Chapter 84

Two glass beads were handed to Xiao Hei, who was overjoyed.

Xiao Hei held them and ran back to the mushroom house in a flash.

Using her tail to sweep the glass slag aside, Xiao Hei raked the glass beads under her body, counting them one by one.

Then Lin Jun watched her, counting, counting, counting, counting a few, then going back to the first one to count again...

Maybe he should take some time to teach her how to count?

Probably very hard to teach.

Xiao Hei is quite resistant to all learning behaviors that require using her brain.

Just thinking about how to teach her makes Lin Jun's head ache.

As for hiring a "math teacher" for her?

It can only be said that this profession is too dangerous, and it's hard to find an existence that can hold the job for a long time...

After creating a new folder for Xiao Hei's education plan and putting it aside, Lin Jun now has to test the new variety of Puji first, otherwise the sixth floor won't be pushed.

On the fungal mat of the mushroom forest, two test Puji of different forms twisted their bodies and detached.

One had eight special tentacles, and one was constantly secreting mucus on its body surface.

Let's start with the suction cup.

The suction cup Puji that received the command soon ran to the rock wall, expanded the ends of its tentacles into bowl-shaped suction cups, and stuck to the stone wall with a patter.

It was quite good at first; the strength of the suction cup supported the Puji to climb up without any pressure.

However, soon, the problem appeared; when it moved continuously, several mycelium tentacles somehow got knotted.

The Puji tried to separate the tentacles, but the knot became bigger and bigger, and finally the whole thing became a ball hanging on the rock wall, and when the last two remaining suction cups finally couldn't support it, it fell and fell into a puddle.

For this, Lin Jun didn't have much emotional fluctuation; it's normal for test subjects to have problems.

The problem with this one is still the Puji's intelligence; 8 mycelium tentacles are too many to coordinate, and the suction force of the suction cup is greater than he expected, so the number of tentacles can be reduced.

Soon, the second Puji was born under the catalysis of mana; this time the number of tentacles was reduced to six.

Although this Puji still needed to pause occasionally to organize its tentacles when moving, at least there was no knotting situation.

But when it was lying on the rock wall and firing mushroom cannons at the designated target, the recoil directly overturned its whole body.

Lin Jun looked at the Puji hanging in mid-air and swaying, and found that the mushroom cannon it fired didn't hit the target, but hit the fungal mat more than ten meters away.

Can't it maintain stability with fewer mycelium tentacles...

Lin Jun decisively let this failure take the initiative to fall off and return to the cycle of the mushroom garden.

Plan one abandoned, followed by the mucus Puji.

The Puji covered with green mucus successfully climbed the rock wall, but encountered a small problem when firing the cannon.

The muzzle couldn't be raised.

The Puji needs to lie on the rock wall with most of its body to maintain enough stickiness, and the mushroom cannon can only be raised slightly.

The originally set target didn't have enough elevation angle to hit at all...

Trying to fire a shot casually, the stickiness he was originally worried about was not a problem at all.

It feels like it can be used, but the flaws are also real, and the mana consumption of constantly secreting mucus to crawl is unexpectedly a bit high.

Sure enough, in the end, it's still necessary to create a fixed turret on the wall...

Do it as you say.

On the fungal mat near the outermost layer of the sixth floor, a Puji began to gestate every forty meters.

The first batch of Puji was soon produced under Lin Jun's tycoon-like mana smashing.

These Puji were slightly different from ordinary Puji—they were very round.

After being produced, they started to devour the rocks beneath them in place, and then covered their bodies with rocks.

This process lasted about two days.

Two days later, round stone turrets were initially formed.

Absorbing the experience of the mucus Puji's shooting angle limitation problem, the round stone surface had one round hole after another of appropriate size; these round holes allowed the mushroom cannon to extend out to attack, and wouldn't let the round Puji in the middle fall out because they were too big.

The appearance of these fixed turrets helped Lin Jun eliminate the Slimes that kept popping out to harass him from afar, and the fungal mat was able to continue to spread outward, until it grew more than a hundred meters, exceeding the effective range...

