Zhou Wen and Li Mobai looked at each other. If they wanted to go to the Valley of No Return, they could only go through the Huahe River. However, the situation in the Huahe River was not clear yet, and the chance of death if they entered it rashly was too high.
"Master Gu, can you take us to the Flower River to have a look?" Li Mobai asked.
"No problem, but please forgive me, I can't take you into the Flower River." Gu Shanshui made it clear that even if he got to the Flower River, he would never go in.
Li Mobai promised Gu Shanshui to only send them near Huahe. He wanted to see the situation in Huahe first.
Zhou Wen also wanted to see the situation in Huahe. After finally making the trip, he felt a little unwilling to go back like this.
Gu Shanshui took them to Huahe. They walked along jungle trails with no roads at all. Gu Shanshui led two young people from the Gu family to open the way in front, followed by Zhou Wen and Li Mobai.
Zhou Wen always turned on his listening ability, picking up everything nearby, and let Tai Sui use his mimicry ability to look like a bird.
After Tai Sui's mimicry, he looked exactly like the bird, except that he was white. He and the bird stood on Zhou Wen's shoulders.
Zhou Wen was afraid that the Antelope guy would cause trouble if he followed him out, so he didn't take him out at all this time. He had already contacted An Sheng to help him get food for him to prevent him from causing trouble in the college.
According to Dugu Chong, the little bird should have Phoenix blood, which has a very good restraint effect on Gu insects. Tai Sui also has a strong restraint effect on micro-dimensional creatures. This is an important reason for Zhou Wen to dare to come to the Southern District.
"Everyone put on gas masks." Gu Shanshui stopped and took out the gas masks and gave them to Zhou Wen and the others.
Zhou Wen and the others all put on gas masks. Gu Shanshui glanced at the two birds on Zhou Wen's shoulders and said, "Put away the companion pets as well."
Zhou Wen put them into his backpack and did not take them back. Firstly, the bird was not a companion pet and could not be taken back. Secondly, Tai Sui also needed to stay outside to ensure that Zhou Wen was not invaded by miniature companion pets, so naturally he could not take them back.
Gu Shanshui naturally saw this scene, but he didn't say anything. The two young people from the Gu family curled their lips, seeming to be disdainful of Zhou Wen's behavior, but didn't say anything.
Everyone continued to walk forward, and Zhou Wen soon understood why Gu Shanshui asked them to wear gas masks. There were a lot of fungi here, and there were spores floating everywhere, like mist.
These fungi are all original organisms on the earth. They have been mutated due to the influence of dimensional storms. Although they have not yet reached the level of dimensional organisms, if the spores they emit are passed into the respiratory tract and enter the human body, they will also cause great harm to the human body. The key to the injury is that it is difficult to treat if it is inside the body.
Tai Sui is naturally not afraid of these spores, and it has no appetite for these spores. It is probably because the energy of these spores is too low, and Tai Sui has despised them.
The bird is also not afraid of these spores. Once any foreign microorganism enters its body, it will be refined by the Phoenix flames in the body. If not, the Phoenix would not be the nemesis of Gu insects.
Zhou Wen asked the two of them to stay in the backpack and not come out. As the group walked in the woods, their bodies were quickly covered with a layer of dust, which was actually a large number of spores.
Various fungi can be seen everywhere on the ground and on dead trees. Many of the trees here have died, becoming a paradise for fungi to grow.
Fortunately, the spores here are somewhat different from the parasitic spores in Longmen Grottoes. The parasitic spore itself is an independent dimensional organism, and these spores are only part of the fungus mother body.
Even so, if an unprepared person enters this area and inhales a large number of spores, the lungs and entire respiratory system may be destroyed.
Suddenly, Zhou Wen found a corpse on the ground in front of him. It looked like he was not a local from Mengsa. His corpse had rotted and there was a strange fungus growing on it.
It looked like egg-sized jellyfish growing on the corpse, transparent and colorless. Although the mushroom looked beautiful, growing on the corpse made people feel creepy.
"Don't move, Gu Lou, go take a look." Gu Shanshui said to one of the young people.
The young man responded and summoned a palm-sized black scorpion companion pet, which slowly approached the corpse, climbed onto the corpse, and came to a jellyfish-like mushroom.
Gu Lou looked at Gu Shanshui, who nodded slightly, and then he ordered the black scorpion to stab the jellyfish-like mushroom with its tail.
Bang!
After the mushroom was pricked, it exploded like a water balloon, but what popped out was not water, but countless transparent spores.
"Back off!" Gu Shanshui grabbed Gu Lou and another young man named Gu He and threw them back. He took a step forward and blew out a mouthful of flames towards the spores.
When the flame encountered the spores, it surged as if it had encountered gasoline, burning most of the spores at once, but a few spores still spread.
Gu Lou and Gu He also used flame-based companion pets to burn those spores that slipped through the net.
However, the previous black scorpion companion pet had been invaded by spores. It ignored Gu Lou's orders and crawled crazily towards other jellyfish mushrooms, trying to break them all.
Gu Shanshui spit out flames from his mouth and burned the corpse together with the scorpion companion pet. The jellyfish mushrooms exploded in the fire, and all the spores were immediately burned by the flames.
After confirming that no fish had slipped through the net, Gu Shanshui said to Li Mobai solemnly: "Li, something is wrong. That person was obviously infected with the spores of a fungal dimensional creature and died. There must be a mother body of a fungal dimensional creature nearby, and the level Not low, at least epic level, this has never been discovered before, do you still want to go to Huahe?"
Li Mobai looked at Zhou Wen and asked, "What do you think?"
"Keep walking." Zhou Wen had been observing the jellyfish mushrooms and spores on the corpse. These things did not pose much threat to him.
Even if Tai Sui doesn't take action, he can handle it himself, so there is no need to retreat.
"Master Gu, please continue to lead the way. If you feel that there is no way to continue walking, please tell me in advance." Li Mobai said to Gu Shanshui.
"Okay." Master Gu didn't say any more nonsense, and led Gu Lou and Gu He to continue to clear the way ahead.
Their most commonly used method is a fire-type companion pet, but this fire-type companion pet is very strange. The flames it emits are a bluish-white color, and it has a strong restraint effect on fungi and poisonous insects.
"Wait a minute!" After walking some distance, Zhou Wen said suddenly, because he had discovered through listening that there were many corpses in front of him, and each corpse was covered with jellyfish mushrooms.
