When he recognized the gravegrass growing on the head of the giant spider, Otto subconsciously covered his mouth and nose to hold his breath and kick the thing back under the bed.

He hadn't seen the grave plant, but he knew that Alex had told him about it when he gave him a class, and the scientific name of the thing was supposed to be

Vibble Snake Cordyceps Otto's eyes widened in disbelief and muttered to himself.

Parasitizing insects and helping them grow a grave grass, I think the first thing that comes to everyone's mind is a well-known herb, right?

Aweto.

Cordyceps sinensis fungus parasitizes the larvae of insects in the bat moth family, and controls the larvae to burrow into the shallow soil in winter, and then slowly eats the fatty internal organs of the larvae, and finally causes the larvae to die in a head-to-tail posture, turning the larvae's body into a growth hotbed full of mycelium. When the weather warms up in the summer, the empty shell covered with hyphae begins to revive and grow, and the head of the worm is broken open to grow a grave grass for it.

Of course, similar parasitic fungi are not only Cordyceps sinensis fungus, but also a more terrifying parasitic fungus, called the lateral snake Cordyceps fungus. This thing is much more powerful than the Cordyceps fungus, its spores infect ants and quickly replicate and plunder their nutrients, and when the fungus reaches a certain size, it will begin to infect and seize every inch of muscle in the ant's body until it completely takes over control of its body.

The spores of the Vibul snake cordyceps fungus mentioned by Otto are similar to this, its spores will be silently parasitic to the transcendent creatures through airborne transmission, and then absorb the host's life force and transcendent energy to quickly divide and replicate, and in a very short period of time to keep the host's mind intact while enslaving its shell, growing a heterogeneous body like a fungal plant.

Of course, readers should not be surprised, after all, there are even intelligent and civilized bacteria and viruses in this world, and it is acceptable to have several more fungi and microorganisms with extraordinary powers.

It's just that

No way, didn't the old guy say it, isn't this thing extinct, Otto muttered to himself in disbelief.

Yes, the Vibul snake cordyceps fungus is extinct.

With the disappearance of the gods, the undead legion and the hunting group paid a great price, and the mother codenamed Vibul was defeated, and then the subordinate Vibul snake cordyceps fungus that was dispersed by the mother also withered and died with the death of the mother.

Theoretically, without the existence of a parent body, the Vibul Cordyceps fungus would not have existed

Unless there's a wackiness here!

At the same time that such thoughts flashed through Otto's mind, he habitually summoned the fantasy sword, but this did not bring him much peace of mind, after all, the opponent may be a fungal spores floating in the air, and this kind of enemy has a great disadvantage to the psyker, because the other party has no mind, and the premise of tampering with reality without consciousness cannot be established, so once he is parasitized, he may not even be able to save himself in this kind of no-man's environment.

So.

He fled.

But in his words, it's called a tactical retreat due to lack of preparation.

More than half an hour later, Otto, who refreshed his physical state by overwriting reality, got a set of protective suits, wore a gas mask, and carried a stack of sealed bags, ran back to the house.

This time he was well prepared and ready to start exploring.

Really, *** want to wade into this troubled water, Otto's voice looked a little urned through the thick gas mask, he held a mobile phone with a flash in one hand, and dragged a fantasy sword in the other, continuing his exploration that he had just given up halfway.

Wearing a bloated hazmat suit, which made it extremely difficult to move in this cramped and cramped environment, he tried for a long time to pull the corpse out of the corner under the bed.

It was indeed a spider, but Otto squatted on the ground and studied it for a long time, but he still didn't figure out what this thing was called, only knowing that this empty shell should also be the corpse of some kind of transcendent creature, after all, the Vibul snake Cordyceps fungus only parasitizes on transcendent creatures. This discovery made him suddenly raise his vigilance, and the reappearance of the transcendent fungus that should have disappeared with the god generation a long time ago, plus the appearance here

The corpse of an extraordinary creature that I don't know is basically sitting on the ground, and I really know that there is indeed some transcendent existence here

Otto opened a sealed bag and packed the parasitic spider inside, in fact, even if he retreated with this thing at this time, there would be no problem, after all, he had originally come to investigate whether there was a supernatural factor here, and now when he found that the situation was beyond his ability to solve, even if he escaped, the old hunter would not blame him for this.

But he didn't want to leave like that, he didn't want to leave those who were missing, it felt like if he gave up the search here, and I was afraid that no one other than him would care about the whereabouts of these missing people

I guess these fungi are parasitic on those people

Such a thought only flashed through Otto's mind, and was immediately rejected.

