Fantasy Game: Infinite City

"Based on what you said, I think there must be something wrong with your perception."

"But it still works, but it seems that it can't sense anything at the moment."

The Antarctic wolves were still hiding in the cave from the blizzard, but Han Zu and Gloria were ready to set off. According to the weather analysis of the scanner, the blizzard would last for a long time. It was the least snowy now. If they didn't set off now, they wouldn't be able to leave in the next few days. Although Han Zu could continue to move forward in the fierce blizzard with his strong physical fitness, Gloria couldn't. It wasn't that the bad weather would cause any physical harm to her, but her brain had not yet been 100% integrated with the reshaped body. If she experienced extreme low temperatures, she would probably have problems. As the only person around Han Zu who understood the Ferdinand family, Han Zu was not prepared to let Gloria take risks.

"You know we can wait a few days. According to the calculations from the previous scan, your body should be able to fully adapt in about 30 hours. We can wait until then to leave."

In fact, for Han Zu, it doesn't matter whether he leaves early or late. After all, the Feidenan family has been hiding for so long, and it doesn't make much difference if he explores the secrets related to them a few days later. But Gloria doesn't think so.

"Let's act as soon as possible. The Feidenan family has already found out that they left behind some survivors when they were cleaning up the place. I don't know if they have confirmed my identity or if your method of directing their attention to the military has worked, but I think we should always be prepared for the worst. The sooner we act, the sooner we will have a chance to find leverage against them. After all, if I want to get out of the Feidenan family, I still have to rely on you, don't I?"

"That's right."

"Speaking of which, what's wrong with your perception ability? When I talked to you before, you said that it malfunctioned before you brought me out of the copy."

According to Han Zu, his powerful perception ability started to develop at the beginning of the guild competition. To be precise, problems occurred when Han Zu participated in the guild competition. However, Han Zu thought at the time that it might have been affected by the Infinite City copy, which affected the range and level of his perception at the time. But this state has continued until now. Now it seems that the change in perception ability is not entirely related to that.

For example, if Han Zu's perception ability is compared to a mobile phone, then normally, the processing speed of this mobile phone is very fast, the speed of starting and shutting down, and the speed of loading software are all seconds. But now, the loading speed has not changed, but all the software on the mobile phone, after opening quickly, stops here, and the opened software can't display anything, it is completely blank.

"Although these Antarctic wolves are extinct creatures, there is nothing abnormal about them, and there is no energy reaction, so they should have originally lived in this mountain range and did not appear suddenly. But my perception ability, although it can cover the entire mountain, I can't sense anything at all, including our shuttle parked on the top of another mountain, and even you, Gloria. You know, I could sense these things a few months ago."

"It sounds like you said before that you absorbed that... what was that thing? The ability you used to snipe those mysterious people from a distance? After that, it seems that your perception ability has been problematic. Is there any connection between them?"

"Maybe."

The time Gloria mentioned was when Han Zu was in Q City, absorbed the orbital cannon, and then used his flesh and blood to reassemble himself to attack those mysterious people. At that time, Han Zu's perception ability actually changed, but at that time, when Han Zu used his perception ability, it did not have much impact, so he did not take it seriously.

Although this incident may have a significant impact, it is not important at the moment. The blizzard outside has reached its weakest. Han Zu and Gloria, it's time to set off.

"The snow has stopped, let's go."

After walking out of the cave, Han Zu and Gloria went around to the other side of the mountain they were on. Through the snowstorm, they could see the outline of the opposite mountain. That was the location of the coordinates. The mountain opposite was not as high as this mountain, but the two mountains were not connected, so if they wanted to reach the opposite side, they could only go down this mountain first and then climb up that mountain.

With the help of skis, although the blizzard blocked their vision and slowed down their speed, they were still relatively fast when going down the mountain. An hour later, they arrived at the foot of the middle mountain between the two mountains. The geographical environment here formed a natural shelter, and the impact of the blizzard here was very small and almost negligible.

"Let's rest here for a while. When your strength recovers to its best condition, we will go up."

"Okay, I... Is this a fossil?"

At the place where the two of them were resting, Gloria saw a piece of ice-bound rock with some strange patterns on it. After scanning it, she found that it was a very old tree fossil from the ancient time before there were trees in Antarctica. But this was just a small episode and was not important.

What’s important is that the two found hoof prints near this location that were extremely similar to the ones they had found at the entrance of the cave before, although they were not necessarily the same kind.

A few meters away from the frozen fossils, the two found a row of hoof prints. Judging from the size and number of the hoof prints, at least seven or eight animals passed by here not long ago. Moreover, near these hoof prints, Gloria found a large number of mushrooms of various sizes and types that had been trampled.

