Chapter 11: Spore Jungle
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"This is the beauty that only heaven can have. Vivien looked at the scene in front of her with fascination, and couldn't help but admire: "It's like a fairy tale in the forest, are we really in this world?
What appeared in front of the four of them was a huge space, a huge space that was visually measured at least two or three hundred thousand square meters. The dome of the space was hidden in the darkness and could not be seen at all, and the ground of the space was covered with a faint halo. Although the halo was dim, it covered the entire ground, illuminating the space within half a meter above the ground.
Between breaths, from the different heights of the huge space, countless points of light suddenly poured out at the same time, and the points of light flew high into the sky as much as possible, and then slowly spread and fall. For a time, hundreds of millions of light points fluttered in the huge space, like starlight, embellishing the huge space like a gorgeous night sky, and under the illumination of hundreds of millions of stars, people in the space could see the surrounding environment clearly.
It is a huge natural cave, the size of a human being, and standing in the center of the cave is as small as gravel. The huge cave is covered with countless mushrooms of different heights, the shortest one is only one meter high, and the umbrella handle can be surrounded by one person, and the highest one is hundreds of meters high, and the diameter of the umbrella handle is even more than ten meters. At the top of the mushrooms, the canopy is staggered and uneven in size, with the largest canopy measuring 100 meters in diameter.
Countless points of light are actually countless glowing mushroom spores, gushing out from the mushroom's canopy and slowly falling after floating in the air for a period of time, some of which fall to the ground from the gaps between the dense canopies, and some of which are slowly covered on the canopy of the lower mushrooms, glowing, waiting to continue their descent journey with the newly produced spores in the next eruption.
The point of light gradually fell, and the sky was swallowed up by darkness little by little again, but the girls knew that they would never forget the brilliant scene of the fall of hundreds of millions of stars in their lives.
"This is the Spore Jungle, also known as the Mushroom Forest. These mushrooms are all demonic plants, and they belong to the most demonic creatures in the entire lower cavern that are friendly to ordinary creatures. They will spew out a large number of spores from time to time, these spores are completely harmless to ordinary creatures in addition to choking people to cough, but for demonized creatures, the spores that have just been spewed out are the most terrible poison, and weak demonized creatures can cause death as long as they are touched by a little, even if they are powerful monsters, it is difficult to survive when they are covered by spores. Pannis said, pulling a piece of silk from his backpack, covering his face and covering his nose, and leaving the waterhole.
The moment the girls left the waterhole and stepped on the ground, they found that what they were stepping on was not a hard rock, but it was soft as if they had stepped on a layer of velvet blanket.
"Is this the poison of demonic creatures?" Catherine looked thoughtfully at the sea of spores under her feet: "Then let's carry some with us, can we easily win when we encounter monsters?"
"No way. Pannis slowly walked into the scope of the mushroom forest: "After this spor is ejected from the mushroom's body, it will lose its toxicity to demonized creatures in five minutes, and after three hours, it will lose its ability to emit light and turn into ordinary spore powder. For omnivorous or phytophorous monsters such as demon rats, demonized boars, demonized cave-dwelling apes, and demonized rock wall beasts, these inactive spores are the most delicious food, so sometimes some weak monsters come here to feed. However, the spore eruptions are timely, and the guys who go too deep are turned into corpses to feed the mushrooms. ”
"Interesting loop. Catherine took off her gloves and reached out to stroke the handle of a mushroom. The handle was rough and dry to the touch, but it was as hard as a rock: "It's so hard? It's strange, why doesn't anyone make armor out of this material? That's a lot of money." ”
"Don't think about it. Pannis pointed to the thinnest mushroom: "You cut it and you'll understand." ”
"I see, the texture changes when you cut it. Catherine said as she kept her hands in her hands, and her fighting spirit poured into the knight's sword and slashed across the handle of the umbrella. The fighting spirit of the golden rank made the knight's sword indestructible, and with a huge piercing sound of metal colliding, the mushroom less than a meter tall fell to the ground with a bang. Reaching out and touching the broken mushroom, Catherine was stunned: "It's really exaggerated, it's actually as soft as an ordinary mushroom." ”
"Let's go. Pannis didn't dwell on this question anymore and waved his hand: "It's been more than half of today, and there is still a lot of way to go, at least to get to the next resting point." ”
"The next resting point? do you need to rest in a fixed place here?" Catherine frowned, a little worried, "This often means that there will be frequent dangers in other places, and this is also true in caves, right?"
"That's right. "And even the rest point is not absolutely safe, it can only be said that there will be less danger." ”
While talking, the four of them had walked to the edge of the spore carpet beyond the mushroom forest. The further you walked out, the more sparse the light emitted by the spores on the ground became, and the ground more than ten meters away returned to pitch black, as if you would fall into the endless void if you stepped on it.
"It's getting dark again. Lina muttered dissatisfiedly, "I really don't want to go in, I always feel like there's a monster hidden inside." Hey, Vivien, what are you doing there? ”
Vivien didn't know when she had stopped, squatted on the ground, staring at the thick spore remains on the ground, pinching a little with her hand from time to time to take a closer look, and even smearing a little on the tip of her nose, her face was full of concentration, and she didn't hear Lina's call at all.
