287: Green Hell: Subway Station

Z City.

Inside the subway, waves of sweat odor continuously poured into Xu Feng's nostrils through his mask.

The stuffy environment made the sweat flow uncontrollably.

This was a vicious cycle, making people not want to stay here for another moment.

Looking at the temporary news notification for Z City on his telephone, Xu Feng finally realized that the air conditioning on this subway line was broken.

"Damn it, this is more than ten meters underground, it shouldn't be this hot even without air conditioning, right?"

The bald man beside him lifted his sweat-soaked shirt and wiped the sweat from his face.

Xu Feng pushed up his glasses.

The weather was indeed getting stranger and stranger.

It should have been winter in December, but outside it was so hot that many people were still wearing short sleeves.

Thinking of those guys in his circle of friends who did down jacket business and wailed all day, Xu Feng felt quite sympathetic.

This was like Heaven not providing food.

He opened his telephone and looked.

The content online was like a large group of Evil Cult brainwashing ordinary people.

In the past few months, there have been all sorts of statements.

Such as global warming, the ozone layer on the verge of collapse, population explosion, a sharp increase in oxygen content...

Regardless of what King Ghost Snake God statements there were, they all appeared before the public.

Regarding these, the authorities did not stop them; instead, those experts joined the discussion.

With the mindset of a spectator, he scrolled through these news articles for a while, when his telephone suddenly vibrated twice.

It was in the School leaders' group, the School Director was @-ing him.

Wang Director: @ Teacher Xu, are you there?

Looking at these words, Xu Feng was a bit confused.

He didn't have classes these past two days, and he heard early on that this Wang Director was best at squeezing Teachers.

He wasn't going to have to go back to School now that he was about to get home, was he?

Although he thought this, the movement in Xu Feng's hand was not slow.

[I'm here, what's up?]

After typing these words and pressing send.

A continuously rotating half-circle appeared on the screen...

Looking at the red signal on his telephone, two seconds later, the network was completely disconnected.

He waited for a while.

Xu Feng finally had no choice but to put his telephone into his pocket.

Originally, his telephone could distract him a bit, so he wouldn't think about the sweat odor in the carriage.

Now that he couldn't connect to the internet, Xu Feng felt the smell in the carriage was becoming increasingly pungent.

It was like some kind of decaying corpse, soaked in stagnant water, chopped up, and sprinkled all over the carriage.

Awful!

"If this air conditioning isn't fixed, I won't be able to take this line's subway anymore."

He sighed and shook his head.

"Terminal station Z City South Station has arrived."

As the sound from the broadcast emerged, the train doors slowly opened with a soft "hiss".

For a moment, the people inside the train rushed out.

Xu Feng tried to squeeze towards the door, and immediately got several dark sweat stains on his body from being squeezed by people.

It wasn't easy to finally reach the subway station, away from the people in the carriage, and the air was finally much better.

He checked his briefcase, looked at his telephone which still had no signal, and walked towards the station exit.

"Ouch!"

An elderly woman who was exiting the station with him stumbled and fell directly onto the ground.

Luckily, the distance was a bit far, otherwise Xu Feng would have thought he encountered a staged accident.

Looking at the ground under the elderly woman's feet, Xu Feng noticed a patch of moss there; she had stepped on the moss while going up the stairs.

Wet ground with moss growing on it, the friction coefficient dropped sharply, no wonder the elderly woman fell.

The subway station had grown moss, and it was even on the only path for passengers exiting the station.

How careless must the cleaner be?

"Ah!

Why didn't you look at the sign?"

The cleaning auntie ran over with a mop, pointed tiredly at the sign on the side—Caution: Slippery Floor.

Hearing this, the elderly woman groaned twice, held her waist, and immediately got angry: "Slippery floor?

Look at what's on the ground?

Such a large patch of moss, isn't this something you deliberately left here to harm people?!"

"You look like a simple girl, how can you be so cruel!"

Hearing this, the cleaning auntie seemed to have suffered immense grievance: "Deliberately harming people?!

I originally cleaned the subway station once a day, but now I clean it five or six times a day or more!

Just for your safety."

"You say I harm people?

What do I gain from it?!"

"Cleaning five or six times a day, and this thing can still grow on the ground?"

The elderly woman seemed to instantly see through the cleaning auntie's lie, and her words became even more fierce.

Listening to the two arguing, Xu Feng secretly shook his head and walked past from the side.

