The strange story of Huai'an Inn

On the bed, Ji Shi, the widow who should never be breathing, was really breathing slowly.Some bacteria, spores, also spewed out with her breath, like puffs of smoke.

The maggots crawling in her eye sockets suddenly swarmed out and spread out along her cheeks and neck.However, some maggots suddenly exploded in the middle of crawling, and a small fungus grew out of the maggot's body.

Her eyeballs that had been bitten by maggots also began to grow dense mycelium, and the white fluff spread and woven rapidly in the shape of branches, gradually forming a spherical shape.The upper layer of mycelium begins to take on additional texture, becomes smooth, and takes on other colors.

The original broken eyeball gradually became complete, and the other eyeball was restored at the same speed.Under the remaining skin of her exploded abdomen, there seemed to be some living things constantly rising and falling.Those colorful mushrooms growing from the abdominal cavity trembled, releasing more strains continuously.

She is being resurrected.

But is it the original Widow Ji who came back alive?

Yuanchu watched all this happen in horror, and put his hand on the long sword at his waist, "You all 'resurrected' like this?!"

Zhu Helan said very calmly, "Ganoderma lucidum can only grow on dead things. The whole village is no longer human."

Chongliu thought, no wonder Widow Ji told Yuanchu last time that everyone just looks like a human being.

This is why there is always a trace of strangeness hidden under the "normal" surface of the whole village.Because all the "ordinary" is just a disguise.

Just like a lizard changes color with the surrounding environment, these fungi want to hide in the human body.

"It is true that we are no longer human beings, we are people who are closer to God!" Li Zheng smiled frantically, rolled up his sleeves, revealing a large densely overlapping ganoderma, "We are all connected together, connected with God Together!"

"God?" Zhu Helan made a calm gesture to Yuanchu, and took a step forward, "What god?"

"The most beautiful god in the universe!" There was talking, with tears streaming from the corners of his eyes, "Wherever it passes, everything will become more perfect, and everything will be connected together and become a part of it! "

As he said that, the eyes that were there were divergent and empty, and suddenly gathered on Zhu Helan, "If you eat its gift, you will also become one of us. Although the remaining two didn't eat, as long as you eat it Live here for two days, breathe the air here, and you will be assimilated by us! We will all become one in the end!"

Chong Liu was shocked.Even though the shopkeeper told him to accept his own distortion...but he didn't want to die so horribly and painfully like a widow first...

Yuan Chu obviously refused to accept this possibility.Half panicked and half angry, he said, "All of you have been distorted by the filth! You killed her!"

"She is obviously alive, and she will be more beautiful than before, so she no longer has to work hard to weave and live alone in an empty room, isn't it good?"

Then for the first time a sound came from the widow's throat.Some are distorted and thin, not quite like human voices, but a bit like animals trying to imitate human voices.The syllables that were uttered did not make any sense, as if trying to see if the throat could make a sound for no reason.

Looking at it like this, I am afraid that even one person in this village cannot be saved.

The distortion has reached such a level that it is almost blind.It's just that it takes several generations for the blind to evolve into this way. It took them less than a year from the time when the widows first contracted the filth in the mountains to the present.

Lizheng waved his hand, and the tall and strong farmers behind him immediately approached, holding hemp rope in their hands.Yuanchu threatened, "I don't want to hurt your lives, don't force me to do it!"

Originally, although the three of them saw these disgusting and frightening scenes, they were not very nervous.After all, they are all people who have fought against more dangerous filthy creatures. There is really no pressure against these humanoid mushrooms.

Zhu Helan said to Yuanchu in a low voice, "They are no longer human beings, they are just fungi walking around in rotting corpses. Those fungi have sucked their brains, and they are instinctively using those memories to imitate them. Look carefully at their movements. You can know the sense of disobedience. There is no need to show mercy.”

After speaking, he took a few steps back with heavy six directions.

It seems that the owner does not intend to make a move, but just wants to watch the fun with Chong Liu...

When those people approached Yuanchu, they saw the purple-clothed alchemist raised a spell, pierced it with a long sword, and stabbed the three townspeople between the eyebrows one by one with a speed that was almost hard to see.Suddenly, a pure and holy aura filled the whole room, and Chong Liu was forced to stick against the wall, his skin tingling slightly.

He has already begun to feel some discomfort with Dao Qi...

However, a decaying black suddenly began to spread from the eyebrows of the three people, like ink droplets falling on the rice paper and spreading rapidly.They began to let out non-human, scalp-numbing roars, and then began to decay and collapse from their heads. Their bodies fell to the ground and were still twitching. The pores penetrate.

But then, some colored things quietly spread from the corpse.

It is said to be colorful, but it is not a very precise description.It doesn't seem to be fog, nor is it a liquid, it seems to be... a color that cannot be described in words and cannot be understood by the eyes.

They gushed out from the three corpses like a spring, giving people a sense of extremely dirty and filthy chaos, but with a deceptive splendor.

The moment they appeared, the shopkeeper's face changed slightly.At the same time, a kind of humming vibration began to appear in the air, and Chong Liu suddenly felt that the air became dense and difficult to breathe.

"It's the rainbow!" Zhu Helan suddenly stretched out his hand to pull away Yuanchu, who was bewitched by the color, and at the same time waved his sleeves, as if a subtle split and fault appeared in the space in front of him instantly.Those spreading colors fell into the cracks of the fault, temporarily failing to extend to their side.

Zhu Helan pushed open the window with a palm, and said to Chongliu, "Go!"

Chong Liu didn't know what the rainbow was, but seeing that even the shopkeeper showed a nervous look, he knew it was not something to mess with, so he quickly pulled Yuan Chu, who was still in a daze, out the window.

