Little Mushroom

Dungeon.

On the open ground, stands the upper part of the artificial magnetic pole.On a piece of yellow sand-colored land, it looks like a magnificent tombstone.

This place has an excellent geographical location, with tall mountains on all sides to block storms and cold currents, and a flat plain in the middle. The geological structure is stable and strong enough to support the construction of incredible underground fortifications.The size and capacity of this underground city can be compared to the metropolis at the peak of mankind.

In the beginning, when the four human bases took shape, some people predicted that if human beings could not resist the day, then the dungeon base must be the last one to fall.

Now, however, the open plain is covered in blood.Monsters, aliens, humans, blood stains are the remains of mutilated limbs, severed hands, and heavy weapons.

A black fighter plane flew past the ground quickly and dropped several large-yield bombs. There was a dull explosion sound, and the howling of the monster was deafening, but it was quickly submerged in the billowing smoke.

The fighter plane was high and circling steadily in the sky. Lu Feng held a walkie-talkie in his hand and said, "The monsters on the ground have been cleared."

Next to him was Hubbard. The legendary mercenary captain from the outer city looked at the entrance of the underground city not far away, and said, "It's very difficult inside."

Lu Feng also looked there, but he didn't speak, acquiescing to Hubbard's point of view.In the past few days, he and the captain have established a good understanding in coordinating the air operations—not to mention that they are the kind of people who go deep into the front line of the abyss, and no one knows the habits and lethality of those things better than them.

The dungeon is easy to defend and difficult to attack. It is a sufficiently safe and strong fortress, and it naturally has the advantage of preventing radiation.However, its structure is also doomed. Once it is breached by a foreign species, it will be a mess inside.

And now it has been breached.

"What they lack most is firepower. The birth rate can't keep up, and the number of soldiers is not enough. They can only increase the consumption of armaments. They have overdrawn too much in advance, and they can't defend effectively now." Hubbard's eagle-like eyes narrowed slightly: "We If you bring enough things and arrive in time, you still have a chance of winning."

Just then, a voice came from the intercom.

"Dungeon thank you for your generous support," the operator said with a trembling voice, "However, out of humanitarian principles, we must inform our compatriots in the northern base: Currently, no contact infection has been observed in the base, and there will be unpredictable situations anytime, anywhere. Infections occur…”

"Northern Base Received." Lu Feng interrupted the operator directly, "Please prepare for ground response."

Hubbard frowned.

Lu Feng said: "The flight formation is temporarily suspended, and I will take people down."

"I'll go." Hubbard said: "Listen to him, it's more dangerous inside than we thought, if you go down, you won't be able to come back.

"You have no such obligation."

"But I have nothing to worry about."

Lu Yan's tone was light: "Me neither."

Hubbard smiled and asked, "Have you not?"

Lu Feng looked at him, his cold green eyes showed no emotion, but this time he didn't speak.

"Sometimes you look at the porthole for a long time," Hubbard said.

"I left a man at the base," Lu Yan leaned against the porthole with folded arms, "he has a bullet casing that I used to kill people hanging around his neck."

"Who did you kill him?"

Lu Feng didn't answer.

"So, he has a grudge against you." Hubbard said, but seemed to remember something: "I met a boy who took one of your bullet casings and asked me if I knew where it came from."

Lu Feng hooked his lips.

Hubbard said: "Then your relationship is very complicated."

"Maybe." Lu Feng walked out: "My relationship with everyone is very complicated."

With a cold voice, he said to the navigator, "Get ready to taxi."

Hubbard didn't stop him this time, he looked at Lu Feng's back, thoughtful.

——Under the huge, blood-red sunset in the western sky, the flight formation landed, the hatch opened, and Lu Feng stepped off PL1109, heading for the city that stretched underground and was in a pool of blood.

northern base.

The moment he was about to stick the ID card on the sensor, An Zhe heard footsteps behind him, and he turned his head. It was soldiers on routine patrol, led by a familiar judge.

The judge saw him and asked, "Why are you here?"

An Zhe lowered his eyes slightly: "Help Dr. Ji get things."

"Is the doctor still doing research?" the judge asked.

