Comprehensive network wizard, magic emperor.

Chapter 87: Phantom Living Mushrooms
The second challenge of the Purgatory dungeon will only be easier than the first time. After the team has been well-coordinated, you just need to proceed step by step.

The evil wave demon - Tavimira died again.

Lin Bo has almost figured out the routine for defeating this boss monster.

After Tavimira swallows the Fish Belly Orb, it will continue to gain activity gains. After it lands on the coast, the leader's health and attack power will be increased every half an hour.

It is best to resolve the battle within half an hour.

The mage can use the high maneuverability of flying to dodge attacks, use iron balls to puncture wounds, and then fight in close combat.

At this stage, he lacks an attack method that can be decisive. Although the iron ball flying thorn is flexible and changeable, its lethality is still low.

If the volume and mass of the iron balls are increased, the damage can indeed be greatly increased, but the consumption of cursed energy is not worth the gain. It would be better to get some explosive bombs in the mechanical factory copy and pour them into the boss monster's mouth.

However, if you can improve your professional skills or upgrade your weapons and equipment, you won’t have to go through so much trouble.

At present, forming a team of four is still the fastest way to run in Purgatory.

[The conditions for clearing the instance have been met, and rewards are being calculated.]

[Rewards for this dungeon: 900 Disaster Coins, 8400 General Experience, 10 Purified Flesh (Gray), White Monster Shell Shield, Blue Ocean Blessing Potion]

Both of today's challenge opportunities have been exhausted.

Everyone said goodbye in the team channel, agreed to fight again tomorrow, and then walked into the transmission channel.

Lin Bo returned to the East Cliff Grotto and took out the newly acquired equipment to take a look.

Monster Bug Shell Shield (White)

Type: Handicraft product
Weight: 2.2 kg
Equipment effect: When training blocking skills, basic proficiency +0.2
Description: A complete piece of carapace removed from the remains of a monstrous wave worm, crafted into a simple shield capable of blocking. They followed Tavimira, and when the Holy Spirit fell, their followers absorbed the resentful blood, undergoing an irreversible transformation.

Overall, the value is not high, so you can just sell it.

Now the balance of disaster coins has reached 4002. Lin Bo has never been so rich. The [Sea Spirit Altar] has given him too much.

After refreshing [Mechanical Factory] three more times, I have completed today's map-running work.

This afternoon's task is still to build the caves.

The cement poured yesterday has basically solidified, so he repeated the construction process and filled it with another layer of concrete.

After the plastering was completed, Lin Bo purchased clean nutrient soil from the Duolian Duoyi platform and spread it in the mushroom garden.

Although the fungal mat can also spread on stones, the loose soil can provide support for the mycelium, allowing it to grow from a flat surface to a three-dimensional structure, greatly increasing the number of mycelium distribution in the same area.

Bags of sterile nutrient soil passed through the conveyor channel and were piled in the corner of the mushroom garden.

Lin Bo stepped into the fungal mat, intending to clean up the remains of the alchemy beast left over from yesterday.

The white mounds that had bulged on the fungal mat had collapsed. As expected, the organic components of the corpses had been digested, leaving only the brass machinery.

When he reached out and touched the mycelium, the mushrooms were still as excited as ever.

"Feeder, I like it. Please give us water... The rocks are so hard, we can't get any silk... Please give us some mushrooms!"

On each of the mounds where the alchemical beasts were buried, a mimic mushroom grew out, which looked like a green parrot, a fluffy wolf, a red baboon, a shiny black warhorse, and a fat brown bear.

Each mushroom is the size of a palm and looks like it has a nose and eyes, but its expression is particularly dull. It stands on the metal remains and sways slightly in the sea breeze.

Lin Bo watched in silence for a while before reaching out to pick them.

According to the tactile endoscopic method, the mimic mushrooms have flesh and blood, as well as hard bones, just like miniature versions of animals. The all-round fungus has completely recorded their genetic information.

