Mystery: Mr. Witch and Ms. Hunter

Chapter 377 Mushrooms
(Warning in advance: some of the descriptions in this chapter may make you feel uncomfortable, and it is not recommended to eat while reading this chapter)
One second, two seconds, three seconds...

Adele silently counted the time for the mushroom powder to revive in her heart. She hid under the veil of darkness, not daring to move, for fear of being discovered in advance.

During this time, she recalled the precautions when using mushrooms that Frank Lee had told her before, and the scene when he told a horror story comparable to that written by a first-class novelist with a simple smile on his face, but in fact, he was just reading the instruction manual of the thing he made.

"These little creatures have strong vitality. Their only weakness is that they are afraid of fire and high temperatures. Other than that, they can effectively deal with attacks like your black fire that can directly consume spiritual energy."

Frank Lee said with a smile, "However, apart from these methods, even if you chop them up, freeze them, or find a Rose Bishop to eat them directly, it will not affect the activity of these little guys. They can still wake up in the host's body."

"Thanks to Togelman Sparrow, the captain and I went to the God War Ruins in the northern part of the Sonia Sea more than a year ago. I found many new fungi there. These mushrooms are the offspring of those fungi."

When talking about Gehrman Sparrow, Frank Lee showed an innocent expression that was totally inconsistent with his appearance. "I really hope he can see my new discovery..."

Believe me, he won't want to see your new discovery...

Thinking of this, Adele felt her facial muscles twitching uncontrollably again.

Taking a deep breath, Adele looked down again. Santana was still standing there, motionless.

"You guys, take the boss away from here first!"

The mid-sequence Beyonder who had given the orders just now seemed to have noticed something, and spoke to the Beyonder bodyguards guarding Santana.

"Yes, Mr. Sothoth!"

Several extraordinary people simply agreed, then jumped to Santana, lifted Santana up swiftly, and turned to leave.

Suddenly, one of the Beyonders screamed, and pushed Santana away with his hand, causing another person to fall to the ground as well, as if he was holding up not his boss but a red-hot iron.

"What the hell are you doing, idiot?" Sothoth roared, using the dialect of the southern continent colonies, but with a distinct Intis accent.

"Mushrooms, mushrooms are growing in the boss's eyes!"

Before the guard could open his mouth to explain, the guard who was knocked down by Santana who was pushed away by him let out an inhuman scream, because Santana's body fell straight on him, which also allowed him to see Santana's face clearly.

There were no eyeballs on that face anymore. Instead, there were clusters of tiny bell-shaped white caps growing out of the cracks. The slender stems were still shaking, with half of a broken, shriveled eyeball pierced on the stems.

Dense mycelium grew in Santana's mouth, not only sewing his upper and lower teeth tightly together, but also a small cluster of fine mycelium grew out of his mouth. If you have trypophobia, you would probably spit it out just by looking at it.

“Damn it, are they from the Church of Mother Earth?” Sothoth muttered to himself, and then shouted to everyone, “Get out first, there’s something wrong with this warehouse!”

As expected, he was an experienced Beyonder who immediately determined the current situation...

Adele couldn't help but admire in her heart that Sothoth had a precise grasp of the situation and had grasped Adele's vital point in one fell swoop.

There are still six extraordinary people here. Two of them have been infected with mycelium due to contact with Santana. If they are allowed to escape, the entire Port of Berens will probably be destroyed.

With her mind turning, Adele quickly left the rooftop and arrived at the gate first, relying on the traction of the silk thread. She quickly whispered a few spells, then reached out and pressed on the door, allowing the black thread of the curse to spread on the outside of the gate.

At the same time, the Sun Priest Cassian had already run to the gate and kicked it with a flying kick.

With a loud bang, the heavy iron door did not move at all.

"Someone is blocking the door from outside?" Cassian narrowed his eyes, "Esdeath!"

"I come!"

"Mechanical Expert" Esdeath quickly took out a roll of high-energy detonators from the backpack behind him, and those who saw his actions immediately ran in the opposite direction and quickly looked for cover to hide.

Esdeath quickly installed the bomb, took two steps back, then pulled the wire in her hand and detonated the detonator.

With a loud bang, the door was blown to pieces, and smoke and dust rose up around it.

However, it was not only the gate that shattered, but also Esdeath who had just retreated among the crowd!
His body surface quickly became covered with black cracks and an expression of fear froze on his face. Before anyone could react, he had exploded into a ball of splattered flesh and blood in the center of the crowd, just like the shattered door!
"Oops!"

Seeing Esdeath's tragic death, Sothoth felt utterly disappointed.

He was not worried about his companions. Although craftsmen of Esdeath's level were rare, they could be replenished in Intis. What really made him despair was the location where Esdeath exploded, right in the middle of everyone. Everyone was stained with Esdeath's blood!

And blood is the food of those terrible mushrooms...

As soon as this thought came into Sotos' mind, the two men who went to support Santana groaned, as if they had bumped into something like a branch.

With his night vision, Sothoth clearly saw that what restricted their movements were a large number of spiral fungal webs floating in the air. The moment they were touched, the inflatable rings formed by these fungi would expand, forming a deadly snare that could strangle a person's limbs.

Before Cassian's Purification Slash reached them, Sothoth had already heard a subtle but clear sound of bones breaking, coming from the necks of the two Low-Sequence Beyonders who were strangled.

Hopeless……

Sothoth made a quick judgment and did not dare to hesitate. He immediately turned to Cassian and grabbed his collar. Then the match in his pocket suddenly ignited and turned into a bright fireball, swallowing the two of them and disappearing into the warehouse.

In just three minutes, eighty percent of the dozen or so people in the warehouse had fallen. All that was left in the huge warehouse were strange corpses covered with mushrooms on the ground and several large boxes in the middle of the room.

(End of this chapter)