This dungeon has mushrooms growing on it.

Chapter 91, Section 90: Someone Stole the Net (Seeking First Subscription)

At the sixth step.

Under the infusion of magic, mycelium gradually grew out from inside the steps.

A green slime is stuck to the wall, feeding on the mycelium that grows along the edge of the exit.

Wave--

Several mushroom blasts hit, blasting out large amounts of slime that scattered all over the surrounding area.

Despite losing a significant amount of body fluid and shrinking to two sizes, the green slime still clung to the wall, intending to continue feeding on the mycelium.

The Puji had to fire two more rounds of mushroom cannons before the core of this slime slime was finally destroyed.

However, a little while later, new slimes appeared...

Some slimes are very small, and a single mushroom cannon shot can indeed kill them, but the mycelium growing around them is also blasted into countless fragments by their own attacks.

It is certain that the botanical garden environment on the sixth floor is indeed very suitable for slimes to survive, and their numbers are much greater than on the previous floors.

Some variants have also emerged, such as the multi-core slime formed by the fusion of multiple slimes.

After the Puji attacked it, it exploded into a pile of individual slimes on the ground. Then, they pounced on it from all directions, surrounding the Puji. By the time the other Puji rescued it, it had already been half-digested.

Although the slime caused some damage, it was only a waste of magic power for Lin Jun, and the mycelium continued to spread steadily on the stone wall.

Once it spreads to the dome, just like the previous layers, it will eat all the fireflies on top and replace them with fluorescent mushrooms.

What troubled Lin Jun more was the ground.

Unlike the previous floors, the ground floor of the sixth-floor botanical garden is divided into smaller, more compact sections.

A flower fairy will mark out a territory within a ten-meter radius around it. Any other monsters that intrude or grow in will either be killed or driven away.

The false flower vine will strangle other creatures attracted by the honey scent, and even passing Puji will be poisoned.

The Fairy Orchid emits a bewitching blue light that lures prey into its trap. However, this poses little threat to Puji, who is controlled by Lin Jun and is immune to the bewitching.

In short, various plant-type monsters and a small number of animal-type monsters have divided the sixth floor into many small territories.

Unless Lin Jun adopts a sweeping, extermination-style approach like the Five Layers, the Puji will find it difficult to advance very far on the ground.

Without the protection of the ground-level mycelium, the mycelium far from the steps becomes a free lunch for the slimes.

The reason why the fifth level launched the extermination operation was because Lin Jun needed a stable base, while for the other levels, what he needed was the skills of the monsters in the ecosystem, not the level itself.

The next four layers of Lin Jun all chose to occupy spaces that the local creatures did not need, and then attacked slimes to complete the creep coverage.

And the six-layered native plants... there is no unnecessary space on the ground.

Even if Lin Jun is willing to destroy part of the ecosystem and forcibly open a safety passage in the botanical garden, it is conceivable that she will have to face an endless tug-of-war with the local plants in order to maintain the safety passage.

It's a thankless task, and that's not what Lin Jun wants.

Lin Jun did come up with some solutions to this problem.

If the ground can't accommodate Puji, then let Puji climb up the stone wall along with the mycelium!

There are three selectable skills.

[Suction Cup LV3]

It was obtained from a small lizard during the demonic tide and can be used to adhere to walls.

However, since Puji doesn't have hands, it will probably have to combine the suckers with the mycelial tentacles in order to move.

To be honest, just imagining Puji climbing the wall with its tentacles made Lin Jun feel a bit grotesque.

Another type is like these green slimes.

[Digestive Mucus LV6]

The way these green slimes climb walls is essentially no different from that of snails.

Their mucus serves both as a digestive fluid and as a way to stick their bodies to walls.

Logically speaking, adding a "corrosion resistance" attribute to Puji should also allow it to be used for wall mounting.

The problem is that the Puji not only need to climb the wall, but also attack the slime from the wall.

The recoil of the mushroom cannon is so great that the stickiness of the slime alone wouldn't be enough to keep it stable; it would fall off the rock wall after just one shot.

As for the last one...

【Rock Eater LV4】 Obtained from the extinct Rock Lizard on the fifth floor. Its effect is to eat the surrounding rocks and then cover its body with a layer of rock armor.

If there are no footholds on the rock face, just create your own!

Puji are produced directly on the rock wall. After being born, the Puji starts eating the rocks around it, then merges its rock armor with the rock wall, eventually becoming something like a fixed turret.

This thing is beautiful and practical, but its shortcomings are also obvious—it has a low cost-performance ratio.

With the same amount of resources, the Puji, which can move around and mobilize resources, will definitely be more useful.

Fortunately, I currently have a solar-powered magic generator, so I don't lack magic power for the time being.

If you are not satisfied with the first two options, choose this one as a backup.

……

While Lin Jun was still sculpting the newly designed Puji shape, a large black mushroom came down from the fifth floor to the sixth floor.

"Little Black? What are we going to do today? Fight the turtle on the seventh floor?"

"Beat the green man!"

"Little Black, those are tree people, you can't just attack green people, you know that?"

"Ok!"

Hmm my foot!
Lin Jun knew she definitely didn't understand from how quickly she agreed!
When Xiao Hei couldn't understand, Lin Jun would explain it to her repeatedly.

Over time, this guy actually learned to pretend to understand and just mumbled "uh-huh" to brush it off.

This is so damn worrying!
Speaking of which, Lin Jun from the Shuren area released some spores last time, wanting to see if mushrooms could take over the ecological niche of moss.

Now that Xiao Hei is leading the way, let's go check it out while we're at it.

Skillfully separating four Puji to follow Xiao Hei, Lin Jun once again immersed most of her consciousness in pinching Puji.

This is a delicate task; if you don't get the corresponding form right, the skills you equip won't be of any use.

However, before she could immerse herself in it for long, an unfamiliar voice in the mushroom network interrupted Lin Jun.

"Mushroom, Overlord, you have appeared once again!"

???

I looked up the source of the signal, and it's... the Treant Forest?
what?
The Puji followed Xiao Hei, violently traversing several plant-type monster territories before finally reaching the entrance to the forest.

Lin Jun finally met the owner of the signal—a tree spirit covered in mushrooms!
It looks somewhat familiar. After trying hard to recall, I realized that this tree spirit seems to be the one whose limbs were torn off by Xiao Hei back then.
It looks like it's grown back now!
Plant-type monsters have incredibly powerful regenerative abilities.

No, you're focusing on the wrong thing...

These tree spirits actually possessed advanced intelligence!?

Look at how smoothly he spoke before, at least more fluently than Xiao Hei!
Speaking of Xiao Hei, this guy is already all geared up for a beating.

"Hey Black, wait a minute! Let's stop playing for a bit, okay?"

"We must fight the green man!"

They really are cuckolds!

But now is not the time to argue with her.

We decisively unleashed the most effective weapon we've recently used against Xiao Hei!

"Be good, I'll give you a glass bead in a bit!"

Sure enough, as soon as it heard about the glass beads, Xiao Hei instantly turned into a well-behaved baby.

They ran to the side and started playing with the tree roots that were pulled up from the ground.

Meanwhile, a little guy from the fifth floor ran to Xiao Hei's mushroom house and pulled out two intact glass beads from a room full of broken glass, intending to give them to Xiao Hei later.

Having dealt with the little brat, Lin Jun finally had time to pay attention to the tree demon who had been left out and had just narrowly escaped death.

“That… um…”

Pulling open the panel, there was no name; it was confirmed to be a barbarian.

"Mr. Tree Spirit, what brings you to my home network?"

　Thanks to the guild leader "青灯醉人间" for the alliance!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)