All the people present held their breath, including those in the live broadcast room, who dared not breathe.

Although they know that there are genetic diseases, most people have never seen genetic diseases, at most they have seen them on the news. This is the first time they have actually seen a suspected genetic disease, even in a live broadcast.

"Brother, what did you see?" Lin Qiming asked Shen Li in a low voice.

Shen Li frowned slightly, and answered after a while: "Human."

"people?"

"Yes, it's people."

Although there are some things in his body, he is obviously human. Compared with the lesions born from the collapse of human genes, he is more like being invaded by something from the inside, leaving only a shell to move. To put it a bit scary, it is a bit like zombie.

Under the worried gazes of everyone, Xu Zhiwen finally stopped, he stood there blankly, Captain Zhang and Shen Li looked at each other, and finally wanted to go over to have a look.

But before Captain Zhang took a step, Xu Zhiwen suddenly turned around and walked towards a decorative tree next to him. Under the weird eyes of everyone, he climbed up the whole body, as if he wanted to climb up the tree, but he refused The missing leg made it difficult for him to go up, and finally he gave up and chose to lie down on the nearest tree trunk.

"Old Xu?" Captain Zhang stretched out his hand, "What's wrong with you, Old Xu?"

"It's coming." Shen Li grabbed him.

In the next instant, countless white flocs broke out, and Xu Zhiwen's skin was cracked, and white hyphae stretched out wherever there were holes, and the hyphae spread rapidly, quickly covering Xu Zhiwen's whole body, stretching Bacteria in the air begin to grow caps, releasing spores invisible to the naked eye.

Captain Zhang's face was pale.

"It's not a genetic disease..." Shen Li expressed the thoughts of everyone present, "It's parasitic."

Mushrooms are a kind of amazing creatures. They don't have roots, stems and leaves. They generally live saprophytic or parasitic lives. What is presented to them now is obviously parasitic.

There is a very famous fungus named Cordyceps sinensis a hundred years ago. This fungus will erode the body of a bug through spores, control the bug to die in a suitable place, and finally the mycelium will break out from the bug's body and continue Spread new spores.

But now, the bacteria after gene awakening no longer look for small propagules like small bugs, it starts to parasitize large organisms, including humans.

"It's the Nocturnal Mushroom, and there is a mutant that I don't know about that has been leaked." Captain Zhang immediately understood what happened, "Immediately start the first-level security! Everyone go to a place with light! Prepare for a full-body examination!"

Lin Qiming was also shocked. He looked at the live broadcast equipment in his hand, and sure enough, the barrage exploded.

"Master, brother?! Will the live broadcast stop?"

"Don't stop." Shen Li stopped immediately, "Although it was an accident, I still have to say a few words."

Said Shen Li facing the camera, "Try to be calm when encountering such an emergency, this is a matter of your life, even if it mutates to a state we don't know, the ecological circle is still very stable, every creature has its own absolute Weaknesses, such as: sensitivity to light or water, preference for humidity or drought."

"Just a little thought can delay a little time."

"Xiao Shen! Let's go!" Captain Zhang greeted them from the side, "The guards have found more nocturnal mushrooms, and they are growing rapidly. We must go to a place with light immediately."

Shen Li responded, "Here we come."

Lin Qiming immediately cut off the live broadcast, and the first thing to do now should be to escape.

In the end, Shen Li looked up at the sky, under the gloomy sky there were layers of dark clouds, and there was no light at all.

He sighed, and ran to the place with light together with Lin Qiming.

……

"After the fog, the night no longer belongs to humans."

This is a sentence that Shen Li saw in the textbook. The seniors in the biological research area wrote it on the first page of the textbook. Shen Li can roughly imagine what kind of picture this is through the knowledge in the book. Now it was the first time he knew the seriousness of this sentence.

"Biological erosion." Captain Zhang finally came to a conclusion, "A first-level emergency. Area H1 has been invaded by biological organisms. Call for help immediately."

Area H1 never thought that mushrooms would multiply so quickly, even if they prepared lighting measures three times higher than their experimental fields, it was of no use at all. There are too many mushrooms, and the spores will rise up wherever they float, and they will be exhausted. Electricity doesn't help either.

And biological erosion, similar to ecologically invasive species, will multiply rapidly under certain conditions because there are no natural enemies, and seize the means of survival. After heavy fog, biological erosion becomes an invasion of an ecological species into a human safety zone.

How can creatures that follow the laws of nature and humans that follow the social order coexist?Ten years ago, no creature expelled human beings from their habitat. After the fog, human beings became weak and could only be forced to be pulled into the law of survival of nature.

Shen Li stood in front of the window and looked out of the window. Now everyone is staying in this laboratory building. The doors and windows are closed and the lights are bright. Outside the window is the gloomy sky. Countless mushrooms are stretching their hyphae and swaying randomly. In its own cap, the concentration of spores is so dense that the naked eye can see the material like gravel.

The largest fungus has grown to the height of a three-story building, and the cap is tightly covering the air above. In the experimental field that can still be seen, the green plants fade rapidly, and small white filaments emerge after withering, like Paste a layer of white cotton.

