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

With Ye Yiyi's limited knowledge of biology, he only knew that mushrooms were a type of fungus.

For example, there are poisonous mushrooms, which taste delicious but are extremely poisonous and can only be tasted once in a lifetime.

"And it absorbs the host's vitality...why does this thing sound so familiar?"

Setting aside the background, the Fungus Block is a throwing item that can accumulate the abnormal property "parasitism".

The effect of "parasitism" is currently unknown, as there is no such abnormal property in the game.

But judging from the fungal zombie that the dead body turned into, the parasitic effect is probably like a younger version of [Incomplete Metamorphosis]?

"Mister Michaela, have you discovered anything?"

While I was thinking, I suddenly heard Tovar's question.

"A little."

He turned back and showed Torvald the pale green stone in his hand.

"This thing is the core of this group of mushroom people. Including the zombie that the dead body turned into, they all have this thing in their bodies.

"If the core is removed, the mycelium will completely lose its vitality."

"I've never seen anything like it."

Tovar frowned.

"All we know is that these fungal zombies are extremely vulnerable to fire. Flames will burn them to ashes... But no matter how many times we clean this place up, they'll still appear in large numbers the next time we come."

"What about the fungal core?" Ye Yiyi asked, "After you eliminated the core, didn't you get a fungal core?"

"Sclerotia are nothing like this." Tovar shook his head. "Sclerotia look like a white mushroom."

"mushroom?"

"Yes, this place is not far from the first exposed tentacle. We will see it soon."

"Well."

Ye Yiyi nodded and stood up, putting the eight collected mushroom blocks into the four-dimensional chrysanthemum.

All these mushroom people were killed by Bai Yu, and the mushroom blocks were naturally the spoils of Bai Yu and Ye Yiyi.

"Looks like we need to grab more monsters." He glanced at the female knight and whispered, "These mushroom blocks are a kind of throwing props, very useful."

Since Michaela said it was useful, Bai Yu naturally knew what he should do next.

Everyone walked up the stairs, and the female knight charged ahead, holding a greatsword in one hand and a hammer axe in the other, slashing all the mushroom people along the way.

Ye Yiyi followed closely behind with a silver cast iron knife. He quickly dug open the shattered mushroom man, took out the mushroom pieces from his body and put them away.

One of them killed the other and took the enemy, their movements were as smooth as flowing water, and their forward speed was incredibly fast.

In Wattol's eyes, the zombies that originally took an hour to clear out were now all done in less than 10 minutes.

They couldn't even get a single zombie. Even though they were holding weapons, they looked like elementary school students on a spring outing with their adults.

"Watol, look at this...?"

The man with the mustache looked at the brother and sister killing everyone, and his expression became more and more confused and helpless.

"We really can't do anything about it now."

"Why don't you go talk to them and ask them to leave some zombies for us?" A bearded man holding a spear interrupted.

"Forget it," the mustache-faced man shook his head. "They're clearly after the stone inside the living corpse...isn't it obvious they're afraid we'll steal it?"

"This stone might be very valuable. I wonder if the Earth Mother Cult will accept it." Another younger-looking man holding a spear had his eyes shining.

"I advise you to give up this idea."

Wattold looked back at his companion with a dark face.

"With these two here, we might be able to go deeper and get more sclerotia. Don't lose sight of the main goal!"

"What if they want the sclerotia too?" the bearded man said suddenly.

"Just take it. The money is calculated according to the number of sclerotia. The more sclerotia they get, the more we get!"

Then Wattol spoke with a stern look in his eyes.

"I'll say it one last time. Don't lose sight of the main goal. We are lucky to have these two people join us!"

"Vatol is right. Stop thinking about those things."

The mustache-faced man nodded, then took in the familiar surroundings and sighed, "We're almost there... How long did it take us to walk this distance the last two times?"

"The fastest took nearly an hour." Wattol said silently, then quickened his pace and finally caught up with the two people who were moving very fast.

9 minutes after climbing the stairs, Ye Yiyi and Bai Yu arrived at the next platform.

After clearing out the fungal zombies here, Ye Yiyi harvested another 6 mushroom blocks.

At this point, the total number of mushroom blocks has reached 32.

Soul Echo also added 7040, bringing the total to 41240.

Among them, 33000 were provided by the Dragon Warrior Bresta.

At his current level of 83, he needs 34600 soul echoes to upgrade. Previously, he did not have enough soul echoes, so he kept saving them and did not upgrade.

