"Normal mushrooms?!" Luo Xun's voice couldn't help but rise, his eyes widened, and he almost couldn't believe what he was seeing.

You know, whether in his previous life or in this life, he has never seen a normal mushroom in the last days! I've never seen it on the market!

In his two lifetimes, all the mushrooms he had painstakingly grown had mutated without exception, and this mutation was almost contagious, and no matter what kind of mushroom he had prepared before the end of the world, he could only produce one kind of crop in the last days - corrosive, red-looking poisonous mushrooms, mushrooms, and mushrooms!

But just when he thought he would never see fresh, normal, edible mushrooms again in his life, normal mushrooms actually appeared in his house?!

Seeing Luo Xun's shocked expression staring at the small plastic basket, Song Lingling couldn't help but laugh smugly - when she first saw this mushroom today, the expression on her face was almost exaggerated like Luo Xun's.

Xu Mei's voice came from the room, and her voice also carried joy as she walked out: "There are three more here, and there are not many of them." ”

Yan Fei, who locked the door, also entered the door at this time, and before he entered the door, he heard Luo Xun's voice, and after coming in at this time, his eyes naturally fell on those rare ordinary mushrooms. "This thing...... Can you eat it? ”

No wonder Yan Fei is worried, these mushrooms are obviously homegrown, but where can the mushrooms grow? It must be a mushroom wood! What's usually growing on those mushroom woods? Except that mutant mushrooms are mutant mushrooms, those things are all sharp weapons for killing zombies, and now there are ordinary mushrooms in the place where such murderous things can grow, so he can't be blamed for worrying.

"It should ...... No problem. Luo Xun picked up a perfectly shaped mushroom with excitement on his face, these few looked like mushrooms, and he took a deep breath and smelled the aroma of mushrooms, Luo Xun explained, "The mushroom packs I bought before were shiitake mushrooms, mouth mushrooms, enoki mushrooms and oyster mushrooms, and I didn't look for other mushrooms at that time." I didn't expect that after the end of the world, no matter what kind of mushroom was used, it would become the same poisonous mushroom. I think it may be that when the amount of mushroom wood in our home is enough, the toxic substances in the air will be reduced, and the environment for ordinary mushrooms to grow will be given again. ”

As he spoke, he turned his head and looked at Yan Fei with bright eyes: "Let's find a quail and try it and see if there is any problem with it after eating." "After all, these mushrooms look almost exactly like pre-apocalyptic shiitake mushrooms. If the mushroom has some variation, it should not still maintain this perfect and "normal" appearance.

There are not many shiitake mushrooms in the house, and Xu Mei and the others have checked the mushroom wood in almost all the rooms, and only these seven have been found. Luo Xun finally selected a small quail for safety reasons and fed it a little - they really didn't have any real tools, and they didn't want to go to the experts and professors in the base to help test it, so they had to use this simplest method to verify it. Who knows what the outcome of getting someone to help will be?

Maybe the quail is too vigorous, or maybe it's eating too few mushrooms? Anyway, the quail was still alive and kicking around in that little separate jar until everyone went to bed at night.

In the end, everyone unanimously decided to wear these "seven black flowers" in a string, dry them on the balcony, and use them when they need to hang soup and cook again.

As long as there is a little more hope, everyone will have hope for the future. With seven mushrooms popping up in the house right now, who can guarantee that there won't be more in the future?

So, this night, while cutting cucumbers and making cucumbers, we talked about our imaginations for the future, mainly about what shiitake mushrooms and mushrooms can do.

The health of the little quails in Luo Xun's family made everyone understand that there should be nothing wrong with those mushrooms, so everyone regained their enthusiasm for the mushrooms. Xu Mei and Song Lingling used to just check the mushroom wood every few days and collect mutant red mushrooms for juice, but now they have to look around almost every day to make sure of their growth.

Should it be said that hard work pays off? Or are the mushrooms so powerful that they live up to expectations? During the daily inspection, Xu Mei and the others confirmed that they saw a small mushroom that was suspected to be a normal mushroom. It's just that the growth cycle of normal mushrooms is much slower than that of mutant mushrooms, and the fastest ones take nearly a month to grow, and the slow ones have to wait for half a year. Luo Xun and the others can only hope that some mutant mushrooms can transform back into ordinary mushrooms as much as possible.

