Chapter 107: 106 The Dungeon is Leaking

"What's going on?"

At the entrance of the five or six steps, a group of adventurers was forced to stop their advance to the sixth floor because the staircase was completely full...

The Pujis squeezed in batches at the stair entrance, blocking the path entirely; the adventurers couldn't squeeze in at all.

People's tolerance for strange things is always constantly being refreshed; adventurers used to be amazed just seeing the Big Black Mushrooms walk through the stairs, but now they aren't very surprised seeing the Pujis go downstairs in a group.

It's just...

An adventurer looked at the long line of Pujis behind them and complained:

"How long will it take for them all to pass?"

On the sixth floor, the mushroom cannons in the southwest corner hadn't stopped for most of the day; many cannon-turret Pujis had fired themselves into exhaustion and gone silent due to mycelial fatigue.

Among them, the cannon turret on the very bottom layer of the rock wall had been directly targeted; large slime slimes had rushed up, digesting them completely or leaving them half-digested and dead inside their stone shells.

The slimes even wanted to eat the turrets higher up, but as the slope turned into an inverted slope, the slimes climbed with increasing difficulty and were finally beaten back under the barrage of the remaining turrets.

Unfortunately, the remaining turrets on the rock wall were too far away; they could only explode randomly below, with limited effect.

Lin Jun was commanding this sudden great battle against the slimes.

The rock pit had long been breached; Lin Jun could only order the Pujis to retreat first, then, after regrouping with the first batch of Pujis supporting from the fifth floor, drew up a quarantine zone.

Over two hundred mushroom-cannon Pujis surrounded the corner where the small hill stood, trying to prevent those large slimes from spreading out.

At one corner of the defense line, more than twenty Pujis were retreating while fighting under the pressure of three slimes.

The closest slime, having been hit the most, had a huge amount of its bodily fluids exploded away, and its size was now less than one person's height.

Another round of mushroom cannons fired up; this time, without enough slime defense, the core hidden inside its body was also hit and destroyed, and the entire slime instantly turned into a puddle of liquid.

However, the situation wasn't good; the two slimes further away were both two people tall, and several mushroom cannon shots hitting their surfaces only made them shrink slightly; their health bars still looked long!

One of the slimes jumped over several steps, caught up with the last Pujis, wrapped it up, and successfully engaged the Pujis.

Lin Jun could only order the Pujis to scatter, at least so the slimes couldn't one-jump double-kill.

Yet even so, the number of Pujis was still decreasing rapidly, while the two slimes had only been weakened a little; it looked like they were about to be wiped out completely.

Thump-thump—Thump-thump—

Different from the heavy footsteps of ordinary Pujis, a Big Black Mushroom from Lin Zili rushed out.

A big fat fist smashed onto a slime, exploding it like a water balloon in one hit!

Four Pujis also exploded out with it; unfortunately, none could be saved.

The other slime didn't live much longer either; Seeing Xiao Hei jumped up and stomped it to pieces, splattering it everywhere.

The splashing digestive slime also smeared a nearby Pujis onto the ground; after struggling a few times, it died.

Seeing Xiao Hei licked the slime off both hands—these slimes were full of mana, and the taste was quite good.

However, Seeing Xiao Hei couldn't stay long either; Lin Jun commanded her away, as there were other places needing her to put out fires.

Only five Pujis survived on the spot, unable to form a defense line; fortunately, new troops had already come down from the staircase, this batch twice the number, a full four hundred.

Plus the overpowered combat power of Seeing Xiao Hei, the encirclement that had originally been pushed back was slowly pressed back step by step.

Honestly, it was a good thing the slimes emerging from inside the small hill weren't endless; judging by the pressure on the encirclement.

After the rock pit was breached, another batch of large slimes should have surged out; after that, there were no follow-ups.

That's right; how could they really spawn endlessly!

Rather, it was already absurd enough that the groundwater source, inside the small hill, could hide so many large slimes.

Now, although the situation had stabilized, this slime rampage still dealt a devastating blow to the ecology within the encirclement in the southwest corner of the sixth floor.

When a large slime sat down, no matter whether it was a flower spirit or a vine, everything would be digested.

Plus Lin Jun's mushroom cannon carpet bombing, under this double strike, the open space in this area suddenly increased!

