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Chapter 719: The Master of Fungi and Miranda
Near the village, in a wide underground cave, there is a dungeon-like building hidden.

The old walls and passages, and the semicircular iron doors embedded in the brick walls, would certainly seem very familiar to four generations of the Salazar family.

However, in this dungeon-like space, there are various records, canned samples, iron rack tools, and a large mass of black unknown substance on the large wooden table in the center of the room.

Yes, this is a laboratory, a very old laboratory.

At this time, a woman in a black robe was sitting at the desk in the laboratory, quietly waiting for something.

She had a delicate face, and her age was hard to tell from her appearance, but she had the aura of a superior. Her long hair was covered by a headscarf, and although her robe was not luxurious, it was extremely fine, which added a sense of mystery to her.

However, the most eye-catching thing is the several pairs of black wings behind her. Because the wings are all folded up at this time, it is difficult to see exactly how many wings there are. But just from the occasional trembling of the feathers, it can be seen that these wings are definitely not decorations, but part of her body.

Without a doubt, this is the "Mother Goddess" Miranda. And this is her core laboratory.

At the same time, the three lords under her were fighting against the invaders in the village. Only the last lord, who was completely unsuitable for frontal combat, did not participate in the battle over there, but was also responsible for the defense of key areas.

However, Miranda herself didn't seem to care much about the villagers or even the four lords, and was just immersed in her own world.

After sitting quietly at the table for a while, she stood up and walked out of the laboratory.

Outside the laboratory is a passage in the cave, with ancient stone steps underfoot and only a tiny crack in the mountain wall above, allowing light from the outside world to penetrate in.

Going down the stone steps in the cave, in the wide space deeper inside, there is a strange and huge "creature" hanging there. The strong presence it exudes will make everyone who comes here involuntarily attracted to it.

In fact, it might be inaccurate to say that it was a living creature. It was a human baby-like object with a flesh-pink glow all over its body, but it was extremely huge. Just from its curled-up posture, its total length was probably more than ten meters.

On its "back", black mycelium of varying thickness, somewhat resembling an umbilical cord, supports its huge body, allowing it to detach from the ground of the cave and hang in the air.

At this time, the fetal-like part, together with the umbilical cord outside the body, were constantly pulsating slightly, as if a real baby was breathing and absorbing nutrients.

This giant fetus-like unknown entity is the "fungus master" mentioned by Miranda.

Miranda came to the bottom of the fungus master, looked up at the huge "baby", her eyes full of complex expressions, and whispered to herself:

"Eva...my daughter, when will you come back to me?"

The story of Miranda and the mushroom owner is a long one.

As early as the beginning of the last century, around the 1910s, Miranda, who was originally just an ordinary person, married into this village in Romania and gave birth to a daughter, Eva, as an ordinary woman.

Their family life was ordinary but happy. However, a few years later, a plague pandemic in Europe took the lives of Miranda's husband and daughter.

Miranda, who was completely desperate at the time, buried them, and then wanted to end her own life, but by chance she accidentally entered a cave and came into contact with the owner of the fungus.

She was infected by the mold of the fungus master, understood the master's ability, and received its "blessing". She believed that with the help of the power of the fungus master, she could bring her daughter Eva back to the human world. Soon after, Miranda returned to the ground, established a church, spread the faith, and became the "Mother Goddess" Miranda.

So, what unique abilities does the mushroom master possess?

The origin of the fungus is actually unclear. We can only speculate that it is some kind of naturally occurring super fungus aggregate. It should have existed for hundreds of years before Miranda discovered it, and the substance that makes it up is "Muta mold."

The ability of the fungus master is very magical. It is the strange biological infection source that Li You has repeatedly mentioned, which has begun to develop into fantasy and magical themes.

The main ability of the fungus master is that the Muta mold isolated from it can cause other organisms to mutate. This is a basic skill of biochemical infection sources, needless to say.

Miranda studied the fungus and separated "Kadu", the gift substance, from it. In the name of curing diseases, she injected the gift into the villagers who came to the church, causing them to mutate and testing their adaptability.

For example, the four noble lords under her are all individuals who have been blessed by Miranda and have a high adaptability to her. They have also gained powerful mutation abilities, which is equivalent to the four kings under Miranda.

Achina Dimitrescu, Carl Heisenberg, Moreau, and Donna Benevento, these are the names of the four lords. They all call Miranda "Mother" and regard themselves as children.

Those recipients with lower physical adaptability eventually mutated into infected people, which were the miscellaneous soldiers under the four lords, "werewolf" and "vampires".

Not to mention the miscellaneous soldiers, the four lords who are more adaptable to the gift each have different abilities. Among them, Achina and Moro's abilities are still within the scope of normal mutant creatures, but Donna's power is already a bit magical.

Carl Heisenberg, the most capable of the four, makes people wonder if he came from the Marvel X-Men studio next door to make a cameo appearance...

But even so, causing the contactees to mutate is only one of the abilities of the master. The most core ability of the master is another point, that is, it can build a consciousness network with mold as the medium, connecting all the mold deeply infected people, as well as the dead whose bodies have been in contact with the mold, and absorbing their consciousness and memory into the memory network of the mold.

Not only can it be stored, but those conscious entities that are deeply infected, have strong adaptability to the mold, or have high enough authority can even maintain independent consciousness in the fungus host network and move freely in this world of consciousness.

This is the real core ability of the fungus master!

Nearly a hundred years ago, when Miranda came into contact with the fungus master, it was after being infected by it and learning a vast amount of knowledge from its database that she was able to be reborn.

And for the same reason, Miranda believes that her daughter Eva's consciousness is stored in the fungus master's network. As long as a suitable body is found for her, Eva can return to this world.

The potential of the Fungus Master's ability is endless, and the DLC of Resident Evil 8 also shows the appearance of the Fungus Master's consciousness world. Li You can assert without hesitation that its ability is even better than the Night Demon Nest Core that has been upgraded several times.

So Li You had actually been planning to get the Fungus Master for a long time, but at the same time, Albert Wesker, who knew of the existence of the Fungus Master, would not want to miss this treasure.

Therefore, after faking his death and escaping, he personally came to this remote land.

He wants to control the Fungus Master in his hands, and use it and the Black Light Parasite as two trump cards to truly gain the power to become a god!

(End of this chapter)