The Unorthodox Tomb Raider

"There's an underground river below this pit, but it's not far from the riverbank. I threw a phosphorescent tube on the bank, jumped down, and then swam across following the light."

Chapters 134: The Primeval Forest, the Emperor Mushroom!

After reminding the three of them, Fang Yun leaped into the pit.

Snapped...

Water splashed up, and Fang Yun fell directly into the water.

After breaking the surface of the water, Fang Yun shook the water off his head and swam directly towards the riverbank, shouting to the three people still in the secret passage.

"You can get down now."

Before long, the three brothers, Partridge Whistle and his companions, also jumped into the lake and swam towards the riverbank with Fang Yun.

Located below a wind-eroded lake, this place resembles a water curtain cave, with countless drops of water dripping from the cave ceiling and splashing onto everyone.

So after getting ashore, the four of them didn't rest for long and continued on their way.

This is an underground cavern, a very large space, with the darkness in the distance stretching as far as the eye can see.

However, it wasn't entirely dark. Behind the riverbank, countless fluorescent stones were scattered, emitting light to illuminate the path for everyone.

Looking ahead, you can see many strange creatures resembling dragonflies hovering in the air, each one as big as a human palm.

After looking them over, everyone felt relieved.

Those strange creatures were just ordinary planktonic organisms. They must have been nourished by the life force of the ancestral dragon vein to grow so large, and even grow wings.

After walking for about ten minutes, the group finally emerged from the underground river area, and no more water dripped from above.

Before us was a scree slope, steep and sloping upwards, the highest point of which even reached the top of the cave.

Soon, the four of them climbed to the top of the rocky slope.

Looking down from the top of this rocky slope, you can see a cliff below, and below that... a primeval forest!

However, this primeval forest is different from ordinary forests.

There was only one type of plant growing there: mushrooms!

The abyss was covered with mushrooms, of all sizes, and there were even many giant mushrooms with caps that were more than twenty meters wide.

Looking down from here, I feel incredibly small.

"Such a big mushroom! Senior brother... have you ever seen one like it?"

"These might be king mushrooms, but king mushrooms don't grow in clusters. These mushrooms might be strange, so we should proceed with caution."

Upon seeing this enormous mushroom forest, all four members of the group were visibly shocked.

This sight... I'm afraid I'll never see it again in my lifetime.

“Brother Fang, you practice the Sixteen-Character Yin-Yang Feng Shui Secret Technique, which contains the experience passed down from several generations of tomb raiders. Do you think you can recognize what kind of mushroom this is?”

"This is definitely the Emperor Mushroom."

Upon hearing Partridge Whistle's words, Fang Yun responded affirmatively.

"Emperor mushrooms plunder the life force of the surrounding earth; it's already quite rare to find five or six in an ordinary forest."

"However, this is the ancestral dragon vein, where life is abundant, and it can still support the growth of these Emperor Mushrooms. Don't worry, these are just ordinary Emperor Mushrooms."

"However, the taste and color of the Emperor Mushroom are quite conspicuous, so we need to be careful of the creatures that may exist in the Mushroom Forest."

This Emperor Mushroom is the same as the Emperor Mushroom of later generations. It is a super-giant mushroom, and also a rogue mushroom.

The root system of this Emperor Mushroom is enormous; the root system of a single Emperor Mushroom can cover an area the size of dozens of football fields. Wherever the roots of the Emperor Mushroom pass, all the nutrients in the earth are plundered.

Therefore, the area where the Emperor Mushroom is located is barren, and no plants can survive there unless the place is rich in life force enough to support the Emperor Mushroom.

Before us, these king mushrooms are so plentiful they could be called a mushroom forest...

In other words, the ancestral dragon vein is powerful enough that if these emperor mushrooms were placed elsewhere, they could drain the life force of an entire forest and destroy all the other plants in the forest.

At the same time, these king mushrooms have very distinct flavors and colors, making them very attractive to animals; they are not ordinary mushrooms.

Soon, the four of them had prepared the safety rope and slid down the cliff.

Upon entering the Mushroom Forest, the sense of oppression intensified.

