Chapter 100 97. Employment Review

At the collapsed cave entrance, twenty digging Puji were working hard to break up the fallen boulders, and behind them, ten Ox-Horse Puji were constantly moving the rubble aside with their reinforced mycelium tentacles.

This was a small mistake made by Lin Jun. He had wanted to place some automatic attack mines at important nodes to effectively attack the enemy.

However, he forgot that the cave was too fragile, and Puji's self-destruction ability had been greatly improved.

This time it didn't even explode directly in the cave, but at a distance of more than ten meters.

Whenever this happened, Lin Jun would miss the passage in the deep area, where no matter how hard it was bombed or exploded, the overall structure was as stable as Mount Tai.

Speaking of which, normal mining requires reinforcement of the mine, right?

Lin Jun has no knowledge of civil engineering, so if he had to think of a reinforcement method, it would be to build some scaffolding in the tunnel, but it is hard to say how much effect that would have.

I don’t know if there is such knowledge in this world, it would be great if we could find a few talented people.

After all, if he could finally take control of the dungeon, there would definitely be more places that could be mined than just the fifth floor. If there were landslides every day, no one would be able to bear it.

About a day later, the landslide at the cave exit was finally cleared.

Some of the excavators trapped inside ran out one by one and rolled onto the fungal carpet outside to replenish their energy.

Only about half of the excavators that were originally working were still able to move. The rest fell into standby mode because they were unable to replenish nutrition in time, and a few of them even starved to death.

The cows, horses and other animals entered and carried the animals out one by one.

Lin Jun checked the internal tunnels again. The good news was that almost none of the internal tunnels collapsed, which meant that the loss was not that great.

Among them, Lin Jun paid special attention to tunnel numbered 22 and sent a Puji to explore all the way to the bottom. He was relieved only after confirming that there was no problem.

The reason why Lin Jun is so concerned about Tunnel No. 22 is that it is not a tunnel dug for the purpose of mining.

Its purpose is to dig out a dungeon diagonally upwards!

Because the dungeon has only one exit, even if Lin Jun extends out, when he encounters an enemy who knows his situation, the enemy can destroy the fungal mat at the gate in large numbers to cut off his connection with the outside world.

At worst, this method can cause a lot of delay in Lin Jun's external control.

This is why, when faced with the issue of outward development and downward development, Lin Jun would focus on the downward direction, and only spread a small amount of mycelium outward to explore the way.

But if we can dig out a second exit, or even a third or fourth one...

Then there will be no worries in this regard.

Of course, this is not because Lin Jun thinks that the dungeon will have such a big loophole. If there were such a loophole, the dungeon would have been riddled with holes long ago.

There is a high probability that when you dig to the boundary, there will be restrictions similar to air walls.

But don’t I have the privileges of a hero? If I can use the privileges to overcome the restrictions, then there will be no problem!

Anyway, the cost of giving it a try is just a dozen or so Pujis taking turns to work every day.

…

The cave collapse was not entirely a loss, Lin Jun still gained something.

In a mushroom house in the mushroom forest, Norris was lying on the mushroom bed, covered with translucent mycelium.

The bones in his left arm and both legs were crushed, his spine was broken, and multiple organs were damaged.

Even though the mycelium was repairing his body, Lin Jun still used up several bottles of healing potions to keep him alive.

However, the mycelium can repair the flesh and organs, and can barely reconnect broken bones, but it is not possible for bones broken like his. So even if he wakes up now, he will be a paralyzed useless person.

Lin Jun knew that in the human world there existed a top-level item called the Limb Regeneration Potions that could replenish one's limbs with only one breath left.

But he didn't!

The items in his inventory were all contributed by the adventurers who came and went. How could these guys have potions of this level?

Besides, even if he had it, he would classify it as strategic materials instead of using it to save a stranger.

The reason why I say this is that this young man named Norris is my own harvest.

That’s because this guy has the fewest skills among all the people Lin Jun has ever met!

Normal humans, even low-level adventurers, who would enter a dungeon would all have a bunch of skills.

Although the skill levels are very low and most of them have no practical value, they are there!

If it were someone as old as Dylan, he would have even more skills, so every time Lin Jun added a skill, the cost would be sky-high.

Therefore, it is simply impossible to raise Dylan to diamond level by stacking skills.

Similarly, Lin Jun could only give Xiao Hei a few key skills, and he had to save up enough magic power in advance every time.

But the young man in front of him is different. He has very few skills, and his panel can even be described as... clean!

And he is different from Dylan.

Although Dylan depends on Lin Jun, generally speaking he doesn't owe Lin Jun anything.

When the two met for the first time, Dylan let Lin Jun out, and Lin Jun saved his life, so they were even.

After that, it just developed into a superior-subordinate relationship between boss and employees.

Therefore, Lin Jun didn't dare to try many of his ideas on Dylan. After all, if he was really transformed into a supernatural being one day, even Lin Jun would feel a little embarrassed.

But the young man in front of him was different.

He almost died because of the two adventurers who had sunk into the swamp.

And now, I saved his life, so I ask him to help explore the effect of combining human and monster skills. This is fair!

But before that, we still have to investigate the details of this young man.

A Puji came forward, and its mycelial tentacles slapped Norris' face continuously.

"Um--?"

After a while, Norris woke up slowly: "This is..."

He wanted to get up, but found that only his right hand could move...

Soon, Norris understood his situation. Although he didn't know why he was rescued, it seemed that he might as well have died on the spot.

For a moment, he felt that nothing mattered, and he was not even curious about why there was a Puji standing next to him.

"Do you remember that you told me you wanted to live?" Lin Jun's voice suddenly rang in Norris' mind.

Norris was startled at first, but soon returned to his disheartened look and just asked casually:

"Who are you? The God of Death? But I heard that the God of Death is a goddess..."

"You don't look like you want to live. Is it because you are disabled? Actually, you can recover."

"Really?" Norris' eyes lit up.

"Really, really. It's just that there will be a small price to pay... But that's not important. Let me confirm with you again. If you have a healthy body, you still want to live, right? Answer me yes or no."

Norris: “…”

He actually wanted to ask what the "small price" was, but this mysterious voice seemed not to want to waste any more time talking to him.

Norris thought of the revolving lantern before and the girl he had only met once.

He wanted to get close to her, to get to know her, to talk to her, to...

"I...want to live!"

"Okay, now let's move on to the second part of the interview."

The second part?

The mysterious voice seems full of expectation?

Norris wanted to continue thinking, but for some reason, he suddenly couldn't concentrate?

"Young man, let's talk about your story now!"

This voice seemed to come from the horizon, carrying a magical power that he could not refuse...

(End of this chapter)