Chapter 30

No!

Fat Otaku Number One!

That was something I spent a whole month molding!

Damn it, there were seven or eight pieces of equipment inside!

Although I set Fat Otaku Number One's Constitution to 40 and installed a LV4 Self-Destruct just to deal with those who don't follow the rules.

But I didn't expect this to happen so soon!

If I had known, I would have put fewer items inside; now it's a maximized loss!

You guys play at killing humans, I'm a monster, I shouldn't meddle.

But how could you chop my mushroom?

The culprit dwarf has already been blown into smithereens; this debt must be repaid by his partner!

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Nasa reached out and wiped the bits of flesh off his face; the spores and dust suspended in the air poured into his nasal cavity, causing him to cough intermittently.

He shook his dizzy head until the black spots dancing on his retina gradually faded, then staggered to his feet.

The rock wall at the cave entrance now looked like dough crushed by an invisible giant hand; the original two-meter-high entrance had been violently torn to three meters.

The fat walking mushroom and Glonggba had both disappeared.

No,

Nasa saw half a set of steel teeth embedded in a tree trunk not far away.

It wasn't that they disappeared; it was that they were all over the ground...

Death being so close made Nasa shiver involuntarily.

Good thing he had some small habits, good thing he didn't go to check that fat Puji together.

Feeling he had escaped a disaster, Nasa no longer had the heart to torture Vera and the others.

He picked up the small knife from the ground, intending to finish up quickly and leave.

When he took his first step, he fell—a long fungal tentacle had wrapped around his ankle without him knowing!

"What is this!?"

Nasa picked up the small knife to hack at the tentacle, but the blade got stuck at one-third of the depth.

Only after repeated dragging did he manage to cut it off.

He wanted to stand up, but another fungal tentacle climbed onto his back and clamped around his waist and abdomen.

This time, before he could swing his knife, more tentacles surged out, wrapping around his limb joints.

Without knowing when, Puji with tentacles connected under their mushroom caps appeared all around, surrounding Nasa.

"Walking mushroom? Tentacles?"

The half-elf panicked and wanted to reach into his clothes to get the medicinal powder, but was wrapped tighter and tighter.

"No, no!

Go catch them! Go eat them!

Help! Help... wuwu... help... help..."

Countless tentacles finally wrapped Nasa into a humanoid cocoon, and he was dragged into the depths of the forest while struggling, leaving only muffled cries for help that gradually dissipated in the forest.

Feiyin, who was the only one to witness everything, bit her teeth tightly, not letting herself make a sound.

It wasn't until the Puji had all disappeared that she began to sob in a low voice.

"Cutting Spell..."

"Cutting Spell..."

"Cutting Spell..."

After not knowing how many times she used the Cutting Spell, the rope on Feiyin finally snapped.

She hurriedly let down her sister and Vera.

Her sister Feiling was fine, just unconscious.

But Vera was breathing weakly, and might die in the next second.

Their backpacks were nowhere to be found, and the potions were inside.

She didn't know healing spells; if there were no potions, Vera would die!

Feiyin was so anxious that tears welled up in her eyes again.

In her tear-blurred vision, a red object flashed by.

Life Potion!

It was the bottle the half-elf had taken out earlier!

Feiyin crawled over using her hands and feet to pick up the potion, and with trembling hands, poured it all into Vera's mouth.

"Cough, cough—"

Vera choked on the water, and although he didn't wake up, there was finally some color in his face.

"Great, great... wuwu..."

Feiyin, who let out a sigh of relief, finally cried again.

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Deep in the forest, in the now-empty gnoll camp.

The Puji were wrapping the half-elf and slamming him against a rock again and again.

At this time, Nasa's appearance was extremely miserable; his nasal bone was broken, all his teeth were knocked out, and his tongue seemed to be half-severed.

He was delirious and could only make vague "wuwu" sounds.

But the Puji continued their work mechanically.

It wasn't that Lin Jun wanted to torture him; it was just that this half-elf needed to use his own flesh to repay the debt.