An Zhe gave a soft "hmm" and didn't say anything else. The judge didn't ask anything else, but said, "Go back early, the military has something to do today."

An Zhe said, "Thank you."

They walked over, An Zhe took a deep breath, and stuck the ID card on the sensor. Fortunately, the access control system was not closed, and the door lock opened with a click.

An Zhe pushed the door and went in. The door shaft creaked due to friction, and he closed the door immediately after he walked in.In the dim light, there are huge black shadows of huge instruments, and in the center of the room, a cylindrical glass box stands quietly.A dim light from beneath the glass box illuminated it, and a cluster of tiny bubbles was emerging from the ground and floating to the top.

An Zhe held his breath. Before he opened the door, he prepared for the worst. He was caught, the spores had been transferred, and there were other people in the lab... At this moment, his heart stopped beating completely.

——Until his eyes passed through the glass water tank, through the light green culture solution, and saw a small white ball floating alone in the center.

An Zhe's breathing trembled, his lips curled up, and his heart beat heavily. He wanted to rush over immediately, but he could hardly move because of excessive emotional fluctuations.

That snow-white little thing, in the liquid under the dim light, seemed to be wandering in the deep sea.An Zhe looked at it without blinking.

At this moment, he saw the spores paused for a moment, before the hyphae stretched out suddenly, or it would be more appropriate to describe it as exploding.

Then—it floated towards itself at a speed that was definitely not slow, and then suddenly stopped on the side of the glass wall, as if it had hit it.

Anzhe took three steps and took two steps to come to the glass water tank, put his palm on it, and put his whole body on it.

His spores were also tightly attached to the glass wall, and the hyphae touched him uneasily through a layer of glass, obviously wanting to get closer to him.

An Zhe couldn't help smiling. When Lu Feng was beside him, the spores didn't seem to see him, but now they recognized him.He was reluctant to blink to see the spores stretching out the slender and fragile mycelium towards him, but because of the glass blocking, he had to work harder to stick them over, almost forming a small white sheet on the inside of the water tank. Pancake, every mycelium is emphasizing how much it wants to get close to An Zhe.

An Zhe leaned against it, surrounded by a long-lost comfort, but separated by an indestructible membrane.

He has to get it out of the tank.An Zhe tore himself off the water tank with difficulty, and went to the side, where there was an operating table.According to the general rules of human machines, he tried to press the largest round button, and the screen of the console turned on, and the indicator light on the card slot on the side lit up. He swiped Lu Feng's card again, and the indicator light changed. Lu, this person's authority is almost unimpeded in the entire base.

But then, An Zhe fell into a daze in the face of those buttons with the same shape and only some complicated symbols on them.

How can I open the water tank?

His fingers moved unsteadily on the console, and finally he made up his mind and pressed the button in the center.

Three seconds later, the water in the tank began to fluctuate, and the spores were washed helplessly here and there, and finally swirled in the center of the tank.Looking at the small ball that was helplessly spinning around, An Zhe felt his head spinning, and he pressed the first button with his heart.

The next moment, the red laser lighted up on the top of the water tank, and even An Zhe, who was standing next to him, felt the heat. The mycelia of the spores exploded, and then fell down weakly, as if they would be dried in the next second. After a while, fry it again.

An Zhe suspected that it was screaming silently.He frowned sadly—is this the kind of torture that spores suffer every day in the human laboratory?But before he could think about anything else, he pressed another button.

The red light turned into a pulsing light, and the spores exploded helplessly again and again.

An Zhe quickly pressed a button in the distance, this time the red light disappeared, and he breathed a sigh of relief.However, the next moment, the buzzing sound of "Zi--" sounded, and the blue ion sparks suddenly lit up in the water tank, and then, the water surface began to tremble slightly—the spores also trembled in the water like crazy.

An Zhe: "!"

He energized the water.

He frantically pressed one after another, and finally, with a loud bang, the light green culture solution was slowly drained from the container, An Zhe pressed a button next to it, and with a click, the top cover of the water tank opened.

The water tank was too high, so he moved a chair, stood on it, and finally put his hand into the top of the water tank.

However, more than half of the culture medium has been discharged at this time, and the spores cannot float to this height.

