Little Mushroom

Crossing the road covered with yellow sand, it came to the neighborhood, and it was still a few hundred meters away. The soft feet rubbed against the road surface, making the sound of "sand--" and "sand--".

On that smooth, off-white membranous exterior, with no eyes, no ears, no antennae or breathing holes, how does it perceive the world?Hearing, sight, or sound waves?This determines how they should escape.

Xibei said, "What...how?"

Lu Feng didn't speak. He walked towards the window and pushed the window with his hand - but the window seemed to be frozen or rusted, and when he pushed it for the first time, it didn't move at all.Arms tensed, and then exerted more force, the window made an extremely unpleasant creaking sound of metal breaking and friction, and was barely pushed open a small triangular gap obliquely.

A pitch-black muzzle protruded from this gap, but the colonel aimed not at the monster, but at the opposite street.

There was a slight "bang" sound-it was the sound of a gun with a silencer installed, which could not be heard ten meters away.

The bullet left a fleeting silhouette on his retina, and the next moment it hit the window of the building next to the street.

The bullets he used when he went out into the wild were different from the ordinary bullets he used to judge humans. They were bullets made of depleted uranium alloy, with armor-piercing level of penetration and crushing strength.

With a loud bang, a whole piece of glass shattered and fell to the ground.

The monster's movements visibly paused.

Lu Feng raised the gun again and clicked a few times, and the broken glass fell to the ground in that direction.

Sure enough, it heard it. The wriggling foot changed direction, stopped for a while, and then moved slowly towards the place where the sound came from. After 3 minutes, it stopped again, gave up the original direction, and continued to walk towards the community where they were. Come.

Xibei took a few steps back subconsciously, his face pale: "It...it...can you hit it?"

Lu Yan's thin lips were slightly pursed, and he looked there, his eyes were serious, and his expression was terribly calm.

The next moment, I saw him reach out and remove the muffler with a click.

He kept pressing the trigger!

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

A series of explosions exploded violently in the neighborhood around the monster!In a city that is too quiet, this sound is tantamount to a deafening thunder.

The monster stayed in place again, hesitating, but at the same time, a sharp cry suddenly sounded from the other end of the city.

Immediately, a huge black shadow soared into the sky from that direction, and a huge falcon-like bird flew across the sky. It stretched out its wings tens of meters long and glides faster than bullets—straight Swooping towards the group of white monsters similar in size to it!

The monster let out a high-frequency scream, the white membrane split open, and countless soft, thorny tentacles stretched out to wrap around the eagle's beak like a surge.

With a dull "poof", the eagle's armor-like wings pierced its body, the monster suffered pain, and its tentacles retracted like an electric shock.Flying Eagle took the opportunity to get away, and after a blow, it immediately flapped its wings and flew upwards.After staying away from the attacking range of those densely packed gray-black tentacles, it circled in the sky. The next moment, it swooped down again with the piercing sound of the wind, and its sharp beak pierced straight into the center of the white monster's body.

In an instant, white and flesh-pink liquid splashed out, and the sharp teeth in its beak bit something.The white monster twisted and struggled frantically, its body was too large, the surrounding houses trembled and collapsed, and the ground buzzed.In the gray human city, two unimaginably huge monsters biting and fighting like this——

The ground with a radius of hundreds of meters was covered with dark mucus. This battle ended with the white monster beyond recognition, and its internal organs dripped all over the place.Flying Eagle held its string of juicy viscera in its mouth, turned around and flew away without missing it.

An Zhe breathed a sigh of relief, and it wasn't until then that he understood Lu Feng's intention to shoot frequently.There may not be only one monster like this in this city, and he exposed its location with gunshots, attracting other monsters.

I heard Xi Bei say, "You... how did you know there was that bird?"

Lu Feng retracted the gun, put the silencer back on, and turned around. A series of movements were smooth and neat.

"I don't know," he said, "It's a gamble."

An Zhe looked at the direction where the flying eagle disappeared. Under the current situation, flying monsters seemed to have shown an incomparable advantage.

After escaping from death, they didn't speak any more. In the silence, an old voice suddenly sounded.

"The time is coming." Grandpa said hoarsely, "I lived to be 60 years old, that's enough."

