Master of Ten Thousand Foxes-Chapter 140 - 102: Fox Mountain Investigation Team_2

Chapter 140: Chapter 102: Fox Mountain Investigation Team_2

Zhang Jian suddenly pulled out a tube of ointment from his pocket, "Almost forgot, you should apply some medicine."

As he spoke, he took off Fang Yuan’s mask and began applying the ointment to her face.

This stirred up some jeers from around the dinner table.

"Oh dear!"

"What kind of medicine is it, Zhang Jian?"

"A love potion?"

"Hahaha."

Beside him, Zhang Shan mumbled to himself.

"Damn, I’m so jealous. I’m not in college, how can I date a female college student?"

The group of classmates burst into laughter again.

Bai Mo glanced and saw Fang Yuan’s cheeks, indeed producing some white dead skin, beginning to peel and fall off.

And Zhang Jian, holding the ointment, applying it to Fang Yuan’s face, with a sweep of divine sense, easily identified...it was athlete’s foot cream.

Fang Yuan’s face turned bright red, trying to break free from Zhang Jian’s hand rubbing her face, but Zhang Jian persisted thick-skinned, she couldn’t break free, and thus had to endure it with a flushed face.

A fungal infection treated with athlete’s foot cream seemed quite appropriate.

But the problem is, why would Fang Yuan have athlete’s foot on her face?

Bai Mo found it strange, his divine sense like an invisible wind penetrating the white dead skin on Fang Yuan’s face...After some investigation, his face remained expressionless, yet his heart was very surprised.

This was indeed a fungal infection.

But not an ordinary fungus!

Thin, long mycelium had already penetrated from the cheeks into the flesh, burrowing through the tiny gaps, delving into Fang Yuan’s jaw, neck, and body, its sharp appendages growing towards her internal organs! In a day or two, it might pierce through and begin to grow inside!

What was going on?

What had Fang Yuan come in contact with?

Bai Mo’s heart thought moved, his divine sense attached to the mycelium within Fang Yuan, and the divine sense turned a verdant green, the verdant green of Pill Fire, producing extremely small flames that burned the mycelium to ash.

At this moment, Fang Yuan, with Zhang Jian rubbing her face, being watched by classmates and teachers, only felt her cheeks were burning, her body seemed to be heating up inside too, all of a sudden, unable to tell if this feeling was due to shyness or because of love.

On the other side, after Bai Mo used Pill Fire, he probed again with divine sense, confirming Fang Yuan had no remaining issues.

A little ash remained inside her body, which would slowly be expelled through metabolism, causing no harm.

So it was, amidst the laughter and chatter at the table, unknowingly, Fang Yuan’s crisis was resolved without a trace.

Seeing no one liked roasted chicken, Bai Mo secretly added another drumstick to Black Star’s plate.

Meanwhile, recalling the shape of the mycelium just now, contemplating what it was...

"Strange, this kind of mycelium...why have I never seen it on Fox Mountain?

"It doesn’t seem to exist on the plains below the mountain either?"

Indeed, this mycelium was something Bai Mo was seeing for the first time!

"In literature?

"Is there a record?"

Bai Mo shifted his mindset, trying to recall the literature and classics he had read. Amidst the classmates’ laughter and chatter, he thought for a long time before he slowly fetched an appropriate match from deep memory.

"No wonder I have no recollection, couldn’t remember.

"Could this mycelium be...the Centennial Mushroom?

"How did Fang Yuan come into contact with this thing?

"This mushroom should have been extinct long ago?"

The Centennial Mushroom, though a fungus, possesses green leaves!

It requires sunlight to survive, producing one leaf every hundred years, spewing spores once every hundred years.

In the Dream Immortal Realm, where clouds gather and sunlight never shines for thousands of years, the Centennial Mushroom is long extinct, existing only in sparse records within literature and classics.

At the dinner table, a female classmate started making a fuss again.

"The class monitor has always been with Zhang Jian these days.

"Where have you been?

"Tell us about it."

The table was filled with laughter again.

Looking on, Fang Yuan rolled her eyes.

"What are you all thinking?

"We went to check out universities!

"We visited West State University, and the nearby West State Normal School, and West State Technology."

The conversation shifted again, classmates began enthusiastically discussing universities.

Bai Mo remained expressionless, suspicious in his heart.

