Chapter 101 98. Underground Runoff

【Steel LV2】

One of the many inconspicuous low-level skills in the skill library.

Although it is not a recovery skill, as expected, after equipping this skill and supplying magic power, the broken bones are indeed replaced by the steel bones generated by the skill, and in fact achieve the effect of bone setting.

【Claw Attack LV7】

Most beast-type monsters have this skill, but when it was used on Puji, the claws grew out of the pair of short legs...

When Norris was first equipped with it, his nails were replaced by 10 cm long bone claws. After the [steel bones] were added, the bone claws began to transform into steel bone claws.

Lin Jun had known about the linkage between skills like this for a long time, and now it seems that it is also effective on humans.

【Neurotoxin LV4】

After installing it, he began to be repeatedly paralyzed and lose blood due to the toxins produced by his own body, so he had to be given [Toxin Resistance LV5] and [Paralysis Resistance LV5] to avoid becoming a vegetable.

【Mushroom Cannon LV8】

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Norris lay unconsciously on the fungal blanket as skills were slowly added one after another.

Puji on the side would occasionally use his bladed tentacles to cut open his flesh and observe the changes inside his body.

Under the swamp, the knight rolled up his pen and wrote all this down on a piece of parchment.

Adding skills is a slow process, and the first phase of Norris' transformation will take about a week.

It is naturally impossible for Lin Jun to do only this during this period of time.

As a busy mushroom, he also controls the scouts and directs the battle on the sixth floor.

Things are still fine on the scout side for now. Dylan has the help of his good brother, so everything is going well for now.

On the sixth floor, the carrots that Lin Jun gave to the tree monsters began to take effect. More and more tree monsters were willing to come out to work, and now there are nearly forty of them.

The original tree demon directly surrendered to Lin Jun and started calling him boss.

In order to make it easier to call him, Lin Jun also gave it a name - Xiaolu

Lin Jun also thought it was strange to name an old tree bark Xiaolu, but he already had Xiaohei, so he thought about whether he could form a five-color team. He remembered that there were blue-haired werewolves...

With the addition of the tree demon, Lin Jun opened up the situation on the ground.

The tree demon is an excellent pioneer on the sixth floor and is also a qualified meat shield with control skills.

Lin Jun asked each of them to command at least 10 Pujis to clear the slimes on the ground.

With them, the pressure on the rock wall was greatly reduced, and Lin Jun could lay a larger area of ​​fungal mat at one time. Now the farthest one had reached the dome where the slime could not reach, and began to devour the firefly grass.

It can be said that the outcome of the battle on the sixth floor has been decided.

However, these stupid slimes obviously didn’t realize this and kept jumping out from everywhere.

Lin Jun's focus also changed from advancing the fungal mat to finding the source of the slime.

"Boss, come and take a look." Xiaolu seemed to have discovered something.

Honestly, it was quite awkward to be called "boss" by the tree demon's old voice. It was even more awkward than when Dylan called me that...

Lin Jun turned his gaze and found that it and its twelve Pujis were guarding a patch of grass.

What's the meaning?

But Lin Jun soon understood.

The grass in the middle suddenly swayed, and soon a red slime crawled out from it.

Without waiting for the slime to jump away, Xiaolu strode forward and smashed the slime to pieces with a [Tree Trunk Smash].

Then he pulled out all the weeds around it, revealing a gap half a meter long and no wider than a finger, from which the sound of flowing water could be faintly heard.

Underground runoff?

No wonder even though I had such a good view from the rock wall, I couldn't find where the slime came from. It would make sense if it moved to various locations via the underground water network and then drilled out.

This can be regarded as Lin Jun's blind spot in thinking.

After all, it is "underground" and there is no underground water flow in the first five floors, so I really didn't think of it for a while.

But this is troublesome. With a body like that of a slime, it can fit into any gap and move freely inside.

Although Puji tried hard and was able to squeeze it a little to deform it, it was definitely not as good as the former.

Even if we know that the source of the slime is hidden in the underground water network, it will take some time to find it along this network.

As if seeing Lin Jun's troubles, Xiaolu took the initiative to suggest:

"I might be able to help you explore the groundwater network."

As he spoke, Xiaolu stepped on the edge of the crack, and the roots of his feet moved downwards and penetrated into the soil.

Lin Jun was stunned by what he saw.

Actually, tree spirits are different from mushrooms and cannot collect magic power directly from the air. Or rather, they can, but the efficiency is very low.

When they rest in the forest, they take root in the ground, absorbing nutrients and magic from the soil.

I just didn't expect that I could use roots to explore underground!

Little Green took root step by step and moved forward little by little along the underground waterway.

At this time, it didn't have the time to help the Pujis clear the way, and it even had to be protected by the Pujis as it was inconvenient to move quickly.

Faced with the monsters that came to his door, Lin Jun did not show any emotion and ordered the Pujis to fire back decisively.

At this time, clearing out a small number of monsters will not cause any trouble to the sixth-level ecology.

Along the way, they used the panel to find the hidden plant-type monsters one by one and defeated them from a distance, and the Pujis didn't even lose a single one.

But after moving for an hour, the magic power was exhausted...

This is normal. The green belt team has been exploring for a long time, and this hour has consumed a lot of magic power.

Just when Lin Jun was about to call a timeout, Xiaolu stopped first.

"What's wrong?" Lin Jun asked.

"Sorry, Boss, the underground sewer is too deep here, the roots can't reach it..."

The tree demon seemed a little embarrassed. After all, the plan he proposed did not work out in the end and it wasted so much time.

But Lin Jun didn't think it was a waste.

"Then go back first. I'll give you a map of the sixth floor. Starting tomorrow, you will start exploring the relatively shallow underground waterways on the entire sixth floor, and then draw a summary on the map."

These words were not only spoken to Xiaolu, but were also conveyed to all the tree spirits active on the sixth floor through the fungus web.

Lin Jun’s idea is that if the slime production point is in a shallow waterway, it will be found directly by the tree demon.

If it is in a location that cannot be explored, by summarizing the waterway network, Lin Jun can roughly determine which area the deeper waterways are located, and then focus on investigating these locations.

Just dig down if necessary.

He wanted to see what the hell was that could be hidden so disgustingly!

In fact, Lin Jun still has some small fantasies - this thing can produce so many slimes, which means it has sufficient energy!

And based on experience, maybe... it's another piece of sunstone fragment?

Now Lin Jun's [Sunstone (Remnant)] is the result of splicing two fragments together. The amount of magic produced through [Photosynthesis] is roughly equivalent to the total magic production of the fifth floor.

If we add another fragment, the magic power output will increase by at least 50%, right?

With so much magic power, maybe the elite Puji plan behind me can be put into small-scale mass production?

"Yes." After receiving Lin Jun's order, the tree monsters replied one by one in the fungus web.

Um?

Lin Jun keenly noticed that there was one less reply.

After sensing it, Puji, who had lost his command and was in an idle state, found the tree demon, or rather, found its corpse...

(End of this chapter)