Chapter 265: Mushroom Beast Soup
After the little dog beast fell asleep, Broly took out the Bay Beast Suit from his personal space, folded it on the ground beside him, using it as a sleeping mat, and gently placed the little guy wearing a golden collar around his neck on top of it.
The little dog beast did not wake up because of this; Broly exhaled, looked at the campfire in front of him, and opened the Crystal Palace Panel with his consciousness.
Broly looked at the stay duration information at the very end.
But his stay duration in this world was 2 days, 3 hours, 11 minutes, and 1 second in the real world; this was a very short stay duration.
However, behind that there was still a situation similar to the time before last when he transmigrated to Aqua Master's world, except there was a Digital World stay duration.
The display on top showed 3071 days, 0 hours, 24 minutes, 33 seconds, with a note that this time is affected by the time flow ratio between the real world and the Digital World.
Currently, the time ratio between the real world and the Digital World is: 1 minute in the real world, and 1 day passes in the Digital World.
And this ratio actually gradually shrinks as the synchronization between the Digital World and the real world increases.
In other words, the stay duration on Broly's Crystal Palace Panel is fake, and not actually that long at over three thousand days.
However, Broly at this time did not know this point; he only showed a somewhat stunned expression upon seeing that exaggerated stay duration, then immediately became somewhat happy.
The boy leaned back and lay down with great peace of mind; such a long stay duration made Broly feel that the matter of finding another wife did not need to be rushed.
He directly used the ground as a bed and the sky as a blanket, lying down to sleep at a distance from the little dog beast.
The campfire burned for a night, only gradually extinguishing when dawn broke.
And the morning in the dense forest was somewhat chilly; after feeling a hint of cold on his back, the little dog beast immediately startled awake.
It pricked up its ears and looked around; the dangers encountered living alone had given it full vigilance.
If it were not for such vigilance, it would simply be impossible for it to have survived until now.
However, upon seeing Broly beside it, the little dog beast suddenly realized that it was no longer alone; its pricked-up ears instantly drooped down.
"A bit cold~"
The little dog beast felt winter was approaching; looking at the boy still sleeping soundly on the ground, it did not hesitate to drag over the strange green clothes from under itself.
Its movements were very slow and gentle, as if afraid of waking the sleeping boy; it took considerable effort to cover Broly with the Bay Beast Suit that still retained warmth.
After doing this, the little dog beast thought that the boy would need to eat after waking up, so it looked toward the direction of the dense forest it had fled to yesterday, and ran back with light, quick steps.
Before long, the little dog beast arrived at the edge of yesterday's fruit forest.
Now that it had four legs, it no longer needed to rely on ramming trees to get fruit.
It merely took two steps back, rushed toward a fruit tree and leaped, landing on the tree.
The little dog beast used its claws to pick the fruit one by one; busy for a while, it picked a pile of fruit.
But when it wanted to bring these fruit back, it ran into a bit of difficulty.
Fortunately, while surviving in this area, the little dog beast had learned quite a few skills.
Among them was the ability to imitate the Palmon's vine weaving.
The little dog beast got some vines; although it no longer had the Chomusuke-era flexible long tail to assist, having four limbs still allowed it to easily weave a vine net bag.
After putting the fruit in the vine net bag, the little dog beast carried the bag in its mouth and ran back; considering Broly could eat a lot, it made many round trips between the fruit forest and the campfire.
When Broly woke up, he saw the little dog beast running this way with a vine net bag full of fruit in its mouth.
"Is this breakfast you prepared for me?"
Broly pointed at the fruit piled in a pair beside him and asked.
"Mhm, it's breakfast I prepared for you."
The little dog beast wagged its tail and came to the boy's feet, lifted its head to look at Broly, revealing an expression Broly found somewhat familiar.
Thinking carefully, Broly recalled that Aqua Master sometimes had this expression too; it was when she had done something remarkable and wanted to receive praise and commendation from others.
"Little dog beast, you're really amazing, thank you for preparing breakfast for me."
Broly praised it.
"No need to thank me, preparing breakfast for A-Bu is what I should do."
The little dog beast's tail wagged even faster, and the happiness value on its body rapidly rose because it received praise.
"A-Bu?"
Broly looked at the little dog beast in puzzlement.
"Calling you Roli sounds a bit like calling a little girl, but you're a little boy, so I'll call you A-Bu."
A Digimon's evolution lets its mind grow along with it; the name it liked during the Chomusuke period, the little dog beast now felt was not quite appropriate, so it brought it up.
"Is that okay?"
"Of course, as long as you like it, you can call me whatever."
Broly didn't mind and started wolfing down the fruit as breakfast.
"Little dog beast, you eat too."
However, while eating, Broly didn't forget the little dog beast, calling it to eat fruit together.
