Others also sensed that something was amiss.
Captain Qi immediately ordered, "Leave this area immediately, don't linger. We'll talk about it outside."
They ran frantically, encountering attacks from mutated animals along the way. After leaving the mushroom forest, they removed their hoods, revealing red and festering skin.
Captain Qi calmly directed everyone to apply the special medicine.
Seeing that Sang Luoluo silent, and noticing the ulcers starting to appear on their cheeks, some areas showing white lines resembling orange peel, Sang Luoluo felt a chill of fear. "What happened to you?"
Despite the pain, Lei Qi explained, "You've been parasitized by mushroom spores?"
Sang Luoluo: "Huh? Then could it be that I... have been parasitized too?"
Sang Luoluo was still shaken. Captain Qi was tending to the parasitic flesh on her shoulder and said, "Don't panic. Do you feel any itching or redness? If so, treat it quickly."
Lei Qi chimed in, "Yes, look! It's too late. This thing will take root in the flesh, and then it'll be much more difficult to deal with."
Sang Luoluo quickly checked herself and found no discomfort, redness, swelling, or sores. She said, "I'm fine for now. I'll observe her a bit more."
Sang Luoluo watched them process the spores. In some places, roots had already started to grow, which looked particularly frightening. After applying the medicine, the roots began to wither quickly, and the skin in that area gradually became less inflamed, but it still looked very gruesome.
Sang Luoluo just wanted to leave this place as soon as possible.
He Fei suddenly became alert and started firing at a spot, shouting, "Mutant animals are attacking!"
The others looked over, and Lei Qi looked at him. "Where?"
He Fei pointed ahead and said, "It's right there. It's so big, can't you see it?"
Qi Feng's face darkened. He walked over to him and knocked him unconscious. "He's hallucinating. Everyone be careful."
Lei Qi was a little scared. "No way, I was already being careful enough."
"But, Captain, why did you suddenly become limp, and your body is even fluctuating..." Lei Qi said, before being knocked unconscious.
Sang Luoluo rubbed her eyes to make sure there was nothing unusual about what she was seeing. Not long after, Hu Tian also started hallucinating, followed by Fatty.
Whether Qi Feng knew he might be hallucinating or not, he could only ask Sang Luoluo to build a safe, simple shelter using giant logs while he was still conscious, and to set up an electric fence outside.
Then they took out the first-aid equipment. If things weren't going well, the only option was for those who were still conscious to take care of them. The exits were blocked. If everyone was infected, no one should go out until they regained consciousness. Whether they survived depended on their individual physical condition. In the wild, encountering this situation was perfectly normal. Even if the base came to rescue them now, there wasn't much else they could do. Taking them back would only mean isolation and observation, so it was better to leave them here and see if they could survive. Besides, they couldn't contact the base from here.
Qi Feng quickly noticed that what he was seeing was changing, so he simply closed his eyes and said, "I've been affected too."
After saying that, he injected the prepared hypnotic drug into his arm.
The last one was Xiao Li, who collapsed and passed out.
Sang Luoluo watched them fall one by one from the side. There was no signal in the dense forest, and her wristwatch was disconnected.
"Why are they all collapsed? What about me? Will I end up like them?"
Sang Luoluo was terribly flustered, but since she was temporarily safe, she could only grit her teeth and watch them.
The crackling sound of mutated animals being electrocuted by the electric fence could be heard outside, followed by a burnt smell.
Sang Luoluo sat on the ground, leaning against the giant tree behind her, feeling very insecure. She watched the six of them anxiously, waiting to see when her "illness" would strike.
Chapter 54 Calling for Help from the Base Reeking of garlic, I went to check it out first...
As darkness fell, they remained unconscious. The forest was terrifyingly dark, and the sounds of mutated wolves and other mutated animals echoed outside. Some calls resounded throughout the forest, while others were so eerie that they sent chills down one's spine.
In the middle of the night, Sang Luoluo drank a bowl of pork rib soup. The woods were a bit chilly at night, so she took out a blanket to cover herself and then ate a few jujubes.
She didn't throw the date pits away carelessly; she tossed them into the spatial garbage dump to be disposed of along with the other trash later.
The electric fence outside crackled and popped as mutated animals, smelling the human scent, pounced on it.
By midnight, she realized she still hadn't "sickened out" and felt perfectly fine. Could it be that she had taken proper precautions and hadn't come into contact with the spores?
That shouldn't be the case. Lei Qi all have it on their arms, and they're all wearing the same tight protective suits. Her own protective suit even has a tear. Something's not right. She felt that she shouldn't have been parasitized by the spores.
