Wasteland Farming, Manual for Raising Human Cubs

Chapter 82 The disappearance of the mushroom
"Director Yang! Director Yang!"

Yang Mei had just finished her latest report to the headquarters and was about to go to bed when her assistant rushed in anxiously with a phone in his hand.

"Director, the latest news from the Jiangcheng Monitoring Station is that an abnormal energy wave is coming from the city, and the magnetic field force of the mutant umbrella mushroom is rapidly decreasing!"

Yang Mei bit back the scolding that was about to come out of her mouth. She didn't even bother to put on her coat. She quickly got off the camp bed and reached out to take the satellite phone handed to her by her assistant.

A minute later, all the lights in the camp's central command center were turned on, all the machines were turned on, and the heads of each branch led the guards and rushed over anxiously.

When everyone arrived, before they had time to ask what had happened, they saw the real-time detection feedback chart that Yang Mei had called up.

The picture continued to zoom in, and the real-time monitoring screen flashing with abnormal energy waves came into everyone's view.

In the picture, the blue energy fluctuations that originally represented the S-level mutant parasol mushroom were rapidly fading in color, and the data representing the energy wave intensity was also decreasing at a speed of one second.

After nine seconds, the blue energy wave value completely returned to zero!
"What's going on?!" Commander Wei asked seriously.

Yang Mei didn't have time to answer him as she was directing the monitoring station to fully synchronize the monitoring data.

After a while, a strong red energy wave radiated strongly in all directions from the center of Jiangcheng.

The red band on the screen kept flashing, the color became more and more intense, even to the point of being dazzling.

The heads of various departments put on the special glasses handed to them by their assistants, and the discomfort in their eyes disappeared.

The new energy value continued to soar, and soon broke through the value of the previous S-level mutant umbrella mushroom, running all the way, and finally exploded.

"Bang!" The sound of an explosion caused by a machine carrying excessive amounts of cargo came from the loudspeaker in front of Yang Mei.

The soldier at the Jiangcheng monitoring station exclaimed: "Director, the new energy fluctuations are too violent, and the monitoring device exploded!"

"It's gone, it's suddenly gone!" Another cry was heard.

Everyone in the command center asked anxiously: "What's missing?"

"It's all gone!" The soldier at the monitoring station shouted, "The magnetic field is gone, and the new energy wave is gone too. It's all gone!"

Yang Mei frowned instantly and quickly called up all the data. As a result, the abnormal wave values ​​were instantly cleared to zero.

"Immediately send out a reconnaissance drone into the center of Jiangcheng for investigation!" Yang Mei gave the order decisively.

She had a bold guess in her mind, but it still needed to be verified.

The investigation team immediately responded that the drone was ready to enter Jiangcheng city.

Commander Wei hesitated to speak. There was a strong magnetic field in the city. Any electronic equipment would fail if it approached it. It would be better to send a soldier with evolved mental power than a drone.

But before he could ask, he heard the surprised voices of the investigation team from the other end of the phone.

"Report! The drone has successfully entered Jiangcheng city! The strong magnetic field interference seems to have disappeared!"

".Wait! Oops, the drone was caught by a mutant willow tree. The drone fell to the ground. It's over. A mutant wild cat jumped out and dismantled the drone."

The drone video that had just been transmitted to the big screen suddenly went black and the picture was lost.

But you can still hear the sound of wild cats tearing coming from the radio.

Listening to the harsh electromagnetic noise coming from the drone, Commander Wei and others looked at each other in shock.

"The interfering magnetic field has disappeared!" Yang Mei's firm conclusion proved everyone's guess.

She said in a deep voice: "If I'm not mistaken, the S-level mutant mushroom has also disappeared." "Impossible!" Commander Wei didn't believe such a bizarre possibility. "It's been more than ten years. That mushroom has occupied Jiangcheng for thirteen years. Even missiles can't accurately enter the place. It has no natural enemies. It's only been a few minutes? How could it disappear?"

"Send someone to check and we'll find out." Yang Mei turned to the controller nonchalantly.

The one-second short video just sent back by the drone has been successfully backed up. She clicked on it to play, cut out the only valid frame, and zoomed in continuously, stopping at the tallest building in the picture.

Under the silver-blue sky, a blurry black shadow can be vaguely seen on the top of the tall building.

Yang Mei's heartbeat suddenly accelerated and her breathing became rapid.

The busy tone of Commander Wei and others giving orders in the room was automatically blocked out, and the only thing left in her eyes was the blurry shadow.

She took a deep breath, tapped the delete button in the upper right corner, and firmly deleted the picture and its backup.

"The video just now is useless, so I deleted it and asked them to upload a useful video again." Yang Mei said to everyone in a light tone.

Everyone was busy verifying whether the mutant mushrooms had really disappeared and didn't pay any attention to what she said.

Without the electric light of the blooming parasol mushrooms, the entire river city fell into darkness.

The higher you stand, the stronger the wind is. The biting cold wind of early winter made Zhao Xiaoxiu unable to stand steadily.

She quickly squatted down, dragging the bag left by Zhao Gang and hid behind a concrete building that looked like a water tower, shielding herself from the cold wind.

In Zhao Xiaoxiu's eyes, the night was almost the same as the day, and his vision was not affected at all.

The night is the best cover. Zhao Xiaoxiu stuck his head out and looked at the original position of the mutated mushroom. A huge mass of wriggling flesh and blood had replaced the mutated mushroom.

Zhao Xiaoxiu didn’t know how long it would take for her father to digest the food, so she could only wait patiently.

Apart from moss and some vines, there were no other dangerous creatures on the top floor, so it was a relatively safe place.

Zhao Xiaoxiu took out the axe and silencer from the bag and placed them on the ground. He then spread the soft cloth bag directly on the ground and sat cross-legged on it.

When Zhao Gang went out, he did not forget to bring a box of yogurt for the cub. Zhao Xiaoxiu opened the yogurt, took out a bottle, put a straw in it and drank it in his hand, feeling warm in his heart.

The city center, which had always been very quiet, gradually began to rustle after it lost the control of the parasol mushroom mycelium.

Thanks to Zhao Gang, many mutant animals that were lured by the mycelium spores managed to survive tonight.

A mutant two-headed lizard with a body length of more than five meters woke up from a coma and found that most of its body had been corroded. Its internal organs and bones were exposed to the air. Its paralyzed and sluggish nerves gradually recovered, and severe pain followed.

But the two lizard heads looked everywhere for the culprit but couldn't find it. Stimulated by the pain, they began to run around out of control.

It rampaged through the abandoned streets, knocking away the White Walkers that had crawled out of the ground, and then, as if frightened, it climbed up high-rise buildings in an attempt to find a safe place.

Zhao Xiaoxiu finished a bottle of yogurt and glanced towards her father. It seemed that the blood-red tentacles of some multi-clawed creature on the seabed had shrunk a lot compared to before.

We should wait a little longer, Zhao Xiaoxiu thought to herself.

I took out a bottle of yogurt, put a straw in it, and prepared to drink it. I looked up to see if there were any stars in the sky.

I didn't see any stars, but when I looked up I met four emerald green eyes as big as ping-pong balls.

The black pupils reflected the broken body of the monitor lizard. Perhaps frightened, the human cub took a big sip of the straw and drank a mouthful of silky yogurt.

The hand that was not holding the yogurt bottle grabbed the silencer next to him, aimed at the green eyes on the left, and pulled the trigger decisively!

(End of this chapter)