As he passed, he discovered that the moss in the subway station was not only where the elderly woman was.

In some corners, in those stuffy and damp places, there was even a lot of algae.

He had heard long ago that this stuff grows fast, it might really be due to the cleaning auntie's negligence for a few days.

Exiting the subway station, the stuffy heat wave made a lot of sweat reappear on Xu Feng's body.

Looking at the lush and green trees on both sides, he couldn't feel the slightest appearance of what winter should be like.

"Buzz buzz buzz~"

As soon as his telephone received a signal, Wang Director's call came in.

"Hello?

Director."

As Xu Feng's voice fell, Wang Director's voice followed: "Teacher Xu, did your Students go camping at Baiquan Mountain yesterday?"

"Camping?

Yes, there is such a matter."

Xu Feng nodded, then emphasized: "They ranked first in the grade this time, so I personally paid for this activity for them, hoping they could relax a bit and improve their relationships with classmates."

"Did you ask their physical education Teacher Huang Gang to take them camping?"

Wang Director had clearly done some research on this.

Xu Feng nodded: "Something came up in my hometown, I was planning to ask the School for a short leave these past two days."

"Alas, Teacher Xu, you might have to go to Baiquan Mountain to check it out now!"

Wang Director's tone suddenly became a bit heavier.

"What's wrong?"

Xu Feng vaguely heard something was not right.

On the other end of the telephone, Wang Director's face under his sparse hair was very distressed: "Our School here can't contact Huang Gang anymore."

"Can't contact him?"

Hearing this, Xu Feng immediately thought of many things.

Wang Director continued: "The Students also don't carry telephones, and we've been trying to contact Huang Gang for a long time but can't.

The School has already called the Police."

"It's just that the Police said it's only a short period of being unreachable for now, and they can't determine that those Students are missing yet."

Learning this through the telephone, Xu Feng's brow was already furrowed: "I'll go to Baiquan Mountain to check."

As this sentence came through the telephone, Wang Director took a deep breath: "Then be careful.

I just heard the Police say there are a lot of animals on the mountain recently.

If you really can't find them, just wait for the Police."

Contacting Xu Feng to look for the Students was also Z City First High School's last resort.

They really couldn't spare anyone to look for them.

If they waited a few more hours, they could wait for the Police.

But by that time, it would undoubtedly make people more uneasy.

It would also have a huge impact on their School.

"I understand."

Xu Feng said, not feeling relaxed.

Knowing that his Students were unreachable, Xu Feng was undoubtedly more worried than all the School leaders.

He looked at the map of Baiquan Mountain.

Xu Feng turned his head to look at the subway station behind him...

"Alright, I have to take this subway line to get there."

He turned around and walked towards the subway station.

The pungent smell of sweat, however, seemed to have become even worse, actually filling the entire subway station.

Down below, the elderly woman who had fallen was still arguing with the cleaning auntie, and there were a few bored onlookers around.

He looked at the departure time.

Xu Feng put away his telephone, which had no signal again.

His eyes under his glasses looked at the subway station, and Xu Feng felt that this odor was no longer just sweat odor.

"Ah!"

Suddenly.

A scream suddenly erupted from the subway carriage!

Hearing this sound, Xu Feng's gaze focused as he looked at the carriage.

He saw that in the carriage which had arrived at the station and was being cleaned and disinfected by cleaners, the air vent above had fallen directly down.

If it were just this, of course, it wouldn't cause people to scream.

What caused people to scream out was.

As this air vent fell, a sticky worm the size of an arm slowly wriggled.

With a "plop", it fell into the carriage!

There was more than one such huge and disgusting worm; when the first worm slowly fell to the ground, another one followed, and then another...

Looking at these worms.

Xu Feng finally understood the source of that foul odor!

"Click click click~~"

Standing outside the carriage, Xu Feng could clearly see through the open door.

Following the cleaner's scream, several more air vents above began to loosen!

Frowning at these, Xu Feng grabbed the cleaner and pulled her out of the carriage.

"Clang~ Clang~"

In the very next moment, several air vents fell.

One by one, worms like enlarged slugs, soon covered the carriage floor stickily!

The sticky interior of the carriage was instantly filled with who knows how many bacteria!

This rather horrifying scene made Xu Feng step back.

The cleaner beside him covered her mouth, still trembling with fear.

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"Does Host choose to bind?"