Little Mushroom

"What are you thinking?" Dr. Ji walked behind Lu Feng.Lu Feng stood in front of the laboratory window, in front of the brightly lit Garden of Eden and the Twin Towers.

As he got closer, he realized that the colonel was not in a daze aimlessly—this man was playing with the communicator, and the screen that was still on stayed on the contact interface, and he caught a glimpse of an unfamiliar name.

"Who is this?" Dr. Ji stood beside him, raising his eyebrows: "You still have friends I don't know?"

Lu Feng didn't answer, and Dr. Ji didn't get to the bottom of it—it was normal for questions not to be answered in front of this colonel.

When he said this, the small snow-white spore came out of Lu Feng's collar, and seemed to look at him cautiously, and then quickly went back to hide.

"It's really small." Dr. Ji said with a smile.

Lu Feng pulled it out. The spores that had grown to the size of a palm were now only the size of a date pit. It desperately hid itself in Lu Feng's hands, as if it was terrified of Dr. Ji.

"I won't cut you today." Dr. Ji said: "You have become too small, be good, I will cut you when you grow up."

Lu Feng gave Dr. Ji a cold look.

Dr. Ji folded his arms and said leisurely: "It can't cut you, why are you so fierce?"

These days, the base has realized that the reason why this spore is inert cannot be analyzed with the existing biological technology. In one direction, today, a method of making mycelium extract has finally been developed.After the extract is obtained and diluted, they intend to pour it on the surface of important equipment - with this naive method, the expectation is that the inert spores will produce an inert extract, and the inert extract will form a protective layer, or simply transmit the inertness to the equipment , always makes the device safe from infection.After all, even glass and wood can infect each other after the distortion begins, and in this case, the extract can also infect other substances.

——They even decided to send twenty liters of diluent to the dungeon base by plane immediately.

In this regard, the senior executives of the lighthouse laughed at themselves, science has failed, and we have started to use unintelligible witchcraft.

Dr. Ji stretched out his hand: "Give me a play."

Of course he got nothing, Lu Yan didn't even look at him.

But Dr. Ji still stared at the white mycelium exposed by the spores, and said: "Tomorrow, I can make another liter of extract."

Lu Feng closed his fingers, and the spores could not even reveal a little hyphae.

"Don't be like this." Dr. Ji said: "Although you have a very good relationship, you don't treat him like a son. Colonel Lu, have you noticed that since you came back from the wild, your relationship has not been so lacking."

Lu Feng still didn't say a word, and only Dr. Ji was chattering in the room. He always became talkative under stressful situations. In the past month, the amount of his talking has been rising sharply.

After 3 minutes, he said, "When will you start using the extract?"

"The lighthouse is still under discussion, because we can't rule out the possibility that after the distortion begins, all matter will start to fuse without discrimination. At that time, it may pass inertia to us, or it may turn all our equipment into one. Groups of mushrooms that have lost any function."

Lu Feng's cold voice finally sounded, as if covered with a layer of frost: "If it is possible, why use it?"

"Your Inquisition likes to kill every bad possibility, but that's not the case now. It can't be any worse, you know. One more meeting and the Lighthouse can decide whether to use it or not."

"What exactly is inertia?" Lu Feng asked.

"Not infected."

The spores came out of Lu Feng's hand, and crawled along the fabric of the uniform to the shoulder strap on the side of Lu Feng away from the doctor.

Lu Feng turned sideways slightly, and this slight movement revealed something on the windowsill.

A vial of fluid with a label affixed to it that reads "MIX-III" in handwriting.Next to the vial is a blank syringe.

Dr. Ji's gaze paused.

"What do you do with the mixed xenogeneic extract?" he said, "Don't mess with the things in the laboratory, it's very dangerous."

Lu Feng looked at him, and said a sentence that had nothing to do with their current topic: "When we were in the dungeon base, there was no magnetic field, no contact infection and distortion were happening."

The doctor didn't follow his train of thought for a while, and just nodded.

"Many soldiers who entered the dungeon with me to help were infected, but I didn't." Lu Feng said.

The doctor seemed to understand what he wanted to say, so he stopped talking and looked at him quietly.

"If the spores are inert, then An Zhe will also be inert," Lu Feng said.

Dr. Ji nodded.

"But he can change between the mushroom and the human form, and in the human form, there is no abnormality in the genetic test." He said lightly: "If I have been infected by him and become inert, you will not be able to tell from any aspect."

"Yes, I admit it. We also thought about this at the beginning." Dr. Ji said: "But what's the point? It is precisely because we can't detect this kind of infection at all that we will adopt the decision to spray the extract on a large scale, and the water will fall." Only then will the stone come out, and we will not know whether the extract can protect human beings until the day when the total distortion comes."

"But there is also the risk of turning them all into fungi," Lu Feng said.

"So?" The doctor looked at him, as if he had some kind of ominous premonition, and his tone became aggressive.

"Use the monster extract to infect me. If I am still a human being at twelve hours, it proves that An Zhe has given me the inert infection without any adverse reactions. The extract can be applied."

The doctor looked at him, without any surprise on his face, as if he had already guessed what this person would say. He looked at Lu Feng, shook his head, and said, "Why you?"

"I have been with him for a long time, and I have also stayed with him during the deformed period of indiscriminate infection after the accident in the dungeon base." Lu Yan said lightly: "If he can infect others, then the most likely It was me who was infected."

"It's me." Dr. Ji sneered, he looked directly at Lu Feng, approached him, and raised his voice: "After the accident in the dungeon, you only stayed with him for a while and left. I was the one who was with him all the time. We slept together." In the same room. He’s as good as a kitten, I’m inseparable from him, I’ve had a lot of intimacy with him that you wouldn’t want to know about—if you can be infected by him, why can’t I?”