"Go out and get some wood this time!" Luo Xun's words made everyone nod one after another, they were now pitifully unable to eat meat, if there were mushrooms instead, it would also relieve their pain of not having meat to eat.

A few days before the end of September, Luo Xun and the others finally finished a batch of tomatoes that had just ripen - some of them were frozen, the rest were canned into ketchup and used slowly, and then a little bit was taken out and sold in the barracks.

With these tomatoes, everyone who had just killed all the watermelons at home and had no fruit to eat for the time being was very happy and happy to eat tomatoes mixed with sugar. And because Luo Xun deliberately planted tomatoes in batches and installments, they could harvest some more every once in a while, and use this kind of half-fruit, half-vegetable, high-nutrition, high-vitamin goodies to supplement nutrition - especially Xiao Xinran, she can usually eat this thing as a fruit.

This time, before going out, everyone was more prepared. Xu Mei and the others are still mainly responsible for the food that everyone needs to eat when they go out these days, and for everyone's nutritional considerations, they also deliberately made a lot of tomato and egg soup the night before going out and put it into the thermos jar that everyone carries with them - the so-called "eggs" must be replaced by quails. Plus home-grown pure coriander and genuine tomatoes...... The taste definitely made everyone who hadn't eaten this bite for a long time not even drink enough for several days.

Early in the morning of the 27th, the otaku team gathered collectively again and got ready to go. This time, everyone stood in the corridor on the fifteenth floor, and Luo Xun still stood in front of the team to check everyone's equipment one by one, and then nodded with satisfaction, and gave everyone a routine speech before the mission operation before leaving.

"It's been two months since we last left the base. In the middle, everyone has experienced the zombie siege and heard about some of the conditions that happened outside the base, so I won't say much here. As he spoke, he looked around at everyone, "Now I'm afraid there will be more high-level zombies outside the base, maybe there are some unexpected zombie animals, although the abilities in our team have all been promoted to the third level, but they haven't fought with the zombies in close combat for so long, I hope everyone will be more careful and cautious after leaving the city this time." Even if you don't get a lot of money this time, don't risk going to dangerous places or going deep into the city. ”

"Yes!" The members of the otaku squad are very life-saving, and no one wants to put their safety at risk for some unnecessary factors. After that zombie rat attack, they are now very aware of the situation outside the base, and if they are not careful, I am afraid that no one will be able to come back alive and safe.

Everyone went out early in the morning and came to the gate of the base in a busy traffic. It's still the same as before, queuing up to go out and letting people go out en masse. Unlike in the past, there are no zombies outside the gate now, and everyone didn't get in close contact with the zombies who surrounded the base until they crossed the bridge over the moat and passed through the avenue among the traps.

Crashing into zombies all the way, heading in the direction each other is heading, different convoys are separated at this intersection, turning in different directions and doing different tasks.

"There are no easy tasks in the base now." Luo Xun glanced at the task list that he had just received - two hundred first-level crystal nuclei, or twenty second-level crystal nuclei, or three third-level crystal nuclei within three days.

"In addition to the time limit, the task of crystal nucleus is relatively safe, and there are many tasks in the mission hall that need to go deep into the city and go to some designated places to find things." Yan Fei put away the task list, rolled down the window a little, and began to activate the ability.

A metal ability that has been upgraded to level 3 can manipulate metal completely by relying on Yan Fei's mental power, and can be activated without the help of gestures. Along with several other Level 3 metal adepts in the team, they were able to use gestures and psychic power to assist metal in making various changes in the air for a longer period of time.

Now, Yan Fei has also accelerated the speed at which he extracts a pure metal element from the metal alone, and can fuse them together more quickly according to a certain proportion. Especially after he deliberately used his abilities to detect some utensils - such as pots and pans in the house. It is possible to quickly imitate something with the same combination of elements, the same effect, and higher purity.

The pots and pots brought out by the otaku team this time, including the thermos tank, were all made by him.

Make these appliances with metal abilities...... I wonder what I would think if I let the rest of the base know? Anyway, Luo Xun was very satisfied with such a useful ability, and asked him to reinvent the weapons that everyone was using, making them lighter, longer-range, and more lethal.

