Comprehensive network wizard, magic emperor.

Chapter 23: Solo Purgatory, Building a Mushroom Garden
Early in the morning, Lin Bo took a sip of hot coffee, and with his tongue working, he was able to analyze the medicinal properties in a short time.

"Well, roasted coffee beans are warm in nature and bitter in taste. They can invigorate the mind, promote blood circulation, and strengthen the stomach and promote urination."

[Skill determination successful... Final calculation result: [Pharmacist Tongue Identification] Proficiency +1.4]

Pharmacist Tongue Identification: Lv1 (50.4/50)

【Upgrade requirements met】

After reading medical books for half the night and chewing more than thirty pieces of herbs, Lin Bo now feels his entire mouth is numb, and his upper teeth are almost worn out by the crushed medicinal residue.

"upgrade."

A warm current descended from the brain like a sweet rain, gathered at the root of the tongue, and then gradually spread out, weaving through the body in the shape of lines, penetrating the internal organs, bones, flesh and skin.

Pharmacist Tongue Identification: Lv2 (0.4/150) Infers the medicinal properties and mechanism of action by tasting medicinal materials

Lin Bo smacked his lips. His upgraded tongue sense became more sensitive and connected with the body's meridians.

Now, after taking any medicine, he can immediately determine which part of the body's meridian system will be affected, which is indeed a more incisive analysis of the medicinal properties.

At this rate, we should be able to upgrade again in about four or five days. The progress of the epitaxial endoscopy upgrade is similar.

Today's daytime schedule is still to run around the map. From now on, Lin Bo plans to tackle the Purgatory difficulty alone. If he completes it three times a day, he will be able to reach professional level 4 in a week.

After that, the [Abandoned Ancient Machinery Factory] dungeon will continue to accompany him. It can be used as a gold mine for brushing equipment and selling it for money, as a source of materials for mechanical research, and as a training ground for practicing the Mantra Control Technique in actual combat. In short, it will not be completely abandoned.

Lin Bo completed a meditation training in the lighthouse, regained his energy, and then went out to the East Coast Grottoes.

The primary all-purpose fungus has germinated, and the surface of the culture medium is covered with a layer of white mycelium, which looks very moist, like freshly caught seaweed or a soaked wool blanket.

The wizard held up the whale oil lamp and observed closely. Tens of thousands of slender hyphae were like translucent plastic water pipes, filled with fluid, transporting nutrients to everywhere.

This scene reminds people of blood vessels, and they can't help but wonder whether these hyphae have a heart to pump cell fluid.

Lin Bo suddenly had an idea and gently pressed his palm on the fungal mat.

His sense of touch was in full contact with the mycelium, and the feedback he received was a damp, slightly cool sensation. As he flicked his fingers gently, the fungal carpet in his palm vibrated through him, as if a heart were beating.

The mycelium, which had been silent to the True Name Mage, also began to speak vaguely.

"(Unknown magical language) Growth... hunger... lack of water... requires moist nutrients..."

Lin Bo scooped up some accumulated bird droppings, mixed it with the boiled water he carried with him, and poured it evenly on the culture medium.

He once again used his sense of touch to sense the language of the mycelium, and when he heard their satisfied sounds, he immediately felt relieved.

The vitality of the all-purpose fungus strain is strong enough, which also allows growers to save a lot of worry.

After two days, when the mycelium becomes more mature and sprouts fruiting bodies, that is, when mushrooms grow, you can start targeted stimulation and screening to cultivate the desired traits.

That will be the real test of your level of agricultural knowledge.

Many players painstakingly cultivate strains, only to find that the final results are often not as good as expected. Any difference in external factors can lead to a variety of unforeseen failures.

Either the production of food mushrooms does not meet the standards and is even worse than the original food crops, or the medicinal mushrooms have developed unknown toxicity, and the patients will fall directly to the bed after drinking the decoction made from them.

When the mutation of the bacterial strain can no longer be reversed, it is necessary to carry out disinfection and then find the Duolian Duoyi platform to purchase the original bacterial strain and start over, or just admit defeat and directly purchase commercial mature bacterial strains.

Lin Bo thought that if he could master the magic language and communicate directly with the mycelium, the cultivation process should be easier.

So foreign languages ​​are good, you have to learn them. Whether you are casting spells or farming, you rely on foreign languages.

The wind on the coast was stronger than in the past few days. The wizard stood at the entrance of the cave, bathing in the cool air flow with the seagulls. The wind told him that the moisture from the ocean was about to land, and there would be showers tonight, and it would be cloudy and rainy in the next few days.

The roaring waves brought even worse news: a tropical cyclone near the equator had fully formed and was moving northward, and was expected to reach the Windward Islands in half a month.

Although it is already autumn, hurricanes will still come. Most ports will be closed and the flow of people and goods between islands will be affected.

Lin Bo was worried that the East Coast Grottoes would be affected. It would be best to make some initial construction work within half a month to protect the Mushroom Garden from strong winds and heavy rain. As for where the building materials would come from, they could only be purchased wholesale from the Mechanical Factory instance. He was a lighthouse keeper in the area, and it would be easy for the townspeople to be frightened if he inexplicably bought a bunch of building materials and had to carry them up and down the sea cliffs.

