Chapter 136: 146 Piggy's New Job

Twisted, unstable edges.

Two areas with completely different styles separated by a single plane.

No matter how you looked at it, the thing in front of him was a rift.

And it was actually the size of a manhole cover, which was much larger than the rift guarded by the two-colored slime on the sixth layer; that one was at most the size of a fist.

Poor cave dweller, completely unaware of this rift, fell straight in; it was probably ominous.

Lin Jun’s plan to track the cave dweller to its home naturally went bankrupt; he could only see if he could encounter them later.

But the key was this rift!

He hadn't found the existence of a rift on the seventh layer, so Lin Jun had thought the one the two-colored slime sat on was the only leak in the dungeon.

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

Lin Jun didn't think it was a coincidence that he just happened to bump into the only rift in the deep zone.

There was a high probability that a significant number of rifts already existed in the deep zone...

Although he hadn't figured out why there were no rifts on the seventh layer sandwiched between the sixth layer and the deep zone, it was more important to study the rift in front of him now.

There was no curse on the other side; perhaps he could explore it.

Naturally, he couldn't sacrifice the relatively precious elite Puji.

Fortunately, this was directly connected to a passage in the cavern he had just occupied, and soon a temporarily generated bat Puji came fluttering over.

He controlled the Puji to jump in, while simultaneously using [Sonic Detection].

And then—

Nothing...

The sound waves emitted to the surroundings didn't hit anything and bounce back.

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

The Puji tried to flap its wings to fly back, but it was of no use at all.

In the perception of [Kin Control], this unlucky Puji was getting further and further away... further and further away.

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

Lin Jun couldn't quite understand what had happened.

Setting aside the eerie environment on the other side, his [Kin Control] could control scout Puji without obstruction even from far away; Lin Jun even suspected that this skill had no distance limit.

Now, the bat Puji had only fallen in for such a short distance, and it had already lost contact?

It didn't look like it had been attacked by anything either; [Sonic Detection] hadn't detected anything.

There was no terrain, and no creatures; the other side seemed empty.

It wouldn't be a proper spatial rift leading to nothingness, would it?

Just like the void areas outside the world in those stories from his past life?

Soon, several more cannon-fodder Puji were pulled over; the Puji entangled each other with mycelial tentacles, one connected to another, with one end fixed to a stone and the other jumping into the rift again.

The moment they jumped in, the pulling gravity disappeared.

If he had to describe this feeling, it was like being in space.

Lin Jun never expected that after transmigrating to another world, he would be able to experience a space-weightlessness adventure... honestly, it was quite fun!

After playing enough, Lin Jun threw several Puji out in different directions one by one.

Sooner or later, the Puji all suddenly lost contact at some moment.

It seemed the situation encountered by the first one was indeed not an accident.

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

It was very strange, but it didn't feel dangerous; at least he didn't have to worry about any monsters or curses emerging from this rift.

But that was only because this rift wasn't dangerous.

Not long after, another batch of bat Puji was produced, purely for scouting.

The bat Puji flew into the more than ten huge passages connected to the cavern, and after a carpet-style search, they indeed discovered a second rift! However, this rift was very small, like a needle eye.

If it weren't for the unique edge-distortion effect, Lin Jun feared he would have had a hard time discovering it.

This rift was very unstable; Lin Jun tried to extend some mycelium over to take a look, but it was all crushed 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 likely already riddled with holes.

It was clearly fine before he left; this speed of damage was a bit too fast.

Now that he thought about it, did that group of Thousand-Pivot Mayflies really come during the monster tide?

Could it be that there was still some huge rift connecting to the mayflies' home, allowing them to migrate over continuously?

Anyway, at that fork position above, every now and then, a few mayflies would tentatively fly over, only to be shot down by the Puji that had built a defense line there.

Thinking about the size of the giant insect, if that were really the case, how big would that rift have to be...

The situation in the deep zone was not optimistic; Lin Jun decisively arranged most of his Puji capacity in the deep zone, preparing to start a long-lost cavern grand expedition.

Since the Yellow Book claimed it didn't know the specific location of the dungeon core either, only that it was in the deepest part.

So Lin Jun could only simply and crudely set the goal as extending downward.

After thinking about it, Lin Jun brought the vampire Louisa down.

"Where is this?"

Louisa, who had been suddenly pulled out of the mine, appeared very uneasy.

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

"Piggy, you have a new job!"

"..."

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

Fresh!?

Louisa’s eyes widened instantly.

She had indeed not drunk fresh blood for a long time; to be precise, ever since she was captured, she had been drinking that lifeless fresh blood, barely surviving.

After all, there were no living creatures on the fifth layer for her to drink blood from, and Lin Jun wouldn't let her go to the sixth layer to hunt, as it would be bad if she bumped into adventurers.

"R... really?" Louisa confirmed cautiously.

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

"No, no, no, Boss, you're the boss! I'm Piggy, I want to eat fresh!" Louisa indicated that she cherished this opportunity!

Seeing this, Lin Jun arranged a task for her—to cooperate with the expedition team to expand territory.

Louisa was, after all, a Diamond-rank vampire viscount; it was quite suitable to feed her well and use her as a combat supplement.

He couldn't really keep this thing just to let her dig a few mines, could he?

Of course, there were restrictions; Lin Jun stipulated that she could not leave the range of the fungal carpet; if she violated it, she would naturally be turned into a puppet.

Louisa nodded like a garlic-pounding machine at this arrangement, fearing that Lin Jun would go back on his word.

Lin Jun didn't treat her badly either; he directly handed over the giant turtle that was still retracted in its shell, playing a game of patience with Lin Jun, to Louisa.

This turtle could actually be blasted out of its shell with a Fat Otaku Puji, but Lin Jun felt that was a waste; it was better to hand it to the vampire. If she couldn't eat it, then Louisa was useless.

Fortunately, Louisa was not useless.

Her pale palm pressed against the turtle shell, and after a while, the fresh blood inside the turtle was stirred up by Louisa, and blood mist gathered from the cracks in the shell into Louisa’s hand.

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

And Louisa couldn't wait to drink the blood of this monster, which she would have looked down upon in the past, in one gulp; she even extended her tongue to lick the last bit left on the corner of her mouth clean, and then whimpered on the spot...