Chapter 76

"Come, your x."

"Fortunately x to a xxxx snake, otherwise x light xx mushroom I would have xxxx."

"Speaking of which, xxxx shredded, xxx is very good."

A certain mushroom was carrying out its daily peeping activities.

A few days ago, it had hung 22 humans in the swamp at once, plus a little bit it had learned from following Dylan.

【Human Common Language lv5】

Lin Jun always felt that the words taught by this skill upgrade were not in the order of whether they were commonly used, but were random.

In other words, it didn't exclude the possibility that your common language was level 9, but you didn't know the word "walk."

It was quite a pitfall.

Fortunately, the self-taught part was unaffected.

Now that Dylan had met his "good senior," the daily conversation volume had risen sharply, which benefited Lin Jun greatly.

It was foreseeable that language would soon no longer be a shortcoming.

Also due to the influence of the large number of human casualties last time, the number of adventurers coming down to the fifth floor recently had clearly decreased.

Facing high-level adventurers who might appear at any time, Lin Jun had made quite a few preparations.

In addition to the conventional increase in the number of cannon mushrooms and whip mushrooms, he had also newly developed two types of defensive Puji.

On the dome of the fifth floor, a special self-destructing Puji had already been gestated.

The Puji twisted its body, kicked its short legs, successfully detached from the fungal mat, and began free-falling.

Then it... spread its wings!

More accurately, it looked like a flying squirrel suit that looked like wings.

It was too difficult for a Puji to fly; it had to use a skeleton to create a prototype of wings, find a way to get feathers, plus the power to flap the wings, and...

Although it couldn't fly, adding "wings" for gliding was relatively much easier.

Dive directly onto the enemy's face and then self-destruct!

However, reality still differed somewhat from expectations.

The Puji struggled to twist its body in the air but never managed to master balance.

Finally, in the chaos, it directly used 【Dive lv3】 and hit the cap of a mushroom tree head-on, exploding...

Lin Jun didn't manipulate the whole process; after all, he certainly wouldn't have the time to manipulate every single one in actual combat.

But now it seemed that relying on the Puji's own intelligence level was not enough to complete this set of attacks from the sky.

Thinking about it, it made sense; there certainly wasn't any instinct related to flying in a Puji's body.

It was a pity; Lin Jun had thought he could let countless self-destructing Puji swarm toward the invaders, how powerful that would be...

Fortunately, the second type of Puji didn't have such high requirements.

【Self-destruct lv5】+【Mimicry lv4】+【Assault Ejection lv5】

The reason for adding mimicry was that these Puji were usually buried in the soil, leaving only a color-changed mushroom cap on the surface.

A layer of fungal mat would also be spread on top, making it completely invisible.

But as long as you stepped on it, it would explode!

Even if you didn't step on it, after entering the ambush zone, they could all eject from the soil together and self-destruct.

And because it only required three skills, the mana consumption could be said to be quite low.

Lin Jun planned to lay out more.

There was also something that could only be counted as a hobby.

A Puji was spinning in place, its four fungal tentacle tentacles dancing into a circle.

【Blade Storm lv1】

Don't know which human it had fallen off of.

Currently, it had no practical value, but it looked quite intimidating when spinning!

Finally, the most important arrangement—the escape route.

Under the swamp, in the room of Lin Jun's main body.

Countless web tunnels had been woven with mycelium, extending all the way to the five stairs.

After reaching the edge of the swamp, it connected to the dug-out underground tunnels. This ensured that if the army was wiped out and Xiao Hei was defeated, the knight could use a rolling charge to take the main body and escape in any direction.

As for fighting to the death?

That was impossible.

From the deep zone to the fifth floor, he had already fought all the battles he needed to fight in this life.

It was now very difficult for humans to completely eliminate the fungal mat on the first five floors; as long as he didn't die, even if he failed for a moment, he could quickly make a comeback.

This was just a contingency plan for the worst-case scenario; in reality, Lin Jun hadn't yet seen an existence that could threaten the full power of himself + Xiao Hei.

