Chapter 802: Chapter 788: Thank You

"What is this? Dinner?" Norris, who was on standby inside Dragon Horn Castle, looked at the two pieces of Puki suddenly teleported over by the boss and asked.

"Eh? Do you want to eat it? Hmm... it’s not impossible."

The boss said this, making Norris lean back a little: "This isn’t No. 7, is it?"

"Well, why don’t you piece it together and find out for yourself." After saying this, Lin Jun switched to observation mode and fell silent.

Thinking that ignoring it might lead to more severe consequences, Norris hesitated for a moment before piecing the Puki back together.

[Fungal Filament Reassembly Level 10]

Norris aligned it very nicely, and at the break, the mycelium quickly adhered, restoring it to its original state in no time.

However, the Puki still showed no response, prompting Norris to poke it with his hand.

Unexpectedly, that poke was like pressing a switch.

"Ahhhh——!"

The Puki’s two short legs wobbled side to side, while its four tentacles flailed around, even slapping Norris twice.

"This is... not in..."

"Wi... hands... can’t get up?"

Seeing the twitching Puki and its intermittent exclamations in the Fungal Network, Norris wasn’t scared but instead flashed a knowing smile.

He had plenty of interactions with Mushroom Transformers; indeed, some exhibited this fish-out-of-water panic right after being resurrected as a Puki.

Norris extended his hand and softly patted the soft area under the Puki’s mushroom cap to soothe its emotions, a trick taught by Inanna.

The effect was immediate, as the Puki slightly trembled before gradually calming down.

Yet soon, as if realizing something, it quickly rolled away, wrapping itself in its tentacles, and displayed a state of extreme unease.

This left Norris somewhat puzzled.

After all, most who could be resurrected as mushrooms were believers of the boss and knew about the Mushroom Transformation.

Generally speaking, after the initial confusion, Mushroom Transformers who understood their situation would be pleased with the opportunity to ascend rather than feel uneasy.

Thinking that the boss had specifically sent this Mushroom Transformer, he bent down and asked as gently as possible, "Hello there, I have no ill intentions, just wanted to help you ease your discomfort. Did you... encounter some trouble?"

The voice that suddenly appeared in her consciousness made Fei Ling’s body shiver, but fortunately, she had previously communicated with No. 5 using the Telepathy Stone, and quickly regained her composure, cautiously asking back, "Where... is this? What’s happened to me?"

"This is Dragon Horn Castle, a fortress within the Fungus Castle territory. As for you... you probably died and were resurrected by the boss."

"Died? Resurrected?" Using her tentacles, Fei Ling touched herself from the smooth mushroom cap down to her round bottom, and amid disbelief, she finally recalled her last memories, "Ah, I see, I was hit by that thing... then I died, huh..."

After a brief daze, Puki Fei Ling suddenly sprang up, her tentacles wildly wrapping around Norris’s legs, "Right, where are Vera and Fei Yin? How are they... how are they doing?"

"Vera and Fei Yin?" Hearing the familiar names from the Mushroom Transformer surprised Norris, "Calm down, it’s just you here. What’s your name?"

"Sorry... sorry." Realizing her indiscretion, Fei Ling took some effort to untangle her knotted tentacles and replied, "My name is Fei Ling. Vera and Fei Yin are my family. I... I really want to know how they’re doing."

Fei Ling...

The corner of Norris’s eye twitched slightly as he looked at the Puki transformed from the righteous and brave girl in his memory and fell into silence.

He suddenly understood why the boss sent her to him, but at the same time, he was also puzzled - when did the boss know about his connection with Fei Ling and her friends?

Clearly, it was all before joining the Mushroom Garden, and after joining, he hadn’t mentioned it to anyone.

After pondering for a while without finding an answer, Norris could only attribute it to the boss’s omniscience.

What Norris didn’t know was that Lin Jun never asked about these things because such little secrets had long been thoroughly known through her usual dreaming games with him, making it unnecessary to ask.

Norris’s silence led Fei Ling to misunderstand.

Puki Fei Ling’s mushroom cap trembled slightly, "Could it be... could it be that they’re already..."

