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"What is this?" The person who came out later squeezed the person in front out of the elevator, stepped forward and backward into the "white floor", and then pulled up his trouser legs, which were covered with white filaments.
These white filaments look a bit like ordinary spider silk, but they cannot be broken when lifting the feet. They are as sticky as maltose. Some people couldn't help but grab a handful, and even their hands were covered in them.
"It can't be another spider!"
"There seems to be something down there." Zheng Liang put his clothes on the side and stepped on it, then bent down to look at the hole he just stepped into. "It's dark, fist-sized, and looks a bit like a mushroom."
Xu Huo, who was suspended with the help of strings for the first time, also saw the plants under the floor made of white silk. They looked like mushrooms. The umbrellas were covered with white filaments, and they were connected into pieces. On top of the mushrooms A hard scab-like white barrier formed.
"Can this mushroom be eaten?" Kang Hong couldn't help but asked: "Looking at the appearance, it should be non-toxic."
"You dare to eat the food here?" The tall woman looked at him in shock.
Kang Hong said: "There are many plants planted in this building, but not all of them are poisonous. Didn't you see them on the thirteenth floor just now?"
"Some plants are grown purely for medicinal purposes. We don't rule out the possibility that mushrooms can be eaten."
"We don't have much food on hand and consume a lot. If mushrooms can be eaten, wouldn't it alleviate the food problem for the next two or three days?"
"What he said makes sense." Xu Huo took over and looked at Gu Yu and others in front, "Which of you has a method to check for toxins?"
Guyu immediately turned his attention to Wei Bin.
Wei Bin picked out a mushroom with a knife. Surprisingly, as soon as the mushroom was cut off, the white filaments attached to it also broke automatically and fell back to the ground, shrinking towards the hole.
Looking at the filaments that stretched like long white worms, Wei Bin's face turned ugly for a moment, but he still put the mushroom under his nose and smelled it hard, then tore off a little bit and tasted it. After a while, he hesitated and said: "Poison It’s not poisonous…”
"As long as it's not poisonous!" Brother Tie was impatient. Before he could finish his words, he took out a long knife and turned it vertically, then cut out a piece of mushroom.
The white floor immediately receded to the side, leaving a black patch inside. From a distance, it looked like a hole had collapsed in the floor.
Brother Tie jumped in, and there was a "chicking" sound under his feet every step he took. He raised his feet and found that there was a layer of jelly-like stuff under the mushrooms, with the roots of the mushrooms on top.
"What is this? It looks a bit disgusting."
Jiang Yihua and Dazhi also picked a lot of mushrooms here, and large turbid jelly-like objects appeared below.
Jiang Yihua wanted to cut it open and take a look, but Xu Huo stopped her and said, "Forget it. After reading it, I'm afraid you won't be able to eat the mushrooms."
Jiang Yihua followed his gaze and saw a few thin black threads at the edge of the retreating white silk threads. She suddenly understood and scattered the mushrooms in her hand, "There are corpses down there!"
Everyone who was thinking of ways to pick mushrooms turned their astonished eyes from her to Wei Bin.
Brother Tie grabbed Wei Bin and said, "Why didn't you say anything just now!"
"You guys went crazy with joy before I even had a chance to say anything." Wei Bin said innocently: "Besides, you won't eat it after I said it?"
"This can be regarded as a food reserve. If there is no food ten floors below, these mushrooms can withstand it for a while."
"But these mushrooms grow by absorbing nutrients from corpses!" Brother Tie said with a look of disgust, "Can they be eaten?!"
Wei Bin opened his hand and said, "I'm not telling you, you decide whether to eat or not."
The entire floor was quiet for a few seconds, then Kang Hong threw the mushroom and said, "I think I can drink water."
Some people gave up the mushrooms in their hands, but others took the initiative to pick some.
"Let's look around first." Xu Huo said to Jiang Yihua and the others.
Mushrooms, including the white strands, are not aggressive. Although the newly broken white strands are very sticky, they will fall off on their own in about ten minutes. The fallen white strands will slowly blend into the "nutritional jelly" and turn into Nutrients for other mushrooms.
"Since these mushrooms can't kill people, where did the... below come from?" Jiang Yihua thought of a possibility and couldn't help but retched.
"There's something down there." Dazhi, who was squatting nearby cleaning mushrooms, suddenly turned around and shouted.
Xu Huo walked over in a few steps and saw him cut open the jelly and take out a record book.
The body next to the record book has been dissolved. In addition to the notebook, there is a pen and some white cloth fragments floating next to it.
"Look at what's written on it." Jiang Yihua urged.
Xu Huo opened the notebook. The handwriting on the first few pages was blurred, but there seemed to be a research note in the middle:
"...The underground world of Clown City is a forbidden place for humans, but it is a paradise for fungi. According to statistics from scientific researchers who have rushed here, there are as many as 371 naturally occurring fungi in this underground world. Well, this is a statistic supported by data."
"But so far, no scientific researcher has found the fungi that created this underground world - this underground world must have been created by fungi, because they were found in the holes in the rocks that are more complex than honeycombs and more complex than ant nests. Changed nutrient transport channels.”
“Evolution in nature is amazing.”
"I speculate that this underground world was first occupied by a mutated fungus. After a long period of transformation, the environment became suitable for the survival of fungi, and then different fungi that are difficult to completely count were derived."
"Although most of them are ordinary fungi, their growth cycles are longer than those of the same fungi, and they are more valuable for research, and there is an extremely rare mycelium that can defend against sharp weapons."
"But unfortunately, our research team has entered the underground world many times and failed to find any more clues about this fungus."
"...The current pace of human exploration has only penetrated less than a kilometer into this underground world. I believe there are many more fungi like this that can produce defensive weapon hyphae."
"As long as the Xiaohuahonghong Scientific Research Base receives funding from the Stellar Pharmaceutical Group, we will be able to purchase enough equipment to enter the underground world and mine new species that have never appeared in any wormhole point. The history of plant evolution will be rewritten!"
This is not the first time Xu Huo has seen the name of the company Hengxing Pharmaceutical Group. As early as in Decibel Town, Master Nisai’s survey data showed a high rate of appearance of this company. From Master Nisai’s description of this company Judging from the hostile attitude, he probably suspected that the death of his son and daughter-in-law was related to this company.
Now, the company is back in the record books.
Picking up the pen next to him, he turned it around and saw the word "Hao" engraved on one side.
