Chapter 199 198. Jida?
Deep area, in the old mushroom garden.
The space cracks are still growing and spreading slowly and steadily.
Just yesterday, a crack appeared without any warning, and instantly cut a Puji in half while it was digging diligently!
His upper body, along with a piece of B-grade magic crystal, fell into the deadly rift and disappeared without a trace.
This was the first time that Lin Jun observed the birth of a crack, so it was not without signs.
Before the rift opens, this space will be slightly distorted and accompanied by violent magical fluctuations, which is still very obvious to Lin Jun who possesses [Magic Perception].
This is undoubtedly important information. At least after knowing it, Lin Jun doesn't have to worry about his main body being beheaded by a sneak attack from the rift.
In the center of the giant snail, nearly a hundred Pujis quietly surrounded the awakened Norris.
These are all used by Lin Jun to test the upper limit of his mental control ability.
However, at this moment, most of the Pujis were idle, and only 36 of them were moving under Norris's control.
You may say there is no improvement. Not really. The control capacity has been increased from 20 to 36.
But what is this improvement which is better than nothing?
[Spiritual Integration LV7] Ah!
Lin Jun holds the control capacity which can be expanded to 3,000. Norris, what’s wrong with you?
However... there are other changes.
The group of Pooji surrounding Norris no longer functioned as a rigid entity as it did in the past.
At this moment, some Puji were bouncing lightly on the spot, while others were circling around a fixed track. Each one was executing completely different instructions - this meant that Norris had acquired the ability to micro-control each individual one!
And Norris seemed to have noticed a deeper change.
“Boss!” He picked up a Puji, his tone full of surprise as if he had discovered a new world, “I seem to be able to…receive their perception! As long as I touch them like this…but the feeling is very vague.”
Feeling fuzzy?
"Norris, try this one!" Lin Jun dispatched a reconnaissance Puff and moved it under the Norris node.
As soon as Norris got started, he felt the difference!
"This... is this sonic detection?! And... the flow of magic power? Even the slightest disturbance in the air can be sensed!" New sensory information poured in like a tide, and Norris was excited to experience this unprecedented ability.
However, only about a minute later, Norris suddenly turned pale, threw away Puji, and covered his buzzing head with both hands: "No! Boss... too much information... too much information! My head is going to explode..."
After only maintaining the four senses for a minute, he reached his limit.
Subsequent tests showed that Norris would experience little discomfort if no more than two sensory channels were maintained at the same time.
This is a big improvement compared to the initial headache he got when he used [Sonic Wave Detection].
[Spiritual Integration] has brought about quite a few changes, but it is still far from what I expected.
Now it seems that I can micromanage... I can have synaesthesia...
Um?
A Puji was quickly temporarily created by Lin Jun. It had only one skill - [Assimilation Absorption LV6].
Lin Jun controlled it and lay on the fungal mat together with several other ordinary Pujis.
As [Assimilation and Absorption] is activated, the surrounding mycelium is pulled in and absorbed like living things, wrapping up layer by layer.
The mycelium not only wrapped around the core Puji, but also entangled and fused the several Pujis next to it!
A moment later, a huge "mycelium man" with ten Puji as the "skeleton" and nearly four meters in height took shape!
Its "head" is none other than the scout Puji.
The control of all these Puji was handed over to Norris.
"Norris, try sitting in it." Lin Jun's voice carried a hint of anticipation.
"Ah? Sit in..." Norris looked at the strange thing in front of him and was a little confused, "How do I get in?"
As soon as he finished speaking, the scout Puji at the "head" twisted its body and slowly "pulled" out from the top, revealing a dark hole, inside which there was vaguely a space that could just accommodate one person.
Norris followed his instructions, climbed up carefully, and entered the cave. His sharp claws accidentally cut through a few strands of entangled mycelium, causing Lin Jun to remind him repeatedly: "Be careful! Keep your claws!"
The interior space was narrow, and Norris could only curl up his limbs in grievance. He felt as if there was a soft, round object sitting under his butt.
Looking down, it was the mushroom hat with the [Assimilation Absorption] Puji.
After he entered, the scout Puji squirmed back into place, its mushroom cap just stuck outside the hole as a "head", and its butt... just right on top of Norris's head.
By detecting Puji's senses, Norris instantly "saw" the scene outside.
"Norris, try to control Jida to stand up now." Lin Jun gave the order.
"Jida? Boss, what's Jida?"
"Just try to control the Pooji inside the place where you are now and make it stand up!"
"How can I control this..."
There are two Pujis in each of Jida's limbs. Under Norris' control, Jida twisted his limbs ugly on the ground, scraping off a lot of the outer layer of mycelium but unable to stand up.
Lin Jun did not urge him, but just quietly observed the debut of this biological mecha.
After half a day, Norris finally...mastered the trick of making Jida crawl on all fours!
Looking at the excited Norris who was controlling Jida to crawl back and forth, Lin Jun had to remind him: "Norris, quickly evolve to walk upright!"
"Oh oh! Okay boss!"
With the experience of crawling as a foundation, this time the "evolution" was much faster.
It first supported itself on the snail wood wall and slowly stood up. After getting used to it, it took its first shaky step... the second step...
Pah--
Two dull explosions suddenly sounded!
The two puffs at the "feet" could not withstand the sudden increase in pressure and were instantly crushed and exploded!
Without its support, "Jida" collapsed and hit the ground heavily like a broken building block, with mycelium splashing everywhere.
Norris coughed and crawled out of a mess of mycelium, his face covered with mycelium debris.
"Boss?" His tone was confused and innocent.
"Hmm..." Lin Jun's mind swept over the mess calmly, "It's not bad. It's just the first time. Go and have a rest and recover your energy. Later... we'll try again with another batch of materials."
It wasn't really Norris' fault that it fell apart, after all, it was just some blank slate.
Afterwards, Lin Jun tried to replace some elite Puji with some, forming a layer of shell on the surface, and then installed mushroom cannons or rock armor shields on their hands, making it look as if it were real.
After the previous "training", Norris has indeed become much more proficient in controlling it. He is no longer limited to crawling. He can even control it to wave its arms awkwardly and make simple blocking or firing gestures.
However, after a series of tests, Lin Jun could only give a disappointing conclusion about this "Jida Project" that took almost a whole day: it was useless.
The elite Pujis can indeed be combined together, and after training in operating the systems, Norris has become more and more proficient.
But... has the combat effectiveness been improved?
Relying on the [Chitinous Shell] skill of the core Puji, it does provide protection for other Pujis that originally had little defensive ability, but this essentially just saves the cost of adding defensive skills to each Puji individually.
These puffs are merely stacked together on the physical level; their strength, speed, and magical attributes have not been fused or amplified!
The mushroom cannon fired by the combination is as powerful as that of a single Puji; the kinetic energy contained in the heavy punch thrown by Jida is not even as great as the impact of an elite Puji rolling and charging at full speed.
This carefully put together behemoth is ultimately just an empty shell with nothing on the outside.
Puji Gundam...it's not that easy after all!
(End of this chapter)
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