Survival at Sea: I Became Number One by Growing Mushrooms

Now she has a real psychological trauma from seeing this cave.

He hesitated for a moment, afraid to step forward, lest he discover again that it was a hallucination.

She took a deep breath, and just as she was about to go inside, she heard the familiar roar of a bear. Xu Jiawei:.......

How could she believe this wasn't an illusion? Everything was so familiar—the familiar black bear, the familiar cave.

There was nothing strange about it when I first arrived here; all the strangeness started after I entered the cave.

At that time, the system was trying to save Xu Jiawei, which made her realize the abnormality, and then she began to experience a series of nested hallucinations.

It even gave her the illusion that she only started hallucinating after entering the cave.

Upon seeing the familiar black bear, Xu Jiawei recalled the nauseating feeling of seeing flesh and blood before, and decided to forget about it. She didn't need clothes now, so she decided not to skin it. Two photon meteors were fired, burning the black bear to ashes.

This time, she didn't hesitate and went straight into the cave. She was terrified by the illusion that she had woken up in a cave.

The further they went in, the colder it became, though not quite at the extreme cold of a natural disaster. Xu Jiawei could still manage, so she put on a hat, scarf, cotton shoes, and a hot water bottle.

After walking for about an hour, Xu Jiawei almost thought she had entered another loop, but thankfully, she finally reached the end.

At the end was a familiar temple, its decorations and layout very similar to the one in the illusion. However, the black mist surrounding it made her realize that this was a corrupted temple.

It's unknown whether the Ice God still has any consciousness or clones, but this place has been corrupted. Even if there are clones, they would only be demonized clones. Xu Jiawei can only pray that the Ice God has completely disappeared.

She went inside the temple and found the pet backpack, which had been frozen in a block of ice in a corner.

Xu Jiawei took out her tools and started chiseling. After chiseling for a long time, only some ice shards appeared on the ice surface.

It seemed she needed to find another way, so she planted some flame mushrooms on the ice. The flame mushrooms grew arms and legs and sprayed flames at the ice. As the flames heated the ice, it gradually melted. Xu Jiawei smashed the ice with her pickaxe, and it shattered.

She took out her pet backpack and released Rainbow and the others. Rainbow was still a little confused and didn't know what had happened. It remembered that they had been heavily polluted and could only enter the cave.

The deeper it went, the less polluted the cave became, but it got colder and colder, making it increasingly difficult for it to move until it lost consciousness. When it woke up again, it was already stuck in the pet backpack and couldn't get out.

Now, most of its body has been contaminated. Fortunately, Little Pink helped purify some of it in the pet backpack, otherwise it wouldn't be surprising if it had directly turned into a demonized creature.

But Little Pink's abilities are limited; it can only barely maintain its sanity, and it can't do more than that. Little Pink hasn't even completely cleansed its own pollution, let alone the red earthworm and the rainbow.

Seeing Caihong's confused look, Xu Jiawei knew she wouldn't get any more information out of her.

She didn't want to stay in this temple for a second longer, but Rainbow's body wasn't enough to support her going outside to purify. The red earthworm was a little better off, as it stayed inside Rainbow's body without any further contamination, but Rainbow had been in the contamination for a long time. If it weren't for Little Pink purifying her body, Rainbow wouldn't have been able to hold on until she saw Xu Jiawei.

So Xu Jiawei decided to purify the rainbow before leaving.

As for the red earthworms and the pink ones, we'll talk about them after we get out.

Although the demonic clone hasn't appeared yet, what if it's just sleeping? Every minute we stay will increase the danger.

"Little Pink, Red Earthworm, be on guard, I'm going to purify Rainbow." Xu Jiawei said and immediately used Light Purification.

The red earthworm twitched the branch and moved to the corner, while Little Pink stayed by Xu Jiawei's side.

The red earthworm, which had come to the corner, seemed to sense something attracting it. It glanced at its owner who was purifying, and then followed the guidance to the wall. It could sense that what it wanted was behind this wall.

Then it glanced at the rainbow slowly purifying, and started digging. Relying on the thorny vines, the red earthworm transformed into a drill, chiseling at the ice wall. As long as it drilled a hole, it could extend the vines inside.

Xu Jiawei is purifying the environment, while red earthworms are digging into the wall.

Xu Jiawei was so focused that she didn't notice the red earthworm digging at the wall. Little Pink, acting as the guard, did notice, but seeing that Xu Jiawei didn't react, she ignored it.

The red earthworms were digging into the wall with great effort, and no one stopped them.

Three hours later, Xu Jiawei's purification was finally mostly complete. There were still some pollutants remaining in Caihong's body, which would be dealt with after she left.

Meanwhile, the red earthworm finally dug a hole through the ice wall. It stretched out its vines, went deep into the hole, and then danced around, getting what attracted it.

The moment it took the object out, the entire temple trembled. The red earthworm was startled and immediately realized that it had caused trouble, so it ran back to Xu Jiawei's side.

Just as Xu Jiawei was about to call the red earthworm to leave, she noticed that the surroundings were shaking violently. The red earthworm darted to her side in an instant, conveying a sense of guilt and apology for doing something wrong.

Before Xu Jiawei could even think about what the red earthworm was apologizing for, could it be that the temple was about to collapse and that it was related to it?

The only option is to sit on top of the rainbow and run away immediately.

Fortunately, only the temple itself collapsed; the cave remained intact. They stopped as soon as they exited the temple, and Xu Jiawei immediately turned her gaze to the red earthworm, asking, "What did you do? Why did the temple collapse?"

Seeing that Xu Jiawei wasn't too angry, the red earthworm stretched out its vine and took out the cold stone. Just a moment later, the vine it used to take the stone had frozen stiff.

Xu Jiawei was shocked again; she had lost count of how many times she had been shocked today.

She saw something familiar again—the ice crystal that the Ice God had given to the Mushroom God in her second hallucination. So it really did exist.

The fact that this thing appeared in her hallucination proves that the God of Darkness knows about it.

Xu Jiawei's guess was correct. The Dark God wanted to obtain the Ice Crystal Stone, but the Ice Crystal Stone had been hidden by the Ice God before her death. The Dark God couldn't find it, so he directly wanted to corrupt the entire temple and make it his own, searching for it slowly.

However, the red earthworm got there first, so the Dark God's efforts were in vain.

Xu Jiawei asked, "Where did you find this?"

The red earthworm gestured wildly, conveying information to Xu Jiawei's mind.

"You mean you spent three whole hours digging through the wall? And you even dug a hole through it?" Xu Jiawei asked.

The red earthworm conveyed the message in its mind: "We haven't dug through; this thing is inside the wall."

However, after it was unearthed, the temple collapsed immediately.

Seeing the red earthworm still flailing its arms and legs, Xu Jiawei immediately said seriously, "Don't do that again. If you find anything, tell me first, and wait for my approval before you take any action."