Lin Xian and the others saw this scene and their faces immediately changed. The white fungal spore caps had fallen for less than a minute, yet they had already split and expanded to this extent.
"So strange, it seems like it’s only floating above us!" Luo Yang looked at the sky and exclaimed with surprise.
Lin Xian took a look and indeed, only this area was drifting, so he immediately said to KIKI, "Quick, let’s get out of here."
KIKI immediately led the team flying towards the distant open space. After flying a few kilometers, the floating fungal caps around them significantly decreased. At this moment, Lin Xian looked back and found that the sky above Car City was pouring glowing fungal caps like a heavy rain, while other places were as calm as before.
Ding Junyi looked at the breathing and pulsating fungal network on the city’s ground and said, "As expected, the fungal clusters in the entire city form a large biological network, and because we stayed in one place for too long, this fungal network responded to us."
Soon, those fungal caps drifting in the sky seemed to have pinpointed their location and started falling continuously above their heads.
"Let’s go directly to that Deep Red Pharmaceutical Group, going back to the train now is just waiting for death!"
After devouring those more than twenty heavy trucks, Lin Xian’s decomposition center had gained quite a bit of material, though it was still slightly short of the estimated amount for track materials usage. So while flying towards Deep Red Pharmaceutical, Lin Xian had KIKI grab some discarded cars along the way and devour them in the air.
Lin Xian’s premonition was not wrong. At this time, the fungal mat covering Yijin City seemed to come alive. As their team flew across the sky, the fungal root system on the ground constantly flickered with blood-red light.
Meanwhile, in the darkness, shadows in the corners, a large number of fungal human heads began to roll. Mushroom caps growing on the city streets swayed in the wind, constantly spewing spore mist. Instantly, the city seemed to be cloaked under a hazy brownish-yellow spore fog, which expanded and rose, gradually enshrouding Yijin City in a spore mist.
Seeing this scene, Lin Xian immediately said to KIKI, "Quick, fly us over!"
"These fungal clusters have started ejecting spore mist, the train over there won’t be in trouble, will it?!" Luo Yang said nervously.
"Worrying won’t help. Let’s hope they manage to hold on and don’t emit any sound or light source."
On the other side, Shi Deyuan and Chen Sixuan on the joint train saw the brownish-yellow spore mist rising over the city and immediately sensed the danger.
"Quick, turn on all air circulators to internal circulation and find things to block the gaps in the carriage connection parts!"
"Use damp cloth strips!"
"Also, block the bathroom’s vent pipes and sewage pipes. Absolutely no spores can enter the cabin!"
"We can’t reach Captain Lin on the communicator. What do we do?" Shu Qin said.
"They’ll find a way. Let’s do as Lin Xian asked us to, don’t make any noise and cut all power to the train!"
"Everyone put on anti-toxic masks, no skin should be exposed!"
Chen Sixuan, with a grave expression, along with Shu Qin, checked each person’s protective measures one by one. Even though the train provided protection, no one dared to be careless, even wearing the cold proof clothing they used on the snowfield.
For a moment, more than 4,000 people quietly began to move, finding everything they could use to seal potential gaps and holes in the carriages. On the Infinity, every carriage door was closed to ensure safety, and the joint train fell completely silent, as if the air had frozen, plunging into a state of stillness.
A few minutes later, the dense tawny spore mist covered over like a tsunami, quickly engulfing the train entirely, and a thin layer of yellow spores began to coat the train windows.
Meanwhile, with the constant fall of fungal caps from the sky, KIKI flew rapidly through the high skies with Lin Xian and his group. They soon saw a large triangular single building in the industrial zone of Yijin City. The original building’s perimeter wall had been transformed into a high wall with electric wires, covered with thorny iron nets, with machine gun towers every few dozen meters, seemingly built to address the zombie crisis. At this time, the sandbag bunkers outside the walls had already collapsed, with sand and the fungal mat combining into a honeycomb-like tumor. The barrel of a heavy machine gun was twisted into a spiral by fungal threads, and bullets on the ammo belt sprouted black mushroom caps like wood ears.
That massive triangular main building was even more covered with glowing fungal mats and various fungi, resembling a gigantic malignant tumor incubation site. Countless purple-black fungal tumor bodies were scattered around the building exterior, the glowing tumor skins were semi-transparent, and upon closer inspection, human-like silhouettes were visible inside, some of them security zombies encapsulated by fungal threads, alongside some staff wearing research uniforms. Atop the building, only the words ’Deep Red’ from the blue ’Deep Red Pharmaceutical’ logo remained faintly visible.
"What kind of fungi is this, it can even eat people?!"
The group flew closer from the air, and KIKI immediately furrowed her brows. The scene in front of them appeared bizarrely terrifying, these fungal networks resembled some sort of internal organ, extremely disgusting.
"The fungal threads are denser here, indicating we’re likely close to the fungus core." Ding Junyi observed the swirling brownish-yellow spore mist around them and spoke, "These spores are also flammable, so we must be very careful."
The entire city was shrouded in spore fog, and if an explosive burn occurred now, the force would be unimaginable. Looking at the overwhelming spore fog, Lin Xian furrowed his brows deeply. Even with AT Force Field as a defensive measure, he was unsure if he could survive such an explosion.
At that moment, he suddenly discovered something.
"There!" Lin Xian pointed towards the main building of Deep Red Pharmaceutical.
At this moment, Lin Xian saw several special black experimental van-type vehicles placed horizontally in front of the building, already enveloped by fungal mats. KIKI led Lin Xian and the others flying over and then tore away the fungal mats, revealing a symbol on the van.
It was a triangular symbol.
This symbol was something Lin Xian and KIKI had seen before. It was on the special metal box marked by Silver Dragon Ten Thousand Mistakes Disaster Plant that Uncle Wu from the Big Eagle Caravan gave him when they had just left Hengshan Pass City!