Ji Han also squatted down and identified it again.
The silk threads on the ground are uneven in thickness, mostly white, and they are close to the ground and spreading in all directions.
Although Ji Han has never seen mycelium, he is definitely not spider silk.
Song Qian asked:
"Chen Ke, can you confirm?"
Chen Ke nodded and said:
"Absolutely, I am often called by Ding An to help with some experiments. I have seen some mycelium there, but this is the first time I have seen mycelium on this scale."
Eggplant didn't quite believe it and asked:
"Although I don't know much about this thing, it should be that mushrooms are similar, right? Where does the mycelium come from in this desert?"
Chen Ke explained:
"Since entering this city, the temperature has been much higher than outside, and it has dropped to this depth. The temperature and humidity here are completely different from those in the desert, which meets the conditions for the production of mycelium."
After hearing this, Eggplant was about to continue walking in when Song Qian stopped him and said:
"Don't go in yet. If these things turn those people into living corpses, we won't be able to protect them."
Chen Ke took out four new masks and gloves and distributed them to everyone:
"Yes, if we are dealing with these things, we must be extremely careful."
Eggplant laughed and cursed:
"Fuck, you're even wearing a fucking mask and gloves. Chen Ke, you are too careful in your life."
Ji Han also took it and put it on and said:
"It is indeed better to take precautions, but I speculate that the method of turning people into living corpses should not be inhalation, otherwise the leader of the Huns soldiers would not have been fine twice. It must have been infected through other methods. Please be careful to remove these hyphae
, let’s go in and have a look.”
The four of them held harpoons, carefully pushed aside the mycelium on the road, and slowly walked towards the cave.
Although it has been confirmed that it is hyphae, the layer after layer still looks like a coiled silk hole.
The air here is warmer and moister than outside, and the air is filled with the smell of earth.
Eggplant joked:
"It feels like walking into a vegetable greenhouse where mushrooms are grown."
The metaphor of eggplant is very appropriate every time, but when it comes to mushrooms, it reminds Ji Han.
Ji Han asked:
"Hey, Chen Ke, do you know that some mushrooms can cause hallucinations, and some can cause sudden death? What kind of white and red umbrellas? Let's lie down together after eating. Could it be these fungi or spores that cause death?
Were those Hun soldiers hallucinating? That’s why they said they encountered the undead from hell.”
"Brother Ji, I know what you are talking about, but it must be eaten. It is really impossible to cause hallucinations just by inhaling it."
The four of them didn't go far inside when they discovered that the walls of the cave began to change.
Rectangular grooves began to appear on the wall. The interior of the groove was filled with something, and a lot of white mycelium grew out of it.
Everyone stopped and walked towards the nearest groove.
Ji Han and Eggplant dug out some of the soil stuffed inside.
You can clearly see that there are many finer hyphae in the soil.
Chen Ke judged:
"These hyphae seem to be artificially cultivated, and the grooves should be filled with culture soil."
On the eggplant side, I felt that there was still a little soil turned out, so I shoveled half of it with a harpoon and turned the soil right away.
What fell out of the groove was not just soil, but also a skull.
This frightened Chen Ke who was looking at the mycelium on the ground.
After looking at the human bones and looking at the size of the groove, Ji Han said:
"This is not an ordinary culture soil, this is culture soil made from human corpses."
Chen Ke carefully picked up the skull from the ground and saw that the inside of the inner bone was covered with white hairs, which seemed to have been occupied by bacterial colonies.
Chen Ke nodded and said:
"That's true, but why do these people use corpses to cultivate these fungi?"
Ji Han scratched his head and said:
"I don't know if you have ever played a horror game. After the male protagonist died, his body was reshaped due to mold. No matter what kind of injuries he suffered, his arm was cut off, and he could put it back again, or even have his heart ripped out.
All can be resurrected.”
Chen Ke continued:
"Brother Ji, are you talking about the Hand Sanitizer God of War? I know that, but it shouldn't be like that. The living corpses we killed have not been resurrected."
Indeed, there is no answer to this question yet, and the four of them can only continue walking along the cave.
After the first groove appeared, the subsequent grooves became more dense. Both sides of the road were like sleeper cars, filled with grooves for storing corpses.
Within the groove, apart from the shapeless corpse that had turned into culture soil, it was just a large area of white mycelium.
After advancing nearly a hundred meters again, Song Qian in front suddenly stopped everyone.
Eggplant asked:
"What's wrong, Song Qian? Did you step on a landmine?"
Song Qian did not reply, but turned off the flashlight in her hand, then pointed forward and said:
"Look there."
I saw a white light shining in front of me about seven or eight meters away, and it was flashing.
The four men immediately raised their weapons and stood on guard.
Seeing that everyone was ready to deal with it, everyone carefully walked forward again.
There is still light in such a deep underground tomb. Whose Christmas tree was mailed to the wrong place?
As Ji Han and Eggplant slowly lifted off the last layer of mycelium, a strange scene appeared in front of everyone.
The front of the passage is no longer arched, but a circular space.
The surrounding walls are still grooves for storing corpse culture soil, but the density is obviously lower than outside.
In the center of the circular room, there is a hole of about half a meter.
The hole is not a regular circle, without any decoration, as if the floor was penetrated and the hole appeared accidentally.
And there are a large number of hyphae extending from the entrance of the cave.
But the difference is that those hyphae are shining white and are as thick as a thigh.
It can't be said to be mycelium, but more like a big luminous plant.
The four of them stood there, watching everything in front of them, and no one acted rashly.
It was Eggplant who broke the silence first:
"What should I say? Should I chop down this giant glowing cauliflower, or what should I do?"
Ji Han looked around and found that there seemed to be a road behind the giant colony hole, and there was also a platform over there.
Ji Han suggested:
"Don't touch this thing yet. There's still a way to go. Go and have a look. It's important to find the sacred pillar. Try not to disturb the things inside."
It doesn't matter if you kill the game and pass the level. Sneaking without letting the enemy find you is really awesome.
The four of them carefully followed Ji Han and walked along the left side of the circular tomb toward the inside.
Fortunately, there was no reaction from the giant hyphae that emerged from the cave, but just as Ji Han was about to walk into the corridor inside, he suddenly stopped.
Because he saw a man sitting on the steps of the aisle in front, wearing clothes made of cow and sheep skin, with a scimitar on his waist, sitting there in a daze, staring at the giant mycelium coming out of the hole.
The most frightening thing is that the body of the sitting man has no signs of decay.