Chapter 106: 114 The Huang Pishu

Skills, although ubiquitous, were still full of mystery in Lin Jun’s view.

For example, this 【Night-Stalker Incarnation】.

When the half-vampire used it, it was clearly a transformation skill, but after being installed on a Puji, it became a fixed form.

However, the half-vampire clearly used his own blood ability when transforming. Lin Jun could only guess that the Puji lacked blood power, so this skill only retained part of its effects?

He had encountered skills that mutated due to different inherent traits before; the most typical was 【Assimilation Absorption】, which changed from absorbing flesh and blood to absorbing fungal threads.

This should be considered some kind of self-adaptation.

Then, regarding flight, Lin Jun did a few more experiments.

Two identical Puji with bat wings stood together.

Although they looked no different from the outside, opening their panels would reveal that one possessed the skill 【Night-Stalker Incarnation lv1】, while the other was a blank-slate Puji.

The blank-slate Puji was one Lin Jun had spent half a day painstakingly crafting one-to-one, comparing it to the Bat Puji.

He had no other meaning; he just wanted to see if it could fly without the skill.

Lin Jun first controlled the Puji with the skill to fly a circle, and then, using that feeling, controlled the blank-slate Puji.

After several failed attempts, he actually managed to make it fly!

But it was clearly much more strenuous; every flap of its wings took more effort, as if it were missing some kind of assistance.

Additionally, if Lin Jun didn't control it, the blank-slate Puji couldn't fly no matter what.

Puji didn't have high intelligence, and their actions relied mostly on instinct; not being able to fly meant they didn't have the instinct for flight.

Looking at it this way, the skill could endow the Puji with this flight instinct; it felt just like how it was easier to hit a target after possessing the 【Precision】 skill.

Speaking of which, one could probably come up with some tricks that didn't rely on skills to play around with, but if one wanted to implement them on a large scale on Puji, it still couldn't do without the support of skills.

Of course, these so-called theories were only limited to these relatively simple fields; other things, like trying to rig up a mushroom cannon without skills, were pure nonsense.

After finishing these small tests, Lin Jun checked the construction progress of the trap room—it was almost finished.

The so-called trap room was the love nest Lin Jun had newly built for the Huang Pishu.

Lin Jun’s previous plan to dig out the dungeon had failed; he had hit a transparent wall. This time, Lin Jun simply made use of the transparent wall.

Anyway, the transparent wall wasn't afraid of collapse, and no matter how much he bombed it, it wouldn't budge, so he might as well use it as a trap room.

Now, a small team of construction Puji was doing the final finishing touches in this area of the transparent wall.

The originally cramped space had been expanded into a complete basement structure, and the arched walls, where fungal threads and rock fused perfectly, were embedded with glowing spores, shrouding the entire space in a pale cyan halo.

The entire basement had eight pillars.

As the ceiling, the transparent wall didn't actually need pillars for support; these pillars were naturally disguises as well. They were actually composed of self-destruct Puji with a layer of stone shell, and each pillar contained four self-destruct Puji, ensuring sufficient power.

On a stone base like an altar in the innermost part, the Huang Pishu was placed peacefully, looking just like a reward item after defeating a boss.

The stone base was naturally also self-destruct Puji; anyway, they were cheap and easy to use...

He imagined the Huang Pishu wouldn't have any objections to its new home.

Of course, he couldn't just have self-destruct Puji; Lin Jun had also arranged for a few of the newly created elite Puji to act as guards here.

Compared to ordinary Puji, elite Puji, besides having a few more skills, mainly had a gap in attributes.

For example, for melee elite Puji, Lin Jun had pointed their Strength, Agility, and Constitution attributes all to 40.

For ranged types, Intelligence and Agility were at 40, and Constitution at 30 was enough. Putting three or four elite Puji in the trap room was sufficient.

When the time came, he would seal the entrance outside with a layer of stone, and the entire trap room would become a hidden space.

Adventurers hanging around this cave wouldn't have very high levels, and even if they stumbled into the trap room by mistake, they would be forced back by the guard Puji.

If demons came knocking and the elite Puji couldn't beat them, he would just let the self-destruct Puji blow everything to bits.

Even if they didn't die, the time it took for them to retreat would be enough for Lin Jun to mobilize the Puji to block the door outside the cave.

The reason he had gone to such lengths to move the Huang Pishu there was mainly because if it were kept in the mushroom forest, and demons came to cause trouble every few days, it wouldn't be good if the mushroom forest, which served as an employee break area, ended up being smashed.

Lin Jun’s trap cabin plan and elite Puji plan were progressing smoothly, but the plan to lay a fungal carpet from the sixth-floor rift directly to the deep-layer area wasn't going as well.

The rock walls of the rift were very hard, and the fungal threads couldn't collect any nutrients other than magic power from the rock walls; extending downward could only rely on the fungal carpet to transport nutrients.

This problem wasn't unique to the rift rock walls; in fact, even on the rock walls of the fifth and sixth floors, the fungal carpet couldn't absorb basic nutrients either.

It was just that they weren't too far from the ground and the dome, so transporting some nutrients over wasn't a big problem.

But here in the rift, the length of the rock wall was a bit too long.

The distance the fungal carpet could transport nutrients was also limited.

There was no other way; since there were no conditions, Lin Jun had to create them himself.

He first crafted some hollow tubes made of fungal threads, poured soil down through the tubes, and laid it on relatively flat areas of the rock wall, forming one supply point after another.

Relying on the nutrients in the soil, the fungal threads could extend a bit further, laying tubes to the next platform; just like this, extending node by node, it was successfully laid downward.

For this reason, a batch of Puji responsible for digging and transporting soil, and three tree-folk responsible for clearing the way and assisting, were stationed in the sixth-floor rift.

In the process of the fungal carpet extending, Lin Jun also discovered a problem.

This rift didn't seem to connect to the seventh, eighth, ninth, or tenth floors?

At least Lin Jun’s fungal carpet hadn't found any entrance that could enter other levels.

Could it be that the other levels were just happened to be separated by stone walls?

This question could only be studied after he occupied the seventh floor later.

The spread of the fungal carpet finally stopped after entering the deep-layer area.

It wasn't that Lin Jun didn't want to continue extending, but that he had encountered familiar figures again.

【Race: Thousand-Pivot Mayfly】

【Level: 22】

【Race: Thousand-Pivot Mayfly】

【Level: 31】

In an area where countless thick white lines crisscrossed, a large number of Thousand-Pivot Mayflies lived.

Unlike the level 62 big monster he encountered when the Puji fell down, the highest level seen nearby was only around level 40, but the quantity was quite large.

And they had an extremely strong sense of territory.

When the fungal threads extended down and approached the thick lines, they would come over to scrape the fungal threads off, or directly spray a mouthful of acid to corrode a large chunk away.

Simply put, it seemed he couldn't go down without killing them?