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Chapter 436 Infected Things

He Ao took out a pair of binoculars from the storage box in front of the car, opened the door, and looked at the building shrouded in light mist through the fading rain curtain.

There were faint figures passing by under the building, and they walked slowly in the mist.

He Ao flipped the button on the telescope to turn on the thermal imaging sensing function of the telescope, and what he was fed back was a messy image.

Thermal imaging cameras are affected by rain and fog and are basically useless in such environments.

He Ao turned off the thermal imaging function and sat back in the driver's seat.

At this time, a towel covered his head, "Dad, don't move."

Aini carefully dried the hair on He Ao's head with a towel, "Your clothes are all wet, do you want to change a set of clothes, I brought a set of your clothes."

When this girl tidied up, she still wanted her father.

He Ao couldn't help but laugh, he closed the door and restarted the car, "Sit tight, we are going to rush over."

"what?"

Before Aini could react, the off-road vehicle accelerated suddenly, and she staggered and almost fell.

"Smelly dad."

The little girl quickly hugged the headrest of the co-pilot, pinched her father's shoulder, "You're playing tricks on me again!"

He Ao laughed and put his foot on the gas pedal, "Sit still."

Aini muttered and hugged the pillow and sat back on the chair.

The moment she sat firmly, He Ao stepped on the accelerator.

The off-road vehicle is speeding on the road.

"Dad, isn't there a house in front of you, why are you speeding up?"

Aini glanced at the hazy building in front of her, and asked with some doubts.

"This road should be abandoned soon."

He Ao didn't speak, but closed all the windows and raised the speed to the highest.

Driving at this speed is very dangerous in this weather.

But it might be more dangerous to stop.

As the vehicle got closer and closer to the 'small town', Aini also found something wrong with these buildings.

It's 'too quiet' here, as my father said.

The whole town is in some kind of weird, seemingly lifeless 'silence'.

No matter what kind of bad weather it is, when you are close to human residences, you will always hear some small voices, and you can see traces of human creation.

These are the lifeliness a human settlement should have.

When you come here, you will have a first impression, 'There are people living here'

But the 'small town' in front of her didn't give Aini any such feeling.

There are some broken walls, empty outposts, and gates that sway in the wind with a sharp creaking sound.

All these are telling Ai Ni that there is no one in this place.

But since she just came here, she has vaguely seen figures walking around these buildings.

She moved her eyes away from the buildings beside the road and looked around, and then she saw some white spots appearing on the road ahead in the light rain.

"Dad, there seems to be something on the road ahead." She lay down between the seats of the driver and co-pilot, and looked around. "It seems to be a white mushroom? Does this mushroom grow on the ground?"

Having said that, she paused and swallowed, "These mushrooms look delicious..."

She looked at He Ao, with unusual excitement shining in her eyes, "Dad, shall we stop to pick some?"

"Do not move."

He Ao also swallowed his saliva, and looked away from those mushrooms, he stepped on the gas pedal hard, and controlled his body not to look at those mushrooms.

"why,"

Aini was a little dazed, her bright brown eyes seemed to have been completely filled with that white mushroom, she reached out to pull Heao's arm holding the steering wheel, "Dad, stop, I'm so hungry, I want to eat that mushroom .”

The speeding vehicle swayed.

He Ao let go of his right hand, grabbed his daughter's hand and pushed her back into the back row, and shouted sharply, "Close your eyes! Execute the breathing method I taught you!"

This loud shout awakened some of Aini's rationality, and when she bumped into the rear seat cushion, she glanced at He Ao in confusion, but followed He Ao's order and closed her eyes.

At the same time, she began to breathe deeply, absorbing the escaping power in the air.

Martial arts practice can't quickly improve Aini's mental resistance, but when she first started practicing martial arts, she needed absolute concentration, which allowed Aini to concentrate her spirit to resist the temptation in the dark.

Dark shadows emerged from the rain curtain one by one.

That is a 'person'.

Numerous cracks had already been cracked in their bodies, revealing faintly rotting flesh and pure white mushrooms emerging from the cracks in the flesh.

Along with their actions, the mushrooms on their bodies fell to the ground one by one, exuding an inexplicable and alluring fragrance.

