"What … is this place?"
The dark environment and fear still surrounded its head. It was an Atlan. It had received a mission from Maya to go to the core area of the fungal zone to observe the situation. Bzzz.
However, when it went to the edge of the fungal forest, it was tackled by a group of skeletons.
When its armor was taken off, it thought that its life would be extinguished.
However, it found that it survived. It was a miracle that it could survive in such a place where the air was filled with fungal dust.
However, this miracle might not be a good thing for it …
"Ugh …" Atlan was being dragged on the ground. Its body was tied with a large number of 'ropes' made of tough mycelium.
It was being dragged by a group of skeletons. The skeletons were making strange noises as they dragged it quickly.
There were a large number of mushrooms growing on both sides of it and other strange fungal structures. All of this meant that it was deep in the fungal forest. The special thing was that the fungal dust here did not seem to be infectious.
Although it was in the air, it did not grow when it landed on Atlan's body.
However, the large amount of dust still made it cough uncontrollably.
"Cough!" When it coughed for the first time, the skeletons suddenly stopped, threw it on the ground, and ran away.
"Strange?" Because the skeletons let go, the mycelium on Atlan's body also loosened. It stood up and looked around. There was nothing around. It was still a dense forest. And the skeletons had run off to who knows where.
"Is it safe?"
For this kind of situation. Atlan felt that it was very strange, but it did not act rashly. Instead, it carefully walked in the direction it came from.
The skeletons had not dragged it into the forest for long, so it felt that it could walk out the way it came. The armor that was taken off should still be at the edge of the forest. As long as it could find the armor …
What was this?
Suddenly, Atlan found a strange thing on the side of the 'road' it was dragged on. There was no such thing when it came here.
This thing looked like a hemispherical object. There was an entrance on the surface. It looked like a small house.
However, its structure was completely similar to the structure of a fungus carpet. It was very soft to the touch, and there was dust falling off it.
Although this place was very dangerous and unsuitable to stay for long, for some reason, when Atlan saw this small house made of fungi, he had the urge to go in and take a look.
This thought was quite strong, and it … involuntarily … walked into the 'door' of the house.
"There's nothing in here?" After entering the house, Atlan realized that it was very spacious inside. There was nothing suspicious. Then, Atlan continued to walk on the path that he was dragged to.
"What's going on here?"
It had only walked for a short while. However, he found that the path ahead had disappeared.
Earlier, the skeleton had been dragging it along a forest path. Logically speaking, the path should have led to the edge of the forest, but now it was gone.
Was it covered by something?
Atlan took a closer look at the fungi growing at the end of the road. They looked no different from the other mushrooms around them. They did not look like they had just grown.
In short, it was lost again.
If he walked into the forest now, he might get lost again … What should he do?
That's right.
Atlan suddenly remembered that there was a communication device in the pocket of his clothes. Although the skeletons took off his armor, they did not take off all his clothes.
Atlan took out the small device. He could use this device to locate the position of the armor. That way, he could …
Just as Atlan was about to press the button, the device exploded with a 'pop!' and turned into pieces that scattered on the ground.
"What?" Atlan was shocked. He thought that the device was destroyed by something. He quickly looked around, but he could not see the creature that attacked him …
However, the fear made Atlan feel that he could not stay here any longer. He left the path and ran into the forest.
He did not care if he would get lost. Atlan ran wildly in the forest. He kept pushing away the soft fungal structures and kept running …
The running lasted for a long time. Due to his extensive combat training, Atlan had great endurance. So, he ran for a long time … until he felt that he was exhausted. Only then did he stop.
"This is … I'm out?"
Atlan was surprised to find that the forest in front of him did not continue to spread. He ran to the edge of the forest. The scenery in front of him turned into a vast fungal carpet again. However … there were no giant umbrella mushrooms growing on the plain.
Furthermore, there were many hills on the carpet. This was obviously not the place he came from. It was somewhere else.
"What is this place …"
Just as Atlan was puzzled, he suddenly saw a creature appear in front of him. The creature was a beetle. It was on the hill in front of him.
Atlan subconsciously reached for his weapon. He then remembered that he had no weapon. So, he quickly retreated back into the forest. However, at that moment, the beetle spoke … Words.
"You're here. You're really here."
"What?" Atlan was surprised that the four-limbed beetle could speak Atlan's language. At that moment, the beetle suddenly ran in front of him.
"You must have a lot of questions." The beetle said to Atlan, "No matter what, you can join our plan. We have a very big operation."
"Operation?" As soon as Atlan asked the question, a loud boom sounded in front of him. A small hill suddenly exploded, and a huge creature appeared in the smoke and dust of the explosion.
"This is … a troll?"
The creature was about three meters tall. It was the same height as a normal troll in Atlan. It was not as scary as the 30-meter tall one before.
However, it looked very similar to the 30-meter tall one. Its entire body was covered in mycelia-like structures. There were bumps and bumps made of fungi all over its body. It was obviously infected by fungi.
Boom! At the same time, the hills around them exploded as well. From every hill that exploded, one or more monsters would appear. They swayed their bodies and slowly walked towards Atlan's direction.
Atlan wanted to run, but he realized that his legs could not move. It was not because of fear … It was because his body seemed to be rejecting this kind of movement.
"We're making these things," the beetle said to Atlan. The beetle said to Atlan, "I made a lot of them. They are not very useful, but you are very useful."
The beetle pointed at Atlan's head and said, "They have no consciousness. You have consciousness. You can make all kinds of things for us."
"Make … things?"
Atlan's question was quickly answered. The beetle suddenly opened his wings and flew in front of him. He poked his head slightly. Atlan immediately felt an image appear in his mind.
In this image, there was an empty fungal plain. In the middle of the plain, there was a huge object.
This object was a block … a block made of machinery. It was more than 50 meters tall but it was a half-finished product. From the side, one could see all kinds of complicated metal parts exposed outside.
Beside this block, there was a large number of Atlan. They were carrying all kinds of metals and assembling them on this block.
"Could it be … those are Atlan who were infected because they ate worms …"
Seeing this image, Atlan understood. In addition to what Maya said before, he knew what was going on …
These fungi had a purpose for infecting them.
Because the infected monsters and skeletons did not have much intelligence, they wanted to directly control the Atlan whose minds were still intact.
That was why they purposely released the easy-to-catch beetles for them to eat and infect them.
The infected Atlan would involuntarily gather at this place. The fungi did this to make these Atlan help them assemble machinery, like that giant block.
That block was the Brain Block. Perhaps these fungal beetles found some Brain Block technology in this underground base but did not know how to use it, so they wanted to control the Atlan to help them build machinery.
Because the Atlan still had this technology, but they were currently lacking the materials. Most of their bases were in the fungal area.
But without this limitation, they should have been able to find enough materials to build a flying machine.
Although the fungal beetles did not want to build the common flying machine but the Brain Block.
What was their purpose for creating this thing? Could it be … they wanted to leave this world and infect other worlds?
That was the only thought in Atlan's mind.
If the fungal beetles went to other worlds with multicellular organisms, they might turn that world into the same as this one …
Atlan also noticed some problems with itself. It started from the moment it involuntarily entered the fungal hut. It seemed to have been following the path set by the fungal beetles and finally arrived at this place.
Although it did not eat the beetles, it felt like it was being controlled.
"You are a Awakened." The beetle continued to point at Atlan's head. "You are free."
Then it pointed at Atlan's legs. "But you are not free."
"With this characteristic, you can command them," the beetle said. Beetle said, "You will help us construct those things... Then, we can complete our 'mission'."
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