CHAPTER 554: CHAPTER 291: FIRE BOOK_2

"Sss...! We can’t break into their research facility... it’s underground in that building!! Ah!!! Something is growing inside my head!! Ah!..."

Beep...

The signal from the Fire Book disappeared, and everyone suddenly felt a chill in the atmosphere.

"Deep Red Pharmaceutical? Them again?!" Ning Jing frowned.

Lin Xian asked, "Do you know this organization?"

Ning Jing nodded and looked at Ah Bai, "Behind this pharmaceutical group is a mysterious organization called the Deep Red World Descent Faction. Ah Bai and Xiao Qing were previously captured by them..." She stopped at this point, swallowing her words and looked at Ah Bai.

Everyone looked at Ah Bai and found his face full of fear and terror at that moment.

On the other side, Lu Xingchen gazed at Ah Bai, his expression slightly darkened as well.

"Deep Red Pharmaceutical..." As KIKI quickly searched through her phone, she immediately found the target: "Hey, really, it’s right at No. 223 South Da Dong Road, Deep Red Pharmaceutical Group’s Yijin branch. It was once a leading research enterprise here."

"So it was them who destroyed the tracks and bridges; how despicable!"

Lin Xian’s expression immediately darkened, and he attempted to relay the information back to the train using the communicator, but to his surprise, the signal had completely cut off. The signal poles he had planted along the way were now covered by various fungal threads, utterly destroyed.

"This is troubling."

"What should we do, Captain Lin, should we retreat?" Luo Yang cautiously suggested.

Lin Xian shook his head, looking at the human fungi in the shadows around them, "Retreating is useless; without the tracks, we can’t leave Yijin. If those human fungi latch onto the train, no one will be able to escape."

"This group is one of the top in the global pharmaceutical field, not only financially powerful, but they also have authoritative research in genetics and cancer breakthroughs," Ding Junyi said, "According to the information revealed by this Fire Book, the fact that they can continue their research here proves they have protective measures and they must have some basic research on this fungal thread. Finding these people might help us come up with a solution."

"Makes sense!"

Lin Xian nodded immediately. Looking in the direction of the Joint Train tracks, he said in a deep voice, "Once I gather enough materials for the tracks here, we’ll head to Deep Red Pharmaceutical to check it out. If those people are still there, we either eliminate them or find a way to isolate the fungal threads through them. I have a feeling, even if we repair the tracks, it won’t be easy to leave!"

Repairing the tracks requires going through the city, and it’s a slow process, impossible to do quietly. Even with Lin Xian’s mechanical superpower to quickly manufacture tracks and allow the track laying machine to set them up, the 20-plus kilometers distance, along with clearing obstacles, makes it nearly impossible to avoid fungal attacks completely.

Realizing the current predicament, Lin Xian immediately prepared to adjust his strategy.

"You mean we should go find this pharmaceutical group and get a solution for the fungal threads from them?" Ning Jing asked.

"Is it possible that people from this organization are also watching us?" Luo Yang said at this point.

"Technically speaking, the fungal network is capable of information transmission and hunting. From a biological standpoint, the entire fungal colony can be understood as a single entity. In fact, the largest organism in the world is a fungus, so your concern is valid," Ding Junyi said. "Our train has surely been targeted by some creature in this city."

"Then we should take the initiative to attack," Lin Xian said, his expression somewhat anxious. "And we have to act fast. Once these things launch an attack on our train, we won’t have any countermeasures." He finished speaking, pointing to a heavily armored heavy-duty doomsday truck in front of them.

"This convoy wasn’t defeated by guns and artillery."

Looking at the camp of dozens of survivor vehicles wrapped in a carpet of fungal threads, with everything inside decaying, Lin Xian realized the severity of the situation. These fungal spores and human fungi posed almost no defensive measures against the Infinity, and they didn’t even dare to fire back.

Upon hearing this, Ning Jing and Luo Yang both nodded gravely.

"You’re right; with such a long train line, if a chain reaction occurs, the situation could spiral out of control immediately," Luo Yang said.

"Then let’s meet these people," Lu Xingchen said coldly, "Eliminating threats for the Human Race is a merit in itself."

Ning Jing’s eyes flickered, taking a deep breath: "I didn’t expect these things to be so difficult to deal with. It now seems much more troublesome than the Abnormal Body attacks."

"Let’s not be too pessimistic," Ding Junyi said, "At least for now, these fungal threads haven’t shown extreme aggression. As long as we remain quiet, there’s still a lot we can do."

"Mm."

At this time, Lin Xian and his group landed in the parking lot, wasting no time as he immediately began devouring the large trucks of the convoy.

[Devouring successful, Mechanical Source Point +20, Mechanical Devouring Skill Proficiency +10]

[Decomposition: Obtained High Manganese Steel *10, Hot Rolled Forging Steel *10, Cold Rolled Duplex Steel Plate *5, ordinary carbon steel *20, Non-metallic foam material, Non-metallic composite materials...]

[Devouring successful, Mechanical Source Point +15]...

As Lin Xian continued devouring, KIKI and Ding Junyi searched around the convoy and discovered that in such a large convoy, not a single corpse remained.

"How is there not a single person left?"

"They must have all turned into human fungi," Ding Junyi gazed across the vast parking lot, spotting numerous silhouettes standing densely in the surrounding darkness. They were of various shapes, with strange fungal threads growing on them, and fungal vines on their legs connecting to the ground, intertwining roots.