Looking up, each of the Emperor Mushrooms was over thirty or forty meters tall, and even the mushroom seedlings were much taller than the group of four.

"Click...click..."

The four hadn't walked more than a few steps into the mushroom forest when a crisp sound came from ahead.

Immediately afterwards, a small fox-like animal jumped out from behind a king mushroom, with a piece of king mushroom flesh in its mouth.

"It's Xuehu!"

Hua's eyes lit up when she saw the little fox.

"It's quite pretty."

Fang Yun nodded, a smile appearing on his face.

The snow fox, also known as the Earth Guanyin, looks like a little fox with a cat's mouth. It is very cute, and many wealthy women like to keep snow foxes as pets.

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Seeing such cute things in a place like this can definitely lift one's spirits.

"Yes, she's even cuter than a cat!"

"Should we catch a few? The flesh of the snow serpent is edible and can treat insect bites and nourish the spleen and kidneys!"

Hua nodded seriously, looked at Fang Yun and asked a question, seemingly wanting Fang Yun to catch a few snow serpents for her.

"........."

Upon hearing Hua's words, Fang Yun, Partridge Whistle, and the old foreigner were all stunned.

I already said it's beautiful... So, is the next step to catch it and eat it?

Fang Yun shook his head and chuckled to himself.

Hua Banshan comes from a family with different ideas than ordinary women, but that's a good thing. When going into tombs, being practical is much more important than being pretty.

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"Forget it, we brought a lot of beef, right? We'll eat beef once we get out of this mushroom forest!"

"All right!"

Hearing Fang Yun say this, Hua nodded and gave up on trying to take advantage of Xue Zi.

Shh...shh...click...

Just as the group of four was about to continue their journey, they heard another faint sound ahead.

Upon hearing this familiar sound, the expressions of the three brothers, Partridge Whistle and his companions, immediately turned serious.

This sound...

They heard it quite often back in Ping Mountain; it was the sound of a centipede's hundred legs crawling on the ground!

"Don't rush, let's see what it is first."

"There won't be anything too fierce, otherwise those snow serpents that have no fighting ability would have been eaten up long ago."

Seeing the three men draw their weapons and prepare to attack, Fang Yun calmed them down and stepped forward.

After passing through several emperor mushrooms, the group of four all saw the creature making a noise.

It was an arthropod covered in black armor, and over five meters long.

The thing looked exactly like a shrimp, fat and thick, with a pair of curved antennae in front of its head, and a hundred legs like a centipede under its thick body, except that those legs were all white and looked like shrimp legs.

It's like an overly fat lobster that has grown a hundred legs.

At that moment, the giant prawn was pouncing on an emperor mushroom, slowly cutting the mushroom apart with its large claws.

Chapter 135: The Island in the Lake, the Volcano!

"This is Jurassic Park..."

Upon seeing the fat shrimp, which was even bigger than a cow, Fang Yun clicked his tongue in amazement.

Although it is known that the creatures in this ancestral dragon vein grow to be very large, a small shrimp growing to be larger than a cow is really an exaggeration, as if we were in the age of dinosaurs.

He didn't know what this shrimp was called; he guessed it was some ancient, exotic species.

Click, click, click...

At this moment, the large, fat shrimp also noticed the four people approaching.

After stuffing a piece of Emperor Mushroom meat into its mouth, it immediately collapsed to the ground, curling its body into a ball. Its segmented, shiny black shell completely enveloped its body, making it look like a large tire.

"Oh, it's a shrimp."

Seeing the prawn curled up in a ball, a look of understanding appeared on Hua's face.

“These prawns can only live in the damp and cold underground, where there is no danger. They only eat plant roots and stems. I just didn’t expect that the prawns in the Kunlun Mountains could grow to such a size. The prawns in our Guizhou mountains, which are called ‘487’, can only grow to the size of two fingers.”

"Hmm, even weak creatures like snow nymphs and ball shrimp can survive here, so there shouldn't be any ferocious creatures here. Let's get out of this mushroom forest as soon as possible."

Hearing what Hua said, Fang Yun nodded, deciding to brush up on his biological knowledge when he got back.