Chapter 28: 29 Extra Intelligence

Under a few huge gray mushrooms by the Poison Fog Lake, three young adventurers were lying under the mushroom caps, quietly observing the few mutated Puji in the distance.

Ever since the Puji occupied the floor, the spores they emitted had spawned a large number of blue and gray mushrooms, of various sizes.

According to experience, although these mushrooms were produced by Puji spores, they wouldn't have a direct connection with Puji.

The only relationship was that occasionally, in places where mushrooms grew well, new Puji might be generated.

Now these few large mushrooms, with wide and low caps, were very suitable for concealment.

It was just that the air between breaths was full of the stench of rot seeping from the soil; there must have been monster corpses here before.

The girl Feiling, carrying a short bow, rubbed her nose; she only felt that she was about to lose her sense of smell from the stench.

"Vila, don't dawdle; try it and you'll know if it works!"

"Fine."

Continuing to observe didn't seem to make sense, so Vila put down the two large cloth bags on his back and took out a dead two-headed python from one of the bags.

This snake had a snake head at each end, one black and one white, and the snake body was black and white, which was a common monster on the second floor of the dungeon.

Valuable materials like snake fangs and poison sacs had already been taken away, and now this was just a piece of low-value snake meat.

Vila rolled the python into a ball and carried it on his shoulder, posing to throw, and called the name of the other girl softly:

"Feiyin."

"Okay."

A barely audible response came from behind Vila.

Raising the small magic staff in her hand, Feiyin cast a buff spell on Vila.

[Strength Amplification]

Vila immediately felt that the two-headed python in his hand was much lighter.

Weighing it twice, he threw it out.

The snake corpse spread out in mid-air and finally fell heavily near the Puji.

Bang—

The startled Puji fired a cannon shot immediately.

The mushroom cannon, which had been upgraded to LV8, hit the middle section of the python's body, and this medium-sized monster from the second floor was blown into two sections at once.

This power made the few people under the mushrooms break into a cold sweat.

No wonder many people died in the hands of these Puji, including experts who could go to the sixth or seventh floors.

Just one attack power was so great, and this kind of monster would actually act collectively!

It was said that even if you defeated a team of Puji, you would only be chased by the large army that came later.

It was no wonder that most silver-level adventurers were crowded in the tavern drinking, all wanting to wait for a reliable strategy before coming down.

After the Puji confirmed that the snake was dead, two of them with tentacles topped the two sections of snake corpse on their mushroom caps.

Then a group of Puji went to the swamp area as if hunting was completed.

Just like in the strategy, as long as you use monster corpses, you can lure away Puji!

The key was that the materials had already been taken away, and the remaining corpses were not valuable, which was just a bit troublesome to carry down.

"It actually works..."

Feiling's small mouth opened slightly; she still couldn't believe that Vila would hit the jackpot and buy a real first-hand strategy.

Vila himself was also very excited.

"I just knew it was true!

Feiling, Feiyin, let's not rush to the cave to find Iron Heart Orchid.

Let's go see that extra intelligence first!"

Feiling felt there was no reason to refuse, so she nodded in agreement.

Several people followed the path and rushed to a place on the edge of the Gnoll Forest.

It was just that they didn't notice that under another large mushroom further away, two people had been observing them for a long time.

"They seem to have a strategy; should we do it directly?"

The one speaking was the half-elf Nasa.

His left ear was only half left, and under the sunken cheeks and heavy bruised eyelids, the handsome outline inherited from the elf was vaguely recognizable; unfortunately, he looked like he had been hollowed out by wine and sex.

And his companion was a sturdy dwarf with steel teeth and cold eyes.

The axe blade flashed with cold light, and the mushroom caps above their heads slid down obliquely; Grongba stepped on the fallen mushroom stalk and stood up straight.

"No rush; we can finish them off anytime; let's see what's going on before dealing with them."

In the shadows of the dungeon, all kinds of people wandered; since there were adventurers hunting monsters, naturally, evil people who specialized in pitting and killing other adventurers were born; such people were called plunderers.

Nasa and Grongba were plunderers wearing the skin of adventurers.

Their combat levels had clearly reached LV34 and LV36, but they hung around the fourth and fifth floors all year round just to find suitable prey.

The overly young faces of the Vila team made the two of them set their sights on them.

And the Puji on the fifth floor had been making a lot of noise recently, so the death of three young people here wouldn't arouse anyone's suspicion at all.

Nasa took a bag of powder from his package and sprinkled it on the two of them.

This was a kind of medicinal powder that could shield common detection skills, belonging to props specially used to deal with adventurers.

And Nasa himself used detection skills to hang far behind Vila and them.

It was by relying on this technique that the two of them could succeed in sneak attacks every time.

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On the edge of the Gnoll Forest, there was a small cave, and the cave entrance was less than two meters high.

Hidden in the iron wire fern and snake vine, it blended with the surrounding rock wall and was very hidden.

Vila and the three were in the cave at this time, looking at the Puji sitting in the center of the cave, a bit stunned.

Stunned because this Puji was really too big...

The height that almost reached the top of the cave, plus the width that was no less than the height, completely subverted their understanding of the Puji image.

Just sitting there occupied one-third of the space in the cave.

Feiling bumped Vila with her shoulder and asked in a low voice:

"Is this the one mentioned in the strategy, the one that can exchange various random props?"

Vila really wanted to say how would he know, but saying it out would definitely lead to being beaten.

"Probably; I'll try."

Saying that, Vila put down the other cloth bag on his back.

He took out another canine monster corpse from it and carefully stepped forward two steps, placing it in front of the fat Puji.

The fat Puji, which had been motionless, finally reacted to seeing the monster corpse, and six tentacles made of mycelia extended from behind.

Vila retreated to his teammates' side, vigilantly drawing his scimitar, but this time he was overthinking it.

The tentacles rolled up the corpse and stuffed it into its hollow body.

Then the fat Puji continued to dig in its body with tentacles for a long time, and finally threw out a delicate small round shield.

The carved round shield rolled all the way to the front of the few people with a "clatter clatter clatter" sound.

The three looked at each other for a long time, and all saw the look of disbelief in each other's eyes.

It wasn't too strange for some high-intelligence monsters to have a certain degree of communication or even trading, but this was a Puji!

"This shield wouldn't be another adventurer's..."

Feiling thought of the many adventurers who had died on the fifth floor recently; this small round shield couldn't have been crafted by the Puji themselves, right? [29-

"Then you don't want it?" Vera looked a bit reluctant; the small shield looked to be of quite good quality, and even if he didn't use it, he could sell it for a good price.

Little did he know, Feiling suddenly became excited:

"Don't want it? Why wouldn't I want it?

Hurry, hurry, let's go back up and fight a few more monsters to drag down here!

The good things on this Puji must be limited; we need to trade for as much as possible before others find out!"

Saying this, she excitedly bent down to pick up the small shield.

But before her hand could touch the shield, Vera kicked her on the shoulder, and a crossbow bolt grazed Feiling's cheek and nailed into the ground, leaving a tiny wound.

"Raiders!!!!!"

(End of chapter)