This dungeon has mushrooms growing on it.

Chapter 140, Section 139: Loan

The entrance to the underground city.

Having tasted success and feeling triumphant, Horn was ready to enter the dungeon again, only this time with a different group of teammates.

After the last mission, his envious former teammates, although they didn't kick him out of the team directly, all left the team one by one, and then formed a "new team".

The horn's assessment of this was that they were a bunch of fools blinded by their emotions.

He didn't sell the dagger that represented his good fortune and gave him +2 agility; instead, he carried it with him to enhance his combat power.

It's foolish to leave your teammate behind just because you're jealous, when your teammate has clearly gotten better.
Fortunately, Horn didn't care about being with that bunch of fools anymore. Carrying a gleaming dagger, he quickly found a newly formed team.

The four of them are now conducting final checks outside the dungeon gates.

The newly formed team hasn't had time to gel, so mutual confirmation before entering is essential to prevent any unexpected situations.

For example, since there are no mages in their team, torches or the oilcloth needed to make torches are essential.

After checking everything, the new team finally entered the dungeon.

As soon as they entered, the four of them were drawn to the crowd gathered at the edge of the hall.

Something must have happened, otherwise no one would stay here.

Adventurers are arguably one of the most gossipy groups, and no one would refuse to watch a good show, so the four of them naturally joined in.

One person in the crowd noticed Horn. It was clearly an acquaintance, and he greeted him, "Hey, Horn, I heard you got something good on the fifth floor?"

Adventurers are the most gossipy group, so the news that Horn had won such a big prize by sheer luck naturally spread like wildfire.

Haojiao didn't hold back either, drawing his gleaming dagger and brandishing it, making his opponent exclaim in envy.

After showing off, the bugle also asked, "What are you all doing blocking the way here?"

It was indeed congested. The main hall at the entrance of the underground city connected eight passageways, and this was one of them. There were more than ten people standing in the narrow corridor, which was only four or five people wide.

There's a bunch of poopy guys at the door!

As he spoke, he grabbed the horn's hand and forced his way through the crowd.

After squeezing out, Horn almost thought he was hallucinating. Fatty Puji had actually arrived at the entrance of the first floor?

Unlike the fifth floor, this chubby Puji was surrounded by many ordinary Puji, all sitting obediently on the fungal carpet.

"What exactly happened?" Horn asked.

The acquaintance shrugged; he didn't know either.

Suddenly, an adventurer who appeared to be from out of town said something that sent chills down everyone's spine: "Huh? Are there monsters just lying around at the entrance to this dungeon?"

The speaker was a warrior, who drew his longsword as he spoke.

The moment the sword was drawn, the warrior was kicked to the ground, and then a barrage of punches and kicks rained down from those around him.

"If you want to die, go die yourself! You're trying to drag me down with you!"

"You stinking outsider trying to harm people?"

"I can't kill you!"

Horn also kicked it twice. Everyone knows that Fatty will self-destruct when it gets hit. If it really explodes here, at least half of the people present will die!
After driving away that idiot soldier, many people realized the danger of staying there and left, no longer joining in the fun, and the place suddenly became less crowded.

Horn had originally planned to kill a monster and throw it over to see what would happen, but apparently he wasn't the only one who thought of that; an adventurer carrying the corpse of a Rotten Tooth Hound ran over.

Fat Puji extended its mycelial tentacles, stuffed the monster's corpse into its body, and then pushed out a Puji sitting on the mycelial carpet, who was sitting in a daze.

The tentacle pressed on the mushroom cap of the puffy mushroom... and the puffy mushroom lit up!

Adventurer: ? ? ? ? ? Then, Puji, glowing with an orange-yellow light, followed behind the adventurer who had given him the monster's corpse, its short legs carrying it on. For every two steps the adventurer took, Puji took four to catch up.

Adventurer: !!!

The adventurer tried pressing Puji's mushroom hat as well, and the light on Puji flickered twice before going out!

"Oh~!"

A gasp of surprise immediately rose from the surrounding crowd.

Seeing this, Horn discussed it with his teammates and they also hunted a prey to take away a Lighting Puji.

Everyone wanted to try this new thing, and even some teams with mages took one away out of curiosity.

Along the way, they figured out some tricks of the trade.

The Puji will only follow you on the first floor. There is a fat Puji at the entrance of each floor's stairs. You need to hire a new monster corpse for each new floor.

On the second floor, their lighting staff, Puji, was accidentally pinched to death by a scorpion. On the third floor, Fat Puji stopped paying attention to them.

They were able to borrow light again only after they presented three monster corpses.

And the energy of a single illuminated Puji can last for a whole day at most. After it's turned off, it will still follow you until you bring it back to the fat Puji.

The lighting is several times brighter than a torch, and the effect is quite good. The rent for one monster corpse per floor is acceptable for a team without a mage.

The downside is that it's too easy to die...

……

Lin Jun secretly observed the adventurers' reactions.

He was very satisfied with the smooth progress of the new business.

After being blocked on the eighth floor, he began to prepare to conquer the Rift Valley.

However, after discovering that the rift valley was impassable last time, Lin Jun abandoned the mushroom carpet with its high maintenance costs, and now it has to be re-laid.

Meanwhile, the air combat pugs suitable for expeditionary battles in the Rift Valley environment will also take some time to be produced.

Lin Jun used this spare time to practice drawing magic arrays repeatedly.

These lighting puffs were byproducts of his practice; it would be a waste to just recycle them.

Let's create a service that follows the lighting; earning monster corpses is secondary. The main goal is to continue increasing adventurers' acceptance of Puji.

In the future, they might even launch services like luggage shipping or an underground cafeteria.

Slowly corrupt the adventurers with convenient Puji services, eventually turning them into people who can't explore dungeons without Puji!

Of course, this plan is still in its early stages and there are still many problems.

For example, since the lighting fixtures are all handmade by Lin Jun, the quality varies, and some substandard lighting fixtures may suddenly turn off.

Fortunately, the dungeon doesn't have a rating system, so adventurers who have been scammed can't come back and leave a bad review.

Puji doesn't offer refunds or exchanges; their main policy is that they take no responsibility after you leave the store.
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Lin Jun's evil plan to corrupt adventurers had just begun, and at the same time, a party heading to Silent Wind Town set off from Oath City.

The magnificent carriage at the head of the procession was adorned with a striking sword and shield emblem, the gold thread around its edges signifying the important status of the people inside within the Adventurers' Guild.

Following behind was a large vehicle carrying eight civilian staff members, along with four gold-level guards on horseback.

　The next chapter will be later.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)