In a shattered space, rescuing someone lost within it is nearly impossible under any circumstances.
Forceful rescue often means tragic sacrifice and an unknown outcome.
Before making the decision to rescue, one must weigh carefully: is the person awaiting rescue truly worth such an enormous price?
For Lin Jun, this was obviously worth it—after all, what puffshrooms feared least was sacrifice!
A puffshroom raced between what appeared to be visual “walls,” suddenly crashing into a cluster of floating earth blocks. In the next instant, its figure materialized out of nowhere on an inverted stone floor in the distance!
Continuing its sprint, it leaped consecutively across three seemingly disconnected spatial fragments… then, as it stepped onto the edge of the fourth area, it suddenly fell into nothingness, severing the connection.
Another puffshroom completely ignored the ground, flying straight toward the center. After several “blinks,” it crashed headfirst into a rock and was done for.
The scouting puffshrooms kept sacrificing themselves, but puffshrooms continued pouring endlessly into this shattered lower level.
In the tunnel connecting the middle and lower levels, the puffshrooms even formed a long queue.
“Boss, what’s going on here?” Outside the tunnel, Norris sat in Jida, who was too large to squeeze inside, and could only inquire of the boss.
“Don’t make trouble, go play with Little Black. We’re rescuing your Sister Pig here—you can’t help!”
“Oh…”
After sending Norris away, Lin Jun continued concentrating entirely on controlling the puffshrooms’ suicidal mission!
Under this almost brute-force exhaustive exploration, the entire fragmented lower space echoed with “puff-puff” footsteps in nearly every corner.
Little Pig stood dazedly on her platform. Above her, to her left, and below-right, puffshroom figures shuttled back and forth.
She had gritted her teeth and chased Qis all the way to this place. Though she had successfully eliminated her opponent, she didn’t know how to return.
Worse still, her attempts to find an exit had instead trapped her in an even deeper area.
After witnessing the collapse of one section firsthand, she no longer dared move around carelessly.
At first, she tried throwing stones to see if she could hear sounds in the space—being able to hear them would at least mean the other side hadn’t crumbled yet.
But not every area was nearby. Apart from the void, distant blocks were equally inaudible.
After exhausting all walkable directions, Louisa found herself in a deadlock.
Next, she could either wait for rescue or risk her life exploring.
Her choice was to hold out in place as long as possible first. If the boss truly couldn’t find her, then she’d gamble everything on that slim chance of survival.
The underground city had no sun or moon cycles. Time here was a blunt, dull blade slowly cutting away at her will and stamina.
To persist longer, she was even forced to endure the foul stench and swallow the nauseating purple blood.
The half-segment of disgusting insect leg in her hand was her final reserve. When it too was exhausted… that would be the moment to stake everything on one throw.
But even so, she hadn’t discarded the stone in her hand that continuously caused her harm.
This wasn’t just a stone—this was her pledge of allegiance to fully integrate into the boss’s team!
This was the only rope she, someone already at wit’s end, could grasp to climb upward!
Aside from the boss, no one understood the puffshrooms’ strength—or rather, potential—better than she, who had fought alongside them constantly!
The boss… had the qualifications to become a regional overlord!
She didn’t want to be some obscure nobody. She craved power, craved authority!
If not for this, she wouldn’t have accepted that deadly mission to find the holy scripture in the first place!
She had once let slip an opportunity for advancement, but at this moment, a second chance was right there in her continuously burning palm!
Even if this stone would char her palm, she would never let go!
Fortunately, this time, fate finally smiled upon her!
*Puff—*
A puffshroom fell straight down from above, landing steadily on the platform where she stood.
In that instant, all puffshrooms in the lower area stopped exploring and began returning along their original paths.
Then, all puffshrooms surged together toward the route this lucky one had just traversed!
Puffshroom after puffshroom lined up.
Before long, a direct puffshroom pathway to Little Pig appeared.
This still wasn’t safe enough. Over ten puffshrooms swarmed up, binding themselves around Little Pig’s body, wrapping her thoroughly.
This way, any threat would first kill the outer layer of puffshrooms, leaving Little Pig sufficient reaction time.
Without encountering the extremely unlucky situation of hitting a collapsing section, after more than ten minutes, Little Pig was finally brought back to safety.
“Little Pig! Well done! Go get some good rest first!” A puffshroom standing on another puffshroom’s cap patted Little Pig’s shoulder.
Simultaneously, several nimble mycelial tendrils had already carefully and swiftly coiled around the solar stone fragment she clutched tightly in her hand, treating it like a precious treasure.
“Boss… do you… do you have any blood?” The somewhat weakened Little Pig made her feeding request.
“Of course…”
Hmm…
Speaking of fresh magical beast blood, there was no shortage—just having Purple Crystal transport some from next door would suffice.
But… Little Pig had just rendered such great service. Her meal treatment should really be upgraded accordingly.
The demon spawn corpses encountered before… had all been decomposed.
Draw some cave dweller blood?
That would be a bit too far, probably taking most of a day…
He should have kept some “blood bags” in hindsight.
Lin Jun’s “gaze” unconsciously swept across the entire Mushroom Garden No. 3.
It passed over Little Black, who was sleeping while hugging and gnawing on a burrowing puffshroom, without the slightest pause, finally settling on Norris, who sat within Jida.
“Norris,” Lin Jun’s voice carried warm concern, “you’ve been cooped up inside Jida all this time—it’s not convenient for movement, right? Go prepare in the mushroom house. While we have time now, I’ll enhance your cold resistance again and upgrade Jida for you while I’m at it!”
“Upgrade Jida?” Norris exclaimed with delight.
“That’s right. Jida’s a bit too cumbersome now. I plan to add a jumping skill to the legs to increase mobility.”
“It is indeed a bit cumbersome. You really understand, Boss! Thank you, Boss!”
“Not at all. Oh, by the way, I’ll need to use some of your blood in the process. Is that alright?” Lin Jun’s tone was relaxed and natural, mentioning it casually.
“My blood?” Norris paused, not understanding what the blood was needed for.
“Don’t worry~” Lin Jun immediately dispelled his concerns, his voice filled with convincing ease. “It’s just a matter of opening and closing your eyes—you won’t even feel pain. Same as last time.”
“Then… alright.” Norris scratched his head. Thinking about having a cooler, more agile mecha, this small “request” seemed completely trivial.
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Norris got his mecha upgrade, Little Pig had a hearty meal, and he himself obtained the fragment—a perfectly happy ending for everyone!
Except for a certain black dragonkin who was awakened by the cold again…
Lmao🤣🤣, tricking norris🤣🤣🤣