Back in the deep zone, that Diamond-rank adventurer team that killed the Balrog couldn't do it either.

Of course, if this matter could be turned into a small matter and the small matter into nothing, and humans could just pretend nothing had happened, that would be great! ——

The aroma of ale lingered in the hall of the Golden Sun Wood Tavern; ever since the Rotten Willow Tavern closed, business here had almost doubled.

"This buttered oyster is really delicious, Vila, you should have a serving too!"

The trio, having made money on their last trip, finally felt willing to spend a bit more on food and lodging.

Feiling, because she was eating too happily, suffered a misfortune—she got something stuck in her teeth.

Seeing this, Vila lowered her head to avoid looking at Feiling's awkward state of trying to get it out.

After the raiders knocked out one of Feiling's teeth that time, due to the group's financial situation, they had just left it as it was without getting it fixed.

Vila silently made up her mind that after the next dungeon trip, she would return to the city first and find a professional master to help Feiling fix her tooth.

Bang—

The door of the Golden Sun Wood Tavern was pushed open violently, and everyone's gaze was drawn to it; the boss looked at the wooden door that had been smashed against the wall, his eyes full of displeasure.

That stumbling figure cast a long, thin shadow under the oil lamp.

"Begoen!" His roaring voice sounded like it was scraping against rock, "Begoen's Iron Heart team... has been wiped out!"

Just like dropping a red-hot iron ball into a cup of water, the Golden Sun Wood Tavern exploded into an uproar.

"Bullshit!" A Cat-folk adventurer smashed the wooden beer mug in his hand, the scar on his flowery face twisting with excitement, "That damn thing is a Gold-rank team! And they brought more than a dozen Silver-ranks, you're telling me they were wiped out?"

Once these words were out, someone immediately agreed: "Yeah, an adventurer group composed of more than twenty people, and it's not like they went to the lowest level, how could they be wiped out?"

The messenger wanted to say something else, but he was panting heavily, and a tavern guest next to him took the initiative to hand him a mug of ale.

The man didn't stand on ceremony, tilted his head back, and poured it all down in one breath, not knowing whether more was drunk or leaked out.

After moistening his throat, he immediately spilled the rest of the intelligence:

"Some adventurers exchanged for the equipment of the Goen team members at the fifth-floor mushroom merchant, and it was recognized when they took it to the trading floor to sell.

There's still a crowd of people surrounding it over there now, if you don't believe me, go see for yourselves!"

Once he said this, everyone believed it for the most part, and the few who didn't believe it all stood up and rushed out, intending to see for themselves.

Other topics in the tavern disappeared at this moment; everyone was discussing the Goen team and their target, the Big Black Mushroom.

The consumption at the Golden Sun Wood Tavern was not low, and those who could be regulars here generally reached at least the Silver rank.

And the Big Black Mushroom's activity range happened to be the fifth and sixth floors.

They couldn't help but pay attention.

After all, Begoen's Gold team had been wiped out, which meant that 99% of adventurers were on a dead-end path if they encountered the Big Black Mushroom.

Of course, some people felt that Begoen and his team only died because they took the initiative to challenge it.

According to these people, they had also encountered the Big Black Mushroom, and after dropping a few glass bottles, they had left safely.

The saying that the Big Black Mushroom liked shiny things had long existed, and everyone still believed it to a certain extent.

But after all, it concerned their own lives, so one couldn't be too cautious.

"I didn't expect Mr. Begoen and his team to be wiped out."

Feiling drank several gulps of ale "glug glug" before suppressing the lingering fear in her heart.

"Yeah, I really didn't expect it, there were 4 Gold-rankers alone, and they were wiped out on the fifth floor or something..."

Vila's expression was also not good, and Feiyin, who was silent on the side, was even paler.

Among those present, if you had to say who was most stimulated, it was definitely the trio; they were the ones who had truly, almost made it onto the wipe-out list!

At this moment, all the adventurers, including Vila, thought in unison of that adventurer guild that had been considered not very reliable in recent reviews.

Next chapter posted at 9 o'clock.