Underground waterway cleaning operation command center.
In the command tent, a liaison officer frowned as he listened to the indistinct shouting and gunshots coming from the communicator. He tried his best to figure out what was happening over there, but with the screams coming from the communicator and the signal on the display screen representing the 7th Group of the Belly Viper Squadron turning from green to red, the liaison officer knew that the two soldiers were in danger.
He quickly wrote a message and then summarized it in the message terminal so that the commander could see it first.
Similar situations are occurring in other parts of the sewer system and are showing signs of intensifying.
Inside the tent, the commander looked at the latest news reported by the various teams, his eyebrows almost twisted into one. The situation in the underground sewers was a hundred times worse than he expected. There were rats everywhere, and there were so many rats that it became a breeding ground for the anti-world fungi.
Judging from the reports from various teams, the rat population controlled by the fungus has shown signs of a major riot. Thousands of rats have emerged from different areas of the sewer system. The number is so large that the soldiers in the sewers are unable to kill them in time.
Of course, before carrying out the operation, the commander had anticipated the occurrence of similar incidents, so they had installed flamethrowers in many sewage pipes in advance.
"Switch to the panoramic view of the underground sewer." The commander shouted, and a panoramic view of the underground sewer appeared on the large screen in front of him. From the panoramic view, one can see the red spots representing the rat swarms, which are densely packed and form blood-red rivers.
These red rivers were approaching the sewage pipes of the underground waterways. It was obvious that the rats were going to invade the ground through these pipes. The commander stared at the big screen intently. When the red rivers began to enter those large sewage pipes, the commander pressed a button forcefully.
at the same time.
In the underground sewer, large groups of black rats gathered in groups and poured into a large sewage pipe like a dirty river. They were climbing up the pipe when suddenly, in front of the pipe, a red light appeared, followed by an extremely hot flame erupting from the front of the pipe.
The flames instantly rushed over the rats and sprayed out from the outlet of the underground sewer. The flames were suddenly blazing, and the rats screamed and squeaked as they were burned, but they soon died.
The rats were quickly dispersed by the flames. They scattered in all directions and were intercepted and killed by the soldiers who arrived later.
These rats parasitized by fungi have a strong desire to attack and are not afraid of death. Even if their own kind fall one by one, the rats behind them will not flinch. They rush towards the soldiers in the flames. If they are not careful, they will be climbed onto the bodies of the rats.
Then these things will start to gnaw frantically at the soldiers' protective clothing. Once they are unable to get rid of the rats, their colleagues behind them can only shoot the soldiers and then burn them together with their bodies and the rats.
On the screen at the command center, the number of soldiers who had died was presented in numbers, and the number kept jumping and increasing.
However, in the panoramic view, the red spots representing rats had decreased a lot, and they were unable to successfully invade the city through the sewage channels, which finally made the people in the command center breathe a sigh of relief.
The commander stood up and said loudly: "Let's work harder, we will complete the mission."
After the rats stopped invading the sewage pipes, the flames in the pipes finally disappeared. All the sewage pipes were burning red and even began to show signs of melting.
In the sewage pipe, a large cloud of thick smoke with a foul smell was rising along the pipe. In the thick smoke, there were floating bacterial spores smaller than dust.
These things are like tadpoles, with the mycelium at their tails constantly wriggling in the air, allowing them to rise up with the smoke.
At this time, thick smoke was floating out of many sewage outlets in the War God Castle area.
A woman waved her hands, fanning the air to disperse the thick smoke that was floating up from the ground. She coughed a few times and hurried into a residential building.
The city was in chaos today, and the woman had managed to buy some food with great difficulty. Now she just wanted to go home quickly, feed her child who had been hungry all day a good meal, and then go to bed.
She coughed as she walked, as if she was choked by the thick smoke. She felt uncomfortable in her throat, but she didn't care. She covered her mouth with her hands and let the saliva spray into her palms.
She walked up the stairs, occasionally placing her spit-stained hands on the stair railings to make herself walk faster.
She returned home, opened the door, and called out, "Susan, there's food."
A cheer rang out from the bedroom, and a little girl about eight or nine years old ran out barefoot, saying happily: "Mom, did you buy bread?"
"Yes, it wasn't easy, but I still bought it, you see."
The woman opened the bag and took out a loaf of bread that looked like a brick. "You can eat right away. Go wash your hands first."
