An Zhe walked away for a long time.

After many nights and days, the distance he moved on the map was only as wide as the nail of a human little finger, but it was still as long as a whole finger from the northern base. He did not have human transportation, so he didn’t know what happened.

How long will it take to get there.

Finally, he smelled the damp and dark atmosphere gradually disappearing, and felt that the soil under his feet finally became harder and harder.

In the evening, the sun sank like a crimson eye, and the continuous black mountains in the distance accepted it like eyelids. The sunlight gradually disappeared, and twilight and aurora emerged together. An Zhe struggled to identify the writing and symbols on the map.

The dry river he just walked past is the boundary of the "Abyss". Behind this boundary is a place called "Plain No. 2". Plain No. 2 has a three-star danger level and a two-star pollution level. It is home to large arthropod monsters and

Rodents, no longer covered with mushrooms, dominated by ordinary low shrubs.

Indeed, the undulating terrain in the abyss, the ubiquitous rift valleys, and the entangled shadows of tall trees in the late night are all gone here. This place has a wide view and an unobstructed view of the scene - flat and endless twilight.

But Anzhe felt uneasy.

The dry air in Plain No. 2 did not seem to be suitable for mushrooms to survive. He could not find soil to absorb nutrients, so he could only use human methods to restore physical strength, such as sleeping.

So he walked for a long time and finally found a slightly sunken depression with scattered green and yellow grass growing on it. He sat down with his knees in his arms and found a suitable posture to curl up.

A mushroom spends most of his life sleeping, but this is the first time he has slept in a human posture.

The sleep of a mushroom is to stay quietly in one place, waiting for the passage of time, but the sleep of humans seems to be different. Soon after closing his eyes, the boundless darkness came up like a tide, and his body became lighter, or in other words

He seemed to be gradually losing his body.

He didn't know at what moment, the whistling sound of wind sounded in his ears - it was the sound of wind in the wilderness, his favorite thing in the past.

But those wind sounds have no meaning now, it has lost its spores - when it is rolling in a favorite wilderness. Human voices will be heard in the wind sounds. He can't remember those syllables clearly, he can only think of them.

A very small part, if translated into human language, there are also fragments of words that cannot be pieced together——

"Very...strange, very..."

"……how?"

"Take... here... a sample."

The next moment, an indescribable pain radiated throughout his body. The feeling was light, but deep. A hole appeared in his consciousness that could never, never be filled. He knew that he had lost everything since then.

The most important thing.

——Fear spread throughout his body in an instant. From then on, he began to be afraid of the sound of wind and lived in a cave.

My heart was beating loudly, and a sudden fear came over me - the fear of losing spores.

An Zhe opened his eyes suddenly, and he immediately realized that he was dreaming. Only humans can dream. The next moment, his breathing stopped completely.

He knew the source of that fear - a black creature standing in front of him.

Two blood-red compound eyes shone faintly, An Zhe's whole body tensed up, and his gaze moved downwards. It was huge - as long as an adult human, with three pairs of thin and sharp sickle-shaped forelimbs shining with a cold color like moonlight.

After realizing what it was, his body trembled, a distant feeling, a tremor from the first ancestor thousands of years ago - the mushroom would die from the bites of a group of termites.

The beasts in the "Abyss" may disdain mushrooms, but the arthropod monsters in the Second Plains may regard mushrooms as a rare delicacy.

As soon as this idea appeared, An Zhe subconsciously rolled to the side!

There was a dull sound that even shook the ground, and the sharp forelimbs of the arthropod monster plunged into the soil beside him - the place where he had just been lying.

An Zhe quickly grabbed his backpack, stood up, and ran towards the bushes not far away. The dense footsteps of the arthropod monsters rang in his ears. When the sound became quieter, An Zhe looked back. Under the aurora, he finally

See the whole thing clearly - a giant black monster, like an ant magnified thousands of times.

Fortunately, the body of this thing seems too bulky, and humans can run faster than it. As long as it runs into the bushes ahead——

He fell.

At this moment, he was enveloped by the shadow cast by the monster, and with the sharp sound of wind, the thing's forelimbs slashed towards his arm.

An Zhe's sleeves suddenly became empty, and the fabric hung softly, but it didn't cut anything.

This seemed to be beyond the monster's expectation, and it paused.

At the same time, the mycelium spread and grew again in An Zhe's sleeve, forming a complete human arm again.

He rolled down on the spot, narrowly avoiding the monster's next blow, and then used his arms to support the ground and threw himself into the low shrubs. Two thick shrubs blocked his body.

But this was not enough for him to escape the monster's eyes. Anzhe took a few quick breaths. His body began to change at this moment. The outlines of his arms, fingers and all other limbs were blurred, and there was something underneath.

