The Only Player in ‘Child of Stardust’
Chapter 121 - 96 Mold

Chapter 121: Chapter 96 Mold

Zhou Yuan pulled out his Opple smartphone and opened the international map for positioning.

Currently located in the Amazon Rainforest in South America.

He switched the time to local time. It was 5:36 p.m. now; in another 30 to 60 minutes, it should be dark.

The time wasn’t too ample. Zhou Yuan knew he had to act quickly, so he glanced around.

The Amazon Tropical Rainforest accounted for half of the world’s rainforest area, 20% of the forest area, and was the largest and most diverse tropical rainforest globally, known as the "lungs of the earth."

The biodiversity in the rainforest was outstanding, gathering 2.5 million species of insects, tens of thousands of plant species, and approximately 2,000 bird and mammal species, thus known as the "kingdom of the world’s flora and fauna."

The surrounding trees were mostly tropical evergreen and deciduous broadleaf trees, generally over thirty meters high, with dense, tall crowns interwoven together, forming a green sky.

Vine plants climbed along the trunks and branches from one tree to another, from the ground to the treetops, then hung down from the treetops, crisscrossing and twining like dense nets.

The shrubs and fern plants were lush and thriving, with particularly developed epiphytes. Algae, mosses, lichens, and orchids attached to the trunks, branches, and even leaves of the trees and shrubs, creating the wonder of trees growing on trees and grass growing on leaves.

The superior and stable ecological environment provided excellent habitats and breeding conditions for countless organisms.

With just a quick scan, Zhou Yuan saw mosquitoes flying everywhere, snakes crawling on branches, swarming ants, brightly colored poison dart frogs, and venomous spiders almost blending with the surroundings...

In this damned place, a slight slip might result in death.

And at this moment, he was surprised to discover some peculiar phenomena.

——Centered around him, all the venomous insects, mosquitoes, flies, bloodsuckers, and pythons within a ten-meter radius were fleeing outward, not daring to approach him in the slightest.

"Is it because of the Dragon Blood Tempering that I have some dragon aura on me... Hey, that’s great! Not being afraid of mosquitoes in the summer anymore."

A few seconds later, Zhou Yuan withdrew his gaze. The Eyes of Identification didn’t provide any useful information; all the pop-ups were introductions to various plants and animals.

After some thought, Zhou Yuan took out a tool from his backpack—the Wingsuit Strawberry.

The Wingsuit Strawberry’s effect was to grant 15 seconds of flight time after use, with a flying speed equivalent to running speed.

In the past month, Zhou Yuan obtained several Wingsuit Strawberries. Now, he swallowed four of them at once, gaining a minute of flight time.

With a single thought, he floated into the air, activated his Protective Gang Qi, smashed through the forest canopy, and rose to a hundred meters high, overlooking the vast expanse of the rainforest sea below.

When he looked toward the southwest, the Eyes of Identification finally provided a useful note:

[Eight kilometers away, there is a mansion built by a mysterious tycoon.]

Zhou Yuan squinted and carefully looked in that direction; the distance was too far to see clearly for the time being.

He clicked his phone screen and marked the location on the map, then flew swiftly towards it. As the Wingsuit Strawberry’s effect was about to end, he slowly descended at an angle.

Just as his feet touched the ground, the flight time ended.

[You have reached the outskirts of the First Experimental Zone. Forty-seven meters ahead is the wall of the First Experimental Zone.]

The First Experimental Zone? Wall?

Zhou Yuan transformed into a shadow, ignoring the terrain as he darted forward. After advancing more than forty meters, he stopped, rose from the shadow, and looked around. He didn’t see any walls in the rainforest.

Perplexed, he continued forward. Thud!

He bumped his face into something.

"An invisible wall?" Zhou Yuan reached out and touched a hard wall.

Activating Ghost Walker, he passed through the wall and entered the so-called First Experimental Zone.

He was dumbfounded by the sight in front of him.

Behind the wall wasn’t the lush tropical rainforest but a mutated world covered with wriggling purple-red fungus blankets.

The purple-red fungus blankets had a fleshy texture, looking extremely disgusting.

[Unnamed new mold, the reckless creation of certain ambitious individuals, had completely gone out of control. These disgusting things had horrific infection capabilities. It’s best not to come into contact with them.]

Zhou Yuan looked back and saw a huge wall, twenty meters high, covered with the same purple-red fungus blankets.

Looking up, even the "sky" had dots of purple-red fungus blankets, making the sunlight dappled and dark – in fact, it wasn’t a real sky but an artificial dome.

"Judging by this, the experimental zone should be completely isolated from the outside world; otherwise, these molds would have already contaminated the outside. If these molds spread in the Amazon Rainforest, the consequences... Tsk tsk, unimaginable.

If the mansion I’m looking for is also inside the experimental zone, then the person who built this place must be extremely wealthy."

Zhou Yuan was still six to seven kilometers away from the mansion. If it’s within the experimental zone, it indicated the zone’s size greatly exceeded this length. And it must be known, this was the Amazon Rainforest; the cost to build an experimental zone here was astronomical.

"The mold leaked, the experiment got out of control, and the relevant personnel didn’t take measures, indicating they are probably all dead."

Zhou Yuan stared at the wriggling mold on the ground and clicked his tongue, "A biohazard, huh... Is the Player System trying to make me clean up their mess?"

He stopped thinking, transformed into a shadow, and sped along the ground, moving towards the mold-infested depths of the forest.

Along the way, Zhou Yuan saw many organisms and plants infected with mold and turned into abominations.

Mosquitoes mutated to adult size, their entire bodies purple-red, with sharp needle-like proboscis that seemed capable of killing a person directly;

Crocodiles with purple-red mushrooms growing all over their bodies, blending into the environment;

Boas more than ten meters long with dozens of spider legs on their bellies and several pairs of wings on their backs;

Huge purple-red carnivorous plants wielding blood-flesh tentacles, spearing a jaguar and devouring it whole...

Zhou Yuan initially thought of releasing the Weaver to control some abominations as combat power.

But these purple-red molds had extreme spreading and polluting abilities; a small infection could cause terrifying mutations. Bringing it to the outside world might indeed cause a biohazard, so he gave up on the idea.

After advancing three kilometers, another wall appeared before Zhou Yuan.

[You have reached the vicinity of the Second Experimental Zone.]

He passed through the wall, and the mutations in the Second Experimental Zone were even more severe. These purple-red molds seemed to have evolved to actively attack living organisms. Even hiding in the shadows with Shadow Transformation, he couldn’t avoid the mold’s onslaught.

The terrifying purple-red mold tide surged from all directions. Zhou Yuan activated the Protective Gang Qi, crushing all approaching molds within a one-meter radius.

In a few minutes, he reached the wall of the [Third Experimental Zone].

Passing through the wall again, the purple-red mold tide sensed the energy of a living being and surged, accompanied by many frightening abominations.

"This is endless."

Zhou Yuan activated True Dragon Breathing Skill, maximized his Protective Gang Qi, and charged forward, ruthlessly smashing everything in his way.

A few minutes later, Zhou Yuan saw a massive luxurious mansion from a distance. Within a radius of a hundred to two hundred meters around the mansion, there were no traces of the purple-red mold, making it the only pure land in this deformed world.

In the open space in front of the mansion, three figures were standing.