"What the hell is this situation?"
At the entrance to the sixth floor's stairway, a group of adventurers was forced to halt their descent because the stairs were completely packed...
Puffshrooms were crammed into the stairway entrance, going down in batches, completely blocking the path so the adventurers couldn't squeeze through at all.
People's tolerance for strange phenomena was constantly being refreshed. The adventurers used to be amazed beyond belief when they saw the big black mushrooms traversing the stairs, but now seeing puffshrooms collectively going downstairs didn't surprise them much anymore.
It's just that...
The adventurers looked back at the long queue of puffshrooms behind them and complained:
"How long is it going to take for all of them to get through?"
...
On the sixth floor, the mushroom cannons in the southwest corner had been firing non-stop for most of the day. Quite a few artillery puffshrooms had overworked their mycelium to the point of misfiring.
The bottom row of gun emplacements on the rock wall had suffered particularly badly, being directly overrun by large slimes that either digested them completely or left them half-digested and dead in their stone shells.
The slimes had even tried to devour the gun emplacements higher up, but as the slope turned into a reverse incline, the slimes found climbing increasingly difficult and were ultimately beaten back under the concentrated fire of the remaining gun emplacements.
Unfortunately, the remaining gun emplacements on the rock wall were too far away and could only randomly bombard the area below with limited effectiveness.
Lin Jun was commanding this sudden decisive battle against the slimes.
The rock pit had long been breached, forcing Lin Jun to have the puffshrooms retreat and regroup with the first wave of reinforcements from the fifth floor, establishing a quarantine zone.
Over two hundred artillery puffshrooms surrounded the corner where the small mountain was located, trying to prevent those large slimes from spreading out.
At one corner of the defense line, over twenty puffshrooms were retreating while fighting under pressure from three slimes.
The nearest slime, having taken the most hits, had lost massive amounts of bodily fluid to explosions and was now less than human height.
Another round of mushroom cannons struck, and this time without enough mucus for defense, the core hiding inside its body was also affected and destroyed. The entire slime immediately turned into a puddle of liquid.
However, the situation wasn't good. The two slimes further away were both two meters tall, and several cannon shots to their surfaces only made them shrink slightly—their health bars were still long!
One of the slimes leaped across several paces, caught up with a puffshroom that had fallen behind, enveloped it, and successfully engaged the puffshrooms in close combat.
Lin Jun could only have the puffshrooms spread out to at least prevent the slime from scoring double kills with one jump.
Even so, the puffshrooms' numbers rapidly decreased while the two slimes were only slightly weakened, and they were about to be completely wiped out.
*Thud-thud—thud-thud—*
Different from the heavy footsteps of ordinary puffshrooms, a big black mushroom charged out from the forest.
A massive fist smashed into one slime, instantly bursting it like a water balloon!
Four puffshrooms exploded out along with it, but unfortunately, none could be saved.
The other slime didn't live much longer either, getting stomped to pieces by Little Black's jump, splattering everywhere.
The splashing digestive mucus even got a nearby puffshroom stuck to the ground, and after struggling a few times, it died.
Little Black licked the mucus on both hands—these slimes were rich in magic power and tasted pretty good.
However, Little Black couldn't stay long and was commanded away by Lin Jun to put out fires elsewhere.
Only 5 puffshrooms survived on the spot, not enough to form a defensive line. Fortunately, new troops had already come down from the stairway—this batch came in double the numbers, a full 400.
Combined with the overpowered combatant Little Black, the encirclement that had been pushed back somewhat gradually compressed forward again step by step.
Honestly, it was fortunate that the slimes emerging from inside the small mountain weren't truly endless, judging by the pressure on the encirclement.
After the rock pit was breached, another batch of large slimes should have surged out, but there were no follow-ups after that.
That's more like it—how could they really spawn infinitely!
Rather, it was already ridiculous enough that this underground water source, this small mountain, could hide so many large slimes inside.
Though the situation had now stabilized, this slime rampage had still dealt devastating damage to the ecosystem within the sixth floor's southwest corner encirclement.
When large slimes plopped down, whether it was flower spirits or vines, everything would be digested.
Combined with Lin Jun's carpet bombing with mushroom cannons, this double strike had significantly opened up the empty spaces in this area!
