Corpse-suppressing fungi were truly amazing, discovered by Feng Jun deep underground in Shangqing City.
Feng Jun, at the time, simply found them novel and brought back some samples; now, they have become his primary weapon against zombies and Mutants.
Feng Jun recalled an ancient Chinese saying, “Where venomous snakes appear, there must be an antidote within seven steps.”
In nature, things restrain and counteract each other.
Zombies created by piye bacteria had existed on Earth for 63 years from their appearance until Feng Jun’s arrival, which was enough time for the biosphere to evolve biomass capable of counteracting them.
And in this process, fungi were at the forefront.
The smoke made from the liquid extracted from corpse-suppressing fungi had a fatal corrosive effect on zombies, rapidly decomposing them into a pool of black water.
Accompanied by the assistance of the robot army, human soldiers passed through the smoke-filled streets.
Yesterday, it was still the most prosperous human base around Shangqing City; now, it had become a horrific scene of hell.
Although most Mutants had been eliminated by the corpse-suppressing smoke and robots, some Mutants that had not completely melted yet were hiding in rooms and underground shelters.
These beings, once human, had now become grotesque monsters, clinging to life in desperation, occasionally emitting strange wails.
The streets were also full of the remains of Mutants after they had melted; although corpse-suppressing smoke could almost completely melt any product of piye bacteria, some bones and soft tissues still remained.
The black streets were littered with various bizarre skeletons and incompletely melted chunks of flesh.
Besides these, there were also a few human corpses; some survivors had put on protective suits before being infected by the black mist, but they were killed by mutated Mutants, their bodies left lying on the street.
Now, apart from the wailing of zombies, the Huaicheng District was filled with the occasional sound of laser and Bolter fire.
soldier robots were executing programmed instructions, eliminating living zombie Mutants and rescuing surviving humans, although the probability of survivors living was very small.
A Mutant had only its head and half of its body remaining alive; the rest of its body had been almost completely corroded by the corpse-suppressing smoke, and the small remaining part of its body writhed and struggled in the black viscous liquid.
But its head still opened its mouth, revealing a rotten gums, with a few adult-finger-thick fangs still remaining on them.
The soldier robot lowered its head and scanned the Mutant with its eyes; the system determined that she no longer posed any threat.
Without even using the Bolter in its hand, the robot raised its metal foot and stepped on the Mutant’s head, emitting a muffled crunching sound.
The Mutant’s head was severed under the metal foot like thin paper, completely ending its final suffering.
In the very center of the Huaicheng District, the enormous Blood Nest had already largely melted.
However, due to the Blood Nest’s immense size, the corpse-suppressing smoke had not yet completely corroded this nascent Blood Nest.
Not a single Mutant could be seen around the Blood Nest; its flesh walls attached to the exterior of the building had completely corroded and fallen off.
However, because it had previously devoured a large number of humans, and the initial number of Mutants that sacrificed themselves to form the Blood Nest was also very large, the Blood Nest, which stored a lot of flesh and blood energy, was still continuously dividing and proliferating new flesh and blood, attempting to resist the erosion of the corpse-suppressing smoke.
soldier robots had already arrived in front of the Blood Nest, and behind the robots was Feng Jun, surrounded by Imperial Guards wearing Power Armor.
Looking at the continuously writhing, disgusting mass of flesh before him, Feng Jun thought to himself that it was fortunate he hadn't eaten breakfast that morning, otherwise he would probably have already thrown up.
Seeing the Blood Nest still continuously writhing and proliferating flesh and blood in an attempt to resist the erosion of the corpse-suppressing smoke, Feng Jun did not intend to give the Blood Nest this opportunity.
Song Zhan, who had just managed to stop his vomiting, understood Feng Jun’s meaning with just a glance.
soldiers equipped with Anti-corpse liquid ammunition raised their rifles and shot the Anti-corpse liquid injection rounds towards the Blood Nest.
With the injection of the Anti-corpse liquid, the Blood Nest finally reacted violently.
The originally large and robust blood vessels began to lose their original toughness and vitality, becoming loose and weak, finally detaching from the flesh wall, like huge dead snakes.
Those once-swollen flesh walls also collapsed under the overwhelming burden, beginning to peel off layer by layer, revealing their internal structure.
Most shockingly, as these flesh masses dissolved, some human forms that had been swallowed by the Blood Nest’s flesh began to emerge.
Some of these people had already been half-digested and fused, with certain parts of their bodies integrated with the Blood Nest’s flesh and blood, making them indistinguishable.
Their severed limbs and the solidified pain and fear in their expressions became silent witnesses to this disaster.
These unfortunate humans encountered the cruelest fate on the boundary between life and death.
Even one or two humans had not fully died yet, their bodies and the back of their heads fused with the Blood Nest, but as the surrounding flesh wall peeled off, their previously closed eyes suddenly opened, revealing fear and pleading in their gaze towards the surrounding soldiers.
More often, there were incompletely melted human corpses, existing in a semi-melted, semi-fused state, forming shocking scenes.
More soldiers directly vomited; some soldiers wearing only mechanical exoskeletons simply couldn't hold it in.
The better ones found a place to vomit, while some with weaker tolerance bent over and started vomiting directly.
The Imperial Guards around Feng Jun were not much better; a few unlucky fellows had already vomited inside their Power Armor, and that pungent smell would remain in the Power Armor.
Feng Jun also felt a bit nauseous now; looking at this disgusting scene, goosebumps rose all over his body.
When he was in school, Feng Jun had seen some videos filmed by foreigners; at that time, after Feng Jun and his classmates watched them, they felt it was nothing special, but after the Doomsday, the things he saw every day kept refreshing his understanding.
Song Zhan had not stopped vomiting since he started, and Song Peng was slightly better than him, having just straightened up.
Feng Jun called Song Peng over and ordered him to deal with this Blood Nest as soon as possible, but before that, he had to call Yan Xin over to see if it had any research value.
After giving his instructions, Feng Jun left with the Imperial Guards, leaving the matter to his subordinates.
Since the transaction with the Blackwater Merchant Guild last year, Feng Jun had never been to the Huaicheng District again.
When he returned to the Huaicheng District today, Feng Jun had already become its owner.
He recalled that back then, Feng Jun was just an unknown nobody who came here alone, always ready to escape through the portal for fear of being ambushed by wastelanders.
At that time, the five major forces in the Huaicheng District were existences that Feng Jun could only look up to.
At this moment, all the surface buildings in the Huaicheng District had been occupied by Feng Jun, and all Mutants had been cleared out.
And a few survivors were found in several buildings; some of these people were wearing protective suits, while others had hidden in their reinforced, sealed houses.
This was good news for Feng Jun; population was his greatest wealth, and he did not want to end up with an empty city after paying so much.