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A suffocating Rio where colossal, invasive fungi have turned the jungle into a carnivorous forest of pulsing stalks and spore clouds. A hunter woman with a breathing apparatus of stitched-together gas masks moves silently along a petrified branch that was once the Lapa Aqueduct. Her eyes are augmented with salvaged thermal lenses, and her cyber-onça walks beside her, its paws equipped with vibro-claws to grip the slick fungus, its spine a row of exhaust ports that vent the beast's internal heat with silent puffs. Below, in the Plaza of the Republic, the statue of Marshal Deodoro is entangled in mycelium cables that pump a hypnotic pollen into the air. The Municipal Theatre is a bloated, fungal hive humming with a dissonant chorus. What remains of the National Library's façade is now a skeletal frame for phosphorescent, book-shaped fungi that hold memories as toxic spores. Factions wear living fungus as armor and breathe through symbiotic lichen filters. The soundscape is the constant drip of enzymatic fluids and the low-frequency pulses the mega-fungi use to communicate. The smell is overwhelmingly sweet and cloying, like rotting fruit and damp soil. Her cyber-onça stops, one organic ear twitching. Its titanium ribs contract, a targeting laser slicing through the spore-fog from a cybernetic implant in its shoulder. Above, camouflaged among the fleshy caps, a cluster of Spore-Singers—human shapes fused into the fungal mass—begin to vibrate, preparing to release a mind-shredding sonic wave. The artist's signature @digo.a.i is faintly visible as a brand on a petrified tree trunk. She detaches a canister from her belt—homemade fungicide distilled from venom and battery acid—and the onça's haunches coil like springs, ready to launch her into the canopy toward the threat.
A woman wearing a gas mask and a backpack is riding a futuristic panther-like creature along a large, gnarled tree branch in a surreal, overgrown forest. The panther has mechanical elements on its back and a laser beam emanating from its head. The forest is filled with towering, brightly colored mushrooms, and thick, misty foliage. In the background, a large, ornate building is partially visible through the mist. Below the branch, a large, detailed statue of a man in armor stands on a pedestal, surrounded by more mushrooms and lush vegetation. The lighting is ethereal, creating a mystical atmosphere.
