Chapter 2020. The First Fungus Speaker
In the dark forest, Dylan held up a torch and shouted anxiously:
"Bella! Bella where are you? Answer your daddy!"
"dad……"
A faint voice was heard, and Dylan hurriedly followed the sound and pushed aside the grass, and saw his daughter leaning against a tree covered in blood.
"Bella! How did you get hurt so badly?
Don't be afraid, Bella, Daddy is coming, Daddy is coming."
Dylan cried and hugged his weak daughter.
“Dad, I…I…”
"Here, I'm here, take your time."
"Dad," Bella put her arms around Dylan's neck and opened her scarlet eyes, "I'm so hungry..."
The sharp teeth pierced into his neck and Dylan's blood gushed out. In his blurred vision, he saw Bella swallowing his flesh and blood with tears.
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"ah!"
Dylan woke up with a start, gasping for air.
It was a dream, fortunately it was a dream...
Where am I...?
Dylan looked up and saw a Puji running away from him with disgust.
Monster...mutated Puji...
He remembered the scene before he fell into a coma. Where were those parasitic trees?
Then Dylan noticed the remains of parasitic trees with mushrooms growing all over the ground.
At a quick glance, there were far more than just five strains chasing him.
These...are all made of these Pooji?
Dylan couldn’t believe it. Even if Puji mutated, could he kill so many parasitic trees?
But the vague memories before the coma and the current scene seemed to tell him that this was the fact.
This was the hidden room, and he saw the opened slate treasure chest.
It turned out to be a treasure chest room.
The Pujis might be monsters guarding the treasure chest.
However, the Pujis around me didn't seem to be hostile to me. Strangely, I didn't feel awkward at all, as if this was how it should be... So strange...
By the way, what about your own injury?
Dylan touched his abdomen and found that the wound was gone. But when he looked at it carefully, a storm of shock surged in his heart.
The wound was filled with mycelium, and even a small mushroom grew on it...
He had seen similar scenes before, in people who were captured and parasitized by parasitic trees.
No wonder the mutated Pujis didn’t attack me, no wonder I felt close to them, it turned out that I was parasitized.
But he was still conscious now, and he wasn't as restrained as if he had been captured by a parasitic tree.
It seemed that he still had some time before being completely controlled.
He looked at the remains of the parasitic trees, on which many species were still hanging, and a bold idea emerged in his mind.
Dylan doesn't care about his life or death or whether he will be controlled by the parasite. He just wants to get the money to save his daughter. If he doesn't have enough time, he asks Fatty to help him save his daughter.
What he needed now was to return to the ground with the parasitic tree seeds.
He climbed up to a parasitic tree, carefully picked a seed and put it in his arms.
Looking around, the Pujis didn't seem to care about his actions.
This made him feel relieved and he collected all the seeds in the room one by one.
That's enough. This much is definitely enough.
He held the tree seeds and came to the stone gate. He looked back and saw that everything was still normal for the Pujis.
That’s… strange.
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Watching Dylan disappear outside the stone gate, Lin Jun didn't say a word to him from beginning to end, even though he was connected to the fungus net at this time.
Saving him is a principle, it doesn't mean I believe in him.
Dylan was indeed parasitized and was at the critical moment.
As long as Lin Jun is willing, the mycelium in Dylan's body will completely destroy his mind and turn him into a puppet-like existence.
But that would go against the original intention of saving him.
Let him be. Lin Jun has already shown enough gratitude by saving his life and sending tree seeds. What happens next has nothing to do with him.
By the way, this man took such a big risk just for the tree species. They look like good things. Should I stock up on some for myself?
Maybe it will be useful in the future. Anyway, after it is decomposed directly, the magic power will only be a little bit.
While Dylan was unconscious, he took the Pooches out for a walk and hunted for some fertilizer.
I also used the panel to observe the surroundings and basically determined that this was the fifth floor based on the levels.
That teleportation maze is really unreasonable. It directly dropped me from the eighth floor to the fifth floor. Would there be a teleportation maze that could drop me to the tenth floor or even deeper areas?
Fortunately, I didn’t encounter it, and silently marked the eighth floor as extremely dangerous in my mind.
What Lin Jun is most concerned about now is the location of the new mushroom garden.
Although this treasure chest room has magic water, the supply is actually not that much. After the previous storage has been used up, the value of this place is not great.
Secondly, I also have some understanding of how this dungeon works. It shouldn't let me keep the door open all the time. I never know when some mechanism will be triggered, and it would be bad if I was still inside at that time.
As for rushing out of the dungeon in one breath to bask in the sun?
He wanted to, but didn't dare.
There is only one entrance and exit to the dungeon, so you will inevitably encounter a large number of humans, including some experts.
He didn't want to fall before dawn.
It's better to be steady, even if it's a little late. Now he can see hope and he can endure it.
Regarding the new mushroom garden, he wanted to choose a location that was both safe and convenient for hunting and robbing skills.
In fact, he found that this swamp area was really suitable.
Adventurers rarely choose to pass through the dangerous swamp terrain, and even if they do, they move slowly.
The ubiquitous swamps are not much different from the real land to the lightly armed Puji without a shell.
And if the mushroom garden is in a swamp, you can hide your body under the swamp, which is also a very safe method.
It's just that the local residents are a little troublesome.
When Lin Jun started to deal with the five parasitic trees, he didn't take them seriously. As a result, he had a tough battle when he went out for a walk.
These parasitic trees like to gather their friends to fight in groups, which is very shameless.
He has a variety of skills and magic of varying levels.
Lin Jun encountered a parasitic tree that was parasitic on a LV36 mage. He didn't check the panel first and suffered a loss by accident, losing a few Pujis.
Before this, he had never thought that such a high-level wizard would fail here...
It is estimated that there are still many parasitic warriors in the entire swamp. If there is one over level 50... it shouldn't be possible...
What’s more important is that the benefits of attacking these parasitic trees are actually not high, which is the most important thing.
The skills of the parasitic tree are very simple, just [Fusion Parasite], [Entanglement], [Toughness] and a little bit of various resistances.
What’s really amazing are the various strange and bizarre moves of those who are parasitized.
But when Lin Jun tried, he couldn't use any skills to decompose these parasitic bodies. Even his magic power was very little, as if his insides had been drained dry.
Just because of the few skills of the parasitic trees themselves, the difficulty of fighting them is obviously not enough to keep up with the benefits.
But if you add in the fact that you have to grab land to build a new mushroom garden, it seems barely acceptable.
After a little thought, Lin Jun still felt that they were about to reach the swamp area.
The goal is set. After producing another batch of Pujis that are adapted to the swamp terrain, I will start the attack plan!
(End of this chapter)
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