Digging the Tunnel

Huang Yu stood atop the Mushroomman King, overlooking the entire Mushroom Forest.

After a brief period of chaos, the Mushroom Forest returned to peace. Thousands of mushroommen moved through the forest, carefully cultivating fungi of various colors and forms.

The Mycelial Puppets controlled by the Mushroomman King once again merged into the Mycelial Mat, serving as nutrients and defensive forces for the Mushroom Forest.

Under Huang Yu's control, the structure of the entire Mushroom Forest was also rapidly changing.

According to his plans, the Mushroom Forest would eventually grow around Black Rock City, completely surrounding it.

The spores filling the Mushroom Forest would also remain under the Mushroomman King's control and would not invade people's bodies.

Although the Mushroomman King's strength was nothing impressive, its racial abilities were extremely useful.

The Mind Illusion Realm could effectively monitor the entire Mushroom Forest, while spores with different effects could serve as an outer defense for Black Rock City.

Combined with the puppets controlled by mycelia, Black Rock City essentially possessed a group of guards with reasonably decent strength.

In the future, Black Rock City could even throw treated alien corpses into the Mushroom Forest. That would both nourish the forest and increase its defensive strength.

However, the Mushroomman King was still too weak. Huang Yu planned to keep it in Black Rock City to prevent it from being killed by enemies.

After opening the Chaos Mall, Huang Yu first purchased one thousand construction workers, one thousand gatherers, and three thousand Ordinary Territory Inhabitants with various basic professions for Black Rock City.

The construction workers were naturally meant to meet Black Rock City's initial construction needs. The gatherers were purchased separately to develop this Mushroom Forest.

Unfortunately, although the area where Black Rock City was located was not far from Huanyu City in