Fortunately, it was just one corner; the impact on the entire sixth floor wasn't great.

After another small half-day, the front line was finally pushed back near the rock pit; dozens of mushroom cannon shots eliminated the last slime within sight.

Seeing Xiao Hei didn't follow; halfway through the fight, she got tired, hugged a Pujis, dipped it in the slime on the ground, and started eating; she was probably just finishing now.

Lin Jun controlled the Pujis to the excavated crack, ignoring the ground covered in slime slime and its corrosiveness, and sent a few Pujis to drill in through the broken opening.

Once inside, they discovered the interior of this mountain was almost hollow; no wonder it could hold so many slimes!

Lin Jun quickly found traces of the groundwater; following the water flow upward, she found a special slime at the end. This slime was only one person tall—not small, but compared to those of the same kind that rushed out, it belonged to the underdeveloped category.

Its body was a mix of red and green, looking like two slimes fused together.

When Lin Jun saw it, it was struggling to split another slime out from its body.

After splitting, its size shrank another circle.

The split slime was a pure red slime, not two-colored like the parent body; it was instantly killed by the Pujis upon hitting the ground.

【Core Split Lv9】

This wasn't a common skill.

You see, normal slimes are directly condensed from the environment and mana, not reproduced by splitting.

No wonder there were far more slimes here than the sixth floor's environment itself could contain; it turned out they were artificially produced.

However, this still couldn't explain why those slimes could grow so big!

Lin Jun also discovered something strange.

This slime... was constantly spraying water...

It continuously spat out large amounts of clear water from both sides of its body, looking just like the source of the groundwater?

Are you kidding?

Lin Jun didn't see a single skill in its skill bar that could create water endlessly.

Was the place it was sitting on leaking water?

Two Pujis curled around a thin stone slab, trying to sweep this slime away.

Since they hadn't decided whether to kill it directly, the Pujis didn't use too much force, lest they accidentally squash it to death.

As a result, this two-colored slime, which had shown no aggression since they first met, actually struggled hard against the stone slab, looking as if it had no intention of moving.

The Pujis' strength wasn't particularly great either; for a moment, they truly failed to push it aside.

However, Lin Jun had more than just two Pujis here; after more Pujis joined in, the slime was reluctantly pushed to the side.

Sure enough, there was a water-seeping stone crack right there.

After moving the slime away, wisps of mana radiated from the emerging water!

This water was actually rich in mana!

It was the first time... no, they had seen it in the Treasure Room, and the mana concentration there was much higher than this.

But the volume of water in this stone crack was huge!

Comparing the two comprehensively, the total amount of mana here was still greater.

Now it made sense why the slime refused to move; why those slimes could grow so large—they had been squatting here all along, filtering and absorbing all the mana, hogging it all!

If this slime could filter mana, then he, Lin Jun, could do it too!

Although he wasn't particularly short on it right now, one could never have too much mana.

Later, he could use mycelium to weave a few layers of filters here; the hollow space in this small mountain could also serve as a hidden space; then he would just need to disguise the opening outside...

【Corruption Curse: Suffering continuous corrosion damage】

Hmm?

What is that?

Suddenly, this curse effect appeared on the status panels of all Pujis present, and they began to lose health...

Lin Jun reacted swiftly; when the Pujis' health had dropped only halfway, he hurriedly moved the two-colored slime back to block the water outlet.

The slime, back in its original position, contentedly blew a bubble.

Sure enough, the curse disappeared after a short while.

How could Lin Jun not understand now? So the water contained the curse!

But why?

This couldn't just be left unexplained!

While controlling the two-colored slime, Lin Jun also hurriedly produced various types of Pujis with high health and corrosion resistance.

Once preparations were complete, he kicked the two-colored slime away again, and the digging Pujis began to excavate the stone crack.

Despite such preparations, they still had to invite the two-colored slime back once in the middle.

The longer the Corruption Curse hung on the status panel, the higher the damage; even a slime, immune to corrosion damage, couldn't truly withstand it.

After a while, the Pujis finally chiseled open the stone crack, revealing the truth behind it—

A rift!

A very small one, but just like during the Mana Tide, a spatial rift connecting to another dungeon!

What was going on with this dungeon? Had it fallen into disrepair over the years?

Did the other side know their sewage pipes were leaking dirty water over here?

(End of this chapter)