Chapter 95 92. Where do all these slimes come from?
The two glass beads were handed to the happy Xiao Hei.
Xiao Hei held them and ran back to the mushroom house.
Sweeping the glass shards aside with his tail, Xiao Hei gathered all the glass beads under his body and counted them one by one.
Then Lin Jun looked at her, tapped a few times, and then went back to the first one and tapped again...
Maybe I should take some time to teach her how to count?
It's probably difficult to teach.
Xiao Hei is quite resistant to any learning behavior that requires using the brain.
Lin Jun herself got a headache just thinking about how to teach her.
As for hiring a “math teacher” for her?
I can only say that this profession is too dangerous, and it is difficult to find someone who can serve for a long time...
After creating a new folder for Xiao Hei's education plan and putting it aside, Lin Jun now had to test the new variety of Puji first, otherwise he wouldn't be able to push the six levels.
On the fungal carpet of the mushroom forest, two test subjects in different forms twisted their bodies and broke away.
One has eight special tentacles on its body, and the other constantly secretes mucus on its body surface.
Let’s start with the suction cup.
Upon receiving the command, the suction cup Puji quickly ran to the edge of the rock wall, expanded the ends of its tentacles into bowl-shaped suction cups, and attached themselves to the rock wall with a click.
It was fine at the beginning. The force of the suction cup supported Puji and he climbed up without any pressure at all.
But soon, problems arose. As it moved continuously, several hyphae tentacles somehow became tangled.
Puji tried to separate the tentacles, but the knot kept getting bigger and bigger, until the whole thing turned into a ball hanging on the rock wall. When the only two remaining suction cups could no longer support it, it fell down and turned into a puddle.
Lin Jun didn't have too many emotions about this. It was normal for the test subject to have problems.
The problem with this one is still due to Puji's intelligence. 8 mycelium tentacles are too many and they cannot be coordinated. The suction power of the suction cup is greater than he expected, so the number of tentacles can be reduced.
Soon, the second Puji was born under the catalysis of magic, and this time the number of tentacles was reduced to six.
Although this Puji still needs to stop occasionally to tidy up its tentacles while moving, at least there are no tangles anymore.
But when it lay on the rock wall and fired the mushroom cannon at the designated target, the recoil directly overturned its entire body.
Lin Jun looked at Puji hanging in the air and found that the mushroom cannon it fired missed the target, but hit the fungal carpet more than ten meters away.
Without mycelium tentacles, it would be impossible to maintain stability...
Lin Jun decisively let the failed product fall down and return to the cycle of the mushroom garden.
Plan one was abandoned, and then came the slime puff.
Covered in green slime, Puji managed to climb up the rock wall, but encountered some minor problems when firing.
The muzzle of the gun cannot be lifted.
Puji needs to lie on the rock wall with most of its body to maintain sufficient stickiness, and Mushroom Cannon can only slightly tilt its head upward.
The target originally set did not have enough elevation to hit...
I tried firing it randomly, and the stickiness that I was worried about turned out not to be a problem.
It feels usable, but the flaws are real, and the constant secretion of mucus for crawling consumes surprisingly high magic power.
As expected, in the end, we still have to build a fixed turret against the wall...
Just do it.
On the sixth layer of fungal carpet close to the outermost layer, a Puji begins to breed every forty meters.
The first batch of Puji was quickly produced under Lin Jun's tycoon-like magic power.
These poofs are slightly different from regular poofs - they are round.
After they are born, they begin to devour the rocks beneath them and then cover their bodies with the rocks.
This process lasted about two days.
Two days later, the round stone turrets took shape.
Learned from the experience of the slime puff shooting angle limitation problem.
The surface of the round stone is covered with round holes of appropriate sizes. These holes allow the mushroom cannon to extend out to attack, but they will not be too large to cause the circle in the middle to fall out.
The appearance of these fixed turrets immediately helped Lin Jun to eliminate the slimes that kept popping up to harass him from a distance, and the fungal blanket continued to spread outward until it grew more than a hundred meters and exceeded the effective range...