"You still have a lot of tasks," Lu Feng said without being aroused by his words, "You can't take this risk."

"You know it's a risk, don't you?" The doctor was out of breath, took a few breaths, and said to him loudly: "I can't take this risk, so you can take it? Sacrifice yourself is so worth it to you Something to commemorate?"

Lu Yan didn't speak. Dr. Ji snatched the liquid bottle from the window sill. The mouth of the bottle had been opened. He inserted the needle tip in with vicious movements, lifted the injection handle up, and quickly filled the syringe.

"If you insist on doing an experiment, then I can only do it." He held the needle, his blue eyes were filled with ice, and he spoke very fast: "You have done too many things, you have to fuck Give me life."

Lu Feng didn't stop him from doing anything, he just watched quietly, his cold green eyes were like a calm lake.

He reached out and lifted his sleeves.

On the vein in the wrist, a spot of blood represents what has been injected.

"After twelve hours, if I'm fine, you can use the extract."

The doctor stood where he was, his chest rising and falling rapidly, and he stared at Lu Feng.

"You...you..." His eyes turned red with anger, and his voice was hoarse and sharp like glass rubbing: "You hopeless...self-harming patient."

At this moment, the harsh communicator sounded.The doctor was still out of breath, and picked up the communication. After just three seconds, his expression changed.

After hanging up the phone, his face was solemn: "A small distortion was observed again, and the base raised the magnetic field strength to the strongest. The time when the magnetic field defense line collapses is coming soon. I will hold an emergency meeting for about an hour. You stay here, Don't go anywhere."

After that, he hurried to the door.

"Wait." Lu Feng stopped him, and Dr. Ji stopped. He was still angry and did not turn his head.

From behind, Lu Yan asked, "Won't An Zhe be affected by the distortion?"

"Aberration is the strengthening of infection, the nature is the same, he is not afraid of infection, and there is a high probability that he will not be afraid of distortion."

"Thank you."

The doctor slammed the door and went out.

Lu Yan typed a few words on the interface of the communicator.

A total collapse of the magnetic field occurs within that hour.

Outside the base, on the four fields, the howls of monsters suddenly sounded. They seemed to have been dormant for a long time, and finally waited for this opportunity, rushing towards the base like a tide.

After the doctor came out of the conference room, he hurried towards the direction of the laboratory, followed by two soldiers.

"Dr. Ji, please follow us as soon as possible."

"The military has no way to protect the entire base. At present, drones have observed that the wave of monsters is advancing here. In the end, we can only use the artificial magnetic pole as the only defensive position."

"I have to bring something." Dr. Ji said, "Give me 5 minutes."

"Besides, your Colonel Lu is also in the laboratory"

"Please evacuate with us immediately. After the military ordered the personnel to concentrate on evacuating to the center of the magnetic pole, the presence of Colonel Lu will further aggravate the chaos of the crowd. Therefore, you can consider—"

The emergency siren has already sounded, piercing beeping and red light, this is the highest level of wartime alert, reminding people to evacuate to a safe direction immediately, in the corridor, there is a riot of soldiers and horses, and the howling of monsters in the wilderness in the distance The sound was clearly audible, and the experimenters and soldiers in white coats were in a mess.

The laboratory door is approaching.

Suddenly, a look of disbelief appeared in Dr. Ji's eyes.

——The door of the laboratory was wide open. Before he left, he got carried away and forgot to lock the door.

He strode inside, but saw a soldier with a black cloth strip tied to his right arm holding a rifle, aiming at a figure standing in front of the window sill.

His pupils constrict - the black cloth on his right arm is a sign of the anti-judgment movement.

The communicator was on, but he couldn't care less, and shouted loudly: "Lu Yan!"

This sound was followed by a gunshot.

The figure by the window swayed, and fell to the ground with a dull sound.

The gun-wielding soldier was quickly controlled by the two soldiers who followed him. Dr. Ji strode in and bypassed the various experimental equipment. But his eyes were indifferent.

A soldier handcuffed the shooter and walked towards him.

"No more." Dr. Ji's voice sounded coldly in the laboratory: "Colonel Lu confirmed his death."

PL1109, engine room.

Hubbard leaned against the cabin wall. He and Lu Feng could not be regarded as very good friends.

——But it seems that it can be regarded as a fateful friendship.

"How does it feel to be under house arrest?" he asked.

Lu Feng slightly hooked his lips: "It's okay."

An officer next to him said: "We all came back from the dungeon base together, Colonel Lu, we promise not to report you to the military."

"You don't need to thank them." Hubbard wiped the gun in his hand: "It's just a monster siege, and we are going to participate in the battle again. You have rich experience in fighting the enemy, and everyone can see it."

What Hubbard was polishing—it was a silver semi-automatic, silver all over, his fingers resting on the stock—had a scratch here, with the letters "Tang" vaguely engraved on it.

His eyes stayed on the string of letters.

The officer next to him asked, "Who is this?"

"A friend." Hubbard said, "I've known you for 33 years."

"Really long."

Hubbard looked at that word for a long time, and he smiled: "It's a pity."

"why?"

"Born together, but not dying together in the end."

"There's no such thing as a good thing."

"……Yes."

Lu Yan folded his arms and watched their conversation.His eyelashes were half-closed, and he couldn't see any emotion, and the others naturally didn't expect the judge to empathize with their emotions.

Until Hubbard discovered something.

"Where's your gun?" he said.

Lu Feng said: "Give it away."

Hubbard smiled, as if he understood everything.Compared with the military's standard supply, this mercenary captain is quite wealthy. He took out a black pistol and handed it to Lu Feng. The moment he was taken over, he whispered, "I will live."

"Thank you."