Little Mushroom

Finally he saw Lu Feng's face, he had never seen such a bewildered expression on the Colonel's face, he wanted to say something, but couldn't say anything——

There was darkness before him, and his body was a hollow.

Gently, something snapped inside his body.

- so painful.

Then came the second root.

He tried to figure out what was going on, and finally, as if his consciousness had become a point of light in the void, he finally saw what was happening.

That slender, snow-white one gradually elongated to the point of being almost transparent, and it was frail to the point of shocking.

pat.

With a pinprick-like pain, it broke.

his spores.

The mycelium from his body is connected to every hyphae of the spores, and now the mycelium is breaking one by one, not by himself, but by the spores moving away—no, not at all.

It's time to mature, and the power from life instinct is separating them.

An Zhe can't stop anything. It's hard to say what deep relationship a mushroom has with its spores. Their relationship is not like human parents and children, but he still doesn't want the spores to leave him so soon.It was still so dangerous outside, the spores left him, and no matter what they encountered, they would die—especially Lu Feng.

But he lost all his senses and couldn't say anything, so he could only speak to the spores desperately in his heart.

don't come out.

don't come out.

The fear of death reached its peak when there were only three remaining mycelia left.

Don't come out - please.

Drenched in cold sweat, he opened his eyes abruptly.

With the ceiling in front of him, he blinked slowly, and then shivered suddenly at the next moment.

— still.

He could still feel the spores in his body, and the three hyphae were holding it precariously, but fortunately, it seemed to be quiet and obedient, as if it had finally decided to listen to his request.

The next moment, the doctor's voice came from next to his ear. He thought he had returned to the base in a trance, and then realized that it was the voice of the communicator.

After correcting the distorted copper wire, Lu Feng got in touch with the base as expected.It wasn't right, but at that moment he felt lost.

"...I tell you with certainty, the human race is about to end." The doctor's pessimistic tone came from the communicator, An Zhe moved, and found himself lying in Lu Feng's arms with his coat on his body, Lu Feng saw he woke up.

He seemed to want to say something, An Zhe used his eyes to make him concentrate on the phone, and then weakly pressed his forehead against his chest.

"This is not a predictable disaster at all. This is a mass extinction. I can tell you that the mass extinction of all living things, all non-living things, and all laws of physics in the entire world."

Lu Yan: "I saw the fusion of matter."

"It's not called fusion. Our latest definition is distortion. It's a distortion of the whole at the microscopic level. Do you know that a silicon atom becomes—becomes something we don't know under the microscope? It's not a gene at all. Pollution is a change at the quantum level, something we can never observe. According to the uncertainty principle, we cannot overcome it, and we will never overcome it. If technology develops for another 1 years, we can only accept death." The doctor said: "I... I... all we know so far is that the magnetic field protects the Earth from this change, and that the distortion temporarily stopped when the two bases increased the magnetic field strength. But you know, things are forever getting worse."

It seems that the nervousness made him chatter: "In the past, only serious injuries would be infected, and then minor injuries would be infected, and then as long as you touch them, you will be infected, and finally you will be infected if you don't touch them. I thought this was a worse situation. What? The basic structure of this world is in chaos, and this is obviously a process of gradual strengthening. The world is becoming more and more chaotic. Now our magnetic field can temporarily block it, and then what? When the highest strength of the artificial magnetic field cannot resist it? The highest strength of our magnetic field is level 9, now it is level 7, and it is coming to an end. Tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, half a year at the latest, our artificial magnetic poles will be broken due to distortion.”

"The base hopes you can come back, but in fact, if you want to find a place to spend the rest of your life, I will never stop you." He said: "It's almost over."

Lu Feng said, "I see."

"If you don't find An Zhe, you don't need to look for it. Let him go, let yourself go, live well, anyway, you're going to die." The doctor said, "You bring the sample back, and we won't be able to study the results. That's not something science can do—although the base is still fighting for one last hope."

