Chapter 28 28. Deep Caves Are Better

While Dylan went to spread the "strategy", Lin Jun was not idle either.

The research on [Fusion Parasitism] is almost complete, and it is time to consume these gnolls with extremely low cost-effectiveness.

With the friction with adventurers during this period, adventurers below the silver level almost no longer come to the fifth floor.

Only a few high-level adventurers would come, and their purpose was simply to reach the lower levels.

As for these people, as long as they did not plan to cross the swamp area, Lin Jun would ask Puji to hide.

Since Lin Jun had allowed the mycelium and mushrooms to grow everywhere, it was entirely possible to detect them in advance and avoid them.

Since the silver-level adventurers didn't come to the fifth floor, the cave would naturally be empty.

The crystal bats and rock lizards living inside were the happiest during this period. Without those annoying adventurers, they could search the entire cave for food.

But it was too early for them to be happy, because Lin Jun came with the jackals and Puji.

Leaving aside the rock lizard, its rock armor is too heavy, and if Puji installs it, it can only be used as a fixed turret.

The [Crystal Symbiosis] skill of the Crystalized Bat is a good thing.

It can eat magic crystals, then transform them in the body, and finally become part of the crystallized bat, helping it to enhance the power of its skills.

If it was simply a skill to equip the magic crystal on one's body, then it wouldn't be anything special.

Lin Jun is not short of firepower. After all, one mushroom cannon cannot solve the problem, so he can just fire 10 shots. Puji will have as many as he wants.

But its hidden effect is that it can be purified!

Lin Jun realized this only after seeing that the magic crystals on the wings of many crystallized bats were of much higher quality than those dug out from the caves.

Of course, that is the degree of purification from D to C.

But this is only because the skill levels of these crystallized bats themselves are not high, generally only 3 to 4 skill levels, and are completely unable to demonstrate the true power of this skill.

If the skill is high enough, can Lin Jun use a large number of useless low-level magic crystals to pile up a large S-level magic crystal?

Lin Jun wasn't sure if it would work, but it was worth a try!

The gnolls and the Pujis poured into the cave in a mighty force. The monsters obviously felt threatened and started to become agitated.

They were just monsters of the same level as the Fire Mosquitoes, and Lin Jun didn't take them seriously at all.

The Pujis launched a clean and neat round of bombardment, and after a long period of vibration, everything was gone.

The crystal bats are gone, the rock lizards are gone, and even the entrance to the cave is gone...

ah?

So fragile?

I was in the deep zone... No...

The caves and tunnels in the deep zone were all dug by earthworms, which excrete the rocks they eat from around their bodies as they dig holes to reinforce the rock walls.

So no matter how hard you bombard it, you don't have to worry too much about it collapsing.

Lin Jun even forgot that the fifth floor was a normal cave...

Fortunately, the collapse was not complete, and the werewolves spent a lot of time cleaning and finally dug out the entrance again.

What to do now?

The mushroom cannon that we are so proud of cannot be used, and the self-destruction probably cannot be used either.

Although I have learned a lot of skills from adventurers recently, their levels are still quite low and they are of no use.

We don't really have to rely on these dozens of gnolls, do we?

Without mushroom cannons and other useless things, it would be difficult for the gnolls to cut the shells of the rock lizards. They can't be relied upon.

That's great. Our cave attack plan has just begun and we've hit a dead end.

There is no other way but to open my own panel and look for inspiration among the miscellaneous skills.

magic?

Thanks to the adventurers' dedication, the magic control is now complete, but he needs to learn the spells by himself, and where can he learn it?

So no.

Use a carapace and a rolling charge?

After thinking about the stone shell of the rock lizard, I decided to give up.

Slime's digestive mucus or the recently acquired strong acid skill?

It works on bats, but it won't work on stone shells.

After much thought, the most difficult ones to deal with are turtle-like guys like the Rock Lizard.

By the way, do they eat poison?

It's both crystallized and rocky, and its name sounds like an inorganic substance, which made Lin Jun subconsciously not think of it as a poison.

