This dungeon has mushrooms growing on it.

Chapter 106, Section 105: Unearthing a Surprise

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A familiar voice came from behind a bush about waist-high, and Norris turned around.

Now he's dressed as an adventurer, unlike before when he only had a pair of shorts.

He got the clothes from the boss—even though the boss said it was unnecessary shame…

After recognizing his situation, Norris quickly chose to accept it, believing that accepting becoming a "powerful" monster was no harder than accepting the debt of 40 gold coins.

At least the happiness I feel when replenishing my nutrients and the satisfaction of becoming stronger after killing monsters are much better than the days when I wake up to debt.

Norris didn't have to wait long.

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A red slime as tall as a person jumped out of the bushes.

It still contained half of an undigested chicken and some weeds inside its body.

Norris crossed his claws and pounced on the slime the instant it landed!
[Splitting Wind Claw LV4]

The claws sliced ​​through the slime's liquid body, and the wind element wrapped around the claws not only increased their sharpness but also further enlarged the opening on the slime's body when they exploded.

Norris didn't pause; he wanted to give the core to... before the slime's body recovered.

boom--

A mushroom cannon shot hit the cut-up slime, and it exploded instantly.

Norris, who was closest, was immediately covered in a red liquid containing neurotoxins. Although he was not afraid of neurotoxins, he still looked terrible.

Turning around, I saw a little mushroom acting like nothing had happened; it had fired its cannon and then strode away.

"Ugh……"

What could he do? His seniority in the organization wasn't even as high as that little poop. He could only find another target...

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Another slime jumped out, but this time it was green.

Norris turned and left. He didn't have any [Corrosion Resistance], and even if he won against a slime with [Digestive Slime], he would suffer heavy losses. He would just leave it to the other Puji.

Norris wasn't hunting alone; he was sent by the boss to clear out the slimes nearby so they wouldn't interfere with the work inside.

Not far behind him, on a small hill near the rock face, more than two hundred Puji were carrying out a major project in a cleared area!
This open space wasn't originally open space; there's no such thing as a naturally open space on the sixth floor.

But after the Puji arrived, this place became an empty space.

Turning it into an empty space wasn't enough; Lin Jun wanted to dig the whole place up!
A group of Puji, specially equipped with [Claw LV7], used their short legs to plow and loosen the soil in circles.

The cattle and horses use special pipe-like mycelial tentacles to suck up the soil fragments, and once full, they transport them to a distant place to dump them.

Another group of diggers began excavating where the rock strata had already been exposed.

The reason Lin Jun went to such lengths was that the tree spirits had completed their waterway exploration mission. According to the markings on the map, the center of the underground waterway and the source of the slimes should be in the small hill.

Three days of construction completed.

The greenery in the open space has all disappeared, leaving only a huge crater that is still expanding.

The clanging and banging of the chisels never stopped, and the oxen and horses chug along the cleared path, transporting the broken stones like an assembly line.

Norris stood at the edge of the pit, looking down at the scene below with disbelief.

Having mined for so long himself, he naturally knows how adventurers in the mines dig.

They dig here and there, leaving the tunnel full of potholes and piles of rubble on the ground, and they won't clean it up until it blocks the road.

He used to think that was normal, but after observing the Puji's project for the past three days, he felt that compared to that, the adventurers' work didn't even deserve to be called mining; at best, it was just smashing rocks for fun.

The Puji have a clear division of labor, work in an orderly manner, and are highly efficient.

Even if those lords and nobles organized an effort, it would probably take them at least half a month to clear such a huge pit, but the Puji only took three days…

At first, Norris thought he was a veteran miner and wanted to go down and help, but the boss kicked him out to the outer perimeter.

The reason was: it was getting in his way. It's impossible not to be discouraged, after all, this was the only skill he could boast about in recent years…

But after seeing what the Puji were doing, he had to agree with this statement. Maybe he could chisel faster than the Puji, but he could never achieve the same level of coordinated cooperation as the Puji.

200 poopy!
In the face of such a large-scale collaboration, slight differences in individual mining capabilities are simply insignificant.

Puji are much more amazing than anyone thought!

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From within the crater came a seemingly ordinary, crisp sound, just like the sound of other rocks being smashed open before.

But through the crack made in the shell of the puji, a ball of red stuff suddenly shot out.

Before the puffy thing in front of it could react, it was enveloped.

It's a red slime!

That wasn't all; another green slime shot out from the crack!

The crack widened, like a hole cut in the bottom of a full bag, and more and more slimes broke through the rock layers, pouring out like a flood.

In just over ten seconds, it filled the bottom of the crater and it was still overflowing!
Most of the poop in the pit were submerged by this ocean of slimes, and Norris, standing at the edge of the pit, was so startled that he retreated repeatedly.

If he were digging down there too...

Lin Jun was also horrified by what she saw.

What the hell?

Did we disturb a slime's nest?

No, it is indeed disturbing a slime's nest, but what does so many mean?
And it's so fat! So big!
What do these slimes eat to grow up?

The slimes that ran out along the waterway before were no more than a person tall, but the smallest of these in the pit is bigger than any of the ones we've encountered before!

wrong!

Lin Jun suddenly understood.

This thing is probably so big that even with its liquid body it can't squeeze into the waterway, so it's all piled up in the nest, right?
Those who managed to escape were all among the "smallest" ones!

Oh no! Oh no!

Lin Jun quickly mobilized all the Puji guarding the perimeter to try and suppress the slimes before they crawled out of the pit.

At the same time, a new batch of Puji began to gather on the fifth floor.

If suppression fails, a fierce battle will ensue.

We can't ignore these slime monsters; given their size and numbers, most plant-type monsters can't defeat them.

If they run rampant, the entire sixth-layer ecosystem will suffer, and then Lin Jun's efforts over this period will have been for nothing!

"Go back to the fifth floor first!" Lin Jun ordered Norris to retreat immediately.

These slimes are no longer suitable for practice.

Norris was still hesitating about whether to do something, but upon hearing his boss's order, he immediately turned around and brushed past the arriving Puji.

boom--

boom--

Not only were the arriving Puji attacking, but the fixed turrets on the rock wall also began firing downwards.

Due to the distance, the accuracy of the mushroom cannons on the rock face when hitting ground targets is appalling.

But now the entire crater is full of slimes, and the target is so big that this problem no longer exists. We can just use firepower to cover it!
In an instant, slime juice flew everywhere in the pit.

However, when the slimes on the surface die, their remaining juices naturally form a barrier, greatly weakening any remaining attacks that attempt to penetrate the juices.

Furthermore, when slimes are injured, they absorb the juices around them to repair themselves, making it increasingly difficult for mushroom cannons to inflict sufficient damage when used to clear ground.

And the slimes in the crater are still multiplying... multiplying...

Not anymore!
It's about to burst out!
(End of this chapter)