Little Mushroom

armored car.

"Congratulations on coming back, we'll be back at base after a 15-hour drive."

Lu Feng said, "How is the base?"

"The distortion caused panic and confusion on a large scale, and some precision instruments could not be used. Fortunately, the artificial magnetic poles can operate normally."

"Does the distortion occur in the event of a magnetic pole failure?"

"Yes."

Lu Feng said: "The survivors and I lived in a magnetite mine for the past few days, and there was no distortion there."

"Because of the magnetic field, the magnetic field can resist distortion to a certain extent." The doctor said: "At that time, the lighthouse was in chaos. We exchanged all the research results with the dungeon base in the last hope, but we got nothing. Everything they had Research is also based on biological genes."

"Then, I illegally accessed the communication channel with the institute again."

Lu Feng raised his eyebrows slightly.

"After discussing together and combining some clues, such as the time point when the distortion appeared, we thought that all of this might be related to the magnetic field, so we temporarily increased the strength of the artificial magnetic pole." The doctor said: "Temporarily effective, this has bought a little time for lingering .”

The doctor leaned on the seat in the car: "But according to predictions, the distortion will gradually increase, and then defeat us within three months."

After a pause, looking at the gray and foggy sky in the distance, and the brown flying eagle circling in the sky, he said: "However, knowing that all the efforts of human beings to survive from ancient times to the present are in vain, becoming a human being is completely futile." It is actually an unimaginable honor to be a witness to the event of demise."

He looked back at Lu Feng again: "To be honest, you are a little calmer than I thought."

"Why, was it hit?" He said again: "I don't know what kind of species An Zhe is. It's slippery, and it can escape even the tight defense of the base. It's normal that it can't be caught. Even if it is caught You can't keep it, so don't take it too seriously."

Lu Feng didn't speak.

He held out his hand.

A small soft snow-white thing rolled out from his sleeve, and the snow-white soft mycelium wrapped around his fingers intimately.

He looks at it.

Strangely, a soft thought flooded his mind.He seemed to have returned to a certain moment, An Zhe leaned quietly against his chest.

It turned out to be the most memorable few days in his life.

The doctor was stunned: "You took it back? You can take it back?"

Lu Feng: "Yes."

"What about An Zhe?" The doctor spoke very fast, and asked, "Did you kill him?"

The spore seemed to be frightened by the man's suddenly loud voice, shrank back, and got back into Lu Feng's sleeve.

But after a while, it appeared on his neckline again, rubbing his neck affectionately.

Lu Feng said lightly, "He left."

"Why are you willing to let him go? What is he?" The doctor opened his eyes wide and said, "He...can he protect himself?"

Lu Feng touched the soft mycelium of the spores with his fingers, but did not answer. Under the dark sky, his side face was a silent silhouette.

The doctor looked at him, but suddenly frowned: "Where's your gun?"

roof.

Watching the convoy disappear into the distant sky, An Zhe moved his stiff body and stood up from behind the flower bed.Yesterday's heavy rain filled the altar with water. At this time, some filamentous creatures were writhing in the water, which were newly born yesterday.

But when the weather clears, the accumulated water will dry up quickly, and after a brief rebirth, they will face eternal death.

All living things are like this.

Would his spores outlive these ephemeral creatures?He hoped so.

An Zhe waited patiently for the opportunity. When the eagle landed and perched, he climbed onto its back—the eagle ignored him, perhaps because he was too light and lacked nutrition.An Zhe found a place to stay on its spacious back. What really covered the eagle's body was not feathers but scales, and some intertwined translucent tentacles grew between the scales.The eagle was prowling around the city, and when it devoured a vine that had a texture similar to meat, and fought a huge monster with bat wings for half an hour, it was defeated and left the place.

An Zhe marked the direction of its flight to the North Star and the map. After finding that the trajectory had deviated, he slipped away quietly. After taking root in the soil and absorbing the nutrients overnight, he hesitated for a long time, and took out a black gun and a gun from his backpack. Dozens of bullets.

The gun belonged to Lu Feng, but he found it in his backpack after Lu Feng left - the colonel often used his belongings, including the backpack, for granted, and An Zhe guessed that this caused him to drop the gun.

