Chapter 20 Social creatures cannot be provoked
Humans modified by Spodoptera viridix will lose a lot of hair, and teeth and nails will grow specifically. The muscles of the limbs will break out of the skin, and the mycelium of the noctuaria will cover the cracked muscles and the skin of humans, which will be used to replace the skin and grow as an exoskeleton.
Infected individuals grow large numbers of fluorescent mushrooms, which are afraid of sunlight and only move at night.
The infected's brain is gradually manipulated by hyphae, and after the middle stage of infection, they will irreversibly lose consciousness, but will retain their primitive killing instincts. When the infected person is in the middle stage of infection, it can no longer be reversed, and he or she loses his or her original personality forever, and since then, all behaviors of the infected person are controlled by the mycelium that has matured.
This group of infected individuals who have been controlled by mycelium is referred to by surviving humans as Fluorescent Daredevils. In addition to being unable to reproduce itself, the Fluorescent Daredevil behaves like an entirely new species. They have their own social system, they have a complete food chain, they have different hierarchies, they need to eat, and they have memories built with a network of mycelium.
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As night fell, darkness enveloped the city, and a large field of green mushrooms began to glow. These rays do not illuminate the outside world, only the fluorescent mushrooms themselves.
The second dog leaned over and stared at a mushroom that looked like a ham sausage in front of him.
What a strange green mushroom. The second dog has the same color vision as humans, and the green color of the mushroom is very vivid in its eyes.
The second dog smelled a tempting scent, and it couldn't resist anything that looked like a ham sausage, and its consciousness became trance again.
Want to eat......
Under the gaze of the second dog, the mushroom actually writhed, as if it was seducing the second dog to eat it.
"Ahh Seeing that the mushroom could move, the second dog was so frightened that it jumped up more than two meters high, and its tail was caught under its buttocks. It suddenly lost its appetite.
Ergou looked up and found that before he knew it, the entire road was lit up in green.
Green mushrooms light up the silhouette of an abandoned car and dilapidated houses. The night scene of the whole city changes from pitch black to a Christmas night scene, dotted with lights. It's just that the light isn't as colorful as the real Christmas scene, it's only green.
Green spores fill the air, looking at the moon through the air, even the moon has a green glow.
The mushrooms on the walls of the building where Shan Mingjun and Wei Shuai were staying also faintly glowed, and their number was in the tens of thousands. If it weren't for the mushrooms glowing at night, Ergou wouldn't have been able to see that there were so many mushrooms growing on the surface of this seemingly ordinary mansion.
But the most conspicuous of them is a hospital three kilometers away.
The hospital is like a glow stick, with a green color all over it. Ergou was fascinated by this large piece of green, and in Ergou's eyes, this large lump of green was like a giant mushroom standing on the ground.
If Zhou Yan had come out of the garage and seen this hospital, he would have been able to detect that this hospital was the source of the fungal infection that had broken out in the city.
There are side quests in every trial space, ranging from one to many. Each side quest will give generous rewards for those who work hard to survive. And this hospital might just be the starting point for a side quest.
It's a pity that it was the second dog who saw this scene, although it also wanted a lot of survival points, but its dog brain couldn't understand this.
Zhou Yan, the only one who could understand this, was lying on the soft bed in the garage at the moment. He snorted and slept like a dead pig. No matter how the second dog jumped and jumped on him, he couldn't wake him up.
Ergou saw a cluster of green dots running out of the hospital thousands of meters away, and these green dots were running towards it like an overwhelming place. They are too far away from the second dog, and although the second dog has super night vision, it still can't see clearly.
What are these things? Could it be a bunch of moving mushrooms? Ergou's heart thought.
It's never seen anything so interesting in its life!
Ergou has a strong ability to accept new things, and it doesn't take long for him to accept the setting that mushrooms will run.
It spread its maiden and ran towards the tide of green dots, wagging its tail excitedly as it ran. It wanted to see what it was like to see a swarm of mushrooms running.