This fragrance is so strong that even if He Ao closed all the car windows, he could clearly 'smell' it.

These 'human beings' are no longer human beings, they are the germ base for cultivating these mushrooms.

Their lives are long dead, and their bodies are manipulated by these mushrooms, looking for the next 'bacteria'.

He Ao pressed down the strong sense of hunger that kept gushing out, held the steering wheel, and slammed forward without hesitation.

And on the road ahead, there were also shadows walking slowly, blocking He Ao's sneaking path.

Fatal temptation is in the air.

He Ao stepped on the gas pedal to death, and slammed into the shadows blocking the way ahead.

"Dad, I'm so hungry."

Annie opened her eyes.

At this moment, the front of the off-road vehicle bumped into the shadow blocking the road ahead.

Those manipulated 'monsters' in the shape of a human were smashed into pieces as easily as tofu. Their muscles had already melted, and what replaced the muscles were dense white hyphae.

Seeing this scene, Aini's eyes became dull.

She should obviously feel that this scene was horrifying and abnormal, and she should feel sick to her stomach, but the first thought that rose deep in her heart was 'delicious'.

Those mushrooms that fell from people and were smashed into pieces should be extremely 'delicious'.

I'm so hungry, I really want to try it.

He Ao saw his daughter's sluggish expression through the rearview mirror. At this moment, drinking loudly had no effect. He didn't let go of his footsteps, and the speeding car passed the mushrooms and moved forward.

Dense white mushrooms began to appear on both sides of the road.

This place seems to be a field of mushrooms, the endless pure white mushrooms reach the end of the sky, where the dark clouds meet the earth.

The smooth mushroom canopy is covered with crystal rain, reflecting alluring colors in the dim light.

As there are more and more mushrooms around, the desire in He Ao's heart is getting stronger and stronger, as if another force is controlling his body, wanting him to step on the brakes, stop, and enjoy the delicious food at this time.

Pure white juice exploded on the rain-stained wheels.

Ai Ni, who was behind her, got up from the back row, trying to compete with him for control of the vehicle, but was pushed back by him.

The actions of the two of them were repeated in this way.

At the same time, shadows were knocked away by him one by one.

There are fewer and fewer white mushrooms on the road.

Until the dim sky is completely dark, the whole world is silent,
There is no more white mushroom on the road.

He Ao finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Looking back, Aini, exhausted and no longer tempted, had already sat on the back seat and fell into a deep sleep.

He turned on the lights of the car, slowed down the speed of the car, and continued to move forward slowly.

The rain curtain has gradually diminished.

The wilderness in the dark night is very dangerous, and a strange beast will suddenly appear out of nowhere.

Powerful beasts are different from those 'people' controlled by mycelium. Their bodies have more or less solid things. If they hit them while driving at high speed, there is a high probability that people and cars will not be able to survive.

And the viewing distance in the dark is also very short, so you can only slow down the speed.

There was still that weird smell in the air, which was the juice splashed on the off-road vehicle by those white mushrooms, but they gradually dissipated under the washing of the rain.

Howe knew exactly what it was that they had just encountered.

Ghost Mushroom.

This is a kind of mushroom-like thing that can lure animals to eat it, and then take root and sprout in the animal's body, using flesh and blood as a breeding ground for wanton growth.

After it is eaten by the host, it will drive the host to find the gathering place of the host population, and attract more life to become its 'bacterium base'.

If the host dies on the way back to the gathering place, it will also use mycelium to control the host's body to continue moving until the host's body collapses and new ghost mushrooms fall to the ground.

Or arrive at the population gathering place of the host, attracting more life to eat the ghost mushrooms on the host.

From Ronal's memory, once infected with ghost mushrooms, there is almost no cure.

Only the burning flames can completely burn the hyphae of the ghost mushroom.

The last time He Ao heard about the Ghost Mushroom was when it was a copy of Ronald.

At that time, he rescued a young man outside the wanderer factory in the wilderness. The young man told He Ao that he had seen a large dense field of "ghost mushroom field" outside Chenxi City. The young man's parents also died of ghost mushroom infection.

