Tie Ge grabbed Wei Bin by the collar. "Why didn't you say so earlier!"
"I didn't get the chance before you all got so excited." Wei Bin looked innocent. "Besides, would you have stopped eating if I'd told you?"
"We can treat these as emergency rations. If there's no food on the next ten floors, these mushrooms might keep us going for a while."
"But the mushrooms grew by absorbing nutrients from corpses!" Tie Ge said with a look of disgust. "Are they even edible?!"
Wei Bin pried his hand off. "I've told you now. Whether you eat them is up to you."
The floor fell silent for a few seconds. Then Kang Hong threw away his mushroom and said, "I think I'll stick to drinking water."
Some people gave up the mushrooms in their hands, but others picked a few up voluntarily.
"Let's look around first," Xu Huo said to Jiang Yihua and the others.
The mushrooms, including the white filaments, weren't aggressive. The freshly broken filaments were highly sticky, but fell off on their own after ten minutes or so. The loose filaments slowly blended into the "nutrient jelly," where they were converted into nourishment for other mushrooms.
"If these mushrooms can't kill people, then how did the ones downstairs..." Jiang Yihua thought of a possibility and couldn't help gagging.
"There's something down here." Da Zhi, who was crouched nearby clearing away mushrooms, suddenly turned around and called out.
Xu Huo walked over in a few strides and saw him cutting open the jelly and pulling out a notebook.
The corpse beside the notebook had already dissolved. Other than the notebook, a pen and scraps of white fabric floated nearby.
"Hurry and see what it says," Jiang Yihua urged.
Xu Huo opened the notebook. The writing on the