I am Jinshan Youxia

"It's complicated, but I have a simpler solution."

Zhang Chengyi smiled calmly and knocked on the door of the Mushroom Man Laboratory from the N City base.

"Your Highness."

The mushroom-man looked dejected, with a scraggly beard and messy hair. He said with a guilty expression, "I'm sorry, I've let you down."

"I think I've figured out the problem with the lunar colonization plan. The fungal carpet is too unstable, and if we leave the fungal carpet, there's a lack of energy to supply the mushrooms, right?"

Zhang Chengyi got straight to the point, stating his thoughts and understanding.

"..." The mushroom man was silent for a moment, then said with difficulty, "Yes."

In his view, it was an unparalleled honor that the lord of the microbiome who had saved his life was willing to entrust him with the task of deciding the life and death of humanity. Now, however, he was facing an intractable predicament.

This is blatant incompetence.

"Power supply?" Zhang Chengyi grinned, patted the mushroom-man's shoulder, and said casually:

"I'll take care of it."

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Tokyo, underwater base, underground isolation layer -7.

"Tap, tap, tap"

Zhang Chengyi stared at the balloon depicting the woman's head repeatedly hitting the one-way glass, his expression unusually grave.

This isn't the one that came from a parallel world; it's the first human-head balloon actually born in this world.

After discovering that it was Junji Ito's world, he instructed the Investigation Department to keep an eye on the originator of the human head balloons in the manga: actress Terumi Fujino.

According to the manga's plot, Terumi Fujino hanged herself from an electrical wire outside her apartment due to emotional reasons, turning into the first human head balloon. Following her, many of her fans also hanged themselves.

Meanwhile, Fujino Terumi's boyfriend, Shiraishi Sumi, was also attacked by a large number of fans. The human head balloon kept appearing and floating nearby. Finally, when he wanted to talk to the human head balloon, he was hanged by the human head balloon that suddenly appeared and belonged to him, becoming the first victim of this story.

Then, all the human head balloons appear, and the world falls apart. These things are intelligent and can deceive people with words. They desperately want to kill the original body. Once destroyed, the original body will also die. According to the world view of the comic, the ending should be the annihilation of humanity.

Zhang Chengyi thought that by sending people to monitor Fujino Terumi and Shiraishi Puya, and by having the mental ability user dilute Fujino Terumi's influence, he could prevent the appearance of the head balloon.

Unfortunately, the human head balloon still appeared.

She appeared out of thin air. Even though Terumi Fujino was still alive and no longer a female celebrity, she still quietly floated in the air above Tokyo one morning, parading through the city.

The most troublesome thing is that Fujino Terumi herself has not suffered from mental distortion. Zhang Chengyi has examined her repeatedly, but he still doesn't know how this thing affects humans.

Perhaps from the moment that human-headed balloon from a parallel world arrived in this world, this out-of-control rule, which he still couldn't figure out at all, had already begun to spread.

"Hopefully, we can at least complete the first phase of lunar colonization before the second head appears."

The Lord of the Microbiome sighed.

Chapter 350 The rest is up to you.

The bad news is that a second head balloon appeared just two days later.

"Please let me go, I beg you."

Seeing Shiraishi Puye's tearful face, Zhang Chengyi couldn't help but feel a sense of disgust, a feeling known as the "big butt effect."

How exactly does this thing affect humanity? It's as if the underlying logic of the world states that another corresponding human-shaped balloon will grow out of the sky.

Intelligent and adept at deceiving with words and expressions, if it weren't for having only one head, it would be indistinguishable from a living person.

Unlike any rules that have appeared before, the "Head Balloon" seems to be a bizarre thing created simply to erase humanity.

His global microbiome monitoring clearly showed that on Shiraishi Puye's way to school, about 1,500 meters above his head, an identical large human head balloon suddenly appeared out of thin air, and then it swooped down to try to find its original body.

Then he was caught by a passing security team using telekinesis and thrown into an isolation room.

