Chapter 542 The Big Mushroom Occupying the City Center

Since Kirino can't say anything, Hongtu won't meddle in other people's affairs.

"I added a firewall to your computer," Hong Tu handed the restored computer to Kirino, "This situation probably won't happen again in the future."

Kirino took the computer: "Thank you."

Hong Tu waved his hand casually: "Then continue your work. I won't disturb you anymore."

Kirino nodded and continued working overtime.

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The next day, Hong Tu saw the news - Aoba City was occupied by giant mushrooms.

Hong Tu: "Oh, what a big mushroom."

On the TV, a huge red mushroom covering almost half of the city was standing in the city center. With the mushroom as the center, strands of white mycelium spread in all directions, covering every building and street. They are all occupied by these hyphae and are so densely packed that there seems to be no room for human survival.

Suddenly, the TV screen in front of him changed, and the original live broadcast screen disappeared. The screen showed a gray-black color, and white characters appeared one after another, quickly occupying the entire TV screen.

This scene is very familiar. Just like Kirino's computer last night, the big mushroom took over the network cable and sent out a farewell message to mankind.

"Oh, you are quite courageous." Hong Tu took a sip of the drink, "However, humans nowadays are indeed too dependent on technology. This time, humanity's crisis will probably be humanity's own technological weapons."

But there is good news. At least Hong Tu didn't have to go to work today, and by the way, she stopped Mana who was about to go out.

"Mana, I probably don't have to go to work today. Let's take a day off at home."

Mana glanced at the TV, nodded, walked to the sofa and sat down, and there was no movement.

Hong Tu: "..." Has this robot made any progress or not? In front of myself, there is not even a smile!

But just when Hong Tu was secretly slandering, Mana suddenly asked: "Can I go to the scene and have a look?"

"Do you want to help?" Hong Tu looked at Mana unexpectedly. Mana rarely asked him actively, and usually only asked when he gave a choice.

Mana didn't speak, just watched the TV expressionlessly. She probably didn't know why she was there. In fact, every time she was working, as long as the monster was not too far away, she would find a way to go to the scene. Even if she couldn't go, she would always pay attention to the news and not want to let go of every scene.

She didn't know why she was obsessed with this, but every time she just looked at it from a distance, she would have a strange and unfamiliar feeling.

She does not resist that feeling, but is constantly seeking it. Maybe she likes that feeling.

Seeing that Mana couldn't speak out, Hong Tu didn't force himself. He didn't understand now, but he would understand one day, so he took out his coat and walked out the door: "Then, let's go."

Mana stood up and followed him out of the house.

After the two left, Kirino yawned and walked out of the room. He glanced at the TV that was still on, turned it off, walked to the kitchen, opened the refrigerator door, and froze.

The beer and canned coffee he originally put in the refrigerator were all replaced with drinks and milk...

After a long time, Kirino closed the refrigerator door expressionlessly, returned to the room expressionlessly, installed the computer expressionlessly, picked up the computer bag, and went out. But two minutes later, Kirino opened the door again and entered the house, then slammed the car keys in his hand on the sofa.

That guy Hong Tu drove the car away! Still the kind without a key!

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Mana watched Hong Tu drive towards Aoba City. She didn't ask why Hong Tu didn't teleport directly, nor why she drove Kirino's car. She just sat in her seat and waited for Hong Tu to drive her to the scene.

Aoba City is now blocked, and the blockade is still expanding because the mushroom's root range is still growing.

As expected, Hong Tu and Mana were stopped halfway.

"I'm sorry, Aoba City has been occupied by monsters and has been sealed off. Please return the same way." A person from the ground diversion team stopped the car. After rolling down the window, he said to Hong Tu politely, "It's okay. Please cooperate."

Hong Tu showed a harmless smile, and with a smile, he took out an ID card from the box of the car and unfolded it in front of this person: "Hello, I am from TPC, please let me in."

The man looked at it carefully and found that it was indeed a TPC certificate. He immediately saluted: "Sorry!"

A dark red flashed in his eyes. After being manipulated by Hong Tu, he naturally didn't realize that there was anything wrong with the photo, and directly signaled to the others to let it go.

After being let go, Hong Tu put the ID back in a good mood and led Mana into the blocked area while humming a song.

Soon, he parked the car next to the white mycelium and got out of the car with Mana.

A black space hole expanded underneath the car, completely engulfing the black vehicle parked there. After doing all this, Hong Tu looked at the big mushroom in the city center.

Mana is already scanning this thing. With a faint blue light in her eyes, she scanned the mycelium on the ground and analyzed what it was.

For a long time, pieces of data flashed in Miss Robot's eyes, as if she had learned something. She looked up at the huge mushroom.

"His true body is hidden there." Mana's eyes locked on the part of the big mushroom closest to the ground.

Hong Tu glanced there casually, turned his attention away without much interest, and instead took out a card with great interest: "Are you interested in fighting?"

Mana glanced at him and was about to say something when she was interrupted by the roar of fighter planes flying over in the sky.

No one on the fighter plane noticed the two people wandering on the ground. His main target was still on the big mushroom.

Nakajima had already taken samples, and now they were here to try and burn off the giant mushroom.

The two fighter planes flew under the mushroom's umbrella, found the correct position, and launched an attack on the root of the mushroom.

The roots of the giant mushroom were attacked, and the extending hyphae were interrupted, but this was not worth mentioning to those densely packed hyphae that spread all around like spider webs. More hyphae grew out, and soon The area burned by the bullet fire will be wrapped and quickly restored to the original state.

This is not the end yet, more hyphae stretch out from above or below the ground, reaching into the sky, sweeping towards the fighters in the sky.

These long tentacle-like mycelium formed a network, and the two fighter planes were like prey that was about to be trapped in a spider web. With no way to escape, they were wrapped in these mycelium and rolled to the ground, and no longer moved.

Last night, the TPC's base computer was hacked, making it impossible to contact them at the moment, let alone support the trapped team members. The fighter plane's own network was also hacked so quickly that even the cabin door couldn't be opened.

They were completely trapped, and only the captain, Asami 'Mai' who stayed at the base, and Nakajima Kazuo in the laboratory still had a chance to rescue them. But before Nakajima analyzes it, these people cannot be dispatched casually.