Chapter 256 255. Wheat Field Maze
On the dead wood shelf, one black and one white.
The crow tilted its head, its dark eyes unblinking as it stared at the "neighbor" next to it whom it had never seen before.
Its slightly rough body was snow-white and round... It was neither of its kind, nor those squeaking straw dolls, nor was it a bipedal adventurer that smelled of fear and sweat.
The crow focused all its attention on Puji because of the existence it had never seen before.
Scout Puji didn't care about the scrutinizing gaze at all. Lin Jun was now checking the panels of the surrounding things one by one.
[Race: Weed]
[Level: LV2]
[Racial Talent: Cursed Creature (Adapts to cursed environments, fears divine attacks)]
[Skills: Corrosion Curse LV1, Resilience LV1]
Can you believe it?
This is a panel of wheat in a wheat field!
At first, Lin Jun thought he had opened the panel to see weeds, but he found that there were no weeds in the wheat field at all.
The main crop in this "wheat field," these swaying, plump-headed "wheat," is actually called "weeds"?!
What's even more bizarre is that the curse that permeates the entire space does not originate from some powerful core or evil monster as imagined, but from the endless "grass" itself!
The [Corrosive Curse] level of a single evil weed is generally only level one, which is not worth mentioning.
But when such a large number of weeds are added together, although it cannot achieve a qualitative change, it can also achieve a higher-level effect. If you walk through a wheat field and have close contact with weeds, the situation will probably be even worse.
It was quite interesting. Scout Puji decisively rolled up two handfuls of the evil grass and took them back to taste them.
“Gah!”
The crows nearby had been staring at the scout and chirping for quite a while.
The rustling sound came from far away and got closer. Several scarecrows came out from the wheat field, their empty eye sockets locked on the white shadow on the wooden frame.
[Race: Straw Man - Withered Servant]
[Level: LV26]
[Racial Talent: Cursed Creature, Shattered Consciousness]
[Skills: Claw Attack LV5, Withering Touch LV3, Physical Resistance LV3...]
Although very weak, the scout Puji is not a Puji specially used for fighting. Besides, there are many of these small fry, and fighting one against many is totally not Lin Jun's style.
Of course you can fly away, but it would be annoying to have the scarecrow follow you wherever you go.
So, amidst the crows' wide-eyed eyes and the scarecrows' tightening encirclement, the air around Scout Puji suddenly rippled like water waves, and the entire Puji seemed to blend into the background and disappeared in an instant!
“Gah!”
The crow was startled and flapped its wings, but did not fly.
The pitch-black eyeballs trembled violently, and the bloodshot spread and expanded, finally transforming into two scarlet blood eyes.
【Sensory Enhancement LV4】
It saw it!
A subtle distortion of light!
Right in front of you!!!
Baji——
The scout Puji rolled up the crow's corpse and stuffed it into his body, placing it together with the weeds.
Really, even though he pretended not to see it, Lin Jun was too lazy to care about it and insisted on rushing up to send it off.
Scout Puji maintained his invisibility and flew over the wheat field.
Without witnessing Puji's invisibility, the crows usually do not maintain the [Enhanced Senses] state. Therefore, the invisible scout Puji was like a ghost, flying freely over the wheat field.
Lin Jun made a new discovery when observing other crows. Some crows had [Puppet] marked in their status bar, while others did not. These were probably the "bribeable" targets mentioned by the dwarves.
But Lin Jun couldn’t understand why these crows wanted the gems?
You can't be like Xiao Hei, who is simply obsessed with sparkles, right?
Speaking of sparkling gems, Lin Jun thought of the gems looted from the dwarves, among which was the most crystal clear emerald.
Xiao Hei loves it!
She couldn't let go of the gem, even her favorite delicious puff only ate half of it and threw it aside. She compared the emerald with her own glass beads and Norris's silver scales again and again, her eyes full of stars.
Apparently, dwarves have some skills in digging for gems.
Scout Puji flew for a long time and finally landed on the dusty roof of a tall barn.
"Wheat Field Maze" is exactly what the name suggests.
No matter where you fly, the end of your vision is always the rolling, endless waves of wheat, dotted with only three types of buildings: barns, windmills, and scattered cottages.
I don’t know how big the level is, but the scout didn’t fly to the end.
There will be some special monsters in the hut.
【Straw Man-Farmer】
It would mechanically bundle the harvested weeds into human shapes, fix them on wooden racks in the fields, and eventually they would turn into the withered servants that can be seen everywhere.
Lin Jun has never seen the windmill used, but judging from the bloodstains on the millstone, it is probably a privilege exclusively for adventurers.
The barn was filled with so-called grain, which the guide mentioned would yield the rare forging material "Cursed Golden Wheat." But what Lin Jun saw through the puff was mostly blood-stained adventurer equipment and scattered coins scattered on the grain pile.
Some barns were even filled with motionless scarecrows, clearly trap houses.
All in all, a pretty monotonous class.
What means the most to Lin Jun is the weeds that can be seen everywhere.
[Corrosion Curse] and [Toughness] are both useful skills. Even if a plant is only level 1, you can stack it up by decomposing more of it.
As for the "farmer" making other scarecrows, it seems that it relies not on its own ability, but on the rules of this dungeon.
The "farmer" is just a straw man in his thirties with a little intelligence.
But that's normal. The Scarecrow Abyss dungeon is also divided into many levels, each with its own characteristics, and there are more diverse monsters in the deeper levels.
What Lin Jun was most looking forward to was the so-called "changing of layers".
According to them, if you stay on each level for about a day and don't leave according to the compass, you will unknowingly fall into the next level.
Lin Jun really wants to experience it.
I don’t know if it’s a space transfer like the hidden room here.
If so, then the space transfer in Scarecrow Abyss is much more advanced than that in Amethyst Dungeon. After all, it is a transfer without location restrictions!
…
Scout Puji just waited.
There is no day and night alternation in the Scarecrow Abyss. There is no moon in the night sky here, and even the stars are fixed and motionless, which is obviously fake.
However, Lin Jun did not need to perceive time through the celestial phenomena inside. He could just observe the changes in the sun and moon on the surface of the earth in Yafeng Town.
They stayed like this for more than a day, and the scout Puji was unable to go deeper.
The guide does mention that there might be slight differences in the time it takes to enter the next level, but this is already over several hours...
What's going on?
Is it the same as Amethyst, discriminating against me and not allowing me to change levels because I am a monster?
But I have a Brave Pass!
What the hell is going on?!
…
After waiting for another day, Lin Jun finally felt that faint tug on his soul...
(End of this chapter)
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