Lu Feng looked in the direction of the old man.

He asked, "When?"

The old man opened his mouth, and he stared at the distant sky with a look of irrational madness: "It's coming... when it's coming."

"What's coming?"

"The unspeakable, the unimaginable..." His voice was full of dying hoarseness: "The one that is bigger than everything, the one that cannot be seen, in this world... is coming soon."

Lu Feng's voice was very low: "How do you know?"

"I'm dying...I can feel it, I can hear it." His voice was as slow as a raving that had been stretched countless times.

When he said this, the old man looked up at the gray sky above the city, it was so low, it was shockingly low, and it weighed heavily on the top of his field of vision.The aurora was so bright, the green light also became lower and mixed with the gray and black clouds.Lu Yan said that the reason why the aurora is so bright is that the base has adjusted the frequency of the artificial magnetic field stronger.

"People grow on the ground and die on the ground. The sky..." The old man looked peaceful, and his voice became softer: "The sky will only get lower and lower."

——After the last word came out of his mouth, he slowly folded his hands.

Slowly, slowly close the eyes.

Xi Bei's knees softened, and he knelt down in front of the old man, placing his hands on his skinny knees: "Grandpa? Grandpa?"

no answer.

The old man's chest stopped heaving and he was gone.

Death is only an instant.

Two lines of tears flowed from Xibei's eyes, and buried her face in the old man's knee.

When he finally raised his head again, An Zhe said softly, "Are you okay?"

"I'm... not bad." Xibei stared blankly at his grandfather's face, and murmured, "Grandpa used to say that he was not afraid of death. He said that people have their own mission in life, and his mission is to protect the mine." Everyone here. To be able to watch the mine and live to this day, he is...already done."

He looked up at the old man's face, haggard and dusty.The white hair is messy and tangled in some places. In the dark underground, no one can live decently.

He said, "I... I'm going to find a comb."

He got up in a daze and walked to other rooms.

A belated life dies.

In this room, there is another life long dead.An Zhe turned to look at the sofa in the living room, and there was a skeleton on the sofa.

Its flesh and blood should be rotting naturally, because the whole sofa is centered on it, covered with green, yellow or brown mottled traces, which are traces of mold growing from layers.

"In the beginning, there were superbugs, fungi, and viruses. They multiplied in human cities, infecting everyone indiscriminately, and the cities were full of corpses. Anyone who has been to the ruins in the wild knows this." The poet once said in It sounded in An Zhe's ears.

He raised his head and looked out of the window. This is a dead building, a dead city, the building is full of skeletons, and every skeleton is a dead life.

Lu Feng saw An Zhe's gaze, which was still so calm, as if he was keeping aloof from the matter.But under the reflection of the gray sky, the combination of subtle movements on his quiet and beautiful face showed an indescribable sadness like light smoke.

Averting his eyes and looking at the city, he said: "When the human base was built and a comprehensive search and rescue was conducted, the strength of the base was insufficient, and many small cities were not rescued in time."

An Zhe looked at the endless buildings that looked like a vast ocean. It would take at least several hours to walk from one end of the city to the other.He said softly, "Is this a small city?"

Lu Feng said, "Yes."

An Zhe opened his eyes slightly.

In his eyes, a city that was extremely vast turned out to be just a small city that was too late to be rescued for the once prosperous and glorious human beings.

So how magnificent is the human world before the era of disasters?he does not know.

And the process of such a grand whole gradually sinking—imagining this scene, he seemed to see the huge sunset gradually sinking into the black horizon at dusk, a protracted death.

"Bangdang-"

In this dead silence, in the bedroom next door, there was a sudden sound of something falling to the ground.

Lu Feng asked, "What's wrong?"

There was no answer, only Xibei's trembling exhalation came.

Lu Yan frowned, took the gun, turned and walked over, An Zhe followed.

The room was empty, there were no monsters or enemies, but Xibei was facing them with his back trembling violently.At first An Zhe thought he was crying, then, after walking to him, An Zhe saw him staring at a comb in his hand.

An Zhe couldn't describe what kind of wooden comb it was for a while, because it was not one, but two combs fused together.It was the most common kind of brown wooden comb, with a ten-centimeter-long handle and fine teeth. The handles of the two equally ordinary wooden combs grew together tightly, as if they were carved from the same piece of wood.The comb teeth are inclined at 45 degrees, one to the left and one to the right, like a two-headed snake spitting out its letters.

