Chapter 304 Goodbye, Brother Huo!
“Brother Huo, where are you!”

Lin Xian’s voice rang out in the communicator. Standing on the rooftop of Yijin City, Lu Xingchen heard Lin Xian’s voice and sighed deeply. He then picked up the communicator and said, “Brother Lin, I’ve noticed some unusual movements in the city. Perhaps it’s related to the changes in the mushroom tower. This is an ominous sign. You should be prepared. This day is about to change.”

At this moment, KIKI and Lin Xian, who were in the ascending elevator, both had solemn expressions on their faces.

“What is this guy doing? Why didn’t he tell us earlier that he was parasitized by mycelium? He wants to be a hero by running away?!” Although she usually likes to tease Lu Xingchen’s middle school syndrome, when she heard the news, KIKI’s expression was full of anxiety and worry.

Lin Xian’s face was heavy: “Director Ding said that the survival cabin of the Zero Element Center has a mycelium isolation device. If we have time, perhaps this is the only way to save Brother Huo.”

“Yeah.” KIKI nodded. “He is a superpower, so he should… have more resistance than ordinary people.”

These were just her guesses, but in the current situation, there was no other way. The two of them could only risk their lives to bring Brother Huo back first.

Clang.

The vault floor opened again, and KIKI took Lin Xian with him and flew out without saying a word.

“My communication relay is only deployed near this building. He should be not far away.”

“it is good!”

The two of them flew quickly, and just as they walked out of the bank gate, the human body heat source sensing radar of Lin Xian’s Lone Wolf S power armor immediately captured the direction of the roof.

“There he is!”

Wow.

The two of them immediately climbed all the way up and soon arrived at the rooftop of the Yijin Bank building, and saw Lu Xingchen standing on the edge of the building.

At this moment, his proud expression was tinged with sadness, as if he had already prepared to sacrifice himself.

When Lu Xingchen saw Lin Xian and KIKI coming, his expression changed slightly, and he immediately raised his hand to stop them from approaching.

“Brother Lin, don’t come close. The mycelium on my body can penetrate any hole and is not afraid of fire. If I implicate you, I will die without peace.”

“Hey!”

KIKI took the lead and stepped forward, angrily scolding: “Don’t you have the lofty ambition of becoming an immortal? Why do you want to kill yourself when you encounter a problem? Why don’t you ask us, don’t you ask Director Ding? Maybe we have a solution, we still have a full-effect medical cabin!!”

“What exactly happened? How serious is it now?” Lin Xian immediately asked.

Lu Xingchen sighed slightly when he heard this, and said with his hands behind his back:

“I am not a coward. I have seen the miserable condition of people infected by mycelium. There is no cure. Rather than being covered in mycelium and rotting like a dead tree, it is better to…”

“Not as good as what?” Lin Xian frowned and said, “Just now in the Zero Element Center, there was a woman who was connected by hyphae and survived the hyphae infection. She was just an ordinary person. Could it be that you are not as good as a woman?”

“That’s right, hurry up, come back with us, Sister Ding might have a solution!” KIKI said anxiously.

Lin Xian’s words made Lu Xingchen’s eyes move slightly, but he soon said with a defiant look on his face
“No need. I checked and found that the mycelium on my body grows from my body. Even if I use my fire ability, I can’t eradicate it.”

As he spoke, he looked towards the Heaven-shading Crown in the distance and said, “I’m aware of the crisis just now. There have been unusual movements in the city. If I’m connected to the mycelium, our Infinity’s location and escape route might be discovered by that strange monster. I don’t want to see that happen, so…”

Lin Xian looked at him: “What do you want to do?”

Lu Xingchen’s eyes focused, and he said loudly: “I have a foolproof plan!”

“What foolproof plan?” KIKI frowned.

Lu Xingchen pointed at the mushroom tower and said with a heroic look in his eyes:
“Brother Lin, you can lead the convoy away without worry. When you evacuate Yijin City, I will burn the demon tower with the fire of annihilation and completely detonate the entire filthy city. This will not only attract the strange entities within a radius to help you evacuate, but also kill the fungus network that has killed hundreds of thousands of people. With the fire of my death, I will lead the sky flame to destroy the demons. Isn’t it wonderful! Hahahaha!”

