Infinite Puzzle City

Chapter 797, Number Two
Wu Man's twelve parts burst forth from the mycelium like sharks smelling blood.

Each of the clones, with a combined 15 points of mental energy, crashed down like a giant beast.

Without a specific form, Wu Man sculpted these fifteen parts into the shape of a hand.

They kept shifting positions, and a large hand slammed down, like a five-fingered mountain, onto the mutated mycelium in front of them.

The immense force caused the mutated mycelium to tremble violently and was slapped and rolled away.

But it only rolled away; the hand that slapped against it was missing a finger.

Just as Xiao Ran had thought, this thing was many times harder than ordinary mycelium, like a lump of steel.

Although Xiao Ran and Wu Man possess terrifying mental power, their mycelium is merely ordinary mycelium, unable to cause any substantial damage to these mutated mycelium.

This only excited Wu Man more, and he tried to directly possess the mycelium. However, his mental power was blocked by the liquid covering the mycelium.

"I refuse to believe I can't get rid of you!"

Now Wu Man held nothing back. He manipulated these large hands, constantly alternating between left and right, creating afterimages around the mutated mycelium.

Then, the giant hand reached out to grab the void, and the surrounding air suddenly trembled, as if all the air had been sucked out in an instant.

This sudden change dealt a severe blow to the will within the mutated mycelium, as if it were being torn apart.

No matter how much Wu Man pulled at the other party's spirit, it never felt like it was being pulled away. It could be said that the other party's spiritual power was not strong, but this special mycelium had extremely strong adhesiveness, firmly protecting the other party's spiritual power.

Seeing this, Wu Man suddenly stopped pulling, causing the other person's highly tense mind to suddenly feel a sense of relief, and then she tightened her grip again.

This sudden tightening and contraction.

This created a momentary gap in the spiritual energy within, a gap so small and fleeting that Wu Man seized the opportunity precisely.

His mental energy forcefully squeezed in, brutally, simply, and without any hindrance, forcing the other party out of the mutated mycelium.

"So this is ah."

Once Wu Man had completed the invasion and forcibly taken over the mutated mycelium, she immediately began to control the new body.

Wu Man was skilled at transformation. Without the constraints of a flesh and blood body, she could control the mycelium even more freely, even arbitrarily, turning herself into a killing machine and swarming among the mycelium.

The indestructible mycelium transformed into a ferocious tiger, its sharp claws tearing apart the mycelium in front of it, while twelve large hands followed closely behind, pouncing on other mutated mycelium.

The bandits were completely stunned. They hadn't expected Wu Man to be so fierce, able to forcibly take over the mutated mycelium.

In their view, once the alienated hyphae are occupied, a unique mucus will form on the surface. If others try to forcibly occupy it, it will be like hitting a rock, and their mental power will not be able to penetrate at all.

But now is not the time for them to think about this problem. Having taken over the body of a mutated mycelium, Wu Man will not be satisfied with just that.

Controlling the mutated mycelium is a great test of one's mental strength, so these bandits had no choice but to dismantle it.

But Wu Man had no such restrictions; he only complained that there were too few of these heteromorphic hyphae.

When Wu Man used the same method to forcibly occupy another mutated mycelium, she immediately merged the two together.

In an instant, its size doubled, and its lethality became even more astonishing.

The bandits who had been roaring and charging forward were instantly stunned. By the time they came to their senses, they were already in complete disarray.

No matter how desperately the bandits' leaders released pheromones in an attempt to turn the tide, they were powerless to organize the other bandits.

Seeing that the situation was already showing signs of defeat, many bandits simply tried to take over as much of the mycelium as possible before trying to get away from Xiao Ran as soon as possible.

However, a scene that filled these bandits with despair unfolded.

After they had managed to occupy enough hyphae to escape, they found that no matter how hard they struggled, they could not break free from this huge ball of hyphae.

When Xiao Ran first collected these mycelia, they had naturally been carefully combed by her.

As a smuggler who mainly sews, Xiao Ran prides himself on his weaving skills, so these mycelia are all tightly intertwined, making it no easy task to break free.

Seeing that they couldn't break free, the bandits scattered and split into smaller groups, crawling into the mycelium, intending to lie in wait inside the huge mycelial ball.

Anyway, this mycelial ball was as huge as a mountain, and no one could do anything to them as they burrowed inside.

However, the idea itself was correct; they simply chose the wrong target.

When Xiao Ran realized what these things wanted to do, she didn't stop them, but instead chose to let them in.

