"I... I..."
Ye Feng, who had almost kissed Ling Xi's cheek, turned beet red with embarrassment.
It was fine when Ling Xi had her eyes closed before, but now that she opened them, their eyes met instantly.
They were still so close that they could even feel each other's breath...
"I... I was just about to help you..."
"You... You got out of the hallucination? Are you back to normal? How did you do it?"
Caught off guard, Ye Feng unleashed a barrage of surprised questions.
"Uh... it was the angel's power..."
"How did you recover from the hallucination?"
Ling Xi was slightly taken aback, her beautiful eyes filled with surprise.
"You should put this on first~"
Saying that, Ye Feng handed Ling Xi a gas mask and stepped away from her.
The previous posture was indeed unsightly. Ye Feng had spread his legs, half-squatting, and stood somewhat awkwardly in front of Ling Xi, who was sitting in the driver's seat.
He was so close to her, he could even smell the faint fragrance emanating from her...
"Okay!~"
Ling Xi took the gas mask decisively and put it on quickly.
After putting on the gas mask, Ling Xi's usually calm and composed, beautiful face instantly turned red...
"Ling Xi, Xiao Xiao, it's like this..."
...
After a long while, Ye Feng finally managed to explain the matter of the hallucinogenic mushroom spores.
Ling Xi was okay, but Xiao Xiao listened with a sense of lingering fear...
"Ah, big brother, your thigh is bleeding!~"
Suddenly, Xiao Xiao's voice rang out.
"What thigh bleeding, that was just a hallucination..."
"I'm fine..."
Ye Feng's face changed midway through his sentence.
Because he felt a burning pain in his thigh.
He looked down and saw a bleeding wound on his thigh.
"I was too rushed just now and didn't notice?"
Ye Feng muttered, immediately taking out bandages and iodine, disinfecting himself, and then bandaging it up.
Afterward, Ye Feng looked around and found nothing in the Hummer that could have caused the scratch on his thigh, nor on the roof.
As for the Tang saber, he had checked it carefully, and it wasn't it either...
"The wound is a bit strange, it doesn't look like it was cut by anything sharp!"
Ye Feng frowned.
Because a normal sharp object would cause a wound from the outside in.
But the wound on his thigh was from the inside out, and the wound was exceptionally flat, without any deviation, as if it had split open naturally...
"Ugh~ Ah!~"
Suddenly, a scream interrupted Ye Feng's thoughts.
Ye Feng turned his head and saw someone standing by the car, trapped in a hallucination, clutching his neck and screaming.
"Hmm? What's going on?"
Ye Feng quickly opened the car door and went down to check.
Ye Feng had noticed the person at the car spraying blood from their neck and screaming for a long time; they had been standing still.
Although they were in a hallucination, they hadn't acted impulsively, so why was their neck suddenly spraying blood?
"Ugh... Hiss!~..."
A few steps after Ye Feng took, a pained voice rang out.
It was another explorer who had been standing still; his throat and carotid artery had split open without any warning, and blood had spurted several meters.
It was as if he had been instantly throat-slashed by an extremely sharp blade...
"Ah!~"
"Pfft!~"
"Ah~"
"Sizzle~..."
"Riiip~"
...
Then, screams, tearing sounds, and muffled explosions continued to erupt.
Those who had fallen into hallucinations earlier and stood quietly without any impulsive behavior underwent a strange and rapid change.
Some had their eyeballs explode, some had their carotid arteries split open instantly...
Some had smoke rising from their faces without any warning, as if corroded by sulfuric acid, while others had countless wounds, large and small, on their bodies, as if cut by a scalpel...
For a moment, the survivors who had been standing quietly let out various piercing screams and fell to the ground...
"This... Is this also caused by the hallucinogenic mushroom spore hallucination?"
"What happens in your own fearful hallucination also happens in reality?"
"This is too absurd!"
Ye Feng's heart was struck with terror, and he looked down at his own thigh.
If this were the case, then the wound on his thigh could be explained!
"Big brother, over there... so... so many white mushrooms are turning red!~"
At this moment, Xiao Xiao, who had walked to Ye Feng's side, pointed in a direction and said in surprise.
Ye Feng turned his head and saw that on a inconspicuous lawn, a large patch of originally white and earth-yellow mushrooms was gradually turning red.
And not only that, but the area where he was located was also covered with white mushrooms.
"Beep~ Hint: Hallucinogenic mushrooms detected, location..."
As soon as the system prompt sounded, the white mushrooms that had just grown next to Ye Feng also began to turn red rapidly.
"This... These hallucinogenic mushrooms absorbed blood?!"
Ye Feng's face changed slightly.
"Xiao Xiao, go back to the car first, we're leaving here immediately!"
After speaking, Ye Feng took out a large glass jar from his spatial storage and quickly ran towards the patch of eerily red hallucinogenic mushrooms.
Before long, Ye Feng returned to the Hummer, carrying a large glass jar filled with hallucinogenic mushrooms.
Although this thing was very dangerous, it was a killer weapon that could catch enemies off guard!
And it did so without shedding blood...
...
The three of them drove for a long distance wearing gas masks.
After confirming they had left the area with the hallucinogenic mushrooms, Ye Feng asked Ling Xi to stop.
The three found a place and sprayed themselves and the Hummer with medical alcohol to remove any possible hallucinogenic mushroom spores on them.
Although these hallucinogenic mushroom spores were terrifying, they were essentially a type of fungus, and disinfection with medical alcohol would be fine...
"Fortunately, every time I bought supplies from the [Shop] before, I bought as much as my survival coins allowed~"
"Otherwise, I might not have had enough alcohol~"
Sitting in the Hummer, smelling the strong scent of medical alcohol, Ye Feng couldn't help but mutter.
"Big brother, why are you carrying such a dangerous thing?"
Xiao Xiao asked Ye Feng, who was holding a large glass jar of red mushrooms.
Ye Feng had told her and Ling Xi before that it was a hallucinogenic mushroom, a very dangerous thing, and she was somewhat worried.
"Although this thing is very dangerous, it might be useful when encountering enemies~"
Saying that, Ye Feng sprayed another layer of alcohol on the large glass jar, put it into a sponge bag, and then specifically placed it in a spatial rift fragment.
He dared not put it directly in his spatial warehouse; if it broke accidentally when he took something out, it would be a big trouble...
It was already evening.
The somewhat tired three found a place to rest, planning to set off again the next day.
...
The next day,
After eating a steaming hot breakfast, Ye Feng, Ling Xi, and Xiao Xiao set off again.
"Big brother, there are so many fewer people~"
After the Hummer had driven for a while, Xiao Xiao, who was observing their surroundings with binoculars, said.
"Indeed!~"
Ye Feng nodded, "But it's not necessarily that the number of people has decreased!"
"Yesterday's thick fog, plus so many skeleton spiders, many people probably just wanted to rush out and didn't pay much attention to direction~"
"Perhaps everyone is just on different roads now~"
He paused, and Ye Feng added.
"That makes sense~"
Saying that, Xiao Xiao looked down at the map she had drawn in Little Chicken Town earlier.
There were many new markings and symbols on the map.
It was the traces of Xiao Xiao correcting the map based on the intelligence she had gathered at the Firefly Outpost during this period.
...
"Big brother, there's a very beautiful white horse over there?"
When the three arrived at a sparse broad-leaved forest, Xiao Xiao pointed straight ahead and exclaimed.