94. Mushroom herder

"My name is Gordon Rainy Night, thank you for saving me, kind adventurer." The rescued man was a middle-aged man who looked to be in his forties, and his stomach began to rumble before he could say a word. "Sorry, it's rude, do you have anything to eat?"

"My name is CarrΓ©, and I'm curious why you're soaking in water?" Lin Wen asked suspiciously after handing Gordon a piece of dry food. Gordon was the man Lin Wen found in the water on the wooden bridge, and Lin Wen also worked hard to get him out of the swamp.

"Well, that's a long story." Gordon ate the dry food and began to tell the story little by little.

It turns out that Gordon is a resident of Spore Village, and he is also a well-known mushroom herder in Spore Village, and to put it bluntly, he is a naturalist who mainly grows mushrooms. And Gordon is different from the villagers who grow edible mushrooms in that Gordon grows magic mushrooms. As for why he was unconscious in the water, it was because Gordon had discovered a wonderful sleeping mushroom before, and accidentally stuck some mushroom spores in the process of collecting it, and then fell unconscious until it was discovered by Lin Wen.

"Let's take a look at this." Gordon stretched out his hand and waved on the dirt next to him, and a few blue light spots fell into the dirt, and then several mushrooms with blue patterns grew at a speed visible to the naked eye, and they grew to the size of a palm in a few seconds, "This is a meltwater mushroom, after eating it, you can breathe freely underwater for 15 minutes, or it can be made into a powerful underwater breathing potion by an alchemist, which lasts for two hours!" ”

"Really?" Lin Wen expressed disbelief and took the mushroom from Gordon's hand and looked at it.

Meltwater Mushroom (Normal): Consumes an underwater breathing effect that lasts for 15 minutes. Note: It can be used as a substitute for thorn algae as alchemy material.

Hey, really, it can be used in place of other magic materials, which is quite remarkable.

It's a magical world, and a lot of things require magical materials, alchemy, forging, inscriptions, enchantments...... The usefulness of magic is almost everywhere, so there is a very high demand for magic materials in this world.

However, the production of many magic materials is very scarce, and in the case of Thorn Algae, Thorn Algae is an important material for making water-based potions. However, thorn algae usually grows in water at a depth of ten meters, and the production is scarce, and the scarcity of raw materials makes water-based chemicals, especially underwater respirators, in short supply all year round, and the use of Gordon's meltwater mushrooms can perfectly solve this problem.

Compared to thorn algae, which grows under harsh conditions, meltwater mushrooms can harvest a large number of crops in a few days with only one piece of culture medium, enough humidity and temperature, which can be described as an amazing yield.

"Would you like to visit Spore Village? I can lead the way, but before I can do that, I'll have to collect the Sleep Mushrooms. After eating the dry food, Gordon finally regained some energy, and then stood up and said to Lin Wen.

"Of course." It would be nice to have a local to lead the way.

Gordon looked left and right, determined his position, and then walked towards the northeast, Lin Wen followed Gordon for a long time, and soon entered a swamp composed of pure mushrooms, and a thin smoke filled the air.

"Put this on." Gordon handed Lin Wen a strange mask, the mask was soft enough to wrap the face tightly, and at the eye area were two transparent glass bottles, and the mouth part was a cylindrical structure.

Gas mask? Lin Wen looked at the mask in his hand in some surprise.

"Those smoke are all mushroom spores, and although it won't be fatal if you smoke too much, it can also make people uncomfortable for a long time." Gordon put on his mask and said to Lin Wen, because his voice was a little dull because he put on the mask. "And this mask can block those spores."

Lin Wen turned around and put on the mask under Gordon's strange gaze, and then Gordon remembered that although the two had been chatting for so long, he didn't even know the appearance and gender of the young man in front of him, and he could only hear from his voice that he was fifteen or sixteen years old. At this age, boys and girls speak in similar voices.

"For some special reasons, I can't let people see my face." Lin Wen explained when he saw Gordon's puzzled gaze. "And I'm a man, and my face isn't pretty."

"Okay, okay." Gordon nodded, Gordon had seen a lot of this kind of adventurer who didn't want to show his face. If it is a woman, then most of them are as beautiful as flowers, and they have a great background, if they are men, then they may be disfigured because of an accident, or they may have a miserable life, such as the death of their parents, or being kicked out by the family or something. In a word...... Just smile.

Lin Wen and Gordon shuttled through the mushroom forest, and the most in the entire mushroom forest was a blue-gray giant mushroom, which could grow more than ten meters tall and more than a dozen people hugged each other.

"It's called the giant umbrella mushroom, it can't be eaten, but the fiber is hard and won't rot, and Spore Village uses this mushroom as a house." Following Lin Wen's gaze, Gordon began to introduce Lin Wen, "If you want to build a house, just find a vacant land, sprinkle spores, and ask a mushroom herder to cast a spell to catalyze, and it will grow to the maximum in a day or two." Then you can hollow out the middle of the mushroom stalk, and at least make a small cottage with a three-story building with its own rooftop. ”

"It's amazing." Lin Wen exclaimed, then looked at the strange creatures running around on the ground that seemed to be a mixture of crabs and mushrooms and asked, "What about the one crawling around on the ground?" ”

"It's called mushroom crab, a specialty of the mushroom forest, mushrooms and crabs grow together, you can eat mushroom-flavored crab meat when cooked in water, it tastes great, I'll invite you to eat it when you go back to the village." In fact, when he said this, Gordon was thinking, you can't eat with a mask, you must have to show your face then.

After walking for a while, Gordon finally stopped and motioned for Lin Wen to stand a little farther away, "There is a monster here called the Berserk Mushroom Crab, which is the enlarged version of the Furious Mushroom Crab just mentioned, but the Berserk Mushroom Crab is poisonous and will take the initiative to attack other creatures, be careful." ”

"Don't worry, I'm a hunter." Lin Wen took out the rifle from his backpack and loaded it with a click.

The sleepy mushroom Gordon spoke of was very inconspicuous, skinny, blue-gray in color, and looked like a low stool, but the spores under the mushroom's umbrella lid were churning like smoke.

Gordon slowly bent down with a small rake, scraped some mycelium under the cover of the sleeping mushroom umbrella, and with the mycelium, he could take it back and plant it himself. Gordon's movements are very slow, and if he accidentally disturbs the airflow and allows the spores of the sleeping mushroom to stick to his skin, he will be in a coma for half a day, so he must be careful.

But at this moment, Lin Wen found that two big guys were walking towards him.

"Gordon, there's something." Lin Wen shouted at Gordon with his gun.