Final Lord

Chapter 20: Cave Vectors

Seeing that the blind chicken's health was always hovering at the limit, Wang Bufu could no longer hold back.

He took a deep breath and said calmly, "Listen to me, you idiot! There's only one way to determine if a Cave Carrier fails to advance: if you fall into a coma. As long as you don't fall into a coma, you won't die even if your health drops to zero, because the mycelium won't let you die; it needs your body to help it grow."

In the past, in your Caveman Kingdom, there was an ancestor who planted legendary mushrooms when he was at level 0. Even when his health points were reduced to zero, he used his willpower to hold on for five days and finally succeeded in advancing.

If he can do it, why can't you?! You're just dealing with a supernatural mushroom!"

"Five days... so impressive?" Blind Chicken's eyes were already somewhat distracted. "And then, how far did he go?"

"Legend! The legend of the cave carrier, the master of the fungus. Under his command, all ordinary mushrooms become combat-capable soldiers. He alone is a powerful army."

"I'm not in a coma! I'm not in a coma! I want to be the master of the fungus too."

The blind chicken managed to squat up with the help of his hands in the excruciating pain, and then fell down again weakly.

"No, it hurts too much. My Lord, I really can't do it anymore."

The blind chicken's health suddenly dropped to six points.

"Blind Chicken!" Wang Bufu screamed in shock. "You've persisted to this point. Don't you think it's a pity to give up like this? Don't be impatient, Blind Chicken. Think about it. What dreams have you left unfulfilled? Don't you think it's a pity to die before realizing your dreams?"

"Dream..." Blind Chicken's eyes were a little blurry. "My Lord, I want to eat roast chicken."

"Roast, roast chicken?" Wang Bufu was stunned for a moment.

"Yeah. I'm not strong enough to do heavy work, so I've been helping others pull carts on the street.

He would get up in the morning to pull the cart, take a break at noon, and then pull the cart again in the evening. He would walk along the central street of Gru County more than ten times a day.

There's a roast chicken shop on Central Street. It's one of the best roast chicken shops in all of Gru County. Every time I drive by it, I smell that delicious aroma. My mouth waters. I'm dying for roast chicken.

But I am a slave, I have no wages, I can’t eat roast chicken, I can only eat buckwheat.

When Blind Cat Boss was naming me, I said I wanted to be called Blind Chicken because I wanted to eat roast chicken.

"I'll buy it for you!" Wang Bufu said immediately, "If you survive and advance successfully, I'll buy the roast chicken shop and let you be the boss. You can eat as much as you want, until you get sick of it and vomit."

"Really? Lord." Blind Chicken's eyes lit up and his health began to rise again.

"Really? I promise. I'm not lying!" Wang insisted without hesitation.

"Okay! Then I can't die! I absolutely can't die!" The blind chicken lay on the ground and propped himself up again.

"one two Three!"

He actually did push-ups at this time!

"Blind chicken, what are you doing?"

"My Lord, I'm pulling the cart. Every time I smell roast chicken, I'm pulling the cart and I deliberately slow down to smell it more.

Once the car stops, it takes a lot of force to pull it up. I have little strength, so I can only push it like this, one push at a time, to smell the roast chicken more.

As long as I do this, I won’t feel tired or faint.”

Wang Bufu took a deep breath and said firmly: "Okay, then I will help you count!"

"Eight!"

"Nine!"

"ten!"

As Wang Bufu counted, Xia Ji's health points finally fell below five points, but Xia Ji did not faint, he was still doing push-ups!
"fifteen!"

"twenty!"

"sixty!"

Snap! Blind Chicken's health points dropped to zero! Wang Bufu hadn't heard Blind Chicken's voice in his consciousness for a long time. He was in so much pain that he couldn't speak. Only his body was still stubbornly rising and falling, proving that he was not unconscious yet.

His health dropped to zero, meaning his body had completely lost its ability to defend itself against the mycelium. By this time, the mycelium had already entered his brain and was parasitizing it.

But the mycelium will not attack the caveman's brain which is still alive. As long as he can hold on and not faint, even if he only has one last breath left, he can survive!

At this stage, the Stone Mother Fungus could no longer be separated from the Blind Chicken. If it failed, the extraordinary Stone Mother Fungus would be wasted as a zombie beast. Wang Bufu was also gambling. If he didn't succeed, he would die.

"Three hundred and sixty-nine!"

"Four hundred!"