"Pannis, wait a minute. Lina called out to Pannis: "Miss Ben, go on, that idiot, this guy has made another mistake." Supposedly, she doesn't usually do that during her adventures. ”
"Hey, Lina, what are you doing. Lina, who was running back to her, grabbed her collar and carried her in the air, and Vivien waved her limbs in the air like a cat: "Let me down, let me down, this is a treasure, the most amazing treasure, let me down, I want to confirm again." ”
"What the hell is going on. Lina scolded angrily: "Everyone will be gone in a while, leaving you here alone." Hurry up and follow. ”
"No, absolutely not. This time Vivien did not back down: "If I am not mistaken, this will definitely lead to the greatest invention in two hundred years." Let me just miss it, I'd rather die with these spores. ”
"Alright, alright. Seeing that Vivien had been pulled to her side, Catherine gently touched Vivian's short ponytail hanging outside her helmet, and gently advised: "Vivien, who won't miss it, will pass by here when we come back anyway, and when we come back, we will let you study it carefully." By the way, Mr. Pannis, I'll go from here when I get back, I remember you said there was a passage here. ”
"Yes. Pannis nodded in confirmation, "Moreover, in the lower caverns, there are three known spore jungles, this is the largest one, and there are two more nearby." Tonight's rest point is actually one of the smaller ones, and there will be plenty of time then. ”
"Look, Vivien. Catherine patted Vivien on the shoulder and smiled reassuringly, "So let's go." ”
"Well, okay. Vivien looked at the spores on the ground with a face full of struggle and reluctance, quickly squatted down and grabbed a handful, put it into an empty pocket, and her voice was almost crying: "Let's go." ”
Seeing Catherine smile apologetically trying to explain something, Pannis shrugged indifferently: "I can understand, fanatical researchers are like this, and I've seen crazy people who dissected themselves." ”
Turning around and taking the three maidens with him, Pannis stepped back onto the dark ground. As they progressed, the glowing jungle of spores was gradually left behind the four. Although they were swallowed up by the darkness again, the girls seemed to have adjusted their minds to the beauty of the spore jungle, and had adapted to the boundless darkness around them, returning to the state they had used to be when they were adventuring in various places, and they were not at all nervous when they first entered the lower caverns.
Just as he was about to reach one of the several exits of the giant cavern in his memory, Pennis stopped.
"What's ......" Catherine immediately drew her knight's sword and entered a state of alert, but found that there was nothing abnormal around, and couldn't help but ask in doubt, but before she could finish speaking, she was interrupted by a silent gesture made by Pannis. With the faint light emitted by the light attribute spar on the helmet, it can be seen that Pannis's ears exposed outside the helmet actually moved quickly, and at the same time, his nose twitched, trying his best to explore the taste around him: "Bad luck, the more you want to hurry, the more accidents will happen." Let's go, let's go back. ”
Without hesitation or inquiry, the girls of Nelly's adventure group turned around and ran after Pennis, until they returned to the range of the mushroom forest on the spore carpet, and then Pannis looked around, looked up and pointed to an umbrella cover with a height of more than twenty meters and a diameter of more than ten meters, and said, "Let's go up." ”
Catherine looked up at the environment around the umbrella cover, and without speaking, she directly carried Vivian beside her, and her fighting spirit was stimulated, and she borrowed force four times from several umbrella covers of different heights, and she had already appeared above the umbrella cover.
It wasn't until he saw Lina, who was equally agile with her hands and feet, jumping and climbing in the canopy, and within seconds poking her head out of the edge of the canopy, that Pannis jumped up and followed the path of Catherine's jump, falling to a height of twenty meters.
Unlike many mushrooms, the mushroom Pannis chose has a very small tilt at the top of the canopy, which can almost be said to be flat, and the very rough texture of the canopy makes it easy for people to stand on the edge of the canopy without worrying about slipping off.
Twenty meters in the air, it has been out of the range of the spore carpet on the ground, and the surroundings have become dark again, only the canopies of some other mushrooms, far or near, high or low, because the spores that have not slipped off the top still emit a faint light. It wasn't until Pannis sat down on the edge of the canopy that Catherine asked her doubts, "Are there monsters?"
"Yes. Pannis's gaze was fixed on the exit he was about to pass by: "It's the smell of caveworms." It must have been nearby, attracted by the smell of the eruption of spores. ”
"Demonized caveman ape?" Lina thought for a moment: "The bronze level group monster has lost its ability to climb in the cave, but with its strong forelimbs, it can quickly walk through narrow caves, and its sharp claws can easily tear through armor, and it is a unique creature in caves." Are you talking about this kind of monster?"
"This is it. Pannis was a little surprised: "Have you seen it?"
"Well, of course Miss Ben has seen it. Lina snorted proudly and added, "On page 497 of the Monster Illustrated Book." But just a bronze-level demonic beast, what's so scary?"
"There's nothing to be afraid of, if they don't live in groups of at least a thousand, there's really nothing to be afraid of. It is said that a large colony of more than 50,000 individuals has been seen in the past two years. In a very relaxed tone, Pannis said something that made people gasp: "It's a good thing that Miss Vivien delayed a little time, otherwise she would have just bumped into her head-on when she walked out." If it's a small community, but if it's a large community, I'm afraid we won't want to leave without a full day of fighting. ”