“Thank god, I finally found you!” The young man said while panting on the ground, “animals… animals from Wu city… Huh? What is wrong with Mouyou?” He raised his head and saw Mouyou lying in Zhang Zizhao’s arms.
“It’s a long story, but tell me how did they find out the location of our camp?” Zhang Zizhao quickly got up from the ground and handed over Mouyou, who was still unconscious to the other members of the group.
“A traitor, we have a traitor in our camp!” The young man said furiously.
“Who? Who is that fucking traitor!” Zhang Zizhao was also enraged by what he heard. There were more than hundreds of people in the camp. That traitor would get them all killed!
“It must be Sun Daqian. He definitely could not bear the hunger. Seeing you did not come back to the camp on time, he went out yesterday early morning. He must have gone to join those sickening animals in Wu city!” The young man clenched his fists and said angrily.
“Are you sure it’s him? Could it be a mistake?” Zhang Zizhao hoped that there might have been a misunderstanding somewhere.
“Brother Zhao, I know he saved your life. But this world… human nature is very unpredictable” Young man nodded his head and said.
Zhan Zizhao felt dejected.
“Da Qian, this kid has always been a shy and reticent person. Even a person like him would do such a thing! Does God really not want us to live? Does he want to turn everyone into animals?” Qin Renbo sighed again.
“Brother Zhao, Chief said that we can’t use the old route now, Da Qian knows the route, we are worried that there might be an ambush, so we need to use the secret tunnel. Chief is waiting for you to come back. We need to discuss if we should defend the camp or relocate.” The young man looked at everyone and then whispered at Zhang Zizhao’s ear.
“This is probably the only way to do it. Mouyou also needs to be taken care of as soon as possible!” Originally, only Zhang Zizhao and Chief, two people knew about the secret tunnel. But when Zhang Zizhao heard Fu Lijing talk about the secret tunnel. He immediately understood that the situation must have gotten very bad.
“Is Mouyou okay?” Fu Lijing appeared to be very worried.
Zhang Zizhao shook his head while his heart was in pain. The series of events he had experienced since last night made him physically and mentally exhausted.
“Are you injured? Da Li is injured as well!?” It seemed to grieve him to see all the people injured. “Let me hold Mouyou!”
Then he took over Mouyou from other people’s hands.
“Brother Li, they are?” Fu Lijing asked.
“Passersby.” looking at Chu Yunsheng, Li Xi didn’t dare to say anything extra.
“They got a gun! Are they…” He stepped back in panic.
“No, stop worrying about them, let’s go!” Li Xi waved his hand and said.
Fu Lijing looked at Chu Yunsheng and Edgar sceptically, and subconsciously held his arm around Jing Mouyou tighter and said, “let’s go!”
With the help of the hazy shimmer, Chu Yunsheng and Edgar’s visibility has increased. They were stunned for a few seconds by the scene around them before they realised that everyone had already started to move.
“Shit!” Edgar’s face was twisted.
What they saw first was a “big mushroom” that was as tall as a two-storey house. Its milky white “mushroom stem” was so thick that it would need to take at least three people to encompass it with outstretched arms; its yellow “mushroom cap” was covered with patterns that resembled “mushroom lamella”.
There was a cluster of green soft lotus-shaped plants below the big mushroom, and a small part of them were some strange spherical plants with a long thin stalk and bright red sphere top. It was very eye-catching.
Underneath the mushroom cap and above strange spherical plants a mass of flocculent fluff appeared from time to time in the wind. When the wind blew past the mass, it would scatter the mass of flocculent fluff around and spread them out; some of them fell on the ground, and some flew far away with the wind.
“It’s beautiful, but it is also deadly, if an ordinal man were to inhale just a little bit of it, his lungs would rot and he would die… a lot of people have died here. A lot… Same as the insects… a lot of them have died here too.” Li Xi walked past Edgar and said.
“Spore viruses?” Chu Yunsheng asked. This place was not very far away from Jin Ling city, but why would two nearby cities become two completely different worlds? The same thing also happened with the fog city and the horror city.
“Yes, there was a genius college student, who escaped from Lu city. She had done many experiments on all kinds of spore viruses, and she had miraculously found a type of Mycelium that did not contain any viruses. But later on, it was said that she died of starvation. Some people also said that she was lost in the spore forest. Anyway, no one has ever seen her again,” Li Xi said.
“Mr. Lennon, please wear this, it is a special scarf that was soaked with Mycelium, it can prevent some of the spore viruses from going into the respiratory system.” Li Xi took out two pieces of cloth from one of his team member’s backpacks, handed one to Chu Yunsheng and the other one to Edgar.