Lin Xian’s expression changed when he heard this, and he looked at Lu Xingchen and said
“Have you really decided?”

“Lin Xian!” Hearing Lin Xian’s tone, KIKI thought that he was going to give up Brother Huo again like he gave up Tang Yun, and she immediately became anxious.

Lu Xingchen nodded, turned to look at Lin Xian and KIKI, then his face darkened slightly, and he spoke to Lin Xian in a rare serious tone.

“Brother Lin, this journey with you guys is the most peaceful and comfortable time I have ever had since the end of the world. No matter how many times I have encountered life-and-death situations, as long as someone needs me, I feel I am ready to die. So I am very grateful to you for letting me get on your car, treating me as a partner, respecting my habits, and even making a special tea-making machine for me…”

“To be honest.” Lu Xingchen looked at Lin Xian and said with emotion, “There is a secret that I have never told anyone else. In fact, I also escaped from the supernatural laboratory of the underground research institute in the Crimson World, just like Xiaoqing and Abai. I don’t know how many floors I was imprisoned in, maybe one hundred meters or two hundred meters underground. I also don’t remember how many days I was imprisoned. Those experiments were more terrifying to me than the end of the world. So since I escaped, I don’t want to enter any enclosed space or underground. Now… I am really going to die. I just hope that I will not be buried underground after I die. Maybe after this darkness burns out, I can still see the sun…”

Lin Xian listened with a gloomy expression. He finally understood why Lu Xingchen liked to bask in the sun, why he was unwilling to enter the underground research institute in Qingshui Town, and why he behaved so abnormally after the joint train entered the underground tunnel.

He risked his life to escape dawn alone in an RV. It turned out that he himself had escaped from the laboratory.

“Brother Lin, please apologize to Brother Lou for me. I can’t be his roommate anymore. I don’t mind the noise of him packing up his weapons at night that disturbs my sleep. Please also apologize to that girl Shasha for me. Brother Lu can’t find her a new mecha. And Captain Chen, Sister Shuqin, Director Ding…”

“And… KIKI.” Lu Xingchen said as he looked at KIKI, a stream of clearness flowing down his face. He said with a bit of unwillingness to admit defeat: “You are a formidable opponent. It is… my honor to fight alongside you, but my fire will never be defeated!”

Having said that, Lu Xingchen changed his usual demeanor of a master and began to shed tears, but he still held his chest straight with a look of determination and unyielding spirit.

When KIKI heard this, her expression was very complicated. She was about to say something, but suddenly she heard Lin Xian shouting at her in a low voice while Lu Xingchen was crying.

“KIKI, quickly restrain him!”

KIKI didn’t think twice when she heard this. The tacit understanding between her and Lin Xian had already reached 100%. The moment Lin Xian spoke, she used her supernatural power without hesitation, and then fiercely subdued Lu Xingchen who was crying not far away.

Lin Xian immediately activated his power armor, shot out on the spot, and rushed to Lu Xingchen in a few steps. Before Lu Xingchen could react, he tore off his clothes and used the power armor’s biological scanner to detect him.

Sure enough, Lu Xingchen’s entire upper body and arms were all blue and black, looking very scary!
“Brother Lin, be careful of infection, don’t get close to me!!!”

Lu Xingchen’s eyes were bloodshot and he cried out in tears.

Unexpectedly, after Lin Xian finished scanning, he looked confused, then looked at the clothes he had torn off in his hands, and was in deep thought for a long time.

“Your autumn clothes have faded, haven’t they?”

Lu Xingchen, who was crying and struggling hard to sacrifice himself, froze with tears on his face when he heard these words.

“what?”

Hearing this, KIKI also quickly jumped over, took off a piece of clothes from Lu Xingchen’s body, took a look at it, and couldn’t help frowning.

“Yeah, where did you find this autumn coat?”

“It’s the supplies we found before.” Lin Xian picked up the autumn clothes and studied it. “It should be because the underground tunnel is too humid. I reminded you yesterday, but the quality of this thing is too poor.”

“That’s right, what a tattered piece of clothing, it’s faded so badly, the whole person is dyed like a cucumber…” KIKI said as she stretched out her hand and pinched Lu Xingchen’s shoulder, and sure enough, a large piece of blue-black dye was wiped off.