After a pause, the doctor said again: "I'm broken, I'm sorry, I'm infected by the current pessimism of the base. Don't listen to a word I say, the sample must be brought back. Since the sample is inert in infection, Perhaps there is also inertia in the distortion. This is the last breakthrough, the last hope, either you die outside or bring it back. But according to the performance of An Zhe's sudden disappearance at the end, he may be a very terrifying type of alien, You have to be careful."

The doctor's self-defeating tone and miscalculation of his strength made An Zhe curl his lips, but realizing the meaning of his words, he understood that the base was still clinging to his spores.

"Take a good rest." Lu Feng said, "I have already sent the coordinates to the United Front Center."

Communication hangs up.

Lu Feng looked at An Zhe.

"Are you okay?" he said.

"It's okay." An Zhe said.

Lu Feng said, "What happened just now?"

An Zhe shook his head.

"You don't know either?"

An Zhe whispered: "No."

"I can't tell you," he said.

He suddenly found that Lu Feng's eyes were so cold that he was startled.

"Yeah." Lu Feng gently ran his fingers through his hair, and said in a calm voice, "So the sample can't tell me."

An Zhe lowered his head, he had nothing to say about the spores.It was so before, and it is so now.

In this world, the quiet time is a bubble.Like the end of a dream, he and Lu Feng finally returned to a few days ago.

Inquisitors and aliens, hunters and defectors.He will not hand over the spores, and Lu Feng will not let him go.

He didn't want to look Lu Feng in the eyes, so he could only change the subject: "Is the base bad now?"

"Ah."

"Then do you want to go back?"

"Go back." Lu Feng said.

"But the doctor said... there is no hope." He whispered.

Immediately, he realized the stupidity of his words. Even if the base was about to perish, it was impossible for Lu Feng not to go back.

After a long silence, Lu Feng said, "At least stay with the base till the end."

An Zhe pursed his lips, Lu Feng belonged to the base, just like he belonged to the abyss.They cannot coexist peacefully.Lu Yan had already sent the coordinates to the United Front Work Center, but he refused to disclose the whereabouts of the spores. He couldn't imagine what would happen to him next.

He looked at Lu Feng.In the rain outside, the light was dim, and he couldn't see Lu Feng clearly, nor could he understand Lu Feng.

When the changes in this world became more and more crazy, and even the doctor said "humanity is about to end", what Lu Feng would think at the last moment before the extinction of human beings, he didn't know.

"I sometimes feel that if the base will perish within my lifetime," Lu Feng said in a low voice, "All the things I have done before..."

He stopped and did not continue, the emotional fluctuations were like ripples on the surface of the water, which soon froze.

"There might be a miracle." An Zhe could only say this softly, it was the only thing he could think of that might comfort Lu Yan.

Lu Yan looked down at him: "Do you think it's possible?"

"Yes. It's like... It's like this world is big, but when your plane crashed, it fell next to me." An Zhe said: "If it wasn't like this, you would have died."

If Lu Feng died, there would be no An Zhe to be in the human city again at this moment, and everything would change.

But Lu Feng was just looking at him, he was lying in his arms, Lu Feng was looking down at him like that, there was only a thin coldness in those green eyes without warmth: "You know how big the world is?" Is it?"

An Zhe recalled that in his limited memory, he hadn't traveled a lot or seen many things. He was just an inert mushroom.But this world must be huge, so it can be called a miracle when Lu Feng's plane fell from the sky and landed in front of him.

So he nodded slowly.

He wanted to make Lu Feng happy, but the current Lu Feng is so scary - seeing Lu Feng's expressionless side face, An Zhe couldn't help but flinch.

"You don't know." Lu Yan's voice was cold: "I couldn't have landed in front of you by chance. The reason for that is because I was here to catch you."

"No." An Zhe couldn't bear his eyes, he wanted to leave, but was held tightly in Lu Feng's arms, his voice was hoarse: "There were a lot of planes that day, you are going... to kill bees. You accidentally... met me by accident, so you wanted to catch me."

