CHAPTER 557: CHAPTER 292: THE MYCETOZOAN

"It’s this emblem!"

KIKI immediately remembered: "So the research convoy that Uncle Wu and the others encountered before was from this Deep Red Pharmaceutical?"

"It should be the Deep Red World," Ning Jing said at this time: "This isn’t Deep Red Pharmaceutical’s mark, but it’s definitely this organization."

"Director Ding, scan it, Ah Bai, see if there’s any problem?" Lin Xian gestured towards the direction of the main building and spoke to them.

"No, the fungal carpet outside is too thick; we can’t detect what’s inside at all," said Ding Junyi at this moment, and Ah Bai also shook his head.

"It’s been parasitized to this extent; are there really still any living people?" Ning Jing frowned, the entire building was wrapped in a fungal carpet, if not for the shape of the building, it had almost become a giant fungal plant, covered with various fungal spores and fungal tumors, looking altogether bizarre.

"Better safe than sorry."

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!

After Lin Xian finished speaking, he directly created two drones. He could now control them remotely; the small drones he created could be directly controlled without remote control devices. Then, Lin Xian sent the drones ahead, leading a group of people towards the inside of the main building.

High in the sky, large amounts of white feathery fungal umbrellas kept falling, accompanied by the brownish-yellow spore mist engulfing the surroundings, gradually blurring the vision. The revolving door of the main building was completely blocked by mycelium, and the automatic glass door was adhesively opened by fungi. KIKI immediately used telekinesis to grab it, tearing down the entire door with a loud crash.

"Quick, get inside, don’t touch those fungal umbrellas!"

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, just as everyone rushed into the dark main building lobby, hissing sounds started echoing from the ground behind them. Those fungal umbrellas adhered to the mycelium tumors on the building, and the white mycelium immediately began to spread. The zombie bodies wrapped inside were suddenly entangled by the mycelium as if reanimated, emitting shrill howls, with tumor-like fungal bulges constantly growing from their bodies as the skin peeled off inch by inch.

As soon as they entered the outer lobby, Lin Xian immediately created a large floodlight, illuminating the once splendid lobby, now a scene of chaos, everywhere there were human fungi, some running, some climbing, all parasitized by the mycelium, frozen in place. When the light appeared, these human fungi began to tremble and move toward the light incessantly.

"Find their laboratory, quick and decisive!"

"Okay."

Lin Xian couldn’t care if they alarmed these human fungi anymore, creating floodlights to clear the path as he went, while two drones swiftly darted through the corridors, scouting for suspicious targets.

"A pharmaceutical company like this would generally have a core laboratory, encompassing many disciplines. Finding it might take a lot of time." While following behind Lin Xian, Ding Junyi said, as the previously pristine corridors now saw fungal carpet spreading in many corner areas, with moldy signs everywhere. Using the visual system of the Black Hawk Battle Armor, she quickly captured the building’s area map. After zone detection, she said: "In Building C, you can go down through the central elevator."

Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle

An electric surge burst from Lin Xian’s palm, and the lights in the entire corridor flickered in the direction of the squad’s advance, forming a temporary lighting system.

The deeper they went, the more the parasitic mycelium roots increased, with some corridors completely overtaken.

Bang!

Ning Jing punched through a wall of fungal roots, clearing the path. To avoid causing explosions, the task of clearing the path had to be left to Ning Jing and KIKI, as both Ah Bai and Brother Huo’s superpowers were flammable and explosive. They could only follow silently at this time.

"Something’s coming!"

At this moment, Ah Bai and Ding Junyi almost said simultaneously.

Lin Xian and the others immediately halted. At that moment, they were passing through a narrow corridor; with Lin Xian’s mechanical superpower active, only one area was brightly lit, while the other areas were hidden in fungus and darkness.

Clicks, clicks—

The rapid climbing sound kept echoing in the silent corridor. Lu Xingchen immediately prepared to unleash his power with a clenched fist, but in the next moment was stopped by Lin Xian raising his hand.

"Don’t act rashly, the mycelium is everywhere here; if we ignite it, none of us will get away."

"Let me," Ning Jing stepped forward, eyes fixed on the darkness ahead. Only she and KIKI were more suited to act in this squad. At this moment, hearing something quickly approaching from the darkness, she immediately clenched her fist tight.

But just as the sound was about to break through the darkness, it suddenly came to an abrupt stop, leaving the corridor in silence, with only the continuously twisting mycelium under the lights.

"Did it run off?"

Gurgle, gurgle.

At that moment, a rolling sound echoed from behind. Lin Xian swung his hand, and the two drones flew out towards the darkness in front and back. Soon, everyone saw the source of the sound, only to find a mass of human fungal heads rolling in from the distant corridor, each face bluish and decayed, entwined with mycelium, presenting an extremely terrifying sight!

"Run!"

Lin Xian immediately led everyone forward. The drone lights attracted a large group of fungal heads and joint-twisting human fungi converging inside the building, but fortunately, these things were relatively slow, posing no significant threat to everyone.

Just as the group prepared to cross a laboratory area, Luo Yang, while running, suddenly saw a shadow quickly approaching him from a corridor to his side!