Chapter 272 271. Spiritual Guidance
"I brought back three!" Inanna placed three boxes in front of the Pujis in the private house built specifically for her.
"You did a great job! You were a great help!" Lin Jun praised sincerely.
A Puji stretched out its mycelial tentacles and nimbly rolled up the three boxes.
Several other Pujis gathered around enthusiastically, and amidst the pink Puji's laughter, they gave her an all-round "mushroom massage" with just the right amount of force. While kneading and patting her, they helped the pink Puji eliminate the fatigue of the journey.
Not until Inanna fell into a deep sleep with comfortable humming did Lin Jun turn his attention completely to the three boxes.
You don’t even need to go back to the dungeon. Just go directly to a place with fungal blanket in the house and throw the flower there.
[Seven Sins of Greed Trigger]
[Plundering Skill: Spiritual Guidance LV1]
In the vision of [Inspiration LV5], the faint light represented by the flower is like a star falling into a deep pool.
It silently shattered and dissolved, turning into countless tiny pieces of light dust, and was eventually completely decomposed and swallowed up, leaving no trace of residue or abnormality.
As the level of [Inspiration] increased, Lin Jun saw more and more clearly, and finally confirmed one thing - flowers and plants have no souls.
Not only flowers and plants, but even most monsters have no souls.
In other words, the "spirits" of their existence are fundamentally different from the "souls" of intelligent beings such as humans and minotaurs.
The fungal mat decomposes humans and eventually "spits out" a naked soul ball of light that has lost all the imprints of skills. This ball of light will then gradually merge into the surrounding world.
In Lin Jun's understanding, [Greed] only devours the "skills" attached to it, and the soul itself is not the target.
However, when decomposing monsters or plants that lack advanced intelligence, nothing resembling a soul is spit out.
Lin Jun himself speculated that either they did not have souls in the sense of intelligent creatures, or their "souls" were highly bound to their skills or life forms, and once they were stripped away or decomposed, they would naturally be annihilated.
In any case, at the soul level, intelligent life and non-intelligent existence are obviously two completely different existences.
The specific meaning behind this distinction is still unclear, but Lin Jun feels that it is likely something related to the underlying logic of the world itself.
Unfortunately, I know too little.
Moreover, although Aidin has not yet been asked to investigate, Lin Jun feels that humans probably don’t know much about this aspect.
The reason is simple. Humans don’t even know that the core of the dungeon can be controlled by the soul. Obviously, they lack knowledge in this area.
He could check later, but Lin Jun didn't hold out much hope.
On the contrary, the demons may have more information, at least the yellow book, which is the demons' holy book, knows this knowledge.
Turn your attention back to your newly acquired skills.
Lin Jun still remembers the description on the panel when selecting the skill, which is that it can be used on targets that have been hallucinated.
So who should we try?
Pink Puji who has already fallen asleep...
Norris just returned to the mushroom house...
Xiao Hei...
How is that possible!
The skill involves the word "spirit", so it's hard to say whether there will be any danger. Lin Jun now has better experimental materials.
…
On the edge of Mute Wind Town, a resettlement area hastily enclosed by wooden fences is crowded with tents, and the air is filled with a variety of smells.
In one of the tilted tents, a bearded, drunken man was snoring loudly.
A puff emerged silently from the fungal carpet in the corner of the tent and stood quietly in the shadow of the corner.
In order to cope with the influx of population, Yafeng Town has been stepping up its planning and expansion.
But this speed obviously cannot keep up with the influx of refugees.
Far prohibits these refugees from building houses on their own. Those unplanned and even dilapidated illegal buildings will only become a management nightmare in the future.
These refugees, who have not had time to plan their accommodation, can only live in tents in specially designated temporary resettlement areas.
Naturally, the security in these resettlement areas full of refugees is also the worst.
Farr wanted to take charge, but he didn't have enough manpower, so he could only prioritize the most serious crimes.
As for petty thefts, fights and the like, they will have to be dealt with later.
The drunk man in front of me is a typical cancer that has grown in this "lowland".
He didn't dare to do things that could cost him his life, such as murder, arson, rape and looting, but "small evils" such as extortion, stealing, and bullying the weak were his daily routine, and he did not miss a single one.
When Lin Jun is bored, he likes to observe human life. This feeling of appreciating other people's joys and sorrows from a third-person perspective makes Lin Jun find the feeling of watching TV dramas in the past.