According to some concepts, it is similar to the "water gun" developed by the military to hold mushroom juice. Although the range of this thing is shorter, the lethality of this thing is still considerable when used in group battles after being besieged, and the "Blossom Mushroom Bullet" that can be killed remotely is simply a weapon for killing zombies.

With new weapons, the group cautiously left the base, still heading in the southeast direction where they had been before.

Yan Fei sat in the passenger seat and began to control the metal that passed by all the way with his mental power, in fact, this road had been walked more than once before, and every time he would roughly collect some metal along the way, it stands to reason that there should be little metal left along the way.

But now that he was escalating, it was clear that he could find metal in more subtle ways and draw them in. For example, some of the smaller metals that are wrapped in some stones and cement. He could find these metals if he had searched carefully, but he could barely collect them along the road while collecting them in a car like now.

This ability seems to have been improved after he leveled up, and the search range is much larger than before.

The group drove to the trap they had dug before, and this time the ruins looked a little more dilapidated than they had been when they had last visited, but for the most part they had not changed. It's a bit of a headache - the zombies are much more capable than before.

Before they reached their destination, they encountered a third-level fire zombie on the way. The huge fireball that burst in, if it weren't for Yan Fei's timely reaction and the fact that he collected a lot of metal along the way and carried it all the way, I'm afraid that their car would have exploded directly with that big fireball.

While Yan Fei was blocking the zombie's attack, Zhang Su directly activated his ability to use the wind to roll up the surrounding rubble and poke the zombie's head, successfully helping Xu Mei collect a third-level fire crystal nucleus.

After they arrived at their destination, some high-level zombies near the crowd had just stopped the car and rushed over when they heard the sound, and several speed zombies rushed towards everyone like the wind, relying on Yan Fei's reaction again to successfully make them slap on the huge metal plate that suddenly stood up.

Subsequently, the metal plate fell directly outward, killing two speed zombies on the spot, and smashing several unknown or ordinary zombies.

It seems that the reason for the general increase in rank, this time the zombies are much more "enthusiastic" than the previous ones, they don't give everyone time to clean up, tidy up, and build fortifications, and greet everyone enthusiastically at lightning speed. Attacks came in waves, and everyone had to keep their spirits tense.

"Remove the protection from the trap!" Luo Xun immediately made a decision and immediately gave an order, if the zombies' attacks continued like this, if the zombies' attacks kept going, they wouldn't have to wait until night to be overwhelmed by this continuous attack, and they would be dragged to death!

Xiao Xinran immediately sanded away the dirt and masonry on all the nearby traps according to Luo Xun's instructions, Zhang Su and Xu Mei immediately cooperated with her movements, and the hot sand rolled in the flame storm exploded in all directions! Yan Fei took the opportunity to immediately remove the metal plates on the nearby traps and erected them! The metal fence that had been hidden beneath the rubble had finally been erected.

With Zhang Shu's ability burst and Yan Fei's metal plate, the nearby offensive was finally able to slow down, and everyone who had been nervous breathed a sigh of relief.

"Stick to the shooting ports everywhere, and let Zhang Su restore their abilities." Luo Xun observed the situation, took Li Tie and them to the top, and the water guns and mushroom blossom shells began to show their power - everyone hadn't left the base for two months, but they had saved a lot of these things, and now it was finally time for them to exert their might.

If it weren't for the large volume of the trap pits around him, he would have the heart to fill the traps directly with these mushroom juices, and give those zombies a corpse pool so that they can enjoy the feeling of bathing.

After the initial hardships passed, the otaku team finally mastered the rhythm of the battle again, and they resumed the mode of one round of ability attacks and one round of weapon attacks, and eliminated the most threatening zombies as much as possible, leaving those who were not threatening for a while to let them fall into the trap, and wait for a while to directly burn the zombies.

The sound of "ping pong" could be heard everywhere on the metal walls, and Yan Fei was concentrating on reinforcing the metal collected along the way to the iron plates around him, and gradually increasing their height, preparing to make a roof like last time - the weather didn't seem to be good today, the sky was overcast, and it seemed that an autumn rain might fall at any time.

Luo Xun began to observe the zombies in different parts of the trap, calculating when to start pouring mushroom juice and gasoline, and when the zombies in the trap reached a certain level, the newly made iron box filled with mushroom juice on the metal wall instantly flipped over and poured into the trap from all directions!

