Chapter 80 Mouths from head to toe
Chapter 80 Mouths from head to toe
After testing the [Organic Absorption] skill, Luo Lan turned around and walked towards the upper half of the Walking Mushroom lying on the ground, preparing to absorb it with [Condensation].
He stretched out his left hand, his fingertips about to touch the colorful mushroom cap, but his movement froze.
[Wait a minute... I'm thinking about the wrong thing.]
Luo Lan withdrew her left hand and her gaze fell on the half-capped walking mushroom.
The description of the [Organic Extraction] specialty clearly states that it involves "breaking down most organic matter into absorbable nutrients".
The vast majority of organic matter.
This scope is much broader than "human food".
With my expertise in organic sourcing, why should I still be agonizing over whether or not to eat dark bread?
Luo Lan looked down and examined the half of the walking mushroom closely.
[Can this be eaten directly without cooking?]
Previously, Luo Lan had also used walking mushrooms and wolf meat to make a mushroom stew.
But that was after absorbing the chaotic aura from the monster ingredients using [Condensation] and then cooking them at high temperatures.
This walking mushroom, when grown, is clearly considered a "poisonous mushroom" by normal humans.
If [organic absorption] can directly decompose and absorb the remains of the walking mushroom.
That means that Luo Lan will no longer have a problem surviving by "eating grass and gnawing on trees".
Luo Lan squatted down in front of the upper half of the walking mushroom and placed his hands on it.
Flesh-covering hyphae emerge simultaneously from the tips of all ten fingers, flesh-colored threads piercing into the flesh of the walking mushroom, causing a large amount of dissolving enzymes to be secreted.
The flesh of the walking mushroom has a high water content and a loose fibrous structure, which almost doubles the penetration efficiency of the dissolving enzyme compared to dissolving air-dried smoked meat.
The fungal flesh begins to transform into a translucent fluid from the edges, and biomass energy flows continuously into the body along the arms.
[It worked as expected...]
In less than a minute, the cap of the walking mushroom shrank by a size, and the dried part turned into a thin, shriveled sac that crumbled at the slightest touch.
Feeling the biomass energy reserves gradually filling his body, Luo Lan discovered another flaw:
[The posture that requires both hands is really inconvenient.]
After thinking for a moment, Luo Lan simply stood up and picked up the shrunken remnant of the walking mushroom.
"Swish, swish."
With his right hand, he drew his broadsword and swiftly sliced the still-slimy remains into several appropriately sized pieces of mushroom flesh.
Immediately afterwards, Luo Lan made a series of actions that would leave normal people dumbfounded.
Luo Lan unfastened the buckles of his heavy armor and stuffed all the sliced walking mushrooms into his heavy armor.
The slippery mushroom chunks slid down his clothes and adhered intimately to the skin on his chest and back.
Under the combined effect of the semi-liquid body and organic absorption.
The pores on Luo Lan's chest and back instantly opened, and large patches of dark red fleshy mycelium rapidly grew out, firmly adhering the walking mushroom pieces stuffed into the heavy armor.
Through the armor and inside the clothing, the process of dissolving and absorbing the "food" occurred simultaneously on Luo Lan's chest and back.
Luo Lan is "feeding" directly with her skin.
Luo Lan could even have her entire body as a "mouth" if she wanted to.
Now my hands are free.
Luo Lan fastened the heavy armor again. There were a few more pieces of fungal flesh inside the armor. The weight was almost unchanged, but there was a slight itching sensation on her chest and back.
After taking a few steps and stretching, Luo Lan found that it didn't hinder his movement at all. He was quite satisfied.
[Hmm, highly efficient, not bad.]
However, if someone were to observe Luo Lan closely at this moment, they would discover a hidden and horrifying scene—
At the edge of the armor seam, you can see many flesh-colored hyphae inside, wriggling slightly, as if the armor is full of living roots.
No matter how you look at it, Luo Lan's tin can looks like it's been "parasitized" by some kind of fungal monster, or it's simply a humanoid deformity created by the [Flesh-Blooming Rotting Nest].
However, Luo Lan didn't care. Since there was no one around, there was no need to worry about disguise.
Thus, maintaining this bizarre state, it directly "fed" with its skin, chest to back.
Not only were Luo Lan's hands freed, but he was also able to efficiently utilize his internal biomass energy reserves while striding towards the exit of the Rift Ruins.
Most of it is used in conjunction with [High-Speed Metabolism] to restore one's satiety and energy, while a small portion is used to quickly replenish the [Bio-Battery] that was previously depleted.
Maintaining this state of frantically wriggling and "feeding" inside the heavy armor, Luo Lan strode past the scattered walking mushrooms and demon wolves that were still wandering in the cave.
After the demonic tide subsided, no Walking Mushrooms attacked proactively.
The dangerous predator aura emanating from Luo Lan was enough to keep the scattered demon wolves at a distance.
A moment later, at the end of the first level of the Rift Ruins, the purple light curtain of the exit flickered slightly before our eyes.
A while had passed since Luo Lan returned to the first level of the Rift Ruins, and the area in front of the light screen was now crowded with demonic wolves.
There were about thirty of them, with gray fur, huddled together.
"Rumble..."
Every now and then, the entire rift would tremble, a purple spatial rift would flash across the rock wall, and the howls of the demon wolves would follow.
Occasionally, a demon wolf would place its front paws on the rocks at the edge of the purple light barrier, only to pull them back a few seconds later.
They feared both the collapse of the rift and the unknown outside world.
These wolves were all in a state of extreme nervous anxiety.
Luo Lan walked straight toward them.
The heavy metal armor was stained with blood and ash, and the smell wafted through the air, immediately eliciting a response from the wolf pack.
Several stronger demon wolves stood at the front. Although they were not as big as the alpha wolf "Old One-Eyed" that Luo Lan had killed when he first entered the Rift, they were still significantly more robust than the ordinary demon wolves around them.
These wolves bared their teeth at Luo Lan, their forelegs slightly bent, the fur on their shoulders bristling, and threatening howls emanating from their throats.
This intimidation might be a way to alleviate the deadly anxiety caused by the collapse of the rift, or it might simply be the monster's instinct to hunt.
In any case, their actions stirred up the surrounding demon wolves.
The commotion quickly spread among the wolf pack. More than thirty wolves turned towards Luo Lan, their ferocity ignited, and began to gather restlessly in his direction.
Facing this pack of snarling beasts, Luo Lan smiled:
"Little devil wolves, you like to breathe on me so much, are you trying to attack the soles of my shoes with your heads again?"
In this vast underground city of rifts, it is extremely rare to encounter dozens of demonic wolves huddled together in such a dense cluster.
The plant-like magical beasts on the second floor and the flesh-and-blood slimes on the third floor also love to gather in groups, but they have no vision at all.
When Luo Lan first entered the first level, it was during the demonic tide, and the raging demonic wolves were scattered in groups of three or five throughout the cave.
Luo Lan hasn't used that extremely useful crowd control skill for a while.
【Terrification lv.3】!
Beneath the helmet's visor, the azure iris of his right eye was instantly swallowed by crimson.
The pupils slit vertically, contracting into an extremely thin slit.
An invisible and terrifying mental shock swept across all the demonic wolves present, centered on Luo Lan.
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