But once in the yard, he was dumbfounded.

The fog that was still on the mountain before had already enveloped them.But this fog is not a fog, but an overwhelming oily color that flows in the air, hovering and rolling around every corner of the field of vision, and rolling wildly with the bacteria flying all over the sky.

And the people of the whole village were standing densely outside the yard, motionless, with stiff expressions.They waited with empty, inhuman indifference, like pitcher plants watching a fly.

Looking at the mysterious colors rolling in the air, Chong Liu gradually began to be in a trance.Some fragmented colors and pictures flowed through his head at an extremely fast speed, which he couldn't understand, but couldn't ignore.

His eyes burned from seeing too much color, a pressure built up in his head, and an unbearable itching began to break out in his fingers and the back of his hand.

Suddenly, a red light covered everything, and a hand took his hand, pulling him out of his trance.Zhu Helan had already arrived at their side, and the red filth around her was dancing like rotating vines, forming an umbrella-like barrier to cover the three of them.

Yuanchu also came back to his senses, and said in panic, "What is this!"

"It's a god! It's the most beautiful god!" Li was standing at the door, staring at the sky with wide eyes.The chaotic colors reflected in his pupils seemed to have taken over his entire being.

Zhu Helan put his hands on the ground, trying to open a shortcut.After all, except for the three of them, everyone present was no longer a human being, so taking a shortcut should not be a problem.But the rainbow has obviously blocked the road, and the passage cannot be opened, but the color has been pressed down like a huge mountain, forcing the umbrella cover down a few points.

Zhu Helan's eyes turned cold, and he stood up and faced the air.

"I'm not something you can afford!" A thicker red mist burst out from Zhu Helan's body, quickly enveloping him.Chong Liu knew that he was about to zoom in again, and he didn't know whether to close his eyes or not.

But at this moment, the red filth around the shopkeeper suddenly dissipated as if powerless.

But he saw the shopkeeper standing where he was, with his head slightly tilted up, and the originally dark pupils were filled with strange colors that flowed.

Chong Liu was shocked, "Master!"

Zhu Helan just looked up at the sky, as if there was something very important and longing for in the sky.His eyes became wet, and something slid down his cheeks.

no? !The boss is crying?

Chong Liu has never seen Zhu Helan shed tears!

On the other hand, Yuanchu also entered the trance state again.The swords in his hands were loose.

Chong Liu was shocked, and in the end he was the one with the worst fighting ability, what should he do? !Why wasn't he affected? !

The black crowd began to surround them in groups, with frightening expressions on their faces.Chong Liu almost hoped that the distortion on his body would happen immediately, but his hands were only itchy, and nothing abnormal appeared.

Seeing that he was about to be submerged among a group of mushroom monsters in human skin, Chong Liu couldn't imagine what would happen, so he could only close his eyes and hold his head in his arms, waiting for the bad luck to come.

To his surprise, even with his eyes closed, he could still see those colors.

Countless hands pulled him, pushed him, tied his hands and feet first, and then threw him somewhere.There were two sounds beside him, probably Dongjia and Yuanchu were also thrown in together.

Chong Liuyi opened his eyes, but almost wished he hadn't.

This seems to be a wine cellar, but it was probably transformed into a "tomb" specially used to dispose of corpses.

Apparently there were far more townspeople than they knew.In the huge space illuminated by mysterious and greasy colors, there are tragic and severely decomposed corpses everywhere.Most of the corpses are widow-like, covered in colorful mushrooms, apparently in the process of "metamorphosis".

The disgusting corpse smell was several times stronger than before, and Chong Liu almost wanted to knock himself out, as long as he didn't have to breathe this smell in a waking state...

The shopkeeper and Yuanchu were also tied up and lay near him.Chong Liu rubbed against the shopkeeper like a bug, leaning over with his shoulder against his body.

But the shopkeeper's eyes were clear, and he didn't look like he was caught by that color.

"Boss, are you awake?" Guan Chongliu whispered to Zhu Helan's ear.

Zhu Helan nodded slightly, "How do you feel?"

"Hands are a little itchy, but I don't feel anything else... Boss, what happened to you just now?"

"It was the piece of mushroom I ate that caused me to hallucinate for a short time." Zhu Helan sighed and sat up with his shoulders on the ground. The filth that was transferred, so I took it lightly."

hallucinations?

What kind of hallucination would make the shopkeeper cry?

But Chong Liu also knew that now was not the time to be curious.He yelled a few words to Yuanchu, "Hey! Fan snatcher! Wake up!"

Yuanchu's body moved, turned over, and looked over with sweat profusely.The eyes are still a little blurred, but it seems to be somewhat conscious.

Chong Liu breathed a sigh of relief, and asked again, "What the hell is this rainbow? Is it so fierce?"

"There are very limited records of what it is. We only know that it may have come from other stars, and whether it has self-awareness is also a mystery. They have no entity, and wherever they pass, they will deform and corrupt all living beings, turning those living beings into A part of them, in order to disperse and reproduce."

"It's kind of like miasma?"

"Much more powerful than miasma. Although it may not be conscious, it has a strong instinct for survival and infection and reproduction. It can even imitate complex human behaviors. It can also infiltrate your memory, giving people Create hallucinations. In terms of danger, it is about the same level as a dog." Zhu Helan said with a solemn expression, "How could such a dangerous filthy creature suddenly appear in the Central Plains?"

"If the widow was infected with this at the beginning...there shouldn't be so many? How could it suddenly become so severe?" Yuanchu said in a somewhat slow voice, obviously hearing Zhu Helan's words.He paused, and suddenly asked with a little fear, "Could it be... Master's spell?"