"It's already been killed." Lu Feng's voice fell calmly.

An Zhe opened his eyes wide.

He trembled: "...who?"

Lu Feng said, "She."

An Zhe could only hear one syllable, and he didn't know whether the word was him, her or it.But when this syllable came out of Lu Feng's mouth, there was only one possibility.

Madam Lu.

He personally killed Mrs. Lu.

It was difficult for him to breathe, and his chest heaved violently a few times.

Lu Feng looked at him, his fingers reached the side of An Zhe's neck, and his index finger and middle finger came together, pressing down on his fragile and warm carotid artery.There was no emotion in his voice, and he said: "The last mission is to kill you, didn't you hear the order in the communicator?"

An Zhe heard it.

His neck hurt slightly from the pressure, and he reached out to try to push Lu Feng's wrist away, but he couldn't push it away, his throat was sore, he said, "But the world... the world is so big, you don't even know I'm there."

Lu Feng looked at An Zhe.

An Zhe was held in his arms, so small.The doctor said that he could escape from the base in an instant, and he might be an extremely powerful alien species, but Lu Feng understood him, such a fragile, small thing, as if anyone could hurt him, whether it was physically or mentally.

What he was talking about, Lu Yan didn't hear clearly, only saw that his eyes were red, as if he was desperately trying to prove that it was an accident, a coincidence, he seemed to be trying hard to deceive himself into believing something, in order to serve He excused.

He reached into the pocket of his uniform and took something out.

A thin glass bottle as long as a thumb, filled with a light green liquid, with a label stuck in the middle, with a barcode and a series of numbers printed on the label.

An Zhe looked at the thing and asked, "What is this?"

Lu Yan said lightly: "Tracking agent."

An Zhe had heard of this name before.He remembered that Lily once said that she was injected with a tracer, and human beings were always named in a concise and concise way, and one could know the purpose of the drug as soon as one heard the name.

"Lighthouse said that if the tracer solution is irradiated with a special frequency pulse wave, it can obtain a characteristic frequency. The irradiated tracer is divided into two parts, one part is injected into the body, and the other part is preserved. The preserved tracer solution is injected into the analyzer, It can indicate the direction of the same-frequency tracking fluid." Lu Yan said: "No matter how far away."

An Zhe put his fingers close to the cold tube and held it in his hand.

"Did you give me a tracer?" His voice trembled slightly: "When did you take it? I...I don't know."

As he spoke, a thought suddenly crossed his mind.

His voice was lower, his throat was sour, and he was almost speechless: "Have you suspected that I am a foreign species?"

"You can pass all judgment criteria, I didn't kill you." Lu Feng's voice became colder, he opened An Zhe's fingers, took out the tracer, put it back in his pocket, and said, "But I have to Base security is responsible."

An Zhe stared at him blankly, a tear slipped from the corner of his eye, he thought Lu Feng would wipe it off, but Lu Feng didn't.The line of water quietly turned cold on his cheek.What Lu Feng said just now was very little, but it was enough to show his character.He had mercilessly killed Mrs. Lu who was the queen bee.

What kind of person the colonel is, he has known it from the first day.Maybe the Lu Feng who has been kind to him these days, maybe it's the fleeting illusion.

After he resumed communication with the base, where did he get the confidence that Lu Feng had been treating him specially and that he would let him go?

Lu Yan watched An Zhe in his arms gradually drooping his eyelashes, and finally leaned against his chest and closed his eyes.So the soft watery light in the eyes of this little alien was also covered up, and he seemed to be heartbroken, after he confessed everything he had done, Lu Feng thought.

Just like all the people he killed.

An Zhe's eyes opened again, and he looked up at him, his voice was so low that Lu Feng had to get closer to him to hear it.

"When Mrs. Lu became the queen bee, she had completely lost her sanity." He said, "She told me...she didn't hate the base, she just wanted to experience a new form of life, and she didn't hate yours." .”

