Chapter 382 381. Mission
To be fair, although Ilos was turned into a wooden man by the sacred tree, Lin Jun really felt that this big man was quite easy to talk to.
Ilos asked so many questions, and Shenmu could have ignored them, but he still gave explanations one by one.
Furthermore, the other party's attitude towards him seemed subtly different, so Lin Jun simply asked the doubts in his heart.
"I know what you are curious about, but I won't tell you." Shenmu's voice remained flat.
"Riddler? Why?!" Lin Jun couldn't help but ask.
"If I say it, it's the same as getting involved. Everything is meaningless anyway. I just want to go back to sleep. Don't bother me anymore." The tumbleweed began to gradually disperse, and the glowing "eye" in the center began to dim.
A root rolled up the core of the Yesheng wood on the ground, and lifted up Puji, who was clinging tightly to the end of the stick.
The roots shook, but failed to shake the creature off.
The tumbleweed paused as it was halfway through its dispersal: "What are you doing?"
"This is the equipment I got from the BOSS! You are going to sleep anyway, so it won't cost you anything if you give it to me!" Lin Jun made his last effort.
He worked so hard but suffered heavy losses, including a knight and an S-class magic crystal!
It would be a huge loss if I didn't get anything, and I would be working for the elves in vain!
"No, the time is almost up, and I don't want anyone waking me up with it again."
The sacred tree mercilessly shook its roots, and Puji finally lost his grip and dropped to the ground with a thud. He watched helplessly as the wood core disappeared among the roots.
"But..." Shenmu's tone suddenly changed.
The word "but" was like the sound of nature. Puji immediately straightened his cap and assumed the standard posture ready to accept the task.
"There's a piece of my wood core missing. If you can help me find it back, I wouldn't mind giving you a little benefit." A fruit emitting a soft glow appeared in front of Puji.
The panel clearly displayed a skill without level: [Life Essence]
"Guaranteed to complete the mission!"
Although he didn't get any direct benefits, getting an SSS-level mission was somewhat comforting to Lin Jun's wounded heart.
The tumbleweeds completely dissipated, and the next moment, two Puji appeared next to the sacred tree sapling at the bottom of the dungeon.
After being kicked out, Shenmu's last message was still echoing in his mind: "Don't come back until you find something. Your voice is really unpleasant..."
Lin Jun: “…”
I can bear it!
When I reach LV99 someday, I will definitely send a dozen voice assistants to take turns to hold a concert here!
Although they came out, the two Puji didn't get anything, so there was no need for them to exist. They were quickly decomposed by the surrounding fungal mat.
…
On the other side, the Elf King's City was still shrouded in the shadow of chaos.
The first person to receive the bad news was Galadriel, the daughter of the Elf King, who stayed in the royal city and was responsible for maintaining the rear.
She was mentally prepared for the sacrifice of her father, King Auriel.
However, what really made her uneasy was another piece of news that followed: Ilos and Eko suddenly broke out in a deadly fight, and both were injured in the end, and the artifact disappeared along with it.
As two elders of both experience and strength within the elves, they were supposed to work together to stabilize the situation after the Elf King's passing and oversee the important task of selecting a new king. Now, they might perish together? Not to mention the loss of their artifacts.
When Galadriel first heard the news, she felt dizzy and felt that disaster was imminent.
As for the reason why the two men fought, the witnesses present could only report the fragments they heard truthfully.
Simply put, either Echo had gone mad or Ilos had rebelled, and either possibility made no sense to Galadriel.
As the leader of the ranger army, Eko is determined and experienced. How could he be easily infected by madness and only chase after Ilos to attack him?
As for Ilos' betrayal of the elves?
That's even more ridiculous. What does he want?
You can't just surrender to the demons and pursue that bullshit eternal life, right?
Unlike short-lived humans, elves, with lifespans of thousands of years, generally have no desire for immortality.
In their opinion, the vampire's eternal life that abandons all happiness of the living is worse than dying early and returning to nature!
Not to mention, the conversion rate of vampires to races other than humans is so low that it is comparable to suicide.
Regardless, Galadriel immediately sent people to search for the whereabouts of the two people and the artifact.
A few days later, the elf troops who finally evacuated from the dungeon with great difficulty brought worse news: Ilos' betrayal was actually true!
Salian then explained the other party's reasons for doing so.
This is not the worst.
The worst thing is that only Ilos showed up. Doesn’t that mean Echo was killed by him?
Now... it cannot be said that the high-end combat power of the elves was wiped out, but at least more than half of their vitality was lost and they suffered heavy losses!
The only thing to be thankful for is that the activation of the giant tree has completely stopped.
The elves have not yet fallen into the embarrassing situation of having to cut down their own giant trees with their own hands.
But that's all.
Although the giant tree did not move during its activation, its moving branches destroyed most of the elven city originally built on it.
And now, Galadriel still dares not let her people return home, because the culprit Ilos is still missing!
Did he get the artifact?
What will happen next?
Galadriel didn't know, she could only wait passively.
And this wait lasted a week!
They didn't wait for Ilos, but waited for an unexpected figure!
Captain Eko, the guard who was originally thought to have died, came back alive!
Galadriel's heart finally settled down the moment she saw Echo.
However, the only problem was... the returning Eko had some unnatural white mycelium on his body, and on top of his head, there was actually a... Puji?
…
Eco fell into the spiral at that time, and instead of bumping and falling to the bottom like a divine artifact, he fell directly to the next level.
Lin Jun, who had been observing the battle between the two, naturally sent Puji to take him away before the monster ate him.
This is also thanks to the fact that only one in ten monsters survive in the Shenmu dungeon now, otherwise we might not be able to rescue them in time.
Lin Jun did not intend to recruit Eko directly. He knew it was impossible.
This is a ruthless character who will not even care about his own life when he gets angry. Lin Jun has neither enough benefits to tempt him nor chips to threaten him.
In the end, it was just the parasite that repaired his injuries, and then relying on the life-saving grace and the subtle goodwill bonus after the parasite, it shamelessly allowed a Puji to climb onto Eko's head.
Anyway, the fact that Puji can spread spores and coexist with seriously injured people to save their lives can be found out by simply going to the human world and asking around.
As for letting Puji sit on Eco's head, that was Lin Jun's advertisement.
The captain of the guards is already a Puji Master, so what do the other elves have to worry about or doubt?
In short, the City of Elves can be the second Mushroom City!
Of course, this was all Lin Jun's own "perfect" plan, and the actual development of things was slightly different...
…
In the bottom corner of the severely damaged elven city, Ellawen's hut was miraculously intact.
The cottage's location on the edge brings good luck.
And here, Salian, with a puffy head, saw his sister.
"elder brother?!"
"Eraving! I'm so glad you're okay!"
When they finally met, Salian went to greet her with tears in his eyes.
The next moment, Ellaven kicked the defenseless Salian in the stomach.
"Why is Xiaoji's mushroom cap crooked?!"
(End of this chapter)
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