Chapter 97

Slap-slap—slap-slap—

The familiar sound came from behind the waist-high bushes, and Norris turned to look.

Now he was wearing a set of adventurer's clothes, unlike at the beginning when he only had a pair of underpants.

He had asked the Boss for the clothes—although the Boss said this was unnecessary shame...

After recognizing his situation, Norris quickly chose to accept it, accepting that he had turned into a "powerful" monster; it wouldn't be harder than accepting the 40-gold-coin debt at the beginning.

At least the happiness of replenishing nutrients and the satisfaction of becoming stronger after killing monsters were much better than the days when he woke up to debt.

He didn't let Norris wait too long.

Slap-slap—

A red Slime as tall as a person jumped out from the bushes.

Inside its body, it was still wrapped with half a Puji that hadn't been digested and some weeds.

Norris crossed his claws and pounced as soon as the Slime landed!

[Wind-Splitting Claw lv4]

The sharp claws sliced open the Slime's liquid body; the wind element wrapped around the claws not only increased the sharpness but also further expanded the opening on the Slime when it burst open.

Norris didn't stop; he had to get the core before the Slime's body recovered...

Boom—

A mushroom cannon hit the sliced Slime, and it exploded immediately.

Norris, who was closest, was covered in red liquid containing neurotoxins on the spot; although he wasn't afraid of neurotoxins, he still looked miserable.

Turning to look, a Puji walked away as if nothing had happened after firing the cannon.

"Sigh..."

What could he do? His seniority in the organization wasn't as high as that Puji's, so he could only find the next target...

Slap-slap—

Another Slime jumped out, but this time it was green.

Norris turned and left; he didn't have [Corrosion Resistance], and fighting this kind of Slime with [Digestive Mucus] would be a loss of eight hundred even if he won, so he left it to the other Puji.

Norris wasn't hunting alone but was arranged by the Boss to clean up Slimes nearby so they wouldn't interfere with the work inside.

And not far behind him, on a small hill near the rock wall, in a cleared clearing, more than two hundred Puji were doing a big project!

This clearing wasn't a clearing to begin with; there was no such thing as a natural clearing on the sixth layer.

It just became a clearing after the Puji came.

Becoming a clearing wasn't enough; Lin Jun wanted to dig this place down entirely!

A group of Puji specially equipped with [Sharp Claws lv7] plowed the ground and loosened the soil in circles with their short legs.

The Ox-Horse Puji used special pipe mycelial tentacles to suck all this loose soil into their bellies, and when they were full, they transported it to a distant place and dumped it.

There was also a group of Excavator Puji that started digging where the rock layer had been exposed.

Lin Jun made such a big fuss mainly because the Treants had already completed the waterway exploration mission; according to the marks on the map, the center of the underground waterway, the source of the Slimes, should be in the small hill.

After three days of engineering.

The greenery in the clearing had faded, leaving only a huge rock pit in place, and it was still expanding.

The clanging sound of chiseling never stopped, and the Ox-Horse Puji transported the rock debris like an assembly line on the roads left behind.

Norris stood at the edge of the rock pit, looking at the scene below, feeling it was incredible.

He had dug mines for so long, so he naturally knew how adventurers dug in mine tunnels.

Knocking a bit here and a bit there, the tunnels were dug unevenly, and the rubble was piled on the ground; they wouldn't clear it until it blocked the road.

He used to think that was normal, but after watching the Puji's project for the whole three days, he only felt that by comparison, the adventurers' work didn't deserve to be called mining; at most, it was called playing with smashing stones.

The Puji had a clear division of labor, were orderly, and efficient.

Such a big pit, even if those Lord Lords organized it, they would probably take more than half a month to get it out, while the Puji only used three days...

At first, Norris thought he was also an old hand at mining and wanted to go down to help, but he was driven to the periphery by the Boss.

The reason was: getting in the way. It would be a lie to say he wasn't hit by this; after all, this was the only skill he had to show for his few years...

But after watching the Puji's work, he had to agree with this statement; maybe he chiseled faster than the Puji, but he definitely couldn't do such coordinated cooperation as the Puji.

In the face of this scale of cooperation, the slight difference in individual mining ability didn't matter at all.

The Puji were much more powerful than everyone thought!

Click—

In the rock pit, a plain, crisp sound, just like the sound when other rocks were smashed open before.

But along the gap knocked out by the Puji's shell, a mass of red things suddenly sprayed out.

The Puji in front didn't have time to react and was wrapped inside.

It was a red Slime!

This wasn't over; a green Slime sprayed out from the crack!

The crack was squeezed bigger and bigger, just like drawing a line under a full bag, and more and more Slimes broke through the rock layer, pouring out like a flood.

In just ten seconds, the bottom of the rock pit was filled, and it was still overflowing!

Most of the Puji in the pit were submerged by the ocean of Slimes, and Norris at the edge of the pit was also startled and retreated repeatedly.

If he had been digging below...

Lin Jun was also numb on the scalp watching this.

What the hell?

Did he poke a Slime nest?

No, it was indeed poking a Slime nest, but what did so many mean?

And so fat! So big!

What did these Slimes grow up eating?

The Slimes that ran out along the waterway before were at most as tall as a person, but these in the pit, even the smallest one was bigger than any one he had encountered before!

No!

Lin Jun suddenly understood.

Was it because this thing was too big, so big that even with a liquid body it couldn't squeeze into the waterway, so it all piled up in the nest?

Were the ones that could run out just the "petite" batch among them!?

This is going to be bad!

Lin Jun hurriedly mobilized the Puji guarding the periphery, striving to suppress the Slimes before they climbed out of the pit.

At the same time, a new batch of Puji from the fifth layer began to assemble on a large scale.

If the suppression failed, the next step would be a fierce battle.

Lin Jun couldn't ignore this batch of Slimes; with their size and number, ordinary plant-type monsters couldn't beat them.

If he let them run wild, the entire sixth-layer ecosystem would suffer, and if that happened, Lin Jun's busy work during this period would have been for nothing!

"You go back to the fifth layer first!" Lin Jun directly ordered Norris to retreat.

These Slimes could no longer be considered objects for practice.

Norris was still hesitating about whether to do something, but hearing the Boss's order, he turned around immediately and brushed past the Puji that were rushing over.

Boom—

Boom—

Not only were the Puji rushing over attacking, but the fixed turrets on the rock walls also started shelling downward.

Due to the distance, the accuracy of the Mushroom Cannons on the rock walls when hitting ground targets was touching.

But now the whole rock pit was Slimes, and with such a big target, there was no such problem; it was just firepower coverage!

For a time, Slime juice was flying all over the pit.

However, the Slimes on the surface died, and their remaining body fluids naturally formed a layer of barrier, allowing the remaining attacks to be weakened a lot after passing through the body fluids.

And after the Slimes were injured, they would also absorb the body fluids around them to repair, and the Mushroom Cannon washing the ground was becoming harder and harder to cause enough damage.

And the Slimes in the rock pit were still increasing... increasing...

It's not working!

It's going to overflow!