Mushroom Lord in the Underground City-Chapter 216 - 213: Rescue

Rescuing a lost person in broken space is nearly impossible at any time.

Forcible rescue often means a fierce sacrifice and an unknown outcome.

Before making the decision to rescue, one must weigh: is the person waiting for rescue really worth such a high cost?

To Lin Jun, this person is clearly worth it, after all, Pukis are the least afraid of sacrifice!

A Puki races between the "walls" of visual obstacles, suddenly crashing into a heap of floating soil blocks, and in the next moment, its figure inexplicably appears on the stone floor upside down in the distance!

Continuing to sprint, it leaps over three seemingly discontinuous spatial fragments... then, upon stepping into the edge of the fourth area, it suddenly falls into the void, breaking the connection.

Another Puki doesn’t follow the ground at all, it just keeps flying towards the center, after several "blinks", it crashes into a rock and collapses.

The path-searching Pukis keep sacrificing themselves, but Pukis continue to pour into this broken lower area.

In the tunnel connecting the middle and lower layers, Pukis even lined up in a long queue.

"Boss, what’s going on here?"

Outside the tunnel, Norris is sitting in a Gigga that’s too big to fit inside, and can only ask the boss.

"Don’t disturb, go play with Xiao Hai, we’re rescuing your sister Little Pig, you can’t help here!"

"Oh..."

After sending Norris away, Lin Jun continues to focus intently on controlling the Pukis to meet their death!

In this almost brute-force exploration, nearly every corner of the fragmented lower space echoes with the footsteps of "Puki Puki".

Little Pig stands dumbfounded on the platform, her visage intersected by the shuttling figures of Pukis above her, to the left, and right downward.

She gritted her teeth all the way here chasing Chis, though she successfully took them down, she doesn’t know how to return.

What’s worse is that her attempts to find a way out inadvertently trapped her in a deeper zone.

Having witnessed a sector’s disappearance first-hand, she dares not move around recklessly anymore.

Initially, she tried throwing stones to see if she’d hear any sound in space, hearing something at least showed the opposite hadn’t collapsed.

But not every region is nearby, apart from the void, more distant blocks also make no sound.

Once every direction possible was explored, Louisa was stuck in a deadlock.

Her choice was to either await rescue or risk her life to explore.

She chose to first linger as long as possible, and if the boss didn’t notice her, she’d resolutely fight for that sliver of hope.

The Underground City doesn’t have the sun and moon cycles, time here is a dull blade, slowly slicing her will and physical strength.

To endure a few more days, she even had to force down the nauseating Purple Blood.

The half piece of disgusting worm leg in her hand was her final reserve; once it exhausted... it would be time for all-or-nothing.

Yet even so, she didn’t discard the stone dealing constant damage to her hand.

This isn’t just a stone, this is her oath to fully integrate into the boss’s team!

It’s the sole thing she, who’d reached a dead-end, could cling to, a rope to climb upward!

No one but the boss personally realizing the Pukis’ strength, or rather... potential, more than her who fought alongside Pukis!

The boss... has the qualities of becoming a regional overlord!

She refuses to be someone faceless and voiceless; she yearns for Power, for authority!

If not, she wouldn’t have accepted the life-risking task to find the Holy Scripture!

She’d once missed a further opportunity, but now, the second chance is in her palm, constantly burned!

Even though this stone might burn her hand, she absolutely wouldn’t let go!

Fortunately, this time, fate finally blessed her!

Poof—

A Puki falls straight from above, steadily landing on the platform she stood on.

Suddenly, all Pukis in the lower area stop their exploration and begin returning along the original path.

Then, all Pukis flow through the path that this lucky one had just tread!

Puki follows Puki.

Before long, a road directly to Little Pig is formed by Pukis.

This isn’t secure enough, and over ten Pukis huddle up, surround Little Pig, wrapping her tightly.

Thus, any threat would first kill the outer Pukis, giving Little Pig enough time to react.

Without the misfortune of just encountering a block collapse, after a dozen minutes, Little Pig is finally retrieved to safety.

"Little Pig! Well done! Go and take a good rest first!" A Puki climbs onto another Puki’s mushroom cap, patting Little Pig’s shoulder.

At the same time, several deft fungal tendrils have like treasures, gently and swiftly rolled up the Sunstone Fragment tightly held in her hand.

"Boss... do... do we have any blood?" The slightly weak Little Pig asked for nourishment.

"Of course..."

Hmm...

Talking about fresh Magic Beast blood, it’s abundant, just haul some from Purple Crystal next door.

But... Little Pig just did such a great deed, her meals should be upgraded indeed.

The Demon Race corpses encountered before... were all dissected.

Drawing some Cave Dweller’s blood?

That’s a bit far, likely takes half a day...

Should have raised some "Blood Packs".

Lin Jun’s "gaze" instinctively scans across the entire Mushroom Garden No.3.

Skipping over Xiao Hai in his sleep, hugging and nibbling on Drilling Puki without pause, finally settling on Norris sitting in Gigga.

"Norris," Lin Jun’s voice gently addresses with concern, "you’ve often been cooped up inside Gigga, it’s not convenient to move, right? Get ready in the Mushroom House, since we’re free, I’ll enhance your Cold Resistance, and upgrade your Gigga too!"

"Upgrade Gigga?" Norris says excitedly.

"Yes, Gigga is a bit cumbersome now, I plan to add a jumping skill to its legs, improving its mobility a bit."

"Indeed it’s a bit clunky, boss you understand! Thanks, boss!"

"Not at all, by the way, I’ll need some of your blood, is that okay?" Lin Jun casually mentions, tone relaxed.

"My blood?" Norris hesitates, not knowing its purpose.

"No worries~" Lin Jun immediately dispels his doubts, voice full of convincing ease, "just a blink of an eye thing, you won’t even feel any pain, much like last time."

"Then... alright." Norris scratches his head, thinking being able to possess cooler, more agile mecha makes such "little requests" seems not a problem.

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Norris upgrades his mecha, Little Pig feasts, and Lin Jun receives the fragment, everyone attains a joyously happy ending!

Except for a certain Black Dragon Man awakened by the cold again...