It was dark.

Thick vines wrap around the rebar.

Red moss climbed up the ruins, emitting a disgusting smell like congealed blood.

The rotting corpse wriggled on the ground, its misshapen limbs dripping with yellow-brown pus.

The whispers in the corners cut and chew like demonic whispers.

The entire city was dark and damp with plants, disgusting mutilated limbs mixed with black, filthy blood, mixed with carrion and maggots.

It was a hellish scene that humans could hardly imagine and could not bear more, with the sticky, filthy slurry announcing death, but the rancid flesh twitching and moving under the control of the plants.

As soon as the rescue team from Mowu City arrived at the scene, many members of the team with weak psychological tolerance vomited.

The stench is unpleasant.

This area is constantly pushing their physical and mental limits.

"In the area occupied by these plants, there are still many residents who are hiding, and we need to rescue them."

"Do you really want to go in? Will we be one of them? ”

There was panic and panic in the eyes of the young players.

All of them wore thick protective suits, and there were no gaps in their bodies to prevent the invasion of those plant seeds.

In front of them is a plant-occupied area.

One-twentieth of the entire Canterlot.

The broken cement slabs were covered with plants, and dark red weeds grew on the broken bricks and tiles.

The upside-down rotting corpse was entwined with vines, twitching from time to time, twisted and shattered bones that looked like disgusting puppets being manipulated.

There was also some strange gnawing sound all around.

The sound could penetrate the protective suit and go straight into the brain, as if it sounded in the brain, like some kind of evil call, which made people feel deeply uncomfortable.

Deeper in the plant area is shrouded in a thick haze of ash.

It's the first day of October.

Canterlot ushered in one of the worst smog of the year.

In the depths of the gray area, there seemed to be even more terrifying creatures twisting and wriggling, their figures blurred, their eyes scarlet, their sharp fangs dripping with yellow-brown liquid, dragging their deformed and strange bodies waiting for everyone to enter.

Fear gripped the hearts of every member of the team who was about to set off.

It's a panic of the unknown and death.

Lu Wen frowned, he could feel that his connection with other bodies in the haze was much weaker.

The visibility of the human eye is extremely low in this haze, almost to the point where you can't see your fingers, in this case, the team members who go in are in considerable danger, and those plants will take the initiative to attack after all.

It's time for the world to clean up the environment, but everything needs to wait until this war is over.

Lu Wen proposed: "Just let the androids go in and search, the fear of flesh and blood creatures in the face of these strange plants will get in the way, and unexpected situations are likely to occur." ”

Another person in charge at the scene said: "In the face of an emergency, humans should have a stronger ability to react than androids, and these plants are indeed too weird." ”

Rescue teams were sent from various cities.

Finally, after deliberation, a mixture of androids and humans formed a group to go deep into the plant-infested urban area.

Lu Wen and some other leaders went to a nearby hospital.

Now the whole hospital is filled with special patients.

These patients, either with strange plants growing on their limbs, or are already corpses, but still wriggling, so the families don't want to believe that they are dead.

The old mayor of Canterlot was beside Lu Wen, his old face was a little more wrinkled than the last time they met, and he asked, "Have you watched "Annihilation"?" ”

"I've seen it, there is still a big gap between the current situation and the movie, you have to believe in science." Lu Wen replied seriously.

"That's when I was very young." The old mayor recalled: "In an old movie with a restrictive level, what impressed me the most at that time was the soldier's belly, those wriggling intestines, like smooth snakes that had been skinned......"

It may be the shadow of the old mayor's childhood, so he remembers it very clearly.

Inside the hospital, outside these special isolation wards, the heads of the various cities can clearly see the patients.

Literal interpretation of "vegetative".

Looking through the glass.

Small scarlet flowers have grown on one of the arms, swaying gently, and seem to have a tendency to spread towards the body.

It is hard to imagine the pain and panic that this patient faced.

The other leg was wrapped around a dark red and slippery vine, and the viscous blood covered the surface of the vine, and the doctor said that the white roots of the vine had wrapped most of the internal organs and pierced into it, and the patient could not be saved at all, so he could only be euthanized and then cremated directly.

Flames are currently the only way to deal with these plants.

The doctor who was traveling with him looked at the ward on the other side, pointed inside, and said, "The ...... we're seeing right now This is already a corpse, highly decomposed, but due to the movement of some plants in the body, this rotting corpse often convulses or moves, and the family of the deceased believes that this is a revelation from the gods......"