He succeeded in attracting a monster with butterfly wings as a means of transportation with gunshots.

Three days later, he landed again. While looking for the next target, An Zhe encountered an extremely ugly monster with a centipede-like body. This monster had many characteristics of ant-like arthropod monsters. Food.An Zhe wanted to escape, but his health was already very poor. When he was almost eaten, Lu Yan's gun protected him. He accidentally hit the monster's soft abdomen. Rolled into a muddy stream and escaped.

It was cold, and those animals who were afraid of the cold began to go south.Of course, they also prey on each other in the process.Sometimes, there is no trace of life in the endless plain, and only one or two extremely huge victors can be met. Sometimes, the creatures that live in groups are like a black torrent, migrating to the south, and An Zhe mixes in it, along the way. flow down.

Ten days later, he finally got a flying bird that never headed due south. After more than 20 days, on the soft back of the flying bird, he saw a long and narrow shadow on the horizon, like a scar in this world.

According to human beings, the core of the abyss is a long and narrow fault zone caused by a magnitude [-] earthquake in the era of catastrophe. The radiation in this place is extremely abnormal, thus giving birth to countless terrible monsters.Extending out from this core fault zone, the north of the abyss is a vast plain full of dense forests, covered with various mushrooms, and countless monsters dormant, while the south is a huge undulating highland and mountain belt.

The bird came to the edge of the abyss. It was tired from flying, so it found a huge dead tree and perched on the branch to rest.

The branch suddenly trembled, the feathers of the flying bird exploded, flapped its wings, and screamed——

——I don’t know when dense black vines appeared on the dead wood, and it has already firmly entangled the bird’s feet——In the sound of flapping wings, the snow-white bird was dragged and dragged to the place In the center of the densely branched tree, its graceful neck is lifted high, its pointed and long beak stretched out towards the gray sky, in a struggling gesture, but the vines wrapped around its neck, the flexible vines split open in an instant, and a The mouthparts with sharp fangs bit off its neck.

A splash of blood splashed out with a "poof", and the body of the bird, which was five or six meters long, was broken in two, and the tiny feathers and down feathers scattered all over the ground.

An Zhe hugged his backpack, and it fell to the ground with Feather.He stood up, stepped on the rotten ground where the black water flowed, staggered a few steps, and looked up to see the bird being eaten up by tens of thousands of vines.

The vines scattered away contentedly.

The dense forest, the vines in the forest, and the huge mushrooms together covered the sky and the sound of the fighting.

This is the abyss, a place that eats people without spitting out their bones.There are no rodents or arthropods here, because they are too weak.And those creatures that are a hundred times stronger than them are not invincible—the soil of the abyss is rich in nutrients because it is soaked in flesh and blood, which may be the reason why the mushrooms can flourish.

An Zhe walked into this place with a deep foot and a shallow foot.The moss, dead branches, and fallen leaves are all over the ground, because it is too soft and close to a swamp, and creatures walk on it without making a sound.

He clearly felt that the atmosphere of the abyss had changed.In the past, killing and fighting happened all the time, and powerful monsters often wandered in the dense forest to patrol the territory, but today he walked all the way, and unexpectedly only encountered a python that was shuttling silently.

They seem to be dormant.

But An Zhe didn't pay attention to the coming and going of the monsters.

He stared blankly at this endless place where even the sun couldn't shine.

On his left is a ten-meter-tall dark red mushroom, which is nestled between several huge stones. Bloody mucus is continuously flowing from the canopy. The huge body seems to be breathing, and it is in the air one volt.

An Zhe put his fingers on its stipe, feeling the texture of it wrapped in mucus.

He had never seen mushrooms like this before.

His eyes suddenly filled with fear, and he looked elsewhere.

—he didn't recognize it.

His breathing fluctuated violently, and he stumbled and ran in the dense forest. After day, it came to night, and after night, it came to morning. Every plain seemed familiar, and every cave was empty.I don't know how long it took, but he couldn't walk anymore. His hyphae were no longer as soft and flexible as before. They were melting and breaking, and his human body became extremely weak with the consumption of life.

