Chapter 83

Sixth-floor stairs.

Under the infusion of mana, mycelium grew out of the stairs bit by bit.

A green Slime was sticking to the wall, eating these growing mycelium along the edge of the exit.

Pop—

A few mushroom cannon shots hit, and a large amount of Slime mucus was blown away, scattering all over the surroundings.

But the green Slime, which had lost a large amount of body fluid and shrunk by two circles, was still sticking to the wall, intending to continue eating the mycelium.

The Puji could only fire two more rounds of mushroom cannon, and the core of this sticky Slime was destroyed.

However, after a while, more Slimes emerged...

Some Slimes were very small; one mushroom cannon shot did kill them, but the mycelium that had grown around was also blown into the sky by their own attack.

What is certain is that the botanical garden environment of the sixth floor is indeed very suitable for Slime survival, and the quantity is much more than the previous few floors.

Some mutated varieties appeared among them, such as multi-core Slimes fused from multiple Slimes.

After the Puji attacked it, it exploded into a ground of individual Slimes, and then they swarmed up from all directions, wrapping the Puji in the middle; when other Puji around saved it, it had already been half digested.

Although the Slimes caused some wear and tear, for Lin Jun, it was just wasting a little bit of mana, and the spread of mycelium on the stone wall was still steadily continuing.

Wait until it spreads to the dome, just like the previous few floors, eat all the firefly grass above, and replace it with fluorescent mushrooms.

What makes Lin Jun more troubled is the ground.

Unlike the previous few floors, the division of territory on the ground of the sixth-floor botanical garden is relatively fine and crowded.

A flower demon will circle about ten meters around it as its territory; other monsters intruding or growing in will either be killed or driven away by it.

Pseudo-flower vines will strangle other creatures attracted by the honey fragrance, and passing Puji will also suffer poison hands.

Demon orchids will emit charming blue light to creatures around, luring prey into their traps; this actually poses no threat to Puji, as Puji are controlled by Lin Jun and don't eat charm.

In short, all kinds of plant-type monsters, and a small number of animal-type monsters, divided the sixth floor into many small pieces of territory.

Unless Lin Jun takes the same extermination-style sweep as the fifth floor, it is difficult for Puji to advance very far on the ground.

And without the escort of Puji on the ground, in places far from the stairs, the mycelium will become a free lunch for the Slimes.

The reason for the extermination action on the fifth floor was because Lin Jun needed a stable base, while for other floors, what he needed were the skills of the monsters in that floor, not the floor itself.

For the first to fourth floors, Lin Jun chose to occupy the space not needed by local creatures, supplemented by attacking Slimes, to complete the fungal mat coverage.

And the local plants on the sixth floor... there is no space not needed on the ground.

Even if Lin Jun doesn't hesitate to destroy part of the ecology and forcibly open a safe passage in the botanical garden, one can imagine that he will have to face endless tug-of-war with local plants in the future to maintain the safe passage.

It's thankless; this is not what Lin Jun wants.

Lin Jun has thought of some solutions for this.

The ground can't accommodate Puji, so let Puji follow the mycelium and climb along the stone wall!

There are three optional skills.

【Suction Cup lv3】

Obtained from a small lizard during the magic tide, it can rely on it to adhere to the wall.

However, because Puji have no hands, to move, it is probably still necessary to combine the suction cup with the mycelium tentacles.

Honestly, just imagining the picture of Puji climbing on the wall with tentacle tentacles, Lin Jun feels a bit ghostly.

Another type is the same as these green Slimes.

【Digestive Mucus lv6】

The way these green Slimes climb walls is essentially no different from snails.

Their mucus can both serve as digestive fluid and help them stick their bodies to the wall.

Theoretically, Puji adding 【Corrosion Resistance】 should also be able to use this to climb walls.

But the problem is, Puji not only need to climb walls, but also need to attack Slimes on the wall.

The recoil of the mushroom cannon, it is estimated that it can't be stabilized just by the stickiness of the mucus, and it will fall off the rock wall after one shot.

As for the last one.

【Rock Eating lv4】 obtained from a rock lizard that went extinct on the fifth floor, the effect is to eat the surrounding stones and then cover the body with a layer of rock armor.

There is no foothold on the rock wall, so create one yourself!

Directly produce Puji on the rock wall; after the Puji is born, it starts to eat the stone beneath it in place, and then fuses the rock armor with the stone wall, finally becoming something like a fixed turret.

This thing is beautiful, practical, and the shortcomings are also very obvious—low cost-effectiveness.

With the same consumption, Puji that can move around and mobilize are definitely more useful.

Fortunately, he currently has a solar-powered mana generator, and temporarily doesn't lack mana.

If the first two plans are not satisfactory, then choose this one as a fallback.

While Lin Jun was still molding the shape of the newly designed Puji, a Big Black Mushroom also came down from the fifth floor to the sixth floor.

"Xiao Hei? What are you going to play today? Hitting turtles on the seventh floor?"

"Hitting green people!"

"Xiao Hei, those are tree people, you can't hit green people indiscriminately, you know that?"

"Hmm!"

Hmm my head!

Seeing her agree so quickly, Lin Jun knew she definitely didn't understand!

Because Xiao Hei couldn't understand for a long time, Lin Jun would explain it to her repeatedly.

Over time, this thing actually learned to pretend to understand, "hmm hmm hmm" and brushed it off.

Really damn heart-breaking!

But speaking of which, Lin Jun also scattered spores once on the tree person side last time, wanting to test if mushrooms could occupy the ecological niche of moss.

Now that there is Xiao Hei to open the way, it's better to go and see it by the way.

Skillfully separating four Puji to follow Xiao Hei, Lin Jun's main consciousness once again immersed in molding Puji.

This is a delicate job; if you don't mold the corresponding form well, it's useless to install skills.

However, he couldn't immerse himself in it for too long before a strange voice in the fungal network interrupted Lin Jun.

"Mushroom, Master, you have appeared again!"

???

Finding the source of the signal, it is... Tree Demon Forest?

Ah?

Following behind Xiao Hei, the Puji violently crossed several plant-type monster territories and reached the entrance of the forest.

Only then did Lin Jun see the owner of the signal—a tree demon with mushrooms growing on its body!

It looked a bit familiar; trying hard to recall, this tree demon seemed to be the one whose limbs were dismantled by Xiao Hei back then?

Now it seems it has grown back!

Plant-type monsters' recovery ability is indeed more awesome.

No, the point is wrong...

These tree demons actually have high intelligence!?

Look at what was said before, at least it's smoother than Xiao Hei!

Speaking of Xiao Hei, this thing has already opened its arms and is ready to beat it up.

"Xiao Hei, wait! Wait a moment, let's not play for a while, okay?"

"Want to hit green people!"

Sure enough, it's still damn green people!

But now is not the time to argue with her.

Decisively sacrifice the trump card that has been most effective against Xiao Hei recently!

"Be obedient, I'll give you a glass bead in a while!"

Sure enough, upon hearing there were glass beads, Xiao Hei instantly became a good baby.

She ran to the side and pulled up the tree roots on the ground to play.

At the same time, a Puji on the fifth floor ran to Xiao Hei's mushroom house, dug out two complete glass beads from a house full of glass slag, and used them to give to Xiao Hei in a while.

Having dealt with the brat, Lin Jun finally had the time to deal with this tree demon who had been left out in the cold and had walked through the gates of death again.

"That... um..."

It wasn't over; the Boss was still twisting the knife:

"Mr. Tree Demon, connecting to my regional network, what is the purpose?"

Thanks to the alliance leader "Qing Deng Zui Ren Jian"