"What is this? Dinner?" Norris, who had been assigned to stand by inside Dragon Horn Fortress, asked as he looked at the two severed halves of Puji Mushroom that Boss had suddenly teleported over.
"Huh? You want to eat it? Mm—well, it's not like you can't."
When Boss said that, Norris instead leaned back a little. "Don't tell me it's Cave Seven?"
"Well, put it back together yourself and you'll know." After saying that, Linden switched into observation mode and stopped making a sound.
Thinking that if he ignored it, the consequences would probably be even worse, Norris hesitated briefly, then still pieced this Puji Mushroom back together.
[Mycelium Reorganization LV10]
Norris aligned it very neatly. At the cut, the mycelia quickly bonded together, and in no time at all, it was as good as new.
But the Puji Mushroom still did not respond, and Norris could not help poking it with his hand.
Who would have thought that poke would be like pressing a switch.
"Ahhhhh—!"
The Puji Mushroom's two short legs swung left and right, its four tentacles flailed wildly, and it even lashed Norris twice.
"This is—no—"
"Vera—hand—can't get up?"
Seeing the Puji Mushroom twitch like this, and hearing the other party's broken cries over the Mycelium Network, Norris was not frightened. Instead, a look of understanding appeared on his face.
He had dealt with no few Mushroom Transformers. When some Mushroom Transformers were first revived as Puji Mushrooms, they really did display this kind of panicked behavior, like fish flung onto shore.
Norris reached out and gently tapped along the soft area beneath the rim of the Puji Mushroom Cap, soothing the other party's emotions. This was a little trick Inanna had taught him.
The effect was immediate. After the Puji Mushroom trembled slightly, it gradually