It's a bit strange, but its combat power is pitifully weak. It can't even break ordinary glass. Apart from being able to fly and not being able to be harmed, it's the easiest 'outlier' to contain.

Zhang Chengyi didn't even know if this thing could be considered an out-of-control rule.

Theoretically, all the extraordinary things we've seen so far are a kind of rule-breaking, including the house of the high school student Oshikiri who can travel between parallel worlds, but what exactly the human head balloon is remains a mystery.

At this rate, it's probably not far off that balloons depicting all of humanity's heads will appear in the sky.

In the manga, it only took one month from the time Fujino Terumi died to the end of the manga.

Zhang Chengyi has already notified the security team and the church to pay attention to the sky and be ready to capture the human head balloons at any time. The underground space is definitely enough to isolate each balloon. Since these human head balloons have no other special abilities and their attack and defense capabilities are extremely poor, even worse than ordinary humans, theoretically they are not that complicated to deal with. After containment, they can be treated as if they do not exist.

But the problem is that Hellstar is on its way. If Hellstar devours Earth, the human head balloon will definitely burst, and humanity will still be wiped out.

It's no longer enough for humans to escape from Earth; they must escape with billions of human-shaped balloons or even take the Earth with them.

After all, no one knows if the human-shaped balloon can survive outside of Earth. What if it explodes in space?

"A world of misfortune, and people of misfortune."

Zhang Chengyi sighed. He had done his best, serving as the cornerstone of the extraordinary system, constantly expanding the understanding of corrupted minds to allow humanity to grow faster, helping to analyze the rules for containing out-of-control situations, cleaning up messes at critical moments, and the currently proceeding lunar colonization program was all powered by his body...

No other world has ever required him to go to such lengths.

Too much suffering had left him with little inclination to find joy. Humanity was like walking a tightrope, where any gust of wind could lead to its demise.

"The rest is up to you."

Zhang Chengyi quietly observed from multiple perspectives as humanity struggled, tried, and clung to the last straw while drowning, constantly attempting to swim out of the whirlpool.

As a master of modifying mods, he couldn't do much more. Energy was just a matter of changing the numbers. With two bodies buried underground in the mushroom city, they could completely replace the mushroom carpet to power all the mushrooms in the city.

In the future, when building cities or exploring other planets, one can bury their body there.

For him, as long as he cancels his perception of his body and most of his control, he can simply release the energy that nurtures the microbial community in a stable and orderly manner to sustain countless microbial communities in the vicinity.

However, his body is finite, and his energy output over time is also limited. If humanity were to rely entirely on him for energy, sixteen years would probably not be enough to achieve faster-than-light speeds or destroy planets.

"The rest is up to you." He repeated the sentence again in a low voice.

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Three days later, Tokyo, at the Aircraft Launch Site.

Standing at the front of the long line waiting to board the aircraft, Kitawaki Shihiko glanced at the sky every now and then, his face full of worry.

The story of the human-headed balloon has spread throughout the world. The fact that some indigenous people in Africa tried to attack the human-headed balloon and ended up killing themselves serves as a warning to everyone.

Anyone who pays even a little attention to the outside world knows that it is absolutely untouchable and cannot be attacked; one can only wait for the security team and the church to take it in.

From then on, their lives were in the hands of others, and there was nothing they could do about it; it was just their bad luck.

"Brother, what do you think it will be like on the other side of the moon?" Kitawaki Natsumi asked softly.

The church and security forces had opened the immigration channel to the Moon Bacteria City several days ago. At first, the vast majority of people were unwilling to leave Earth, did not want to leave their familiar environment, and did not want to go to the strange, dangerous and unknown Moon.

The conditions offered by the microbiome migration program are that immigrants will receive 500 contribution points, free housing, and a free microbiome deviation value adaptation test, which has attracted many people to sign up.

"It should be pretty good," Kitawaki Shihiko said insincerely.

He and his sister signed up for immigration as soon as the application channel appeared. Contribution points are important, and Earth may not be safe. He had been in a laboratory before, and being studied is also a kind of experiment. He knew that aliens were rapidly engulfing the land where humans could live normally, so he might as well take advantage of the benefits and participate in immigration.

