Cheng Ming wanted to nod, but he suddenly realized that his body was still frozen in stasis. He could not move at all.
"I want to make a deal with you." The girl looked at Cheng Ming with a faint, teasing smile. "Of course, you can choose to refuse."
What kind of deal? And what happens if I refuse? Cheng Ming wondered.
The girl seemed able to read Cheng Ming's thoughts. She turned to glance at the crazed people in the train car aisle and said, "If you refuse, I'll leave. Everything here will return to normal, and before long, you'll become one of them."
She had answered only Cheng Ming's second question, completely ignoring the first.
"You only need to tell me," the girl continued. "Accept or refuse?"
At the edge of the collapsed area in the Nanhua Town mine pit.
"According to the drone's measurements, the spore concentration within the collapsed area has increased by another seven percent, while the area of dispersal has expanded by 0.2 percent," Candle Dragon said. "Besides that, there's more bad news."
"What bad news?" Sun Hang crouched atop a large boulder, holding a freshly opened pack of compressed biscuits in one hand and half a bottle of mineral water in the other. He asked between mouthfuls.
"When the parasitic spores first began spreading, only animals were parasitized. But eleven hours later, plants within the collapsed area began showing signs of parasitism too," Candle Dragon said. "Look at these photos."
Candle Dragon handed over the drone's control terminal, and Yang Qiaoxi, who had arrived not long ago, leaned in as well.
The photos had been taken by the drone above the sinkhole. Several shrubs inside the collapsed area had been outlined with red dotted lines by the AI. Their surfaces were