"Okay." The little girl Susan nodded briskly, and then said, "Mom, why are your eyes red?"
"Eyes?" The woman said, "Maybe it was smoke that irritated you. It's okay. I'll go cut some bread first. We still have milk, enough for you to have a meal."
She walked into the kitchen with the bread and reached out to pull at her collar. For some reason, she felt very hot, as if there was a fire burning inside her.
She put the bread down first, turned on the faucet, put her face into the washbasin, and rinsed her face with water. Only then did she feel better.
Next she cut the bread into slices, counting more than a dozen slices. She murmured to herself, "Susan, two slices, and I'll have one. This should be enough for us tomorrow."
She carefully took out three slices of bread and placed them on two bowls, then poured a glass of milk.
As she put the rest of the milk into the cupboard, she suddenly felt a sharp pain in her head, which made her gasp and hold her head in her hands.
Only then did she realize that her forehead was terribly hot, as if she was sick and had a fever.
The woman quickly opened the medicine box next to her, found some laxatives inside, took out two pills and put them into her mouth.
At this moment, she suddenly saw that a dark blue spot had appeared on the back of her hand.
"Mom, can I eat now? I've washed my hands."
I heard my daughter's voice outside the kitchen. The little girl was in a good mood and was humming a song.
"Almost there." The woman responded, then put her hands in front of her eyes. Then she saw a tiny bulge appear on the skin in the black spot, and then a 'mushroom' that looked like it had been shrunk countless times emerged from under her skin.
"What's this?"
The woman was startled and quickly scraped it off with her hands. She just breathed a sigh of relief, but there was something similar in the black spot.
Things are popping up one after another.
She also found that not only were there black spots on the back of her hands, but dark blue spots were gradually appearing on her arms and thighs.
The woman quickly lifted up her clothes and found that large patches of acne had spread across her lower abdomen.
Her mind buzzed as she remembered today's broadcast reminding citizens that if they found bacteria in people around them, they should report it immediately and notify the Ministry of Health.
Now, could it be that what appears on my body is the flora mentioned on the radio
Why, why me!
The woman's tears suddenly welled up in her eyes. She looked outside the kitchen and saw her daughter Susan sitting obediently on a chair, shaking her head and humming a song.
At least, at least nothing should happen to Susan...
She gritted her teeth and slammed the kitchen door shut, quickly locked it, then opened the cabinet and found the tape.
She tore off the tape and stuck it on the crack of the door to avoid any gaps. Then she heard a knock on the door and heard her daughter calling out from outside: "Mom, why did you close the door, what's wrong with you?"
The woman covered her mouth and tried to keep her voice calm: "Susan, I want you to go find Uncle Henry and tell him that Mom is sick and you have to stay at his house temporarily."
"Why? I don't want to leave you, Mom. Is it because there is not enough bread? It's okay, I'll just eat one slice. No, half a slice will do. Don't chase me away." Susan cried.
The woman couldn't control her tears anymore. She choked and said, "Susan, this has nothing to do with you. It's Mom. Mom is sick, very seriously. Mom doesn't want to infect you. You have to be obedient. Go find Henry now, quickly!"
"But... "
"Go, get out of here!"
"Go!" the woman screamed.
Outside the door, the little girl was sobbing and running out while wiping her tears.
She ran down the stairs and saw a man sitting in the corner with his head in his hands. There were black and blue spots on his arms.
She ran out to the street and saw a magnetic car lose control and crash into the guardrail. Then the person in the magnetic car staggered out, with patches of black and blue bacteria growing on his face and hands.
Her face was pale as she walked along the wall. Suddenly, she heard screams from a residential building in front of her. Several people fell out of the windows and landed on the street.
Then, those people actually stood up and approached passers-by in an unnatural posture...
Susan was stunned, not knowing what was happening to the city.
City Lord's Mansion.
Huo Hanshan walked quickly towards his office and asked as soon as he entered the door: "What's the situation in the city now?"
The security minister said with sweat on his forehead, "It's terrible. For some reason, the situation in the city has suddenly worsened. A large number of residents have shown signs of being infected and parasitized. Several blocks have already fallen, and the number of parasites is increasing exponentially."
"City Lord, I suggest blocking these blocks, and then, and then..."
The security minister gritted his teeth and said, "Then we will start the cleanup."
Huo Hanshan's body trembled, and he said in a deep voice: "You mean, we should kill the residents in those blocks? Do we want to massacre our own residents?"