The person who controls these metal boxes is still Yan Fei, this is the method he and Luo Xun discussed before going out, it is much safer than letting everyone pour mushroom juice and gasoline one by one along different injection ports, and if you inject them like usual, you may accidentally get these things on yourself, and you may be very unlucky to burn.

Seeing that the mushroom juice had been poured, Luo Xun immediately beckoned everyone to pour the gasoline into the metal boxes that had just been recovered - under Yan Fei's control, the metal would not carry any mushroom juice or anything else when it was recovered.

Everyone immediately took out the gasoline brought out of the car and poured it into those tin boxes, and suddenly, Luo Xun felt that the light nearby was a little dim, as if a large cloud suddenly covered the sun, and subconsciously raised his head - if it was a sunny day, this situation would be normal, but now it is cloudy! Is it going to rain soon?

This time he looked up, Luo Xun almost lost his eyeballs, and he screamed loudly: "Mutant bird!" Giant Mutant Bird!! ”

A huge bird with wings at least twice the size of the makeshift structure it was in was hovering over the crowd!!

"I, I, I ......" He Qiankun grew his mouth and stammered for a long time unable to say a complete sentence.

The others gasped as their eyes widened.

The huge flying bird circled four or five hundred meters above everyone, as if it would not leave for a long time.

Luo Xun's face turned pale, this was the first time he had seen a living mutant animal with his own eyes. Don't ask him how he figured out the bird was mutated and not zombie-like. After the end of the world, all the zombie animals were corroded to tatters, and even if they could fly later, most of them looked like bats and had almost no feathers on their bodies. But look at the big bird now, with its brown feathers intact, it can be seen that it is definitely not a zombie animal!

"It's—it's not going to come down, is it? What are you flying around us? Wang Duo's voice trembled, anyone who suddenly saw such a big animal flying above his head as if it would fall down at any time would feel terrifying, okay!

Luo Xun reacted quickly and instantly, and immediately said loudly again: "Quick!" Pour gasoline into it! Hurry up, it's all full!! ”

Although everyone did not understand what he meant, they all obeyed the order to speed up their movements, and quickly poured all the gasoline into the empty metal boxes in turn.

Luo Xun was busy working in a hurry, and he kept looking up - sure enough! That big bird is flying lower and lower!!

"What is it going to do!?" Xu Mei's voice was filled with great horror, and her voice was crossed.

"It's going to land, our protective wall is almost circular, I'm afraid it will be used as a place to build a nest!" Luo Xun's voice was tight and dry, and he hoped that he had guessed wrong, but the truth told him, the stupid bird above thought so!

"Nest?! It doesn't look for a tree to build a nest on the ground!! Song Lingling's voice became hysterical.

Han Li shuddered and laughed dryly, "Maybe it can't find a tree that can make it fall...... Who made it grow so fat. ”

"It's so big, how can it eat such a big city......" Li Tie also laughed dryly and said a joke, but unfortunately no one still retains a sense of humor now, and no one can laugh.

Zhang Su looked up with a cold face: "Do you want to blast it away with an ability?" I compressed the air and mixed it with Xu Mei's fireball to blast it away? "Even though they've been on the base for the past two months, it's not like they've made any progress. They'll also delve into their abilities when they're not doing anything to see what they can do when they reach level three.

After the compressed air and compressed flames, even if it was only a small ball the size of Xinran's fist, they could easily blast Yan Fei's metal sandbag that hung him in the room into a huge hole. If you do it again or twice, you'll definitely be able to wear that thing through!

Of course, this is in the absence of compression of the metal and the strengthening of its hardness.

"Don't use abilities yet! If it also has an ability, we'll probably not be able to stop it if it comes at us. Luo Xun's mind was very clear, he knew that he couldn't take the lead in attacking now, otherwise he would anger this mutant bird that could easily sit and kill a few of his own people, and the result would definitely not be what they wanted to see.

"All! Lean into the corner! After all the gasoline was poured into those metal boxes, Luo Xun immediately ordered. As for the few cars that remained in the middle position...... They could only beg the bird's weight not to be too exaggerated to squash the carts.

Luo Xun asked everyone to step aside and turned their heads to look at Yan Fei, Yan Fei hugged him tightly, protecting him between himself and the metal wall, his eyes were full of determination - no matter what happens, unless he dies first, he can't be hurt in the slightest before himself!