Blind Chicken never stopped his movements. He just repeated them mechanically, breathing weakly but gritting his teeth to hold on.

"Five hundred and thirty-nine!"

Finally, Wang Bufu counted an ordinary number, but it brought about amazing changes!

A dazzling white light emerged from the blind chicken's body, and the mycelium mixed with the mud on his body and completely merged into his body.

On the surface of the blind chicken's body, white stone mushrooms began to grow and soon covered his entire body.

At that moment, Blind Chicken's health value, which had been reduced to zero, soared like a rocket, and quickly broke through his upper limit of health value, taking his upper limit of health value with him!
From 30, to 60, then to 120, and finally started to slow down when it reached 200 points.

When the growth of the upper limit of health points stops, the blind chicken is reborn and successfully advanced!

【Name: Blind Chicken
Personal exclusive talents:

Courage (C Rank): Morale is at least +1. (This skill negates the racial talent of cowardice.)

Occupation: Cave Carrier

Level: Ordinary 1nd level 1

Professional skills:

Enhanced Digestion: Can digest many normally indigestible objects and gain nutrition from them. Fungal Symbiosis: Enter a symbiotic relationship with a fungus, promoting its growth by feeding it with food such as soil, feces, dead leaves, and minerals. This also grants additional special abilities based on the type of mushroom you possess, which do not occupy special ability slots.

Current symbiotic fungus: Stone Mother Fungus (Extraordinary Level 2).

Stone Barrier (from Stone Mother Fungus):

HP +150, Defense +15, Can disguise as stone. Consumes 10 HP to cast Stoneskin on any target. This spell has no cooldown.

Stone Skin: Defense +5, melee damage reduced by 15%, speed -2
Attributes:
Life: 220/220
Attack: 12
Defense: 15 (30)

Speed: 5]

It worked! Seeing the blind chicken's attributes, Wang was overjoyed.

"220 points, 30 defense! This already reaches the level of a super-class professional. From now on, when there's no fight, I'll just sit there and grow mushrooms. When there's a fight, I can come out and act as a tank.

Those ordinary monsters can't even break the blind chicken's defense, but where he stands is like a mountain! Good, good, very good!"

"My Lord... I'm so hungry! I'm so hungry! What a smell! It smells so good."

The blind chicken lying on the ground suddenly jumped up, grabbed the dung bucket and was about to pour it into its mouth.

"Hey! No, there are still four that have not been advanced." Fortunately, Wang Bufu was quick-eyed and quick-handed, and thus saved the advancement materials that he had collected with great difficulty.

"You can chew on the wall! It's just dirt, you can chew it as much as you want. You can also expand the burrow at the same time."

"Ah, you just promised to give me roast chicken, but now you won't even give me shit." Blind Chicken felt aggrieved for a moment, but the hunger from inside out quickly took over his mind.

"Woooaa!" Like a mad dog that's been starving for a week, the blind chicken crouched against the wall and gnawed away. The indigestible matter on its surface was rapidly excreted. In just a few minutes, the blind chicken had eaten five times its own weight in dirt!
He then slowly sat down, clutching his stomach. On his back, a patch of white mushrooms of varying sizes grew at a visible rate.

Wang Bufu walked behind him, holding a small bucket, and picked the mushrooms one by one.

[Stone Mushroom Ordinary Level 0] *38
[Small Stone Mushroom Ordinary Level 1] *3
[Stone Mushroom Normal Level 2] *1
[Delicious Stone Mushroom Ordinary Level 3] *1
This time, the blind chicken produced enough mushrooms for a small clan of cavemen to consume in a day. Once he had digested the soil in his stomach and his bacterial flora had absorbed enough nutrients, he could grow another batch.

If Blind Chicken is a big eater and has enough food, he can produce mushrooms twice or even three times a day, allowing a single caveman to feed the entire colony. This is the power of the Cave Carrier. Of course, this is also due to Blind Chicken's courage to take on challenges. If he had used ordinary-quality mushrooms to advance, his mushroom production would not be as high.

"We're lucky this time! We got three level 3 mushrooms, one level 1 mushroom, and one level 1 mushroom. Try eating more, you little idiot. Try to store enough nutrients to produce a mother stone mushroom of exceptional quality."

"No problem, Lord." Blind Chicken patted his chest. "I feel like I have endless energy. I'm sure I'll reproduce the mother fungus!"

