Mythology Returns! Starting with Folklore and Strange Tales

Chapter 81 Under the influence of technology, all beings are equal!

A sudden burst of light!

It's incredibly hot!

A tremendous amount of energy erupted from the ground of Cai Town, tearing the thick soil layer to pieces in an instant. Massive debris weighing tens or hundreds of tons was easily thrown into the sky. But before it could scatter, a stream of heat, so hot it transformed into a dazzling white light, shot into the sky!

The mountains trembled, and the earth sank.

A red and black mushroom cloud slowly rose hundreds of meters in the sky, the escaping heat bursting through the clouds and shattering the cloud layer. Even the scorching sun, whose silhouette had been withered and yellow for years due to drought, paled in comparison to this dazzling light.

run!

run!

run!

Having received advance warning, the patrolmen and civilian travelers fled in the direction away from Cai Town without looking back. Close behind them were the starving people who had eaten dry rations in the town for a few days and had regained some of their strength.

Reality has shown that, in extreme circumstances, the difference between a spiritual practitioner who has not truly transcended the mundane and can fly through the air or shrink the earth to an inch is not that great from an ordinary person who is risking their life.

Although the distance between the starving people and the travelers continued to widen, they were able to stay close behind the travelers for a short period of time, driven by their desperate potential.

Of course, no one can clearly see where they are right now.

The dazzling light released when the mushroom erupts is so intense that even the sun has to temporarily give way, let alone ordinary people. Even if they turn their backs to Cai Town where the incident occurred, and do not look directly at it or open their eyes, they will most likely not go blind.

But the dazzling light still shone through my tightly closed eyelids, making it impossible for me to open my eyes!

The burning sensation on my back was agonizing, but what followed was the mushroom's unique, violent, and frenzied roar, which stirred up terrifying dust waves, making the despair even more palpable.

It's already difficult enough to escape with your eyes closed.

Along the way, people would occasionally stumble and fall behind due to the uneven ground or other obstacles.

But what followed was the real beginning of the ordeal, a torrent of sound that surged forth in all directions like water bursting its banks.

A tremendous force struck, knocking many people to the ground. The anxiety they had suppressed all the way turned into frantic and desperate howls. But in the face of this earth-shaking terror, their voices were not even as loud as the chirping of insects in the night!

Fortunately, they all received the news in advance and started fleeing ahead of time.

Fortunately, what An Yixi brought this time was just a portable miniature mushroom.

It's one of those small things that can be launched three kilometers away and has a strike range of two and a half kilometers. Plus, it's buried hundreds or even thousands of meters underground, so its power has been weakened many times over.

The scene on the ground looked terrifying, but it was mostly special effects produced by the aftershocks of the explosion.

Of course, if someone actually considers it a special effect, they'll be laughed at.

Even if people have run out of the effective range, and even if they run further and further away over time, everyone present, depending on the distance, is equivalent to having at least 5 CT scans per person.

It has some impact, but it's not a big problem.

Even in terms of sheer pain, this is less painful than a minor burn on their back or a fall caused by not looking where they're going.

But if you were to stand still on the edge of town, you'd probably see familiar faces everywhere.

The real victims were Cai Zhen's intricate network of rat nests and Cai Zhen himself.

The mushroom that had just exploded deep within the rat nest, combined with the fact that the nest passage hadn't completely collapsed before its power was fully released, instantly engulfed the entire rat nest in heat and high temperature, burning almost all the rat monsters and rats to ashes.

After that, there was no passage under the rat's nest, and the ground became compacted. Although the accumulated energy would flow downwards, it would mostly erupt upwards, prying open the looser layers of ground before erupting!

Slaughter all evil on earth with madness!

Folklore?

A tale of the strange and supernatural?

Horrifying and eerie?

I'm too lazy to play house with you!

As long as it's not a disgusting and unreasonable ban on technology, the power of technology can teach any arrogant evildoer a lesson they'll never forget!

The intense heat and light incinerate the body, and the turbulence at the molecular and atomic levels annihilates the soul.

Unless it's something at the conceptual level, all living beings are equal under the mushroom!

The reason it can't be killed is simply because the explosive force isn't large enough.

Of course, this kind of tactic that kills a thousand enemies but also loses eight hundred of your own is generally not used by many people, since silhouettes are ultimately meant to blend into the mundane world.

Moreover, given the existence of gods, monsters, and demons, if strange creatures like plague monsters and toilet monsters can appear, who can guarantee that a land with countless deaths and injuries will not breed radiation monsters that feed on mushrooms and emit radiation?

That's why they ran into a hothead like An Yixi, plus Zhang Wei, who was equally particular, but not particularly so.

In the mundane world, under normal rules, if you encounter a situation that you can't handle, waiting for the silhouette to fall and then letting the artillery fire rage for three days and three nights is just as effective, if not more effective, and safer!

Moreover, mushrooms are just the most powerful means known to the public in the present world. But almost a century has passed since they appeared. Who can guarantee that the four parties that now hold the power of worldly discourse are not hiding something even more shocking?

Meanwhile, Zhang Wei, the instigator, was slowly sliding down from a height of 5,000 meters in a devastated and scorching environment.

It's not that he's tired of living.

Instead, after escaping the affected area, while continuing to fly upwards, it discovered that its newly acquired spell, "Blazing Sun," had accelerated its transformation process without absorbing any external energy.

Although it was very faint, it was enough to make Zhang Wei stop and assess the situation.

Moving upwards, efficiency remains abundant, but the growth rate is negligible. Moving downwards, although not by much, efficiency is improving at an accelerated pace.

The sun relies on nuclear fusion.

Mushrooms reproduce through fission.

Everything changes, so aren't these all cultivation resources from the same root?

So, it took Zhang Wei three minutes to descend from 7,000 meters to 5,000 meters.

He then descended from 5,000 meters to 4,200 meters, which took him another five minutes.

Upon reaching this point, the blood and qi in the body surge, and a heavy feeling arises in the meridians, blood vessels, and even the five internal organs, as if one is carrying hundreds of kilograms of weight for no reason.

The excessively hot blood turned his skin bright red, with drops of crimson blood seeping from his pores, quickly evaporating and turning into dark brown bloodstains that clung to his skin.

This is a sign that the body has reached its limit.

Further down was no longer an area he could explore, but through the thick dust and mist, Zhang Wei could roughly see the situation on the ground.

Although the heat and light from the explosion have dissipated, the once bustling town of Cai is now reduced to a deep crater in the ground, with the surrounding surface exhibiting a smooth, glassy appearance. Further out, thousands of people are scattered in the wilderness surrounding the town.

They were disheveled and covered in wounds, but each of them wore a smile of relief, as if they had survived a disaster.