Mushrooms Just Want to Beat People (13)

What the hell is this?

The six hulking figures that suddenly leaped onto their faces completely baffled the two Beast Tamers from Linzhou.

But this wasn't their first time fighting in a Secret Realm, and they reacted immediately.

"Water Leap Frog! Use Water Leap Domain!"

The tall, thin man immediately ordered his Spirit Beast to defend.

[Water Leap Domain] is the Water Leap Frog's Racial Skill. It forms a defensive circle of water curtains centered on the body, capable of blocking all straight-line projectiles.

It also has a certain blocking effect against individual physical melee attacks.

The Water Leap Domain did indeed form a temporary obstruction against the Delicious Mushroom.

But in the next second, several vines suddenly shot out from underground, firmly binding the Water Leap Frog, which was fully defending.

The moment the Water Leap Frog was bound, the vines buried underground also sprang out, extending all the way to the Delicious Mushroom.

These vines were all branches that Huohuo had pre-embedded in the Delicious Mushroom, using its Earth Escape skill to approach the Water Leap Frog from underground.

Seeing this, even Zhou Lu was a bit surprised, because Huohuo had never displayed such a usage before.

Could Huohuo's branches be pre-embedded in mushrooms?

Sensing Zhou Lu's gaze, Huohuo put its vines on its hips and proudly lifted its flower pot.

Huohuo is very powerful!

It learned this move from the mushroom in the laboratory.

Since the mushroom could attach its spores to wood to parasitize, it could also parasitize its branches onto the mushroom.

However, this technique was indeed difficult to master.

If the roots were buried too deep, the mushroom would die.

If the roots were buried too shallow, it wouldn't be able to grow branches and vines.

Huohuo had parasitized branches onto all six mushrooms it threw, but only three of them successfully activated the branches.

It had to be said, this kind of sneak attack was truly difficult to guard against.

The Water Leap Frog was forcibly dragged by the branches of the parasitic growth towards the enraged Delicious Mushroom.

The Delicious Mushroom didn't understand why the Water Leap Frog was automatically flying towards it.

It just wanted to beat someone up, and the Water Leap Frog flew right in front of it!

The Delicious Mushroom grabbed the Water Leap Frog.

The Delicious Mushroom used Beatdown on the Water Leap Frog.

The Water Leap Frog tried to escape, but its body was firmly bound by the vines that shot out from the Delicious Mushroom, leaving no room for escape. It could only be beaten violently by the Delicious Mushroom like a punching bag.

Seeing its Spirit Pet being beaten like this, the tall, thin man broke out in a cold sweat. He turned to ask his companion for help.

However, when he turned around, he saw that his companion was in an even worse situation!

His Spirit Pet was being held and beaten by the Delicious Mushroom, while his teammate was being held and beaten by the Delicious Mushroom along with his Spirit Pet!

Huohuo had successfully parasitized three Delicious Mushrooms, coincidentally grabbing three punching bags.

What kind of Spirit Beast is this?!

All the counterattacks from the Spirit Pets seemed to have no effect on the Delicious Mushroom.

Even though deep wounds had been inflicted, the other party was still tirelessly unleashing violence upon them, as if it couldn't feel any pain at all.

However, the tall, thin man soon wouldn't be so fortunate.

The remaining three Delicious Mushrooms saw that their companions had found targets to beat up and walked towards him together.

Their gleaming muscles, under the sunlight, emitted a chilling aura that made him tremble.

The tall, thin man quickly retreated, shouting at the mushrooms, "Don't come over here!"

But the Delicious Mushrooms, which only wanted to beat people, were clearly unmoved.

"Junior! We were wrong! I'll give you everything, just let us go! Please! Let us go!" The tall, thin man immediately changed his plea and shouted loudly towards Zhou Lu.

Hearing the other party's plea, Zhou Lu showed a helpless smile.

Once these Delicious Mushrooms were stimulated, all their actions were beyond his control.

They were not Zhou Lu's Spirit Pets in essence, but Spirit Beasts that acted according to their own instincts.

When stimulated, the Enlarged Delicious Mushroom would unleash all its internal energy and vent it wildly for a period of time. This was the principle behind them turning into muscular mushrooms and beating people up.

Once their internal energy was depleted, they would quickly wither and release all the spores within them.

However, Wu Xiaoqing's mutated version, considering that the Pioneer Army would use them on a large scale, not only modified the Delicious Mushroom to take effect upon landing but also eliminated the reproductive activity of the Delicious Mushroom's spores.

But doing so also weakened the Enlarged Delicious Mushroom's strength somewhat. But even weakened, it was still a Rank 2 Spirit Beast.

"They probably think I did this deliberately to rip them off," Wu Xiaoqing sighed when talking about this.

It's like that for breeders. Because they can only guarantee the excellent quality of the current generation, they don't recommend saving seeds. But people always say they designed it that way to rip people off.

While there were indeed peers who acted intentionally like this, Wu Xiaoqing never had such thoughts.

"You can recall them now," Lu Rang's voice sounded from behind Zhou Lu. "If you don't recall them soon, they'll be beaten to death."

Zhou Lu gave a wry smile. "I can't control these mushrooms."

"Oh." Lu Rang said nothing further.

Listening to the screams from the opposite bank, Zhou Lu couldn't bear it and asked in a low voice, "Teacher, aren't you going to save them?"

"They didn't pay me with academic credits," Lu Rang said matter-of-factly, then vanished into invisibility again.

Wow, that's pretty straightforward.

Those two unlucky guys did survive in the end.

After all, they had paid academic credits to operate in the safe zone, and Linzhou Beast Taming Academy had assigned them safety teachers.

If it weren't for their safety officers, Zhou Lu wouldn't have dared to let Huohuo throw the delicious mushrooms.

Enlarged Delicious Mushrooms were, after all, second-tier Spirit Beasts. Throwing six of them was a bit much.

"You ruthless brat!" Seeing that Zhou Lu had no intention of stopping, the safety teacher from Linzhou finally made a move. Several streams of water wrapped around the two individuals being beaten and their Spirit Pets.

The water streams were so powerful that they even snapped Huohuo's vines.

"It's just a competition for resources, why resort to such deadly attacks?" The opponent's safety officer revealed himself, a semi-transparent blue water snake coiled around his neck.

"They attacked first." Zhou Lu had the moral high ground and showed no deference to the other party.

The man's brow furrowed slightly, but upon seeing Lu Rang appear behind Zhou Lu, he didn't press the issue further.

"In a Secret Realm, Beast Tamers are our kin. You should show more mercy in the future." The man glanced at the white jade snail shell on the ground and said, "I'll take them with me. These are your spoils of war; you can deal with them as you see fit."

With that, he left without further ado.

The opponent's safety officer came and went quickly, not even giving the delicious mushrooms time to react.

"Wang Miao, the eldest son of the Linzhou Wang Family, and the lead teacher for the Linzhou school team," Lu Rang informed Zhou Lu of the man's identity. "If you join the school team in the future, you might run into him."

"Never mind that..." Zhou Lu looked at the six delicious mushrooms in the distance and swallowed. "I want to know, if I were also beaten half to death, could you intervene earlier, Teacher, so I wouldn't have to suffer so much pain?"

Lu Rang looked at Zhou Lu with some confusion. "What do you mean?"

The delicious mushrooms looked around.

They spotted Zhou Lu.

They charged towards Zhou Lu!

"I told you! I can't control them at all!"

In an instant, the charging delicious mushrooms reached Zhou Lu.

First update.