Chapter 121 Mycelium Growing on Corpses

"Mycelium?"

Ji Han also squatted down to identify 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 from his place, but this is the first time I have seen it on this scale."

Eggplant didn't quite believe it and asked:

"Although I don't know much about this thing, it should be similar to mushrooms, 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 growth of mycelium."

After hearing this, Eggplant was about to continue walking in, but 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 mask and gloves. You, Chen Ke, are too careful."

Ji Han also took it and put it on and said:

"It is true that protection should be taken, but I speculate that the method of turning people into living corpses should not be inhalation, otherwise the leader of the Hun soldiers would not have been fine twice after coming down. It must have been infected through other methods. Please be careful to remove these hyphae , let’s go in and take 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 layers still look like coiled holes.

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, such as those with white and red umbrellas? Let's lie down together after eating them. 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 grooves were filled with something, and a lot of white mycelium grew out of them.

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.

Ji Han judged:

"These hyphae seem to be artificially cultivated, and the grooves seem to 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 over the soil directly.

And 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.

When he saw that someone's bones were turned out and the size of the groove, Ji Han guessed:

"This is not an ordinary culture soil, this is 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 grow 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 injuries he suffered later, he could put his arms back after they were cut off, or even if his heart was ripped out. resurrection."

Chen Ke continued:

"Brother Ji, this is not the same as the Hand Sanitizer God of War. Look at the living corpses we killed, but we didn't see any resurrection."

Since there was no answer to this question for a while, the four of them could only continue walking along the cave.

However, 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, there was no visible corpse, except for the culture soil that had been turned into a large area of ​​white mycelium.

After the four of them advanced nearly a hundred meters, Song Qian in front suddenly stopped them.

Ji Han asked:

"What's wrong?"

Song Qian did not reply, but turned off the flashlight in her hand, then pointed forward and said:

"Brother Han, look over there."

I saw a faint white light shining in front of me, about seven or eight meters away, and it was flashing.

The four people immediately raised their weapons and stood on guard.

There is still light in such a deep underground tomb. Someone's Christmas tree can't be mailed to the wrong place, right?

As Ji Han and Eggplant slowly lifted off the last layer of mycelium, a strange sight appeared in front of everyone.

The front of the passage is no longer arched, but a circular tomb.

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 is a hole nearly one meter wide.

The hole was not a regular circle, and there was no decoration. It was like a hole that appeared unexpectedly when the floor was punched through.

And a large number of hyphae extended from the hole.

Unlike what I just saw, these hyphae were all shining white, and they were as thick as thighs.

Ji Han thought that it could not be called hyphae, but more like a large plant that glowed.

The four people stood there, looking at everything in front of them, and no one acted rashly.

It was Eggplant who broke the silence first:

"Chen Ke, is this still hyphae? Is this a giant glowing cauliflower?"

Chen Ke nodded and said:

"I have never seen such exaggerated hyphae."

Ji Han looked around and found that there seemed to be a road behind this giant colony hole, and there was a platform there.

So he suggested:

"Don't move this thing first, there is still a road behind, let's go over and take a look, it's important to find the pillar, try not to disturb the things inside."

It's nothing to kill and pass the game, sneaking without being discovered by the enemy is really amazing.

The four of them followed Ji Han carefully, walked along the left side of the circular tomb, bypassed the giant mycelium in the middle, and walked inside.

Fortunately, the giant mycelium that emerged from the cave did not react, but Ji Han stopped immediately when he was about to walk into the aisle inside.

Because he saw a person sitting on the steps in the aisle in front.

He was wearing clothes made of cow and sheep skin, with disheveled hair and a scimitar on his waist. He seemed to be a Xiongnu soldier.

He sat on the steps of the aisle blankly, staring at the giant mycelium that emerged from the cave with his head raised.

What surprised people the most was that the body of the Xiongnu soldier sitting there was not rotten at all.