Wang Bufu looked at the blind chicken carefully. There wasn't much difference in appearance between a Level 1 cave carrier and a Level 0 ordinary caveman, except for a slightly darker skin color. But once he reached the stage of growing mushrooms, the large patches of mushrooms on his back were extremely obvious.

Fortunately, Wang Bufu was well prepared.

He took out a servant's coat from the box behind him and asked the blind chicken to put it on. Then he said to the blind chicken:
"I will divide you cavers into a special team, and you will lead it.

From now on, your identity will be different. You should have minimal contact with other cavemen besides Blind Cat. If they ask you what your military unit is, just say you're a prospecting cave miner. You'll be carrying out secret missions under my command. Do you understand?

"understand!"

Wang Bufu asked the blind chicken who had successfully advanced to the next level to go out and encourage the remaining cavemen, and then asked them to come in one by one and helped them advance by following the same method.

With the mushrooms contributed by the blind chicken, later cavemen had more reliable options.

Tier 0 mushrooms are the most stable, but their future is severely restricted, with virtually no combat power. They spend their entire lives as ruthless mushroom-producing machines. They eat dirt and produce mushrooms.

Level 1 mushrooms have a high success rate, but their combat effectiveness is not much better than that of level 0 mushrooms, so they can only serve as logistics for their entire lives.

As a result, among the remaining four cavemen, three chose level 0 mushrooms, and only one mustered up the courage to choose level 3 mushrooms.

Unfortunately, he didn't trust Wang Bufu enough. At the most critical moment, he was afraid that Wang Bufu would control his body and turn him into nutrients for mushrooms, so he forcibly cut off the perfect command.

Without Wang Bufu's constant encouragement in his consciousness, he fell into coma after holding on for thirty seconds.

Wang Bufu pulled out the level 3 mushroom in time, and his body collapsed, lying limply like a puddle of mud.

"Ah." Wang Bufu sighed and shook his head. This was the first death of a citizen in the territory, and he felt it was a pity.

But when Wang Bufu announced his death, the other cave carriers showed no sign of reacting. Cavemen weren't known for their resilience; when they were slaves, their companions would die every few days; they were used to it.

Afterwards, Wang Bufu fulfilled his promise and gave all the cave carriers the status of leaders. He also gave them the cave they had just advanced to as their base of activity.

This place would become the territory's first military stronghold. Aside from him, the blind cat, and the blind chicken, no one else was allowed in or out. Not even Wei Yi and Butler Ming were exempt.

"Blind cat. Choose two honest and inquisitive individuals from the Toxic Cavemen to guard the entrance of this cave. They don't have to do anything else, just stop anyone who strays in here."

"No problem, Lord. Brave cavemen are hard to find, but honest cavemen are plenty." The blind cat patted his chest and agreed.

At this moment, Wang Bufu looked at the blind cat with a half-smile and asked, "How about it, blind cat? After listening to the history of the Caveman Kingdom, what are your thoughts?"

The blind cat scratched his head and smiled awkwardly, "I originally thought that our ancestors were quite miserable, but that's all, I don't have any other feelings.

But when I heard Blind Chicken say this might be the caveman's last chance, I felt it. I don't know how to describe it, shock? Or fear? I'm not sure.

"It's admiration. He said what you couldn't say, did what you didn't dare do, and you knew he did it for many of his kind who had nothing to do with him. So you admire him."

Wang Bufu suddenly said, "Blind Cat, I'm going to tell you another secret. This secret is between me and you."

"Huh?" The blind cat suddenly became alert, not knowing whether to laugh or cry. "That's it! Lord, can I say I don't want to hear it?"

"Of course not." Wang Bufu hugged the blind cat and connected himself with the blind cat with perfect command, then said quietly:

"Among the cavemen, there is a powerful legendary class called Underground Disaster.

This formidable spellcasting class wields a wide array of earth magic, making it practically omnipotent underground. All advancement paths in the Underground Scourge are extremely difficult, suitable only for a select few genius-level cavemen. Others are useless once they master it.

The full recipe for Undertaker from Common to Legendary should have the Legendary part missing.

But, coincidentally, I know all about it.”

"Hmm? Hmm! Hmm!!! Lord, I, Blind Cat, am your most loyal subject. I swear to be loyal to you till death, Lord! I will die with you, Lord!" Listening to the Blind Cat's hoarse cry from the depths of his soul, Wang Bufu smiled cunningly and cut off his connection with the Blind Cat.

Now that the carrot is hung, of course you have to let the donkey run for a while first.

(End of this chapter)