The little dog beast did not refuse, lay on the ground and gnawed on a fruit.
After eating and drinking their fill, Broly asked: "Little dog beast, do you have any wishes?"
"Wishes?"
"That is, a target you want to achieve."
The little dog beast thought for a bit, first nodded, but soon shook its head.
"What do you mean?"
Broly didn't quite understand its nodding then shaking head, and asked directly.
"I had a wish before, but this wish has already come true now."
The little dog beast rubbed against Broly's leg and said.
From hatching out of the Digimental, when it was still a Snowball Beast, the little dog beast felt it was waiting for someone.
But it didn't know specifically who it was waiting for, until yesterday when it met Broly, it finally knew who it was waiting for.
"I don't have any wishes I want to fulfill right now; as long as I can be with you, Abu, that's enough."
The Puppy Digimon, also known as Plotmon, has data of the human pet template inside its body, so it is very affectionate toward people.
Of course, this is also related to the fact that the Puppy Digimon, formerly a Nyaromon, was always alone; after being saved by Broly yesterday and fed the scissor arms of a Kunemon, it developed a deep sense of dependence on Broly.
Plus, Child-level Digimon generally have an intelligence equivalent to human children aged 7-12, and are likewise in a somewhat clingy phase.
Of course, some Digimon are the brat type, the extremely annoying kind, but obviously, the Puppy Digimon is not that kind of Digimon.
"We'll obviously be together. Hmm, since you, Puppy Digimon, temporarily don't have a wish you want to fulfill, then come with me for now; let's go find some other tasty things first!"
The fruit was just to pad his stomach; Broly couldn't forget the taste of the roasted Kunemon from yesterday, so he wanted to find another Kunemon, or some other tasty guy.
Upon learning Broly's target, the Puppy Digimon hesitated somewhat.
Broly noticed its abnormality and asked directly: "What's wrong, Puppy Digimon?"
"Aren't other Digimon all bad? Can we not eat the good Digimon?"
The Puppy Digimon asked.
When it was in its Baby II stage, it had also received care from some other Digimon.
Although this care was not much, just occasionally tossing it a bit of food when it begged, this still became the reason it managed to survive during its Baby II stage and evolve into Nyaromon.
The Puppy Digimon is not an ungrateful Digimon; although its personality is still unstable due to its youth, it still remembers the Digimon that once gave it alms.
Kunemon was bad, monopolizing the Fruit Forest and not letting other Digimon eat; eating it was fine, but other Digimon were just living their own lives. If it ate them just like that, the Puppy Digimon felt it would definitely feel bad. Of course, if Broly insisted, the Puppy Digimon wouldn't object, because to it, Broly is the most important person right now.
"Of course we can; we'll just eat the bad Digimon."
Broly nodded; the wife Digimon's opinion is very important.
"Great! I know in the deep woods some bad guys who like to bully weak Digimon; I'll take you, Abu, to find them."
The Puppy Digimon was very happy, bounced once on the spot, and immediately led the way.
And the first ones sought out were a group of Mushroomon.
"This group of Mushroomon often moves in packs, going to snatch things from weaker Digimon. If the weak Digimon don't give them, they'll be blown up with small Mushroom Bombs, and Digimon hit by their Mushroom Bomb attacks will laugh non-stop, their bodies paralyzed, and then be beaten up by the Mushroomon..."
Mushroomon, Child-level Plant-type Virus-species Digimon, have extremely nasty personalities and like to bully those weaker than themselves; they are bandits in the deep woods, but when encountering stronger Adult-level Digimon, they bury themselves in the ground pretending to be just ordinary purple poisonous mushrooms.
"Have you been bullied before?"
Broly asked.
"Before, this group of Mushroomon snatched my food."
The Puppy Digimon tattled.
"Fine, then let's have mushroom soup today."
Broly licked his lips; the deliciousness of mushroom soup, he hadn't tasted in a long time.
"Uh, but Mushroomon are poisonous."
The Puppy Digimon reminded.
"No problem, I have the ability to purify water bodies."
What Broly spoke of was the Water Body Purification Magic he learned from Aqua; pity that because of Water Creation Magic, he never had a chance to use it.
Broly jumped directly down from the slope; he landed in the middle of a group of Mushroomon.
"Who are you?"
The Mushroomon instantly became vigilant.
Facing the weak, this group of purple mushrooms strikes with heavy fists.
But facing the strong, they gather together and release poison simultaneously.
Even some powerful Adult-level Digimon generally wouldn't dare provoke a group of poisonous Mushroomon.
"I'm a Saiyan here to pick mushrooms; you Mushroomon either obediently let me pick, or resist and let me pick."
Broly stated his purpose frankly.
Mushroomon: "???"
