[The Slime Explosion created concentric ripples of spreading toxins, but they did not reach you or your teammates.]
The team advanced smoothly, killing every encountered monster almost instantly.
After all, they had read the strategy guide before coming in, they had foreseen various situations, and even if they encountered monsters that were not mentioned in the guide, Mu You had the Omniscient Crystal, and if it came to worst, there was the Pocket Watch to rewind time. The margin of error was extremely high.
Even so, some trouble was inescapable.
At the next junction, Xia Chuyu Bing, as usual, gave instructions.
Everyone agreed and proceeded forward.
However, after walking for a while, Mu You quickly realized something was wrong and hurriedly rewound time using the pocket watch.
"Everyone stop, go back!"
Mu You rapidly typed out this sentence, but he was still a step too late.
[You see a large number of floating Spore Fungi squirming in the air at the front intersection.]
[The excessive quantity of spores makes you realize that you may have stumbled into a Spore Fungus nest.]
[A large number of spores drift toward you, and you and your team members hastily retreat.]
[Hundreds of spores detonate in succession in the air, transforming into ghastly green toxin missiles, rapidly attacking you.]
[Though the rest of you narrowly escape the missile attacks, the Red Sickle Girl, lagging at the back, is engulfed in the explosion of the green toxic fog...]
[Red Sickle Girl has entered a critical state and has been automatically teleported back to the surface.]
The Spore Fungus is a little like the dungeon version of the Self-Destructing Fish, as it rushes up to explode upon contact, causing toxin damages that are hard to dodge.
The others managed to pull out of this round but Lin Xue, who was in a weak state and too slow, was left behind, ending up shielding them and being engulfed by a large amount of poisonous gas, resulting in her death back to the city.
Xia Chuyu Bing was immediately panicked. The path she had led had caused the team to fall into a trap, resulting in a loss of team members.
[Red Sickle Girl: It’s okay, you guys continue.]
In the game, Lin Xue comforted Xia Chuyu Bing, then sent a private message to Mu You.
"You guys continue, I won’t follow. My life value is too low at the moment, and I nearly have no way to react to sudden situations. I’d just be dragging you guys down."
Mu You naturally understood Lin Xue’s meaning. Her current attributes were in single digits, keeping her life value at a very low level, making it unsuitable for her to venture into the dungeon. So at this time, he did not insist, advising her to rest well while leading the team to continue.
[You found and picked up ’Toxin Glands’ *113 nearby.]
[Continuing forward with your team, you quickly spot two plant tubes, similar to giant trumpet flowers, growing on the face of the mountain ahead, all protected within a light membrane.]
[This is the ’Fungal Spout’, the mother nest of the Spore Fungi. It automatically produces a Spore Fungus every minute on average. Once the spores are ejected, they float like dandelions to every corner of the first level of the Underground City through the light membrane.]
[The Fungal Spout is protected by a special barrier that is impassable to ordinary people. But you, as the City Lord, have the right to revoke and establish any barrier in the Underground City at any time. Would you like to remove the barrier and permanently destroy this fungal spout?]
Mu You directly selected to cancel.
The spores were indeed annoying, but the poison glands they dropped were one of the essential resources in the Underground City. He himself didn’t need it, but other players would definitely require it, hence he couldn’t rashly destroy it.
However, that being said, since he could establish barriers at any time, he could find an appropriate place in the Underground City to install the Ant Queen Egg acquired earlier.
In this way, when the Ant Queen matures, it could provide players with an additional option for monster farming, and he could periodically harvest the flesh and blood of the Ant Queen as a source of meat for the Shadow Wolves.