This isn't a souls-like game at all.

"The bird-beak mask looks pretty cool! I've wanted to wear this for a long time."

Ye Yiyi also took out the silver mask that had been prepared in the room long ago, took off his hat and put it on his head.

After putting on the mask, Wattol uttered a dull voice through the mask:

"The substance stored in the bird's beak can completely filter out highly toxic bacterial spores. It's effective for twelve hours. This means that no matter what we harvest within the ruins, we must leave after twelve hours."

Listening to Wator's explanation, Ye Yiyi's expression under the mask was a little strange.

This mask is good for protecting against infectious diseases and poisons, but it’s better not to use it against highly toxic bacterial spores.

【Bird Beak Mask】

Item Description: A silver mask shaped like a bird's beak.

Can filter harmful substances in the air,

Improves resistance to abnormal attributes of "poison" and "disease".

The silver mask was once engraved with the mark of the tree,

Therefore, the wearer will not be affected by fungal spores.

It is said that this is a mask used by hunters and plague doctors.

They are experts in dealing with all kinds of malignant infectious pollution.

This item description essentially reveals the nature of the highly toxic fungal spores - a parasite.

Speaking of the "Mark of the Tree", Ye Yiyi wiped the round lenses on the mask. In the middle of the two round lenses, there was a strange-shaped small tree engraved.

The only thing that can be confirmed is that the tree is not the Tongtian Tree.

"Although I don't know what tree it is, it can prevent the poisonous fungus spores from parasitizing. Maybe it is the source of the fungus spores." He thought to himself.

The Cat Knight watched everyone put on their masks, feeling the heat coming from afar, and spoke impatiently:

"Then I'll send you here. Someone will come to pick you up in twelve hours."

"I understand. Thank you very much, Sir Knight." Wator nodded quickly.

The Cat Knight left without looking back and quickly returned to the elevator at the rock wall.

"Let's go." Wator glanced at the people in front of him, exhaled lightly, and pulled out the short spear on his back.

Of his three teammates, one used a mace and a round shield, while the other two used short spears as weapons.

They pressed the middle of the short spear and then pulled it hard, and the short spear stretched out and turned into a two-meter-long spear.

Sure enough, on the battlefield, the longer the weapon, the better.

Bai Yu was carrying the broad sword she bought herself and holding the Buwu hammer axe given to her by Ye Yiyi.

Ye Yiyi himself didn't care too much. He held the cane that could be transformed into a long whip in one hand, and took out the silver moon staff with the other hand.

Continuing forward, they soon arrived at the ancient gate under the wall of fire.

This is a thick stone wall. The patterns engraved on it have become blurred and disappeared in the long passage of time.

"Crack!"

Wattol pulled the lever next to the door, and the door opened a crack.

"fast forward!"

He called out and led everyone in through the crack in the door.

"here……"

Ye Yiyi stepped into the door and looked up subconsciously.

In front of him, countless twisted, blue-black thick vines drilled through the hard rock, entwined with each other and extended into the sky.

The vines were thick and thin, and Ye Yiyi could even see a large number of huge wooden houses built on the vines.

At the very top of the vine, an extremely conspicuous huge stone building was floating in the middle of the four twisted vines.

The building was connected to the topmost rock layer and penetrated deep into it. There was an extremely dazzling fire around the rock layer, illuminating this huge space.

"That's the Lingering Temple, and the building below, built around the vine veins, is the Lingering Corridor," Bai Yu said softly. "To perform the ceremony, we must go to the temple at the top."

Ye Yiyi nodded at her, looked around, and then his eyes lit up.

"Look, the holy monument."

Bai Yu walked to the side silently and lit up the holy monument that seemed no different from a protruding rock.

"It's a pity that I am a spirit and cannot use the holy tablet." Ye Yiyi sighed slightly.

Although the holy tablet was discovered, only Bai Yu could use it.

If you don't come in person to light up the holy tablet, you will not be able to use the various functions of the holy tablet.

"Crack!"

The door behind him slowly closed, and the fire from behind the door disappeared.

Although it is unclear how the Blazing Cult managed to set the wall made of vines on fire, the flames can only be seen from the outside, while the vines inside the wall are not only flameless, but even a bit cold in temperature.

Wattol waved at the two men.

"Time to go, you two."

The two joined the team, Baiyu and Shield Hammer Hunter walked in front, the two spearmen were on both sides of the team, and Ye Yiyi and Wator were in the middle of the team.

Walking along the protruding rocks on the ground, we finally came to a vine vein closest to the gate.

Ye Yiyi took a look and was surprised to find that under the vine, there was a somewhat old elevator connected by a strange wooden rope.

"This is the bottom layer of the ruins. The tentacles are intact and there are no fungal cores, so there are no toxic spores.

"But once we reach the ruins above, we'll be able to see the peeled tentacles of the Tongtian Tree, along with the fungal cores parasitic on them."

"Each of the tentacle trees has multiple fungal corpse cores, and each of them controls all the fungal zombies within a certain range. Those bounty hunters who died here before are among them."

Wattol said this with a heavy face, and then pulled the lever next to the elevator.