And [Fusion Parasitism] could only parasitize on low health.

So he had to grind his health down to a sliver first.

Attacking him directly with skills was too dangerous; one slip and he would die.

Slamming him like this bit by bit—safe!

It was definitely not because he was petty.

Finally, after pressing his health to the limit, the Puji elegantly sprinkled some spores on his wounds.

Then they hung him on a tree.

In a few days, a mature parasitic puppet would naturally fall to the ground.

This was Lin Jun's first human puppet; he planned to play well... well, make him repay the blood debt of Fat Otaku Number One!

Speaking of which, when bringing the half-elf back, Lin Jun also picked up the things on the ground that no one wanted.

All sorts of weapons, armor, rings, potion powder bags, and so on.

Calculated this way, the loss of the equipment in the belly of the Fat Puji seemed to have been made up?

He felt less heartbroken.

However, the debt on the half-elf could not be reduced.

As for the Fat Puji...

Fortunately, Lin Jun was prepared and produced five at once.

This kind of high-Constitution Puji could not only become larger to hold more things.

Higher health could also greatly increase the damage of the self-destruct.

The only problem was that other attributes couldn't keep up, and they were extremely slow when moving.

Otherwise, why call it a fat otaku?

This time the mission was unsuccessful, so he could only send Fat Otaku Number Two to sit in the cave that had already expanded by a circle.

It just so happened that the things picked up this time could be stuffed into its belly for exchange.

Once people got used to paying the corpse toll and exchanging corpses for random items at the Fat Puji.

Lin Jun would have a steady stream of monster corpses from other levels.

The adventurers' impression of Puji should also change greatly.

At least they wouldn't meet and immediately want to kill each other.

As for worrying that the exchanged items wouldn't be enough?

It was just the beginning, so naturally, the things inside were full and good; every transaction the adventurers made was a huge profit.

Once a habit was formed, Lin Jun would fill it with a large amount of low-level magic crystals to make up the numbers, and occasionally open a few good things to keep the adventurers' appetites whetted.

Anyway, for adventurers, most monster corpses weren't worth much, so it was better to exchange them than not.

Tsk tsk!

Lin Jun admired his own operational brain.

With a wise fungus master like himself, why worry that the mushroom garden wouldn't flourish?

Hmm?

Just now, when Lin Jun was feeling proud, the signals of several hallucinogenic Puji slowly advancing in the cave suddenly disappeared.

That was a very, very deep location, so deep that it was almost impossible to reach it by exhaustive search.

It didn't look like they were attacked by ordinary crystallized bats or rock lizards; the three Puji lost contact at the same instant.

Lin Jun turned his attention over, controlling some nearby hallucinogenic Puji to advance toward that location.

Just as these Puji reached the same spot, their health bars suddenly emptied.

Like their predecessors, they collapsed on the ground.

But this time Lin Jun figured out what was going on; he also had this skill.

It was the [Infrasonic Attack] on the crystallized bat.

At the same time, in that fleeting glance, Lin Jun also pulled up the enemy's panel:

[Race: Crystallized Bat]

[Level: LV25]

[Health: 850/850]

[Magic: 1200/1200]

[Strength: 16/27]

[Agility: 20/34]

[Constitution: 13/22]

[Intelligence: 35/59]

[Spirit: 30/50]

[Racial Talent: Sonic Skill and Crystal Skill Proficiency Bonus]

[Fixed Status:

Extreme Aging (All base attributes reduced by 80%)

Crystal Symbiosis (Skill power increased by 500%)]

[Skills: Crystal Symbiosis LV10, Infrasonic Attack LV10, Sonic Detection LV10, Spirit Resistance LV10, Physical Resistance LV8, Magic Resistance LV7, High-Temperature Resistance LV5, Evasion LV6...]

[Title:

Lizard Killer: Damage to lizards increased by 10%

Bat Killer: Damage to bats increased by 10%

Beyond Death: Effects of aging and other age-related negative status effects halved]

(End of chapter)