This is also because Lin Jun hasn't used poison in combat for a long time.

Lin Jun did it as soon as he thought of it. He accelerated the production of several hallucinogenic puffs and went in while spraying spores.

Soon the cave was filled with a purple filter.

The spores were not easily blown away in the narrow cave. Crystallized bats fell from the top of the cave one after another, and the rock lizards soon lay on the ground motionless.

It's really poisonous!

Using poison was easier than his original plan of violent attack.

Hauled them out and did the first round of fertilizer.

[Seven Sins of Greed Trigger]

[Plundering Skill: Crystal Symbiosis LV1]

[Plundering Skill: Infrasonic Attack LV1]

[Plundering Skills: Sound Wave Detection LV1]

[Plundering Skill: Rock Eater LV1]

…

Unfortunately, the cave is interconnected and we don’t know how deep it is.

It's not something that a few hallucinogenic puffs can handle.

Lin Jun could only wait until a large number of hallucinogenic Puji were produced before continuing to act.

In the end, these jackals have nothing to do with anything!

It's so useless that it's hard to consume it even if you want to...

There is a reason why Lin Jun is in a hurry to consume them.

Who wouldn’t think of Puji when seeing these jackals covered with mushrooms after being parasitized?

It’s enough that Puji has attracted hatred for occupying a class. What if it is discovered that it can parasitize and control humans like a parasitic tree?

So Lin Jun is actually destroying the evidence.

If it really doesn't work... just decompose it directly...

Unfortunately, only some magic power can be decomposed. Just like those people controlled by the parasitic tree, the creatures completely parasitized by Lin Jun cannot have their skills decomposed.

Lin Jun still hasn't figured out the principle behind this.

Lin Jun was used to this. There were so many things in this underground city that he couldn't understand.

For example, who set the "rules" on the stairs of the dungeon levels?

For example, how did the dungeon move the hidden room entirely?

Lin Jun didn't notice anything unusual when the stone gate in the swamp disappeared.

He now strongly suspected that the hidden room and treasure chest were refreshed simultaneously, and he was afraid that he had moved along with the hidden room last time.

But he didn't notice it while he was inside.

Lin Jun felt that he had to find a way to learn more about the "underground city".

Let's wait for Dylan to come back and ask him if he has any solution.

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There was a gentle knock on the door of the guest room, and the voice of Vera, a young adventurer who had met the masked Dylan once, came from outside the door:

"Feiling, Feiyin, are you in there?"

The twin sisters in the room, who were only wearing underwear, looked at each other, hurriedly put on their clothes and let Vera in.

"It's so late, what's the matter?"

Sister Feiling had an expression that said, "If you're okay, I'll make you pay."

Vera acted as if she hadn't noticed at all and handed a piece of notebook paper to Feiling with excitement.

"The latest strategy for the fifth floor?" Fei Ling glanced at it and looked strange. "Isn't it a bit too detailed? Where did you get it from?"

"I bought it from an adventurer named Dylan for 50 silver coins. He also said that he got along well with me and gave me some special information at the end."

"50 silver coins!?" Fei Ling's voice suddenly became so high that it was distorted. How could they get along? Why did it sound like a scam to her? "It's so expensive! Are you being cheated again?"

Some not-so-good memories about her childhood sweetheart surfaced in Fei Ling's mind, and she already wanted to smoke Vera...

Vera also knew what Feiling was talking about, and quickly explained:

“I asked the tavern owner, and he knows this Dylan. He has been an adventurer here for a long time.

He is a decent person. He retired for a while and seems to have started to work again recently.

Overall, it has a certain degree of credibility.

The key is to look at the information in this guide. If it is true, 50 silver is definitely worth it."

Fei Ling pouted as she looked at the "strategy" in her hand. It was already a fait accompli. What else could she do?

If it turns out to be fake news, Vera will be punished.

Vera and Feiling are playing the role of a pair of bickering lovers, while the other twin, Feiyin, is watching the show silently like a nobody.

Among the three of you, she never objects to anything and agrees with whatever you two say.

(End of this chapter)