Mushroom Lord in the Underground City-Chapter 233 - 230: What Was Forgotten?

As long as there’s enough computing power, the Underground City can self-repair, which is a truly magical ability.

This repair doesn’t just mean fixing the rifts!

Like the third floor, the trap level, the Underground City not only resets the traps automatically but also repairs the traps themselves, fills the wall holes, and even the fungal mycelium network inside the walls...

Damn!

Quickly stopped providing computing power to this part... It turns out that the ability to dig the fungal mycelium network on the first seven floors before was purely because the Underground City didn’t have enough computing power to supply repairs...

The first few floors, though scarred, are at most a huge project to repair and not all that tricky.

Even the fifth floor that went through the battle royale isn’t a hassle, the real trouble is on the sixth and seventh floors!

Previously, the accelerated collapse of the Underground City caused rifts to appear even in places where there were none, not to mention where there were already rifts.

The rift in the hollow of the mountain expanded from a fist-sized width to a massive six-meter opening, and the two-tone Slime couldn’t block it at all.

Although no Demons have come through, the Corrosive Curse seeped through the rift and turned half the entire level into a wasteland, and the two-tone Slime even leaked to the opposite Underground City.

The extent of the damage exceeded expectations; had I known this would happen, I would have consumed the Slime before taking action. That [Core Split] skill was really tempting for Lin Jun!

The second Mushroom Garden was destroyed, thankfully the Tree Demons transplanted the seedlings back into the Secret Forest in advance.

If the sixth floor was half the ecosystem gone, the seventh floor could be called total annihilation.

As a level of almost entirely aquatic Demons, with nearly all the water gone, it’s a complete wipeout!

Originally a near hundred-meter-deep water area, now there’s just a two or three-meter shallow water zone left.

The giant underwater creatures were completely wiped out, half of their bodies eaten by small fish and shrimp, and the rest taken away by the arriving Puki.

With the size of this "small puddle" now, it’s likely nothing can grow to become a respectable underwater overlord...

As for the rift where the water leaked, Lin Jun didn’t rush to repair it.

All the water’s leaked out; rushing to repair it won’t bring the water back. The rift doesn’t have a curse or Demons coming through, so its priority is lower.

As for the Fishmen, Lin Jun tried searching through the ruins—gone.

Not only did all the Fishmen disappear without a trace, but even the peculiar idol they worshiped vanished as well.

It feels like the only explanation is that the Fishmen, with their deity, moved the entire clan to the other side of the rift?

Sigh—

Another cold neighbor who moves without a word.

However, in the original location of the idol, Lin Jun found three well-preserved Puki corpses!

Seems like these were my last three Pukis that ran out of Magic Power.

What were those Fishmen doing keeping these Puki corpses, and they seemed to have done some preservation treatment?

When Puki touched the three Puki corpses, a stream of information flowed into Lin Jun’s consciousness:

"300 years, we can finally return to the Sanctuary! Lord Puki, the sudden nature of events has left us without a proper farewell! The Fishman tribe will forever be your friend, may Nevrilla guide your soul!"

Hmm... not exactly a wordless departure... but...

Lord Puki, what the hell?

As a mushroom, Lin Jun was long accustomed to starting with negative goodwill, and yet, such beings like the Fishmen who, despite little deep interaction, show nearly respectful attitudes towards me...

Honestly, it’s a bit creepy.

It’s not like they want to pull me into a religion, right?

My soul doesn’t need any guidance from any god!

So then, the other side of the rift is presumably that Sanctuary place!

Let’s leave it for now and come back to it later...

As for floors eight, nine, and ten below the seventh floor, without the Fungal Mat, Lin Jun can only sense that many rifts have formed inside, but doesn’t know the specifics.

The fungal mat in the Deep Area has already started spreading towards the stairway of the tenth floor, specifics will be known then.

Lin Jun also remembered the Werewolves on the tenth floor, who ate forty of my Pukis back in the day!

If possible, Lin Jun would still like to take them in as dogs!

Hope they weren’t killed by some Demon from the other side of a rift, or simply turned the tables and killed their way to the other side...

...

Apart from the repair issues of the Underground City itself, another side worth noting is humans!

After a few collaborations, Fa’er extended an olive branch to Edin, and under Lin Jun’s suggestion, Edin gladly accepted; now he’s registered as an official member of the Guild.

Lin Jun trusts Edin fairly well; Edin is a mature individual and, unable to find a way to remove the parasitic mycelium in his body and not being overly exploited by Lin Jun, the risk of betrayal is very low.

Indeed, it’s true—now all the intelligence from that side is information Edin finds ways to pass on to me.

Fa’er led the townspeople to flee ten miles away, waiting for the Underground City to completely collapse, then deciding based on the ruin whether to return and rebuild their homes or simply integrate into other towns.

In their expectations, there would be results within two weeks, and half of that time has already passed.

This is destined to disappoint them; the Underground City now not only won’t collapse, but when Lin Jun finishes repairs, it’ll be even more stable than before!

However, when they find out the Underground City is back to normal, they’ll definitely send people to figure out the core situation.

What kind of speculations they’ll come up with upon seeing the two Combat Puppets remains uncertain...

Although theoretically, with the Combat Puppets guarding, unless there’s another Sword Saint Level individual, getting to the core is impossible.

Even if they did get in, there’s no way they could interfere with Lin Jun’s control over the Underground City—if they had such capabilities, they would have done it long ago!

But Lin Jun doesn’t even want to gamble on that possibility.

So Lin Jun deliberately left the first floor unrepaired, creating the false appearance that the Underground City is still on the brink of collapse, letting them come as late as possible.

Giving myself more time to get familiar with the rights over the Underground City!

It’s just... it seems like I might have forgotten something...

Lin Jun went over the thoughts—

There’s nothing wrong on the Stone Castle side, the fungal mycelium network has initially reached the area under the Demon Tribe, and as a stable source of food for the Demon Tribe, both sides are in a honeymoon phase.

They’ve recently seemed to be intentionally saving up Contribution Points rather than immediately exchanging them for mushrooms, it’s unclear what they’re planning to exchange for.

Little Pig, Xiao Hai, and Norris are doing well in the Stone Castle.

Except for Xiao Hai eating and idling around daily counting Bright Crystals, Norris is getting more adept at operating the Guild, occasionally showing off his skills, while Little Pig trains his Skills daily, to a level of dedication that even embarrasses Lin Jun.

Everything is going well; what could I have forgotten?

Pink Puki?

Focus shifted to the Knight taken by Pink Puki.

Pink Puki treats the Pukis taken away as treasures, feeding them Magic Potion daily to an extravagant degree and even transforms to squeeze into the Puki pile to sleep at night.

Is this the psychological issue of an only child lacking parental companionship...

However, the number seems to have halved?

Danger?

What danger could there be at the Duke’s Mansion; the way it’s nurtured, not even an accident should lead to half of them missing...

That suggests it was likely when the core extracted their soul and caused their demise!

This also happened on the Stone Castle side, causing quite a stir among the Demon Race. After all, with Pukis under my control suddenly dying for no apparent reason, it’s inevitable people would worry about dangers or losing Contribution Points, but after Lin Jun clarified their exemption from liability, no one in the Demon Race pursued it further...

Ah!

Lin Jun remembered what I forgot!

Damn, Scout Puki’s connection is also gone!