Immediately, he became lighter, sinking and floating in the air. The sunlight shining in from the window turned into mighty sea water, and the papers and notebooks on the table were soaked into a white ball.

An Zhe blinked. He didn't feel uncomfortable, but he felt that all movements became very, very slow and erratic. He couldn't control his body, as if he was flying up or about to fall.

And then - the world in front of him gradually turned black, and he completely lost consciousness.

He woke up from the cold - when he raised his eyes and woke up, he found that the endless gray buildings outside the window were soaked in the golden and red afterglow of the sunset. It had been at least seven or eight hours before he fell asleep - or passed out.

, it turns out that the toxicity of his hyphae is to make people sleepy.

In the evening, the temperature in the room dropped a lot compared to the day. Anzhe lay back on the bed and wrapped himself in the quilt, which restored the temperature. But after the numbness caused by the cold dissipated, he was hungry again.

An Zhe would rather use mushrooms to absorb nutrients, but along the way, he didn't find even a piece of moist soil in the entire base. He could only eat. Humans are very troublesome creatures. He frowned.

Fortunately, Anze's remaining memories told him where to eat. The base is divided into eight districts. Districts 6, 7, and 8 are the main living areas. Here, each building is a community, and the first floor is the lobby.

Water and food are provided regularly every day. Children under the age of 16 have a free quota, while adults over the age of 16 need to swipe their card to pay in base currency. The currency unit is the letter r.

There weren't many people in the hall. Looking over, there were about fifty. There were only two windows selling food. One was pureed food made from the tubers of a certain plant, and the other was... the same plant tubers that were cooked.

soup, he searched in his memory and vaguely remembered that this plant was called potato.

Pay by Anzhe card.

Mashed potatoes, price 0.5, balance 9.5.

Potato soup, price 0.3, balance 9.2.

Anzhe stared at the number representing the balance in the card and realized that he would be on the verge of starving to death in a few days. This feeling was like a mushroom taking root in a dry soil and facing death at any time.

——This feeling became more obvious when he returned to the fifth floor after eating and spent 0.1r to collect water in the public water room.

So he added one more thing to do, find a source of income.

After tightening the standard stainless steel bottle cap, An Zhe held it in his hand and was about to turn around when a voice suddenly sounded behind him.

"Anze?"

The sound was loud, trembling, and echoed in the small space.

An Zhe turned around.

Standing in the corridor was a young man, tall and handsome. At this moment, the man was looking at him with his eyes wide open and his lips trembling. It was difficult to tell whether his expression was joy or shock.

"Anze?" He shouted again: "You...are back? You're not -"

At this point, he suddenly became speechless and his face turned blue, as if he didn't know how to continue.

But Anzhe knew what he wanted to say, because he knew this person, his name was Qiao Xi.

Qiaoxi is Anze's neighbor and friend. They grew up together. Sometimes, Qiaoxi would take care of Anze, and more often, Anze would take care of him - those speckled remaining memories appeared in front of Anze's eyes.

But his understanding of Qiao Xi did not come entirely from Anze's memories. He had met this man when he was a mushroom. What he saw and Anze's memories combined just completed the true cause of Anze's death.

Anze is a man who makes a living by writing. His job is to write some novels, essays or poems for people's entertainment and submit them to the base. The base will regularly publish such pamphlets to people. However, just three months ago,

, in order to save increasingly tight manpower and resources, the base eliminated this department.

At that time——

"Anze, what are you reading?" Qiao Xi asked.

"I want to prepare for the selection exam for the base supply station," Anze drew circles on the book with a pen. "I think I will like the work content there and the salary is good."

Josie frowned.

"Do you want to break away from your civilian status?" he asked: "The exam is very difficult."

Anze said: "It's okay."

"Anze," his tone became stern, "you always knew that I wanted to go to the wild with you."

Anze smiled, and his tone was very light, as if he was coaxing this wayward friend, but also like a helpless sigh: "I am not suitable to go outside."

"I'll protect you." Josie put her arms around his shoulders and softened her voice: "I can't live without you. Follow me to the wild. We won't go to dangerous places."

The fragments in his memory were roughly like this. In the end, under Josie's hard work, Anze agreed to go on an adventure in the wild with him. Josie was a member of a large mercenary team. He had made many meritorious deeds and was very successful.

After everything went smoothly, Anze was introduced and was responsible for the distribution and statistics of materials.

But in the wild, anything can happen. On that day, the convoy lost its way and drove into the edge of the abyss. By the time they discovered that there were an unusually large number of mushrooms here, it was already too late. The monsters in the abyss would not let go.

Any food that comes to your mouth.

For humans, even the edge of the abyss is terrifying. Three of the five armored vehicles were damaged, and the people on those three vehicles panicked and moved to the intact armored vehicles. When escaping, Anze pushed Qiao Xi.

He barely escaped the attack of the winged monster in the air, but Anze was tripped by the vines on the ground.

Josie was stunned for a second. After this second, his survival instinct overcame everything else. Between pulling Anze up and escaping for his own life, he chose the latter. He gritted his teeth and ran forward, and was pulled into the armored vehicle by the captain -

-At this moment, Anze looked at their figures, and his chest was heavily penetrated by the monster's bone spurs.

The mercenary team used the heaviest firepower to start a fierce battle with the monsters, fighting and retreating at the same time. They made too much noise and woke up An Zhe midway - he came out to look for spores, but every time he came up empty-handed

But when he returned, this time he was an exception. Taking advantage of the fierce fighting there, he quietly picked up Anze and took him back to the deep cave.

So at this moment, facing Qiao Xi, An Zhe had nothing to say. When facing death, the first reaction of any living thing is to escape. Qiao Xi did nothing wrong, but he didn't like him.

"You...don't look like you anymore." Josie's Adam's apple rolled hard: "Your injury is healed? Have you escaped from the abyss?"

Anzhe just looked at him calmly.

"No, you are not Anze." Qiao Xi took a step back suddenly, his face turned pale: "You are a mutant."
Chapter completed!