Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

Chapter 515 [Chapter Hidden in the Abyss] 59: The End of Mushroom City

The fire flooded the entire city like a tsunami, and those seemingly fragile moss-like strains attached to the branches and roots of the plants were submerged in the fire and turned into fly ash in the blink of an eye.

As a puny carbon-based organism, fire is deadly to strain spores.

Chen Yan's "foot", that is, the location of the [door frame] of the [crack], has not yet been covered by the fire.

What surprised Chen Yan was that the location of the [door frame] was actually in the center of a building that looked like an "altar".

He "raised" his field of vision, and saw that the entire altar was in an irregular ring shape. The whole altar was outlined by countless low ring-shaped "gullies". In the middle, but kept moving in the gully.

The bacterial strains in the dozens of ring-shaped gullies are constantly moving, clockwise or counterclockwise. Their movement seems to provide energy to the entire altar and maintain the stability of the [crack].

The next moment after seeing this scene, Chen Yan suddenly realized:

'This altar maintains the operation of the [Gap], and it is used for the same purpose as the power supply device in the laboratory of the Rice University Research Institute. '

Around the altar, there are some guys who look like researchers and priests. They have lost their lives due to the war, fell into the altar, and were crushed by the circular groove on the altar like a meat grinder, becoming an altar a part of.

Chen Yan noticed an incredible phenomenon:
'The laboratory of the Rice University Research Institute started experiments on the [Gap], and the Calamity World also used altars to stabilize the [Gap] as a portal. Did the two start at the same time? '

'This is too much of a coincidence... The zombie boy with the stainless steel rice bowl on his head said before——[Liu Jiaxian]'s plastic dolls failed the experiment, and a [Gap] leading to other worlds will open. Appearing in every corner of the city and outside the city from time to time...' (Chapter 498)
'According to the previous situation, when the director was experimenting with the [Crack], at the same time, on the side of the natural disaster world, a certain force named [Liu Jiaxian] was also conducting a certain kind of opening [ Crack] experiment. '

Chen Yan came to an incredible conclusion:

'That is to say, the [rift] on the side of the Mida Laboratory and the [rift] on the side of the natural disaster world are likely to be opened at the same time, so it is possible to travel between the two worlds through the [rift]! '

'But... how is it possible?How could such a coincidence happen? '

With confusion in his head he began to think wildly:
'Perhaps... in the case of an infinite universe, [the same rift will be opened by different life forms at the same time] this kind of coincidence is indeed possible. '

He looked at the location of the [crack].

Chen Changsheng and the others hadn't come over yet, but Chen Yan had already passed through the [crack], and saw the fire on the other side of the [crack], as well as the black shadow in the fire.

'That shadow is Daxor. '

'Chen Changsheng and his classmates haven't come here yet, they are probably passing through the [wilderness]. '

'Then, my previous guess is valid, and the correct order to pass through the [Gap] is indeed: [World 1] → [Wildness] → [World 2]. '

'It's just that you can't see the existence of [wilderness] just from the position where [crack] exists.

Only after entering the [Crack], can one see the wilderness equivalent to the 'passage'. '

At this point, Chen Yan's understanding of the relationship between [Gap] and [Wildness] finally became clear.

At this time, the strains in the gully above the altar had already felt the temperature of the flames, and those small and inconspicuous things turned black and hardened in just a few minutes, as if they had become some kind of incombustible garbage.

The entire altar seemed to be surrounded by dozens of black rings, revealing an inexplicable evil spirit as a whole.

Chen Yan looked at the changes in the community of these strains, and suddenly, he only "felt" that the strains had completely changed into something else, as if something had happened...

Mutations?

It is a mutation to adapt to the fire, and it is an extremely fast adaptive mutation!
Chen Yan had already seen this kind of mutation in the underground mining area before, but now he witnessed it again, and he still felt shocked.

A soldier in protective clothing fighting with a strange snake was blown away by the tail of the strange snake, and hit heavily on the strain in the altar. The protective clothing was instantly torn open by the seemingly inconspicuous strain, and the already black and hardened At this moment, the strain "softened" and entered the soldier's body along the reverse flow of blood.

A scream came out, and the warrior had become food for the strain.

The flesh and blood in the protective clothing was eaten away, and the strains that had been eaten turned bright blood. These strains entered the altar along the gully, dyeing a small part of the ring-shaped altar red.

'It will become food for strains... These fighters in protective clothing must not be strain people. '

'It's really strange, Chen Changsheng and the others came here, obviously it was 20 years ago.

Why did the zombie boy say it happened [three years ago]? ' (Chapter 499)
'This time is obviously out of order and completely out of line. '

The reasoning encountered an unsolvable problem, and Chen Yan could only look into the distance.

In the fire, the huge strange snake had the upper hand in the battle with the plastic soldiers and the protective clothing soldiers. There were more and more corpses in sight. Most of them were burned dry by the fire, and a small part of their flesh and blood was eaten away by the strain.

The strains that turned bright blood after eating blood squirmed on the ground, avoided the fire with difficulty, and moved towards the altar.

"The zombie boy said that [Liu Jiaxian]'s plastic soldiers are conducting experiments here, and this experiment is obviously this altar, and..."

Chen Yan looked at the strains surrounding the altar again.

'This altar should be dedicated to these strains. '

'But now the scene is completely out of control, the war has begun, the altar is unattended, and the strains have regained their freedom. '

'Plastic warriors are resistant to strains due to their special bodies and the ability to not be infected.

Although the brute force of the strange snake is strong, the strain has strong infectivity, so the strange snake is restrained by the strain.

The strain was restrained by the plastic warriors because of their technology. '

'The balance was upset, and the war began...'

'But what about Chen Changsheng and the others?Why haven't they come yet? Is the road in [Wildness] very long? '

While Chen Yan was thinking wildly, another shocking change occurred in front of him:

After the strains in the altar's circular gully had eaten enough, the entire altar was stained red with blood, as if it had turned into a flesh and blood mill—the strains mutated again after eating.

They began to advance outside the altar, so the "gully" was "opened" to the periphery of the altar.

Circle after circle of ring-shaped areas covered a wider area, and more corpses were accommodated in the area where the altar was located, becoming new nourishment for the altar—snake corpses, human corpses, plastic, steel, electronic components...

The altar devours everything that exists within the coverage area, and digests them all...

After a while, the altar stopped expanding, and a hideous circular "eyeball" appeared on the surface of the city of overlapping mountains.

(End of this chapter)