After roughly estimating the harvest, Ye Yiyi looked up at the wooden house built on a protruding platform. The surface of the vine veins was directly hollowed out and built in the vine veins.

"What was this place used for before?"

Ye looked around and couldn't help but ask Bai Yu in a low voice.

The female knight looked up and down, then came to the door of the wooden house, reached out and brushed away the dust on the door, revealing a few somewhat blurry symbols.

Then she turned her head with a strange expression.

"This is the toilet."

"Toilet?" Ye Yiyi was stunned.

At this moment, Wattol and others arrived, so he had to stop complaining, but his expression was still weird.

I can't tell, you guys are so wild, you just built a toilet directly inside the body of Yinghui Tengmai, right?

"This is the place where the tentacle's skin was peeled off and the fungal core was parasitic."

Wattol looked at the building with deep emotion.

“I don’t know how the ancients managed to build houses in the tentacles of the Earth Mother Goddess—the Tongtian Tree.

"For them, this should be like a temple, right?"

No, you are wrong, the temple is still above your head, this is just a toilet.

Ye Yiyi complained silently in her heart.

"Is the fungal core inside?" Bai Yu asked.

"That's right." Wator said as he took out a fire energy capsule and inserted it into the spear in his hand.

"Next, just... Hey! Lord Bai Yu!"

Before he could finish his words, the female knight kicked open the door and rushed into the toilet where fungal zombies were wandering around.

"boom!!"

The next moment, a violent explosion was heard from the toilet door!

As Wator stared in amazement, the female knight, holding a hammer axe in one hand and a large white mushroom in the other, slowly walked out of the gate amidst the raging flames.

"The first sclerotium is in hand."

"This……"

Tovar and the others were dumbfounded and looked at each other, feeling that their outlook on life over the past few decades had completely collapsed at this moment.

"Show me the sclerotium."

Ye Yiyi stretched out his hand and took the big mushroom from Bai Yu.

The light curtain then popped out.

[The Immortal Nucleus of the Illegitimate Mushroom]

Chapter 231 Zombie Riot

[The Immortal Nucleus of the Illegitimate Mushroom]

Item Description: A strange fungus born from the heart of the tree.

One of the fruiting mushrooms that contains a lot of vitality.

One of the materials used to craft props.

Or if taken directly, there is a risk of fungal infection.

Dramatically boost strength and energy over a long period of time.

It is said that the agaricus is a strange fungus that contains immortality.

Cultivated by botanists, it can absorb free vitality through parasitism.

Then, through immortal transformation, it grows into a mushroom full of vigorous vitality.

"Uh……"

After reading the item description, Ye Yiyi's expression became even more strange.

This item description gave him too much of a sense of déjà vu, and many of the terms used in it were very familiar to him.

For example, the Heart of the Tree, Immortality, and the Gardener.

The Heart of the Tree is a precious item that can only be condensed by immortal trees. It has another more appropriate name.

——Seed of Immortality

A botanist, to put it simply, is an expert in cultivating and studying plants.

For example, the wife of Andrew, the king's master, was a gardener.

In short, the immortal core in Ye Yiyi's hand is a strange fungus cultivated by a botanist through a certain immortal seed.

The name of this fungus is "evil-growing fungus."

As for the mushroom in Ye Yiyi's hand, it is the fruiting body mushroom of the fungus.

It's unclear what the fruiting body is, but since the item description says it is, then it must be.

"Mister Michaela, have you discovered something?"

Wator watched Ye Yiyi staring at the big mushroom in silence for a long time, and felt itchy in his heart, so he couldn't help but ask.

In his opinion, Michaela, as a magician's apprentice, was undoubtedly the most knowledgeable among the five of them.

Even he stared at this thing for a long time without saying a word. Could there be something wrong with the sclerotium?

Ye Yiyi raised his head, raised the big mushroom in his hand, and said:

"I can't say I'm very familiar with this thing, but it's not the first time I've seen it."

"what is that?"

"A derivative of the Immortal Seed, or in other words, a fungal fruiting body obtained through specific cultivation."

"Uh……"

Wator and the people around him looked at each other, but Bai Yu was the only one who showed understanding.

"Well, Ms. Michaela, could you please be more... understandable?"

The mustache said hesitantly:

"To be honest, we didn't understand what you just said."

“It’s just as well that I didn’t understand.”

Unexpectedly, Ye Yiyi shook his head. He was not speaking to them, but to Bai Yu.

He casually put the big mushroom into the four-dimensional chrysanthemum and said quietly:

"You know too much. The Earth Mother Cult will not let you go."