Chapter 424 423. Praise the Boss
"Hiss!!!" The dwarf Thorin suddenly opened his eyes, rubbed his arms and climbed out of bed, "It's been a long time since I woke up from the cold..."
In fact, since he started living in symbiosis with the mycelium, he only needs to cover himself with a thin blanket at night and hasn't felt cold for a long time.
Muttering to himself, "How strange," Torin opened the dormitory door.
A wall of snow blocked Tolin's path.
"..."
As soon as the door opened, the other people in the dormitory shakily got up one after another.
Torin turned to his lizardman friend in the room and asked, "Baroque, you said you were a member of the Northern Lizardman tribe, right?"
"It used to be," Baroque corrected.
"Does your Northern Territory experience a heavy snowfall before summer?" Torin pointed to the snow wall outside the door.
Baroque walked over, shivered when he saw the waist-high snow outside, and stuck his head out to look around.
"Hmm... I live a little further south, this is the first time I've been in the far north at this time of year..."
"Hopefully they can distribute the warm clothes by tomorrow, otherwise some people might freeze to death." Grlum grumbled as he got up.
Looking at the snow that was still piling up, the three of them discussed how to clear a path to get to the other side of the tunnel to start work.
It wasn't because the three of them were particularly passionate about their work, but rather because they all realized that the underground drilling machine would generate heat when in use, and in this kind of weather, what was originally a drudgery would probably turn into a desirable job that everyone longed for.
Before they could reach a conclusion, they suddenly heard cheers of "Praise the Boss!" coming from afar. The cheers came in waves and gradually approached them.
The lizardman Baroque was the first to stick his head out to see what was going on, while the two dwarves, Torin and Glenn, could only stare blankly at the snow wall. They couldn't help but urge him to ask:
"Baroque, tell me what you saw!"
"Puji's here!"
"What?"
"A huge poopy has arrived!"
Pfft—Chirp—
The familiar buzzing sound, but louder this time.
A shovel roughly swept away the snow outside the window, allowing the two dwarfs to see what was happening outside.
A giant burrowing puji, much larger than the fat otaku puji, walked on the road, buzzing and emitting a lot of heat as it spun around.
The giant burrowing puji moved forward steadily at a slow pace, while around it, a large number of redeemed laborers like the three of them used shovels to shovel off the snow and forcefully throw it into the opening at the top of the giant burrowing puji.
The snow melts the moment it enters, and the remaining liquid flows out from both sides of the spout and into the underground sewers.
The only downside is that the water stains on the ground will freeze into ice after a while, making it easy to slip and fall.
The three stared blankly as the snow removal team passed by the dormitory, followed by two Mushroom Race members pulling a cart.
Three sets of warm animal skin coats and woolen quilts were taken from the cart and handed to them.
The Mushroom Elephant glanced at the two dwarves and said, "If it doesn't fit, wear it for two days. After that, go to the logistics department to exchange it for a new one. Later, remember to go to the Puji Management Office to get a small self-heating Puji. Each dormitory has one, and it's free to use. However, if you damage it, your contribution points will be deducted."
After saying that, he marked their dormitory room with a checkmark in his notebook and turned to go to the next one.
Grimes put on the animal skin coat, and luckily it fit him fairly well.
"Praise, boss! It's finally warmer." Watching the Mushroom Clan's retreating figure, he exclaimed, "Seriously, he acted way too fast! Did he know it would get colder? But if so, why didn't he release it earlier?"
Baroque shrugged; he couldn't figure it out either.
In the past, when we lived in the lizardman tribe, it would take one or two days to distribute supplies like firewood when the temperature dropped. People often froze to death. It's nothing like this, where everything is distributed the morning after the temperature drops the night before.
When the three came out, they found that there was far more than just one giant burrowing creature melting the snow; there was one on almost every main street.
Because the snow was still falling, these snowplows patrolled back and forth along one road, accompanied by a dedicated snow removal team.
Of course, there were also some guys who just wanted to keep warm and followed the group back and forth. The heavy snow made the mushroom castle even more lively than usual.
They passed by and knocked on the door; even the green-skinned vampire had a small burrowing device under his body.
It just seemed a little too close to his feet, making one wonder how much of his current screams were actually from being burned.
When they arrived at the tunnel entrance, they found that the job had indeed become a hot commodity, with a bunch of guys wanting to sign up.
“You can’t just come to do this work when it’s cold. We need people who can work regularly.” The Mushroom Race in charge of management used this reason to fire all the guys.
This relieved Tolin and his two companions, who had been worried about losing their jobs on the way.
After finishing, the Mushroom Child called out to the three who were about to collect their Puji: "There's a new Great Earth Cave quest here, which requires skilled diggers. Do you want to participate?"
"Big cave?"
…
Lin Jun is very busy now!
While working overtime to produce three models of earth-drilling poops—huge, large, and small—they were also arranging various urgent tasks.
The so-called "Great Cave" is the mission to find the out-of-control mad spirit.
After it sank underground, it disappeared without a trace, but it directly affected the climate of the entire Northern Territory.
Thankfully, Lin Jun's [Cold Resistance] had already reached LV9, otherwise, not only would they have been wiped out in one wave, but everyone would have had to stay indoors to keep warm, and the entire Fungus Castle would have inevitably come to a standstill.
Even if it's still functioning normally now, we can't let that thing run rampant.
Although it was out of Lin Jun's perception range, the change in the flow of magic underground still revealed its location.
Lin Jun planned to dig a tunnel through. With her current strength, she could fight a single LV71 elemental spirit, but it was just a matter of how much she would lose.
However, the "big hole" mission is not the most urgent task at present; the most urgent task is the rescue mission.
The tribes in Fungus Castle and the few tribes that have recently "allied" with it can still get heat from Puji, but the tribes in other parts of the North don't have such good treatment.
Although the temperature near those tribes hadn't dropped to the level of Fungus Castle, their members still lacked sufficient cold resistance.
In the short term, they can still keep warm by burning firewood, but as time goes on, not only will it be difficult to keep warm, but food in the surrounding area will also become less and less as the temperature drops, so they probably won't be able to last long.
If they were from the Imperial Demon Clan, Lin Jun wouldn't care if they froze or starved to death.
But these are the future members of the Northern Alliance!
For every person who dies, it's equivalent to the death of twenty Puji.
This is an unacceptable loss!
Therefore, under Lin Jun's organization, one Puji rescue team after another set off from the several tribes under her command to the surrounding areas.
(End of this chapter)
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