The medical staff in the hospital are wearing white protective suits and come and go.

From time to time, strange wails were heard from the isolation wards around the perimeter.

The entire hospital was enveloped in an atmosphere of depression and panic.

Lu Wen could see that the medical staff under the mask were all a little pale.

After the war began, they faced a lot of bloodshed every day, and many of the wounded and sick were mutilated, but this was the first time that everyone had seen this strange situation.

"I'm sure everyone can understand Canterlot's predicament right now."

The old mayor took them to see it, not only to show what Canterlot is currently facing, but also to warn other cities.

If the disaster in Canterlot is not contained, it is likely to spread to other cities.

"We've stopped fighting with the Robots at the moment, and the machines seem to be worried about being entangled by these weird plants, and it's unclear if it's the seeds they released."

"The first known infected person is John Williams, a middle-aged man who lived a week ago as a farmer on the outskirts of quarantine and on the edge of Canterlot...... This area is far from the area where the Automates appear and attack mainly, so we assume that it is not the Automate......"

In just one week, these terrifying plants took up one-twentieth of Canterlot.

The casualties have surpassed the mechanical invasion.

The human eye can barely see the tiny seeds of plants.

They drift in the wind, enter the room through windows, ventilation ducts, etc., and are pervasive, as long as they fall on the flesh and blood, they can quickly take root and sprout, and they seem to release some kind of narcotic drug, so that the parasitic person does not feel anything in the early stage, and by the time they find it, it is already too late.

Most parasites occur at night.

People usually wake up to find that a strange plant has grown on a part of their body, and these plants are still absorbing their blood.

Although there was no pain, fear drove these parasitic people to the hospital.

That John Williams was the first case to be recorded.

He was admitted to the hospital for observation on the same day, and died in the ward the next day.

It was a morning when he was found, and the nurse pushed open the door of his hospital room, and found his corpse with a broken chest, a broken sternum, and an eerie scarlet flower, the size of a human face, and seemed to have some kind of sentience, and the flower was still looking at the nurse at the time.

Another city expert asked, "Have you studied the cells of these things?" Is it a plant cell or an animal cell? ”

"This ......"

The person in charge of Canterlot stopped talking, and it seemed that it was very difficult to explain.

In the end, he had to ask all the experts in biology to follow him to the lab.

A lot of weird stuff that is hard to describe in existing language.

Lu Wen could probably guess the result.

The cells of these plants are sure to divide quickly and will have the characteristics of some animal cells.

If the war is over, Lu Wen will want to meet the scientist who developed this thing in the first place, and kill this scientist on the spot if necessary.

"There are already more than 300 search and rescue teams, entering the plant quarantine area from different directions to search, I think...... Hopefully, it won't be too big, the Canterlot residents hidden inside are estimated to be difficult to survive, they will die in pain, I hope they have guns by their side, and the pain of suicide is even less. ”

All were dressed in white isolation gowns.

Outside the quarantine zone, residents of a thirty-kilometre area have been evacuated, creating a vacuum.

Under the gray haze, the whole city looks like a dead city.

Empty streets, overgrown weeds, rusty street lamps shimmer in a faint dim light in the haze.

I can't see the sky clearly when I look up.

Many people's laundry drying on the balcony of their homes has not had time to take them away, and the miserable white clothes flutter gently in the cold wind.

Although it was only the beginning of October, everyone couldn't help but feel cold.

"Source...... The source must be found, otherwise the whole world will face a threat, which is a greater threat than the invasion of those creatures underground. ”

People are worried.

They don't want their city to be the next to send a message for help.

These plant seeds are more difficult to defend against than underground creatures.

The creatures of the underground also understand this truth, and the life of the mechanical people is not all robots, and there are a small number of other races, they don't know that this thing was made by the scientists of Haoyue Company in the high-level world, so now the war has stopped for the time being.

Lu Wen stood outside the quarantine area, his gaze stayed on the slowly wriggling plants and corpses, the vague haze had less effect on him than on human eyes, and after a moment of silence, he said, "I think I know where the source may be. ”

Suddenly everyone was silent.

They either turned their heads or took two steps closer, all looking at Lu Wen, eager to know the answer.

Lu Wen said slowly: "There is a city ......"

……

A few days later.

Twilight.

The smog cleared.

In a no-man's land not far from Canterlot.

A ruined city that has been abandoned for a long time.

The yellow sand is slightly raised.

Lu Wen once entered the city in order to hunt down one of Xia Chuluo's enemies.

