This dungeon has mushrooms growing on it.

Chapter 226, Section 225: A Sense of Technology

Lin Jun was completely dumbfounded.

The reason for accelerating the process was that the increasing number of cracks might cause chaos and affect their mushroom garden; a short, sharp pain is worse than a long, drawn-out one.

But I never expected that this "short pain" would be this painful!

Not only did the Scarecrow Abyss open a large gap on the fifth floor, but another rift connected to a primeval forest, from which a variety of monsters poured out!

In the chaos of battle, the already few remaining members of the fifth floor were almost all wiped out in no time.

Lin Jun originally didn't plan to get involved, but as luck would have it, she opened another rift connecting the stone fortress.

Now we have no choice but to fight. What if they're not satisfied with just causing trouble for the current class, and instead manage to sneak into the stone fortress?
Wild beasts and monsters are afraid of the cold and probably won't come over, but the scarecrow probably doesn't care about the cold...

The enemies weren't that strong, mostly between level 20 and 40, but this was only level 5.

Other levels were also thrown into chaos, just not as chaotic as the fifth level.

The tree spirit on the sixth floor, along with its minions, fiercely defended the mountain cave and the tree spirit's secret forest. The water level on the seventh floor continued to drop, suggesting that a large hole had opened up below. It was unclear how the fishmen fared.

As for the first to fourth floors, Lin Jun didn't care much, since there was an underground mycelium network to support them, so they wouldn't be completely out of control.

As for the humans mixed in with them, Lin Jun didn't pay any attention to them at all.

Lin Jun is currently participating in a battle royale on the fifth floor, harassing the war puppets in the core area, and coordinating the demons who come to work in the stone fortress.

Given the significantly increased danger level in the Amethyst Dungeon, Lin Jun temporarily assigned the demons to tasks such as feeding fatworms or hunting cold spirits.

Unfortunately, just as the demons said, those ice figures formed by the cold spirits were just a pile of useless ice shards when broken.

Pure elemental spirits cannot be captured at all; after a while, they will be reborn again, wrapped in ice shards.

It's a pity that it has so many skills.

……

Several days passed quietly.

After the humans outside the underground city noticed the changes, they seemed to have chosen to relocate, and now the entire town is almost empty.

On the platform in the core area, a creature plopped over the charred corpse of its predecessor, which was still emitting black smoke, and crossed the center line once again.

Just like countless times before, the two war puppets began to move.

A purple shadow flashed like lightning!

In an instant, a war puppet appeared behind Puji, who was trying to escape. Flames erupted from the amethyst spear, piercing Puji's body and burning it to ashes.

This time, however, the puppet's return journey became increasingly slow and heavy... In the end, it stood frozen halfway, like a puppet with its strings cut, slumping down in despair.

Is this... a success?
Puji tried again, carefully stepping across the center line.

On the platform, the two war puppets remained completely still!

It's done!
It would be a lie to say that Lin Jun wasn't excited. In the current dungeon, all sorts of monsters roamed freely on each floor, and the fifth floor had been littered with corpses in the past few days.

The worst part is that Lin Jun can't recycle most of these "resources." The fungal carpet has been almost completely destroyed, and the large moths flying in the sky don't even spare the fungal carpet on the dome.

Several hundred Puji can barely occupy a quarter of the fifth floor.

The situation was similar on the sixth floor, and even worse on the seventh floor. A large rift had drained away 90% of the water, and a huge deep-sea monster was exposed on the surface, looking half-dead.

Strangely, Lin Jun didn't see any merfolk; she wondered if they were all hiding inside the temple ruins. The deeper areas were even more unpredictable; if it weren't for the pre-dug mycelium network tunnels, Lin Jun's network would have broken long ago.

Lin Jun truly felt that the dungeon was about to collapse.

Fortunately, just as the Yellow Book predicted, the war puppets finally stopped operating before the dungeon completely collapsed.

A large number of people flooded the platform, with a clear objective: to remove these two inoperable killing machines first!
Leaving aside whether Lin Jun has any way to control it in battle, this is a body full of S-grade magic crystals!

Moving to the stone fortress would at least be some consolation and compensation, even if the amethyst couldn't be repaired.

The Puji arrived at the pitch-black gate, and surprisingly, they encountered no new obstacles. The gate was simply unusually heavy, and Lin Jun did not sense any fluctuations in the magic array.

It's unclear whether it was originally unprotected or, like a war puppet, completely shut down.

Several heavily armored vehicles thudded against the door, and with a dull scraping sound, the heavy door was slowly and laboriously forced open inch by inch...

Behind the gate, Lin Jun finally saw what he had longed for—

The core of the dungeon!

what is this?
What lay before them was not the radiant energy sphere they had imagined, but a colossal, sophisticated, cold, and mysteriously rhythmic device.

It occupies the center of the entire core hall. Rather than a "core", it is more like a silent, operating machine made of metal and crystal!

A massive, gleaming metallic support structure forms the base and frame, while countless pipes of varying thicknesses, like the roots and branches of a giant tree, penetrate deeply into the hall's floor, walls, and dome, intertwining and entwining with each other.

An energy, not magical, flows inside the pipes, surging and converging in the core, like the true "nerves" of this underground city.

In the center, a diamond-shaped crystal tablet about the height of a person floats. It is completely transparent, but its interior is not pure. Instead, it is as if it is enveloping a miniature nebula, with countless tiny points of light flowing, colliding, and recombining at high speed within it.

If you were to ask Lin Jun how she felt about the scene before her?
It's like a primary school student who has just learned to recognize most of the characters suddenly walking into the most cutting-edge technology laboratory.

Let alone control it, Lin Jun was terrified that Puji would accidentally kick off some "power source" while walking around, and then the dungeon would be finished on the spot!

Behind this control room-like room, there is a small door.

Puji tried to push it away but failed.

After some research, Lin Jun confirmed one thing.

The dungeon core couldn't be repaired by itself, so the Yellow Book had to be used!
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In a cave not far from the core, a creature named Puji took the yellow book out of its body.

As soon as it came out, Yellow Book noticed the changes in its surroundings.

[Ah! This is what the dungeon looks like!]
[Boss, did you successfully subdue the war puppet?]
“Yes, so it’s time for you to get to work,” the language of the Puji said with a hint of temptation. “Holy Scripture, listen, as long as you can repair the dungeon, I will no longer restrict your food intake, and... I will send Puji to hunt souls for you, so you can eat your fill.”

[Really?! Boss! You're the most kind and generous person in the world!]
[Don't worry! Watch me fix it up to look brand new with the fastest speed and the most perfect technique!]
However, Lin Jun wasn't finished speaking: "It's just... the dungeon is far too important to me, and to us. Therefore, I must ensure everything goes perfectly and need to be even more cautious..."

[What does this mean?] The Yellow Book felt somewhat confused and uneasy.

"It means..." the voice slowly uttered cold words, "Before I begin the repair, I may need to... clear the soul stored in your pages."

[! ! ! ]
Just then, another fat guy, Puji, walked heavily to the yellow book. Puji's belly deformed, and finally, Xiao Hei's head squeezed out.

The golden pupils darted around, finally settling on the yellow book!

[Boss... there's no need for this...] Yellow Book, who already guessed what was going to happen next, made a last-ditch effort.

"Rest assured, Holy Scripture." A strange gentleness emanated from the harsh, unpleasant voice. "Every penny you lose today, I will repay you tenfold, a hundredfold in the future! This is merely a small, necessary growing pain on the road to true freedom."

[......]
[………]
[No—no—ah—ah—ah—ah—owa ...
　One more chapter will be released later.
　　
　
(End of this chapter)