They all wanted to get an answer from Mushroom Concubine, but when they arrived at the 18th floor and saw her in person, they realized that the problem was worse than they thought.
Mushroom Concubine … had lost her mind.
Her entire body was covered by a giant mushroom. Only her face could be seen above the mushroom's cover.
They could clearly hear the woman's mouth opening and closing as she mumbled something about "the end of the world". Apart from that, she had lost all sense of reason.
Her eyes were also covered with black patterns and blood-red pupils, just like the Grindstone Corpse.
When she saw them in the room, she only controlled her mycelium to attack them. She didn't do anything intelligent.
"Maybe Mushroom Concubine's personality isn't affected, but her intelligence isn't. Her situation isn't normal. It feels like she's been sealed by this mushroom, "Glepnir said.
Mushroom Concubine was a "Grindstone Corpse". The focus was on the "person", not the "grindstone".
The current Mushroom Concubine was completely different from the one in Glepnir's memory. Mushroom Concubine's original body was a tall humanoid woman. But this Mushroom Concubine only had a human face on top of a mushroom.
Glepnir wondered if Mushroom Concubine's loss of mind had something to do with her being sealed by the mushroom.
Neither Angor nor Laplace had an answer. However, Laplace was a man of action. Regardless of whether Mushroom Concubine's mind was sealed by the mushroom or not, she simply stabbed her dagger at the mushroom.
However, unlike the mycelium, Laplace's dagger did not pierce into the mushroom. It was blocked by an invisible wall of light.
As soon as the light wall appeared, a magnificent aura instantly enveloped the narrow room.
Angor and the others in the room all felt weightless. The space around them became extremely fragile, as if they were in the middle of constructing a colorful illusion.
When the fragile space regained its order, they disappeared from the room on the 18th floor and found themselves in a greenhouse surrounded by glass walls.
…
He looked around and checked his surroundings.
There were several rows of ten-meter-long shelves in the greenhouse. The shelves were divided into three levels, and each level had many flower pots. The cultivation soil could be clearly seen inside, but the plants in the pots were basically ruined.
The outside of the greenhouse was covered by thick vines. Through the gaps between the vines, Angor could tell that the greenhouse was on the top floor of a building. This was because he could see buildings of different heights not far away, as well as floating jellyfish mushrooms.
He was sure that he was inside the "World's Grind" dungeon.
The "safe house" also confirmed his guess.
This was indeed the World Mill Day, and the greenhouse he was in now was the safe house that Laplace had mentioned before, which had two hours of absolute safety every day.
After checking his surroundings, he looked at the "people" around him.
Yes, people.
Laplace and Gleipnir were both in the greenhouse.
After a moment of silence, Gleipnir broke the silence first. "Looks like we've discovered a new rule for the World's Grind quest. When we're pulled into the quest at the same time, we won't be teleported to random places. Instead, we'll be sent to the same safe house. "
Gleipnir sounded a little self-deprecating, but it did alleviate the awkwardness of "accidentally falling into a trap".
"… Maybe I shouldn't have acted so rashly," Laplace said.
Angor shook his head. "It's not your fault. It's just an experiment. Besides, your attempt isn't completely worthless. "
Laplace gave Angor a puzzled look. What could it be?
"When the light barrier appeared around Mushroom Concubine, I sensed the sequence of authority of Wonderland."
Laplace said, "The sequence of authority? What's the point? "
"It means Mushroom Concubine is protected by authority." "It's normal for NPCs to be protected by authority. But Mushroom Concubine is different. She's fused with a mushroom. You attacked the mushroom on the surface, but you triggered the authority's protection."
"That means the mushroom is most likely Mushroom Concubine."
"Normally speaking, NPCs are rational beings. Maybe there's something else behind Mushroom Concubine's transformation. Maybe the answer lies in this quest. "
Laplace frowned. "You mean we should find the truth of Mushroom Concubine's mutation here?"
Angor shook his head. "No. I mean, the safe house has two hours of absolute safety. Most of the new residents of this quest who haven't left the safe house yet should be waiting for help. Maybe we should find them and send them out first. "
Laplace was puzzled. How did Angor come up with such a strange idea?
"As for finding the truth about Mushroom Concubine … it's probably one of the main quests in this quest. Or a hidden quest? That's not important for now. "
In other words, Angor was only responsible for … irresponsible analysis. As for whether it was the truth or not, they would know when someone else solved the mystery.
"You can still use your pointer, right?"
Laplace sensed for a moment and nodded. "Yes, the nearest exit is two kilometers away. According to the pointer, the exit will close in ten hours. "
"But the pointer can only show us the location of the exit. It can't show us the safe house's location, "Laplace said." Maybe it's because we're in the safe house right now? "
"That's not important. Our goal now is to save the people and get them out of here."
Angor's original plan was to stay outside and use God's View to locate the new residents. Then, he would ask someone else to bring them out.
But now that he had also entered the instance dungeon … since he was already here, he might as well save them as well.
Neither Glepnir nor Laplace objected to Angor's suggestion. Many of the new residents of World Grind were people Glepnir had met before. Like Jehanne, they were all familiar faces from Charlie's Palace.
They didn't have any combat strength. If they didn't rescue them as soon as possible, they might die.
"I'll try to locate them first."
