Moist and warm.

The air in the underground parking lot was filled with tiny particles, shadows appearing in the white light of the flashlight, and at first glance I thought it was full of dust.

But Lu Jia and the others couldn't help but tighten the protection on their faces, they knew that these fine particles were not ash, but spore dust released by the Xuanzhi fungus.

"It's so hot in here, and there's a lot of spore dust...... I said Lu Jia, we shouldn't have missed it......"

Lu Yi, who had finally been quiet for a while, spoke again.

Lu Jia glanced at his companion behind him, and then at the dark red veins that snaked on the fungus carpet.

"I don't know, if we miss this, we really won't have many opportunities......"

Hearing this, he followed Lu Ding, who was at the end, to answer.

"Kyoto Underground City."

Hearing this brief reply, Lu Jia nodded slightly.

"Indeed, according to the content recorded on the memory chip, there is indeed a fungus in the underground of Kyoto, but I don't know if the life energy level has reached the omega level......

Lu Jia sighed and continued to walk forward.

"All in all, let's confirm this place first, looking at the outside, there should still be a probability that the bacterial brain has not been destroyed."

However, not long after Lu Jia finished speaking, a wriggling sound suddenly came from the darkness deep in the underground parking lot.

It's like a giant slug crawling slowly on a slippery blanket.

The three of them looked at each other, and they all read horror in each other's faces.

The fungus does not make this sound, after all, it is only a mutated fungus.

To be able to make such a noise proves that there are other mutated creatures in the underground parking lot!

"Lu Ding, do you hear anything?"

Lu Jia turned his head and looked at his last companion.

Lu Ding shook his head and gave a negative answer.

"I can't hear it, but it's supposed to be a big guy......"

The three of them were silent again.

In the end, it was Lu Yi who tentatively spoke, "Then why don't we go or not......?"

"Go, be careful."

was asked by Lu Yi like this, Lu Jia seemed to have made up his mind and continued to walk forward.

Seeing this, Lu Ding and Lu Yi naturally didn't say anything and immediately followed.

As the three of them went deeper, the surrounding fungus blanket became thicker and more slippery, and the space became narrower, giving people a feeling of suffocation all the time.

At this moment, the dark red veins half-hidden under the fungus blanket had reached the waist thickness of an adult, and they were lined up on the wall like water pipes, leading to the deeper darkness.

The goal is close.

However, just as they were about to reach the end of the convergence of dark red veins, something seemed to move in the darkness around the corner ahead.

The slippery creep sound was heard again, as if as a warning.

"It's that guy...... Damn, is that a mutant creature or a wall......"

Lu Yi opened his mouth, his eyes were already full of surprise.

Just as he opened his mouth to exclaim, Lu Jia in front of him had already hit the flashlight on that thing.

What caught my eye was a large mass of gray scales, reflecting a sparkling light under the white pillar of light.

"Slug."

Lu Ding pronounced the name of the creature in time, and briefly added its characteristics and habits.

"Biological serial number 117, slug mutant, scavenger, slow moving, up to three meters in length, living in groups."

"Up to three meters in length? No matter how you look at this thing, it's more than three meters, Lu Ding, are you mistaken? Lu Yi raised his eyebrows and whispered his doubts.

And Lu Ding just glanced at him lightly and spit out three words from his mouth.

"Heterozygous."

"It turned out to be a heterozygous...... Wait,, isn't this thing a ......?"

"Hemlen fungus." This time it was Lu Jia who picked up the conversation, he had already put the flashlight under his armpit, and reached out and took out something from his jacket pocket.

"But any organism that is infected by a secondary virus has the potential to be heterozygous and merge with completely different organisms to become a more powerful new species."

Hearing Lu Jia's explanation, Lu Yi's face showed a sudden expression.

"Good boy, that is, this thing is a lot stronger than the original? Then let's go up again, isn't it a meat bun beating a dog, and there is no return? ”

Seeing that Lu Yi flinched a little, Lu Jia immediately explained.

"It's true that it has become stronger, but Lu Yi, you may have forgotten that the life energy level of the slug is very low, even if it grows to three meters, it can only reach the Delta level, which is a zero-level lifeform."

"Although it is hybridized with the Lyricium fungus, which has an omega-level life energy level, it should only increase its size, and there is not much change in terms of threat."

As he spoke, Lu Jia threw out the things in his hand.

It was a long, finger-thick test tube filled with a yellow, oily, clear liquid.

The test tube flew in the air and hit the skin of the slug without any suspense.

I heard a bang, and there was a boom in the darkness.

The explosion did not harm the slugs, but only cleaned up some of the hyphae.

The slippery creep sounded again, and the huge creature that was clogging the entire intersection finally moved, slowly crawling to the other side.

"Look, the sesame door is open."

Holding the flashlight under his arm again, a smile appeared on Lu Jia's face.

"I'm ...... Boss, when have you been so reckless, if this big guy is not as docile as you imagined, wouldn't the three of us all die here? ”

Faced with Lu Yi's question, Lu Jia didn't answer again, but just walked forward by himself.

However, Lu Ding, the queen of the palace, kindly explained.

"The low-order hybridity is high-order, with the low-order as the dominant and the high-order as the strengthening."

"Damn...... I forgot ......"

Lu Yi, who heard the explanation, suddenly scratched his head a little embarrassed.

Circumventing the slug, the trio quickly entered the depths of the underground parking lot.

During this period, Lu Yi was still a little uneasy, so he deliberately asked Lu Jia to look back at the giant slug again, and found that the other party was just quietly eating the mushrooms on the wall, so he no longer paid attention.

After some more distance, the three of them finally saw the end.

Beneath a relatively empty ceiling, a columnar tree dangles from almost the entire space.

Several thick, dark red veins converged and led to the interior of the column.

These mycelium have eaten through the concrete floor, like a water pipe leading to the ground, drawing water and nutrients from the sewer.

Probably because it grows in a shady environment all year round, this fungus has adapted to the darkness, and in the face of the light from the Lujia flashlight, there is a closed reaction similar to that of a mimosa.

Any mushroom that has been exposed to the light for too long will malfunction to varying degrees......