Chapter 156: Chapter 154: Eloquence

The leader of the Adventurer’s Guild seems to have changed.

Not long after Fa’er arrived in Dumb Wind Town, Lin Jun noticed him.

It was hard not to notice—that carriage covered with dazzling arrays made it impossible for Lin Jun, who was still studying basic arrays, to look at it directly.

[Name: Fa’er Isaac]

[Race: Human]

[Level: 28]

[Name: Lillian]

[Race: Half-Elf]

[Level: 55]

This useless young master with a powerful combat maid vibe…

Now, most of Dumb Wind Town is within Lin Jun’s field of vision, and it wasn’t intentional on his part. His fungal mat had just barely reached outside the door of the Underground City.

It’s purely because the people of Dumb Wind Town come to the Underground City every day to collect large amounts of mushrooms, naturally allowing some spores to grow into mycelium and mushrooms on their wooden houses.

When the number of mushrooms within a range reaches a certain level, it naturally forms a vision.

It’s just that due to not being connected to the fungal mat, there is a significant delay.

But places like the Adventurer’s Guild, where mushrooms can’t grow in, are Lin Jun’s blind spot in Dumb Wind Town.

However, he didn’t actually plan to monitor the entire Dumb Wind Town.

His attention is still focused on the Deep Area for the moment. As long as the Adventurer’s Guild doesn’t provoke him, he doesn’t care who their leader is.

In the Deep Area, eight caves have been gradually occupied, and Lin Jun has numbered them as Cave 1 to Cave 8 in order.

Because each cave needs Puki to defend, with every cave conquered, the number of Puki in the expedition team reduces a bit. Now, Louisa’s expedition team is only half of what it initially was.

Reduced firepower also means progress slows down, and the latest cave has been stalemated with a nest of Snake Monsters for two days.

And there’s still no trace of the Dungeon Core. Lin Jun estimates it won’t be found anytime soon.

If that’s the case, the importance of the Cave Dwellers grows even more.

However, the Yellow-covered Book, responsible for finding the Cave Dwellers, hasn’t made any contributions for a while.

It’s time to spur it on …

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[Norris, you betrayed me!]

In just a few words, the book’s text appeared engraved as if carved with a knife, full of the Yellow-covered Book’s disbelief.

“I… I didn’t…”

[Then why did you just close me?]

[Why?]

Norris looked at the Minotaur, which had been taken farther away after being defeated by them, and helplessly explained:

“It was the boss’s order. If I don’t close you, senior, won’t you extract the Minotaur’s soul again? Just like last time!”

Last time, Norris relied on commanding two puppet Minotaurs and a Puki, and with the Yellow-covered Book stirring their spirit, the Minotaur opponent went berserk and lost judgment, cleverly defeating it.

Originally, the Minotaur had a breath left, but the Yellow-covered Book suddenly extracted its soul, directly killing it!

Remembering the boss’s orders, Norris closed the Yellow-covered Book in advance when the Minotaur was about to be defeated.

This time the Minotaur was unaffected, but the Yellow-covered Book was displeased…

[The boss’s order? Do you want to starve me?]

[Norris, I’ve been starving for so long, I only took a little something]

[And last time I didn’t forget to share it with you!]

Norris scratched his head a bit embarrassedly. The last time the Yellow-covered Book consumed souls, it really didn’t forget to give him a share; he still vaguely remembers the satisfaction after the attribute enhancement—it was fascinating.

“But the boss said…”

[Norris, you’re being foolish!]

[We worked hard to kill the Minotaur, what’s wrong with eating a bit occasionally?]

[And who’s telling you stories every day?]

[Do you know how much effort I put into crafting stories just to make you happy?]

[And me? I just don’t want to starve!]

[Norris, didn’t you ever go hungry? You’d know what that feels like!]

[That sense of emptiness and pain, I’m enduring it right now!]

[You all can starve to death, but I can’t—I can only eternally suffer this torment, do you understand?]

[Wuwuwuwu]

Looking at the words of the Yellow-covered Book, Norris was speechless for a long time.

Though the Yellow-covered Book usually acted cocky and talked sarcastically, it was indeed good to him.

The stories every three days brought him a happiness he never experienced before.

Not only that, but the Yellow-covered Book also chats with him, as if it were a friend.

In terms of battle, he received a lot of help from the Yellow-covered Book, using its scouting ability every time to let Norris preemptively avoid risks.

Most importantly, he really experienced that starving feeling, never imagining the Yellow-covered Book lived through such days.

“Then, next time, an occasional one…”

“Eh? So it won’t…starve, which…means…not eating…is also…okay!”

The raspy, dry, echoing distorted voice suddenly came from Norris’s chest.

It was the voice Puki, which Lin Jun made Norris wear but seldom used since, hung around his neck like a scarf.

Norris, who almost violated the boss’s orders, stood frozen with a mournful face, not daring to speak.

And the Yellow-covered Book’s words quickly deleted, in just half a second, the page was as clean as new.

But obviously, it was too late.

Lin Jun’s decision to pay part of his attention to Norris wasn’t a joke. Every move of the Yellow-covered Book was under his watch, he just deliberately let it go before.

Norris suddenly felt one of the Puki, which was under his command, had its control taken back.

The Puki stepped forward, extending its mycelium tendrils to take the Yellow-covered Book from Norris’s hand.

Norris dared not resist at all, while the Yellow-covered Book began typing frantically.

[Boss! It’s all a misunderstanding!]

[I really didn’t mean to sneak a bite!]

[I was just teasing little Norris]

[I was testing whether he kept your instructions in mind]

[See, isn’t it proven now he didn’t fully comply!]

Norris: ???

“Make you come down… nothing accomplished… still playing tricks?”

Saying this, the Puki rolled up the Yellow-covered Book, heading towards Cave 1, apparently to hand it over to Xiao Hai.

[Boss! Wait!]

[Give me a chance!]

[Is there a chance to redeem if there are results?]

A brief silence.

“Can…consider.”

[I-I-I have a clue!]

[I have intelligence!]

[In the direction connected by the largest passage of Cave 3, there are creatures matching your description!]

The Yellow-covered Book quickly described the Cave Dwellers it had detected, their appearance, numbers, and behaviors, insisting it wasn’t making up lies.

The Puki nodded its mushroom cap.

“Knew…that.”

Then continued taking it away.

[Why?]

[I provided clues! I contributed to the Mushroom Garden!]

[You just promised me, how can you do this?]

“The sin of enticing Norris…forgiven, now it’s…the crime of…keeping quiet!”

[?!]

Two days later, Norris received the Yellow-covered Book, which had successfully lost weight, and a voice Puki, which still had a terrible sound but could speak fluently.

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