No, it can't be, the Vibul snake Cordyceps fungus only parasitizes transcendent creatures, and those ordinary people who don't have transcendent powers should be safe, so what made them disappear here en masse

Otto searched the kitchen and toilet as he pondered everything, but found nothing but something new in another bedroom with beds piled high.

It was two lifelike wooden statues, and a hole hidden under the bed and deliberately covered by wooden panels.

A statue resembles a mouse, with black fur all over, three clover-shaped eyes on its forehead, and several tentacles extending from its bloated and fat body, which looks as if it will dance at any moment.

The other statue is carved with a huge spider with its unique arthropod legs in a dancing posture, as if it is weaving a huge web, and what is even more strange is that the spider actually has a face that is very similar to a human!

Both statues have some indescribable magic that not only frightens people, but also makes it impossible to look away.

Evil Statue? Is this still related to the cultists? Otto saw through the true nature of the thing at a glance, and he tried to look away, took out two sealed bags, put the two statues in them, hung them on his waist, and then turned his head to study the hole in the ground under the bed.

The cave is bottomless, and the entrance is very wide, even if Otto wears a bloated protective suit, he can easily get in, but judging from the traces left around it, this hole seems to have been dug from the inside out, he tried to take a picture of the hole with his mobile phone, but found that the light source of the mobile phone could not be illuminated at all, and what is even more incredible is that there is a layer of earth steps made of earth in the cave.

After climbing down the stairs for more than ten meters, the passage of the hole became more wide, enough for him to stand up and move forward. And the further down he went, the more forks in the tunnels became, and in the end, Otto couldn't memorize the map just by his sense of direction, so he could only leave marks along the way to ensure that he would not get lost in this underground labyrinth-like environment.

They all hid here, and they still won't let us go

I don't know how long I walked through this labyrinthine tunnel, but a sigh echoed through the wide tunnel, and then Otto saw a huge spider about the size of an adult appear at the end of the tunnel in his field of vision.

We were already homeless, and the half-human spider spoke, and the old, sallow, wrinkled face was a little painful, but more desperate and pleading: my husband kicked me out of the house, and my son didn't want to take me in, and I finally found a home, but I was kicked out again. Now, even if we hide underground, are you still unwilling to let us go?

Transparent mental tentacles stretched out of Otto's body, turning into invisible spikes that pierced into her blind spots, easily forming a common cognition, but just as he was about to transform his delusions into reality, he stopped himself from overwriting reality.

Are you Otto looking at the half-human, half-spider monster in front of him, even if the other party has begun to change beyond recognition, and his body has been distorted into a monster, a name still flashed in his mind, Hu De'e? I'm here to save you, why are you here, why are you like this, and all the other missing people? They're here too

Inside? What the hell happened to you?

Although Otto had never seen the curly-haired aunt's mouth, he could guess her identity from what he had just said. At this moment, facing Hu De'e's monster posture that does not look like a human form, I have a lot of questions in my heart, but I don't know where to speak.

The people who came to save us? I didn't expect that we would still be remembered Hu De'e smiled self-deprecatingly, and then raised her head sharply as if she had made up her mind, in this case, this kind man, can I ask you for something

Please say, as long as I can't, even if it's beyond my ability, I will help you, who imprisoned you? Who made you like this? Don't be afraid, I'm the one who specializes in dealing with this kind of transcendent event, and we're going to get you out

Thank you Hu De'e showed a not-so-nice smile on her old and sallow face, which was perhaps one of the few kindnesses she had felt in her life so far, and then she said something that made Otto stammer: Please go back now, don't mention our existence to anyone else, and never mind me, don't mind our business anymore

Otto's expression froze suddenly, and his eyes widened to wonder if he was hallucinating: Huh?

Don't care about us anymore, we all voluntarily became like this, Hu De'e unconsciously shook the spider's arthropods, if you can't live on the ground, you can only live underground, and if you can't survive, you can only become like this, we are a group of marginal people that no one cares about, even if we disappear, no one will care, as long as you don't say it, the things we secretly live underground will not be exposed.

So you don't want to be a human being, don't you want to go back to life on earth?

I don't want to, but staying underground makes me feel more relaxed, and even though it's like this, everyone is still together

And what about them?

They are also thinking this way.

Don't regret it?

No.

Then I got it

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