"This...don't you know how?" Luo Jiutian asked irresponsibly.
"Why do you think I do?" Zhou Ye tilted his head and said, "Didn't I tell you before, I haven't even seen a real zombie insect."
"Real?" Xia Hua sharply caught the loophole in Zhou Ye's words, "So, have you ever seen a fake one?"
"I..." Zhou Ye felt embarrassed for a moment, "I've only seen similar..."
Li Muyuan became interested, "Tell me in detail."
"At the beginning, we were indeed interested in the corpse insect," Zhou Ye said, "but after searching, we couldn't find any samples, so... we tried to make one..."
"Made?!" Several people were shocked.
Is there still such an operation?
Li Muyuan, a member of the same profession, sat across from Zhou Ye and put on a professional academic discussion expression.
"This is a good idea," Li Muyuan patted his thigh regretfully, "Why didn't I think of this?"
"Actually, the thing we made is completely different from the corpse insect," Zhou Ye smiled sheepishly and scratched his head, "after all, we have never seen a real corpse insect."
"What does the thing you made look like?" Xia Hua asked.
"Well... I happen to have some photos on my phone, I might as well show it to you," Zhou Ye took out his phone, rummaged through the photo album for a while, and showed the screen to them, "This is it."
"Isn't this... isn't this a mushroom?" Luo Jiutian looked at the black mushroom of unknown shape in the photo and asked with a grin, "Aren't you really growing mushrooms?"
"So I said that what we created is not very similar to the real corpse insect," Zhou Ye took back the phone and stuffed it into his pocket again, "That's what you have to ask."
"Can the mushrooms you made also parasitize on human corpses?" the Taoist priest asked.
"This is fine," Zhou Ye said, "but that's all."
The Taoist priest raised his eyebrows, "Have you tried it?"
"We..." Zhou Ye found that he had fallen into the trap of the Taoist priest, and his face suddenly turned red, "Of course we..."
The atmosphere suddenly became a little cold.
Zhou Ye and the team behind him once used human corpses to create this strange mushroom. Even if Zhou Ye became temporary partners with them, it cannot be denied that Zhou Ye was once a member of that evil organization.
In fact, he is now also a member, but has become an outcast of the organization.
"Okay, let's not mention these things for now," Xia Hua's words relieved the atmosphere a little, "There is nothing we can do now, just mushrooms. Zhou Ye, didn't those mushrooms you planted give you any inspiration?"
"Inspiration..."
"After the mushrooms parasitize on the corpse, how do you need to pick them off?" Luo Jiutian asked.
"It's like picking mushrooms," Zhou Ye made a mushroom-picking motion with his hands, "The thing we made is not an intelligent creature like the corpse bug at all. They have no self-awareness, so they are easy to pick."
The topic seems to be really moving closer to the experience of growing mushrooms.
"Then there's really nothing we can do?" Luo Jiutian frowned.
"But..." Zhou Ye suddenly changed the topic and said, "We can't say that we have found nothing."
"Speak quickly, speak quickly." Li Muyuan was anxious after hearing this.
"We found that different corpses are being transformed... and when they are parasitized by the mushrooms we planted, they will produce different toxins. They are called toxins, but in fact they have no effect on us living people, they are just parasites on them.
Mushrooms go through a wave of death, and only after the first generation dies can the next generation be produced that is resistant to the poison."
The others looked at each other and made brief eye contact on the issue.
"Does this phenomenon also appear in real zombie insects?" Xia Hua asked.
Zhou Ye shrugged and said, "I don't know about that."
"Nowadays, we can only believe that corpse insects will also experience this phenomenon," the Taoist priest said. "After all, this can be regarded as a weakness."
"But isn't it already resistant to antibiotics? Can we still use toxins to deal with it?"
"No, I don't mean poison," the Taoist priest said, "but the next generation."
Xia Hua blinked and quickly understood what the Taoist Master meant, "What you mean is to let the zombie insects on that corpse breed the next generation."
"That's right," Zhou Ye said, "when the next generation of the mushroom is born, the first generation will all die. If the zombie bugs are like this, if we can find a way to make new corpse bugs appear, the current zombies will be dead.
The corpse insect might just die."
"But... we have overlooked one issue," Luo Jiutian said, "Isn't that zombie insect already dead? It and the corpse have now become souls."
"This is not a problem," Lao Luo suddenly said, "Whether it is a human or any other creature, as long as you don't know that you are dead after you die, in theory, you can continue to live a normal life."
Luo Jiutian couldn't hold back and showed a surprised expression.
"Being a soul, there is also the possibility of continuing to grow," the Taoist priest said silently, "just like an ordinary living person."
The Taoist priest stared down at the dark ground, but his eyes were scattered. Luo Jiutian knew that he was thinking of his friend who died and came back to life, but finally left, the girl named Pineapple.
"Okay..." Luo Jiutian said, "So what are we going to do?"
Zhou Ye shook his head helplessly.
"It's not good," Xia Hua suddenly raised her left hand, and a regularly flashing green light spot appeared in her palm, "My snake detective said it is coming soon."
"How far is it?" the Taoist priest asked.
"It has found the dark alley," Xia Hua said, "it should be there soon."
"It's really a lingering ghost." Luo Jiutian cursed fiercely.
"There is no time, we have to hide first," Li Muyuan stood up, "Master Xiahua, we can only hope to find the weakness in the battle with it."
Xia Hua turned her wrist without showing any timidity, "Leave it to me."
"Let's go too," Taoist priest and Luo Jiutian also walked over, "Muyuan, just protect Miaozhen and Zhou Ye, as well as yourself."
"Don't worry about us," Li Muyuan said, "I have a way."
"Taoist Master, are you feeling better?" Luo Jiutian asked, "I think you are still very weak. You should take a rest first."
"It doesn't matter to me," the Taoist priest smiled, but the smile was still a little pale and forced, "Let's go."
The three of them took steps, walked out of this dilapidated but safe small house together, and walked into the dark night in front of them.