“I have no choice but to wear whatever clothes I have. I remember Huo likes this one very much and thinks it looks very handsome…”

“If you are handsome, you won’t wear autumn clothes.”

“The quality is too poor, and the design isn’t that nice either…”

The two of them started to study Lu Xingchen’s autumn clothes in front of him.

At this moment, Lu Xingchen felt as if a nuclear bomb had exploded in his brain. His whole body began to turn red and hot, and he looked like he was about to split apart on the spot!
“K…KIKI, can you let me go first?” Lu Xingchen’s face was full of tears and he said in a very trembling voice.

KIKI put her hands on her hips and asked, “Why are you letting go? Are you still going to blow up that mushroom tower?”

Lu Xingchen took a deep breath and tried to salvage something with a decisive tone: “In the face of a disaster, if we want to evacuate now, for the livelihoods of these thousands of people, detonating this mushroom tower is definitely the best way!!!”

Lin Xian nodded upon hearing this and said seriously, “Good idea, but is there a way that doesn’t require sacrificing one’s life, such as… I build a time bomb?”

“That’s right!” KIKI’s eyes lit up and she immediately approved of the plan.

Lu Xingchen: “…”

……

Rumble!
For a moment, with the changes that happened to the mushroom tower that day, the mycelium carpet in the entire Yijin City seemed to be transmitting information, and in the darkness, the movements of a large number of unknown creatures began to be heard in the streets and alleys.

There were also some tall shadows that appeared and disappeared in the hazy fog. Every step caused the street to shake violently. At this time, a large amount of roaring sounds had begun to pour in from under the Yijin Bank where Lin Xian and his friends were standing.

“The strange entity is coming, and it cannot be marked with darkness!”

Seeing this, Lin Xian immediately signaled to KIKI, who immediately used her telekinesis to lift the three of them into the sky. Lin Xian’s face changed, and he found that the torrents in the darkness seemed to be rushing towards the subway entrances. He immediately thought that it was not good. It seemed that Director Ding’s guess was correct. After the mushroom tower connected to Tang Yun’s consciousness that day, it noticed the existence of Lin Xian and his group, and attracted all the monsters in Yijin City to start searching for them!

At this moment, he no longer had the energy to think about the theoretical issues involved. He only knew that if he didn’t run now, it would definitely be too late.

“Brother Shi, Teacher Chen, everyone, leave immediately!”

“Okay!” Shi Diyuan’s voice came immediately.

“Lin Xian, where are you?!” Chen Sixuan, who received the notification, immediately shouted in the communicator.

Lin Xian looked at the mushroom tower and said to KIKI, “It’s too late to go back. Let’s go and detonate the mushroom tower, and then chase the train from the air.”

KIKI nodded immediately after hearing that.

Lin Xian immediately said to Chen Sixuan: “Just run faster and we will meet you at the intersection of the Salt Marsh Canyon Scenic Railway and the main railway!”

On the Infinity, Chen Sixuan’s face suddenly changed with worry when she heard Lin Xian’s words. She gritted her teeth and said, “Okay, I understand.”

After saying that, she immediately notified Ding Junyi and others to return to the car.

Ding Junyi had already copied the information of the Zero Element Center in advance, and used a plant isolation cabin to take away some active mycelium connected to the head of the Crimson member, and then immediately returned to the car with Shuqin Building.

“Go, go, get ready to go!”

“Everyone keep quiet and do not open fire without notice.”

“Turn off the lights and remove the tunnel barriers!”

“Attention everyone, everyone must follow the Infinity’s orders!”

“!!”

Woo~
The engines of the electric locomotives began to roar, and with the coordinated output of huge power, the connected carriages began to be pulled and involved, and this 15-kilometer-long underground combined train began to start ahead of schedule!
Boom boom boom, clatter clatter.

At this time, the subway platforms everywhere, the vault outside the Zero Element Center, and the building of the Crimson Pharmaceutical Group were filled with all kinds of ferocious black shadows.

These strange creatures seemed to have received some kind of guidance and smelled something, and began to drill underground frantically!

Drop drop drop.

