Chapter 98

"What's the situation?"

At the entrance of the stairs between the fifth and sixth layers, a group of adventurers was forced to stop their journey to the sixth layer because the stairs were full...

The Puji squeezed down in batches, blocking the road, and the adventurers couldn't squeeze in at all.

People's acceptance of strange things was constantly being refreshed; adventurers used to be amazed at seeing Big Black Mushrooms walking through the stairs, but now they weren't very surprised to see Puji collectively going downstairs.

It's just...

The adventurers looked at the long line of Puji behind and complained:

"How long will it take for all of them to pass?"

Sixth layer, the Mushroom Cannon in the southwest corner hadn't stopped for more than half a day, and many turret Puji had fired until their mycelia were overworked and misfired.

Among them, the turret on the lowest layer of the rock wall was directly poisoned, rushed by a large mucus Slime, and digested or half-digested and died in the stone shell.

The Slime even wanted to eat the turrets higher up, but as the slope turned into a downward slope, the Slime climbed more and more difficultly, and finally was beaten back under the firepower baptism of the remaining turrets.

Unfortunately, the remaining turrets on the rock wall were too far away and could only bomb the ground below randomly, with limited effect.

Lin Jun was commanding this sudden decisive battle with the Slimes.

The rock pit had long been broken through, and Lin Jun could only let the Puji retreat first, and after meeting with the first batch of Puji supported from the fifth layer, he drew a quarantine zone.

More than two hundred Mushroom Cannon Puji surrounded the corner where the small hill was located, trying to prevent those large Slimes from spreading out.

At one corner of the defense line, more than twenty Puji were retreating while fighting under the pressure of three Slimes.

The closest Slime had a lot of body fluid blown away because it was hit the most, and its body size was less than one person tall.

Another round of Mushroom Cannons hit, and this time there was no mucus defense, and the core hidden in the body was also affected and destroyed; the whole Slime turned into a pool of liquid immediately.

However, the situation wasn't good; the two Slimes slightly further away were both two people tall, and several Mushroom Cannons hit the surface, only making them shrink a circle slightly; looking at it, the health bar was still long!

One of the Slimes jumped over a few steps, caught up with the Puji falling at the end, wrapped it in, and successfully engaged the Puji.

Lin Jun could only let the Puji scatter, at least don't let the Slime kill two with one jump.

However, even so, the number of Puji decreased rapidly, while the two Slimes were only slightly weakened, and they were about to be wiped out.

Boom-boom—boom-boom—

A heavy footstep sound different from ordinary Puji came, and a Big Black Mushroom rushed out of the forest.

A big fat fist smashed onto a Slime, and it exploded like a water ball!

Four Puji also exploded together, but unfortunately, none were saved.

The other Slime didn't live for a few seconds either, and was stepped on by Blackie, splashing all over the ground.

The splashed digestive mucus also stuck a Puji nearby to the ground, and it hung up after struggling a few times.

Blackie licked the mucus on her hands—these Slimes had sufficient mana, and the taste was not bad.

However, Blackie couldn't stay for long and was commanded away by Lin Jun; there were other places that needed her to put out fires.

Only 5 Puji survived on the spot, and they couldn't form a defense line; fortunately, a new troop had come down from the stairs, and the number of this batch was doubled, a full 400.

Plus the super-model combat power Blackie, the encirclement that had been pushed away a bit was suppressed back step by step.

Honestly, fortunately, the Slimes emerging from the small hill weren't endless, according to the pressure of the encirclement.

After the rock pit was broken through, another batch of large Slimes should have surged out, and there was no follow-up after that.

That's right, how could it be infinitely brushed out!

It was better to say that this source of underground water, inside the small hill, could hide so many large Slimes was already outrageous enough.

Now, although the situation had stabilized, this Slime rampage still caused devastating damage to the ecosystem in the encirclement in the southwest corner of the sixth layer.

A large Slime sat down, no matter if it was a Flower Demon or a vine, it would be digested.

Coupled with Lin Jun's Mushroom Cannon washing the ground, under the double blow, the clearing in this area suddenly increased!

Fortunately, it was only a corner, and the impact on the entire sixth layer wasn't big yet.

