[{"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-37":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},2219092,3995,"Chapter 37: 38 Why would they pass by my house?","this-dungeon-is-growing-mushrooms-chapter-37",37,"\u003Cp>Pop-pop—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pop-pop—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Above the spiral corridor, seven Puji were jumping up one step at a time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These stairs, tailor-made for humans, were really a bit too high for the short-legged Puji, who were only half a person tall, so they could only advance one step at a time by hopping.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These were all Puji Lin Jun had sent to the first floor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thanks to the Moon Shadow Stone left by a kind adventurer—a strange ore that changed color every half day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Jun could count the days even in the dungeon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After Dilan hadn't returned for seven consecutive days, and even the adventurers gradually disappeared, Lin Jun clearly realized: Something big happened!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Could it be that the dungeon's usage period had expired and it was going to be demolished?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Regardless, Lin Jun naturally couldn't sit and wait for death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To get to the bottom of it, in addition to the large group of Puji he had already decided to send to the lower floors to investigate the source of the magic power fluctuations, Lin Jun also added a team coming up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Given that the monsters on the first four floors were of lower level, the number of Puji in this group wasn't large, just seven.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The facts were as expected; although the monsters were restless and wanted to come up and take a bite the moment they saw the Puji,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One mushroom cannon shot later, the corpses were all obedient.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Relying on the strategy he had long ago plucked from Dilan, the team took only one day to get close to the first floor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Half of that time was spent climbing stairs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Come to think of it, although the terrain and ecology of each floor were very different, the stairs connecting the floors were all cut from the same mold.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Jun seriously suspected that the builder was lazy and just copied and pasted them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the Puji finally reached the first floor, Lin Jun felt a little excited.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was the closest he had ever been to the outside world; in the past, to avoid attracting attention, Lin Jun had tried his best not to send Puji to other floors.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The first floor, just as Dilan said, was a corridor maze.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The architectural style was ancient bluestone brick material, which looked quite similar to the eighth floor at first glance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, unlike the hell-difficulty maze on the eighth floor, the first-floor maze had no teleportation arrays, no traps, and didn't even stack monsters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The monster distribution was sparse and their combat power was weak, so even a novice just starting out could handle it with ease.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although the corridor structure itself was confusing, this bit of challenge had long been resolved by detailed strategy plans.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Several Puji walked directly toward the dungeon gate along the shortest route; he wanted to see what was going on today.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pop-pop—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hmm?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A familiar sound came from the corner ahead, and soon a familiar figure walked out—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A wild Puji!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pulling up the panel, it was LV1, with five-dimensional attributes of 1, and no skills other than the talent to spread spores.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its only purpose for existence was to spread spores when eaten by other monsters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a truly pure, natural Puji.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Compared to it, Lin Jun's Puji, with four or five high-level skills, were all overlords among mushrooms.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The wild Puji didn't seem to notice its peers at all and wandered blindly along the corridor on its own.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Jun's Puji shook its mushroom cap slightly, and a little bit of spores stuck to the wild Puji.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A new member was immediately added to the fungal network.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Stop!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Retracting the leg it was about to step out with, this Puji obediently accepted Lin Jun's instructions, just like the seven next to it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Jun's conjecture was verified; low-level monsters like Puji, which didn't have a self but only instincts, were simply too easy to control.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if it wasn't produced by him, he could easily control it as long as it connected to the fungal network.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But it didn't have much significance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bringing this Puji along, the team arrived near the gate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When they reached the end, it was like entering a section with a completely different style, with a difference so large it was almost like changing floors.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eight pure black stone pillars stood in the hall, each pillar engraved with dark golden geometric patterns.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some kind of metal component could be vaguely seen on top of the pillars, connecting the eight pillars into a ring, with sixteen chains extending from the ring structure toward the center, finally connecting to a non-physical circular magic array floating in the center.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the field of magic perception, this array was flickering, like a broken light bulb in a bathroom from his past life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Crossing this hall, further ahead was the dungeon gate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Jun didn't let all the Puji go, but singled out the wild Puji to scout the path.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the Puji came to the gate, what it saw was a ground full of traps and roadblocks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The twelve-meter-wide gate was blocked so that only a horizontal slit remained.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Through the slit, Lin Jun saw a few pairs of eyes full of terror, as well as a crossbow aimed at the Puji.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whoosh—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The poor wild Puji was shot through and flew three meters away, dying directly and exploding with spores all over the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, Lin Jun discovered that these spores quickly lost their activity, seemingly affected by the special influence of this hall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now it was certain that humans had blocked the gate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn't know why yet, but just now, when he got close, he discovered a fungal network signal outside the gate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The seven Puji stuck to the corner of the wall and moved to the wall near the gate in the blind spot of vision.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only then did Lin Jun finally connect to the other side.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Dilan?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Boss! You actually came to the first floor! Could it be that you're also here to break through the dungeon?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For a moment, Dilan fell into deep entanglement in his heart; should he stand with humans or with mushrooms...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What are you talking about? Stop talking nonsense and tell me quickly why humans sealed the dungeon gate?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ah? Oh, oh!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Realizing he had misunderstood, Dilan breathed a sigh of relief and told Lin Jun everything about the magic tide intelligence one by one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then Lin Jun was dumbfounded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Monsters would rush out collectively?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And among them were even monsters from the deep zone?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In that case, wouldn't those monsters have to pass through his fifth floor before reaching the first floor?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What kind of situation is this!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dilan also said that the Adventurer's Guild had hired almost all the idle adventurers to take turns guarding the gate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The fact that they needed to be so strictly prepared fully explained the scale and strength of the monsters in the magic tide.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Could his Puji block them?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at the situation outside the gate, it was impossible for him to hide outside the dungeon now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But come to think of it, he could also be considered a monster; if monsters prioritized rushing the gate instead of killing each other during the magic tide, he seemed not to have to worry too much.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Regardless, at least he knew what was going on.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He told Dilan not to get involved in the magic tide; his disguise might be exposed if a fight broke out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Jun himself also had to go back and prepare well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The team of Puji exploring downward was currently entangled with monsters on the seventh floor, and Lin Jun also let them retreat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While the magic tide hadn't arrived yet, he had to make as many preparations as possible, and the Puji also had to be produced in an over-limit batch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The only thing that made Lin Jun feel comforted was that in the secret space at the bottom of the swamp, Lin Jun successfully embedded two S-rank magic crystals on his vehicle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for the third one, it couldn't fit due to size problems and could only be left for other uses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although the bonus effect was discounted because it wasn't made by his own skills but inherited from the old bat,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two S-rank magic crystals increasing skill power by 200% was also gratifying enough.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was also time to officially name it; let's call it... Knight!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 39 =====\u003C\u002Fp>",1417,"2026-06-17T15:02:37.041Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","68da4f12632007f1394d604fc2fd09251410321fdddc945f73f47dde9411020e","this-dungeon-is-growing-mushrooms-chapter-38","this-dungeon-is-growing-mushrooms-chapter-36",165,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthis-dungeon-has-sprouted-mushrooms-cover.jpg"]