132: Unbreakable

"Run!"

When this thought flashed through the Silver Moon Fierce Wolf's mind, its body had already reacted in advance. With a swish, it began to flee at nearly ten times the speed of sound.

But the Silver Moon Fierce Wolf then discovered that its four legs had unknowingly been stuck by the black Mycelium on the ground. More importantly, even with its explosive power of nearly ten times the speed of sound, it couldn't break free?

While the Silver Moon Fierce Wolf was struggling frantically, on the black Mycelium-covered ground in front of it, strands of Mycelium intertwined, gradually forming a mass and growing taller, until finally, a humanoid monster appeared before its eyes.

"A human?"

The Silver Moon Fierce Wolf was puzzled. It sniffed carefully; the scent of a human on him was very faint, almost to the point of disappearing. Replacing the human scent wasn't the foul stench of a monster, but rather a fresh fragrance?

Yes, it was a fresh fragrance, a scent like the vegetation that filled the Wilderness Area.

The Silver Moon Fierce Wolf twitched its nose, its brow furrowing deeper the more it smelled.

It wasn't until Qiao Yu fully appeared before it that it confirmed the figure in front of it was indeed a human.

"Wu~"

A subconscious threatening growl escaped the Silver Moon Fierce Wolf's throat, sounding like a V8 engine, constantly warning the human before it.

But Qiao Yu didn't care about the Silver Moon Fierce Wolf's warning at all.

The moment he appeared, Qiao Yu waved his hand, and countless Fungus Monsters around pounced to tear and bite at the Silver Moon Fierce Wolf.

However, the truck-sized Silver Moon Fierce Wolf was no pushover. Even with its limbs bound, its bloody maw remained a great threat.

With a few crunches, it swallowed several Fungus Monsters. However, those Fungus Monsters were already finding it difficult to pierce the defenses of a King-level Monster.

But Qiao Yu was in no hurry. He just clapped his hands, and ten Lord Level Black-crowned Golden Eagles appeared on the ground.

When the Silver Moon Fierce Wolf saw that the Black-crowned Golden Eagle it had struggled so hard to kill earlier had now appeared in a group of ten, the shock in its eyes was beyond measure... Ultimately, under the siege of tens of thousands of Fungus Monsters, the Silver Moon Fierce Wolf was completely devoured.

Its flesh and blood were also absorbed by the fungi and handed over to the System for genetic analysis.

During the System's analysis, Qiao Yu continued to expand throughout the city.

A Level One Fungus Nest required the size of a single-story house, a Level 2 Fungal Nest required the size of a building, while a level 3 fungal nest required the size of an entire city to be established.

A Level One Fungus Nest could spawn Beast General Level Fungus Monsters, a Level 2 Fungal Nest could spawn Lord Level Fungus Monsters, and a level 3 fungal nest could naturally spawn King-level Monsters.

A King-level Monster ruling a city—it made sense when thought about that way.

Qiao Yu first spread the Mycelium across the entire city, then let it continuously erode the buildings within.

It wasn't that Qiao Yu was being overly cautious; although Fungus Monsters had incredible defense, their numbers weren't actually that high. Currently, they probably numbered only about 500,000 in total.

Setting aside dealing with monsters in the ocean, 500,000 was far too few even compared to land monsters.

A beast pack launching even the lowest-level beast tide would involve millions of monsters. Assuming one Fungus Monster could handle ten monsters, 500,000 Fungus Monsters could only face 5 million ordinary monsters.

In comparison, it was only enough to handle the lowest Level 3 beast tide.

Qiao Yu's current tactic was merely to use a strategy of subtle infiltration to kill off the monsters in the city one by one.

A Level 2 Beast Tide started with tens of millions, while a Level 1 beast tide was measured in the hundreds of millions, not to mention even more terrifying beast tides above those.

Currently, the number of Level 2 Fungal Nests in the city had exceeded a hundred, but it would take nearly a thousand Level 2 Fungal Nests to raise the Rank to level 3... For three consecutive days, countless monsters frantically resisted the encroachment of the Fungus Monsters. Having realized with their intelligence that Fungus Monsters tended to target lone monsters, the other monsters began to huddle together for warmth.

The fungus spread through the city like a zombie virus. Any Beast Soldier-level Monster touched by the fungus would be immediately devoured and mutated, becoming part of the Fungus Monster army.

While Beast General Level monsters didn't die instantly upon contact, they were equally troubled by how persistent the fungus was.

Most Beast Soldier-level Monsters had been infected and become part of the Fungus Monsters. Since Beast General Level monsters also needed to eat, if they consumed an infected Beast Soldier-level Monster, the fungus would break through from the inside, infecting the Beast General Level monster and turning it into a Fungus Monster.

All the monsters in the city were in a state of panic. Although the Beast General Level monsters huddled together and even fled to seek refuge under Lord-level Monsters, the Lord-level Monsters were also struggling to save themselves.

Over a thousand Lord-level Monsters in the city fled to the protection of King-level groups to save themselves.

Currently, only King-level groups could ensure the safety of other monsters amidst this virus-like fungal spread.

Even the King-level Monsters within the King-level groups had to be deployed to resist the attacks from the Fungus Monsters or even counter-attack.

Dozens of King-level Monsters appeared exceptionally exhausted facing the onslaught of various Fungus Monsters, such as Lord Level fungus Black-crowned Golden Eagles, Lord Level fungus Silver Moon Fierce Wolves, and Lord Level fungus Iron-armored Rhinos.

Hunger was also taking its toll within the King-level groups. Those newly joined Beast General Level monsters often became food for higher-ranking monsters.

The King-level groups were even considering whether to move to another city. However, they had been rooted in City No. 021 for decades and had finally formed complete King-level groups. Unless they faced total extinction, they generally wouldn't choose to change their nests.

Qiao Yu was also troubled by the stubborn resistance of these King-level groups. He couldn't break through their defenses, but giving up was naturally impossible, so he could only wear them down bit by bit.

However, while grinding down their progress, Qiao Yu wasn't idle. One by one, fungus-infected Lord-level Monsters set out toward the surrounding cities.

The Wilderness Area was also occupied by Qiao Yu's Mycelium. Not only were the monsters fungalized, but the plants in the Wilderness Area were as well. If Qiang the Bald came to this Wilderness Area to cut down trees now, his chainsaw probably wouldn't even be able to break the bark of a fungal tree.

Level 2 Fungal Nests appeared in surrounding cities, wilderness jungles, and remote forests.

However, just as the fungus expanded into the deep mountains, it discovered a group composed of King-level flying monsters. Because they were located in the deep mountains, which were easy to defend and hard to attack, even though Qiao Yu had covered the mountains with Mycelium, he still couldn't break the Red Divine Eagle group. The biggest reason was that flying monsters could fly away at any time.

"It's so damn annoying. I can't break through on land, and I still can't break through against those that can fly."