Chapter 240 239. The work of restoring vitality
There were too many mushrooms growing on the ground. A running Puji was caught off guard and tripped over a particularly fat mushroom. Its round body lost balance and rolled like a springy ball, colliding heavily with another companion.
In a chain reaction, the Puji that was hit knocked down two others next to it, and four of them fell at once, causing a brief hole in the Puji encirclement!
Xirian jumped up from the ground and drew out the elven dagger from his waist with his backhand. With a flash of cold light, he prepared to rush out from the gap.
"Don't be impulsive!" Fei Ling reacted quickly, grabbed Xirian, and her voice changed.
"Calm down! Xilian! Don't provoke Puji!" Vera also hurriedly dissuaded.
The foreign elves didn't understand, so how could the three locals not understand?
Nothing good would come of provoking Puji here. Vera had already begun to regret her previous suggestion to ripen the mushrooms.
This was indeed the case. Pujis continued to emerge from the nearby fungal mat, and in the blink of an eye, they surrounded the four people.
Around the legs of several people, there were densely packed mushroom caps moving, probably nearly a hundred of them!
Vera, who knew well the power of Puji's self-detonation, didn't even dare to move his legs at this moment. Beads of cold sweat dripped down his forehead. Feiling and Feiyin were also frightened and their faces turned pale. They huddled together tightly.
"Now... what should we do?" Although Xirian had not put away the dagger, his arms had dropped slightly. He had also seen Puji fight.
"I don't know..." Vera's voice was dry, "We can only... see what they want to do..."
Soon, the Pujis began to use their round and elastic bodies to push them forward.
Looking at the direction pointing directly to the entrance of the dungeon, Fei Ling's voice began to cry: "They... don't want to take us into the dungeon..."
Wouldn't this mean the end of the dungeon as well?
No matter how unwilling they were, there was no way they could do anything. At this moment, they had completely become Puji's captives. They were involuntarily swept away by the mushroom tide and entered the first level of the Amethyst Dungeon.
As soon as they stepped onto the first floor, the cracks that were everywhere in their vision instantly made their hearts sink to the bottom of the valley.
Vera felt a little regretful and said to the elf: "I'm sorry... maybe just now... I should have tried my best to rush out..."
"Are all the monsters here so... unique?" Xirian's tone was filled with incredible confusion and a hint of absurdity.
"Woo...are they trying to push us into the swamp?" Feiyin was so scared that she didn't want to move her legs, but the Pujis were "carrying" her forward by pushing her with their mushroom caps.
However, as they were pushed deeper and deeper by Puji, the heart-pounding space rift around them actually visibly decreased!
They were taken all the way to the sixth floor, but the scene before them made them gasp - all they saw was a dead silence and desolation!
All the plants withered and turned black, breaking at the slightest touch. The curse caused the ecological destruction of half of the sixth layer. Now the cracks have been repaired, but what was destroyed cannot be restored.
The Puji group brought them to the center of the scorched earth, then stopped and stopped pushing.
"This...what does this mean?" Fei Ling looked at the motionless mushrooms around her, at a loss.
Xilian's emerald green eyes suddenly lit up, as if he had thought of something.
He squatted down, ignoring the thick ashes on the ground, and gently pressed his hands on the ground. The palms of his hands once again glowed with a soft emerald green light, but he was not using "Song of Abundance".
He chanted the elven spell in a low voice, and a very faint but extremely tenacious green light trembled and pushed away the ashes, becoming the first ray of life in the vicinity!
After the green appeared, the Pujis trotted away, leaving only a few following behind them.
The sudden relief of pressure made everyone breathe a sigh of relief.
"Xirian, what's going on?" The Valar asked in confusion, his eyes falling on the fragile sprout.
Xilian stood up and looked at the scorched earth. He guessed based on his experience: "There are some smart animals in the forest. When their homes are destroyed by wildfires or poisons, they will guide us druids to the destroyed areas to seek help and restore vitality to the forest. These Pujis seem to mean the same thing? Are they... asking us for help?"
Need help?
Vera felt that it made some sense, but also felt that something was not right.
Asking for help or something...at least those animals will definitely not kidnap the elves, right?
"Now..." Vera scratched her head.
After entering below, he found that the problem with the rift was not as serious as he had imagined. It was even better than when they left, and there were no monsters running around.
He was not too worried about safety now, but when he looked around, he saw a desolate scene. How long would it take before Puji was willing to let them go?
Xilian sighed, bent down, and continued to cast a spell beside the sprout: "Let's do it first, I just hope I can find food nearby..."
After a while, everyone shared the mushroom soup scooped out from the body of a strangely shaped, hot Pooji with strange faces...
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Regarding the rift on the sixth floor that emitted a terrifying curse and destroyed half of the ecology, Lin Jun weighed the pros and cons again and again and finally chose to seal it completely.
But in the crack on the fifth floor connecting to the scarecrow, Lin Jun left a small hole that was just big enough for Puji to pass through.
A faint aura of curse also seeps through this crack, but its range and effect are limited, far less than that of the sixth floor.
I think they are in different levels of the same dungeon, so it’s better to keep the weaker one.
Lin Jun was very pleased to see that the elf could actually understand what he meant directly.
To be honest, if it was a lone elf in front of him, Lin Jun would almost start to parasitize it. After all, this was a rare [natural magic] here.
But since the elves were traveling with the Valar, they had no choice but to give up.
Lin Jun used to spy on the adventurers in the dungeon every day, so he naturally knew that these three guys were kind-hearted and conspicuous.
She is a socialite among adventurers and is the person Lin Jun is most reluctant to parasitize - the risk of being exposed is too great.
If they want to blend in with the surface, they cannot expose the fact that they can parasitize humans.
Lin Jun originally planned to keep them trapped where they are, and only let them move freely when they understood everything!
Fortunately, the elf had a very high level of comprehension, which saved Lin Jun a lot of effort.
As for their discovery of a reduction in underground cracks, that doesn't matter.
Anyway, by the time they finish their work and return, humans should have noticed the changes in the dungeon.
As for Puji forcing them to work?
Anyone who has known Amethyst Dungeon knows that Puji will punish those who don't follow the rules, from killing them with big blows to looting with small ones.
In comparison, it would be a great mercy to let these magic thieves roll up their sleeves and put in some effort to restore the ecology!
However, what Lin Jun did not expect was that the tree monsters in his own family seemed to sense something and actually took the initiative to walk out of the secret forest and help the elves.
(End of this chapter)
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