In an instant, various fragmented consciousnesses burrowed into Xiao Ran's body, but before they could burrow any deeper, Xiao Ran took action.

With just a fleeting thought, Xiao Ran's massive spiritual body instantly swept across the land like a giant tsunami.

Before the bandits even understood what was happening, they were instantly shattered by Xiao Ran's powerful mental force.

After only three sweeps, the bandits were completely wiped out.

At the same time, Xiao Ran also discovered that his mental strength had actually increased a lot. This was obviously due to the Five Dragon Bracelet. The rule that the fungal people could not devour each other's mental strength had no effect on Xiao Ran, which meant that all these bandits became Xiao Ran's mental nourishment.

This allowed Xiao Ran's mental strength to break through its original limitations instantly. Xiao Ran roughly estimated that her mental strength had now reached at least 420 points.

Such a large increase inevitably made Xiao Ran think about taking a shortcut.

For example, what would happen if I devoured everything along the way? And what if my mental strength broke through a thousand at that point…?

Xiao Ran couldn't even imagine how strong she would be back then.

But Xiao Ran quickly suppressed this dangerous thought.

The upper limit of mental power may be infinite.

However, the physical body has a limited capacity.

If one's physical body is not strong enough, such a massive amount of mental energy is simply unbearable, and the final result may be that one's physical body is burst.

This result was unacceptable to Xiao Ran.

"It seems we need to think of a solution."

For the first time, Xiao Ran felt annoyed by the rapid increase in her mental strength.

At this moment, Xiao Ran remembered something and shifted his attention to another team.

That was a bandit team led by a wisp of his own spiritual power. Under Xiao Ran's leadership, this team not only survived.

They even managed to gather the scattered bandit gang together and form a force to put up a desperate fight.

Seeing this, Xiao Ran had an idea and immediately came up with a solution.

He transferred all the spiritual energy he had just absorbed onto this little guy, causing the little guy's physique to increase dramatically.

In an instant, he became the most powerful of these bandits.

The effects of the enhanced mental strength were naturally visible to the naked eye, to the point that the little guy's pheromones became the only clear and definite command within the entire bandit gang.

To make it easier to distinguish, Xiao Ran gave this little guy a name: Number Two.

Soon, under Number Two's control, all the bandits began to gather around him. At this moment, Number Two made a choice: "Stop!! Stop completely, we surrender."

In an instant, all the bandits stopped resisting. A few troublemakers in the bandit gang even tried to argue with Number Two.

The result was naturally that it was forcefully suppressed by Number Two.

Immediately, there were no more dissenting voices within the bandit group.

Survival of the fittest is an unchanging law in the hearts of all mushroom people.

Although they were also puzzled as to why their leader had been replaced so inexplicably, that didn't matter.

The important thing is that they want to survive.

Faced with Number Two's surrender, Xiao Ran sent a message to Wu Man and then specially marked out an area on his body to serve as a habitat for the bandits.

This decision caught the robbers completely off guard.

In this world, which is still a lawless place, the concept of surrendering and not being killed is just a concept.

If the enemy is merciful, they might give them some mycelium and then discard them, letting them fend for themselves.

But the idea of ​​someone like Xiao Ran keeping them in captivity is something I've never heard of before.

However, Xiao Ran's plan was not just to keep them in captivity.

Xiao Ran instructed Number Two to categorize the bandits and see what they were good at. He planned to set aside an area in the lower half of the fungal ball so that the bandits could work for him.

This idea naturally received Wu Man's full approval.

After Number Two calmed down the bandits, Wu Man couldn't wait to go and chat with them.

First, intelligence.

The bandits revealed all the information about the no-man's-land without reservation.

There are quite a few bandit groups like theirs in this lawless place, and even more powerful bandit groups are said to be able to easily overwhelm the four tomb kingdoms of Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter in the lower tomb.

If it weren't for the fear of alerting the central tomb, the lower tomb would probably have been robbed three hundred times over by now.

These bandits then explained the alienated mycelium that Wu Man had occupied.

These heteromorphic mycelia were cultivated by the bandits using a unique culture solution in the middle layer of the substrate.

It's called black gold mycelium.

It has high strength and good hardness. Its only drawback is that most bandits cannot control it, and only a few bandit leaders can barely support it due to their mental strength.

When Wu Man learned that there were still quite a few culture media left, all hidden in the camp, she knew she had something to do.

“There are a lot of good things in these camps, we shouldn’t miss them. I have a feeling, a very strong feeling.”

Wu Man excitedly told Xiao Ran, "The opportunity for me to break through to B-level in the future may be hidden here."

(End of this chapter)