With that, he closed his eyes and focused his mind on the authority of Dream Wonderland. In an instant, his view was elevated to that of the "Observer" in the box.
Soon, he noticed something different about this dungeon.
Earlier, Laplace mentioned that the city was huge. Angor didn't have a clear idea of it. But now, he did.
Not only was the city huge, but the entire "World Grind" was also much bigger than he expected. Not only did it include three cities that guarded each other, but there were also forests, fields, and mountains that were even bigger than the cities.
Also, the map didn't seem to be fully expanded yet. Angor saw some vague shadows at the edge of the box. They weren't monsters. Instead, they were the embodiments of Dream Wonderland's View. They looked like "coders" who were expanding the boundaries of the map.
It seemed that the dungeon was also meant to "expand the territory".
Leaving aside the question of whether the map would expand in the future, the current size of the dungeon was about the size of a province in Goldspink Empire.
A province wasn't that big for Angor right now. Back when he was still a mortal, it took him half a month to travel from Grue Town to Vichy Harbor by carriage. Both Grue Town and Vichy Harbor were still within Yamei Province, which meant Yamei Province wasn't small, especially for mortals.
And this dungeon was as big as a province, which was terrifying.
Although … … if the ocean area of the Silver Coral Island instance dungeon was included, it should be bigger than the World Grind instance dungeon. However, for non-marine creatures, the land area was the only area they could think of. The ocean was just a number.
Most importantly, the three cities in the World Grind instance dungeon were all super-large cities, each of them spanning over a thousand square kilometres.
If there were no Corpse Grinders in this dungeon, each city could easily accommodate tens of millions of people.
But even if there were Corpse Grindmen, they could still build some "bases" in the city. Angor recalled that the hologram tablet mentioned something about the construction of such bases. If he could build bases in these three cities, the number of new residents they could accommodate would be beyond imagination.
Of course, the actual number of people living in these cities was another matter. Even if he could build a base here, not many people would choose to live here in the future.
After all, there were too many Corpse Grinders here.
These three mega cities were originally the cities of the Millstone Corpse People. If each city had 10 million Millstone Corpse People and 30% of the population had turned into Millstone Corpse People, then the total number of Millstone Corpse People in these three cities would exceed 10 million.
Besides, Corpse Grinders weren't the only ones here. Angor looked down and saw many strange mushroom-type creatures.
Including the giant luminous mushrooms, floating jellyfish mushrooms, dust mushrooms, and the broodmother mushrooms.
The broodmother mushrooms were creating all kinds of strange creatures, including Corpse Grinders.
If the broodmother mushrooms kept producing, the number of monsters in this dungeon would be endless.
Laplace said that this was a "battle dungeon". Perhaps it wasn't accurate. For most of the new residents, this was a "survival" dungeon.
Still, there were benefits to having so many monsters.
The monsters in this dungeon had a special "loot" setting, which meant that World Grinder dungeons would become the main source of Wonderland items in the future.
Angor also used his sandbox illusion to show Laplace and Glepnir the general information about the dungeon.
When they saw the huge dungeon, the horrifying number of Corpse Grinders, and the colorful mushroom monsters, they all fell silent.
Even they couldn't clear this dungeon with their current strength, let alone the new residents. Unless they could bring power from the real world into this place.
While they discussed the dungeon, Angor also began to locate the new residents who fell into the dungeon.
If he used his eyes to find new residents like before, he wouldn't be able to do it. This was because the dungeon was too big for his eyes to find.
However, Angor could use his authority to sense auras. As long as he set the aura of an outsider as the target, it would be easy to find them.
Soon, Angor found the location of the new residents.
There were 75 of them in total, and 70 of them were in the city they were in. Most of them were "swallowed" at the same time, so most of them were in the same safe house. The nearest safe house was less than one kilometer away, and there were six of them.
Even so, it was still difficult to find them all because the city was too big.
Moreover, there were five people who had unfortunately fallen into the other two cities, which made the rescue even more difficult.
Angor marked everyone's location in the sandbox illusion and looked at Laplace and Glepnir. "They're too far apart. Maybe we should split up."
They would search in batches and send people out when they found them. Then, they would be teleported into the dungeon through random teleportation. If they were lucky, they could even teleport to the north or south of the city in one second, which would be much faster.
Since five of them were in the other two cities, it was impossible for them to travel to the other two cities. They were too far away.
Only random teleportation could send them to the other two cities.
Therefore, splitting up was the best solution for now.
Laplace and Glepnir agreed. As long as they didn't touch the strange mushrooms, it would be easy for them to kill the Grindman.
Besides, Glepnir had "Bila's Whip", while Laplace had "Blupalu Saber", so they didn't need to worry too much about fighting.
Even so, Angor still reminded them to try not to get hurt in this dungeon.
It was hard to tell if the Grindman was infected like the Doomsday Zombies in the hologram tablet. If there really was an infection, and they accidentally got infected, it was hard to say whether there would be any abnormalities.
Just in case, it was better to be careful.
As for Angor himself, he could control Astronomical Changes and use all kinds of illusions. He was much safer than Laplace and Glepnir, so he wouldn't need to worry about his own safety.
Compared to finding people, Angor's "connection" was more important. He used God's View to connect Laplace and Glepnir so that they could identify the new residents as soon as possible.
After the instructions were given, everyone chose a direction and dispersed.
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