In the deathly silence, Lu Feng did not speak.Time passed by, and when An Zhe reached out to touch Lu Feng's cheek to confirm that he was still alive, he saw Lu Feng's thin and cold lips curled up.

His voice was soft, but firm.

"She hates me."

An Zhe looked into his eyes.

Mrs. Lu said that Lu Feng would never get what he wanted, he would have to die, and he would eventually go crazy.

He said, "Why?"

"After I was born, her relationship with my father was discovered by the base, and she could no longer meet him casually. I killed my father and killed many of her children. With her help, her youngest daughter came from the Garden of Eden. When I escaped, I ran into me again. In fact, just across the road where I met Lily that day, there was her friend who came to meet her. "

Lu Feng seldom spoke such a long sentence, and An Zhe had long been used to listening to every word he said with all his attention—when Lu Feng finally finished speaking, he was almost out of breath.

There was silence for three seconds.

"There are very few happy things in her life, but they will be destroyed by me." Lu Feng said: "She hates me like everyone in the base."

Looking at him, An Zhe opened his mouth.

Finally, he finally knew what he wanted to say.

"I don't hate you," he said.

There was a long silence.

"Why?" Lu Feng's hoarse voice suddenly rang in his ear.

"What...why?" he said.

"Why do you..." Lu Feng looked at him: "You can always forgive me?"

An Zhe looked up at him, but what he saw this time was not the frosty Lu Feng.

There was an imperceptible tremor in the colonel's voice, and he asked again: "Why?"

An Zhe wanted to say it, but he couldn't. He didn't have as high an IQ as humans, and he didn't know as many languages ​​as them. He thought for a long time.

"I understand you," he said.

"You're not even human," Lu Feng pressed his fingers firmly on his shoulders, his eyes were still so cold, but something seemed to collapse in his voice, and he almost tremblingly asked, "What do you know about me?"

— This person still has to ask.

But An Zhe couldn't say anything, he shook his head desperately.

He was just cornered step by step by Lu Feng and wanted to cry again.He didn't know why this person was so bad, this person didn't hesitate to cut everything about himself today.He himself is like a judge who wants to acquit the prisoner, but the prisoner under the trial table keeps stating that he has aggravated his evil deeds. This person must be tried and sentenced to death-he just wants to hate him so much .

An Zhe didn't know why things came to this point at all, obviously they were just talking about whether the base could survive or not, and whether it was a miracle that Lu Feng fell in front of him in such a big world.

Lu Feng said no, all of this was premeditated and inevitable.

But no, really not.

"But..." He raised his arm towards Lu Feng, and the distinct human fingers gradually changed.

Snow-white hyphae climbed onto Lu Feng's black uniform, and climbed over the judge's epaulettes and silver tassels.

Tears kept rolling out of his eyes, he couldn't see Lu Feng's expression clearly, he only knew that Lu Feng's hand holding him was trembling, and he hugged him even tighter.

He knew that Lu Yan would definitely recognize him as the mushroom rolling in the abyss, his voice choked up: "But I just met you..."

In such a vast world, Lu Feng insisted on going to the abyss.With such a big abyss, he insisted on rolling in that empty plain.

They should never have met.

He has never harmed anyone, nor has he harmed any animals. He just wants to grow his spores quietly. He could have been less angry and sad.

But why are there people like Lu Feng in the world?

The human hugged him with so much strength, as if he wanted to kill him. He pressed his back against the bedpost and struggled desperately. The struggle had no effect at all, but he was unwilling to turn into mycelium and escape, and he was not to be outdone.

He desperately bit Lu Feng's neck with all his strength.

The moment the taste of blood poured into his mouth, An Zhe was stunned.

What am I doing?he thinks.

But he had no chance, this moment of stupefaction was enough for Lu Feng to regain the upper hand.

The shoulders were firmly held down, the back hit the bedpost, and the jaw was forcibly lifted by a hand.

——Lu Feng kissed him firmly.