This dungeon has mushrooms growing on it.

Chapter 235, Section 234: The Initial Wish Fulfilled
what--!
Sunlight!

breeze!

Finally... I finally felt it!
Outside the dungeon, atop the mushroom cap of a giant mushroom tree, the knight Puji steadily held up Lin Jun's body, greedily enjoying a long-awaited sunbath!

With all the humans around her gone and her clones as a safety net, Lin Jun could finally let her main body out and embrace the sun she had been longing for!
This is what freedom tastes like!

Half a minute later, the knight silently recalled its main body, flapped its small wings, and flew lightly down from the mushroom tree.

Lin Jun discovered a harsh truth: he still preferred the cold, damp environment of the swamp...

The sunlight on the ground makes the body feel dry after being exposed to it for a long time. It should be able to withstand the sun because it has high temperature resistance. Is it just a racial trait?
"Woo——"

A deep roar echoed from under the mushroom tree. A wind wolf peeked out from behind the bushes, its tawny eyes warily fixed on the scaly creature before it. Its fangs were slightly bared, and its front paws nervously scratched at the ground, as if it was hesitating whether to attack.

Lin Jun kindly helped it solve its dilemma of choice.

The tentacle blade slashed across the wind wolf with a "whoosh," and before the wind wolf could even howl, it was neatly split in two from head to tail and fell onto the fungal carpet.

After the humans left, some low-level monsters began to tentatively move around the surrounding area.

However, they were mostly small fry like this wind wolf, and didn't attract much attention from Lin Jun.

Similarly, without human interference, Lin Jun's fungal carpet expanded with unbridled abandon, not even sparing the Adventurers' Guild!

The magic concentration on the surface is much lower than in the dungeon, and naturally generated slimes are extremely rare. Without these natural enemies, Lin Jun doesn't even need to send out Puji to patrol the fungal carpet.

The efficiency of photosynthesis in this area is much higher than in the far north. Spreading fungal carpets in places where the sun shines is a sure-fire way to make money!

The abundance of magical mushrooms growing on the ground is one of the main reasons that attracts low-level monsters.

Lin Jun will not deliberately hunt these monsters; she will simply act as a producer and decomposer.

At the same time, the mycelial network channels on the ground were also dug.

Considering that humans will return later, the network tunnels are dug very deep, and another "underground city" is built next to the underground city. Just thinking about it is exciting.

Everything on the surface was thriving, and order was gradually being restored in the underground city as well.

Lin Jun sealed off several major spatial rifts that would spawn large numbers of monsters, and is also clearing other rifts, large and small, one by one.

Lin Jun didn't completely destroy the cracks; she left a few small openings for Puji to pass through, to use when visiting neighbors in the future.

Putting everything else aside, that lush, green, and biodiverse dense forest looks perfect for laying mushroom mats and planting mushrooms; it should be the No. 4 mushroom garden!
At times like these, Lin Jun couldn't help but think of poor Dylan.

The early employees of the startup only experienced the days of hiding and running around on the fifth floor. Now that they have become successful and bought the entire underground city, they have no chance to enjoy it.

Given Dylan's terrible luck, Lin Jun really didn't think he would be able to make it back smoothly.

Let's find a stone tablet and erect a cenotaph for him on the fifth floor!

In addition, Lin Jun discovered that perhaps due to the high-intensity decomposition of corpses and close-up observation of the dissipation of souls every day, his [Inspiration] skill leveled up very quickly, reaching level three in just a few days!
Thanks to this skill, he can now barely sense the soul state of the object being decomposed.

Then Lin Jun clearly discovered that there are two types of souls. One type, like that of a minotaur, leaves behind a small, solid soul core after being decomposed and devoured. This core then slowly merges into the surrounding world, like a drop of water flowing into the ocean.

Another type, like Miraji, ordinary slimes, and flower fairies, will only release some thin, shapeless fragments after decomposition, which will quickly dissipate into the air like dust without leaving a trace.

After repeated observation and verification, Lin Jun basically determined that the dividing line between the two is "wisdom".

Although minotaurs have a simple and brutal behavior pattern and are all about muscle, they are still genuine intelligent beings.

Lin Jun plans to study the differences in souls among various intelligent races when she has the opportunity later.

Lin Jun also didn't forget another group of intelligent beings in the underground city—the werewolves who lived on the tenth floor.

The fungal carpet has been laid in ten layers.

Like the unfortunate fifth floor, the tenth floor also became a disaster area for the invasion of foreign monsters.

However, unlike the devastation left on the fifth floor, all the monsters that emerged from the rifts were completely wiped out by the werewolves on the tenth floor.

If it weren't for the dark brown bloodstains and messy marks left by dragging and rubbing on the ground, one might even have the illusion that this place had never been invaded.

Through the senses of the fungal carpet, Lin Jun also observed the werewolf tribe from afar.

These werewolves all had round bellies from eating, and their fur seemed shinier, completely different from my last impression.

They clearly had no intention of leaving the tenth floor to go to the other side of the rift, but instead chose to hold their home and turn all the "takeout" that dared to break in into their food reserves.

Unfortunately, these vigilant werewolves clearly noticed the spread of the fungal carpet. Some werewolves would proactively clear the mycelium around the tribal settlement, their movements swift and efficient, making it impossible for Lin Jun to monitor them more closely.

Lin Jun naturally intended to take in this group of werewolves, who possessed growth potential comparable to vampires.

However, there's no rush. The dungeon is under our control; they can't escape.

Lin Jun decided to spend more time observing them, figuring out their habits, social structure, and even weaknesses, before deciding on the "friendly" approach to engage in in-depth communication with them.

The laying of the ten-layer fungal carpet went relatively smoothly overall, but difficulties arose with the ninth layer.

Those fleshy creatures on the ninth floor really eat everything. Spreading the fungal carpet over them is like feeding them; no matter how much is spread, it will be devoured. They even climb up the long walls and eat them!

Lin Jun could only observe some of the situation on the ninth floor by relying on the steps protected by the rules.

If in other levels, the Amethyst Dungeon is the passive recipient of invasion, then in the ninth level, these crazed flesh-and-blood monsters have become the active invaders!
Lin Jun saw many flesh-and-blood monsters burrowing into the rifts leading to unknown areas, even at the cost of having parts of their limbs cut off by the distorted spatial power at the unstable rift edges, as if there were some delicious food on the other side of the rift.

And they never came back after they went there.

Lin Jun had no idea which unlucky people lived across the street, so she could only silently light a candle for her unknown neighbors.

While Lin Jun was happily playing the rebuilding game, the demon race, who had been saving up contribution points for a long time, made its first exchange request to Lin Jun, excluding mushrooms...

　I made 6.8K today, a little late, huh?

　　
　
(End of this chapter)