The meeting room.
Members of Team One and Team Two gathered, including the newly joined An Ling.
Qin Feng sat at the head of the table.
Zhang Heng reported on the battle.
He was describing the appearance of the monsters.
"Mushrooms?!"
Tang Xiaoying interrupted mid-sentence, "Mushrooms? How can mushrooms be the monsters you're talking about?"
"Deputy Captain, they aren't ordinary mushrooms, they're... endless!" Zhang Heng still felt a lingering fear.
"Undead!"
Liu Xiaohui quickly added, "A small cluster of mutated mushrooms almost wiped us out? They're everywhere!"
"Destroy one cluster, and another sprouts, covering the whole landscape!"
"They have two attack methods."
"One is explosion."
"And the other..."
At this point.
Liu Xiaohui's eyes were filled with infinite dread.
The explosions weren't scary.
The other attack method was...
Parasitism!
"Most of our brothers were infected by mushroom spores, and then... their bodies rotted, and grew full of mushrooms." Even Zhang Heng looked pale with fear.
A single cluster of mushrooms was not frightening.
What was deadly was the quantity!
"We fought our way out frantically, running for almost a kilometer before we escaped!"
Mushrooms ahead.
Mushrooms behind.
Pursued and intercepted!
Nearly a kilometer might not seem far, but during the escape, every step was incredibly difficult.
In the end, only a little over ten people returned alive!
"That's strange!"
Wang Shouli frowned, muttering, "How could mushrooms spread over such a vast area?"
Among plants and animals.
Only a small portion mutated.
It couldn't be that.
All the mushrooms in an entire area mutated, could it?
But if not...
Where would so many attacking mushrooms come from?
"It's all one entity." Qin Feng finally spoke.
"What do you mean?"
Everyone was confused.
"Honey mushrooms, commonly known as chanterelles."
Qin Feng looked at everyone, "You can check the information in your personal terminals."
Personal terminals stored a lot of basic common knowledge.
Including various animals and plants.
Everyone quickly accessed their terminals and typed in "chanterelles."
"Oh my god!"
Han Ling exclaimed in disbelief.
Many people from the north had eaten chanterelles.
She was no exception.
But she never imagined that the mushrooms used to stew chicken were...
One of the largest organisms on Earth!
The records stated that the mycelium of honey mushrooms could extend infinitely.
The largest recorded mycelium had survived for a thousand years, covering an area of over ten thousand mu!
Of course.
This referred to ordinary honey mushrooms, not mutated ones.
And after mutation?
The endless mutated mushrooms spoken of by Zhang Heng and others were not many individual organisms.
They.
Came from the same fungal mass.
It wasn't the mushrooms that mutated.
But the mother body of countless mushrooms – the fungal mass mutated!
"Spanning a kilometer... how can we fight this?" Zhou Haiyang stared blankly.
"More than a kilometer!"
Zhang Heng shook his head, saying with a bitter smile, "We broke through in one direction and escaped for nearly a kilometer. What about the other directions?"
Perhaps two kilometers in radius.
Perhaps ten kilometers.
Who knew!
"Dig out its roots!"
He Dong said in a deep voice, "Fighting the mushrooms alone is useless. The root is in the underground fungal mass."
No matter how many mushrooms you destroy.
As long as the fungal mass exists.
It could continuously breed more mushrooms.
Endlessly!
Without cessation!
"Right!"
Liu Pi's eyes lit up, "Brother Dong, use your earth-element abilities to flip the ground over and uproot it!"
"Can you flip over the ground for a kilometer, or even several kilometers, simultaneously?" Qin Feng asked.
"This..."
He Dong was stunned.
Manipulating the ground for several kilometers?
That was a joke!
His ability's attack range was less than a hundred meters in radius.
"The strength level of a creature is often proportional to its size."
Qin Feng's brow furrowed. "Such a large honey mushroom is at least level 8 strength, or even level 9."
What?!
Everyone was aghast.
Level 8.
Or even level 9!
They were no match for it.
"Perhaps... we should avoid it?" Tang Xiaoying said helplessly.
"How far from here?" Qin Feng asked Zhang Heng.
"About 30 kilometers to the northwest."
"We'll go take a look tomorrow."
"Look at what?"
"See how much it has expanded compared to today."
Instantly.
The expressions of all the high-ranking officials present changed drastically.
Expansion?
This thing would continuously expand in all directions?
If the expansion speed was fast enough, it might even reach the base.
The consequences were unimaginable!
Qin Feng was contemplating.
In his previous life, there were also mutated honey mushrooms. This thing was not ordinarily powerful.
Among mutated creatures.
Plants might seem insignificant, but they were often more deadly than animals.
Because.
They had advantages that animals could not compare with.
Such as growth speed.
Survival ability.
Of course.
Honey mushrooms were fungi, not plants.
But they were even more deadly than plants!
Based on his experience in his previous life, Qin Feng knew that this honey mushroom was not something he could destroy now.
The honey mushroom's attack power was not high.
It couldn't harm him.
But he couldn't do anything about it either.
He had to improve quickly!
His own improvement wasn't enough.
To deal with the honey mushroom, he also needed someone else – Xiao Ruoruo!
But currently, he only had one, with a level 8 crystal that had already been consumed by 40%.
His own improvement was not enough.
Let alone Xiao Ruoruo.
He had to obtain more high-level crystals in a short period.
"There are about ten more days before that thing mutates," he thought to himself.
In his previous life.
About 20 days after the dual storylines of "Raging Beasts" and "Extreme Deep Freeze" began.
Extremely powerful mutated creatures appeared.
With heaven-defying combat power.
They caused great destruction.
Now it was the eighth day since the official start of the storyline.
There were about 12 days left.
Before then, he didn't know where that guy was.
Even if he knew, it would be useless.
It should not have mutated yet, so killing it wouldn't yield high-level crystals.
The new storyline was different from "Living Dead Legion."
In "Living Dead Legion," zombies appeared all at once.
Kill one, and one less.
The number of zombies would only decrease.
No new ones would appear. 138 Reading Network.
This time it was different!
New mutated creatures appeared every day.
The later it got.
The stronger the new mutated creatures became.
Of course, some of that strength was reflected in combat power, while the honey mushroom's attack power was not high.
Its strength was reflected in its survival ability.
"Let's rest."
Qin Feng stood up. "Zhang Heng, take me to scout the honey mushroom tomorrow."
"Yes!"
All the high-ranking officials dispersed.
Hmm?!
Qin Feng noticed An Ling sitting in the corner, her head bowed in a daze.
It seemed.
She hadn't heard a single word of the meeting.
"An Ling, what's wrong?" he asked.
"Ah..."
An Ling snapped back to attention, looking flustered. "No... it's nothing."
She stood up.
And quickly left the meeting room, her retreating figure appearing somewhat disheveled.
Her mind flashed back to before.
When she saw Qin Feng and Xiao Ruoruo in an intimate embrace.
And at the same time, she remembered.
All that had happened between her and Qin Feng.
So...
From the moment he pulled her into the team, their previous relationship had ended?
...
Blue Star.
The live broadcast rooms in Great Xia were abuzz with discussion.
– 'I went to John Bull's live broadcast room, Jin Qian is using Shadow Concealment in the sky, secretly monitoring various teams!'
– 'So many people... are coming towards Yan Mountain Base!'
– 'What do we do? Brother Feng doesn't know yet!'
– 'Those teams have set up camp. Based on their current positions, they'll arrive tomorrow.'
Over a hundred survivor bases were successively persuaded by Jin Qian.
They were rushing from all directions.
Forming a siege.