It's been too long; it should be safe now.
Thinking of this, Sang Luoluo a sigh of relief, having escaped a disaster.
In the middle of the night, I suddenly heard the sound of raindrops pattering outside. Oh no, it's raining.
A mutated animal accidentally pounced on the electric fence outside, getting electrocuted with a crackling sound.
The rain was getting heavier, and once there was standing water on the ground, it wouldn't be safe for them; they could get electrocuted.
Sang Luoluo decisively shut off the power grid.
Fortunately, there was a layer of huge logs underneath, otherwise they would have been submerged in water very soon.
In the middle of the night, Sang Luoluo yawned, but still couldn't resist dozing off for a while due to sleepiness.
It was still raining this morning, and the rainwater had reached halfway up the giant tree. Last night, the rain was so heavy that the mutated animals had all returned to their lairs and hadn't come out.
Seeing that the others were still asleep, Sang Luoluo went over and patted their faces, "Wake up? Wake up quickly! It's dawn."
I called them for ages, but I couldn't wake them up.
"It hurts, my whole body hurts so much..." Xiao Li cried out in pain as he lay unconscious.
Sang Sangluo rushed over to check on him and found that Xiao Li had started to have a fever, but it wasn't high.
Sang Luoluo quickly went to check on the others and discovered that the fat man had also started to have a fever.
This can't go on. Two people have already started to have fevers, and if this continues, they'll develop high fevers, and there's nothing she can do. There's no signal here, and we can't contact the base for rescue. We need to find a place with a signal and send a distress message to the base.
But he couldn't abandon them here to find a signal, and he didn't know when he would be back. What if other small mutated animals crawled in and ate them while he was gone?
She couldn't just wait here. If she stayed too long, the base might think she was dead, which would be troublesome. In the current situation, she had to save herself.
Taking advantage of the daylight, she decided to head back and find a place with a signal to call for help from the base.
The six of them were immediately isolated by Sang Luoluo into a spatial dimension. They were crammed into the same area, surrounded by an indistinct mist, eerily quiet, and could only move within a limited space.
After finishing all this, Sang Luoluo breathed a sigh of relief, picked up her equipment, and put away the giant log and the electric fence. The water on the ground was slowly sinking. When she was collecting the log, she found a piece of wood underneath from which mutated mushrooms were growing. She didn't know if it was spores that had drifted down from them, but the environment was suitable, so they took root and sprouted on the log.
Never mind, I'll just put them all into my spatial storage.
The heavy armor units had little power left; only one was usable, while the others were damaged to varying degrees.
Sang Luoluo was protected by an exoskeleton and was holding a laser gun. She was prone to getting lost, so she decided to return the way she came. She was quite familiar with this route; otherwise, she wouldn't be able to cope in an unfamiliar environment.
There was a motorcycle in the garage, but she was afraid of being attacked by a mutated animal if she rode it there, so she decided against it.
She hadn't walked more than a few steps when she encountered mutated flying insects. She had no choice but to shoot them. Good, she hit one out of three. The other two pounced on her. With no other option, she could only put them into her spatial storage as soon as they made contact. Although her reaction wasn't slow, the mutated flying insects still bit her, leaving a red and swollen mark on her arm that was both painful and itchy.
This won't do. My marksmanship is far inferior to Captain Qi's and the others. I didn't realize how troublesome these mutated flying insects were until I came out alone.
Don't end up killing yourself before you even get to a place with a signal.
No, we need to think of another way.
Sang Luoluo entered the space and killed the two mutated flying insects that had been pulled into it.
Sitting on the open space, Sang Luoluo found a syringe, drew up some original nutrient solution, and fed it to them one by one.
Don't let them starve to death first.
Then I went to the warehouse, looked for something usable, and found a helmet to wear.
Then she found some cotton, wrapped herself up from head to toe, and sprayed it with thick garlic water. The smell was pungent enough that flying insects should hate it. By disguising herself as garlic, she should be safer.
I could smell the strong garlic odor from head to toe; even through my helmet and mask, I could still smell it.
Sang Luoluo then left, relieved.
She vaguely remembered the direction she came from. There were still flying insects attacking her along the way, such as mutated mantises and mutated grasshoppers. She could now shoot them down. If one suddenly pounced on her, she would pull it into her space to deal with it. With the protection of her exoskeleton, she was not seriously injured despite being attacked and falling all the way. At most, she would only have some scrapes. After a good night's sleep, her wounds would be completely healed.