This is good news. The flesh and blood differentiated from the mycelium can be used to fill the diseased and defective parts of the alchemy beast.

Lin Bo put away the mimic mushrooms and began to pour a thin layer of nutrient soil on the fungal mat.

Wait until the mycelium is no longer visible, then go to the reservoir to draw spring water for irrigation.

After a few seconds, white mycelium emerged from under the moist black soil. Lin Bo touched it lightly with his hand and could hear the mushrooms murmuring with joy and comfort.

So he repeated the process several times, bringing the soil layer to five centimeters thick. In the upcoming construction plan, the soil depth in the courtyard would have to be at least half a meter, but there was no rush.

After completing today's construction goals, the proficiency in the three techniques of control has also increased accordingly.

Lin Bo looked at the still early sky, drank a bottle of whale oil potion, and then purchased the alchemical beast corpse in the [Alchemy Circus] dungeon chat channel.

Players are quite keen on making extra money by recycling waste. They usually sell directly to traders at Aoqi Guiliyuan, but retail buyers will definitely get a better price than the platform.

Lin Bo thought for a moment and realized that his needs were not great. If he also required the corpse to be in as good condition as possible, it would be a bit difficult for him.

So we finally decided to increase the harvest. The extra corpses would be just the right amount to feed the fungal mat, which the mushrooms needed nutrients.

[Lighthouse Guest]: I am collecting the corpse of the alchemy beast. The more complete the corpse is, the higher the purchase price will be. If you are interested, you can add me as a friend to discuss in detail.
[Dragon Demon Madman]: Brother, you are a necromancer? You want to create a scourge by making corpses. I understand you.

[Lighthouse Guest]: Not really, it’s just for research purposes

[Skeleton Farming Expert]: It's true, after transforming the alchemical horse, its six legs are powerful, and its undead body is tireless, making it a top-notch farmland farmer.

[Fireball Supreme Monk]: Will you collect the charred corpse?
[Lighthouse Guest]: As long as it's not coke, it'll be fine. Of course, the price will be lower. Lin Bo added several players as friends and soon obtained dozens of alchemical beast corpses.

From alchemical parrots to alchemical monkeys, there is everything, and the most important one is an alchemical elephant.

The transformation of the alchemy monkey is already very radical. The entire head, spine and tail have been replaced with prosthetic limbs, and the scalp is a wig prop. After peeling it off, you can see the skull covered by the glass and the brain floating in the glass tank.

The monkeys' faces were covered with brass masks, baring their teeth in a daze, and their eyeballs were replaced with cameras.

At this point, the crazy dwarf has reached the threshold of full-body prosthetic transformation.

The Alchemical Elephant is its ultimate creation, a brass machine with only its brain remaining flesh and blood.

"Hmm." Lin Bo pressed the outer shell of the alchemical elephant, sensed its internal structure, found the maintenance cover on the head, removed it, and saw the half-cooked brain in the cranial cavity.

Due to material defects, the brass prosthesis generates a lot of heat when operating. The crazy dwarf poured alchemical potions into the cranial cavity as a cooling buffer, but the effect was not very good.

If players want to defeat the Alchemical Elephant, they just need to induce it to overload. The high temperature of the engine can evaporate the coolant in the cranial cavity in just a dozen seconds, thereby damaging the brain function and causing the elephant to die suddenly.

However, the alchemical elephant's cranial cavity was much smaller than it appeared from the outside, and Lin Bo could tell at a glance that the half-cooked brain inside was not taken from an elephant, but from some kind of primate.

Judging from the number of cerebral sulci, he's probably a human employee of a circus. The only way to save him is to improve prosthetic technology.

The Night Watch fed the excess flesh and blood to the fungal blanket. The alchemical elephant's brain was quite healthy, so it was also given directly to expand the genetic information library.

Among the remaining corpses, those with good quality were picked out and treatment experiments began.

