Author: Zhong Shugong

A small basket simply assembled from rattan and large leaves was filled with palm-sized red and white-spotted mushrooms. The blue-spotted mushroom man stepped on the traces left by dragging heavy objects on the ground and trotted all the way to a cave.

The giant beast that almost hit it was lying here quietly.

At this moment, the flesh and blood on the giant beast continued to squirm, and the fleshy mucus film remaining on his body spread more and more, almost covering his entire body, and was still flowing inwards.

Stepping into the cave, it carefully looked at the giant beast for a few times, and then slowly approached after making sure there was no problem.

After circling a large number of behemoths, the blue mushroom man looked at the red and white-spotted mushrooms in the basket and felt a twinge of pain.

After hesitating for a moment, he finally took out most of it, crushed it all and sprinkled it on all parts of the giant beast's body.

"Yo ho~"

It was still a little nervous at first, but when it saw that the mushroom was quickly melted into liquid and disappeared on the giant beast, it jumped up and down with joy.

It stepped aside, moved a stone to make a chair for itself, and just sat there looking at the giant beast expectantly.

But it waited and waited. The flesh and blood on the giant beast was still squirming at an irregular frequency, and there was no other movement.

"Eh?"

It tilted its head, a little confused.

He turned around and looked at the remaining red mushrooms in the basket, and was about to throw them all onto the giant beast.

Suddenly, the giant beast's body broke out into an extremely violent struggle, and a strong and sometimes weak aura continued to rise and fall on his body.

The originally slowly squirming flesh and blood became extremely violent, as if there was another creature constantly moving inside the giant beast, gnawing at his body!

How could a little mushroom man endure such a terrifying scene?

"ah--"

It was so frightened that it screamed strangely, didn't care about anything, jumped off the stone stool, spread its short legs and rushed out.

Just as he was about to run out of the cave, he suddenly realized that he still had half a basket of mushrooms left. He immediately gritted his teeth and rushed back to get the basket.

Snapped!

A strange roar suddenly erupted from the giant beast's body, and countless tentacle-like sprouts popped out of the flesh-colored film covering his body. The mushroom man was so frightened that he froze in place, unable to move at all.

But in the end, it was just hit by one of the sprouts, and even the mushroom man was taken out of the cave with the mushrooms.

Immediately afterwards, all the flesh sprouts that flew out were all stuck to the mountain wall, each dancing like a cocoon, wrapping up and blocking the giant beast layer by layer!

Before long, even its original appearance was no longer visible, leaving only a cocoon of flesh that was connected to the cave wall with countless fleshy tissues, and was still struggling and squirming inside.

The blue-spotted mushroom man standing at the entrance of the cave looked at everything in the cave in shock. His little mind could not understand what was happening.

Seeing that the cocoon of flesh was still jumping out of the granulation tissue, and was almost completely occupying the cave, it didn't dare to stay, for fear that it would be sucked in by the inexplicable monster, so it turned around and ran away.

One day, two days, three days.

Four days later, the blue-spotted mushroom man came back.

This time, it also brought along a frog with a metallic luster stone on its back, and a thin flash of lightning flashed on it from time to time.

"Quack?"

The frog reached out and patted the mushroom man with a puzzled tone.

Zhi——

"babble--"

Immediately, a wisp of electricity penetrated the mushroom man's body from its hand, and the opponent was shocked on the spot. A faint smoke emitted from his body, giving off a bit of a burning smell.

But there’s nothing serious about the mushroom race!

Although it was used to it, it still glared at the stone-backed frog and pointed into the hole to signal it to be quiet.

"Eaaah!"

A mushroom man and a frog slowed down their pace, like little adventurers, and slowly approached the cave.

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He poked half of his head up and down, but the mushroom and the frog were completely stunned on the spot.

The granulation tissue that was originally ejected and almost occupied the cave has now shrunk by most of it and has converged back. Many of them have dried up, broken and scattered on the ground.

However, the cocoon of flesh that was constantly squirming before was completely wrapped tightly, but a hard shell was completely formed on the outside.

Through the fine cracks, four-color clouds can be vaguely seen flowing inside, as if it has been replaced by other substances.

The most obvious thing is that the flesh cocoon continues to exude a smell that rises and falls.

When he is strong, he is no different from a leader, and when he is weak, he is as good as a general.

The aura kept sweeping around, almost marking the area as its own territory, so that after such a long time, no other beast masters even dared to come and check it out.

In other words, guys like the blue-spotted mushroom man, who are not very smart and are very nervous, don't care about so many things.

Seeing that nothing was wrong, the mushroom man was about to go in, but was grabbed by the frog, "Quack!"

Zhi——

The mushroom man was shocked again and stopped moving.

The stone-backed frog looked frightened and danced, shouting and jumping.

This doesn't look like a serious creature, so why not drag it in to seek death?

"Eaaah!"

The blue mushroom man shook his head and made a few gestures.

The big guy looked like he was asleep. This was originally their winter place, so it would be okay to stay with him!

The stone-backed frog was stunned for a moment, and he didn't know whether he was marveling at the courage of the mushroom man or doubting his brain.

But it looked inside the cave, which was dry, warm, and spacious, and the breath of giant beasts could dispel the threat. Then it looked outside with the withered trees and howling cold wind.

The environment comparison is not too different!

"Qua..."

It hesitated, saying that it would take a look before talking.

"Eaaah!"

The mushroom man nodded with satisfaction and immediately called the stone-backed frog and walked into the cave together.

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Time passes day by day.

At first, the frogs and mushroom people were very cautious and only dared to stay at the entrance of the cave. They only used the space in the cave to store food for the winter. They also collected the dried meat with shrunken and dried flesh from the giant beasts and stored it separately.

Although it looks a bit scary, if there is not enough food, then there is nothing to eat!

And with the aura of the giant beast in the cave, there are no other beasts nearby who will approach at will, so safety is not a problem.

The two little guys were living an increasingly comfortable life.

November has passed.

As December arrives, the temperature drops sharply, the cold wind howls, and vast amounts of snowflakes begin to float in the sky.

Seeing that the cocoon was motionless, they simply hid in the hole, clinging to the cocoon, and with the help of the warmth it radiated, they spread various hay collected around it to keep warm.

Time continues to pass and January arrives.

Snow days have become the norm.

As the snowflakes accumulated deeper and deeper, almost filling the hole, the frogs and mushroom people gradually became unbearable.

They tried moving the cocoon and found that all the granulations connected to the outside were disconnected and it could be pushed.

Without stopping, a frog and a mushroom simply pushed the cocoon to the entrance of the cave, resisting the wind and snow to keep warm, and at the same time releasing coercion to deter hungry beasts from intruding in winter.

In this way, the two weak beasts cooperated with each other, and with this gift from heaven, they survived the most difficult period of winter.

And the life in the cocoon that had been silent for a long time finally resolved the crisis of external invasion and ushered in a new change of its own.
Chapter completed!