Chapter 1589: Chapter 1589: King Fungus Cultivation Log
Liu Da smiled and said it was no problem at all. After saying goodbye to his immobile wife and injured daughter, he imdiately took him out.
Seeing him walking down the stone steps, Xu Huo asked, "Isn’t Butterfly Bone Town mostly destroyed because of that fungus? How co the fungus is now growing in the crevice below, can people still live here?"
"Those who survive have adapted and won’t die. Besides, where would you go to find a suitable place even if you wanted to? Even so mutant beasts in the grove don’t live long."
Xu Huo asked no more questions, followed him to the depths of the steps, and stopped when he saw sothing black like mold ash. Liu Da reminded him not to touch the black ash, and went to stand by a groove dug into the stone wall.
Even with a protective suit, Xu Huo didn’t touch it directly but used special equipnt to collect so. He squatted down and suddenly asked, "Why is this called Butterfly Bone Town?"
Liu Da stuck to the groove and suddenly shouted loudly, "Watch out above!"
Xu Huo looked up, seeing a huge stone seemingly carved out from the narrow crevice above crashing down, while Liu Da shouted, "Co up quickly!"
The groove wasn’t deep but spacious enough, standing two people was no problem, which seed to be the best choice.
Xu Huo stepped forward and jumped up, but as soon as he got up, a force suddenly concentrated outside his protective suit. Then the stone underfoot collapsed, and he slid down.
The collapse of the gap was very fitting, perfectly allowing one person to fall through, while a tightly fitted stone fell from above, blocking the way. Xu Huo had no choice but to fall into the hollow black ash, with the large stone above closing off any exit.
The area covered by black ash beneath was partially hollow, it should be a natural cave, irregular in size and lacking ordered paths like above. The stone falling from above was undoubtedly a prop; once below, Xu Huo floated his body and tried to push the stone up, finding it quite heavy.
Since there was a prop involved, it was evident that a player had interfered. Such a simple "tactic" was surely not enough to kill players daring to venture into Zone 013. Their goal was probably to damage his protective suit.
Xu Huo used a knife to touch sothing nearby that looked like a blade.
It wasn’t as resilient as imagined, but it was sharp. If there were a sudden accident, it might accidentally scratch the suit during friction.
Besides that, there were a few small props set up below.
Using spatial barrier to lift those small traps aside, Xu Huo retrieved an illumination prop and placed it deep into the cave.
Though he knew before coming in that this should be a similar place to the Underground Fungus Cavern of Clown City, seeing it firsthand was still sowhat shocking.
What shocked him wasn’t the scale but the mountain of human bones.
After the prop collapsed, it smashed open a corner of the bone mountain, causing large pieces of bone to slide down. During the fall or flip, the true form buried by massive amounts of fungus could be sowhat seen, with the clattering sounds echoing around the underground cave for a long ti.
These bones were all shoulder blades!
A mountain of shoulder blades... seeing it, even hearing of it would inevitably elicit a sense of horror from such bizarre circumstances.
If collecting corpses, only gathering parts wouldn’t be the case. Even if only parts remain, how could it coincidentally all be shoulder blades?
But if it’s not coincidental, then under what circumstances could such a phenonon occur?
However, this wasn’t the issue to delve into now. Xu Huo pushed aside the mass of hanging mycelium, slowly descending to the bottom of the cave.
If not considering the danger of these fungi, this underground cave could be called exquisite due to the diverse types and colors of fungi growing in chaos, resulting in a strange beauty.
After a brief observation, Xu Huo found a spot where the fungus layer was thinner, cut a bit open with a knife, and poured King Bacterial Liquid onto it.
King Fungus Mycelium naturally couldn’t coexist with other toxic fungi. Since he didn’t bring much live mycelium and it was inconvenient to extract more, he had to use it sparingly, first confirming the mycelium could survive in such an environnt.
He stripped away nearby fungi but couldn’t remove potential fungi within the stone, so he took a gamble.
Unfortunately, soon, the King Fungus Mycelium visibly changed color, indicating it was about to die.
After repacking the mycelium, Xu Huo switched locations.
He changed locations six or seven tis but still hadn’t made progress when so fly-sized insects erged from the bone pile.
Initial appearances involved about a hundred, then they rushed straight towards Xu Huo, emitting a piercing shriek, followed by swarms erging eagerly from the bone pile, surrounding him densely.
In order not to disrupt the fungal habitat’s environnt, Xu Huo didn’t deal with them, only used spatial barriers to block them outside, then checked the information on these little insects.
Turns out this was a type of poisonous insect that feeds on decayed bones and fungi. They also attack living humans, but before hunting, they emit hallucinogenic gas to paralyze prey, only coming out to claim results after a certain ti.
Since Xu Huo had been in the cave for a long ti, that’s why they mobilized en masse.
This should be the backup plan of the person who lured him into the cave, but escaping wasn’t hard. How many players could really die here? It wasn’t an instance area.
Xu Huo confird there was no second person in the cave, indicating that setting the trap involved so chance elents.
This matter could be postponed for now since exit was temporarily impossible.
After attempting over twenty tis with the Nüwa Stone, he finally found a white stone beneath the bone pile.
Even using Nüwa Stone, King Fungus Mycelium would only branch grow from the original foundation. It wouldn’t attach to other objects, just like a tree trunk with only one branch, all leaves and blossoms growing from it. Unexpectedly, when it fell onto this white stone, the branches absorbed nutrients from it.
This discovery perked up Xu Huo’s spirits, and he cut the branched mycelium into segnts to observe the growth.
King Fungus Mycelium’s growth wasn’t solely due to a specific stone. After analyzing the stone’s components, he checked surrounding fungi, testing each one with newly grown mycelium, perhaps King Fungus used other fungi as nutrients.
Nevertheless, this attempt was tedious, consuming a lot of ti. After long periods of persistence without progress, he expanded the range of the spatial barrier, pushed the bone pile aside, and added a few more experint points.
A while later, while browsing fungal cultivation data beneath the dinsion, he received another ssage from Cong Yu, still asking to buy antitoxin.
Unfortunately, the current environnt wasn’t suitable for making more antitoxin. Xu Huo honestly told him there was no more antitoxin, waited for a while without seeing new ssages, so he closed his personal panel. Lowering his head, he unexpectedly gained a pleasant surprise.
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