Of course, he wouldn't have ended up as a bystander.
Puji is not a hero, and Lin Jun doesn't even think he is righteous. The best he can do with his kindness is to extend it to his subordinates.
But this does not prevent Lin Jun from choosing from these garbage first when he needs experimental subjects.
Even if it breaks, there is no psychological burden!
Now the entire Yafeng Town is under his surveillance. Even if Lin Jun makes this guy disappear quietly, no one will be able to find any clues. What's more, it's just a skill experiment.
The hallucinogenic spores quietly spread in the tent, and the already drunk bully inhaled a lot of them in his drunken dream.
[Spiritual Guidance LV1]
The moment the skill took effect, Lin Jun keenly sensed the changes!
His soul seemed to extend invisible tentacles, and under the subtle guidance of his skills, it followed the "bridge" built by the hallucinogenic spores and gently placed it on the bully.
The connection is very weak, as if it will be disconnected with the slightest force. It is completely inferior to the vacuum cleaner experience when using the core, and it cannot be compared with the situation when invading the Yellow Book.
But this was the first time that Lin Jun took the initiative to use his soul to connect with others, so it was quite novel.
Following the connection of souls, Lin Jun "saw" the bully's dream!
Lin Jun suddenly became excited!
After all, I haven’t had any dreams since I turned into a mushroom. I didn’t expect that!
Can't wait to observe this dream.
A banquet filled with gold-inlaid wine utensils, greasy food and heavily made-up beauties, a dream that could not be more vulgar.
Miraculously, after Lin Jun regained consciousness, a specific image formed in her dream—a green mushroom lying on a banquet plate...
No... this isn't right!
There is nothing wrong with me being a mushroom now, but I was a human being before I was reincarnated!
Even if the race has changed now, the soul should still be in its original human form, right?
Why does it turn directly into a mushroom?
Could it be that even my soul has turned into a real mushroom? !
At least...at least a Pooji with legs...
As soon as the thought came to his mind, the mushroom on the plate expanded rapidly as if it were inflated. In two breaths, it stretched and deformed, and grew into a round, white and tender Puji!
Um?
This dream... is really convenient!
If that’s the case, then can I also become a human?
Puji continued to grow, its two hyphae legs rapidly extending, transforming into two human-like legs. Two anthropomorphic arms emerged from its sides, the ends even wriggling and differentiating into ten fingers...
However, it got stuck at the head!
What did I look like originally?
It’s strange, he should have been very handsome... why can’t I remember any details?
So, a strange creature with a human-shaped torso and limbs, but a mushroom-shaped head, stood stupidly in the middle of the luxurious banquet hall, looking lost in thought.
At the same time, at the main seat of the banquet, the bully who had just been surrounded by beauties and living a life of drunkenness and debauchery almost popped his eyes out!
"Monster...monster!" He pushed the beautiful woman away and scrambled to the wall. Then, as if remembering his "identity," he screamed, "Guards! Guards! Come and protect me! Kill this monster!"
"He actually gave himself a noble identity..." Although he had no mouth, Lin Jun's mushroom man still made a sound.
Looking at a group of "guards" with blurry armor and stiff movements like puppets rushing in, Lin Jun temporarily put aside his memories.
Try the boot effect!
Although the connection is very weak, the part of Lin Jun that now appears in the bully's dream is not even as high in quality as the bully's own soul, but the conscious guidance crushes the unconscious dream, coupled with the assistance of skills.
The next moment, mushrooms suddenly exploded on the heads of all the guards!
They paused for a moment, then turned their spears in unison, pointing the cold tips directly at the bully cowering in the corner!
"You...what are you going to do?! I am your master! Kill it! Kill it!" The bully screamed in horror, his back pressed against the cold wall, with nowhere to retreat.
Amidst the shrill howls and the dull thud of blades piercing flesh, the glaring bright red gradually dyed the gorgeous tapestries and carpets in the corners.
Lin Jun was planning to make further efforts to recall his "handsome" face, but with the complete death of the protagonist in the dream, the entire banquet scene collapsed!
This part of Lin Jun's consciousness was suddenly pulled away.
When he tried to connect the skill again, his consciousness sank into a void of dead darkness, with nothing in it.
Well, it seems that we can’t just kill the dreamer in his dream...
…
"Mushrooms...Mushroom monsters..."
The next day, the bully was listless and muttering to himself all day long, and only returned to normal on the third day.
(End of this chapter)
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