[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-this-dungeon-is-growing-mushrooms":3,"chapter-this-dungeon-is-growing-mushrooms-this-dungeon-is-growing-mushrooms-chapter-20":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","This Dungeon Has Sprouted Mushrooms",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2219075,3995,"Chapter 20: 20 The First Fungus Speaker","this-dungeon-is-growing-mushrooms-chapter-20",20,"\u003Cp>In the pitch-black forest, Dylan held a torch and shouted anxiously:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Bella! Bella, where are you? Answer your father!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Fa... ther...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A weak voice came, and Dylan hurriedly pushed aside the grass following the voice, seeing his daughter covered in blood leaning against a tree.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Bella! Why are you so seriously injured?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bella, don't be afraid, father is here, father is here.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dylan shed tears and hugged his weak daughter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Father, I... I...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Here, I'm here, take your time.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Father,\" Bella wrapped her hands around Dylan's neck and opened her scarlet eyes, \"I'm so hungry...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sharp teeth pierced into his neck, Dylan's blood gushed out, and in his blurred vision, he saw Bella tearfully swallowing his flesh and blood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>————\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ah!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dylan woke up suddenly, gasping for air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a dream, fortunately it was a dream...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Where... am I?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dylan looked up and saw a Puji that was disgustedly moving away from him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Monster... mutated Puji...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He remembered the scene before he fainted; what about those Parasitic Trees?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then Dylan noticed the remains of the Parasitic Trees growing mushrooms scattered on the ground around him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At a rough glance, there were far more than the five that were chasing him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These... were all done by these Puji?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dylan couldn't believe it; even if the Puji mutated, could they kill so many Parasitic Trees?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the blurred memory before fainting and the scene in front of him seemed to be telling him that this was a fact.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was that hidden room; he saw the opened stone treasure chest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It turned out to be a treasure chest room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Puji might be the monsters guarding the treasure chest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, the Puji around him didn't seem to have any hostility toward him; what was strange was that he didn't feel awkward either, as if it should have been like this... so strange...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Right, what about his wounds?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dylan touched his abdomen; the wound was gone, but looking closely, it set off a stormy sea in his heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The wound was filled with mycelia, and even a small mushroom grew on it...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had seen this kind of scene before, on those people who were captured and parasitized by Parasitic Trees.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No wonder the mutated Puji didn't attack him, no wonder he felt the Puji were close; it turned out he was parasitized.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But his consciousness was still clear now, and he wasn't bound like those captured by Parasitic Trees.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before being completely controlled, he seemed to still have a little time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He looked at the remains of those Parasitic Trees, which were still hanging with many tree seeds, and a bold idea emerged in his heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dylan didn't care about his own life or death or whether he would be controlled by parasitism; he just wanted to get money to save his daughter. If his time wasn't enough, he would entrust Fatty to help him save his daughter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What he needed now was to bring the Parasitic Tree seeds back to the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He crawled to a Parasitic Tree, carefully picked a tree seed, and stuffed it into his bosom.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking around, the Puji didn't seem to care about his actions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This made him feel relieved, and he collected all the seeds in the room one by one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Enough, so many must be enough.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He held the tree seeds and came to the stone door, looking back one last time; the Puji were still as usual.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Truly... strange.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>————\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Watching Dylan disappear outside the stone door, Lin Jun didn't exchange a word with him from beginning to end, even though he was connected to the mycelial network at this time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Saving him was his principle, which didn't mean he trusted him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dylan was indeed parasitized and was in a state of being on the verge of it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As long as Lin Jun was willing, the mycelia in Dylan's body would completely destroy his sanity and turn him into a puppet-like existence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But that would be inconsistent with the original intention of saving him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Let him go; saving his life and sending tree seeds, Lin Jun had already repaid the favor of opening the door enough. What would happen later had nothing to do with him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Speaking of which, this person took such a big risk just for tree seeds; it looked like a good thing, should he also hoard some?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Maybe it would be useful in the future; anyway, decomposing it directly would only yield a little magic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During Dylan's coma, he took the Puji out for a walk and hunted some fertilizer back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By the way, he also observed the surroundings with the panel and basically determined that this was the fifth floor based on the level.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That teleportation maze was really unreasonable, throwing him directly from the eighth floor to the fifth floor; would there be teleportation arrays that throw people to the tenth floor or even the deep zone?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fortunately, he didn't encounter one, and he silently marked the eighth floor as extremely dangerous in his heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now Lin Jun was most concerned about the location of the new mushroom garden.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although this treasure chest room had magic water, firstly, the supply was actually not much; after the pool he had saved before was used up, the value here wouldn't be great.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Secondly, he also understood the operation mode of this dungeon a bit; it shouldn't let him keep the door open, and who knows when some mechanism would be triggered; if he was still inside then, it would be bad.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for rushing out of the dungeon to bask in the sun in one go?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He wanted to, but didn't dare.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The dungeon only had one entrance and exit, and he would inevitably run into a large number of humans, and there might be experts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn't want to fall before dawn.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was better to be steady; even if it was a little late, now that he could see hope, he could endure it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Regarding the new mushroom garden, he wanted to choose a location that was both safe and convenient for hunting and grabbing skills.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And in fact, he found that this swamp area was really suitable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Adventurers wouldn't choose to pass through the dangerous swamp terrain, and even if they came in, their movements would be slow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the ubiquitous swamp was no different from solid ground for light-equipped Puji without shells.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And if the mushroom garden was in the swamp, his main body could hide under the swamp, which was also a quite safe method.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was just that the local residents were a bit troublesome.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When he started to solve those five Parasitic Trees, Lin Jun didn't take them to heart, but he had a hard battle when he went out for a walk.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These Parasitic Trees liked to call friends and companions to play group fights, which was very shameless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And they had a variety of skills and magic of different levels.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Jun encountered a Parasitic Tree parasitizing a LV36 mage, didn't look at the panel first, and suffered a loss by being careless, losing a few more Puji.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before this, he never thought that such a high-level mage would fall here...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This estimated that there were no telling how many parasitized powerhouses in the whole swamp; if there was one over level 50... shouldn't be...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>More importantly, the return on fighting these Parasitic Trees was actually not high, which was the most important thing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The skills possessed by Parasitic Trees were very monotonous, just [Fusion Parasitism], [Entanglement], [Resilience] plus a little bit of various resistances.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What was truly powerful were the strange moves of those parasitized people.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Lin Jun tried, and decomposing these parasitized shells yielded no skills, and even the magic was very little, as if the inside had been squeezed dry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just for the few skills of the Parasitic Trees themselves, the difficulty of fighting them clearly couldn't keep up with the return.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But if he added the need to grab territory to build a new mushroom garden, it seemed barely acceptable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a little thought, Lin Jun still felt that he wanted the swamp area.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With the goal set, after he produced another batch of Puji adapted to the swamp terrain, he would start the strategy plan!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 21 =====\u003C\u002Fp>",1389,"2026-06-17T15:00:13.648Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","d75ff5f02b158fb342e18c7765a9c653df86ac8eb0d7f8960ff40e8da26f77e2","this-dungeon-is-growing-mushrooms-chapter-21","this-dungeon-is-growing-mushrooms-chapter-19",165,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthis-dungeon-has-sprouted-mushrooms-cover.jpg"]