Mushroom Lord in the Underground City

Chapter 466 - 456: No. 1 Pujji

[Inspiration] Perspective.

Lin Jun’s soul is carefully entwining around a faint light green soul, left behind by the Puki he personally burst apart earlier.

To be honest, that bizarre scene just now was as shocking to Lin Jun as if his right hand suddenly started chatting with him.

Instinctively, Lin Jun burst it apart, and what emerged from the Puki was this small bundle of green soul.

The same color as Lin Jun.

Understandably, upon a little investigation, Lin Jun realized it was a small part peeled off from his own soul!

Although it is his own soul, it carries a consciousness different from his own, clearly a trick the complete Sunstone played.

So... does this Divine Artifact’s effect make one develop schizophrenia?

That’s a bit ridiculous.

But it’s a bit different, rather than schizophrenia, this soul bundle is more like a "sub-consciousness" derived from his main consciousness.

Lin Jun can clearly feel that he can reabsorb it at any time or...

Perspective shift, Lin Jun remembers he made several cocoons initially.

In the Swamp Area, the cocoon had long since rotted away, and in the Fifth layer cave, it was somehow destroyed by adventurers...

Eventually, in the Deep Area, he found the remaining two intact mycelium cocoons and brought them along.

He attempted to switch the green soul cluster with the soul tendrils belonging to him inside one of the mycelium cocoons.

Sure enough, it wasn’t long before the mycelium cocoon started to squirm again.

Puki drilled out again: "Ma..."

Pa—

Your mom’s head!

This time, without the slightest hesitation, Lin Jun directly attempted to absorb it. The small soul bundle fused into his main consciousness without hindrance, not generating any independent thoughts, merely adding a memory fragment from Puki’s perspective, devoid of emotional tint, like watching footage.

So, this is a controllable schizophrenia.

Damn it, why does his fragmented sub-consciousness open its mouth and call "Mom"? Can’t it be normal?

There’s still a lot of functions to research, Lin Jun casts his gaze towards the last cocoon.

...

Stone Castle Dungeon, Mushroom Garden.

An inconspicuous-looking Puki stood quietly at the edge of the Mushroom Garden, curiously observing the passing fungi folk and Pukis, experiencing this novel world.

Its name was "Number One Puki," granted personally by the Mushroom Lord at its birth!

As the first Puki created by the Mushroom Lord with complete intelligence, it carried a grand mission—to go out and explore.

Having been placed in the Mushroom Garden by the Mushroom Lord, everything here felt novel.

Although innate common sense allowed it to easily identify which passing fungi folk were Mushroom Race and which were Half-demon.

Yet having the knowledge in mind and seeing it firsthand was still markedly different.

This is the paradise and Mushroom Servants created by the Mushroom Lord! Truly beautiful...

Suddenly, a foot kicked Number One Puki’s butt, sending it rolling several times on the ground.

Norris, carrying a wine box, hurriedly withdrew his leg, glanced at the ordinary Puki he accidentally kicked flying, saw it unharmed, and sighed in relief, preparing to continue his journey.

Even now, the boss’s eerie words from the Deep Area linger heavily in his mind, he desperately needed some alcohol to bolster his courage.

But just as he was about to leave, the Puki counter-kicked him and sent him tumbling.

"Boss?"

Norris was close to tears, was accidentally bumping into a Puki enough for the boss to retaliate?

Yet, what came through the Fungal Network wasn’t the boss’s voice.

"Kicked me and then think you can just run?"

Norris looked around, seeing no one else, he finally directed his gaze at the Puki before him and uncertainly asked: "Is... it you talking?"

Puki reached out a tentacle and tapped the scale on Norris’s cheek: "Who else did you kick just now?"

Norris paused briefly: "Boss... can you stop playing this..."

"What ’boss’? My name is Number One Puki!"

After some chicken-talking-to-duck-like banter in the corner, Norris finally realized a shocking fact—the Puki before him had independent consciousness!

"You say you were ’created’ by the Mushroom Lord?"

Number One Puki proudly nodded its mushroom cap.

Norris understood, what it called "Mushroom Lord" was most likely the boss, and this Number One Puki was evidently a new creation concocted by the boss.

The boss always managed to create new things, but this time it’s more special.

Having spent substantial time with Lin Jun, Norris had developed quite a significant ability to accept things.

"So was some magic core embedded? Such amazing power?" Norris curiously lifted Puki to examine.

"Brazen!"

Number One Puki angrily slapped away Norris’s hand, leapt down, and jumped back to the ground, assuming a combat posture.

Its fury surged over this Lizardman’s disrespect!

Being the noble firstborn of the Mushroom Lord, how could it be desecrated by such lowly non-mushroom creatures?

It felt its mycelium tremble slightly due to its overwhelming rage!

"Wait, calm down, Number One Puki!" Norris realized he had offended the other out of curiosity, quickly retreated a couple of steps, and waved his hands, trying to placate this unique Puki.

He wouldn’t dare to act roughly on the boss’s new creation, for if he accidentally broke it, who knew what terrible revenge awaited.

However, self-proclaimed as the Mushroom Lord’s initial offspring, prideful and arrogant, Number One Puki couldn’t forgive this Lizardman’s repeated insults.

A gleam flashed at the tip of the mycelium tentacles, and the sharp blade instantly sprang forth, its short legs stomped, rushing at Norris with maximum speed!

Suddenly, an enormous black claw came reaching from behind, grabbing Number One Puki’s mushroom cap as though lifting a small toy, hoisting it into the air.

Momentarily taken aback, Number One Puki’s short legs continued futilely kicking back and forth.

When it realized another being had sneakily attacked it from behind and lifted it in such a humiliating position, its rage surged, almost erupting!

Another insolent creature!

Without hesitation, it swung its Tentacle Blade backward fiercely, only to hear a series of "ding ding dang dang" clear sounds as all attacks were deflected!

The next second, an irresistible force thrust it towards a pitch-black maw lined with sharp teeth.

"Xiao Hai, don’t!" Norris screamed in terror.

But Xiao Hai’s action of delivering the struggling Puki to her mouth was too smooth; by the time Norris managed to speak, Puki was already being reluctantly placed in Xiao Hai’s mouth.

Nom.

Xiao Hai chewed the Puki while tilting her head, looking at Norris with innocent, blank eyes, seemingly pondering why he had called to stop.

Norris’s mouth gaped wide, watching Number One Puki’s two small struggling legs helplessly dangling down, his heart filled with fear...

...

Seeing that little green soul light ball belonging to Number One Puki rolling back, Lin Jun felt a bit speechless.

Inside the Sunstone room, numerous mycelium cocoons were being nurtured under the Sunstone’s illumination, these special Pukis spawned from his soul fragments, although unable to increase the overall Puki population limit like parasitic humanoid creatures, their value lay in enhancing High Tier Battle Puki’s autonomous combat capabilities.

Lin Jun initially planned to mass-produce a batch and implement them in practical combat tests.

But observing this Number One Puki’s soul saying "Mom" and abruptly dying before success, Lin Jun suddenly questioned these intelligent Puki’s IQ level.

Could they all be intellectually deficient?