Surging, changing the direction of the hyphae, preparing to escape in a more flexible way.

At this moment——

"boom!"

A white light flashed through the air and hit the joint connecting the monster's head and abdomen like a meteor.

After the dull impact sounded, white light exploded silently, mixed with red firelight.

An Zhe crouched in the bushes and watched helplessly as the huge thing broke into two pieces in the middle and fell to the ground with a bang.

The leaves of the shrubs were shaken and rustled, falling all over An Zhe. The monster's head landed less than half a meter away from him, with its blood-red compound eyes still looking in his direction.

An Zhe had seen a creature in the "Abyss" that was cut into three parts, each of which could still move. He was about to get up and stay away from the thing, when he suddenly heard another sound not far away.

"The last uranium bomb is gone. After picking up the body, we will return to the base." A man's voice had a very thick tone.

"Arthropod shells are not cheap. I didn't expect to get a handful in the end." The other man's voice was a bit thinner than the previous one.

After a brief conversation, they stopped talking, and the sound of footsteps came over, the sound of thick-soled leather boots on the sand, mixed with the sound of rustling friction.

--Humanity.

After Anze's death, Anzhe hadn't seen a human being for a long time. He quietly raised his head from the bushes.

The bushes rustled. The man who spoke first was heard shouting "Alert!"

The next second, three black guns were pointed at him.

Anzhe looked at them.

He inevitably recalled the chaotic memory of the night when he lost the spores, but Anze's existence allowed him to see the kind and friendly characteristics of human beings. He thought about his current situation and said: "Hello... hello."

Under the illumination of the aurora, the scene in front of him was clear. They were three human beings in dark gray clothes. They were all men. They wore wide brown belts around their waists with magazines tied to them. The man standing in the middle was tall, and the other

The two are slightly shorter.

The man in the middle was the one who first said "the last uranium bomb". His voice was very calm: "Human?"

An Zhe hesitated for a moment, then remembered the weapon that cut the monster in half, and said, "Yes."

"What's your name? What's your ID number? Where are your teammates?"

"An Zhe, 3261170514, lost."

The man frowned and stared down at him. His eyebrows were thick, his eyes were black and white, his nose was high, and his lips were thick. The combination of these facial features did not make An Zhe feel as dangerous as those beasts in the abyss.

He pursed his lips and looked back.

Three seconds later, another man next to the man - a short dark-skinned man loaded the gun again with a click, full of threats. He looked at him, his voice was low and he spoke quickly: "Clothes

Take it off."

Anzhe stood up from the bushes, unbuttoned the first button of his gray shirt, and then the second button, revealing the skin at the collar. His skin was a smooth milky white, a bit like his bacteria.

Silk color.

The next moment he heard a third man whistle. He was a man with pale and red skin and yellow hair. There were many wrinkles on his face, which meant human aging. His eyes were grey-blue, and the corners of his eyes were raised.

Looking straight at him,

An Zhe lowered his head, unbuttoned the remaining buttons, and took off his shirt.

The man with gray and blue eyes approached him, whistled a second time, and began to look him up and down.

This man's eyes were very sticky, like the saliva of animals in the abyss. After looking at An Zhe once, he walked around to his side again.

The next moment, An Zhe's wrist was caught by him. His fingers rubbed the skin of An Zhe's wrist, his thumb rubbed his wrist bones, and he asked in a slightly high-pitched voice: "What is this?"

An Zhe looked down at the back of his hand and wrist. There were some messy and irregular red marks on them. They were scratched by the bushes just now to avoid the monster's attack. He turned his head and pointed to the bushes behind him with his eyes: "Leaves

.”

There was a brief silence next. After a while, the man smacked his lips and said, "Do you want to take off the rest yourself, or should I take it off for you?"

An Zhe didn't move.

He probably knew what they were doing, there was a similar scene in Anze's memory.

Genetic contamination occurs between monsters and between humans and monsters. The initial way to confirm whether a stranger is contaminated is to check whether there are any wounds on his body.

But the person behind him made him feel uncomfortable. When he was a mushroom, the feeling of snakes swimming across his stipe and cap was like this.

So he looked up at the man in the center. He had seen many ferocious beasts in the abyss and could roughly judge their danger. Now, he intuitively felt that this man was the least aggressive among the three.

"Huo Sen." After a brief look at each other, the man spoke again with a deep voice: "Don't get sick in the wild."

Huo Sen sneered and looked at An Zhe more wildly.

Three seconds later, the man said to An Zhe: "Follow me to the back."

An Zhe followed the man obediently around to the back of the monster's head. There were indeed no wounds on his body except for scratches from bush branches and leaves.
To be continued...