After another half a day, the battle line was finally pushed back to the vicinity of the rock pit, and dozens of Mushroom Cannons eliminated the last Slime in the field of vision.

Blackie didn't follow; she was tired halfway through the fight, hugged a Puji, and started eating while dipping it in the Slime mucus on the ground; she probably just finished eating now.

Lin Jun controlled the Puji to come to the crack that was dug out, regardless of the corrosive nature of the Slime mucus on the ground, and sent a few Puji to drill in along the broken opening.

Once inside, he discovered that the inside of this mountain was almost hollow; no wonder it could hold so many Slimes!

Lin Jun soon discovered the traces of underground water, walked up along the water flow, and found a special Slime at the end. This Slime was only one person tall, not small, but compared to the same kind that rushed out, it belonged to the stunted development.

It was mixed with red and green, looking like two Slimes combined.

When Lin Jun saw it, it was trying hard to split another Slime out of its body.

After splitting, its body size shrank a circle again.

The split Slime was a pure red Slime, not two-colored like the mother, and was killed on the spot by the Puji after landing.

[Core Splitting lv9]

This wasn't a common skill.

You know, normal Slimes are condensed directly by the environment and mana, not by splitting and reproduction.

No wonder there was a Slime quantity far exceeding the capacity limit of the sixth-layer environment itself; it turned out it was produced non-naturally.

But this still couldn't explain why those Slimes could grow so big!

Lin Jun also discovered a strange thing.

This Slime... had been spraying water...

Large amounts of clear water were constantly spat out from both sides of its body, looking like the source of underground water?

Are you kidding?

Lin Jun didn't see a skill that could create water infinitely in its skill bar.

Was the place it sat on producing water?

Two Puji rolled a thin stone slab and wanted to sweep this Slime away.

Because he hadn't decided whether to kill it directly, the Puji didn't use too much force, so as not to accidentally slap it to death.

As a result, this two-colored Slime, which hadn't shown any aggressiveness since they met, actually desperately resisted the stone slab, looking like it didn't want to move its nest.

The Puji's strength wasn't very great, and for a moment, they really didn't push it away.

However, Lin Jun didn't just have two Puji here; after more Puji joined, the Slime was pushed to the side reluctantly.

Sure enough, there was a water-seeping stone crack in place.

After moving the Slime away, a trace of mana escaped from the water that emerged!

This water was actually rich in mana!

It was the first time... no, he had seen it in the treasure chest room, and the mana concentration was much higher than this.

But the amount of water in this stone crack was large!

Comparing comprehensively, the total amount of mana here was more.

Just say why the Slime wouldn't move its nest, and why those Slimes could grow so big; it turned out they had been squatting here filtering and absorbing all the mana, eating alone!

This Slime could filter mana, and he, Lin Jun, could too!

Although he wasn't very short of it now, mana was something you wouldn't complain about having too much of.

By then, use mycelia to form a few layers of filter screens here, and this small mountain hollow could also be used as a hidden space; as long as the opening outside was disguised...

[Corrosion Curse: Continuously receive corrosion damage]

Hmm?

What is this?

The curse effect suddenly appeared on the panels of all the Puji on the scene, and they started losing health...

Lin Jun reacted quickly; when the Puji's health had only dropped by half, he hurriedly moved the two-colored Slime back to block the water outlet.

The Slime that returned to its original position even blew a bubble with satisfaction.

Sure enough, the curse disappeared after a while.

Lin Jun couldn't understand this; it turned out there was a curse in the water!

But why?

This couldn't just be let go without knowing why!

Lin Jun controlled the two-colored Slime while stepping up the production of various Puji with high health and corrosion resistance.

After getting ready, he kicked the two-colored Slime away again, and the Excavator Puji started digging the stone crack open.

Even with such preparation, he still had to invite the two-colored Slime back once halfway.

The longer this corrosion curse hung on the panel, the higher the damage; it wasn't something that could be endured by anything other than Slimes that were immune to corrosion damage.

After fiddling for half a day, the Puji finally chiseled the stone crack open, revealing the truth behind it—

A rift!

A very small one, but just like during the magic tide, a space rift connected to another dungeon!

What's going on with this dungeon, is it in disrepair?

Does the opposite side know that their water pipe is leaking sewage over here?