Chapter 161 158. Reunion

On this day, the owner of the mushroom garden returned to his faithful old capital again!

However, this place has been transformed greatly by the cave dwellers, and even Lin Jun can't see much of its former appearance.

However, the rock wall with high-quality magic crystals is still there, and these magic crystals are probably the most valuable things in the old mushroom garden.

Although these cave dwellers grow mushrooms, they obviously do not have the cultivation experience like Lin Jun. They do not know how to use magic crystals to fertilize the fields, and they have never mined magic crystals. The few magic crystals in the warehouse were thrown randomly in the corner. They really don't know the value of magic crystals.

In this battle, Puji's losses were minimal.

The greatest casualties were the twenty or so Pujis that were smashed to pieces by the rubble that Louisa had blasted out. The others that were stabbed to death by the cavemen's spears automatically repaired themselves after lying there for a while.

The cavemen's resistance was quite strenuous at the beginning, but afterwards it was just pure cat and mouse.

This result did not surprise Lin Jun.

Just like Lin Jun’s old mushroom garden, it can exist only because it is located in a remote area and no high-level monsters target them.

In terms of combat power, they are not even as good as the old mushroom garden, and the cave dwellers are obviously not lucky enough, as they are targeted by Lin Jun...

If Lin Jun didn't need to capture them alive, the battle would have been over quickly and they wouldn't have been allowed to struggle for a while like they are now.

Of course, it can’t be said that it’s bad luck, Lin Jun doesn’t want to destroy them.

Lin Jun just wants to achieve equality within this slave race!

Each bound cave dweller is knocked unconscious with hallucinogenic spores, then beaten to low health, and finally sprinkled with spores by a special Puji, so that they can merge with the mycelium in their sleep.

When they wake up, they will find that the classes divided according to pheromone concentrations no longer exist, and all cave dwellers have the same identity - Lin Jun's slaves... and subordinates!

Of course, the above are all the treatments for valuable ordinary cavemen. As for those worthless fat cavemen...

Louisa was very satisfied. Although the blood lipids were a bit high, it was at least the blood of an intelligent life form and tasted much better than that of low-level monsters.

The Yellow Book was also very satisfied, having received two more souls than it expected.

As for Norris, Lin Jun promised to pick out some equipment for him later.

Under Lin Jun's distribution, everyone became happy.

As for the fat caveman?

Although they kept howling while their blood was being drawn, they did not raise any objections.

Several corpses of caveman elders, which were still fat but had lost all their blood color, were thrown by the Pujis into their mushroom fields.

The mycelium devoured and decomposed the corpse, and in the end, apart from some magic power and nutrients, no skills were gained.

All I can say is... not surprising?

Lin Jun had already noticed that the skills were probably related to the soul when he stole the yellow book, and this time he had verified the result.

Simply put, this yellow book is competing with you for food. If I'm not hungry, who will you starve to?

This connection with the old mushroom garden also made Lin Jun realize that the part of himself that had spread out, even after a long time, could be successfully brought back under control as long as it was reconnected to the fungal network.

However, after being out of control, the fungal mat will only naturally generate some primitive skill-less Pujis. If they were not raised by cavemen, they would probably have been eaten by slimes and the like.

Lin Jun searched the cave dwellers' nest from top to bottom and found that they were poor.

In addition to foods such as moss mushrooms, there are some bone items.

Lin Jun even saw the skull of a minotaur, which seemed to indicate that they had some battle records in the past.

If we have to say what else Lin Jun gained besides this group of cave dwellers, it would probably be the cave dweller fortress itself.

[Race: Snail Wood]

[Level: 25]

[Skills: Toughness LV6, Hardening LV5, Physical Resistance LV4, Rapid Growth LV4...]

This thing is designed to be as hard as it can be. Louisa's previous ordinary attack was not able to directly break the wooden shell.

Moreover, the shape of this wood after it grows is just like its name, resembling an oversized snail shell. No wonder cave dwellers use it as their nest.

It seems to be growing pretty fast?

After taking a few seeds from the center of the snail wood, Lin Jun planned to continue the pattern of pairing the snail wood with the cave dweller, but just add some Puji to it.

Cavemen are of low level and easy to die. In Lin Jun's opinion, they are not suitable to be part of the expedition team and be consumed on the front line.

They also cannot afford to consume them. The Pujis on the front line are replaced in batches. The Pujis who can fight through the three large monster caves from beginning to end and survive are rare.

In Lin Jun's plan, he intended to let the cavemen lead Puji to guard the caves that had already been conquered.

These caves are not dangerous and the defense pressure is not great. By handing over the nodes guarding Puji to the cavemen, Lin Jun can free up more capacity to support the expedition team.

Originally we needed to consider how to solve the problem of cave dwellers settling in the new caves, but now it seems that we can just use snail wood!

Of course, these are all arrangements for the future, and this group of cave dwellers still need to be taught first.

There was no rush to find room for the cave dwellers, as other caves were not as safe as the old mushroom garden.

Moreover, Lin Jun discovered the cave dweller’s nursery in the snail wood. It turned out that this thing was egg-laying…

Any caveman is precious, including these unborn ones!

Lin Jun arranged for several cave dwellers who were still in fear after waking up to take care of their eggs.

The other awakened cavemen were handed over to Norris and Yellow Book.

They trembled and waited for their fate.

At this time, Louisa had already left with a large army under Lin Jun's arrangement. She was going to re-attack the cave that was occupied by the basilisk.

Norris was left with only the personal guards given to him by Lin Jun - two minotaur puppets and a dozen elite Pujis.

The Minotaur puppet was tall and burly, full of imposing manner, and indeed had a deterrent effect on the cave dwellers.

But compared to the nearly three hundred cavemen, the number of Norris's men was a bit too small.

So much so that some of the quick-witted cave dwellers began to think about escaping.

However, when one caveman chose to escape, before he ran far, a large number of mushrooms exploded all over his body and he turned into a puppet. Then the remaining cavemen learned to obey.

Lin Jun gave Norris and Yellow Book only one new task.

Teach the cavemen to use Fungus Nets, control Puff, and most importantly - understand and obey the boss's orders.

Even if Norris didn't know how to do it, the Yellow Book certainly knew.

In order to stop the yellow book from slacking off, Lin Jun drew a soul-eating pie for it.

…

From the perspective of the entire map, Lin Jun is planning which caves to send the cavemen to first after they are trained.

It is best if the first batch are relatively safe caves to accumulate experience.

While thinking, a vibration came from the fungus web.

This vibration feeling is so familiar... I can even say it's nostalgic!

Earthworm?

Lin Jun was not the only one who felt the vibration. Louisa, who was leading the expedition team passing by the dilapidated cave, also stopped when she saw the pebbles bouncing under her feet.

The vibrations became more and more obvious. Louisa was able to stand still, but the Pujis were tossed all over the place.

At a certain moment, the earth collapsed outwards, and a huge abyss emerged from it. In an instant, twelve Pujis disappeared into the huge mouth. At the same time, more Pujis were hit to death or crushed to death by the flying rocks.

This situation is exactly the same as the original conquest war.

On the giant insect's mouth, the scar left by Puji's self-explosion is still clearly visible.

[Race: Earthworm]

[Level: LV51]

We meet again, old rival!

Do you have any help this time?

(End of this chapter)