Chapter 776: Chapter 533: Monster Beast Lair
Chang Shoushang, who was searching for treasure artifacts in the Gold Coin pile, made a different kind of discovery at this moment.
Beside a certain heap of Gold Coins, there was a golden round table flipped upside down.
He moved that table aside without thinking, only to see that it happened to be covering an entrance on the ground leading downward.
The edge of the passage was rough and uneven, not like man-made marks, but more like something dug out by a magical beast.
Listening to Chang Shoushang’s explanation, everyone moved over in his direction.
But they had just walked about ten meters when they felt the hall floor begin to shake violently...
"What’s going on!"
"Do they have earthquakes here too!"
"Isn’t this a bit too much of a coincidence?"
"Could it be we stole something from a god, so it got mad, mush-mush haha."
Everyone exchanged a look.
If they had to say what the only special thing they did after entering the Mushroom Temple, it seemed to be just taking down the Hero Stone.
Rumble!
A second later, the floor of the hall actually began to collapse.
"Holy shiiiit!" xN
"Mush mush da-da!"
The ground gave way under their feet, and they couldn’t help crying out in shock.
Fortunately, they had Li Pu with them; buoyancy surged out in time to lift everyone up.
Only Chang Shoushang wasn’t so lucky; because of distance and obstacles, he was outside Li Pu’s line of sight.
"Ah~~~~~~!"
That guy’s miserable scream stretched on for quite a distance.
Looked like this collapse was actually pretty deep.
Which meant there was something else going on beneath the hall; otherwise there couldn’t be such a huge pit.
"Senior... he’s not going to be in trouble, right?"
Qian Shanshan voiced her concern immediately.
"Relax."
Li Pu just waved his hand.
"That guy’s not the same as he looks on the surface, he actually has a bit of skill."
Wu Guinan gestured for her not to worry.
The two of them were both from Xidu University and had a better idea of Chang Shoushang’s actual combat strength.
Don’t be fooled by how he’s always yelling about this injury or that; in reality, his summoned beasts are pretty strong.
Unless some new magical beast showed up down there, the Mushroom Eaters were basically no problem for him.
"Let’s go down too."
Seeing large slabs of ceiling stone falling, the space in the hall shrinking bit by bit, Li Pu began to lessen the strength of the buoyancy.
Going back the way they came was no longer possible, because as the hall collapsed, that passage had already been destroyed.
Besides, there was no way they were going to just leave Chang Shoushang; no matter what, they had to go down and find him.
However, when Li Pu used Night Vision to look down, he found that beneath this deep pit was a convoluted, tangled cave maze.
The key point was, he couldn’t see any sign of Chang Shoushang at all; no idea where he’d fallen.
The most they could do was rely on memory and try to get as close as possible to where he’d dropped.
The cave sloped downward overall, like a downhill path.
The place where Li Pu and the others landed was already at the edge of the hall’s range, and as they walked they soon left that area.
Luckily, they had collected a lot of Night-Glow Mushrooms, so everyone had one in hand.
Those without hands stuck one on their head; the mushrooms had pretty good sticking power.
Right now even Spam’s head had two stuck on top.
With the light from the Night-Glow Mushrooms, the tunnel they were in was clearly lit.
Just as Chang Shoushang had said, it didn’t look man-made, nor did it seem naturally formed.
That rough, dug-out surface was very familiar to everyone after what they’d gone through today; it was obviously the work of the Mushroom Eaters.
"Such a huge project... could this be the Mushroom Eaters’ main nest?"
Wu Guinan couldn’t be bothered to hold his mushroom, so he’d also stuck one on his head.
"From up there you could vaguely see how big this place is. How many Mushroom Eaters, and how much time, would it take to dig out a nest this huge?"
Long Ren’s expression grew increasingly serious.
"In that case, it’s going to be hard to find him."
Qian Shanshan looked toward Li Pu.
"Let’s send the summoned beasts out first."
Li Pu understood what she meant.
So Ugly Little Wolf and Big Scythe drifted out through the walls to the left and right, going to search for Chang Shoushang’s whereabouts.
As for the main group, they continued forward along the tunnel.
They hadn’t even walked ten minutes when a fork appeared before them.
"A three-way fork. Which way do we go now?"
Long Ren was stumped.
"For this kind of situation, the teacher just covered it in last week’s class."
"When entering an unknown maze, a Summoner team absolutely must not split up; you advance and retreat together."
"The best thing is to send individual summoned beasts into the side paths to explore."
Qian Shanshan offered her suggestion.
"Really."
Wu Guinan was listening, utterly dumbfounded.
They clearly took the same class; how come he didn’t remember the teacher saying anything like that?
Of course, he didn’t remember any of the other things the teacher had said either, which was why his grades were bad.
After some discussion, they decided to send Straw Man and Long Ren to each go alone down one of the forks.
They continued onward—another three-way fork.
This time they sent out Rolling Turtle and the Spirit Fire Elemental.
They kept going like this for about an hour, and still hadn’t run into Chang Shoushang.
But by then there weren’t many summoned beasts left around them.
Li Pu only had No. 2 and Husband-Husband left, Wu Guinan had just one Babba Turtle, and Long Ren had a tiny Bixue Flood Dragon.
Still, thanks to the summoned beasts being scattered out, their exploration efficiency had greatly increased.
At this point everyone could sense their general status through Telepathy.
As soon as any summoned beast discovered something, the main group could immediately blast through the tunnel wall and head straight there to rendezvous.
The weird thing was, whether it was the main group or the summoned beasts sent out ahead, they hadn’t encountered a single magical beast.
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