels, something seemed to move in the darkness at the corner ahead.
The slippery squirming sound came again, like a warning.
"It's that guy... Damn it, is that a mutated creature or a wall..."
Lu Yi spoke, his eyes filled with surprise.
Just when he opened his mouth to marvel, Lu Jia in front had already shined his flashlight on the thing.
What caught the eye was a large piece of gray scale skin, reflecting bright light under the white light beam.
"Hard-scaled slug."
Lu Ding read out the name of the creature in time, and briefly added its characteristics and habits.
"Biological serial number 117, slug variant, scavenger, slow moving, up to three meters in length, living in groups."
"It can reach three meters in length? This ghost thing must be more than three meters long. Lu Ding, did you remember it wrong?" Lu Yi raised his eyebrows and expressed his doubts in a low voice.
Lu Ding just glanced at him lightly and uttered three words from his mouth.
"Hybrid."
"It turns out to be a hybrid...wait a minute, holy shit, could the object of this hybrid be..."
"Xuanshan fungus." It was Lu Jia who took the conversation this time. He had already put the flashlight under his arm and reached out to take out something from his coat pocket.
"Any organism infected by a secondary virus may hybridize and merge with completely different organisms to become a more powerful new species."
After hearing Lu Jia's explanation, Lu Yi's face showed surprise.
"My dear, in other words, this thing is much stronger than before? Then if we play again, wouldn't it be like a meat bun beating a dog, and there will be no return?"
Seeing Lu Yi flinching, Lu Jia immediately explained.
"It's true that it has become stronger, but Lu Yi, you may have forgotten that the life energy level of hard-scale slugs is very low. Even a slug that grows to three meters can only reach the Delta level, which is zero level. Life form."
"Although it hybridizes with the Omega-level fungus, it probably only increases its size and does not change much in terms of threat."
With that said, Lu Jia threw out what he was holding.
It was a long test tube only as thick as a finger, filled with a yellow, oily, transparent liquid.
The test tube flew through the air and hit the hard-scaled slug's skin without any suspense.
Just a bang was heard, and there was an explosion in the darkness.
The explosion did not harm the hard-scaled slugs, but only cleaned away some of the hyphae.
The slippery crawling sound sounded again, and the huge creature blocking the entire intersection finally moved and slowly crawled towards the other side.
"Look, Open Sesame is open."
Putting the flashlight under his arm in his hand again, Lu Jia had a smile on his face.
"Damn...Boss, when did you become so reckless? If this big guy is not as docile as you think, wouldn't the three of us all die here?"
Faced with Lu Yi's question, Lu Jia did not answer again, but just walked forward on his own.
However, Lu Ding, who was at the rear, kindly explained.
"The low-order hybridizes with the high-order, with the low-order as the dominant factor and the high-order as the reinforcement."
"Fuck...I forgot..."
Lu Yi suddenly understood when he heard the explanation and scratched his head in embarrassment.
Bypassing the hard-scaled slugs, the three of them quickly entered the depths of the underground parking lot.
During this period, Lu Yi was still a little worried and asked Lu Jia to look back at the giant slug. He found that the slug was just quietly eating mushrooms on the wall, so he stopped paying attention.
After walking some distance, the three finally saw the end.
Under a relatively empty ceiling, a columnar object almost fills the entire space hangs.
Several thick dark red blood vessels crisscrossed and converged, leading to the interior of the cylinder.
These hyphae have eaten through the concrete floor, like water pipes leading underground, continuously absorbing water and nutrients from the sewer.
Probably because they have grown in a dark environment all year round, this type of fungus has adapted to the darkness. When faced with the light from the flashlight, it has a closing reaction similar to that of a mimosa.
Any mushroom that has been exposed to light for too long will wilt to varying degrees...