But if they were just two ordinary combs in the first place, how could they grow together?

Wood, a piece of wood product, is the most common and safest thing, but because of its strange appearance beyond common sense, it brings the most incomparable horror.

Lu Yan strode towards the dressing table where Xibei got the comb.This is obviously a woman's room before the cataclysm era. There are countless bottles, jars, large and small utensils on the ivory dresser.

Lu Feng reached out to wipe the dust on the mirror, and wiped off one layer, but there was another layer underneath. The dust seemed to grow in the mirror, and the mirror was always foggy, distorting their figures into a mass of black.

Looking at all this, An Zhe suddenly remembered that when he climbed the outer city wall, a layer of sand fell down, but the inside was still sand, as if the city wall had become a mixture of sand and steel.

Lu Yan no longer looked at the mirror, he frowned, glanced at the large and small make-up utensils, and finally reached out and pulled out a pair of long rusty tweezers—not tweezers, because the metal tweezers had been combined with a plastic tweezer. The eyebrow trimmers are glued together, and the "X"-shaped intersecting parts in the middle of them are integrated into one, seamless. It's hard to tell if it's steel or plastic, or it's a brand new material that humans don't know.

With a snap, Xibei's fingers trembled, and the comb fell on the dusty floor.

"This city..." he said, "is there something strange? Let's... let's go."

"It's not this city." Lu Feng said.

He looked at the sticky tweezers and eyebrow trimmer, and only said three words.

"engine."

These ordinary three words fell like thunder at this moment.

If the inside of the engine also produces this kind of weird fusion and change, then the plane crash is doomed.

An Zhe leaned over and picked up the comb.There was no trace of splicing, but the carvings on the handle were chaotic, chaotic and crazy, and it was impossible to imagine how they were mixed together, just like the black handwriting on the flight manual with tentacles spreading around.

An Zhe opened his eyes slightly, and suddenly, the words Mrs. Lu said before turning into a queen bee and flying into the boundless sky rang in his ears.

She said: "Human genes are too weak to perceive the changes that are happening in this world."

"We are all going to die. All work is in vain, just a testament to the smallness and powerlessness of human beings."

A thought flashed across his mind like lightning pierced the sky.

If, if... When people and monsters, monsters and monsters overlap or approach each other in space, genetic pollution will occur—no, it’s wrong, it’s completely wrong.

"Gene..." he murmured, "Not a gene..."

The problem isn't genetics at all, or not quite genetics.Pollution is the mixing and recombination of flesh and blood from one creature to another, but this change is done through genetic changes.

If, if this kind of thing can happen, if the properties of a living thing can change instantly, why can't something else?What is the difference between the biological body, the helix of DNA, and other lifeless substances in the world?

So paper and wood will pollute each other, so will steel and plastic.

—then all visible things in the world will.

It’s just that this process is taking place gradually, and this torrent has just begun to surge, and it has just been revealed in front of human beings with the pollution of biological genes as a precursor.

These days when the geomagnetism disappeared, those hybrid monsters crazily ate food, crazily captured the forms of other creatures to strengthen themselves, and hoarded food like humans to cope with winter. Did they already feel something?

Xibei's voice trembled: "In the end..."

He couldn't say anything.

What kind of era is this?What kind of disaster are they facing?What exactly is going on?what is itwhat is it

A flash of lightning pierced the sky.The windows vibrated, and the wind from ancient times howled and made a long sound, pouring into the room through the gap, and the corners of their clothes were blown up and fluttered.

An Zhe looked up, he and Lu Feng stared at each other blankly, those cold green eyes were as dark and deep as the sky outside.

At the moment when they looked at each other, a thunderclap sounded in the sky.The sky was even lower, and between the vast sky and the earth, there was a torrential downpour of rain.

Under the rain curtain, everything outside could not be seen or heard—the boundless darkness, the boundless nothingness, and the boundless terror.

Mrs. Lu's gentle and mellow voice, Grandpa's haggard and hoarse voice, they overlapped and suddenly rang in An Zhe's ears.

- "The time is coming."