Idle game leads to another world.

Chapter 1627 Mushroom Forest
The size of the can almost filled the entire passage. The can looked relatively slender, and was printed with colorful patterns and incomprehensible text.

Li Chengxi's hand was pressing on the top. As his fingers pressed down, the three of them heard an extremely strong, sharp whistling sound caused by wind blowing through a narrow space. A pleasant jasmine scent covered the rotten smell of mushrooms.

Then another hand stretched out, holding a device of unknown use. There was a click, and a flame comparable to a large torch lit up.

The next moment, the gas gushing out of the tank turned into a jet of flame, extending to the far end of the corridor with a whirring roar like a fire dragon.

The high temperature forced the three of them to squat down and protect their faces, and they felt as if their skin was burned.

In the distance of the corridor, a shrill cry could be heard, which might be the howling of some monsters hiding in the mushrooms, accompanied by a series of explosions, which might be some kind of explosive mushroom being ignited by flames.

No matter how dangerous they are, mushrooms are just mushrooms after all, and organic matter is still a little weak in the face of flame jets.

After spraying for almost a minute, the flame was finally extinguished, and Li Chengxi retracted his hand again.

Looking at the front of the corridor at this time, all the mushrooms were burned to ashes, and crackling charcoal could be seen from time to time.

Since the temperature underground remains at around 10 degrees for a long time, even though it was burned by the flames, it cooled down quite quickly and became passable after a while.

"Your Majesty, it seems that you don't have any priesthood related to fire, right?"

Nimia was a little puzzled, but Zora said:
"Your Majesty can summon a rain of fire, so a flame of this level can certainly do that."

Oldie shrugged.

"Probably used props."

You are right, I used a combination of air freshener and lighter.

As for why it took Oldie and the others so long to offer help, you'll have to ask the delivery guy.

Li Chengxi didn't have air freshener at home, so he needed to place an order on the errand platform. But the delivery guy took the wrong road, otherwise he should have arrived half an hour earlier...

In any case, with this fire, all the mushrooms in front were burned. The monsters hidden in the mushrooms were also afraid of fire, and now they have returned to dust. It should be much easier for the three of them to move forward.

I continued to move forward on the still warm ashes. This corridor was not very long and there were no turns. It was just a very straight road.

The flames from the air freshener and lighter extended nearly a hundred meters, and at this time the three of them also saw the exit of the passage.

Walking out of the passage, the first thing that came into view was the mushrooms at the door that were burned by flames. The humus on which the mushrooms grew was dried up, and the traces of radioactive flames spread to a distance of five or six meters away.

If you follow the trail of the fire, you will see a "forest".

Mushrooms that were almost as tall as the trees were crowded in front of everyone. Some of them glowed blue or orange, some twitched like living things, and some crawled slowly close to the ground.

"Where should this go..."

Nimia let out a sigh, probably mixed with "what the hell".

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A forest made of mushrooms sounds like a beauty like a journey to the center of the earth.

But in fact, this kind of thing is not that rare. Zora had seen similar things when he went to find the Demon King's Ring for the first time, but they were not so dense.

But the problem lies in density.

Whether it's mushrooms as tall as trees or mushrooms that glow like street lamps, these things grow very scattered under normal circumstances.

Just like plants that grow too densely will compete for nutrients, mushrooms can't grow this big out of thin air. If they grow too densely, they won't grow tall. But the mushroom forest in front of us is not only tall, but also very dense. There is only one possibility.

It is planted artificially.

As for who planted it, it’s hard to say.

The only people who would do this on the surface are usually mages or druids who are interested in mushrooms, but if it's limited to underground...

“There are signs of repairs here. It’s a small path.”

"That should be correct. We have come to the mushroom man's home."

Myconids are an intelligent race that look like humanoid mushrooms.

They can communicate with their kind far away through spores and are very dangerous creatures.

They generally live deep underground, but occasionally they can be seen moving around in shallow caves close to the surface.

Fortunately, these guys can't be exposed to the sun, otherwise they would have run to the surface long ago.

Although they are mushrooms themselves, they are also quite good at growing mushrooms. Some of them are like nomads, migrating in pursuit of nutrient-rich areas, and each time they leave behind huge mushroom forests like this.

They are dangerous because mushroom people will stop at nothing to get nutrients, and if adventurers encounter them, they may end up becoming mushroom cultivation vessels.

Aurday and the other two were walking along an inconspicuous path. On the way, they saw that the shape under the mushrooms around them did not look like simple soil. If they looked carefully, they could find a large number of corpses of underground creatures, even human corpses.

At least Oldie recognized quite a few deep gnomes and gray dwarves. Although they were rotten beyond recognition, they could still be identified occasionally by the bones exposed above the soil.

This may be why the thick fog the three people encountered when they came down the boat had excessive negative energy, and there were indeed a large number of dead bodies below.

So this place is not just a mushroom forest, it can be said without exaggeration that it is a mass grave.

In this state, the three of them were on edge, ready to deal with undead creatures and humanoid mushroom-like creatures that might suddenly jump out.

Alde had even given the two of them a potion that delayed the onset of the poison early on. Drinking it first was like taking a vaccination, which was better than being suddenly poisoned when they needed to fight.

Fungus people will use spores to invade the bodies of living people. It is not just as simple as poisoning, but can even control a person's body.

They can also make corpses stand up and fight for them like necromancers, but they do it by manipulating spores and mycelium.

Their individual strength is not that strong, but Alde is worried about being surrounded, as mushroom people never live alone.

But fortunately, this kind of thing did not happen, otherwise Li Chengxi would have given an advance warning.

Maintaining a cautious attitude and continuing to explore forward, Alde felt that she had been walking for nearly half an hour. Her sense of time had become a little fuzzy underground, and she was not very sure.

At this moment, a smell other than mushroom spores entered the nose, like a burnt smell.

For a moment, the three thought they had gone back the same way, but after they took a few steps forward and passed through a few large, burnt black mushrooms, they noticed that something was wrong.

What appeared in front of them was the cap of a huge mushroom, almost as big as a small hill, with yellow or red dots appearing on the brown cap.

The cap of this huge mushroom seemed to have been burned by flames, and burning charcoal could be seen in many places.

This place was attacked, and not long ago.

(End of this chapter)