Thus, a new round of gestation began.

It takes about 2.5 days to advance one hundred and thirty meters, and as for covering the entire sixth floor, it can only be said that the future is promising.

Puji generation can be forcibly accelerated by mana, but 【Rock Eating】 cannot be accelerated to turn into stone turrets.

The progress is touching, but in the absence of other better choices, it can only be used like this for now; at least it counts as pushing.

Honestly, the feeling Lin Jun has after fighting until now is that there are too many Slimes!

And they are endless.

Other floors haven't fought Slimes, generally, the first few days of the war are relatively scorching.

After both sides have been grinding for a few days, the Slimes' replenishment can't keep up with the Puji's replenishment speed, and they are gradually suppressed.

According to Lin Jun's initial idea, the sixth floor should also be like this.

But now it's been so many days, and the number of Slimes not only hasn't decreased, but has an increasing trend.

How you think about it, it's not right.

If there were so many Slimes originally, this floor shouldn't be a botanical garden, but a Slime paradise.

In the current situation, Lin Jun can only guess that there is some place that has stored a large number of Slimes, and now they are being thrown out one after another.

Or there is an existence that can quickly produce Slimes, and after noticing his arrival, it made corresponding actions to prevent him from occupying the sixth floor.

Finally, there is one more possibility.

That is, Lin Jun's behavior of constantly swallowing the dungeon's territory has activated some kind of emergency response of the dungeon, and it has started to come up with some countermeasures to hinder him.

This possibility is the smallest; Lin Jun has seen the dungeon's emergency mechanism, and that dragon scale hit by the arc is still eating dust in Lin Jun's small treasury.

Compared to that, means like generating a pile of Slimes seem a bit too weak, too weak to be the dungeon's own means.

But if!

If!

This is really the dungeon's means, then Lin Jun has to consider whether to continue to develop to the lower floors.

After all, what if this kind of self-defense mechanism of the dungeon is progressive?

Now a few Slimes are just hindering the progress to disgust him; what if he becomes a bigger threat later and it gives him a few electric shocks too?

If the dungeon really wants to deal with him, Lin Jun doesn't think it will fail to find his main body.

When the electric shock that even the ancient dragon couldn't withstand hits his fragile main body, a fragrant, tender, crispy-skinned roasted poisonous mushroom will be made under the swamp.

If it is really determined to be a dungeon mechanism, Lin Jun can only turn to develop toward the surface with all his strength.

On the surface, although the mycelium has grown to the door, it has started to tentatively spread outward, but it still maintains a slow and restrained degree.

On one hand, he wants to take it slow and test the degree of human attention to this; on the other hand, Lin Jun's development focus is currently on going down.

Although the surface can photosynthesize, compared to the dungeon, the mana concentration is relatively thin, and the number of monsters is also much less.

In short, the reason for the Slime explosion on the sixth floor must be figured out; if he doesn't figure it out, Lin Jun can't rest easy and develop.

And this war on the rock wall naturally couldn't be hidden from human adventurers, and Lin Jun didn't intend to hide it either.

In the past few days, the tavern has been full of discussions about the news brought back by adventurers passing through the sixth floor about Puji fighting Slimes.

Since the magic tide until now, everyone has realized that mushrooms and Puji are already a significant existence in the dungeon.

To put it small, after mushrooms spread to the floor, they will eat all the firefly grass and replace it with fluorescent mushrooms, the lighting ability will drop by two levels, and long-acting lighting tools or magic will become essential.

To put it big, if the Puji continue to carry out extermination actions like occupying the fifth floor, and then play Puji mutual protection on the sixth floor, then the adventurers' income source will have to decrease by a part.

In the current situation, it is not an exaggeration to say that every move of the Puji affects the hearts of adventurers.

Even Norris, a Copper-rank adventurer who relies purely on digging mines to make money, is the same.

However, what he expects is that the Puji can completely clear the sixth floor...