Returning to the mountain village, starting with mushroom picking to get rich

"What! A virus?"

A wave of unrest, a wave of up again.

Just as the ordinary passengers at the airport were about to breathe a sigh of relief after the woman with wavy hair who had been causing a scene was apprehended, they suddenly heard the words "carrying a virus" from several burly men carrying suitcases.

My emotions, which hadn't had time to calm down, were like those of someone on a roller coaster, violently shaking and surging.

If you say that unfamiliar worms on the ground can only frighten some timid people.

Faced with the unknown threat of a virus, at least seven or eight out of ten people would feel fear.

Fear and unease spread through the crowd instantly.

Many people screamed, their bodies trembled uncontrollably, and their feet darted around, trying to stay away from the burly man carrying the suitcase, fearing they would be infected with the virus.

The airport, which had finally managed to restore order, suddenly became even more chaotic.

"Seriously, how did I end up with such a bunch of lunatics?"

Yang Lin followed the crowd and cautiously retreated to a corner.

His eyes kept glancing at the boxes in the hands of the burly men in front of him.

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"Put down the box, or we will take coercive measures!"

On the other side, airport security personnel are in a standoff with burly smugglers.

At this moment, these smugglers carrying fruit flies have escalated their actions to the level of criminals.

"Stop! Don't come any closer, or I'll release them all!" The burly thug shouted, waving the box in a frenzied manner.

"Arrange a plane for us to go abroad, and we'll call it even. We'll never come to China again."

"We will not accept any threats from anyone," the airport staff firmly refused.

"If you're not afraid, you can try it!" the burly thug roared.

"The box I'm carrying contains thousands of fruit flies carrying the virus. If they spread among the crowds, fly out of the airport, and multiply in Nanzhao, let's see if you can bear the responsibility."

Meanwhile, the staff behind the scenes, upon learning that the other party might be carrying the virus into the country, quickly called for support from the police and the chemical defense team.

"Team Leader Zhang, the chemical defense team's support will take some time to arrive. Try to keep them calm for now," the personnel in the rear transmitted through their combat headsets.

"Received, understood."

Captain Zhang responded through his earpiece, then holstered his pistol, spread his hands, and made a friendly expression, indicating that he wanted to negotiate with the other party.

"Don't be impulsive, let's both calm down..."

"Enough with the nonsense, let us go!" the burly thug said.

"Okay, okay, listen to me," Captain Zhang kept explaining. "You all came by plane, so you should know that takeoff and landing take a lot of time."

"For the safety of the public, I can release you temporarily, but you should at least give the airport time to schedule the flights. However, how will you guarantee the safety of the crowd during this period?"

"I don't care, we'll give you three... no, fifteen minutes at most!"

"If you don't send us away in fifteen minutes, you know what will happen..."

Although the burly thug looked fierce, he was also somewhat cowardly and began negotiating with Zhang, the airport officer.

"Bang!"

Suddenly, a loud thud interrupted the negotiation between the gang leader and Captain Zhang.

He was a tattooed henchman of the gang leader, whose palms were sweating from nervousness.

I didn't hold the box properly for a moment, and it slipped from my hands.

"What are you doing!" the gang leader roared at his underlings, his eyes wide with anger.

"Sorry, boss, I...I...I accidentally slipped." the underling said nervously.

In the brief moment the two were talking, the box bumped against the ground and vibrated noticeably, as if it had triggered some kind of internal self-destruct switch.

It suddenly cracked open with a loud bang.

Like an automatically opened umbrella, it revealed everything inside the box to everyone.

It was a spherical mass formed by a cluster of red-eyed, black-bellied fruit flies crowding together.

It looks like a beehive full of bees.

The fruit flies were startled and freed from the box's restraints.

It immediately started flapping its wings and flying around wildly, just like a startled wasp.

"Damn it, I'll risk it!"

"Throw all the boxes away!"

With things having come to this point, negotiations have completely fallen apart.

The gang leader hardened his heart and immediately ordered the burly men beside him to activate the box and release the fruit flies inside to create chaos among the crowd.

"Aaaaaaah!"

Screams erupted everywhere, and airport passengers scattered in all directions, creating utter chaos.

The mere sight of fruit flies buzzing around like wasps is enough to frighten many timid people.

Then I remembered the other party's confident assertion that it carried the virus.

The surrounding ordinary passengers were almost all in a state of panic.

I would rather trust it to have it than to trust it to have nothing.

No one would dare to joke about something like this with their life on their hands.

Hundreds of people dodged the fruit flies swarming around them like they were dodging wasps.

"No, we can't let them get stuck to us."

"Let's see if the toxin from the fly mushroom has any effect on them."

Yang Lin also dared not gamble that the fruit flies were harmless. While following the crowd and trying to avoid them, he silently urged the mycelium of the poisonous fly mushroom to grow on his skin.

Furthermore, it transforms all the nutrients into its toxins.

By utilizing the local airflow generated during movement, the toxins are diffused invisibly into the small area of ​​air around the body.

This formed a gas barrier approximately three feet thick.

Worried about accidentally hurting others, Yang Lin did not move with the crowd.

Several fruit flies approached Yang Lin, but their movements quickly became stiff, and they were unable to maintain flight, falling to the ground.

"It seems to be working." Seeing this, Yang Lin felt a little more at ease.

The toxic components of the fly mushroom are mainly neurotoxins, which have a special effect on flies.

In the past, people often collected these mushrooms, dried them, and roasted them over a fire to kill flies with the substances they emitted.

It only takes a minute or two to kill a fly that flies by.

Although fruit flies and houseflies are not the same species and have certain differences, the toxin from the fly mushroom is also toxic to fruit flies, but it doesn't have a specific effect on them.

However, in his nervousness and concern for his own safety, Yang Lin's toxins were fresher and purer than those dried-up fly mushrooms, and had not been destroyed by the high temperature of the flames.

The concentration of toxins in the surrounding area was terrifyingly high.

The fruit flies around him naturally couldn't get close.

Other ordinary passengers were not so lucky.

If a fruit fly happens to land on a passenger, the passenger will be so frightened that they will scream and jump around as if they are on fire.

When people are in disarray, criminals can easily find an opportunity.

Almost the instant the fruit fly flew out, seeing that the threat from the box in their hands had disappeared, the thugs were ruthless and decisive, and immediately turned their attention to the surrounding passengers.

Several burly thugs grabbed two hostages in the chaos.

"I'll say it again! Don't move!"

The thugs had their hands around the hostage's neck, trying to use the hostage as leverage to force the security guards to release their captured comrade.

"Isn't it a bit unfair that the two of you want to trade with the three of us?" Captain Zhang continued to communicate verbally, trying to buy time.

Just then, a criminal who was close to Yang Lin in the crowd and had not yet been exposed noticed that Yang Lin was somewhat far away from the crowd and was not standing with the others.

They immediately followed.

Come here!

The burly man was very strong, with arms as thick as Yang Lin's legs. He launched a sudden attack and immediately grabbed Yang Lin.

"Now we have three hostages."

The gang leader said with a chuckle.