[Selected copy - Abandoned ancient machinery factory]

[Current Difficulty: Purgatory]

On the third floor of the factory, there was no wanderer to close the trap this time, so Lin Bode did it himself. While dodging the shield guard's electromagnetic cannon, he flew to the wall and closed the control valve of the acid nozzle above his head.

When the ground pressure pedal is triggered, a column of fire will be sprayed upwards. Lin Bo made sure that he did not fall to the ground, and he also had to be careful of the movements of the two elite monsters, lest they kick open the flame-breathing mechanism and cause the column of fire to shoot up and burn the mage in mid-air.

Next is the rail bomb launcher for releasing explosives. It is installed on two rows of sliding rails high on the wall. It looks like a baseball launcher and will move left and right continuously to release explosives into the venue.

Lin Bo cut the wires of the bomb launcher and took out a bomb and held it in his hand.

After watching his teammates fight with shield soldiers so many times, the mage has already figured out the routine.

The Shield and Sword Guards worked in tandem, never moving far from each other. If one of them became more than five meters apart, they would respond with a call for reinforcement. Because of this, breaking the battle into two separate duels required some manipulation to forcibly separate the two robots.

Lin Bo flew towards the shield soldier and saw it raise its electromagnetic cannon, so he threw a short spear, forcing the shield soldier to close his shield for a defensive defense.

The sword guard raised his double-headed sword, aimed at Lin Bo's landing point, and launched a charge. But halfway through, the mage suddenly made a nimble mid-air maneuver, letting the flying sword guard pass by him. Then, at the right moment, he activated his leg exoskeleton and used the long-accumulated [Passionate Kick] to kick the sword guard in the back, kicking it into the pillar of fire spewing from the floor trap.

Seeing the mage coming fiercely towards him, the shield soldier immediately raised his right shield and hit him head-on. The whistling air flow gathered on the surface of the heavy shield, making a roar that made people tremble with fear.

However, such a powerful blow landed in the air, and the wizard who attacked from the air disappeared from the shield soldier's sight like a ghost.

In fact, Lin Bo curled up and stuck to the left side of the shield, which was its blind spot.

At this moment, the shields of the shield soldiers were staggered on the left and right, revealing a wide gap. Lin Bo quietly stretched out an arm, reached in between the two shields, and sent the explosive bomb, the pull ring of which had been removed for several seconds, into the chest barrel.

The explosion occurred immediately, and the shock wave and flames were blocked by the shield, and did not hurt Lin Bo who withdrew his hand in time.

After the loud bang, the shield soldier collapsed directly and couldn't even hold on for a single round.

The sword guard who had just emerged from the sea of ​​fire was powerless to rescue the enemy, and it was a dead end for him to seek revenge on Lin Bo. After being kicked a few times, the inspection cover bounced open, and he was like a butcher knocked to the ground by Lu Zhihe, begging for mercy.

The battle was even simpler than Lin Bo had expected.

These two elite monsters no longer had any secrets in front of him. Lin Bo basically knew their range of movement, output limit, and design flaws, especially the Sword Guard, which he had disassembled and studied, and he could rub it with his hands.

This is not a crushing victory of strength, but a victory of skill.

In the East Coast Grottoes, a deep purple vortex of time and space opens.

The heavy shield guard was pushed out of the transmission channel with difficulty, followed by the wreckage of the sword guard being thrown over.

Then, after a while, Lin Bo, carrying a large bundle of waterproof tarpaulin, moved to this side like a hermit crab.

"Huh!" He supported himself on his knees and took a breath for a while. Thanks to the exoskeleton armor, the increased load-bearing capacity relieved some of his burden.

There are two blue-quality leg exoskeletons in this copy, and the other one is modified based on the shield soldier, which can significantly improve the load-bearing capacity. Lin Bo's luck has been average these two days and he has not drawn any blue equipment.

He searched the machinery factory and found few materials that could be used as building materials, mainly tarpaulins, nails, bolts, ropes, and thin iron sheets scattered around the factory.

After three runs, Lin Bo brought back a small amount of mechanical wreckage, spending most of his time packing up building materials. By the afternoon, when his limit for the day's challenges had run out, he officially began construction.

Lin Bo spread pieces of waterproof tarpaulin on the ground and tried to fix them with iron nails, but found that the rock layer of the cave was too hard and the nails could not bear the force and bent one after another. So he had to drill holes in the tarpaulin and string them together with ropes to make a large carpet that covered the entire atrium area.

After finishing this work, it was almost dark and there was no time to proceed to the next step, so he had to hurriedly build a triangular shelter for the mushroom culture medium to keep out the rain.

Lin Bo took off his clothes, recited his real name, flew into the sea to take a cool bath to relieve his boredom, then dressed and packed up, went back to the lighthouse to take a bath and wash up, and read by lamplight at night.

It was about the same evening, the sky was overcast, and most of the fishermen with small boats did not go out to sea. Soon after the lighthouse lit up, the rain began to fall.

The patter of rain hit the windows and the wind was howling. The people of Stone Tower Town hid in their sturdy houses like the night watchmen, just like their ancestors hiding in caves to listen to the rain. They didn't have to worry about being attacked by wild beasts and felt safe and comfortable.

(End of this chapter)