Thinking of this, He Ao realized that there was such a huge group of ghost mushrooms in the place just passed by, even if He Ao's "hitchhiking" gang convoy did not encounter those wanderers in the wilderness, the whole army would probably be wiped out.

Thinking about it this way, it is also possible that those wanderers in the wilderness discovered the ghost mushrooms here, so they chose to act first and robbed the convoy.

After all, after the convoy entered the range of the ghost mushroom, even if everyone died, the wilderness wanderers would not dare to go in and get those things.

Every wilderness wanderer knows one rule 'stay as far away from dangerous things as possible. '

This is one of the rules for wilderness wanderers to survive in the wilderness.

However, judging from the road the convoy chose to pass, this road should have been safe before, at least it was safe when the convoy passed last time.

The time for this kind of convoy to pass twice generally does not exceed one month.

In other words, at least a month ago, there were no ghost mushrooms in the place they just passed by, and this time may actually be even shorter.

In this way, the growth rate of ghost mushrooms is too fast.

Ronald's knowledge of ghost mushrooms is limited to the information collected by his father and the stories of a few wilderness wanderers who entered their camp.

The knowledge of ghost mushrooms in the whole wilderness is very weak.

Because after seeing this thing, most of them are tempted by it, and the entire wilderness camp or family is destroyed overnight.

In this case, surviving and escaping is already the limit, let alone research.

But even things like phantom mushrooms cannot be created out of thin air.

Since there were no ghost mushrooms in the area just now, it could only be that someone brought the ghost mushrooms here.

For some reason, He Ao remembered the vast "ghost mushroom field" that the young man said he had seen outside Chenxi City.

Where did the source come from?

Then he shook his head again.

Limen City is located in the north of Chenxi City, hundreds of kilometers away from Chenxi City.

And the boy went straight all the way, and finally arrived at the south gate of Chenxi City, that is to say, the ghost mushroom field is probably a little south of Chenxi City.

And He Ao and the convoy were heading north to Irons City.

One south and one north, the distance is even further.

The spread of ghost mushrooms generally depends on the actions of animals themselves.

Of course, this kind of situation may not necessarily happen. For example, when I met a particularly fast strange beast, it ran all the way for a long time, and ran directly from Chenxi City to Limen City.

It is also possible that there are ghost mushrooms nearby, and these ghost mushrooms came from not far away.

However, there is another possibility.

What if someone could move with the 'spores' of ghost mushrooms? ,

A word came to He Ao's mind,
'sowing'

Then he pushed the word out of his mind again, the possibility was still too weak.

However, he is still wary of ghost mushrooms.

According to the characteristics of the ghost mushroom, if it appeared in a densely populated fortress city, the consequences would be almost devastating.

Moreover, He Aogang personally fought against the ghost mushroom, and he also discovered some information that he had never known before.

The 'temptation' of ghost mushrooms can be superimposed, the more the number, the greater the temptation.

And the actions of those 'corpse' controlled by ghost mushrooms also have a certain convergence, and they are not chaotic instinctive movements.

In other words, these 'corpses' have a certain 'command'.

Naturally, this order cannot come from those dead corpses, it is most likely from the ghost mushroom.

Ghost mushrooms are most likely to have some sort of 'intelligence'.

I just don't know if these intelligences are real intelligences, or more advanced hunting instincts.

For He Ao, these ghost mushrooms are a potential danger.

There are not many roads in the wilderness. If He Ao still takes this road when he goes back, he will definitely encounter these ghost mushrooms again.

He Ao shook his head, temporarily clearing up these thoughts.

He glanced at his sleeping daughter in the rear through the rearview mirror.

These ghost mushrooms may need to find a way to deal with them, but his first priority now is to find a place where he can communicate and provide supplies.

The place he just passed, which has been devoured by the ghost mushroom as a value-added nutrient, should be the nearby wilderness camp.

Normally, the same area cannot support two camps for wilderness wanderers.

There's no telling where the next wilderness camp will be.

If it doesn't work, I can only try to find a way to see if I can find a family of wilderness wanderers.

At this moment, He Ao stared forward slightly.

In the depths of the night, the lights of two cars slowly appeared.

(End of this chapter)