In the crack of a frozen rock, Han Zu, who used his ability of perspective to observe the ground, found a relatively complete mushroom. He broke the rock open and prepared to pick up the mushroom.

"Wait a minute! Let me pick it up!"

Unlike Gloria, who wore a full set of ski suits, goggles, gloves and a hat, Han Zu wore neither a hat nor gloves, let alone goggles or windproof masks. After all, given his physical fitness, it was actually no problem for him to walk naked. He was able to wear a ski suit because he thought this look was more suitable for his current position.

Gloria tightened the windproof mask on her face, tied her gloves again, then carefully picked up the intact mushroom and scanned it carefully using the scanning device on her ski goggles. The results showed that although the shape and size were inconsistent, the type of this unknown fungus was basically the same as the fungal residues found in the bodies of the victims and Han Zu.

Unlike those fungal fragments that have been digested or absorbed, the energy left on this mushroom is relatively more and more similar to Han Zu's energy. But there are still some differences. Compared with the relatively high concentration of energy in Han Zu's body, the energy on this mushroom obviously has more impurities.

"You get that kind of energy from eating mushrooms?"

"...Do you think I look like a plumber? Of course not. What? Are you saying that the energy on this mushroom is more similar to mine?"

"That's right. If you compare your energy to a jar of wine, then the energy on this mushroom is like fake wine mixed with water. You can smell the wine, but you don't need to taste it to know that it's mixed with water."

"despair."

"What? What are you...doing!!"

Gloria held the mushroom with one hand. Han Zu reached out and patted the back of Gloria's hand from below. The mushroom was bounced into the air. Then Han Zu raised his head and opened his mouth, and the mushroom fell into his mouth.

“Chew, chew, chew…”

"You!! Are you a child?!! You eat everything!"

Although she knew that Han Zu's brain circuit was not normal, Gloria, who saw it with her own eyes, was still "shocked". After all, normal people would not directly eat something that came from an unknown source and had affected them in the past.

But since I've already eaten it, there's nothing I can do about it.

Gloria originally wanted to give Han Zu a headbutt, but then thought that she might hurt herself, so she kicked Han Zu in the butt instead, and then immediately began to check Han Zu's body with a scanning device. Sure enough, Han Zu's body temperature dropped significantly in a short period of time, but the degree of drop was not large, only a difference of three or four degrees, and within two or three minutes, it returned to normal.

Continuing the scanning and detection, Gloria discovered that the energy emitted by Han Zu seemed to have increased. Although the increase was very small, only a few tenths of a percent, the increase was real.

"what do you think?"

"It's OK, a little astringent, not much different from regular raw mushrooms, but more elastic. If used to make chicken soup, it should taste much better."

"...I was asking if you felt anything unusual, not whether the mushrooms tasted good."

"It feels cool, but I don't think there are any other feelings."

"Can you please stop putting everything in your mouth?"

"alright."

After the farce, Gloria checked her equipment while talking to Han Zu.

"It seems that our previous speculation was correct. These mushrooms and fungi should have grown on some animals. Judging from the hoof prints they left behind, they are very neat and there is no sense of panic. I guess these mushrooms and fungi growing on their bodies should have no effect on them - at least they don't feel any pain from it."

"Not many people come here. The scientific expedition teams affiliated with the state that are known to the public regularly announce all their research projects. It is better to say that the researchers want to make their research results public. However, there has never been such research, so these creatures should not be artificially created, at least not by them."

"Although I have seen similar test reports in the Ferdinand family's institution, it says "discovery" instead of "project" so it should have nothing to do with them. In other words... these organisms are... naturally formed?"

"And these mushrooms and fungi all have energy similar to mine, so there must be something related in their food or drinking water."

"So you're going to go check it out?"

"Well, but not now. Let's go to the coordinates first. If we don't find anything, then we'll go look for these animals. Let's go. The blizzard is going to get bigger. We have to hurry."

After the rest, Han Zu and Gloria started to head towards the mountain. Fortunately, compared to other mountains, this mountain was rocky, with many irregular rock shelves and very solid ice. So even though the blizzard gradually got bigger and even it became difficult to see in the distance, the blizzard did not have much impact on their pace due to these obstacles.

But this situation has its pros and cons. Once you reach the halfway point of the mountain, the road above is very difficult to walk. Not to mention this situation, even if there is no blizzard, this section of the road is not easy to walk. And it is not accurate to say that you are walking. It should be climbing with equipment.

With her back against the rock shelf, standing on a small platform where she could rest, the severe cold, which was already below 60 degrees, made Gloria's body start to tremble. Although it was not a big problem, it would be unstable to climb in this state. After all, if she made a mistake, she might fall. This height might not kill Gloria on the spot, after all, her body was reshaped, but it was not easy to protect her brain, which had not yet been fully integrated, in such dangerous terrain.