As the train began to roar and accelerate underground, all the mycelium carpets of the Tiangu Tower began to vibrate violently.

In the empty Zero Element Center, the lights flickered, the glass curtain wall began to shatter, and a large amount of debris fell towards the hive. In the survival capsule No. 0403, Tang Yun lay peacefully inside. The band light in her brain kept flickering and finally went out. At the last moment, she seemed to be smiling, all her breathing and heartbeat stopped, and she left this desperate world peacefully.

On the other side, high in the sky, Lin Xian and KIKI continued to accelerate towards the direction of the Tiangu Tower, dragging behind them Brother Huo, who had a frown on his face and was silent.

Lin Xian looked back. This guy was clearly alive, but inexplicably he felt as if he had been dead for a while.

After all, social death is also death. For Brother Huo, who is extremely concerned about his reputation, what happened just now was like the arrival of the Apocalypse.

However, Lin Xian and KIKI were not in the mood to laugh at him at this moment. It was quite touching that this guy confessed his true feelings before his death. Besides, the method he proposed did give Lin Xian a good plan. He could only give it a try with all his might. If he detonated the Tiangu Tower, maybe he could really buy some time for the team to evacuate!
At this time, he was flying with KIKI while constantly producing a large amount of high-energy explosives, while observing the situation on the street below.

“Lin Xian, look!” KIKI suddenly shouted at him.

Lin Xian raised his head. They were already close to the mushroom tower. This was the first time that Lin Xian saw it at such a close distance. He could not help but narrow his eyes. The mushroom tower, which was like a towering tree, was wrapped with billions of hyphae vines. The hyphae on it were like data cables, with scarlet light constantly flowing inside, and connected below were tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of human mushrooms!
From Ding Junyi’s words, Lin Xian has realized that this might be a supercomputer that uses the human brain as computing power!
What is it calculating?
What is it spying on?
The more Lin Xian thought about it, the more horrified he felt. He made a prompt decision and produced dozens of high-energy explosives. Each of these explosives was enough to blow up an armored vehicle. This was the limit of the energy conversion of Lin Xian’s mechanical manufacturing and preparation center!
Huhu~
Under the huge crown that covered the sky, countless spores were floating in the strong wind. A whistling sound of wind came from above the head. The folds under the cap looked like groups of kelp hanging upside down in the sky. Looking up, it seemed like swimming in the darkness!
An extremely oppressive feeling came over him, and Lin Xian immediately said to KIKI: “Hurry, I’ve set the time, throw it in separately!”

KIKI nodded, and immediately used his special powers to throw the time bomb made by Lin Xian to the dense root system of the mushroom tower. The three of them threw it in a full circle along the mushroom tower. At this time, some giant shadows in the city began to approach, and there were a large number of strange tentacles constantly entwined in the dark clouds in the sky.

“Okay, let’s go!”

The explosives have been placed to the limit, and whether they can be successful depends on God’s will. In order to survive, they must not be marked with darkness by the monsters, so as soon as the explosives were thrown, KIKI immediately took the two of them and flew towards the east at high speed!
“Brother Lin, do you really not need me to use the Sky Flame to detonate it?”

Lu Xingchen behind him whispered at this time.

“Need not.”

“it is good.”

“Brother Lin…”

“I won’t tell anyone else about this.”

“Thank you so much!!!”

Lu Xingchen’s expression kept changing, with anger in his eyes, he gnashed his teeth and said, “I…will never wear autumn clothes again. If I find out who the owner of the clothing factory is, I will crush him to pieces…”

“Okay, okay, what time is it now…”

KIKI glanced at him unhappily. She was angry and helpless at the moment. This guy really scared them. Fortunately, he was not really parasitized by the mycelium, which made her feel relieved.

But when she thought about his heroic state just now, crying and laughing, and it was actually because his autumn clothes faded, KIKI couldn’t help laughing in her heart. Brother Huo really lost face this time, and it was probably difficult for him to raise his head in front of her and Lin Xian from now on.

Goodbye, Brother Huo.

Hello, Zhuanglie brother.

Rumble!
The underground rail train accelerated wildly with a violent momentum and began to turn into the subway line, shuttling quickly in the former Yijin subway. The 15-kilometer-long steel stream caused a violent underground resonance. Sand and stones were flying on the streets of the entire Yijin city, sparks were flying on the subway tracks, and the dull air pressure was gushing out along the ventilation ducts!

