Chapter 247 246. The culprit
The irrefutable facts have allowed the guild to firmly occupy the moral high ground, and the speculators have no choice but to accept it no matter how unwilling they are.
Perhaps there are still a few lucky guys who will steal mushrooms out of the sight of the managers, but that is the responsibility of the patrolling guards.
Next to a mushroom field with a newly demarcated boundary, Farr, Inanna and others stopped to watch.
Inanna gently shook the knight in her arms at the fungal mat under her feet. This time, only a few small mushrooms sporadically emerged from the fungal mat, looking sparse and weak.
"It turns out that it is impossible to give birth infinitely..." Seeing this scene, Fal's face showed an expression of "as expected", which was more in line with his understanding of the world.
After all, this was the third time he had stimulated mushrooms on the same fungal mat. If mushrooms continued to emerge, it would really overturn his common sense.
It seems that with the help of Knight Puji, Miss Inanna can achieve amazing effects similar to large-scale natural magic on the fungal blanket.
But the price is similar to that of natural magic. It prematurely overdraws the nutrients and magic power contained in the fungal blanket, causing it to fall into a long period of decline.
However, unlike ordinary plants, the recovery speed of the fungal mat is much faster. Even so, this is ultimately an emergency measure rather than a long-term solution.
You can't really expect Miss Inanna to solve the terrible food crisis by just carrying her knight around every day.
"Ms. Inanna, I'm grateful for your assistance this time," Farr bowed solemnly to Inanna, "both in securing administrative authority and in persuading those unreasonable adventurers."
Inanna glanced at the four guards Eric had sent, then calmly approached Farr and said in a low voice, "Then in the report you send to the Duke's Palace, you must explain in detail why I must stay here!"
Fal looked at her in surprise, and immediately understood: it seemed that the Duke's daughter wanted to take the opportunity to play outside for a while longer.
Farr naturally couldn't offend Inanna, so he nodded in agreement.
Inanna smiled at him for the first time. "Also, I don't want to live in the guild."
"I will immediately arrange for someone to build a residence for you," Farr said readily. "Do you have any specific requirements, young lady?"
Of course, what Inanna wanted most was to live directly in the mushroom house. That kind of mushroom house, wrapped in softness and fitting the body in every way, was simply an ideal residence. Unfortunately, this was on the surface, so she could only make do...
The reason why several people had started discussing whether to live in the guild or nearby was because not long ago, the team sent by Fal to explore the current situation of the dungeon had returned and brought him surprising news - the situation in the dungeon had actually begun to improve!
Except for the first layer which is in a rather bad condition, the cracks become fewer as you go down, and they are still repairing themselves!
Farr was both happy and sad about this.
The dungeon has returned to stability, which is undoubtedly good news for him and the guild in the long run. It means that there will be a steady supply of resources, not to mention that there are now more mushrooms.
However, in the short term... his wrong predictions caused him to fall one after another.
The stockpiling of low- and medium-grade materials at a premium resulted in huge losses, and the decision to relocate refugees emptied his coffers.
This series of "magic operations" severely damaged the Yafeng Town branch and himself!
The source of all these misjudgments points to one person—the so-called master of magic array, Guge!
"This fake guy is just a fake!" In the president's office, where he had just barely cleaned up the mycelium visible to the naked eye, Fal was gritting his teeth as he wrote a report to be sent to the headquarters.
In the report, he denounced Gugede for being unworthy of his position and that none of the key information he provided was accurate, causing the association to suffer heavy losses. His actions were simply unforgivable!
He once again strongly requested the headquarters to send a real expert group to conduct an authoritative assessment of the current status of the underground city, and emphasized in particular that Guge, the fake master who deceived the world and stole the reputation, must be eliminated!
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As the most concerned news for the surrounding adventurers, the miracle that the dungeon had successfully repaired itself from the brink of collapse spread rapidly among the crowd like wildfire.
The adventurers who had been complaining about the Duke's family and the guild immediately put aside their complaints upon hearing the news, packed up their bags and rushed into the dungeon.
However, what greeted them was not wealth that was readily available, but a solid blow!
This period of inactivity caused the number of monsters in the dungeon to surge, making it far more dangerous than before.
To make matters worse, after the "great exchange" of the rift, a large number of monster "exchange students" emerged on each layer.
There were poisonous flyers on the second floor, gold coin bugs on the third floor, and even poisonous lizards and crustacean worms roaming around the fifth floor, where they shouldn't be...
Faced with these strange and ferocious monsters, the unprepared adventurers immediately suffered the consequences of lack of intelligence.
Those who were a little luckier would retreat in a hurry in a mess, while those who were unlucky would die silently in a corner of the dungeon, and only those diligent Puji would help collect their bodies.
The new difficulties have screened out a large number of small teams. Now, only truly powerful and experienced adventurers are qualified to continue exploring in depth under unknown threats.
Among this group of adventurers, there was one team that seemed out of place. They quickly headed down to the lower levels, but ignored the precious materials along the way.
Leading the group was a swordsman, followed by a hunter and a wizard. What they had in common was that they all owed a favor to the "good old man" Vera...
Unlike other adventurers who came in search of wealth, they came to look for the Vera people.
The last sighting of Vera and the others was when they entered the town of Dumb Wind, when the mushroom picking craze had not yet fully started.
But since then, Vera and the others seemed to have disappeared without a trace.
The swordsman, aware of Vera's disappearance, searched Mutewind Town and the surrounding forests while asking adventurers for information, but found nothing.
Based on his understanding of Vera, the other party would not abandon the refugees and run away to other cities, so this disappearance was very strange.
After much thought, it was very likely that he had entered the dungeon - although he couldn't figure out why he had entered the dungeon at that time.
Therefore, as soon as the news of the dungeon's restoration spread, the swordsman decisively contacted the other two to form a temporary search team. Their primary target was the fifth and sixth floors.
First go to the sixth floor where Vera often goes to look for clues. If you don’t find any, return to the fifth floor to participate in the Puji lottery.
The reason for the lottery was that it was already common knowledge that Puji would decompose the adventurers' corpses and take away their equipment. If they drew something that represented Vera and the others, they would have no choice but to accept the fact that Vera had died in the dungeon.
However, when they got down to the sixth floor, they found Vera and the others sitting around the burrowing Puji, happily drinking delicious mushroom soup...
(End of this chapter)
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