"Among these schools, only West State University has a century-old history. The others were all newly constructed within a few decades. The Centennial Mushroom releases spores every hundred years...Could it be that the campus of West State University really has a Centennial Mushroom?

"But how is that possible?"

Bai Mo was still pondering, when suddenly he saw Zhang Shan answer a phone call beside him, nodding repeatedly.

After Zhang Shan hung up the phone, his expression suddenly turned serious.

"Uh, Professor, everyone, there’s a slight situation, I can’t join you for dinner.

"Fang Yuan, Zhang Jian, please come with me. There’s something we need your help to investigate."

Amidst a bewildered atmosphere, Zhang Shan led the two away.

The Committee must have already sensed the anomaly and is swiftly tending to the involved parties.

By now, faced with such incidents, the Committee’s response has become increasingly rapid. The mycelium isn’t difficult to handle, and with the Committee’s strength, there’s no need to worry.

The classmates murmured a bit before continuing their meal and conversation.

Bai Mo looked up at the window, glancing in the direction of West State University.

...

The night was deep.

West State University was exceptionally quiet.

Black Star and White Tail, the two fellows, wearing invisibility cloaks, sneaked into the campus with a "whoosh whoosh whoosh"!

The mission this time could lead to fungal infections, so they prepared... under the invisibility cloaks, they wore a layer of antidote film clothing.

This protective clothing made from plant membranes fit just right two years ago, but now it’s tight on them, especially around the belly area, fitting snugly, just a bit uncomfortable.

They wore bronze pig nose masks on their faces to ensure they weren’t infected when breathing.

On Black Star’s shoulder hung a small bronze medicine box, carrying various emergency medicines.

White Tail carried a Vengeance Sword on its back, the blade coated with several types of poison.

At this moment, West State University was exceptionally quiet, seemingly everyone had been urgently evacuated.

The two foxes trotted along the quiet main road of the campus, moving forward.

Suddenly, they sensed something stirring in the flower bed by the roadside?

Cautiously approaching, they peered with fox eyes inside... only to find three men in black, wearing stockings over their heads and masks on their faces, fiddling secretively with a device.

Black Star frowned... these sneaky guys didn’t seem like good people.

White Tail curled its lips... these guys lack proper protection, clearly broke.

The two foxes crept closer stealthily to see the device the men were fiddling with... only to see quickly jumping LCD numbers on the device’s display. They couldn’t understand it.

They overheard the men whispering.

"Can this thing really detect spores in the air?"

"Not very accurately, but it can detect them."

"Hurry, follow the device."

The three men left with the device.

Leaving the two foxes suddenly enlightened, so they were using the device to detect spores?

Huh?

Where’s the spore detection device from Fox Mountain?

Did their master mention this device when they came?

The two foxes glanced at each other, wondering if their master had forgotten?

White Tail reached for the Vengeance Sword on its back, puffed up its belly, eyes squinted, exuding a dangerous aura... Should they, perhaps, rob those people’s device?

Black Star was stunned for a moment, then suddenly stared at the air, squinting, noticing tiny particles floating in the wind... Wasn’t that spores?

"Awooo awooo awooo."

"Yipe yipe yipe."

The two foxes were suddenly enlightened.

Turns out their eyes had been enhanced, able to directly see the spores without needing a device!

Chasing the source of the airborne spores, they immediately raced over.

...

Running halfway, they saw a chubby boy by the corner, sneaking around while talking to a jade pendant hanging on his chest, his voice slightly trembling, "Master, can I really handle this situation?"

Black Star and White Tail exchanged a glance, each giving the chubby boy a contemptuous look... The chubby boy was so fat he’d gotten out of shape, clearly not healthy.

They continued chasing the source of the spores, running on.

...

Running halfway, they suddenly heard the "shhhh shhhh shhh" of car tires.

It was a string of over a dozen official cars, speeding along the main road of West State University. The vehicles were marked with the "Immortal Technique Committee" emblem.

One by one, the cars’ headlights lit up, illuminating the road as if it were broad daylight.

One by one, the car doors opened, and Committee members in protective suits, carrying various devices, hurriedly rushed out, dispersing throughout the campus.

The two foxes exchanged a glance, looking at the Committee members with disdain... making a big deal out of nothing, deploying dozens of people, clearly not professional!