This dungeon has mushrooms growing on it.

Chapter 311, Section 310: Sightseeing
"What's that?" Little Blue pointed to a small white monster in the distance.

“That’s a rabbit,” Puji replied from his shoulder.

"A rabbit?" Little Blue's huge wolf head was filled with confusion. "How could this be a rabbit?"

"Why not a rabbit?" Puji retorted.

Little Blue gestured and said, "A rabbit must be twice as tall as me! Its teeth are sharp enough to crush stones, and it can jump extremely high with a push of its hind legs..."

Upon hearing his description, Lin Jun immediately understood that he was referring to the ferocious monster known as the "Cracked Tooth Beast" on the tenth floor.

“Oh, you mean the big rabbit,” Puji readily agreed, shaking his mushroom cap. “This is a small rabbit, a different breed.”

Actually, they weren't rabbits.

"I see." Little Blue nodded the wolf's head. Big Mushroom really knows a lot.

He looked around at the various creatures scattered throughout the cave and couldn't help but exclaim, "Come to think of it, I didn't know you had so many of your kind!"

“That’s normal,” Lin Jun said matter-of-factly. “For a weakling like me, survival naturally depends on numbers!”

Xiao Lan nodded in deep agreement; he understood this principle.

He stretched out his huge wolf paw and gently patted Puji's mushroom cap: "Don't worry! I'll protect you from now on! Apart from those old guys, no one in the tribe can beat me!"

As they walked, Xiao Lan looked up at the mushroom clusters emitting a faint glow on the cave ceiling and asked a new question: "Speaking of which... why can't we see the sun and moon here?"

"Because this is still deep inside the underground city, of course we can't see the sun or the moon."

"This...is still an underground city?!" Xiao Lan stared wide-eyed in shock, looking around at the unimaginably vast space. "It's this big?! I thought..."

He clearly thought the underground city was only the size of the floor he lived on.

"Don't worry, let's skip this one. I'll take you to see the sun and moon next time. By the way, are you afraid of the cold?"

"Cold?" Little Blue patted its thick, slightly messy chest hair proudly, as if it had heard a joke. "I've never been afraid!"

Lin Jun looked at his level six [Cold Resistance] on his panel and gave a noncommittal "hmm".

Suddenly, Xiao Lan gently put Puji on the ground, instantly dropped to the ground on all fours, arched her back high, and entered a full battle stance!
His nostrils twitched rapidly: "It's the smell of a human!"

The long-term bounty for the werewolf fangs is now displayed on the quest board in the guild hall, which speaks volumes about the werewolves' attitude towards humans.

However, this time is clearly different.

"Wait, that's not..."

Xiao Lan had already rushed out. He landed on all fours and crossed the passage at an extremely fast speed. He immediately spotted the silver humanoid figure reflecting light ahead. He then used his hind legs to push off and pounced forward with the momentum of hunting prey!
Just as he was about to fall, Jida, who was next to Norris, stepped forward first and slammed his left arm into Little Blue.

Little Blue didn't take the creature, which was about the size of a large rabbit, seriously at all, and swung its wolf claws, intending to tear it to shreds.

[Aaaaaaah!]
"Awoooooo!"

Little Blue's wolf claws collided violently with the seemingly inconspicuous square yellow shield, snapping off two of its claws and causing blood to gush out instantly!

What shocked him even more was that after he stopped, he realized that the human-smelling creature in front of him was not human at all!

"What are you?!" he roared, enduring the pain.

From a distance, he mistook the silver scales covering the other's entire body for the reflection of human armor!
"A werewolf?" Norris recognized werewolves and didn't panic.

Although he himself is only at the silver level, he has a wide variety of skills, and with the addition of Jida, this werewolf in front of him might not be his match in a real fight.

Moreover, he immediately realized that if this happened on his own turf, it was probably the boss up to something again.

Sure enough, Puji flew over and landed on the wolf's head. "I kept you waiting!" Puji rubbed its rear end against the wolf's head. "This is a friend, Norris, the half-lizardman!"

Norris muttered to himself, "Is it another half-lizardman today...?"

"A half-lizardman?" Little Blue sniffed, still puzzled. "But the smell is clearly human!"

Have you ever encountered a half-lizardman before?

Xiao Lan honestly shook his head. In fact, he didn't even know exactly what a "lizardman" was.

“That makes sense!” Puji concluded confidently. “This means that the scents of half-lizardmen and humans are actually quite similar!”

Although the information coming from her nose still felt like something was wrong, Xiao Lan was eventually convinced and nodded the wolf's head.

"Stop being so dramatic," Puji kept patting Xiaolan's nose. "If you keep doing this, I'll just send you back."

"Sorry, I thought it was one of those cunning humans..."

"Alright, alright, just be careful from now on. It's a good opportunity for you two to become friends."

After a brief introduction, Lin Jun decisively handed over the task of "leading Xiao Lan on a tour" to Norris.

So, Xiao Lan lingered in this bizarre underground world for three whole days!
During those three days, he seemed to have an endless stream of "whys" to ask; he devoured the super delicious mushrooms; he and Norris quickly went from an awkward first encounter to becoming inseparable best friends; and he even fought several battles with various monsters he had never seen before.

Happy times always fly by, and when he stepped back onto the stairs to the tenth floor, he felt a little reluctant to leave.

But Puji said he can come down anytime in the future, and he can come back to play with the big mushroom and the half-lizardman in a few days!
"You're alive! We thought you'd been eaten by rabbits!" As soon as he returned to the settlement, several familiar werewolves surrounded him.

"Can't you say something nice..." Little Blue flicked its tail impatiently, then corrected in a serious tone, "Besides, it's called 'Big Rabbit'!"

"what?"

……

In the werewolf settlement, Little Blue excitedly gestured with all four limbs, describing to the other werewolves what he had seen "below"—the vast world, the strange monsters, the glowing and delicious mushrooms, and his "half-lizardman" friends.

His rambling yet passionate narration attracted many young werewolves, whose eyes sparkled with curiosity and longing.

Gradually, even some gray-haired old werewolves were drawn over, their brows furrowed.

They had a fierce argument with Xiao Lan, which even escalated into a physical fight.

Xiao Lan was eventually knocked unconscious and dragged back like a dead dog.

Lin Jun watched the whole thing with great interest, but didn't rush to help Xiao Lan out of the predicament.

He knew very well that at most, Xiao Lan's freedom of movement would be restricted, and there would be no real danger to her life.

The current situation was something Lin Jun, who had been monitoring the werewolves for a long time, had anticipated.

Little Blue was just the first werewolf to emerge from the tenth level...
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Five floors.

Horn knelt on a carpet of fungal growth with a puji-like figure, staring at the dagger in his hand that shimmered with magical light, making his final mental preparations.

"The horn...maybe we should just forget about it..." Priest Noah said worriedly, covering his mouth.

Old Hammer and Amy didn't speak, but their eyes clearly showed their disapproval of Horn's approach.

However, Horn simply shook his head: "A gambling debt of three hundred gold coins... that's all I can do! Noah, I'm counting on you from now on!"

After saying that, he closed his eyes and stabbed himself in the abdomen!

(End of this chapter)