Pick mushrooms, picking them onto the heads of us Mushroomon, what is this thing? Originally the tyrants of the deep woods, the Mushroomon instantly flared up in rage.
"Damn it, I know you human-looking guys are humans; you actually dare provoke us Mushroomon?"
"Boss, Gotsumon came looking for us before, telling us to pay attention to the deep woods, see if any human children appear.
And if we find a human child, catch them and hand them over to them, we can exchange for a lot of stuff from that group of Gotsumon."
"Catch this boy, alive, hand him over to Gotsumon to claim the reward!"
Hearing this, the Mushroomon boss's eyes lit up, and he commanded the surrounding Mushroomon lackeys, telling the front two to go tie up the boy.
"Slap, slap~"
However, the two purple Mushroomon that went up were struck by Broly with a hand knife each, directly knocking them unconscious.
"What?"
The Mushroomon boss widened his eyes and exclaimed, as if unable to believe a mere human child, relying on a hand knife, could take down Child-level Digimon like them.
"You've got some skill, no wonder you dared come provoke us. However, we Digimon are different from you humans; we have Finishers. Brothers, this guy is tough, let's join forces against the enemy!"
A group of Mushroomon gathered beside the boss and shouted together: "Mushroom Bomb!"
"Bang~"
With the explosion, a mass of purple poisonous smog rose up.
But the next moment, Broly casually waved his hand, dispersing the poisonous mist the group of Mushroomon had jointly blasted out.
And the Mushroomon opposite were also blown by this sudden hand-wind, tumbling east and west, falling directly onto the ground.
"Run quick, we're no match."
After climbing up from the ground, looking at the other Mushroomon sprawled about, the Mushroomon boss instantly realized things were bad, gave a shout, and took the lead fleeing toward the Tree Thicket.
"Without my permission, where do you think you're going?!"
Broly saw the fleeing Mushroom Beasts and jumped up directly, in a Mario-style Mushroom Stomp pose, stomping on the head of the fleeing Mushroom Beast boss.
In just one moment, this Mushroom Beast boss who usually lorded it over the other Mushroom Beast Little Brothers in the dense forest, was stomped into a pile of Mushroom Sauce.
While the other Mushroom Beasts preparing to flee were scared, Broly was also somewhat scared, because the Mushroom Beast boss that turned into Mushroom Sauce directly turned into data and dissipated.
Trying slightly again, Broly discovered that any Digimon beaten to death by himself would quickly turn into data and dissipate without a trace.
But if he wanted to use Mushroom Beasts to make Stew, it had to be while they were Alive that they were stewed, only then could it be done.
Capturing alive increased the difficulty of Dealing With Mushroom Beasts, but this was only for ordinary Digimon; for Broly, the only problem he needed to Consider was what degree of force to use, to Guarantee the Premise of not beating the Mushroom Beasts to death, while knocking them out.
Facts Prove this was not difficult.
At Noon, the purple thick Soup was boiling in the Background.
A group of Mushroom Beasts, under the stirring of Broly's magical Spoon, began to become familiar with him.
The Soup stewed out of them truly had deadly poison.
After stirring for a while, Broly's Spoon in hand actually melted directly.
"Abu, how about we don't eat this after all."
The Little Dog Beast on the Side was somewhat worried, and began to Persuade.
"Rest Assured, it's just Poisonous Mushrooms, I've even eaten Swamp Poison Dragon before."
Broly cast Water Body Purification Magic on the Poisonous Mushroom Soup, and as the Water Body Purification Magic took effect, the color of the Mushroom Soup changed from deep purple to light purple.
After trying to throw in the Spoon handle and discovering it was not melted, Broly then tasted a Mouthful first.
The Delicious taste was the unique flavor of fungus types.
The Soup was slightly Spicy, should be caused by Residual toxins.
However, it had no Influence on Broly.
Releasing Water Body Purification Magic on the Soup Twice more, finding a Balance Point between neutralizing toxins and retaining the Mushroom Soup's original flavor, Broly then asked the Little Dog Beast on the Side: "Little Dog Beast, do you want to try?"
Hearing this, the Little Dog Beast nodded, it believed Broly would not harm it, and obtained a share of Mushroom Beast Soup with trace toxins.
Because of Thrice Water Body Purification Magic, this nearly Transparent Mushroom Beast Soup was already far Not Like the light purple Mushroom Beast Soup in taste, but lacked many layers of Texture and rich flavor.
However, when drinking the first Mouthful, the Little Dog Beast's Tail still wagged, because it had never drunk even the simplest Mushroom Soup before.
Data Stream emerged again, but this time it Appeared on the Claw.
The Little Dog Beast raised its hand and Extended its Claw, and discovered that on its Claw, there was already a layer of faint Mushroom Paralysis Toxin.
(Chapter End)
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