Then An Zhe saw the spores sticking to the glass wall, slowly climbing up along the glass, sliding down while climbing, sliding for a while, and continuing to go up again.

The little thing had not yet fully matured, so it inherited his ability to move freely. An Zhe stretched out his hand, and his arms and fingers turned into snow-white hyphae, which descended along the inner wall of the container and touched the spores.

At that moment, it was as if an electric current had passed through his whole body, reborn as if he had regained a part of himself, and there must have been a strange fluctuation surrounding him.

Holding the ball, he carefully fished it out, and all the scattered hyphae of the spores were collected obediently, and rolled among his mycelium.

An Zhe squinted his eyes and looked at it with a smile. His hyphae connected to it, and carefully incorporated it into his body. The body of the spore also stretched out completely and merged into his body.A feeling of joy was transmitted to An Zhe's mind. It finally returned to the place where it should be. Human culture fluid was useless. Only under the nutrition of adults would it continue to grow until it matured.

This time there is no bad thing to dig it away, although I don't know why the spores took the initiative to get close to that guy.

In fact, it was a good thing that the spores did not approach him that day. Once it showed a tendency to approach him, it would be immediately observed by the researchers, and his identity would inevitably be suspected.So An Zhe unilaterally determined that his spores had extraordinary intelligence.

With the return of the spores, the hole in his body was finally filled again, and all the uneasy things fell to the ground at that moment. It was an indescribable feeling, like being reborn.An Zhe walked to the window, pressed the button, and raised the metal plate.

The harsh light shone in, and he squinted his eyes.

Outside, at the end of the wind and sand, in the golden morning light, a brilliant red sun burst out.

An Zhe turned his head slowly and looked back at this silver-white laboratory. The machines were placed side by side, the wires were clearly separated, and the test tube racks on the object cabinet were arranged very neatly. From this laboratory, he could imagine the entire base. look.

This is the base of human beings, the past, present, and future have nothing to do with him.

His hand clasped the window sill, his knuckles turned white and he pushed open the transparent triple-glazed window.

The window was opened with a finger-wide slit, and the scorching hot wind was blowing towards the face with sand and gravel, followed by the tingling of the fingers, and the wind and air outside were filled with strong radiation from the universe.That huge fluctuation contained countless tiny ripples, and he seemed to hear the abyss calling him back.

He can go, leave here, go outside, return to the abyss.The outside is also cruel, and he doesn't know if he can survive, but he has recovered the spores, and he is no longer afraid of anything.

... He is not afraid of anything anymore.

An Zhe gently pressed his left hand on his abdomen, pressed his forehead against the window sill, closed his eyes, and suddenly trembled slightly.

He withdrew his right hand that was clasping the window sill, and exerted force in the opposite direction. With a slight "bang", the window closed again, followed by the anti-radiation metal layer.He took a few breaths, pressed his forehead against the metal plate, and slowly closed his fingers by his side, as if he had made some difficult choice.

As the radiation was isolated, the tingling pain on his body gradually subsided, just like that night when Lu Feng hugged him, blocked him with his body, and rolled away from the radiation area.In fact, Lu Feng would do that to anyone else, but it was precisely because of this that he remembered that scene deeply, just as he still remembered every time Lu Feng left.

An Zhe walked out of the laboratory door. At this time, two soldiers were passing by the corridor. The group of soldiers who had been patrolling just now had gone away, and now it was someone else.

An Zhe met their eyes, he pursed his lips and smiled as a greeting, then turned and walked towards the stairwell.

In the dark stairwell, he could only hear his own heartbeat, beating again and again, faster than usual. Human hearts beat faster when they feel fear, but he didn't know what he was afraid of.

Not long ago, he knew.Once the order is restored and research resumes, if something is lost in an important human laboratory, we will definitely be able to find out the cause and effect.He must go, the sooner the better.

But he couldn't help himself to take out an angular, warm thing from his shirt pocket. It was the badge pinned to Lu Feng's coat, and he took it off.

Holding that thing in his hand, he thought, wait for the aurora to light up and hear the news of PL1109's return, and then go—if there is such a day.

Nothing great about the city, only the potato soup was ok.

If it wasn't... If it wasn't for his spores always wanting to get close to Lu Feng, he would have left long ago.

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