Chapter 148: 146 Little Pig's New Job

Twisted, unstable edges.

Two regions of completely different styles separated by a single barrier.

This rift before his eyes looked like a rift no matter how one looked at it.

And it was actually the size of a manhole cover; this was far larger than the rift guarded by the two-colored slime on the sixth floor, which was at most fist-sized.

The poor cave dwellers, completely unaware of this rift, fell straight in; they were likely facing more misfortune than fortune.

Lin Jun's plan to track down the cave dwellers' homeland naturally declared bankruptcy; he could only see if he might encounter them later.

But the key was still this rift!

Having found no rift on the seventh floor, Lin Jun had thought the one guarded by the two-colored slime was the only leak in the dungeon.

He never expected to encounter an even larger rift so easily in the deep zone.

Lin Jun did not believe this was mere coincidence, that he just happened to bump into the only rift in the deep zone.

Most likely, a considerable number of rifts already existed in the deep zone...

Although he couldn't figure out why there were no rifts on the seventh floor sandwiched between the sixth floor and the deep zone, it was more important to study the rift before him for now.

There was no curse on the other side; perhaps it could be explored.

Naturally, he could not sacrifice the relatively precious elite Pujis.

Fortunately, this was directly connected to the passage leading to the cave he had just occupied; soon, a temporarily generated bat Pujii fluttered over.

Controlling the Pujii to jump in, he simultaneously used 【Sound Wave Detection】.

Then—

Nothing at all...

The sound waves fired outward did not hit anything to bounce back.

Moreover, after the bat Pujii jumped in, it kept moving away from this rift at a constant speed.

The Pujii tried to flap its wings to fly back, but it was utterly useless.

In the perception of 【Familiar Control】, this unlucky Pujii grew farther and farther away... farther and farther.

Then, at a certain moment, without any warning, it suddenly lost contact.

Lin Jun couldn't quite understand what had happened.

Leaving aside the eerie environment on the other side, his 【Familiar Control】 could control scout Pujis without obstruction even from far away; Lin Jun even suspected this skill had no distance limit.

How far had this bat Pujii fallen in before it suddenly lost contact?

Nor did it look like it had been attacked by anything; 【Sound Wave Detection】 detected nothing.

There was neither terrain nor creatures; the other side seemed empty.

Could it be a genuine spatial rift leading to nothingness?

Like the void regions outside the world in those stories from his previous life?

Soon, several more cannon-fodder Pujis were pulled over; the Pujis wrapped their mycelial tentacles around each other, one connected to another, one end fixed to a rock, the other end jumping into the rift again.

The moment they jumped in, the pulling gravity vanished.

To describe this feeling, it was like being in space.

Lin Jun didn't expect that, having already transmigrated to another world, he could experience a zero-gravity adventure in space... come to think of it, it was quite fun!

After playing enough, Lin Jun threw the several Pujis one by one in different directions.

The Pujis, whether sooner or later, all suddenly lost contact at some moment.

It seemed the situation encountered by the first one was indeed no accident.

The other side should be a void region unsuitable for survival.

Very peculiar, but it felt like there was no danger; at least, there was no need to worry about monsters or curses emerging from this rift.

But only this rift was not dangerous.

Not long after, another batch of bat Pujis was produced, used purely for scouting the path.

The bat Pujis flew into more than a dozen huge passages connected to the cave respectively; after a carpet search, a second rift was indeed discovered! However, this rift was very small, like a needle's eye.

If not for the unique edge-distortion effect, Lin Jun would have found it hard to notice.

This rift was very unstable; Lin Jun tried to extend some mycelium over to look, but all of it was twisted and shattered by the unstable space.

In the end, he could only mark it as one of the key observation points.

But this also proved that the deep zone was probably already riddled with holes.

It was fine before he left; the speed of this damage was too fast.

Thinking about it now, did that group of Thousand-Axis Mayflies really come during the Demon Tide round?

Could there still be some huge rift connecting to the Mayflies' homeland, allowing Mayflies to migrate over continuously?

Anyway, at the position of the fork above, a few Mayflies would occasionally fly over tentatively, only to be shot down by the Pujis stationed there who had built up defensive lines.

Thinking of the Great Worm's size, if that were the case, how huge would that rift have to be...

The situation in the deep zone was not optimistic; Lin Jun decisively allocated most of his Pujii capacity to the deep zone, preparing to start a long-overdue cave great expedition.

Since the Yellow Book claimed it did not know the exact location of the dungeon core, only that it was at the very deepest point.

So Lin Jun could only simply and brutally set the goal as extending downwards.

After thinking for a moment, Lin Jun brought the vampire Louisa down.

"Where is this?"

Louisa, suddenly pulled out of the mine shaft to here, showed great unease.

Since entering this Amethyst Dungeon, nothing good had happened to her...

"Little Pig, you have a new job!"

"..."

"What, you don't want to eat something fresh?"

Fresh!?

Louisa's eyes instantly widened.

She indeed hadn't drunk fresh blood in a long time; to be precise, since being captured, she had only been surviving on lifeless blood.

After all, there were no living creatures on the fifth layer for her to drink from, and Lin Jun refused to let her go to the sixth layer to hunt, fearing she might run into adventurers.

"R-really?" Louisa asked cautiously.

"Then how about I send you back? Anyway, you seem to like mining quite a bit."

"No, no, no, Boss, you decide! I'm Little Pig, and I want to eat something fresh!" Louisa indicated she cherished this opportunity!

Seeing this, Lin Jun assigned her a task—cooperating with the expedition force to expand territory.

Louisa was, after all, a Diamond-rank Vampire Viscount; feeding her up to use as combat reinforcement was quite suitable.

He couldn't possibly keep this thing just to have her mine a few ores, could he?

Of course, restrictions still applied; Lin Jun stipulated she could not leave the fungal mat range, and violating this would naturally result in puppetization.

At this arrangement, Louisa nodded like a pestle pounding garlic, fearing Lin Jun might change his mind.

Lin Jun didn't treat her poorly either; he directly handed over that big turtle, which was still shrunk into its shell competing with Lin Jun in patience, to Louisa.

This turtle could actually have its shell blown open with a fat otaku's puchi, but Lin Jun found that wasteful, so he might as well give it to the vampire; if she couldn't eat it, that would be Louisa's fault.

Fortunately, Louisa was not useless.

A pale palm pressed against the turtle shell; within a short while, the blood inside the turtle was stirred by Louisa, and blood mist gathered from the cracks in the shell into Louisa's hand.

By the time Louisa finished her action, the turtle's tightly closed shell had loosened, revealing the shriveled turtle corpse inside due to blood loss.

And Louisa, unable to wait, drank the monster blood she had previously looked down upon in one gulp, even sticking out her tongue to lick the last drop from the corner of her mouth clean, before bursting into sobs on the spot...

(End of this chapter)