This dungeon has mushrooms growing on it.

Chapter 115, Section 114: The Yellow Book's New Bedroom

Skills, though ubiquitous, still seem mysterious to Lin Jun.

For example, this [Nightmare Avatar].

When that half-vampire used it, it was clearly a transformation skill, but after it was applied to Puji, it turned into a fixed form.

However, the half-vampire transformation clearly utilized his own blood abilities, so Lin Jun could only guess that Puji lacked blood power, which is why this skill only retained some of its effects.
I've encountered skills that mutate due to inherent differences before, the most typical example being [Assimilation and Absorption], which changed from absorbing flesh and blood to absorbing mycelium.

This should be considered a kind of adaptive behavior.

Then, regarding flight, Lin Jun conducted some more experiments.

Two identical Puji with bat wings stood together.

Although they look the same, once you open the panel, you'll find that one of them has the skill [Nightmare Avatar LV1], while the other is a blank Puji.

The whiteboard Puji was sculpted by Lin Jun, who spent half a day painstakingly creating it one-to-one from the bat Puji.

I didn't mean anything by it, I just wanted to see if I could fly without any skills.

Lin Jun first controlled the Puji with skills to fly around once, and then, following that feeling, she started controlling the blank Puji.

After several failed attempts, it actually took flight!

But it was clearly much more strenuous; each flap of the wings required more effort, as if some kind of aid was missing.

Furthermore, if Lin Jun doesn't take control, the whiteboard's Puji will never be able to fly.

Puji is not very intelligent and acts mostly on instinct. The fact that it can't fly means it doesn't have the instinct to fly.

It seems that the skill can give Puji this flying instinct, which is similar to how having the [Precision] skill makes it easier to hit targets.

So, it's possible to do some fancy tricks on your own without relying on skills, but if you want to implement them on a large scale for Puji, you still need the support of skills.

Of course, these so-called theories are limited to these relatively simple areas. If you don't have the skills to tinker with a mushroom cannon, then it's pure nonsense.

After completing these quizzes, Lin Jun checked the construction progress of the trap room—it was almost finished.

The so-called "trap room" is the new love-filled little house that Lin Jun built for the Yellow Book.

Lin Jun's previous plan to dig out the underground city failed because she encountered an invisible wall. This time, Lin Jun simply made use of the invisible wall.

Since the transparent wall isn't afraid of collapsing and can't be destroyed no matter how much it's bombed, we might as well use it as a trap room.

A small construction team is currently making final touches on this section of the transparent wall.

The originally cramped space was expanded into a complete basement structure. The arched walls, where mycelium and rock blend perfectly, are inlaid with luminous spores, enveloping the entire space in a pale blue halo.

There are eight pillars in the entire basement.

The transparent wall, serving as a ceiling, doesn't actually need pillars for support. These pillars are also a disguise; they are actually made up of self-destructing puffballs covered with a stone shell. Each pillar contains four self-destructing puffballs to ensure sufficient power.

On the innermost altar-like stone base, the yellow book rested peacefully, looking like a reward item after defeating a BOSS.

The stone base is naturally a no-brainer, but it's cheap and works well anyway...

I imagine the Yellow Book doesn't have any objections to its new home.

Of course, it can't just be self-destructing Puji; Lin Jun also arranged for several newly created elite Puji to serve as guards.

Compared to regular Puji, Elite Puji has more skills, but the main difference lies in their attributes.

For example, for the melee elite Puji, Lin Jun raised the three attributes of Strength, Agility, and Constitution to 40.

For ranged units, 40 in Intelligence and Agility, and 30 in Constitution is sufficient. Three or four elite Pooji in the trap room are enough.

Then, the entrance outside will be sealed with a layer of stone, and the entire trap room will become a hidden space.

Adventurers who frequent caves are usually not high-level, and even if they accidentally stumble into a trap room, they will be forced back by the guards.

If the demons come knocking on your door and even elite Puji can't defeat them, then let the self-destructing Puji blow them all up.

Even if they don't die, the time it takes them to retreat will be enough for Lin Jun to gather the Puji to block the entrance to the cave.

The reason we went to the trouble of moving the Yellow Book there is that if it were placed in the Mushroom Forest, a few demons would come and cause trouble every now and then, and it would be bad if the Mushroom Forest, which serves as a rest area for employees, were destroyed.

Lin Jun's trap hut plan and the elite Puji plan are progressing smoothly, but the plan to spread fungal carpet from the sixth-level rift valley directly to the deep zone is not going so smoothly.

The rock walls of the rift are very hard, and the mycelium cannot collect nutrients from the rock walls other than magic. It can only extend downwards by relying on the interconnected mycelial carpet to transfer nutrients to sustain itself.

This problem is not unique to rift valley walls. In fact, even on five or six layers of rock walls, the fungal carpet cannot absorb basic nutrients.

However, they are not far from the ground and the dome, so transporting nutrients to the point is not a big problem.

However, the rock walls here in the rift valley are a bit too long.

The distance over which nutrients can be transferred using fungal mats is also limited.

There was no other way; without the necessary conditions, Lin Jun had to create them herself.

First, they molded out hollow tubes made of mycelium, and poured soil through the tubes, spreading it on relatively flat areas of the rock wall to form one replenishment point after another.

With the help of nutrients in the soil, the mycelium can extend further and be laid to the next platform using tubes. In this way, it extends node by node and is successfully laid down.

For this reason, a group of Puji who dig and carry soil, and three Treemen who are responsible for clearing the way, are permanently stationed in the Six-Layer Rift Valley.

During the process of the fungal carpet spreading, Lin Jun also discovered a problem.

This rift valley doesn't seem to connect to the seventh, eighth, ninth, or tenth levels.
At least Lin Jun's fungal carpet did not find any entrance to other levels.

Could it be that the other social classes were just separated by the stone wall?
We'll have to go back and study this issue again after we've occupied the seventh floor.

The spread of the fungal carpet stopped once it finally entered the deeper layers.

It wasn't that Lin Jun didn't want to continue, but rather that she encountered a familiar figure again.

[Race: Thousand-Hole Mayfly]

【Level: 22】

[Race: Thousand-Hole Mayfly]

【Level: 31】

……

The area is crisscrossed by countless thick white lines, and a large number of mayflies live in this area.

Unlike the level 62 monster I encountered when I fell down, the highest level I saw around here was only around level 40, but there were quite a lot of them.

Moreover, they have an extremely strong sense of territory.

When the hyphae extend down and get close to their thick lines, they will come over and scrape off the hyphae, or directly spray out a mouthful of acid to corrode a large piece.

Simply put, it seems like you can't get down there unless you get rid of them?

(End of this chapter)