Chapter 759: Chapter 524: Royal Mushroom Coin (Part 2)
Qian Shanshan timely shifted the topic to demons.
"Are you talking about this guy, Gu Gu Da?"
The simple Mushroom Hero did fall for it.
"I discovered this guy in a secret realm."
"It was barely alive at the time."
"I felt sorry for it, so I saved it."
"Gu Gu Da."
It introduced like this.
"Who asked for your pity, bo."
Unlike the anxious look from last night, the Slime Demon seemed to be putting on a brave face.
"I heard demons can help people fulfill any wish."
"Is it really that amazing?"
Qian Shanshan asked again.
"Of course, bo."
The Slime Demon glanced at Qian Shanshan, its eyes twirling.
This guy seems smarter than the mushroom people, as if it already guessed her intent.
So next, it remained silent.
"Big turtle, stop!"
"Seems like something’s up!"
"Gu Gu Da!"
Just then, the Mushroom Hero suddenly stood up.
"Hmm?" x5
But Li Pu and the others were slightly perplexed.
Because they didn’t notice anything unusual around.
"Hero Radar activated! Gu Da!"
Unexpectedly, the Mushroom Hero jumped off the turtle’s back directly, and burrowed into the forest beside the road.
This left the five even more bewildered.
"It really has a strange intuition."
"Sometimes it can sense some special situations."
"But it’s only ’sometimes’."
"Bo."
The Slime Demon explained, and bounced off the carriage as well.
"Let’s go, take a look."
Seeing this, Li Pu could only lead the way to follow.
The movement speed of the Mushroom Hero and Slime Demon wasn’t particularly fast, so they caught up quickly.
This was a slightly strange forest.
The soil on the ground was black, like fertile black soil.
The strange point was that each tree had two colors from top to bottom.
The upper half looked like normal trees, but the lower half starting from the roots up to about 2 meters high was actually coarse pottery.
Li Pu lightly tapped with his finger, finding that the hardness was similar to earthen pottery.
However, given this is a different realm, some strange plants are normal, so he didn’t pay much attention.
At this point, they saw from afar that the Mushroom Hero approached the base of a big tree.
Beside the tree root, there was a fledgling bird.
The fledgling hadn’t fully grown feathers, making it difficult to determine the species.
But it was certain that the fledgling clearly couldn’t fly.
"Discovered a bird in need of help, Gu Gu Da!"
The Mushroom Hero picked up the fledgling and put it on its mushroom cap head.
"Hero Radar is only this much useful?"
Wu Guinan was speechless.
Then they saw the Mushroom Hero, atop the fledgling, start to laboriously climb the tree.
Its intention was obvious, the fledgling surely fell from a nest in the tree.
This was going to send the fledgling back to the nest.
"Indeed, this guy is quite kind-hearted."
Li Pu stroked his chin, admitting this point.
Though struggling, the Mushroom Hero didn’t slip up, climbing arduously yet successfully to the top of the tree, returning the fledgling to its nest.
Goo goo ga ga!
But just then, an unexpected bird mom appeared and flew at them flapping her wings.
The bird mom attacked the Mushroom Hero fiercely without distinguishing.
"S-Stop it!"
"It hurts so much!"
"Gu Gu Da!"
The Mushroom Hero shrieked in pain from the pecking.
"This... is it misunderstanding that it’s stealing the bird."
"Even animals can misunderstand it, truly unlucky."
"Now I kind of understand why it’s wanted."
Everyone looked up, discussing in murmur.
"Oh mushrooms!"
In the midst of talk, the Mushroom Hero slipped.
Plop!
It fell from high above, crashing heavily onto the ground.
"Ugh..." x5
The five didn’t expect it to be so useless.
Judging by the sound just now, could it have shattered to pieces and died?
Li Pu hurried over to check and indeed saw that the creature, face-down, had a crack on its back from the fall, which looked quite serious.
However, a miraculous scene unfolded next.
The crack on the Mushroom Warrior’s body was healing at a speed visible to the naked eye.
"Don’t worry."
"I’m a Longevity Mushroom, I can’t die."
"Mush mush dada!"
It quickly got up and patted off the dirt on its body.
"..." x5
A clumsy warrior with immortality?
The five seemed to understand its setting.
Rumble rumble...
Just then, the ground suddenly began to shake.
"Something seems off."
Long Ren looked around and found it quite unusual.
It was mentioned before that the Mushroom Warrior could predict earthquakes; could it be accurate this time?
Is this the true function of the warrior radar?
Turning to look at the Mushroom Warrior, they found it also looked confused and terrified.
"It’s a volcanic eruption."
Li Pu, with sharp eyes, was the first to notice the situation.
This forest was right at the foot of a mountain. They hadn’t paid much attention before, but now with the quake, they realized this mountain was a volcano.
Through the dense foliage, he could vaguely see the mountain peak spewing billows of black smoke.
"What should we do? Run?"
Long Ren’s first reaction was to retreat.
He hadn’t forgotten the terrifying lava from the Fire Domain in the small Five Elements World before.
"No, mush mush da!"
"We cannot run mush da!"
Unexpectedly, before others could react, the Mushroom Warrior opposed the idea.
Under the puzzled gazes of the group, it lifted the Slime Demon and placed it on its head, beginning to climb a tree again.
But this Slime Demon wasn’t much smaller than it, and it was terribly strenuous just holding it up, not to mention climbing.
"Sigh..."
Li Pu watched its awkward state, sighing involuntarily.
Then he discreetly adjusted buoyancy, sharing most of the weight.
"Whoa whoa! I seem to have awakened, mush mush da!"
"Filled with power, mush mush dada!"
The oblivious Mushroom Warrior’s eyes sparkled, excitedly climbing up the trunk.
As for the others, of course, no help was needed.
Among the summoned beasts, besides the weak spirit fire element that aided Li Pu in "incubating eggs," even the scarecrow that feared no volcanic eruptions joined in the tree-climbing fun.
Boom!
Soon, a massive noise reverberated from the sky.
An orange-red pillar of lava shot up into the sky.
"Stay close to me."
Long Ren signaled everyone to come near, then set up the [Barrier].
Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam!
A heavy sound erupted as tremendous lava rain fell from above, striking the protective shield.
Gurgle gurgle...
The ground lava spread slowly over.
It was then that Li Pu and the others realized why the lower halves of these trees were of pottery structure.
It seemed they were designed for survival in such harsh environments around a volcano, to prevent scenarios like lava surges.
The high-temperature resistance of the pottery now effectively protected their lives.
And so, the volcanic eruption lasted for nearly a dozen minutes.
After it ceased, they didn’t immediately come down from the trees but waited for the ground lava to cool.
The lava in this mushroom realm seemed somewhat different, cooling at a much slower pace.
But observing this phenomenon, they finally understood how the fertile black soil nearby came to be.
And in such an environment, the only one not climbing a tree and still holding onto the [Fire Core] spirit fire element seemed to benefit from the nurturing of high temperatures, looking much better from its previous languid state.
"Something seems to be approaching; did you guys see that?"
At this moment, Long Ren squinted towards the horizon.
His position offered the best view, as he saw some orange-red creatures resembling lava, moving close.
These creatures moved swiftly, soon coming into everyone’s view.
They saw a group of seven or eight beasts, a bit like a fusion of fox and monkey.
They had fox-like pointed heads, but their bodies resembled hairy monkeys.
They moved across the not-yet-cooled lava using both hands and feet.
"It’s time for the warrior to shine, mush mush da!"
Seeing the beasts appear, the Mushroom Warrior got immediately invigorated.
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