Mushroom Lord in the Underground City-Chapter 421 - 412: Hunger
During the long passage of time, Chis had always lived inside that transparent prison cage.
As long as it lightly extended its arthropod forward, it would touch the smooth and hard boundary, which was the entirety of the world in its perception.
Until one day, the jar shattered due to a sudden tremor, the nutrient liquid that had been maintaining its life leaked dry, and it had to try to stretch its limbs out.
It turns out... the thing it had previously touched wasn’t the boundary of the world!
The world outside is much larger, but... so hungry!
Chis licked all the nutrient liquid off the ground, but for some reason, the place where new nutrient liquid would constantly emerge was now dried up.
So hungry, so hungry, so hungry, so hungry!
It desperately wanted to return to the jar, the outside is so hungry!
In hunger, Chis ate one of its own legs, but afterwards, it felt even hungrier.
It felt itself becoming weaker and weaker.
Another tremor, something fell beside it from above, nearly hitting it.
Afterwards, more things began to fall.
Chis used all its strength to desperately dodge, leaped to avoid a collapsing giant stone block, but was pierced through by a column falling from the sky, and soon after came the second column.
It was pinned between the two columns, unable to move anymore.
Purple blood flowed all over the ground, Chis felt its consciousness gradually blur.
In a daze, it felt something biting its body, something it had never seen before, not the hard, unmoving thing, but something like itself that could move.
It was eating Chis, the next second, sharp claws pierced through the body of the unknown demon, and Chis frantically stuffed it into its stomach!
After digesting, regaining a bit of consciousness, Chis then discovered, behind the broken collapsed door, a new world unknown to it was revealed.
Unfortunately, it couldn’t move now, but that’s okay, food would always run in from outside, right to its mouth, allowing it to hunt.
Not knowing how long it took, after being full, it created its first meat lump, the meat lump then grew into Six Claw!
Six Claw helped it catch more food, followed by more Six Claws, Eye Worms, Jump Bugs... Evil Eye...
It devoured everything it perceived as much as possible, it never wanted to experience the feeling of hunger again.
[Seven Sins of Gluttony Judgment: Fear of Hunger Value (√), Harvest Stage (√), Triggerable Race (×), Notoriety Value (×)]
[Judgment failed]
Chis continued eating industriously, but soon it realized the nearby food seemed to become less and less.
It felt fear, it wanted to escape!
The power trapping it was getting weaker and weaker, but it wasn’t yet the time to get out, it needed to be weaker still.
Otherwise, only its heart could move out, which might instead become someone else’s food.
It hated being someone else’s food.
Fortunately, new dawn appeared.
An inexplicably connected mysterious area.
There, Chis felt warmth for the first time, saw lava and ponds for the first time.
And that... endless food!
Even though there was so much food, Chis was unwilling to waste any bit, cherishing every mouthful, wherever it reached, it would gnaw everything edible clean!
Then, it encountered that nightmare.
Those soft, tender, very easy to digest mushrooms!
Those things that were supposed to be its food, turned around and killed its bugs, dragging them away.
When Chis first saw through the Eye Worm how the Fungal Mat was decomposing a Six Claw, it felt anger.
It was the predator!
It should eat others!
It wanted to eat those mushrooms completely, leaving nothing behind!
It...
It fled...
Abandoned everything, even broke a leg once again!
On the ice field, in a long-lost way, it once again felt the fear of hunger.
With every second of hunger, its hatred and fear of mushrooms increased.
However, unlike last time, it wasn’t trapped, its free body allowed it to actively search for food.
Nibbling on mud and bark, it found the Gong River.
Very amazing, although it was its first time in water, it felt as if it was born to live in it.
Moreover, there was so much food in the water!
During the second growth, it ate the water’s demons, predators of the two-legged prey on the shore.
After yet another feast, it encountered the mushrooms again... The mushrooms came out too.
But that’s okay, it was different from before, restrictions lifted, just give itself a bit more time...
A bat, out of nowhere, came finding it, mumbling something about "purple is rare," killing from the east to the west.
With yet another Split Body, Chis barely kept its life.
The outside... is terrifying...
After that, Chis hid its "heart" deeper, carefully grew again, while seeking a safer place.
To the west, at the end of Gong River, it discovered the sea!
There was more food over there, it wanted to go there!
But there was also unknown danger, so it needed more power.
It decided, before leaving, to have one last big meal!
Target... naturally those two-legged fools by the river!
...
Several giant tentacles filled with sharp teeth and mouthparts burst through the ice and rose into the sky!
Accompanied by the unlucky’s screams, fresh blood rained down from the sky.
At the same time, the ice cracked continuously, occasionally someone staggered and fell into the river, never to resurface.
A tribe warrior attempted to attack the tentacles, surrounded, they successfully hacked off a tentacle, but did nothing to alter the situation.
The Tou Chi Beast wasn’t a new breed by Chis, it was just that previously, all Tou Chi Beast eggs died halfway, it wasn’t until now Chis realized it was due to lack of water.
The rank of Tou Chi Beast was akin to Evil Eye, lacking special skills such as Petrification or Magic Shield, but possessing sheer size and strong life force!
These two-legged foods gathered had considerable strength, but that was only on land, while in water...
In the water, the tentacles extended by Tou Chi Beast didn’t attack anyone, instead kept breaking the ice and smattering it.
As the intact ice surface dwindled, except for a few with flight capabilities or truly agile ones, most demons who rushed to the ice ended up in the water.
Afterwards, the feast began.
...
Wow, it’s so tragic.
Through the Invisible Scout Puki’s perspective, the battle on the frozen river below was all visible, it could no longer be called a battle
Just arrived sensing a huge lump below, turns out it’s Chis’s new breed!
This greedy thing, actually wants to steal the prey meant for itself, taking advantage of me unawares!
Unforgivable!
Though realizing it had misjudged the tribal coalition’s goal earlier, Lin Jun didn’t order Little Pig’s Fungus Castle army to turn back.
Since the army had already marched here, it couldn’t return empty-handed. Even if just to attend the late feast, to stomp Chis a few times for training, it’s worthwhile.
Except now, it looks like this tribe coalition is purely white given!
No one understands Chis’s danger better than Lin Jun, if it was allowed to rampage and grow near its home, it would be hard to deal with later.
"Little Pig, accelerate!"
Receiving Lin Jun’s direct order, standing on the Puki War Chariot, Louisa immediately turned around, and the command was passed through the Fungal Network to the entire army: "All units, order! Advance at full speed!" 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝓮𝒘𝙚𝙗𝒏𝙤𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝒐𝙢
On the snowfield, where the army passed, snow flew everywhere.
