This dungeon has mushrooms growing on it.

Chapter 283, Section 282: Opening Blind Boxes
The burrowing puji had already fallen into the basement, and two more puji jumped out of the hole it had dug.

One is a scout Puji, responsible for discovering possible magic circles or underground monsters; the other is a self-destructing Puji, just in case.

This is a perfect excavation team.

Three little puppies surrounded the box and pried at it with their short legs for a long time, but the box didn't budge, so it seemed to be locked.

I don't know what the point of locking it is. It's just an unattended wooden box. Why not just force it open?

A quick scan with [Magic Perception] revealed no magic circle inside.

The burrowing poop lay on the ground with its top facing the box, and the other two poops pushed the burrowing poop up with their feet.

The vibrating, rotating blade easily pierced the wood around the keyhole. The Puji controlled their strength to avoid damaging any items that might be inside.

click!
A very faint cracking sound came from inside the keyhole, followed by three thin needles shooting out of the keyhole.

The creature, which had been bracing itself against the ground, suddenly went limp—and died.

There are even secret agencies?!
The three thin needles seemed to be coated with poison, but apart from corrosive damage, Puji was almost immune to toxins.

However, those three shots that were fired were too much for Puji, who only had ten health points, to withstand.

A few minutes later, the mycelium wriggled, burrowed into the ground, and "revived" on the spot, only now it had three annoying needles inside its body, causing secondary damage and deducting some health points with each twist...

The box contained a one-time-use mechanism. After burrowing and reviving, it successfully drilled a hole in the wooden box.

He kicked the wooden crate open.

Some packaged dry food, two leather bags of water, a pendant with a balance scale design, and a thin booklet.

The booklet cover features a peculiar tree, half of which is lush and leafy, while the other half is withered and decaying.

Turning the pages, you'll find them densely packed with Elven script.

Although the content is incomprehensible, the neat layout clearly indicates that it is some kind of book, rather than a personal notebook or letter.

This means that it is highly unlikely to contain any shady secret plans.

As for the pendant, it's just an ordinary ornament, with no magical fluctuations, and it's even made of copper.

For a hidden room, the items you get are rather ordinary.

The Pujis searched the basement again, leaving round footprints all over the floor, but they couldn't find anything else.

There was an exit in the basement, but the stairs were rough, primitive, and even irregular.

The little creatures hopped and leaped up the steps, eventually emerging from a gap in the gnarled roots of a giant tree. The surrounding area was deserted, clearly a remote place.

Back in the basement, a few more pooped out and put away the booklets and pendants from the box.

They then built a mushroom ladder and crawled back into the hole, leaving only a few self-destructing Poogies in the basement.

After they had gone some distance, a muffled explosion rang out, and the basement, along with half of the passageway, collapsed completely from the impact, erasing all traces of the Puji's activity.

They then took a detour and spent an extra day before finally getting to the cemetery.

Following their memory, they found the old elf who had been buried earlier.

Sure enough, only scraps were left.

The corpse is incomplete, which will directly affect the plundering effect of [Greed].

Before gaining the [Inspiration], Lin Jun had no doubts about this, only feeling that the more complete the corpse, the more proficiency she would gain.

But after realizing that she was stripping away skills from her soul, Lin Jun was even more confused.

Through observation, the soul is a whole, and it doesn't just dissipate as the body rots. So why would an incomplete body affect one's plundering effectiveness?
Fortunately, even if she couldn't figure this out, it wouldn't affect Lin Jun in any way.

Mycelium spread out from the network and slowly climbed onto the corpse...

[Seven Sins of Greed Trigger]

[Plunder Skill: Elvish LV1] [Plunder Skill: Nature Magic LV1]

[Plunder Skill: Falsetto LV1]

Elvish goes without saying, and natural magic was also to be expected.

Elves with a natural affinity are very likely to acquire natural magic talent; even if they are not mages, they are likely to have this skill.

Just like Elaven, despite being a ranger hunter, she also has level four in [Nature Magic].

But... what is this "pseudo-voice"?

When I first met this old elf, he was already a corpse, so naturally I couldn't see his character panel.

Now it's all about the unexpected skills gained from opening blind boxes!

Since it's called "pseudo-voice," it must be imitating other people's speech!
Can it directly generate a talking Puji?

I couldn't wait to create a fake voice Puji, but it just looks like an ordinary Puji.

There isn't even a hole for making a sound; it would be a miracle if it could speak.

It seems to be a mismatch with Puji's skills.

After thinking for a moment, Lin Jun tried to create a voice prompt.

……

"Boss! I think the drill is the strongest!"

After half an hour of research, the voice assistant finally produced a voice that was about four-tenths similar to Norris's.

Lin Jun understood that the skill itself did not produce sound, but it could adjust the sound it produced to imitate the timbre of others.

The problem is, this didn't make the voice sound better; instead, it created a hoarse, sticky Norris voice with a nauseating echo...

So... what's the use of this thing?
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The woodland above the entrance to the underground chamber.

Two elven rangers were carefully searching the ground for traces.

Suddenly, one of the rangers bent down and pressed himself against the gnarled roots of a giant tree, whistling a short note to signal to his companion: "Here!"

Another ranger strode closer, a soft and vibrant natural magical glow emanating from his palm.

Under the control of magic, the roots of the giant tree shifted, revealing a passage below.

"Another hidden chamber like this?!" The ranger frowned upon discovering the entrance. "Whose work is this?"

“Who knows?” his companion said warily, scanning the quiet woods around them. “Those houses we found earlier were also empty, without any clues left behind.”

The two elves exchanged a glance. One of them nimbly slipped inside, while the other took out a short bow from its back, nocked an arrow, and kept watch on its surroundings.

A few minutes later, the ranger who had entered emerged looking somewhat disheveled, brushing the dust off his clothes.

"The area below has collapsed, and the passage is completely blocked. The magical fluctuations we detected earlier must have been caused by the explosion."

"Exploded?" the other elf asked, puzzled.

Two months ago, by chance, an elf discovered the first similar hidden chamber, and after reporting it, it immediately alerted the chief guard.

The subsequent targeted search uncovered several more secret rooms with similar layouts.

Unfortunately, only empty shells remained; no valuable clues could be found inside.

However, the owners of those secret rooms all quietly evacuated, but this one... brutally wiped everything out with an explosion!
This is the first time such intense signs of destruction have been seen.

"Go back and report, see if they want to send an earth mage to dig. But I guess even if they dig, they won't find anything."

"Sigh..." His companion put away his bow and arrows, looking towards the direction of the royal city. "How long will it take for the captain's injuries to heal? That human swordsman was so ruthless! He's a real scoundrel!"

(End of this chapter)