"Ahh
At this moment, Ergou's ears suddenly pricked up, and he heard a human scream coming from eight hundred meters to the east.
"Screams? And it's human? ”
After the second dog has acquired human linguistic skills and its IQ has increased from three to four years old, it has been able to clearly distinguish whether the distant bark belongs to a human or not.
It turned its head to look at the source of the sound. It was a somewhat dilapidated looking residential building, with only three floors, and one of the houses had a wooden plank with a window and some green dots constantly hovering outside the window. And this scream was made by the people in the house after seeing the green dot outside the window.
In addition to Zhou Yan, Ergou, Shan Mingjun and Wei Shuai, there are many survivors in this trial space. Some of them found a suitable place to spend the night, while others thought they were safe, and the screams were made by the other survivors.
The residential buildings are 800 meters away, and although they look close, there is an overpass in between. To reach the residential building from here, Ergou must cross an overpass.
It was not only Ergou who heard this cry, but also a large number of green light spots in front of them, most of which quickly turned around, and the mighty wave came straight towards the residential building in an instant. There is also a small number of green light spots that still maintain their original direction, going up the overpass and straight towards Ergou.
Ergou heard the sound of submachine gun fire coming from a residential building. And with that came the screams of humans. The swarming green dots of light have surrounded the residential buildings.
But Ergou didn't have the leisure to see what was going on over there, because the few points of light on the overpass were running towards this side at a very fast speed.
Ergou's pupils quickly became smaller, and as the light points approached, Ergou saw that these green points of light were actually not mushrooms that could run, but human beings with no clothes and hair on their bodies, and their skin was covered with pale mycelium.
They move like deformed species, running at a speed like a 100-meter flyer, jumping more than three meters high, and even stepping on their legs in the car when they fall.
They are fluorescent night demons. And the night is when the Fluorescent Daredevil goes hunting.
The point of light that the two dogs saw was the light emitted by the fluorescent mushrooms that grew on the limbs, chest, and head of these fluorescent night demons.
Damn! It's not a mushroom at all! What is this! Are they Superman?
The second dog was frightened for a while, it smeared oil on the soles of its feet, turned its head and ran into the garage.
If you want to talk about smart minds, Ergou is the penultimate first, but when it comes to the ability to escape, Ergou says first, and no one dares to say second.
An elk hiding in the grass was grabbed by the neck by the running Daredevil. The elk was clung to the ground by the Daredevil, and the next second it was cut off by the Daredevil's powerful hands, ending its life. A group of night demons immediately rushed over, coaxing the fresh meat.
A black bear stood up and roared at the Daredevil, who had a pale claw. This black bear is new to the outside and has no idea how high the Daredevil's output is. This night demon, which looked different from other night demons, exerted its legs, and its body instantly jumped in front of the black bear from a distance of ten meters, and its pale claws were raised high, and the black bear that had no time to react was directly torn in half.
In addition to the survivors, a large number of animals are also hiding from the night demons, including the two dogs.
As Zhou Yan expected, in addition to a large number of night demons drilled out of the hospital three kilometers away, there were also night demons in the nearby buildings that were slightly taller. This also includes the building where Shan Mingjun and Wei Shuai are located. When night falls, the night demons who hide in the various buildings also come out, frantically hunting and killing everything they can see around them.
They live in groups, the key is that they are super strong individually!
Sure enough, it's a social creature, and it can't be provoked.
Just when Ergou was frantically fleeing for his life, Shan Mingjun and Wei Shuai were looking at the locked door with frightened eyes.
Outside the gate there was a loud bang.
With each impact, the door protruded, and the whole room slammed, leaving a little dust on the ceiling.
A Daredevil hiding in the mansion had spotted them.
It's over, I'm afraid I'm going to die! Shan Mingjun and Wei Shuai thought of it together.
Outside, gunfire rang out, wild beasts roared, and the night demons slaughtered like crazy.
In the garage, Zhou Yan slept very soundly, with a smile on his face, as if his dream was not finished.