Illusion-Reality Boundary Mushroom
Only when the four continued walking forward were they slightly stopped by the people inside.
"Unauthorized personnel are not allowed to enter."
Lin En looked at the guard blocking his way, raised his hand and showed his badge. After seeing it, the guard did not hesitate at all and made way for him.
The furnace factory has many fuel chambers, consisting of a core main fuel chamber and several auxiliary fuel chambers. Under Lu Yuan's guidance, the four of them did not go to the core main fuel chamber, but instead headed towards an auxiliary fuel chamber on the side.
The dark gray aura stretched straight toward the auxiliary fuel room on the side in Lu Yuan's sight. Lu Yuan paused slightly in front of the door and glanced at the people beside him. Lin En and the others immediately gripped their equipment, ready to take action at any moment.
After pushing open the door and entering, you find yourself in an ordinary side combustion chamber. Several workers are currently working inside. In front of them is a huge furnace that is constantly burning, with flames glowing red-hot and waves of heat hitting you. The workers are naked, shoveling coal one scoop at a time, and on the surface, there seems to be nothing wrong.
The moment the door opened and the cold wind rushed into the room, Lu Yuan locked onto his target: a worker huddled in a corner, shirtless and wiping away sweat, looking like an ordinary person. The dark gray aura that Lu Yuan had been chasing all along clung to him.
The moment Lu Yuan's gaze met his, the man immediately realized he had been discovered. Without the slightest hesitation, he abruptly raised his hand.
The instant the man raised his hand, the entire side combustion chamber began to writhe rapidly in Lu Yuan and the others' sight, like a giant Living alchemical furnace, and the huge furnace standing in front of them also began to writhe.
As the Inscription on the ground continued to glow faintly, the rivets on the surface of the furnace were successively knocked off, the iron plates that made up the furnace body began to shift apart, and the edges were gradually rounded, until the entire furnace bulged into a bright red and round mass.
The furnace door split in two and slowly opened to both sides, Flame a giant eyeball inside. The fiery red eyeball, devoid of pupils, slowly rotated, sweeping over everyone present.
It's clear that this place has been Contamination by something.
Just as Lu Yuan was about to make his move after making all the preparations, he suddenly realized something was wrong. He was staring intently at the huge, writhing furnace, but no Gray-White Text popped up in his vision. Lu Yuan immediately realized that this was an illusion.
In reality, at the very moment everyone fell into the illusion, Baron Hawke looked bewildered as he watched as the people around him suddenly froze in place, staring blankly at the enormous furnace in front of them.
The Heretic worker whom Lu Yuan had targeted grabbed his clothes and prepared to run.
Baron Hawke would never allow it to go his way. After all, although the Dwarf called themselves great craftsmen, their fighting prowess was by no means to be underestimated.
Baron Hawke immediately sensed that the guy in front of him was only at the Third Order level. He thought to himself, "I'll just twist his head off!"
Baron Hawke pulled out a small hammer from somewhere, and in the instant he fiddled with it, the hammer became enormous, looking somewhat comical against his own body, yet it firmly blocked the man's path.
Just then, Lu Yuan suddenly snapped back to reality. The Heretic who was trying to escape also found himself blocked by the Dwarf Baron Hawke. The young man who was leading the group had also broken free from the illusion. His expression was somewhat distorted, but he quickly regained his composure and sighed, saying:
"Alas, it seems I have failed. The Holy Sovereign will favor me."
As he spoke, he stopped running away and quickly ran to the stove, pressed the huge switch, turning off the fire directly, and simultaneously destroyed the start button that had been used to turn the fire back on.
After doing all this, his body began to twist violently the next moment, and Lu Yuan just raised his hand to wake up the others beside him, bringing Lin En and the young guard out of their hallucinations.
As he roused everyone, Lu Yuan also understood why he had been hallucinating. It was because a large number of Inscription had been placed in this side combustion chamber at some point, causing anyone who entered to fall into hallucinations. However, this Inscription hallucination seemed to have a certain distance limit; if a person lay down, they might not be affected by the hallucination. This was probably why Baron Hawke was not affected.
Of course, Lu Yuan didn't say this aloud, for fear of incurring Baron Hawke's wrath.
Just as Lu Yuan pulled everyone out of their illusions, the roar of the fire in the boiler next to them went out completely. The Third Order Heretic that he had locked onto began to twist violently. His originally thin body rapidly shrank and withered inward, and his blood and Flesh collapsed inward together.
When his body collapsed down to just a layer of dry skin covering his bones, his head suddenly split open from the middle, and a huge mushroom burst out of his twisted, shriveled body.
The enormous mushroom cap that burst forth from the plant was tilted to one side, its thickness extremely uneven, one side bulging high while the other side collapsed inward, its grayish-white base covered with blackened fine lines, and the wet, shiny edges of the cap were constantly curling inward and then slowly unfolding again.
The entire mushroom was strangely twisted, its stem shriveled and thin, made up of strands of grayish-white flesh twisted together, with the dark red Flesh of the Heretic had collapsed inside slowly flowing upwards.
At its root, rows of fine teeth were continuously opening and closing, as if chanting something softly.
Just as the giant mushroom burst forth from the flesh and began to grow upwards, Lu Yuan 'Lu Yuan gaze fell upon it, and two lines of Gray-White Text popped up in his vision.
[Target detected: Illusion-Reality Boundary Mushroom (Fungus) (Special)]
[A special creature that lives at the boundary between the real and the unreal, possessing high intelligence, and is extremely afraid of Flame.]
Lu Yuan's gaze quickly swept over the Gray-White Text description. This time, the Gray-White Text popped up normally, indicating that the strange giant mushroom that had burst out of the body was real. Seeing that the description said it was extremely afraid of Flame, Lu Yuan immediately understood.
The moment the Illusion-Reality Boundary Mushroom bursts through the flesh, it begins to grow rapidly at a visible speed, causing the temperature of the surrounding hot air to drop drastically. The faster it grows, the faster the temperature in the room drops.
At the same time, visible grayish-white spores began to diffuse from its body into the air, and the air in the entire side combustion chamber became visibly turbid at a speed visible to the naked eye.