Chapter 78 78. Some Mushrooms?
The next morning.
"Four intermediate healing potions, three primary magic potions, and three bottles of universal antidote potions. They are all here. Please keep them, sir."
The clerk pushed the medicine box wrapped in oil paper across the counter, and Vera took it and put it away carefully.
Feiling went to buy food and small props like flints. Feiyin said she wanted to prepare some medicinal powder, which should be almost ready by the time she returns.
Pushing open the wooden door of the shop, Vera was about to return when a gangster-looking guy came up to her.
"Brother, you look unfamiliar?"
Vera frowned slightly and took two steps back, trying to avoid him.
Do I look like I'm easy to bully?
How could there be such a guy who came here out of nowhere?
The gangster seemed to be unaware of the situation and actually took two steps forward and moved closer to Vera.
Vera's hand was already on the machete, and if this was not within the town, he would have drawn his weapon.
"Hey, bro, I mean no harm."
The gangster quickly indicated that he was not a threat, and Vera just stared at this annoying guy, waiting for his next words.
"Hey, I just want to ask you if you need some specialties from Dumb Wind Town."
specialty?
It’s not like Vera hasn’t been to Mutewind Town before.
If you have to talk about specialties, then all the things in the dungeon are specialties?
But there isn't any particularly outstanding one that can represent the entire Yafeng Town, right?
You can't be referring to the bar in the now-closed Rotten Willow Tavern?
Vera soon found out the answer.
The gangster reached into his clothes, fumbled around for a while, and pulled out a small bag that didn't look so clean.
"Would you like some mushrooms?" he said, revealing the green mushroom crumbs in the bag.
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Mushrooms. Mushrooms everywhere.
This is Vera's current impression of Dumbwind Town.
The bowl of mushroom soup yesterday was not the specialty of that store. Now almost every restaurant in Yafeng Town has this "delicacy".
The reason is simple - it's cheap.
It costs almost nothing, anyone who goes to the first floor of the dungeon and takes a walk around can easily collect a lot of mushrooms.
Vera and the other two had the most intuitive feeling about this after they entered the dungeon.
The ground is fine, perhaps because of the coming and going of people, it still remains the same.
But the ceiling and the cracks between the walls were covered with mycelium and fluorescent mushrooms.
This is true from the first floor to the fourth floor. As long as there are gaps or places that are not easily stepped on by creatures, there will definitely be mycelium and mushrooms.
Not only the levels, but also the stairs connecting different levels are like this. Large patches of hyphae spread along the circular walls, as if the upper and lower parts are connected into one.
However, this situation did not cause any trouble to the adventurers.
On the contrary, if you don't mind eating fluorescent porridge every day, you can enter the dungeon without preparing any food.
Just be careful not to accidentally cook the green button mushrooms in there - all mushrooms fluoresce and can be confusing for those with poor eyesight.
And green mushrooms are not completely useless. Just like the gangster mentioned before, they used green mushrooms as cheap "sleeping powder".
If there is any inconvenience that mushrooms have brought to the dungeon, it is probably the disappearance of fireflies.
At least that's the case for the first five floors.
The warm orange glow of the fireflies is gone, and the mushroom fluorescence that replaces it makes the entire dungeon look several levels more eerie!
The way it is now, even if a few ghosts suddenly appear, it won’t feel out of place at all.
Walking in the spiral passage leading to the fifth floor, the dim light of mushrooms illuminates the steps under your feet.
Fei Ling couldn't help but say, "Let's call this place the Mushroom Dungeon."
Feiyin nodded in agreement: "All mushrooms and poo-ji."
Along the way, they had already encountered two battles between Puji and Slime, and even picked up some loot...
When I reached the second half of the passage, I heard a noise coming from below.
At the bottom of the stairs, more than twenty adventurers were resting in small groups. Some of them even made a campfire, and it looked like they had been here for some time.
The arrival of the three people did not attract much attention from other adventurers, and many of them looked away after taking a few glances.
"What are they doing?" Fei Ling asked in a low voice.
Vera shrugged. How would he know?
But he noticed a sign at the exit.
Walk forward.
"The fifth level rules..."
This code seems to be an expanded version of the "strategy" that I got at the beginning.
The adventurers accepted that the sign was left here instead of being destroyed, indicating that the rules on it should be correct.
Just the last one above: if you see a completely black winged humanoid creature, immediately run back the way you came.
I don't know who made the scratch, but instead, in the blank space below, a row of different words were carved with a knife: Do not enter at night.
Don't enter at night?
Only then did Vera notice that almost all of these adventurers carried Moonstones.
But... based on the time and progress they made in entering the dungeon, it shouldn't be night yet, right?
I feel like I need to ask someone.
Valar looked around and locked onto a dwarf who was carefully polishing his axe.
As he first walked over, the dwarf raised his axe cautiously.
But when the Valar told him his purpose and handed him a silver coin, the dwarf started chatting with him as if he had met a friend he hadn't seen for a long time.
"So, what's written on that sign is true?" Vera asked after declining the mushroom soup offered by the dwarf.
The dwarf didn't mind and took a sip himself, leaving a large fluorescent spot on his beard.
“Of course it’s true, I don’t know which kind-hearted adventurer set it up.
At first, some people didn’t believe it, but after being exposed by the Puffers, they all became docile. ”
As he spoke, the dwarf seemed to recall the scene and chuckled softly.
Vera nodded and continued to ask, "What about the last one? Is there any danger on the fifth floor at night?"
The dwarf looked like he knew you would ask this, and he came closer to Vera and said in a low voice, "It's a big black mushroom!"
"Big black mushroom?"
"That's right! A black creature as tall as a person with very thick scales!
It is so powerful that even gold-level warriors cannot defeat it. It moves around on the fifth and sixth floors every night.
You may not encounter it, but if you do, it might snatch it away! "
Vera's eyes widened in surprise and said, "It can move between two levels? Doesn't that mean it can enter the stairs?"
"I understand your surprise," the dwarf patted Valar on the shoulder. He was also an experienced person, "but this is the fact. This is probably one of the sequelae of the magic tide."
The aftermath of the demonic tide.
Adventurers attribute most of the changes in the dungeon to this so-called sequelae, including the mushrooms that have spread to the entire first five floors.
"You said it might be robbed by it. Why is it possible?"
“That depends on whether you have anything shiny on you, such as rings, magic crystals, or glass beads. If you see anything you like, grab it.
That’s why I say you should just not go out at night, so you won’t get bumped into and you’ll be safe.”
"Then why are you all resting here? It's not evening yet." Vera asked her last question.
The dwarf chuckled and said without hiding anything: "Because we are going to defeat it!"
(Add a picture of the trio)
(End of this chapter)
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