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The real estate agent then crouched down and poked his head into the filthy pipe next to it.

"Aren't you going up?"

Xia Ren didn't react.

The real estate agent turned his head and said, "I'll die if I go up, so hurry up and climb."

After he finished speaking, he took the lead in getting in.

Xia Ren hesitated for a moment, and followed behind him.

The sewage pipe here has existed for a long time. It is made of reinforced concrete with a diameter of only 0.8 meters. In addition to the silt at the bottom of the pipe, the space inside is even narrower. Fortunately, this well is a rainwater well, except for the silt. Other than that, there was nothing else, which made Xia Ren able to accept a little.

Not long after, the two found another wellhead, lifted the well cover, and climbed up.

This is a small hospital, only three floors high, and it seems that it has been in existence for a long time, and all the facilities are a bit old. If it is not maintained properly, many things may not be able to be used.

In broad daylight, the hospital door was closed tightly with a lock on it.

There may not be any living people in the whole town, and the hospital also lost its function.

The real estate agent turned in through the window next to him, and he was very tired. After entering, he sat directly against the corner of the wall, unwilling to move again.

"Can you tell me what's going on now?"

Xia Ren tidied up the clothes briefly, but the dirt on them could not be easily removed.

"Then... let's start with Soli City first."

The real estate agent took a breath, took out a test tube the size of a ballpoint pen from his arms, opened the seal, took a sip of the liquid inside, and regained some energy.

Xia Ren noticed that he drank dark water, but as a B-level investigator, having dark water is not particularly unusual.

The real estate agent didn't say anything directly, but asked a question first: "Xia Ren, how serious do you think this matter is?"

This was the first time he called himself by his full name in a chat, and Xia Ren heard unprecedented seriousness from his tone: "How serious..."

This question is somewhat difficult to answer.

If they were facing a heresy that was simply polluted and affected their sanity, and thus heard whispers from the abyss, and thus generated fanatical beliefs, it was actually easy to solve.

Such large and small heretics, the Foundation has to eliminate dozens or even hundreds of them every year, and even some weaker heretics, and the investigators wiped them out in the process of investigation.

But this time the situation is obviously different. The most troublesome thing is no longer the heretics, but those horrible fungi that even Shoggoth can infect.

Before Xia Ren could finish speaking, the real estate agent gave the answer himself: "According to my experience, once the fungus mastered by the pagans breaks out, it will quickly evolve into a level of atypical insectophobia, or even the color of the stars." The plague spread throughout the entire Blue Star."

Hearing these words, Xia Ren's pupils shrank slightly, and a concept quickly formed in his mind.

"how is this possible!"

Xia Ren's first reaction was to deny it.

He has witnessed the outbreak of atypical insectophobia, so he has a deep understanding of its severity. Even with the strength of the Foundation and the Superman Association, until today, atypical nemephobia has not been resolved, and even the delay of its spread The speed is very difficult.

The color of the stars is even more desperate, and even how it was resolved is still unclear, and it is more like human luck.

If at this juncture, another new type of third-level plague appears, it will bring a catastrophic blow to the entire human society!

The real estate agent watched Xia Ren's reaction quietly, and said, "I thought the same as you at first."

He sighed: "When I first accepted this mission, I thought it was just a new sect that appeared, but when I started to investigate, I found that the whereabouts of these heretics were very strange. I almost lost clues several times, until I followed them to Soli City. When I checked the information of the police station and investigated the young couple who were sacrificed, I accidentally discovered that many people in Soli City have disappeared in a row recently. These people have one characteristic, that is, life They are at the bottom of society, and they all have a bad habit of gambling or drug use."

"I smelled an unusual smell, and based on the clues, I locked on a city councilor."

"When you just arrived in Soli City and kept calling me, I was fighting the heretics at the house of the city councilor."

"Before I entered that basement, I never expected that things would develop to this point."

Chapter 494 Neurofungi

"What do you see?"

Xia Ren asked curiously.

"I heard them talking."

The real estate agent recalled the scene at that time and said: "But they did not use human language to communicate, so I didn't understand a word."

"..." Xia Ren.

The real estate agent went on to say: "I didn't quite know what they were doing at the time, because I was accidentally discovered, I was forced to fight and killed the MP who had fallen into bigotry and one of the heretics. , but I, like you, didn't realize the horror of those fungi at first, and I was infected during the battle."

"Their growth rate is very fast, almost as soon as the battle is over, they have already attached to all contact points, and deeply rooted under the skin, and even established a connection with my brain. By the time I found out, it was already too late night. Then I found the aberration in the basement."

"Relying on the fungus parasitic in my body, I felt the specialness of that mutant, and finally understood what those alien factions wanted to do in Soli City."

"They're growing that fungus, the food, that's humans."

"You mean..."

Xia Ren clenched his fist subconsciously.

How similar is this to the outbreak of atypical insectophobia, these sects, really damn it!

"The fungus living in the mutant body is infinitely close to maturity, I can feel their desire to release and spread, she is like a bomb, once it is fully mature, it will spread hundreds of billions of spores into the air Infected countless people. But I have no ability to stop it, not even the whole city, no one can stop it.”

"That's when I saw your missed call."

"So, you just threw this bomb at me?"

Xia Ren guessed from the very beginning that the deformed body he met at the entrance of the hospital might be manipulated by the real estate agent, but he didn't expect such a complicated reason behind it.

"You trust me that much?"

Xia Ren really wanted to punch him twice.

The real estate agent smiled, without apology on his face, and said, "There is no way, and the final result, isn't it pretty good?"

"What a fart!"

Xia Ren couldn't help but swear.

Because of this incident, he and Lily were directly infected, and thus fell into the current predicament.

But Xia Ren also had to admit that from the standpoint of the real estate agent and all the citizens of Soli City, the other party did the right thing, and once the fungal spores broke out, he might not be able to escape the disaster in Soli City.

The real estate agent covered his mouth and coughed twice, calmed down, and said: "At that time, there was another heretic who escaped and seemed to be carrying something important. In order to continue the investigation, I didn't have time to say hello to you, so I went all the way. Followed to this small town."