Most importantly, because of their connection with the alien 'puppet,' if the puppet were to go out of control one day, they would definitely be the first victims.

Seeing his older brother, Kitawaki Yukihiko, and his family of three, who had been turned into puppets in the laboratory, still sends chills down his spine.

Of course, if he knew how useless the puppet's vessel, 'Jiang Pier,' was, it would be a different story.

"here we go again!"

Amidst the cacophony of shouts, a large group of balloons bearing human heads, their faces contorted with terrifying smiles and howls, were swiftly frozen in mid-air by telekinesis.

“That’s… my head balloon.”

Kitawaki Shihiko looked up at the face that belonged to 'himself', which was staring at him with resentful eyes, and felt a little heavy-hearted.

If the Lord of the Microbiome hadn't suddenly appeared, if there hadn't been superpowers, and if the human head balloon hadn't appeared, what would have awaited humanity?

Destruction?

"Kitawaki Shihiko, Kitawaki Natsumi," the operator at the front called out.

Kitawaki Shihiko's thoughts were interrupted. He took one last look at his head balloon before stepping into the aviation mushroom with his sister.

"Don't be afraid, remember to wait for me where you are when you wake up..." he said, as sleepiness came over him. He watched as his sister Xia Mei nodded vigorously and was covered by mushrooms. He no longer resisted the sleepiness, and after his body relaxed, he was covered by mushrooms and fell into a deep sleep.

Chapter 351 Kitawaki Shihiko's First Experience in the Mushroom City (Part 1)

The Moon, Mushroom City, Aircraft Mushroom Landing Site.

"Gurgle~"

The newly landed aircraft mushroom slowly cracked open, the passenger-carrying part splitting apart, and the liquid spores carrying one sleeping passenger after another flowed into the security checkpoint.

Too many human thoughts can affect the temporary minds of the aircraft mushrooms, so each passenger is forced into a state of mental isolation after boarding the mushroom.

The two security team members in charge of the security checkpoints worked together seamlessly. One used telekinesis to check the items carried on people's bodies, while the other used mental abilities to sense mental pollution. In the blink of an eye, dozens of people "flowed" out of the security checkpoint and arrived at the Awakening Hall outside.

"I heard that the human head balloons on Earth have been causing quite a stir lately."

"Yes, I have a friend in the lab who told me that a test team tried to send a death row inmate with a balloon containing a human head to Mars, and then popped the balloon, but the death row inmate still died."

"That thing doesn't care whether the victim is an ordinary person or a superhuman. If it can't be controlled, and the superhuman gets caught by the rope or its own head balloon bursts, it will die on the spot."

"What's most disgusting is that the appearance of the human head balloons is completely random, and more and more of them are popping up."

"Luckily we signed up early and arrived on the moon ahead of time, otherwise..."

"Huh, the little guy's awake?"

"You have quite a bit of talent."

Kitawaki Shihiko vaguely heard a lot of information. He barely opened his eyes and saw a river of flowing white spores.

"Pass." That was the last sound he could hear, and then his body involuntarily began to move with the spores.

When he finally came to his senses, he was lying in a completely white hall with an arched ceiling, surrounded by a crowd of people who were fast asleep. People who stood up in twos and threes were immediately lifted into the air by telekinesis.

Kitawaki Shihiko was no exception; he remained quite calm even when lifted up by telekinesis. He had been lifted up several times in the lab before, and his most compatible bacterial flora was also telekinesis.

Unfortunately, no contribution points have been made for transplantation. Although the number of psychic users is not small, it is actually a survivor bias. How many people in modern society have a strong will? More than 95% of people have no compatibility with the psychic bacteria. The remaining 5% have a very low bias value, which leads to the distortion or deterioration of their abilities.

Complete psychic bacteria are currently only available in churches, law enforcement agencies, and governments of various countries; very few are circulating among the general public, mainly because they are not used.