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Thursday, a certain sea area of the Sonia Sea.
"What… on earth happened here?"
When Lin Ruo used his Travel ability to bring Klein to Frank Lee's Future, he was dumbfounded.
Because at this moment, the Future's condition was clearly not right. The flagpole on the sailboat was entwined with light green vines, and the deck was covered with mushrooms running rampant. These mushrooms were baring their fangs and brandishing their claws, making one think of monsters that craved flesh and blood.
The crew of the Future were obviously also very surprised by this scene. They seemed to have just experienced all of this themselves. Some hadn't reacted yet, while others had already punched away mushrooms that rushed towards them.
What kind of fantastical and terrifying scene was this? Had Frank finally lost control?
Lin Ruo subconsciously swallowed his saliva. Although he often joked about Mushroom Doomsday, jokes were jokes. He didn't want this world to truly face the end!
Frank's creation was a bit too terrifying!
In fact, not only was he surprised, but Klein, who had not yet had a clear understanding of the dangerousness of Frank's research, was also dumbfounded at this moment. He looked at the fantastical and terrifying scene on the Future, then looked at Lin Ruo, whose expression was solemn, and couldn't help but say:
"Is this… Mushroom Doomsday?"
"Without a doubt." Lin Ruo nodded solemnly and seriously, "This world is doomed."
At this moment, the mushrooms baring their fangs and brandishing their claws on the deck naturally noticed the two of them, and immediately some mushrooms rushed towards them.
Seeing this, Klein, knowing that his teacher was now a fragile target unless absolutely necessary, instinctively stepped forward to block, and the playing cards in his hand had already been flung out. Those playing cards hit the mushrooms rushing towards them like flying knives, and with a "swish—swish—" sound, the mushrooms were all cut in half.
Then, a sanity-draining scene appeared. Although the cut mushrooms did not bleed, a milky white liquid flowed from their cuts. Along with the appearance of this liquid, the mushrooms' wounds wriggled, and quickly turned into a consistency resembling minced meat.
It would have been fine if they just turned into this sanity-draining appearance, but after these changes, these mushrooms actually continued to bounce and jump towards them.
Lin Ruo: …
Klein: …
Crap!
What kind of monstrous thing did Frank research?
Lin Ruo originally thought he had overestimated Frank enough, but now seeing this scene, he realized he had indeed underestimated the self-destructive capabilities of this guy, who was once jokingly called "Son of the Mother Goddess" by readers.
Although it was only a probing attack, Klein, who also didn't know what to say after seeing this scene, showed a thoughtful expression. The next second, he pulled out a Charm from his pocket, and with the injection of spiritual power, the Charm instantly burned to ashes.
"Purify!"
Golden beams of light shone on those mushrooms. The next second, black smoke rose, and the sanity-draining mushrooms melted away one by one like snowflakes.
Clearly, although these mushrooms were very sanity-draining, their combat power was not strong, and targeted abilities could make them directly give up.
This made Klein breathe a sigh of relief, but not completely.
After all, no matter how weak they were, these mushrooms were too sanity-draining.
Klein felt that he would truly never be able to touch mushrooms as food again.
"…Indeed, it's a Rose Bishop, with a hint of werewolf aura. Tsk, what on earth did Frank do to these mushrooms?"
Lin Ruo was not surprised by this scene either, because when he first saw that sanity-draining scene, he had already vaguely felt some Qi on the mushrooms and guessed that the Sun pathway's purification should be particularly effective against these mushrooms.
An ordinary Sequence 9 certainly wouldn't have this ability, but perhaps it was the influence of his Beyonder power, Lin Ruo had always been sensitive to these Qi.
But precisely because he saw it, Lin Ruo wanted to rub his forehead even more. He couldn't help but look around, searching for Frank's figure.
At this moment, a certain door in the cabin was suddenly knocked open from the inside, and a figure rolled out, stumbling several times on the deck, and even flattened a few mushrooms.
The person who was kicked out was none other than Frank Lee, dressed like a diligent old farmer.
At the same time, Lin Ruo heard an angry curse:
"Hurry up and deal with your damned little things."
Nina, wearing a linen shirt and a dark blue jacket draped over her shoulders, had her hands on her hips. She fiercely stomped on a mushroom that approached her, crushing it to a pulp, clearly having maxed out her anger.
And although the mushroom she crushed also underwent sanity-draining changes, with Nina's second stomp, it completely became "mud" and stopped moving.
It seems that in addition to purification, normal physical destruction can also kill these mushrooms, but it requires multiple attempts or perhaps thorough destruction?
Lin Ruo made an assessment in his mind, but he didn't feel relieved at all. Although these mushrooms weren't as terrifying as they appeared, their implications were already enough to warrant vigilance.
Frank was only a Sequence 5!
—That's right, Sequence 5, because Lin Ruo had previously taken the time to hunt a Lucky Druid, and both the formula and the characteristic had been given to Frank as payment for researching the mushrooms. Frank, who had long anticipated advancing, naturally quickly gathered the supplementary ingredients, concocted the potion, and advanced.
If a newly advanced Sequence 5 could create such a thing, then what about later?
When Frank's research went deeper, wouldn't it really be possible for him to concoct a Mushroom Doomsday?
At this moment, Lin Ruo even had the fleeting thought of "maybe it's better not to let Frank research these strange things at all."
"Soon, soon." Frank, who was kicked, wasn't angry. He then pulled out a glass bottle containing light white powder, opened it, and while chanting Jotun incantations, sprinkled the powder onto the mushrooms.
Immediately after, a scene that made Lin Ruo's mouth twitch appeared. The mushrooms sprinkled with the powder suddenly swelled up, their size becoming several times their original. These enlarged mushrooms did not attack humans again, but instead rushed towards their smaller mushroom counterparts, and then began to devour them.
Soon, the giant mushrooms finished eating the smaller mushrooms, and then one by one they stayed in place, "Bang!" "Bang!" "Bang!" exploding into powder.
Frank, meanwhile, excitedly pulled out paper and pen to record something, mumbling words like 'loss of control' and 'experiment' that no one understood.
Lin Ruo: …
Klein: …
They understood, and were greatly shocked.
Of course, they weren't the only ones shocked. The others on the deck were no better off, including Admiral of Stars Cattleya, who also walked out of the cabin. At this moment, she fell into an unusual silence.
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