Chapter 115: 123 Seventh Floor

Sixth floor, in the unfinished new mushroom forest.

Xiao Lu’s feet were rooted in the ground, its roots turning back and forth in the mud, while another tree demon was on a piece of land next to it that had already been turned over, inserting the tender branches.

Soft soil had good air permeability and water permeability, which was conducive to the breathing and growth of the root system.

Compared to slow-growing trees, mushrooms were much faster.

The fungal carpet had already been laid on the planned territory, and although the mushroom trees hadn't grown, they had all sprouted, and they would be of initial scale in about half a month.

At the same time, spores were also sprinkled on these tender branches, and they would grow together with the tender branches and be beneficial.

The magic power collected by the mushrooms growing on these tender branches wouldn't be taken away by Lin Jun, but would all be provided to the tender branches to help them grow rapidly.

When these tender branches grew into demon woods and further gave birth to consciousness to become tree demons, the newly born tree demons would be mushroom factions by nature.

In order to let them grow better, Lin Jun even experimented with making some Puji tools.

In the center of the planted tender branches, there was a Puji fixed on the ground, constantly expanding and contracting.

Every time it contracted, water would be sprayed from countless small holes on the Puji’s mushroom cap toward the surroundings, just like a sprinkler.

Underneath it was connected to a special fungal thread tube, which was actually improved from fungal thread tentacles.

Complex modifications, such as adding wings, couldn't be driven by the Puji’s stupid brain without skills, but relatively simple ones were another matter, such as this tube that only needed suction.

The tube was directly connected to the groundwater, and there was even another Puji in the middle as a relay.

Simply put, Lin Jun used two Puji to combine into a sprinkler, and the effect seemed quite good so far.

Even some tree demons who had finished their work would come over to take a cool shower. The experience of water hitting the tree bark directly was something the tree demons enjoyed very much.

Norris, who had finished his parole and was about to return to the Shi Laimu room, also saw this novel thing.

Learning from the tree demon, he approached the sprinkler mushroom and let the water droplets hit his white scales.

Just after enjoying it for a while, he suddenly remembered something, hurriedly exited the spraying range, and opened the Huang Pishu in his hand.

"Yellow Book, are you okay if you get wet?"

[Do you think I’m a piece of trash worth 10 copper coins on the side of the road?]

[How could I be afraid of water]

[Also, how are you talking? You have to call me senior. I came to the mushroom garden earlier than you]

Wasn't it always locked up before...

Although Norris thought so, he didn't say it, but followed the Huang Pishu’s request and called it senior.

Originally, Norris wanted to try his best not to get involved with the Huang Pishu. The things revealed in the communication between the boss and the Huang Pishu were too scary, and he was no different from a dish in front of the Huang Pishu.

But as a Grimoire whose main job was to bewitch people, if it couldn't handle a 17-year-old kid, it would be too useless.

It told Norris a story about a hero saving a princess.

On a certain year, month, and day, a princess of a small country was kidnapped by a dragon, and the hero took on the task of saving the princess.

Along the way, the hero made friends, explored ruins, defeated monsters, and finally found the dragon’s lair, only to find that the princess had been digested without even a residue left. The ashamed hero could only kill the dragon to avenge the princess.

After the hero failed the mission and went back crying, he found that the small country had been destroyed during his absence, and no one knew his dark history of failing to save the princess. It was truly gratifying.

Relying on his level 7 Great Perfection Common Tongue skill, Lin Jun also quietly observed the gist of it; it was a rather dark-humored story, but Norris was watching it, completely mesmerized.

Norris only had a gambler father who died early, and after the age of 14, he was trapped in a vortex of debt, so he didn't have much chance to listen to stories, so he was immediately attracted by the evil story told by the Grimoire.

After the Grimoire promised to tell him a story every three days, Norris happily agreed to carry it with him...

Lin Jun’s fungal carpet was now spreading from the sixth floor to the seventh floor.

According to what the Huang Pishu said, if no rift was found on the seventh floor, it meant that this place on the sixth floor was the beginning, so the problem wouldn't be big.

But if there were rifts on the seventh floor too, then the situation might be more serious.

However, the possibility was not high. If the rift problem had already been very serious, adventurers should have noticed the relevant rumors long ago.

Lin Jun asked Norris, and at least before Norris came down, he hadn't heard any relevant rumors.

The seventh floor was a very special level. If Lin Jun were to describe the terrain here, it would be a sewer.

A huge sewer.

On both sides of the waterway, which was more than ten meters wide, were dirt roads.

The waterways crisscrossed, and the water surface was only seven or eight meters away from the dome. Compared with the height difference of tens of meters on the fifth and sixth floors, the space seemed much smaller, and there weren't even many monsters in this space.

But this was just an illusion. What was truly huge on the seventh floor was the underwater space. The part above the water surface was afraid that it wasn't even one-tenth, and the monsters on this floor were all aquatic monsters.

Big shrimp, oysters, turtles, strange-headed fish, everything was there. God knows why there were so many things that looked like seafood.

Lin Jun liked this floor very much, because the only things that would be active on the shore on the seventh floor were some amphibious monsters, and a kind of insect that lived on the dome—no Shi Laimu!

The fungal carpet was laid without pressure, and those few monsters that would come ashore would eat some mushrooms at most and wouldn't deliberately destroy the fungal carpet.

Lin Jun’s fungal carpet ate firefly grass and spread smoothly all the way, which was a world of difference compared to the sixth floor.

However, there were still some small problems.

Since most of the space on the seventh floor was underwater, if there were space rifts, the probability of them appearing underwater was very high.

Maybe his dungeon was also leaking water to other dungeons.

Since he had to explore underwater, a batch of special Puji was naturally indispensable.

But in Lin Jun’s skill library, the levels of skills related to going underwater were quite low. These low-level skills had limited effects and couldn't support the Puji to complete underwater exploration tasks at all.

The highest was 【Underwater Adaptation lv4】, which could only let the Puji stay underwater for a while, and it didn't help with combat or escape.

Lin Jun had already tried throwing a few Puji down. As for the result, they were fed to the fish in vain; it was the kind where the incomplete mushroom cap floated up not long after falling down.

There was no other way. Lin Jun hadn't had the opportunity to come into contact with these aquatic monsters before. Those level 1 or 2 underwater skills were all brought back by Xiao Hei when she went out to play.

Now if he wanted to complete the exploration, he still had to raise the levels of these skills.

Not too high, raising them to around lv4 would be enough; it could be considered a level that was easy to achieve quickly and could come in handy.

But the problem was that aquatic monsters weren't like monsters on land that he could just rush over with a group of Puji and kill.

Aquatic monsters had to be brought to the shore first, or at least lured to the water surface, before there was a chance to kill them.

Fortunately, Lin Jun was also familiar with this; wasn't it just fishing!