CHAPTER 553: CHAPTER 291: FIRE BOOK

Crack, crack, crack.

Just as the words were spoken, a fungal human head in the corner was bizarrely swelling, its terrifying face constantly twisting, ballooning up like an inflated balloon.

Seeing this, Lin Xian immediately sensed something was wrong and promptly said to KIKI, "KIKI, wrap it up!"

"Okay!"

KIKI immediately used a Telekinesis Shield to envelop the swelling fungal human head. Sure enough, in the next instant, the fungal head burst open with a bang, blue-white decayed brain matter mixed with a thick brown-yellow spore mist sprayed out, tightly wrapped by KIKI’s Telekinesis Shield.

"Disgusting!"

At this moment, other fungal human heads also began to continuously swell, rapidly rolling towards the group.

"Go quickly."

Realizing the trouble, Lin Xian decisively acted, and KIKI no longer hesitated, using telekinesis to lift everyone into the air, flying off into the distance.

Boom boom boom boom boom!

Dull explosions kept ringing out, and the street center where they had just been was instantly covered in a dense spore mist.

"What is this? Spore bombs?" Ning Jing asked with a trace of lingering fear. To her, terrifying monsters were not something she couldn’t face, but this kind of parasite-devouring spore mist made her feel a sense of helplessness. Fortunately, the team had someone like KIKI with telekinesis; otherwise, it would have been difficult to handle.

"Head straight to that Car City, two blocks from here, and hurry up." Realizing the trouble these things posed, Lin Xian could only venture riskily deeper into Yijin City, not wanting to stay an extra second.

Whoosh~

In the skies above Yijin City, the air was full of a musty damp smell, and KIKI put up a transparent Telekinesis Shield, enveloping the seven people as they quickly headed towards Car City.

Before long, a low street appeared in sight, and behind it, large vacant parking areas emerged, with countless abandoned and damaged cars haphazardly piled up on this land of Car City. At a glance, there were at least several hundred vehicles, all covered with fungal carpets and Night Light Mushrooms, which made for a fantastical sight... if one didn’t know what rotting brown-yellow fungal carpets lay beneath them.

"Any cars that could be driven away probably already have been," Luo Yang frowned at the scene.

"Doesn’t matter, I’m not looking for a car."

At this moment, Ning Jing noticed Ah Bai’s gloomy expression and couldn’t help but ask, "Ah Bai, what’s wrong?"

"Sister Ning... I always feel like there are monsters everywhere, all staring at us..."

Ning Jing heard this and glanced around. In the deathly stillness of the city’s night, fungal carpets were everywhere, and aside from the fungal heads on the streets, she saw no moving creatures.

But she knew Ah Bai’s senses were never wrong and immediately looked at Lin Xian, signaling to him.

Lin Xian nodded, "We’ll make this quick. There’s definitely an Abnormal Body here. If we get marked, we must find a way to eliminate it, or else we’ll never escape this Extreme Night."

"Hmm." Ning Jing nodded.

The fungal heads and fungal human heads earlier didn’t mark them, including the giant rats in the dark earlier, so although it was strange, Lin Xian and the others bravely entered to find devouring materials.

"Hey, Lin Xian, look."

At this moment, KIKI pointed to a large parking lot in Car City: "That seems like a convoy camp!!"

The group looked in the direction and indeed saw, among a pile of chaotic vehicles, a circular formation that clearly served as a survival camp. Over twenty heavy trucks formed a defensive line outside, while inside were various living vehicles, off-road vehicles, trucks, buses, tank trucks, solar-powered vehicles, and more, totaling over 50 vehicles—a medium to large convoy.

However, at that moment, the convoy camp was devoid of any vitality or light, entirely covered by fungal carpets and Night Light Mushrooms, resembling a circular mushroom flower bed situated at the center of the parking area.

"The convoy seems to be gone, not a single heat source," Ding Junyi, dressed in Black Hawk Battle Armor, said.

KIKI manipulated the telekinesis to slowly descend from the air, when suddenly the Red Phoenix Orders on Lin Xian and Ning Jing sounded.

Beep beep beep.

The two immediately reacted.

"Someone left a Fire Book info pack!"

"Is this convoy part of the Phoenix Order?"

"Not necessarily; it might have been left by the Nightwalkers."

Lin Xian immediately took out the Red Phoenix Order, opened it, and found a leftover radio frequency audio signal.

"Sizzle... this is... this is the Night Blade Team, sizzle... I am Vice Captain Liu Zhong."

"We can no longer evacuate... sizzle... there is a large-scale fungal spore infection here, all zombies are..."

"Sizzle... spores quickly invade the brain, causing hallucinations, firepower is ineffective, sizzle... those parasitized things are attracted to sound and light..., do not fire, do not leave the vehicle, do not turn on lights, sizzle... we can’t break through... the entire city’s fungal cluster is alive, it’s alive!!"

"We were forced to hold out here for three days. The captain led an exploration team and discovered a secret research facility under Deep Red Pharmaceutical Group... They are studying Extreme Night and this fungal matter, and they demolished roads and destroyed bridges to leave those entering the city with nowhere to go, then capturing survivors as experimental specimens for fungal experiments. Our people engaged them, but it’s too late. Any survivors receiving this message, or someone from the Phoenix Society, please make sure to wipe them out. This fungal matter is more dangerous than any virus and poses an existential threat to humanity, we can no longer escape!!"