"Ah, no no no!" Norris, snapping out of it, reassured her, "I just thought of something else. About your two family members... I’ll ask around for you."

Saying this, Norris immersed his attention into the Fungal Network, and soon got an answer.

He smiled at Puki Fei Ling, "Rest assured, they’re both doing fine and are in Mushroom City right now."

"Really? That’s great!" Hearing that her sister and Vera were okay, Fei Ling even forgot about her transformation into a Puki and jumped up in joy.

After her joy subsided, she bashfully asked, "Um... I want to go find them, is there any way I can..."

"Don’t worry, no one will restrict where you go; you are free." Norris’s words were a reassurance to Fei Ling, "I’ll ask the boss if they can teleport you over; if not, I’ll arrange for someone to take you back through the Underground City’s rift."

"The Underground City rift!" Fei Ling nodded her mushroom cap, she remembered that rift, having previously participated in the Fungus Castle’s magical execution via that rift with Vera and her friends.

It was called magical because it was her first time seeing an executed person proudly running up to the gallows.

Norris, having obtained permission again, drew out a small temporary teleportation array on the Fungal Mat on-site amidst Fei Ling’s astonishment.

"By the way, I think I remember you." Puki Fei Ling said suddenly as she stood on the teleportation array.

Vera’s body trembled slightly, looking at the other without saying a word, yet there was a touch of indescribable anticipation in her eyes.

Puki Fei Ling continued, "You used to maintain order at the entrance to the Underground City. No wonder I felt you looked familiar."

"Hahaha," Norris turned away, scratching the scales on his neck, "Sorry, there were too many people coming and going back then, I can’t remember who you are."

"Anyway, thank you!" Puki Fei Ling straightened up, nodded her mushroom cap at Norris – the extent to which a Puki’s body could bend, "Oh right, I haven’t asked your nam—"

A flash of light glimmered on the Fungal Mat, and Fei Ling vanished from the teleportation array.

Norris watched the gradually disappearing temporary magic array, rubbing his claws together, and softly murmured, "I should be the one thanking you."

After a little while, he spoke again in the Fungal Network, "Boss, thank you too!"

In a nearby corner, a Puki threw a Memory Crystal on the ground.

This wasn’t the storyline Lin Jun wanted to see!

After a brief shock, the tailless lizardman immediately fell into a moral dilemma between possessiveness and conscience when faced with the defenseless white moonlight, making all sorts of embarrassing moves – that was how it should’ve been.

How did it end up with a thank you?!

Wasted a Memory Crystal!

The Puki turned furiously to leave but stopped after a couple of steps, adhering to the principle of not wasting what was already filmed. Lin Jun picked the crystal back up.

...

On the other side, Fei Ling finally returned to the anxiously waiting Vera and her friends – in the form of three pieces.

"Did sister...?" Fei Yin, looking at the Puki’s body, turned pale.

"No worries, no worries, our Mushroom Race teleports this way." No. 5 Puki ran over, expertly piecing Fei Ling back together.

Having come back from death again, Fei Ling finally saw Vera and Fei Yin, immediately plunging into Vera’s embrace.

No. 5 thoughtfully slipped a Telepathy Stone between them.

"Vera! Fei Yin! You’re really all okay!"

Vera held her as well, gently patting her mushroom body, "We’re fine, we’re fine. It’s great that you’ve come back to life too!"

Fei Yin also came up to join them in the embrace.

No. 5 hesitated for a moment, then also squeezed in among them.

Only a certain elf stood awkwardly aside.

After a long while, once Fei Ling vented all her pent-up emotions, No. 5 guided her to the side – it had to teach this new mushroom the basics of being a Puki.

Once No. 5 and Fei Ling were away, Vera embarrassedly distanced herself a little from Fei Yin and asked, "How was I? Did I do anything wrong?"

Sirean sighed softly.

Fei Yin looked at Vera, tears involuntarily falling, "N-no..."

Vera gave a wry smile, gently patting the girl’s head, and comforted, "Alright, alright, just tell me more about the past, and we’ll be fine."

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