“I don’t need it, but Edgar you will need to wear it,” said Chu Yunsheng. It was not that Chu Yunsheng was trying to be brave, it was that those viruses almost had zero effect on him.
Of course, this was not the only reason why he did not want to wear the anti-virus scarves. He could not rely on this thing forever, nor did he want to rely on it to pass through this city. He needed to find another way, but first of all, he needed to figure out the properties of these spore miasma as soon as possible, and the quickest way to do it was to have direct contact with those spore viruses. While his body was exposed to those viruses, he could observe Yuan Qi reaction and study it. Then he might be able to learn something from how Rong Yuan Body handled the virus, and then he would be able to use this knowledge to make a new type of alexipharmic talisman.
“You really do not need it?” Li Xi was surprised to see that Chu Yunsheng did not take the scarf.
“I don’t need it, instead, tell me something about the animals from Wu city that you were talking about!” Chu Yunsheng asked.
He had been listening to this group of survivors talking about the animals from Wu City, and they used a lot of metaphors like, evil spirits, demons, animals, extremely cruel… to describe those animals, whenever they talked about it, their emotions were either filled with panic or hatred.
“They are humans, but they don’t act like humans! They are a group of animals! Mr. Lennon, If you see what they did, you will understand, they eat everything, they even eat-” Li Xi was dazed for a second when Chu Yunsheng asked him this question, but then he was interrupted by Chu Yunsheng again,
“Wait, something is coming!” Chu Yunsheng said.
After the battle in the area of slimy substances, the bullets for the Type-one dark energy gun were only left with less than 10 bullets, so Chu Yunsheng took back the gun from Edgar and gave him a regular rifle, which originally belonged to Edgar’s former team members.
“Who is there?” Xiao Si was at the front of the group. He shot one arrow into the dark and asked.
In the dim light, a vague figure was staggering towards them, Xiao Xi’s shout instantly made the figure shake a little, then it fell into the ground.
“Wait here, let me check it!” Xiao Si signalled his team members, then moved forward. The person fell on the passage between two clusters of lotus-shaped plants. It was the only passage that the survivors could use to get through here.
The exit of this passage was a three-way intersection. It was formed by a large number of spore plants, and there was only one path in this three-way intersection that could lead people to the secret tunnel.
“Be careful, archers and peltasts get ready.” Zhang Zizhao signalled the rest of the people.
Chu Yunsheng was not a wind elemental dark warrior, so his detection range was limited. If the little tiger was here, it would definitely be able to tell that if there were dangers around him.
But Chu Yunsheng was not that worried. As long as it was not the cloaked man’s people or the woman in the white dress, he could easily deal with regular skywalkers.
Xiao Si slowly approached the person on the ground, his footsteps were unusually loud. The closer he got to the person, the tighter all the survivors’ nerves were stretched.
“Brother Zhao, it is Daqian, Sun Daqian!!” Xiao Si waved his hand and said.
‘Sun Daqian? That traitor?’
It instantly created a commotion in the crowd. Everyone was looking around, trying to see if the animals from Wu city were nearby.
“Calm down, Xiao Si bring him here!” said Zhang Zizhao.
Soon, Xiao Si brought a skinny man back. The man’s eyelids sagged inside and his lips were dry. His left arm was bleeding, looking like a gun wound. His sleeves were already covered with blood and he constantly murmured, “water.. water…”
“Er Guai, give him some water!” Zhang Zizhao immediately said.
“Brother Zhao, but he… he is a traitor!” Er Guai frowned.
“Give him water!” Zhang Zizhao raised his voice.
Er Guai got scared. He did not dare to say no again, but quickly passed the water to him.
“Cough… cough… There is… a traitor, a traitor!” Sun Daqian coughed several times then said intermittently.
“Who? Who is the traitor?” Zhang Zizhao knitted his brows and moved his ear close to Sun Daqian’s mouth.
“Chief said, don’t go back to the camp… Wait… They will wait for you at Zhǎng Jiā Village… They could not defend it….” Sun Daqian’s voice was very weak.
“What is going on?” Zhang Zizhao said coldly, at the same time, he looked sharply at Fu Lijing and Sun Daqian. One said that they needed to go back, the other said that they needed to wait outside. Who was lying?
“Brother Zhao, are you suspecting me? My life was saved by you and Mouyou, the first time it was you, the second time it was Mouyou, this kind of ungrateful thing… I… I… Okay, if you think that I am the traitor, you can kill me right now. My life is yours… Now I am giving it back to you!” Fu Lijing felt like he was being humiliated, so he pulled out the knife, and said categorically.
“Edgar, what do you think?” Chu Yunsheng suddenly turned to Edgar and asked.
“Mr. Lennon, with you here, whoever is lying, is not important. Because the outcome would still be the same!” Edgar smiled.
