Chapter 14: Abnormal Creatures in the Community (2)

This wave of comfortable and warm energy flowed back, and Yenne let out a comfortable sigh. Her body, which had been slightly chilled by the rain, warmed up, and even the slight discomfort caused by her period disappeared.

Seeing that the matter was settled, Ye Nai didn't dare to stay any longer and went back home after a detour.

The first thing I do when I get home is clean up. Six people live in a house of less than 60 square meters, and there are a lot of daily chores. If I don’t tidy up in a day, there will be no place to step.

While her parents were mopping the floor in the master bedroom, her father Ye Yu, who was browsing on his phone in the living room, suddenly shouted.

"Yenna!"

"What are you doing?" Ye Nai hurried out with a mop.

"Our building group said something happened in the neighborhood."

"What happened?"

"It seems that there are strange plants and beasts appearing?"

"Ah?! Did anyone see it?" Ye Nai put down the mop and tried to grab her father's phone. "It's hard to listen to your retelling. I'll see it myself."

"Hey, hey, hey, don't grab it, don't grab it, I still want to watch it, don't you have a cell phone?"

“I didn’t join the group.”

"Hold your phone. Hold your phone. I'll take you into the group."

After a lot of trouble between the father and daughter, Ye Nai finally joined the building group and took out her card camera to look through the fresh photos taken on the scene one by one.

The scene was completely destroyed. Such a long, intact ridge of earth was trampled into several sections.

It was still raining outside, but residents who came to watch the fun with umbrellas had already surrounded the exercise ground in three layers.

There really are many layers inside and outside, because some residents of the buildings next to the venue took photos from a high vantage point, and they were forwarded through various building groups. Not only the residents of the community, but also relatives and friends of each household saw it, and some even posted it online.

"The scene is destroyed, what else can be seen?"

“Well, we can’t see it, but it’s good enough if the experts can see it.” Her father said as he poked at his phone.

"Dad, what are you doing?"

"Send it to my colleagues. It's rare to see strange beasts in urban communities after all these years."

"Are you really looking forward to the appearance of abnormal creatures in the city? Have you had enough of the good life?"

"What nonsense! That's what I said."

"Oh, I thought you thought your life was too dull and you wanted to find some excitement."

Yenne rolled her eyes at her dad, put her phone in her pocket, and continued mopping the floor.

After cleaning, I looked at my phone and found that the group messages had been updated to the latest version.

Police and inspectors appeared in the photo, and the site was cordoned off.

A few new photos appeared in the group, and the TV station’s camera car also arrived at the scene.

Ye Nai calmly lurked in the group and watched the fun. She was sure that no matter how those people investigated, they would not be able to find anything on her.

Everyone who went to work or school came back in the afternoon, and the group became more lively, with everyone guessing where the dangerous creatures underground had gone.

Residents who had been watching the excitement at the scene discovered the live broadcast in the group chat, and Ye Nai saw an important piece of news with everyone else. A preliminary investigation at the scene showed that the dangerous creature was an annelid, but there was no sign of it leaving the surrounding soil, nor was there any trace of it jumping out of the ground. It was as if it had arched up a ridge in the ground and disappeared on the spot.

Didn't it disappear on the spot? It was directly pulled from underground by the mycelium and brought into the mycelium space.

After a whole day's work, it was almost completely decomposed, and only one section was left. Because it was completely covered by mycelium, it was impossible to tell whether it was the beginning, the end or the middle section. Anyway, this was the only part of the huge thing.

Watching the fun did not delay housework. In the afternoon, a big bowl of braised pork with eggs was cooked. At the dinner table, the whole family was discussing this strange thing in the community. It was also reported in the news. Residents in the surrounding area were reminded to pay attention to safety and to call the police if they found anything unusual.

As a member of the affected community, the family is also worried about their safety, but although they are worried, they don't think it is necessary to be so scared that the family temporarily moves somewhere else to live for a while.

"This strange beast comes and goes without a trace, where can it hide? Don't move to one place and then another one pops up there. It's better to stay at home." Their father has difficulty walking now, so naturally he is most opposed to moving around.

"You said that the unknown creature suddenly disappeared in the soil..."

"...Could it be that the thing itself has the ability to move through space?"

The two twin brothers dared to guess and successfully scared their parents and sister. Ye Na buried her head in eating and did not respond.

"Hey, eat, eat, stop talking nonsense and scaring people." Their mother Yu Qing slapped each of her two sons and ended the topic.

After dinner, everything went back to normal, and Yenne finished the night by taking care of various chores.

When she woke up the next morning, she took a look at the space and found that the segmented organisms from yesterday had been completely decomposed, without any trace left.

The activity in the building group was much less lively than yesterday. Residents living close to the scene saw that the inspectors were busy all night and only removed the cordon at dawn. Without the hustle and bustle, there were naturally fewer people chatting.

Yenna saw the message on her phone and released a large number of spores again on the balcony.

Of course, she did not do this to obtain the energy that the mycelium would provide her with in the long run, but only to protect the community where she lived.

Everything was normal at home in the morning. At noon, when she was cooking noodles for her father with the leftover broth from yesterday, the energy fed back by the mycelium became abnormal again. Before Ye Nai could release spores to further explore, a prey appeared in the space.

It is exactly the same as yesterday's segmented creature, but it is larger in size. Yesterday's creature coiled once in the space, while today's one is thicker and longer, and coiled more than three times.

Ye Naidu was puzzled. Why was there no problem before, but now abnormal creatures appeared in the community for two consecutive days?

Fortunately, her mycelium is powerful, otherwise, this abnormal creature that is good at burrowing into the ground would drill around underground and destroy the entire community.

What's more strange is that they appear one after another and they are all the same type of animals.

Feeling a little worried, Yenna reached out to the kitchen screen window, exhausted all her strength, and released a large wave of spores, building a safety circle around her building, and then letting the excess mycelium that had been reproduced follow the direction of the energy to hunt.

Then she continued to work and let her father have lunch first.

Just as a big bowl of fragrant noodles was placed on the table, a new prey appeared in the space.

It was still an identical annelid. When two of them were stacked together, the space was immediately more than half full. If there was another one, there would be no room.

"Fuck, two?"

Ye Na's surprise was not over yet. The space continued to swallow up translucent ball-like things one after another, as if the space was laying eggs.

Each one that falls out is quickly covered with a thick layer of mycelium, making it look more like a fluffy ball.

"Shit, laying eggs? Building a nest?"

Ye Nai broke out in a cold sweat and cursed under her breath. She went to the bedroom to push her father out to eat, then concentrated on picking up her own bowl without looking at how many "fluffy balls" were piled up in the space.

(End of this chapter)