There is no need to save them at all, they have been sucked into empty shells just like Xu Zhiwen.

"In order to make it easier for humans to eat, we removed the toxic substances from them, so that they have no competitiveness in this kind of survival." Captain Zhang sighed, and he looked at the densely packed nocturnal mushrooms outside the window, "There are nocturnal mushrooms here that dare not come here. We can last for a while, and the higher-ups will think of a way to save us."

Captain Zhang is very optimistic, but in fact everyone here knows how bad the situation is now.

Today is a cloudy day, and the sun is completely blocked by dark clouds. Even when the sun appears, these bacteria can hide in the ground. As long as someone passes by them, they can parasitize through the ground under their feet. The human body is the best parasol, and they can only rely on it. The lights are building a temporary safe zone.

But lighting needs electricity, and no one can say when the circuit will be sacrificed under the expansion of mushrooms. Although this laboratory has an independent power generation device, it cannot last for three days.

If the higher-ups can't clean up the mushrooms within three days, then they will only be parasitized.

Lin Qiming was sitting in the corner with his camera in his arms, looking a bit pitiful, also, he entered this kind of place just after his life was out of danger, and he was so weak.

"Have you found the reason?" Shen Li asked Captain Zhang.

"Almost." Captain Zhang sighed, "Old Xu discovered a special mutant species in his research. It reproduces very fast and can quickly decompose and devour nutrients in the soil. He thinks this kind of mushroom has research value. , which can be used for cleaning.”

"I refused at the time and asked him to clean up these mutants. It seems...he has been secretly researching behind my back."

Captain Zhang looks like a good old man. He always smiles and looks silly on weekdays, but his position as the main decision-maker in the H1 district shows that he is not a fool. He has a clear heart and knows Lao Xu better than anyone else A little arrogant, knowing that he has always wanted to achieve something.

He thought he would be able to think about it if he gave Lao Xu some time to think about it, and he also believed that Lao Xu was a good person who did research for everyone, but he didn't expect it to lead to such a bad result.

"It's my fault." Captain Zhang said with sadness in his voice, "I should have stared at him and cleaned up the mutants, so that everyone who was involved wouldn't be able to get out here."

"Don't be so pessimistic, we are all human, and there are always times when we are not perfect." Shen Li comforted him, "It is better to think about how to get out of here than to review mistakes."

Captain Zhang smiled helplessly, even though he said that, he still felt a little bit guilty.

Shen Li also knew about this kind of thing, so he didn't say a word other than that sentence of relief. He was thinking about what else to do in this situation.

"Qi Ming." Shen Li called Lin Qiming's name, "Can you still connect to the live broadcast?"

Lin Qiming was stunned, he never thought that Shen Li would ask this question, he quickly checked the network equipment, "It can still be used for the time being, the signal is a bit weak, and I don't know when it will be cut off."

"connected."

"It's okay, but brother, are you going to continue the live broadcast?" Lin Qiming scratched his hair in a daze, "It doesn't seem like this is the time for the live broadcast?"

"Just take it as a record." Shen Li looked at the scenery outside, "This level of biological erosion is also very difficult to encounter. So far, we have not clearly recorded it once in our country, right? Break it, send it out."

Lin Qiming looked at Shen Li in surprise, but he instantly understood what Shen Li meant.

They don't know if they can leave, and they don't know if this place will become a restricted area, so they will release all the information they can get while they are still alive, able to move, and connected to the outside world.

Taking a deep breath, Lin Qiming started to connect to the live broadcast, and the moment the connection was successful, the entire page froze.

But even so Lin Qiming could see the barrage stuck on the screen.

【pass!They are still alive! 】

[Are you all right? !Is it safe now? 】

[I wish you peace. 】

[Biological erosion is such a rare thing that it has happened. From the early days of the fog to the present, the fatality rate of large-scale biological erosion is almost 100%. 】

【Help!Little koi, I will never call you black koi again, come back safely! 】

"Can you hear me?" Shen Li didn't look at the barrage at all, he just stared outside and said what he wanted to say in the freeze, "Our power and network conditions are not very good, and communication may be cut off at any time , I will make a long story short."

"The species of biological invasion this time is a mutant of Nocturnal Mushroom, which is characterized by abnormal reproduction speed and decomposition ability. The mutation point is: parasitism, and the parasitic objects are large organisms including humans."

Lin Qiming immediately put the camera on the window, and everyone online saw that scene the next moment.

The world outside the window has turned into a white world, and the entire H1 area has become a mushroom paradise, as if human beings were shrunk countless times and thrown into the mushroom bushes. The mushrooms trembled lazily. Growing at a speed visible to the naked eye, the plump caps drop spores little by little.

This piece of white is very beautiful, it is simply a holy place for taking pictures.

But no one wants to take pictures in places like this these days.

"The weakness of nocturnal mushrooms is strong light, especially sunlight."

Shen Li stared at the swaying mushroom caps outside the window: "So, maybe the night will be more difficult than it is now."

"Don't worry, we'll be there until the internet goes down."

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