Thus, a new round of gestation began again.
It took about 2.5 days to advance 130 meters, and to cover the entire sixth floor, we can only say that there is a promising future.
The generation of Puji can be accelerated by magic, but the transformation of [Rock Eater] into a stone turret cannot be accelerated.
The progress is impressive, but in the absence of any better options, we have no choice but to use it this way for now. At least it is a push forward.
To be honest, the feeling Lin Jun has so far is that there are too many slimes!
And the supply continues.
It’s not like other classes haven’t fought slimes before, and the first few days of the war are usually quite tense.
After the two sides had been fighting for a few days, Slime's replenishment could not keep up with Puji's replenishment speed, and naturally it was gradually suppressed.
According to Lin Jun's original idea, the sixth floor should be like this.
But now so many days have passed, and the number of slimes has not only not decreased, but has shown a trend of increasing.
No matter how I think about it, it doesn't seem right.
If there were so many slimes, this floor should not be a botanical garden but a slime paradise.
Given the current situation, Lin Jun could only guess that a large number of slimes were stored somewhere and were being released one after another.
Or maybe there was a being that could quickly produce slimes, and after noticing his arrival, it took corresponding actions to prevent him from occupying the sixth floor.
Finally, there is one possibility.
That is, Lin Jun's continuous encroachment on the underground city's territory activated a certain emergency response of the underground city, and it began to automatically come up with some countermeasures to obstruct himself.
This possibility is the smallest. Lin Jun has seen the emergency mechanism of the dungeon. The scale of the ancient dragon that was knocked off by the electric arc is still gathering dust in Lin Jun's small treasury.
In comparison, the method of generating a bunch of slimes seems a bit too weak, too weak to be a method of the dungeon itself.
But what if!
if!
If this is really the method of the underground city, then Lin Jun will have to consider whether to continue to develop to the lower level.
After all, what if the dungeon's self-defense mechanism is gradual?
The slimes appearing now are just to hinder progress and disgust myself. But when I become a bigger threat later, they will also give me some electric shocks, right?
If the dungeon really wants to mess with itself, Lin Jun doesn't think it will be unable to find its own body.
By that time, the electric shock that even the ancient dragon could not withstand hit its fragile body, and a fragrant and tender, crispy and crispy roasted poisonous mushroom was produced under the swamp.
If it is confirmed that it is a dungeon mechanism, Lin Jun can only turn his attention to developing on the surface.
On the surface, although the mycelium has now grown to the gate and begun to spread outward tentatively, it remains at a slow and restrained level.
On the one hand, he wants to take it slow and test the extent of human attention to this. On the other hand, Lin Jun's development focus is still on the downward trend.
Although photosynthesis is possible on the surface, the concentration of magic power is relatively thin compared to the dungeon, and the number of monsters is also much smaller.
In short, the reason for the slime outbreak on the sixth floor must be figured out. If Lin Jun doesn't figure it out, he won't be able to develop with peace of mind.
Naturally, this war taking place on the rock wall could not be hidden from human adventurers, and Lin Jun had no intention of concealing it.
In recent days, the tavern has been filled with discussions about the news about Puji's battle against the slime brought back by adventurers who passed by the sixth floor.
Since the Demon Tide until now, everyone has realized that Mushrooms and Puji have become an important presence in the dungeon.
To put it simply, when mushrooms spread to a certain level, they will eat up all the fireflies and replace them with fluorescent mushrooms. The lighting ability will drop by two levels, and long-lasting lighting tools or magic will become a necessity.
To put it in a broader sense, if the Pujis carry out an extermination operation like they did when they occupied the fifth floor, and then play Puji Mutual Protection on the sixth floor, the adventurers' source of income will be reduced again.
In the current situation, it is no exaggeration to say that Puji's every move affects the hearts of adventurers.
Even Norris, a bronze-level adventurer who makes money purely from mining, is the same.
But what he hoped for was that Puji could completely clear the sixth floor...
(End of this chapter)
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