This dungeon has mushrooms growing on it.

Chapter 6 6. Fire Mosquito Nest
"This...what is this!"

At the edge of the mushroom garden, 120 Pujis stood neatly in six rows.

40 turrets Puji: [Magic Storage LV4] + [Mushroom Cannon LV6] + [Accuracy LV4]

40 Slime Puji: [Magic Storage LV4] + [Mushroom Cannon LV6] + [Digestive Slime LV3]

20 Hallucinogenic Puji: [Hallucinogenic Spores LV4] + [Chitinous Shell LV4]

20 Niu Ma Puji: [Storage Cyst LV4] + [Entanglement LV3]

This is the configuration of Lin Jun’s 14th expedition team.

It’s not that Lin Jun doesn’t want to cram all the skills into one Puji, but the more skills a Puji has, the more magic power and time it takes to produce it.

The increase in consumption is still exponential, so keeping the number of skills within four is a cost-effective and practical option.

"It turns out there are so many types of Puji!"

Inanna felt that she had too little knowledge and had never even heard that Puji had so many subspecies.

Some mushroom caps look like pots.

It has a full body shell, but unlike the miners in the mining area, it has many more pores on its shell.

Some even have tentacles!
Great, if I also had tentacles, I wouldn't need to tie the magic crystal to my head...

"Lin Jun, you said they were an expedition team. What were they going to do?"

"This is a dungeon, so of course we're going to defeat monsters."

"Earth...Earthworm?"

Inanna acted like, "If it's a groundworm, I won't go."

She really didn't think that the earthworms could be killed by sheer numbers.

"I already told you it's not the Earthworms. This time, our target is the Fireflies. Those parasites always fly to the mushroom garden for no reason. They don't produce anything themselves, only plundering for a living! This time, we're going to wipe out their entire home base!"

Lin Jun was fed up with being harassed from the sky every now and then. He had found the nest of these fire mosquitoes a long time ago. The reason why he didn't eliminate them before was actually to sustainably build up the skill of high temperature resistance.

Now the high temperature resistance has reached level 6. If I kill all the fire mosquitoes in one go, I can probably upgrade it to level 7, which is enough.

Besides, his priority escape plan has now changed to using Inanna to kill earthworms, rather than sneaking across from under the nose of the Fire Demon, so there is even less reason to keep these annoying bugs.

Let them do their best for you and become the whetstone of the team.

"Inanna, you stay in the middle of the team and follow my instructions."

"I understand, I understand."

When Inanna heard that they were going to kill mosquitoes, she felt relieved.

She knew the Fire Mosquitoes, whose average level was LV20 and whose attacks were straightforward and not difficult to deal with.

The trouble is, not only can they fly, they also have evasive abilities, making them difficult to hit, and they also like to stalk in groups.

However, even if she is defeated by them, she can still protect herself with magic.

Well, this can be considered a war, although it's a war between monsters.

In the past, her old man never allowed her to get involved in military adventures, so she felt a little excited when she faced them for the first time!
However, these Puji teams are so well-organized and march in unison that they can't even compare to an army.

Is it because they are all controlled by Lin Jun?
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This is indeed the reason.

Relying on the skills of follower control, mycelium network, and mental integration, Lin Jun controls these Pujis just like in an RTS game, except that it consumes more energy.

It was also because of the advantage of being able to coordinate and dispatch that he was able to gain a foothold in the dungeon with Puji, whose overall attribute was only 1.

After all, using strategies such as luring the enemy deep into the territory and making a feint to the east and attacking in the west against a group of monsters with almost no intelligence is already a real dimensionality reduction attack.

But this time, there was no need for any strategy. The so-called strategy was only used when the weak defeated the strong. And now, compared with the Fire Mosquito.

You are the strong one!
Isn’t it fun to rush forward in one wave of F1F3?
You can also show your strength and give confidence to new fans.

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The so-called deep dungeon refers to the general term for the 10th floor and below, because from this point on there are no clear passages connecting different levels.

The entire deep area has countless crisscrossing three-dimensional passages, which connect one large cave to another, just like the fire mosquito's nest and Lin Jun's mushroom garden are connected by a passage with a diameter of more than 50 meters.

There are scattered mushrooms growing hidden in the cracks between the rocks along the way. They are both Lin Jun's extended eyes and connecting stations that help him expand the fungus network beyond the mushroom garden.

The mycelium network allows Lin Jun to command the Puji army in a semi-hosted manner.

Otherwise, if you only rely on [Follower Control] to operate it manually, it would be a waste of time.

Puji's short legs stepped on the ground, making a "puji puji" sound that echoed in the passage. Three hundred meters ahead, several scarlet spots of light suddenly appeared, and several fire mosquitoes discovered the expedition team.

"Ice Blade!"

A two-meter-long ice blade shot out, but it was completely aimless. The fire mosquitoes didn't even use their good dodging skills, and the ice blade shot into the rock wall above.

"New recruit, don't waste your magic."

"Yes, sorry."

Only then did Inanna realize that the Pujis around her were moving forward steadily and did not stop at all because of the appearance of the fire mosquitoes.

The fire mosquitoes did not approach. Instead, they chose to escape as they saw the expedition team getting closer and closer, and quickly flew away.

Watching the fire mosquitoes disappear from sight, Inanna asked worriedly, "Will they go back and report?"

"Of course I will report it."

"Even if they're just low-IQ monsters, they still have the instinct to defend their nest. I'm sure they'll face swarms of fire mosquitoes soon."

Inanna really wanted to say, "Aren't you also a monster?"

"Then why let them go?"

Of course, the distance was not enough to hit the target.

"Of course, it's to catch them all."

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Under the dome of surging steam, hundreds of fire mosquitoes flew up and down around the large pool in the center, making a deafening buzzing sound.

These fire mosquitoes need high-temperature pools of water similar to hot springs to reproduce. The larvae spend their entire larval stage waiting in the pools for adults to feed them, so as long as the pools are destroyed, the fire mosquitoes in this area will naturally die out.

The fire mosquitoes will naturally do their best to defend their nest.

So when Inanna followed the Poojis to the end of the passage, the luminous glands on the abdomens of all the fire mosquitoes lit up orange, a dangerous color.

Several fire mosquitoes that were nearby flapped their wings and flew over first.

"Water Snake Technique!"

It was Inanna again. Facing the flying monster, she couldn't help but use magic first.

It's better than last time. At least he knows how to use the water snake technique which can control the direction to a certain extent, instead of the straight ice blade. Unfortunately, there are not many good ones.

Unfortunately, the target was a fire mosquito with a dodging skill. The water snake brushed against a fire mosquito, but the fire mosquito only fell a few meters before regaining its balance.

Lin Jun shook his head.

"Hey, new recruit."

(End of this chapter)