The sanctuary hidden by the mermaids could only fool that stupid bug Keith. It didn't take long for Lin Jun to discover the anomaly relying on [Vibration Perception]. All in all, it was a concealment magic cast using sound waves.
Either find the right place and violently break it open using massive mana, or use the homologous [Voice of Charm] to dissolve this thin membrane, and then the missing Sword Saint, Norris, and the others could be found.
For this, Norris had to be commended.
Lin Jun went into the sea late and didn't have the chance to obtain the mermaid skill [Voice of Charm]. Thanks to the resonance cannon shot fired by Norris, a large chunk of Keith's giant tentacle was blasted to pieces.
After Lin Jun retrieved and decomposed the minced meat, he obtained the mermaid's skill from it.
Although the level was very low, voice-Puchis were cheap to produce. It wasn't a difficult task to temporarily whip up a bunch of them; if the quality wasn't enough, they could make up for it with quantity. The only slight trouble was that ever since becoming a mushroom, Lin Jun hadn't sung a song for a very long time.
Furthermore, if Lin Jun's transmigration memories were fake, then as a god-created mushroom, Lin Jun might never have sung a song at all!
However, seeing so many mermaids worshiping his beautiful singing voice to the point of prostrating themselves, Lin Jun felt at ease.
As for the [Nausea], [Dizziness], and similar statuses on their bodies, it was probably due to food poisoning from earlier.
As soon as he entered, he saw a mermaid hiding behind the Sword Saint. Norris was even more excessive, with three mermaids hiding behind him.
A Fat Otaku Puchi Fish swam clumsily to Norris's front. Just when Norris and the three mermaids were somewhat baffled, two sharp bug limbs burst open the Fat Otaku Puchi's belly, and a six-clawed bug with a tattered body squeezed half its way out from inside.
The three mermaids let out terrified screams, crying and howling as they fled.
The six-clawed bug continuously squeezed out, baring its fangs and brandishing its claws as it closed in on Norris.
Then, with a "smack," the bug's lower half fell to the ground, revealing the two short legs of a Puchi inside.
"Boss?"
"Tsk!" Seeing it was seen through, the Puchi squeezed out from the six-clawed bug shell, and the Fat Otaku Puchi that got back up stuffed the bug corpse back in. Meanwhile, the Puchi that controlled the six-claw to play a puppet show elegantly brushed the purple blood off its mushroom cap, came to Norris's side seriously, extended a tentacle, and poked Norris's chest.
"Little Nor ah, attracting bees and butterflies every day like this, how do you expect me to help you explain this to Karen and Little Black?"
"What are you even talking about, Boss, I didn't..."
"Hmm?"
"Boss, your lesson is correct." Norris finally realized his mistake and lowered his head.
Suddenly, Lin Jun sensed an unfamiliar thought.
"Elwyn, is this your King? Was it also reincarnated as a Puchi?" Sephiria looked at that Puchi and asked in disbelief.
"No, the Boss has always been like this..." The Sword Saint wasn't actually very certain either, but there was no need to explain in detail. Sephiria's thought fluctuation attracted Lin Jun's attention.
Since just now, Lin Jun had felt an external consciousness entity within the mycelial network in this area.
Checking this mermaid's status panel, aside from the title of Mermaid Queen, there was also an unseen skill—[Listen LV8]. This skill seemed to allow her to forcefully hear surrounding telepathic communications. It was a pity; looking at the Sword Saint's behavior, she seemed to be someone who couldn't be eaten.
The Puchi came in front of the mushroom and the fish, took a good look at them, and couldn't help sighing: "Sword Saint oh Sword Saint, it's a pity Mortis wasn't a woman, otherwise how could you have failed to handle him back then!"
The Boss's attack power was somewhat hard to withstand even for the Sword Saint, so he could only change the subject: "Boss, Sephiria is this Mermaid Queen, she might have clues about Keith's main body!"
"Oh?!" The method of changing the subject was quite stiff, but the content was enough to attract Lin Jun.
With a flick of its tail, the Puchi arrived by Sephiria's side, placing a tentacle on her somewhat stiff shoulder. This scene made the surrounding mermaids somewhat apprehensive, but Lin Jun seemed oblivious.
"Little fishy, do you really have clues about Keith? I also saw Keith's mermaid tentacle outside, it's truly too cruel!" Saying this, the Puchi shook its mushroom cap with bitter heartache, "But rest assured, since this mushroom has arrived, there will be no more Keith in the sea from now on. I just need you to help point out its location!"
Sephiria looked up outside the sanctuary. Without the cover of the sonic barrier, the scene outside could be seen at a glance.
Countless massive, glowing mycelial tentacles reached out from the darkness above, rolling up and decomposing those Keith meat tumors clinging to the rocks, then leaving behind a layer of white mycelium.
It was hard to say whether the scene before her counted as driving away a tiger only to let a wolf in for the mermaids. Furthermore, for some reason, the Puchi in front of her gave her a very bad feeling, even though just looking at its appearance, there was no obvious difference between it and the current Elwyn...
However, no matter what, the mermaids who had already been driven to a desperate situation by Keith had no other choice.
"I don't know if that counts as Keith's main body, but the trench where we used to gather was indeed filled up by that massive monster..." Sephiria had just finished speaking when the Puchi in front of her couldn't stop wrapping its tentacles around itself and trembling.
"Hehehe, hahahaha!"
"Keith!"
"Keith!"
"Keith!!!"
"Two years? Or has it been three years? Finally, this time, I want to see how you'll escape from between my tentacles!"
One couldn't blame Lin Jun for thinking about Keith so much. It was the only existence that had escaped twice from Lin Jun when he had killing intent; even the Demon King had currently only escaped once.
Moreover, look at how it had accumulated power far exceeding its previous state in such a short amount of time.
Although it was merely a bug, Lin Jun also grudgingly acknowledged that it was an opponent worth fighting.
Lin Jun's greatest respect for an opponent was to kill it as early as possible!
Yet, the more Sephiria listened, the more it didn't sound right—why did it sound like Keith was chased all the way here by Elwyn's Boss? Even trying her hardest, she could only barely imagine the scene of many heroes subjugating it together. As for that kind of monster being chased around?
Lin Jun had not much interest in what this fish was thinking; his mind was now entirely focused on the great bug-extermination operation!
After obtaining the location of the mermaids' old home from Sephiria, Lin Jun began discussing the arrangements for the siege operation with Piggy. He didn't want to give Keith any chance to escape ever again.
As for these over a thousand mermaids, for the Sword Saint's sake, Lin Jun wouldn't arrange any small scenarios to quickly have them all parasitized by mycelium. Anyway, living within the range of the fungal mat, it was all a matter of time.
Leaving their resettlement work to the Sword Saint to handle himself, Lin Jun asked no more questions.
Meanwhile, setting off from Silver Sand Bay, the Hero's fleet fully loaded with islanders was forced to change to another route because the Mist had swallowed their original one.
"What is on this route?" Sophia asked, looking at another route on the nautical chart.
Priest Samuel pointed to the middle area of the route: "There is a large area of hidden reefs here; it is the area where the mermaids are active. In the past, ships wanting to pass through there had to prepare expensive mental protection means, so it wasn't popular. However, now..."
Sophia remembered the request of the two mermaids in the team and picked up the conversation: "Now the mermaids have probably been forced to who-knows-where by Keith, so we probably don't have to worry about the mermaid problem. Just hoping there won't be too many bugs there..."
(End of Chapter)
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