By a quiet lake, a dead vine tripped him.

The sharp stone cut through the knees of his palms, and he knelt on the ground, burying his face in his palms, trembling all over.

He couldn't find it, that cave, he couldn't find it.

The life of a mushroom has only one season, the old one dies, and the new one grows, and the appearance of the abyss changes with the replacement of the mushrooms from generation to generation.The road back then, the road he remembered firmly—has no shadow anymore.

Surrounded by mushrooms and dead wood, he looked desperately at the sky. He didn't know, he didn't know that things would be so—so cruel.

Lu Feng was right, he had no idea how big the world was.

Unless he has a long life left, it is impossible to find it.

He was doomed to die on the way to find that cave.

Nothing in this world is eternal.

Not even the original oath.

He took a breath and stared blankly at the silent pool beside him.

He was in a daze.

There seemed to be a voice in the water, an indescribable frequency calling him to leave, and the whole world was blurred and illusory.

Jump down, jump down, it's all over.

I don't want anything happy or painful.

Under the calling and bewitching of that voice, he went to the lake step by step. The water surface was so clear that his reflection was reflected. He and An Ze looked so similar. When the water wave blurred the outline, it seemed that An Ze was calling there. he.

As born knowing nothing, so die knowing nothing.

A voice suddenly rang in his ear again.It was his own voice.

"On this sad mountain." The voice said softly, "Please curse me and bless me with your tears."

"...do not go gentle into that good night."

"Don't go gentle into that good night," he asked, "what do you mean?"

Lin Zuo, the teacher of the Garden of Eden, replied: "Do not accept death gently."

After a brief pause, it changed again.

"Even though I have walked through the valley of the shadow of death, I will not fear evil, for you are with me." He whispered a poem to a man who had walked a long distance together without knowing what lay ahead.In that field, what was the man thinking when he was walking with him in the dark night, amidst the sound of the ancient wind?

Faced with a treacherous fate that will eventually perish, does that person have the same despair as him?How did he go on?

He lowered his head, and realized that he was holding the badge of the judge again at some point, and the edges and corners of the badge hurt his bloody hand.

The illusory trance receded in an instant, and he took a few steps back abruptly.

He thought, what was I doing just now?

There was sharp pain in his ankle, and the stone that had just cut his palm hit his ankle again.

He bent down and wanted to move away the sharp gray stone standing abruptly on the flat ground, so as not to let it trip other creatures, but suddenly discovered something.

There was a black charcoal mark on the stone that seemed to have been written with a charred twig—with a crooked, ugly arrowhead pointing southeast.

He fell into thinking, with his limited knowledge, there is no creature in the abyss that can draw arrows.

And this kind of strange gray stone, he seemed to have seen it once or twice in other places in the abyss, but he was so focused on looking for the cave that he didn't pay attention.

He looked around, and finally chose to go in the direction indicated by the arrow.After walking for a long time, another gray stone suddenly appeared on the flat ground, half buried in the soil, half exposed, with an arrowhead on the exposed part.

An Zhe continued to walk, not only the gray stones would have marks, but sometimes there would be marks on tree trunks or bones—five days later, he found that he had been heading south of the abyss—close to the highland, where the environment was dry and harsh , few monsters will pass by.

But that same day, he couldn't find any other stones.

He stood dazedly under a tree, trying to look around - wondering if he had gone the wrong way.

Sudden.

A small stone hit him on the shoulder.

"Lost?" A male voice with a smile sounded behind him.

An Zhe turned around, and he heard human voices again.

A tall, slender, black-haired man with handsome features stood beside the tree, holding a gray stone in his right hand, winked at him, and said, "The road sign is here with me, and I haven't put it down yet."

Looking at him, An Zhe slowly frowned.

"Tang Lan?" He called out a name.

"Do you recognize me?" The man looked at him with a careless smile, "I haven't seen you at the base."

"I haven't seen you either." After confirming the person's appearance again, An Zhe said, "I know Hubbard."

The moment Hubbard fell, the casual smile suddenly disappeared from the man's face.

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Hubbard related Chapters 9 and 10 of Show My Little Goldfish the Way.