Before the experiment begins, the wizard first tells the fungus blanket the real name of the animal he has learned about, so that the mushrooms can choose the correct genetic information and prescribe the right medicine.

A white wolf corpse was taken out and placed on the wooden operating table.

Lin Bo cut another ball of mycelium from the fungal mat and ordered it to take root inside the corpse.

Wait until the shriveled corpse swells slightly and the spaces between the organs are covered with hyphae, then start cutting the lesions.

In comparison, the full-body surgery I performed on the old fisherman yesterday was a piece of cake and not on the same level of difficulty.

Every time he cut off a piece, he let the mycelium immediately swallow it up and decompose it, and then guided the mycelium to differentiate into flesh, blood, and nerves to fill the gap.

But the mycelium could not understand his intentions very well. Lin Bo needed a heart, but the mycelium differentiated into a stomach sac.

If this technical difficulty is not overcome, treatment will be out of the question.

Lin Bo thought for a while and felt that mycelium was like concrete. In order to induce it to take shape, a precise mold was undoubtedly needed.

"(True Word) White Wolf."

Level 2 mantra illusion changes the appearance of things. Lin Bo transformed the alchemical corpse into the vivid appearance of the white wolf when it was alive.

The sorcerer held the corpse down, sensing its body structure, and then adjusted the illusion to make the organs, bones, and flesh overlap one by one.

The illusion veil formed a complete biological mold.

The hyphae were clearly guided, murmuring joyfully, and began to fill the illusion, differentiating into corresponding tissue cells in the damaged organs, and engulfing and decomposing lesions that did not conform to the illusion structure.

The holes on the white wolf's spine that were used for the prosthetic metal nerve bundles were also filled with mycelium, which expelled metal impurities from the body. The four brass wolf legs and the metal jaw fell off one by one.

Even the hyphae began to differentiate into legs, with the white threads gradually transforming into spindle-shaped muscle bundles, root-like neurons and blood vessels.

If the total amount of mycelium is not insufficient, it is entirely possible to regenerate broken limbs.

The combination of the omnipotent fungus and the mantra illusion was beyond Lin Bo's expectations.

The therapeutic effect is a bit too prominent.

He looked at the almost alive corpse of the white wolf in front of him, its hair, organs, and even appearance. Compared with the mimic mushrooms created by the fungal mat, the stupidity was completely gone, as if it would blink in the next second.

Lin Bo curiously wondered, if a mushroom "creature" was created entirely with illusion and mycelium, would it be able to move spontaneously?
So he tried it, took a ball of mycelium, recited the green parrot's real name, and when the mycelium was differentiated and shaped, he got a thing completely made of fungus.

It is alive and can flap its wings and blink its eyes.

Using the endoscopic method to examine the inside and outside, all the five internal organs and all biological structures were intact.

But the wizard knew that it was a mushroom, not a bird.

Because its real name is still mushroom.

The all-powerful fungus lacked a complete and clear biological consciousness to empower it with action and thinking. Therefore, after detaching from the fungal mat, it remained motionless.

Lin Bo covered the living mushroom with an illusion veil, and it began to move according to the illusion until it ran out of energy a moment later and fell back into the fungal mat to be decomposed and absorbed again.

The illusion that was originally shattered with a poke will still be shattered with a poke now that there are living mushrooms as the material carrier. However, the living mushrooms can accept the guidance of the illusion and perform more vivid behaviors, including attacking and defending, eating and digesting, etc.

The illusion is fake and the mushrooms are "dead", but the combination of the two is like a robot with an intelligent core, which is enough to produce real effects.

This is also one of the interesting discoveries on the road of studying magic miracles.

Lin Bo continued to study how to treat the alchemy beast's flesh and blood remains. With the guidance of the illusion, the operation went more smoothly. He needed to become more familiar with the operation and improve the plan. After all, repairing a corpse and treating a living body are two different concepts.

(End of this chapter)