Chapter 339 338. Chaos
Lin Jun discovered that the combination of [Colorful] and [Charming] skills was surprisingly compatible!
[Charm] itself is quite effective, but its triggering conditions are quite limited. Usually, the target needs to stare at the Charm for a long time before it gradually takes effect.
This tactic might work against an inexperienced werewolf, but it would be difficult to use against an experienced adventurer or other highly alert target.
The moment the other party senses something is wrong, they will immediately look away, interrupting the seduction process.
However, once paired with [Caihua], the situation is completely different!
This skill itself seems useless, it just makes Puji colorful and dazzling.
However, this sudden and strong visual impact will make the target subconsciously attribute the strange feeling in his heart to "amazement", "curiosity" or "attraction", thereby prolonging the gaze time before making a rational judgment, greatly increasing the probability of successful charm.
As for why he specifically looked for Soralin, it was naturally because her recent abnormal behavior attracted Lin Jun's attention.
Although the overall attitude of the human top leaders seems to be clear at present, it is always a trouble to let this stubborn captain of the Wings of Judgment continue to report on others.
Lin Jun plans to use a "gentle" way to make her understand the "beauty of Puji".
Although this attempt was interrupted unexpectedly, there is still a long way to go and plenty of opportunities.
…
At present, the development of the Pujishi group is as smooth as expected. Even without Lin Jun's personal promotion, its expansion momentum has become a system of its own.
The "Strange Dream" battlefield has fallen into a new stalemate.
I don’t know what means the other party used. Recently, every night when I sneak in, what I encounter is no longer a direct confrontation, but a huge, complex, empty, boring and lacking in substantial content dream.
It was like an incredibly tough protective shell, tightly enveloping the other person's core consciousness. Without completely breaking through this outer shell, one could not reach the true dream itself.
With the spiritual power that Lin Jun can currently infiltrate every night, it seems a bit difficult to forcibly break through this defensive shell before the dream time limit ends.
Not sure how long the opponent can maintain this defensive tactic, Lin Jun is more hoping that his [Spirit Guidance] skill can be upgraded to the next level as soon as possible. Perhaps then he will have enough power to break through this troublesome defense.
On the contrary, there have been some new developments in the exploration of Shenmu Dungeon recently.
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An elite team of seven elves is moving quickly through the Shenmu Dungeon.
Salian, who discovered the anomaly and reported it, did not participate in this operation because he had to stay in the city to fully deploy the crucial "surveillance array".
The configuration of this team alone is enough to show the importance the elves attach to this exploration.
An experienced hall-level captain is in charge of the overall situation, with five elite team members who have reached the diamond level as the main force. In addition, there is also a special druid who is only at the gold level but has special perception abilities.
"By the way, don't you think the abundance of mushrooms we've seen along the way is a bit unusual?" a nimble hunter asked, moving at a cautious pace. "I remember the ecology here wasn't like this when I came down here last year."
"It's not just mushrooms," another team member added. "The once common firefly grass is almost extinct, and the brightness of the fluorescent mushrooms is much lower."
"This proves that an unknown change has indeed occurred deep in the dungeon. We shouldn't return empty-handed on this trip."
"Will you return empty-handed? I doubt it! We're already on the seventh floor, and we haven't even seen the shadow of the so-called 'red-striped tree demon'."
"Quiet!" The captain running in the front suddenly raised his right hand and signaled everyone to stop.
His eyes were fixed on the front, a dark area without even a fluorescent mushroom.
At this moment, a flash of scarlet suddenly appeared in the darkness!
Almost at the same moment the red light appeared, a sharp sound of breaking through the air reached the captain! It was a long, sticky tongue as fast as lightning, tens of meters long!
"It's a giant forest frog!" A team member instantly identified the attacking monster.
The captain's expression didn't change at all. He lightly swung the elven scimitar in his hand, which was engraved with intricate runes and shone with moonlight, and split the long tongue in two from the center!
Without giving the frog a chance to retract its remaining tongue or launch a second attack, the mages and hunters in the team had already taken action! A sharp stone spike and two arrows disappeared into the darkness ahead.
A painful wail erupted from the darkness, and then quickly subsided.
Soon, the seven people came to the huge corpse of the wood frog. Under the orange-yellow light of the illumination technique, they could clearly see some winding and twisted dark red lines under the rough skin of this creature.
The captain stepped forward, and the mage behind him tacitly cast a mental protection barrier for him.
The moment his fingertips touched the dark red lines, he felt a familiar, unsettling throbbing sensation, almost the same as the feeling he had felt on the dark red tree demon skin fragment before.
"It seems the problem is more serious than we expected," the captain said solemnly, "The problem goes far beyond just the tree demon."
"The forest is in fear..." said the druid at the end of the team, pressing his palms tightly against a giant tree.
"Keep moving forward." The elf captain neatly cut off a piece of forest frog flesh with patterns on it and put it into his bag, then stood up.
They must find out how serious the impact of this thing is before reporting it to their superiors.
…
At this moment, Bastardos, the half-demon who had already penetrated deep into the thirteenth floor and cleverly hidden himself among the twisted branches of a giant ancient tree, realized with great clarity how terrifying the severity of this infection was.
In the woods below him, countless figures with a dark red glow were roaring and fighting madly. The chaotic roars and the sounds of flesh tearing seemed to never end.
Above his head, the flying monsters that were supposed to follow the hunting order were thrown into complete chaos. The hunters killed their prey and then abandoned them, and the weak prey even dared to launch a desperate charge towards their natural enemies.
All common sense and order have collapsed. The rich ecological heritage accumulated by Shenmu Dungeon for countless years is being rapidly consumed and squandered in this crazy carnival that has swept everything.
In such an extreme environment, even Bastardos, who possesses top-level strength, felt a lot of pressure and had to act with extreme caution and slow down significantly.
"What a waste! What a waste!" Lin Jun was heartbroken after seeing all this.
He wished he could spread fungal mats on the scene immediately to save these lost souls.
call out!
Bastardos calmly shot an arrow, knocking down a frantic giant bird that was attempting to swoop down on him. He felt the few remaining arrows in Puji's backpack and asked, "Boss, do you want to go deeper?"
At the beginning of the operation, he still had enough time to recover the shot arrows.
But now that the situation is completely out of control, any attempt to recover it may lead to greater risks and consume more arrows.
Strictly speaking, the remaining arrows were only enough to support his safe retreat.
If we continue to go deeper, we will probably have to rely on close combat.
After witnessing the horror of the [Madness] infection with his own eyes, Bastardos didn't want to dirty his claws at all.
In fact, even without close combat, just being in this bloody purgatory, he could vaguely feel that his calm mind was being eroded by a hint of mania.
Fortunately, Lin Jun is not an unreasonable person.
Faced with Bastardos' request for withdrawal based on the actual situation, Lin Jun readily agreed.
"Retreat, Dylan Two. But before you do, take that with you!"
Following the direction of the mycelial tentacles that stretched out from the backpack, Bastardos's eyes passed through the gaps between the layers of branches and leaves and saw an extremely strange little tree.
Its entire body is flowing with veins like liquid stars, emitting a soft and mysterious glow.
The small tree seemed to be moving slowly and autonomously. Any monster that dared to approach it, no matter how strong or weak, would fall to the ground in pain and die of poisoning in a short time.
And on its winding branches, there are several plump, round, crystal clear fruits that are obviously very juicy!
【Juicy】!
(End of this chapter)
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