This dungeon has mushrooms growing on it.

Chapter 388, Section 387: Little Black's Contractual Spirit

"Roar--"

Faced with Xiao Hei's threatening hunchback and growl, Qiong decisively raised her hands to indicate that she meant no harm and slowly backed away.

Everyone in the Mushroom Garden knows that if you have a conflict with someone, you can ask the boss to make a decision; the boss really enjoys doing that kind of thing.

But if you offend Xiao Hei, then you can only blame yourself for being unlucky.

Fortunately, although Xiao Hei is not smart, it has its own set of behavioral logic.

After spending a long time in the mushroom farm, everyone knew how to deal with it, and it had become a common practice for everyone to carry one or two glass beads in their pockets.

But today, these ordinary glass beads have clearly lost their former charm.

Compared to that pure, translucent, and radiant precious gem, they were completely outshone.

In the corner, two dwarves watched the demons who were blocked on the outskirts and dared not move forward, feeling that the situation was becoming more and more bizarre.

It's unbelievable that the two shrinking scrolls that Kiro gave them came in so quickly and even saved their lives!

At this moment, they were even more curious about the "luck" that Kiro always talked about. Unfortunately, they had already parted ways and did not know when they would be able to meet again. Given their current situation, it was possible that they would not even meet again.

But clearly even Kiro didn't expect that they would escape to the territory of the demons!
Look at these guys!

Half-demons, lizardmen, demons, vampires... and this dragonman... without a doubt, they accidentally stumbled into the demons' lair.

When Torrin and Glenn realized their predicament, they both felt they were doomed.

They were locked in cages, but fortunately the demons didn't seem to intend to freeze them into icicles, so they brought over a strange, buzzing creature.

The heat emanating from the creature barely kept the two alive, while the demons focused on dealing with the spatial rift.

But this did not change their fate. Recalling the various rumors they had heard in the tavern, both of them could foresee their own end.

They either become slave laborers or blood animals to feed vampires, which is tragic and might be worse than dying!
Just when all hope seemed lost, a tall dragon-man with thick black scales walked out of the cage, his clear eyes particularly striking.

Torin thought the dragon woman was after his tender flesh, but Grum corrected him: "Your flesh isn't tender at all, and what she's looking at is the pendant around your neck!"

Surprisingly, although the dragon-man kept staring at the gem pendant with such intense longing in his eyes, he showed no intention of trying to snatch it from the two prisoners.

After a series of chaotic hand gestures, they actually managed to use the pendant as a bargaining chip to persuade the dragonman to break free of the cage!
Unfortunately, this seemingly dim-witted dragonman clearly didn't understand the meaning of their "stealthy operation," and the loud noise immediately attracted everyone else's attention.

Now, they are completely surrounded.

……

The little pig stood with its arms crossed, watching from afar, showing no intention of interfering.

The mushroom farm now has a large workforce, and the leader has begun to define the responsibilities of each core member.

She was responsible for training prisoners mixed with cave dwellers into the Puji Legion, which could cooperate in battle.

Hunt was in charge of the construction and defense of the city in the far north, while Spark, in addition to his own birth ceremony, was also responsible for some diplomatic activities with other tribes in the north.

Norris was responsible for training the Jida warriors, as well as handling various miscellaneous tasks.

Simply put, the two prisoners were actually under Norris's jurisdiction, and the little pig had no intention of getting involved.

Inside the mushroom web, Norris asked, "Boss, can't we just let Sister Black leave?" The boss didn't reply for a long time.

Knowing that the boss couldn't possibly not hear it, it was obvious that he wanted to see him make a fool of himself again.

Norris sighed, lamenting the terrible working conditions, and stepped out, pushing through the crowd.

"Roar!" It has to be said that Xiao Hei's contractual spirit is stronger than that of many adventurers; he still bares his teeth and snarls when facing acquaintances.

Norris grabbed his animal skin coat, ripped it off, and threw it behind him; the silver scales shimmered in the glow of the fluorescent mushroom.

Little Black blinked as it was shaken, and its roars became much softer, almost turning into gurgling sounds.

Norris then took out several silver scales from his pouch. These were scales that had fallen during the battle with Karen, which Norris had cleaned and collected, specifically for this kind of situation.

Watching the silver scales swaying back and forth in Norris's hand, Little Black fell completely silent and involuntarily moved closer and closer to Norris.

At this point, Tolin shouted anxiously, "Wait! I still have some! I'll raise the price! Raise the price!"

Seeing that his lifeline was about to turn against him, the dwarf hurriedly pulled out four more top-quality gems that shimmered with light from his pocket.

Although he didn't understand what the dwarf was saying, Xiao Hei could understand the action of shoving the gem in front of him.

Several gems vanished from Tolin's hands in an instant, and no one except Lin Jun could see where Xiao Hei had hidden them.

"Roar!!!" The louder roar forced everyone to retreat!

With no one daring to actually make a move, the two dwarves simply followed Little Black away.

Watching Xiao Hei's disappearing figure, Norris felt inexplicably lost, yet something about his loss seemed off.
Then, with the boss's words, that disappointment turned into pain: "Norris's mission to guard the prisoners has failed. The restriction that Karen is not allowed to ambush has been lifted."

"Yay! Boss is the best!" Karen's cheers came from the corner.

Norris: "..."

He's already starting to think about where he can safely sleep tonight.

……

As for the two dwarves, they ran out of the Stone Castle dungeon together with Little Black, amidst the strange gazes of many unsuspecting lizardmen and half-demons.

As they passed through the new city under construction, they saw in the distance that half of the walls had already been erected, and the demons working within them.

No one stopped them along the way, and there were no pursuers.

After running around for most of the day, the sleepy and hungry Little Black poked Torin's little bag with the tip of its tail, indicating that it was time to give her a new sparkly item.

After confirming that there were no new gems, Xiao Hei flew back to the mushroom garden without hesitation, ate a passing Puji, took out the few super shiny gems from the gaps in its scales, and went back to its mushroom house to sleep.

Not only did Torin and Glenn suddenly lose their support, but the hot poop they had grabbed while fleeing also inexplicably went limp and fell still.

Although somewhat uneasy, now that they had escaped, they continued running south towards freedom, warming themselves by the firewood.

Two days later, several poop-like creatures dragged two short people, frozen stiff in the snow, back to the mushroom garden.

(End of this chapter)