Fortunately, it was just one corner and didn't greatly affect the entire sixth floor.
After another half day, they finally pushed the battle line back near the rock pit, and dozens of mushroom cannon shots eliminated the last slime in visual range.
Little Black hadn't followed over. She got tired halfway through the battle and had grabbed a puffshroom to snack on the slime mucus on the ground, probably just finishing her meal now.
Lin Jun controlled the puffshrooms to approach the excavated crack. Ignoring the corrosive slime mucus still on the ground, he sent several puffshrooms to crawl through the broken opening.
Once inside, they discovered the mountain's interior was almost completely hollow—no wonder it could house so many slimes!
Lin Jun quickly found traces of the underground water. Following the water flow upward, he found a special slime at the source.
This slime was only human height—not small, but compared to its kin that had charged out, it was definitely underdeveloped.
It was a mix of red and green colors, looking like two slimes had merged together.
When Lin Jun spotted it, it was working hard to split another slime from within its body.
After the split, its size shrank another circle.
The split-off slime was pure red, unlike the mother body's dual colors. After landing, it was immediately executed by the puffshrooms.
**[Core Division LV9]**
This wasn't some common skill.
Normal slimes were directly condensed from environment and magic power, not reproduced through division.
No wonder there were slime numbers here far exceeding the sixth floor's environmental capacity—they were artificially produced.
However, this still didn't explain why those slimes could grow so large!
Lin Jun also discovered something strange.
This slime... was constantly spouting water...
It continuously expelled large amounts of clear water from both sides of its body, looking just like the source of the underground water?
Are you kidding me?
Lin Jun hadn't seen any skill in its ability list that could infinitely create water.
Was the water coming from where it was sitting?
Two puffshrooms rolled over with a thin stone slab, wanting to sweep this slime aside.
Since he hadn't decided whether to kill it directly, the puffshrooms didn't use much force to avoid accidentally slapping it to death.
As a result, this dual-colored slime, which had shown no aggression since they first met, desperately resisted the stone slab, acting like it didn't want to move from its spot.
The puffshrooms weren't particularly strong either, and for a moment couldn't actually push it away.
However, Lin Jun had more than just two puffshrooms here. After more puffshrooms joined in, the slime was reluctantly pushed aside.
Sure enough, there was a water-spouting stone crevice at the original spot.
After moving the slime away, wisps of magic power emanated from the water!
This water actually contained rich magic power!
This was the first time... no wait, he'd seen this in the treasure chest room, and the magic concentration there was much higher.
But this stone crevice had a large water volume!
Comparing comprehensively, this location had more total magic power.
So that's why the slime refused to move, and why those slimes could grow so large—they'd been squatting here filtering and absorbing all the magic power, hogging it all to themselves!
This slime could filter magic power, and so could he, Lin Jun!
Though he wasn't particularly lacking right now, you could never have too much magic power.
Later he could use mycelium to set up several layers of filtering nets here. This small mountain's cavity could also serve as a hidden space. Then he'd just need to camouflage the outer breach...
**[Corrosion Curse: Continuously taking corrosion damage]**
Huh?
What's this?
All the puffshrooms on site suddenly had this curse effect appear on their status panels and began losing health...
Lin Jun reacted quickly. When the puffshrooms had only lost half their health, he hurriedly moved the dual-colored slime back to block the water outlet.
The slime, back in its original position, contentedly blew a bubble.
Sure enough, the curse disappeared shortly after.
How could Lin Jun not understand now—the water contained a curse!
But why?
This couldn't just be left unexplained!
While controlling the dual-colored slime, Lin Jun quickly produced various puffshrooms with high health and corrosion resistance.
After preparations were complete, he kicked the dual-colored slime away again, and the excavation puffshrooms began widening the stone crevice.
Despite such preparations, they still had to invite the dual-colored slime back once during the process.
This corrosion curse's damage increased the longer it remained on the status panel—anything without slime-level corrosion damage immunity really couldn't handle it.
After working for quite a while, the puffshrooms finally chiseled open the stone crevice, revealing the truth behind it—
A fissure!
A very small spatial fissure that, like during the magic tide, connected to other dungeons!
What was wrong with this dungeon—had it fallen into disrepair?
Did the other side know their sewage pipe was leaking contaminated water over here?
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