Everyone on the Infinity was united, quietly paying attention to the situation outside the car. In the cockpit of the leading Longshan No. 1, both Shi Diyuan and Ning Jing were in charge.

On the Sun Team’s side, Li Yi and his men were comforting the children, Luo Yang and his team members all put on power armor and were ready for battle. Qian Dele, on the other hand, had a calm expression in his own carriage. This was his first time escaping by train, and he had to follow the train wherever it went. Even if he wanted to worry, he couldn’t find anything to worry about. Instead, he felt much more relaxed than the previous convoys. After all, the entire convoy was connected together in the carriages. There was no need to disperse or control the direction. He didn’t even have to consider the road conditions. If they wanted to derail, everyone would derail together.

Monica on the Queen Mo was sitting in car number one with a serious expression, monitoring all the conditions of the car and dispatching her subordinates in the rear car in a swift and decisive manner. Next to her left hand was a glass of red wine. The extremely luxurious train shock absorption system controlled the shaking in the car to be very small. The red wine in the glass was slightly bumpy and vibrating, but it did not spill. She looked at the Veyron-class at the rear of the Infinity car in front of her, as if she was thinking about something.

Soon, the combined train rushed out of the underground tunnel into the subway track out of the city, and then rushed towards an underground sightseeing track outside the city that was originally the city of Ijin.

Lin Xian, KIKI and the other two used their telekinesis shield to withstand the howling wind and flew rapidly towards the east. Along the way, they had to avoid the ground and stay away from some extremely dark places. They also did not dare to fly into the clouds, for fear of being discovered by some monster and then marked.

In this polar night, even if it was only a first-level mark, Lin Xian estimated that it was as dazzling as a guiding light above the city of Yijin.

Everyone was very nervous at this time, but fortunately KIKI’s flying speed was very fast. It wasn’t long before he began to move away from the urban area of ​​Yijin City and entered a valley. The surroundings became quiet.

“That direction is the Salt Marsh Canyon, and the track should be coming from the elevated line in the suburbs!”

KIKI pointed to the outlines of several mountains in the distance under the dark night and spoke.

“Why is it so dark over there? It gives people a demonic feeling.” Lu Xingchen said as he looked at the mountainous area in the distance of the elevated rail line.

“Everywhere is dark, and where there is darkness there is a strange body.”

Lin Xian said: “Now if the train is marked, as long as we can get out of Yijin City, we will have a chance to escape.”

KIKI nodded: “The premise is that there will be no more problems with the track, and we can directly leave the range of the polar night.”

“We stayed there shorter than expected. According to the tidal expansion rate of Star Abyss No. 5, if we move at full speed, we will reach the Western Gobi Desert in about 6-8 hours, and by then we will be not far from Quancheng.” Lin Xian analyzed at this time.

Lu Xingchen didn’t pay attention to what the two said, but continued: “I mean, isn’t the sky over there a little too dark?”

Lu Xingchen’s repeated words finally caught the attention of the two people. Lin Xian and KIKI both raised their heads and looked towards the mountains in the northeast direction. They indeed found a sharp mountain with a much darker outline than the surrounding area.

But when I looked at it carefully, I felt more and more that something was not right.

Wow!

KIKI began to slow down his flying speed, his pupils trembled, and he opened his mouth in horror and said: “Lin…Lin Xian, is that…a person?!”

Not only her, but also Lin Xian and Lu Xingchen’s expressions changed drastically at this moment.

Because they all saw that the sharp black shadow as big as a mountain seemed to have arms, and was slowly raising its feet and taking steps.

boom!
The next moment, as the black shadow took a step forward, a dull vibration radiated towards hundreds of kilometers away. In the mountains, the air trembled violently. Lin Xian only felt that a towering human-shaped mountain was waving its arms, and coming towards the three people with overwhelming power!

At the same time, in the mountains and valleys below, there were dense and strange tides and torrents that seemed to be driven forward. They crossed mountains and ridges, crushed villages and towns, and in the dark night, they surged forward like mudslides.

Corpse chaser!
(End of this chapter)