The streets of Lancheng are filled with abandoned vehicles and mutilated bones. Turning around a block, the surveillance footage of the driver's platform suddenly switched to a high place, and the street lamps, overpasses, trees, and tall windows on both sides were crawling with corpses wrapped in white silk. The limbs of the withered corpse were twisted together, and the rotting rod hung from the chin of the shrunken crotch. Hundreds of corpses hung across the streets, white silk wrapped around the infected.

Wang Zhiyuan looked outside and asked, "Cortana~ What is the situation?" ”

Cortana called up a few fungal pictures and said, "Master Chief ~ This Zerg associated fungal infection is similar, a parasitic fungus on your earth. The parasitic organism will slowly take control of the nervous system, and the parasitic fungus will continue to absorb nutrients from the host. ”

"Parasitic fungi control the host's instinctive predation on everything around them that can be eaten. When the parasitic fungus develops to the stage of maturity, it will control the host nerve and allow it to climb to a higher level of the same kind to die and fix, and finally burst out of the host to scatter more infected spores. ”

"This parasitic fungus behaves like the zombie ants on your planet and the worms that live in the eyes of snails, controlling the death of the host and spreading the fungal spores where necessary."

The corpses hanging all over the street made Wang Zhiyuan feel weak, stopped the tank and said: "Cortana~ Check the surrounding air samples, I don't want to go out and climb the pole to spray mushrooms like them." ”

Cortana's inspection report on the sample of the surrounding air said: "The air sample was checked all the way while the air filter was working, and now it seems that there is no problem." The spores of this fungus are slightly heavier than air, and they die naturally within 24 hours without a host at normal temperatures. ”

Wang Zhiyuan tried not to look at the hideous faces of the corpses in the heights, drove the tank down the sidewalk, and crashed into a green bus blocking the road. I parked the tank upside down to the downstairs of the International Trade Center of the Federation of Commerce, and looked at the huge advertisement of the summer game carnival on the rooftop, well~ It seems that this is this place.

Dressed in individual equipment, Wang Zhiyuan carefully put on a gas mask, inserted six AK47 magazines in front of the combat vest, took out the Bo-Ley-Tower 92FS9 mm semi-automatic pistol and carefully checked it and stuffed it into the thigh holster. Equip a black tactical helmet with trinocular night vision goggles and hang 4 incendiary bombs from your waist.

Robot No. 5 was repaired this time, and two mechanical short arms were added to the shoulder, and it was theoretically possible to operate AK47 and M2 heavy machine guns to fire at the same time. Wang Zhiyuan wanted to test it this time, and stuffed three boxes of 12.7mm heavy machine gun ammunition and several AK47 magazines into the box on the back of No. 5.

Grinding and chirping is to take everything that should be taken, Wang Zhiyuan turned his head and said: "Cortana ~ If any creature is found to be a threat to the tank, it is difficult to fire freely, the terrain inside is complex, and it is difficult to ensure communication." Cortana said: "Master Chief~ You can go with peace of mind, I doubt that the toy you found can be of any use." ”

Wang Zhiyuan settled down, opened the door of the tail compartment of the tank, and walked out cautiously, the red robot No. 5 jumped on the tank turret, drew the M2 heavy machine gun from the automatic weapon station, and leaned on the slender iron box on his back. Tearing off the bumper from a black off-road vehicle that turned over from the side of the tank and holding it in his hand, Wang Zhiyuan thought to himself: "No. 5 has I watched too many Terminator series movies recently." ”

I looked at the time of my phone at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, and it was still early before dark. Wang Zhiyuan followed behind Robot No. 5, carefully passing through the hole in the large glass door, and the hall outside the mall was full of dried corpses of insects, spiders, cockroaches, ants, and everything. Leaning against the side wall to bypass the cluttered cosmetics area, the front merchant area is dark.

Turning on the L-shaped flashlight on his shoulder, the place where the beam shone was full of messy goods, and suddenly Wang Zhiyuan's foot was tripped over something. When I looked down and saw that there was a spider silk the thickness of chopsticks, I couldn't help but shudder, and said in my heart: "It won't be so unlucky~ So along the way, I got on the spider bar, did the spider become the top of the food chain because it became larger?" ”

The sound of broken glass ballasts and No. 5's machinery echoing in a low voice between the two rows of shops. There was no need for material search, Wang Zhiyuan cautiously moved towards the light at the end of the passage, and walked through the shop passage of more than 500 meters. Looking through the glass of the shop, there were several corpses of infected people huddled together, and nothing else was found.

Walking near the end of the passage, Wang Zhiyuan picked up a few broken vases from the ground and threw them into the central hall of the mall. Hiding aside and waiting for a while, I didn't find any big spiders pounce out, and I picked up the AK47 cat and leaned against a section of the landscape wall. The 10-storey spiral-structure mall lobby is dimly lit, and the glass roof of the naturally lit mall obscures most of the natural light due to days of rain and dust.

The central hall of the mall is set up on the stage of the game carnival, and large statues of famous game characters such as Alsace, Iron Man, Transformers, and Demacia stand around. Wang Zhiyuan dared to run to a tall and transformer statue with great interest, and looked back and forth, left and right, and was disappointed to find that it was just an ordinary statue welded by metal and other materials.

Suddenly, Wang Zhiyuan felt that there was a sound above his head, and he took a flashlight to shine up, and found that several dry silk cocoons were swaying left and right with the breeze. Suddenly, I felt a chill on the back of my neck, and I took a flashlight and carefully shone the spiral ladder at the height.

A black shadow more than ten meters long lay on the spiral staircase three or four stories high above the entrance of the passage they entered. The flashlight shone on the past eight black eyes staring at Wang Zhiyuan, Wang Zhiyuan took 2 steps back in fright, leaned on the back of robot No. 5, and picked up AK47 to shoot rapidly.

In the darkness, tongues of fire pierced the head of the big spider, and the huge head shattered into many small pieces and fell onto the red carpet in the hall. Wang Zhiyuan looked at the AK47 in his hand suspiciously and said, "No. 5~ What's the situation, is my gun enchanted?" You go over to check, Robot 5 opened the equal proximity of the shoulder, knocked the fragment of the big spider with the bumper in his hand, turned his head and said: "Master Chief ~ This creature is an empty shell, and it looks like it has been dead for a long time." ”

Wang Zhiyuan was puzzled, empty shell? It should be the empty shell left behind by the spider molting. After a false alarm, Wang Zhiyuan was instantly frightened into a cold sweat and felt wet all over. patted his head and immediately woke up that it had been almost two months since the end of the world. Relying on the E100 heavy tank and robot No. 5 to kill a lot of bugs, but he has a little more disdain for this apocalyptic world, and his previous caution is almost forgotten.

The shooting just made a lot of noise, Wang Zhiyuan found the game carnival tour map on the wall, compared it with the electronic map, and found that the experience area of the game carnival was in the parking lot in the back area of this mall.