This dungeon has mushrooms growing on it.

Chapter 177, Section 176: Good to Read
"vomit--!"

Louisa huddled in the corner, her body convulsing violently, as if she were about to vomit up all the purple blood she had just drunk.

She didn't understand. It didn't smell strange, but the moment it went down her throat, it tasted like rotten mud mixed with bile. The taste was simply torture!

Lin Jun watched with great interest.

It was the first time he had ever seen a vampire vomit, and he watched with great interest for a long time. Unfortunately, apart from the sound of gagging and the distorted expression, nothing came out.

Speaking of which, do vampires produce bile in their stomachs?

Tsk... I'd like to see, but not now.

I'm a rule-abiding mushroom; I can only punish the little pig when it makes a mistake...

On the other side, Huang Pishu was being held by Xiao Hei and was frantically begging for mercy.

[Boss! Boss! I just licked it! They slipped in by accident! Really!]
[I won't do it again! I'll never steal food again! Please forgive me this time!]
[Please, please, for the sake of me protecting Norris just now, give me a chance!]
Lin Jun didn't notice the yellow book being stolen immediately, but when the two cavemen's corpses were decomposed, they were completely empty, containing only some magic power and no skill proficiency.

Who else could be the prisoner besides it?
tear-

Under Lin Jun's command, a page was torn off without any mercy.

[I want to die, I want to die, I want to die]
Looking at the yellow book that keeps refreshing on his screen, Xiao Hei still doesn't know that it has self-awareness.

All she knew was that the boss would occasionally make her tear off a few of these things that would disappear once torn off.

That useless yellow book, it served no purpose at all this time, yet it still dared to steal food?

Lin Jun had no idea whether it had noticed something amiss and was deliberately keeping it from Norris—although the possibility was very small.

In stark contrast, Xiao Hei performed flawlessly this time, noticing the anomaly and rushing over even before Lin Jun reminded him.

If it weren't for Xiao Hei's timely intervention, Norris would probably be experiencing the miraculous reattachment of his severed arm right now.

As a reward, Puji pulled out a pair of beautiful gemstone earrings and handed them to the overjoyed Xiao Hei, which refracted mesmerizing colors in the dim fluorescent light.

If Edin were here, he would definitely recognize the earrings that were on his ears just a few days ago.

The timing of these monster attacks was really unfortunate. At the time, Lin Jun was controlling Knight Puji in a fair duel with Fifteen and had no time to pay attention to this.

After the accident, all that could be done was to hurriedly send a brief warning signal to the piglet and the black cat through the mushroom net.

The problem is that Lin Jun didn't have time to look at the monsters' stats at the time, and now that she's a corpse, she naturally doesn't have any stats left, so she has no idea what these things are.
Currently, all that is known is that it can become invisible and move in groups.

According to Norris, there also seemed to be a strange "eyeball" floating in the air watching from a distance, but it later disappeared.

However, the eyeballs flying in the sky don't seem to belong to the same kind as these stealthy, ambush-like monsters.

Are they watching these monsters?
Or are they cooperating with these monsters?
These days, the changes in the deep layers are happening so fast.

Back then, Lin Jun stayed in the old mushroom garden for two and a half years, and the surrounding environment and ecology had not changed so much.

If there had been such invisible monsters back then, my survival difficulty would have increased several levels.

Therefore, the culprit should still be the rift.

But...where did it come from?

Several detection skills were used to check the area under their control, but no similar monsters were found.

So you just happened to run into a small group of people who were wandering around?
If these threatening monsters were nearby, Lin Jun would go and wipe out their homeland, or at the very least, send someone to block the entrance to the passage.

But if they are far away and have little impact, then Lin Jun wouldn't have time to create a sideline to deal with them.

Let's increase the scanning of the deep zones and see if these monsters will reappear.

Manipulating the mycelium, it completely devoured, decomposed, and absorbed the three monster remains.

[The Seven Deadly Sins - Greed Triggered] [Plunder Skill: Refraction Stealth LV2]

Cold Resistance: LV3→LV4

[Plunder Skill: Claw Strike LV8→LV9]

Claw Strike is something that almost any monster with sharp claws will know, and it's easy to level up. Unfortunately, it's just a common skill that enhances basic attack damage, and it doesn't have many highlights.

The stealth skill seems pretty good. Although [Mimicry] can also achieve a certain degree of stealth, that's only when you stay still.

This invisibility skill looks like optical invisibility, so Lin Jun decisively started generating Puji for testing.

As for [cold resistance]?
Does this thing live in a low-temperature environment?

Judging from Lin Jun's own [Cold Resistance] being only level three, it's clear that the Amethyst Dungeon has absolutely nothing to do with the word "cold".

Rather, the temperature was relatively comfortable for the first ten levels, but it became noticeably hotter after reaching the tenth level, as evidenced by the occasional appearance of lava areas.

If these monsters' lair really is in some ice cave, even if Lin Jun finds it, she probably won't be able to get through.

The little ones can't withstand the cold.

Soon, the experimental Puji were produced.

With the activation of [Refractive Invisibility LV2], Puji indeed disappeared from sight.

However, the results were not perfect.

When they remain stationary, they can maintain a good level of concealment.

But once it starts moving, it seems as if invisible ripples spread through the air, and a subtle but clear sense of spatial distortion appears at the outline, as if looking at something through a layer of shimmering water.

It's probably because the level is too low.

If even high-level effects are this clumsy, then when those monsters move around, wouldn't it just look like a huge, constantly distorting space?
Norris isn't blind, how could he not notice!

The skill to be tested wasn't just the monster's invisibility; Puji Linjun also spawned several [Holy Barrier] monsters that she had taken from humans.

The reason for building more was that the church warriors he had seen before could combine these skills to form a stronger defense—a technique he naturally wanted to try as well.

[Sacred Bulwark LV2]

With a slight thought, a puffy creature responded first. Light converged, and a translucent barrier flowing with liquid golden light instantly unfolded in front of it.

As soon as it took shape, Lin Jun keenly noticed the difference: the shape of this barrier could actually be slightly shaped according to her will?!
Concentrating on controlling it, the edges of the light screen obediently rolled inward and bent, and the originally flat wall actually twisted and transformed into a stable semi-circular shield under the control of the mind.

No wonder humans can combine and stack them; it's not difficult to achieve a good balance.

As for getting the Puji to cooperate?

That's easier than breathing!
The four puffies quickly huddled together. The next moment, a perfectly round light shield, seamless and without any gaps, suddenly appeared!

It emits a soft glow, shining brightly like a small light bulb in the eternal darkness of the deep zone.

They successfully attracted Xiao Hei.

Through the translucent golden light barrier, the Puji inside appeared to Xiao Hei as if they were coated with a sacred golden edge, making them look exceptionally alluring.

Xiao Hei instinctively extended her claws, but her movements were tinged with an unusual hesitation—in her simple yet precious collecting experience, the shinier something is, the more fragile it often is.

The claw tip carefully, tentatively, gently scraped the outermost edge of the light shield...

click-

With a crisp sound, the barrier was struck as if by a heavy blow, turning into countless golden specks of light that slowly dissipated.

Xiao Hei: QAQ
Lin Jun: What soap bubbles?
(End of this chapter)