"Our mission is to eliminate the fungal core. Before that, we need to clear out the zombies around us. It's midnight now, the time of day when the zombies are at their weakest, so there's no need to worry about being surrounded and attacked."

"By the way, can't we just go straight to the corpse core? Do we have to clear out all the smaller monsters?" he suddenly asked.

"That's because the corpse core is alive," Wattol said solemnly. "After being ignited by the flames, the corpse core will summon the zombies it controls. Therefore, we must first eliminate the zombies before cleaning up the corpse core... This is the most time-consuming step in the process."

"So that's it..."

As the elevator slowly rose, Ye Yiyi noticed that light green spots that flickered began to appear beside him.

These spots of light consciously avoided them, like some kind of living being.

But Ye Yiyi found it strange that except for him, no one else, including Bai Yu, seemed to notice this strange light spot.

"Why is that?" He looked a little confused.

Soon, the elevator reached its end, a wooden platform built around a surface covered with thick vines.

There is a circular staircase deep in the platform leading to the upper level, but there are many obstacles on the way there.

It was a strange humanoid creature, about the same height as an ordinary person, with green mushrooms of all sizes growing all over its body.

"Mushroom Man?"

This peculiar shape reminded Ye Yiyi of the One-Punch Man that was transformed from a mushroom spirit.

"This thing is hard to kill without fire."

Seeing Bai Yu walking towards a mushroom man, Wator spoke quickly.

"Boom!!"

The female knight raised her mace and smashed it down hard, knocking a mushroom man into the platform and breaking his body into four pieces.

Soul Echo +220

"What did you just say?" The female knight turned around in confusion.

Wattol's hand stretched forward froze in mid-air. He looked a little confused, then spread his hands out.

"No, as long as you are happy."

Chapter 230 [The Immortal Core of the Evil Mushroom]

It turned out that Wattold's humble and persistent invitation was correct.

Because he suddenly discovered that even if Bai Yu did not use fire combat skills, it would still be a one-sided massacre against the fungal zombies.

If we simply break down the steps of her slaughtering zombies, it is a cycle of "charge, raise hammer, and smash."

Although it does not require much technical content, the effect it produces is extremely effective.

In less than a minute, the female knight with a hammer and axe in her hand sent all the fungal zombies on the platform into the sky with one hammer after another.

"The body is like wood, a bit brittle, and the movements are slow... basically no threat." Bai Yu returned to the team without blushing or beating his heart, and then expressed his thoughts.

"Very handsome, sister."

Ye Yiyi glanced at the prompt "Soul Echo +1760" and smiled brightly at the female knight.

But he was wearing a bird-beak mask, so Bai Yu couldn't see the smiling face.

"It's all thanks to this weapon you gave me," the female knight said seriously, "It works very well!"

"That couldn't be better."

Then she watched Ye Yiyi squat down in front of the zombie, take out a knife and dissect the mutilated corpse.

Looking around the empty platform, the bearded man holding a round shield and a hammer axe twisted his face and nudged the dull-looking Wator with his elbow.

"Watol, if this continues, won't we have to give up our 30% as well?"

“…I don’t think so.”

Wattol reacted and shook his head.

"Mister Michaela doesn't seem like someone who would break a contract. Besides, he's so rich and a magician, why would he be greedy for our small amount of money?"

"That's true..." The man with the mustache glanced at his companion who seemed to be waking up from a dream, then smiled. "No matter what, we've finally found a big boss this time!"

"Stop talking nonsense and go check on Mr. Michaela. He seems to have discovered something."

"These fungal zombies seem to be composed entirely of fungi..."

Ye Yiyi dissected several corpses with a knife and then came to a conclusion.

There are a total of eight fungus zombies on the platform, except for one dead body controlled by fungi.

The others are mushroom people with wooden structures on the surface and green mycelium inside.

They are real mushroom people, or fungal spirits, and even though they have been smashed to pieces by Bai Yu, the fungi inside them still remain alive.

Ye Yiyi clearly saw that these light green hyphae were crawling, combining with each other and condensing into clumps.

The organs and blood in the manipulated corpse disappeared completely, and a large amount of green hyphae grew around the bones, even forming strange-shaped organs.

"But the soul echo has exploded, so this thing is not considered dead?"

He was a little confused, so he simply picked up a knife and continued the dissection. Soon he found a light green diamond-shaped stone from the mushroom man's body.

【Mushroom Blocks】

Item Description: A small stone filled with mushroom spores.

Can be thrown at enemies, causing explosions and accumulating the parasite meter.

Mushrooms can parasitize in living organisms.

It absorbs the host's vitality and grows a large number of mushrooms on its body surface.

"Evil-growing mushrooms?"

After looking at the items, Ye Yiyi couldn't help but fall into deep thought, and then looked down at the mushroom man under him.

After the mushroom block was removed, the light green mycelium instantly lost its vitality and became motionless like a dead object.

"In other words, this thing is the core of the mushroom man?"

He had never seen this mushroom block in the game, but judging from the item description, it seemed to be a parasitic mushroom?