The pungent smell of liquids and solid fuels reverberates throughout the city.

The strange plants that spread across the city seemed to sense something, the weeds began to shake, the scarlet flowers became agitated, and the red moss that covered the broken walls folded in layers, as if they were trying to wrap themselves up.

Inside the city, the huge lake, the water of the lake rippled violently.

A lot of liquid fuel has flowed into the lake and covered the surface of the lake.

The huge vines and plants on the lakeside are also contaminated with liquid fuel.

The bell tower collapsed, the amusement park was no longer maintained by plants, and the whole city resounded with all kinds of violent strange noises.

"It's time, let's go."

As the order was given, hundreds of drones flew towards the city with incendiary bombs.

It's a beautiful sunset, with the crimson sun burning in the sky, reflecting the uneven silhouette of the city.

It didn't take long for the city to burn as the incendiary bombs fell.

The sand and dust are like a veil of tulle.

All of them were dressed in protective suits and stood far away.

In the raging firelight, everyone heard some kind of strange scream, like a strange animal struggling to die.

In the video transmitted by the drone, the huge plant vines are rolling wildly, dripping with red liquid, as if trying to extinguish the flames.

The plants of the entire city twisted in the light of the fire, wailing like nothing.

It's a hellish scene.

The water of the lake was even more violently churning, a puff of red liquid poured up from the bottom of the lake, staining the whole lake red, rotting animal corpses and white bones floating on the surface of the bloody lake, the huge vines at the bottom of the lake were like strange tentacles, and like a giant python stirring the water, all like some terrifying purgatory painting.

"The second echelon departs."

No one has compassion for these strange plants.

More drones set off.

They carry powerful missiles that fly over the city.

In the midst of the surging firelight, under the beautiful crimson sunset, countless missiles fell like meteors, causing a great earthquake to tremble, and a roar made everyone standing far away feel as if their eardrums were about to be torn apart.

That lake was the most bombarded, and the scarlet water was boiling.

The fire lasted for a full week.

Every time the fire tends to get smaller, drones deliver more fuel and incendiary bombs, enveloping the entire city in a horrific fire.

Black smoke billowed from it.

The flames that soared into the sky, even Lu Wen's clone in the high-level world could see it clearly.

During this time, there was a sandstorm, and the hurricane carried dust and fire and roared through the burned city buildings, forming the most terrifying mixture of saloon rolls and fire tornadoes in history, and the people stationed outside the city had to be evacuated urgently.

It was very embarrassing, but fortunately, there were no safety accidents in the end.

After the fire ended, a large number of androids entered the ruined city and began rummaging through the entire land for any remaining plants.

All did not let their guard down.

Meanwhile.

There have been many breakthroughs in search and rescue operations on this side of the city.

In the plant quarantine area, there are indeed many people trapped in it, and the protective measures are better, or luckily, they all finally put on protective clothing, and are escorted out of the quarantine area one after another, and are sent to the hospital for observation.

"We're going to separate the cleaned urban areas and burn them with flames in batches, which is the only way to do it at the moment......

Everything is moving in a good direction.

Rescue teams from various cities are ready to stay here for a long time.

And so another whole month passed.

The withdrawal of the West is still ongoing.

On the Canterlot side, the cymborgs were also quiet for a month, and they didn't make any moves.

Thanks to these spooky plants, this is the area where the first ceasefire was built.

Just one day close to mid-November.

Worldwide wars, the second zone of ceasefire appeared.

There is a ceasefire between the northern city of Cree and the White-Haired Terrans.

The cause was a controversy over historical issues.

During the wartime break, the two sides loudly debated history over loudspeakers from far away from the battlefield, and words such as "invasion" and "fiction" were used extensively.

In the end, because no one could say anything, they had to convince each other.

It's not enough to use a hot weapon.

So both sides put down their hot weapons, rolled up their sleeves and began a fist-to-flesh dogfight, and they both seemed to enjoy the blow.

More than 100,000 people fought chaotically, and a large number of civilians from both sides also joined the battle, and the scene was very fierce for a while.

The battle lasted several days.

Not a single shot was fired.

In the end, they were all tired, and they sat or lay down on the battlefield, temporarily putting aside their disagreements, and the two sides exchanged their experiences of drinking.

In the end, it was found that they were highly consistent in their attitudes towards drinking.

So there was a truce.

Lu Wen was stunned for a long time after learning the news, and finally had to say something.

"This truce...... Too sloppy. ”