in the car.

Li Qing and the others were shocked to find that they had broken into a hell on earth.

Pale green fluff filled the air, scarlet bodily fluids flowed all over the ground, screams and moans were incessant, mixed with many heartbreaking sobs of weakness.

"These guys—" Bugalati's pupils lit up with rage.

"It's really..."Giorno's blonde hair was windless automatic.

"Provoked—" Apaki and Naranga's faces were gloomy as ink.

"It's my turn!" Even the most cowardly Fogg and the most tender Misda let out an uncontrollable roar of rage.

For them, Naples is their homeland.

Every street here is familiar to them, and every corner has their memories of the past.

And now, this hometown, which is famous for its beauty, has been ravaged like this.

"They must be killed!"

Everyone agreed.

"Li Qing."

Everyone turned their attention to the humanoid radar in the team: "Please find out the whereabouts of the enemy as soon as possible." ”

"Definitely."

Li Qing was also angry at this inhumane scene.

He closed his eyes tightly and focused, perceiving all the sounds around him with full attention.

And in this short search process, Giorno and the others also seized the time to study the characteristics of those murderous fungi:

"The real fungus is supposed to be airborne, and it can also absorb nutrients from flesh and blood to multiply and expand rapidly."

"Damn..."

Forge endured the pain of his feet being eaten by the fungus, gritted his teeth and said:

"It's not something that you would have in nature at all, it's the enemy's stand-in ability."

"If you don't hurry up, find out the enemy's body quickly... I'm afraid we'll be eaten by the fungus ourselves before we can kill him! ”

"That's right."

Giorno nodded, but quickly found a place that everyone had overlooked:

"Still, have you noticed..."

"The fungal flora on a few of us proliferates more slowly than the fungal on Fogg?"

"Fugg's feet were gnawed away in seconds, and the bacteria on our bodies were only a tiny patch."

"And the pedestrians on the road just now..."

"I saw a driver uncle who was almost intact in the car, but he just got out of the car and walked a few steps, and his legs were gnawed off."

"Why is it that the rate of fungal multiplication can vary so much?"

"Why is that?"

The crowd was lost in thought, and no one could answer the question.

And Giorno had a flash of inspiration in his mind, and immediately said to Fuge: "Fugue, you raise your feet a little higher to see." ”

"Huh?"

Fogg was puzzled, but he did as Giorno had instructed, and lifted his feet, which had been almost gnawed away by the fungus, up slightly.

It's just a slight lift...

The pale green fungus blanket, which was rapidly multiplying at a speed visible to the naked eye, stopped expanding.

"Why is that?"

Fogg's eyes widened.

He was puzzled, but Giorno grabbed his knees again and pressed down on his raised legs.

"Ahhh

Fogg let out a piercing scream.

Although the sense of pain is unusually dulled by the effects of fungal erosion, the following can be seen with the eyes alone:

His legs only dropped slightly, and the green mushroom blanket that had only entrenched in his ankles quickly spread to his calves like a gushing tide.

In just a moment, his calves and stomach were almost eaten by those fungi.

"And so it was..."

After a little experimentation with Fogg's leg, Giorno came up with the answer.

He ignored Fugue's resentful gaze, and said in a calm tone:

"These fungi can sense the "high and low" of the location."

"I once saw it in a miscellaneous book..."

"It says that there are some fungi that have been trying to move "low", but they can't walk on their own."

"So, they will parasitize the insect first, and when the insect moves to the "lower ground", the fungus will start to multiply and kill the host!"

"That's how the so-called cordyceps sinensis was born."

"And the reason why Fogg was gnawed off a pair of feet so quickly was actually because he was moving his limbs up and down at that time, so that he activated the fungi's ability to reproduce."

"I see."

After saying this, Fuge, as a top student, immediately reacted:

"There is a habit that the host will only get sick and die after moving to a "lower place"."

"And it is through this that the fungus rides on a mobile host and continues to expand the scope of infection farther away."

A disease that kills in a short period of time does not become a distorting infectious disease.

And those viruses with an incubation period are the demons that are truly unstoppable to humans.

At this moment, this carnivorous fungus that spreads in the city is exactly such a killer who knows how to lurk.

"But it's only instinct after all."

"As long as we make sure to go "low" instead of "low", we can stop the growth of fungi and slow down their erosion of the body."

Fogg explained as he lifted his leg weakly.

After raising the legs a little higher, the carnivorous fungi did quickly subside.

And at this time...

Li Qing suddenly opened his eyes and gave the information everyone wanted:

"Found it!"

"I've just carefully sensed the sounds of several kilometers around here."

"It's hard to distinguish the sound from a distance, but it's clear from the location of the scream..."

"The area of this fungus is two or three kilometers large!"

Speaking of this, he couldn't help but clench his fists tightly:

"And in this circle of death, several kilometers in diameter... There were constant screams in the outer ring, indicating that those people had just been infected and had not yet died. ”

"But in that inner circle, there is no sound at all."

"The people there have long been killed by the fungus, there is no screaming or wailing, and the silence is as quiet as late at night."

This fungal outbreak was clearly centered around the enemy stand-in messenger.

Other words...

The center of the circle of death is where the enemy is located.

"There are no living people left in the inner circle of that 'center of the circle'."

"And I heard a voice in that dead Jedi..."

Li Qing stretched out his hand and pointed to a small black dot in the sky in the distance:

"That's a helicopter."

"Our enemy, right in that helicopter!"

Everyone unanimously turned their eyes to the canopy in the distance.

In the midst of the burning rage, Misda stepped on the gas pedal hard.

"Wait."

"Don't drive on flat ground."

Giorno promptly ordered: "The fungus on our bodies is already starting to spread. ”

"Although the speed is still slow, I am afraid that it will be able to gnaw us off before we reach the enemy, and it will be difficult for us to move."

"Huh?"

Misda asked in a bit of a panic, "What then?" Do you want to get out first? ”

"Nope."

"One more second of delay, we don't know how many innocent people will die."

"Keep going, but be careful, drive the car 'high'."

"Just like Fogg's lifted foot, just raise the height a little bit and the fungus can stop spreading for a while."

Giorno prompted.

But Misda was still completely confused:

"The roads around here are flat, so how can I drive my car "high"?"

"Don't talk about raising it a little higher, you can't raise it by a centimeter..."

"This..."

Giorno looked out the window:

On the side of the flat road, there is a sidewalk about ten centimeters above the road.

And on the sidewalk...

The pedestrians were long gone, and all that was left was a festering corpse.

"Ugh..."

Giorno sighed deeply, and there was a touch of unbearability in his blue eyes:

"Let's go, the sidewalk is quite wide."

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PS: Stand-in panel.

Stand-in name - "Green Day"

Ontology – Jokrat

Destructive power: A

Speed: C

Range Range: A

Persistence: A

Precision of action: E

Growth: A

Ability: A wide-range indiscriminate attack double.

It emits carnivorous fungi, which are spread through corpses and can expand indefinitely.

Because it will rot the human body that descends to a lower place, the only way to avoid mold attacks is to keep going to higher places.