Chapter: 631

The hidden carnivorous nature of the mushrooms couldn’t be understated. In the depths of the sands were an untold number of skeletons, and more were added to their number each day. They had claimed a multitude of souls, luring creatures in with their succulent-looking fruit, and had covered the desert for as far as Jay could see.

Cutting away the fruit was a slow process as the skeletons only had three lizard heads, and there were hundreds of the red fruit on each mushroom – though they would only need to remove the ones around the outside of each mushroom and slip by at least.

Jay would have made more skeletons cut the fruit away, but he wanted some to be lookouts and remain vigilant for threats.

As Jay watched, he began to remember when he first came to the desert, and when the sun rose, the mushrooms slowly rose too, revealing themselves from the sand. When he first saw them, they responded to his movement and hid themselves in the sand, but after they opened they seemed to not care.

“Maybe the tops are the weak point?” he scratched his chin, looking across the desert.

Testing his theory, he had a skeleton jump onto a mushroom to stab it. He had nothing else to do anyway.

Red stood next to a mushroom and helped Dark to stand up; a relatively easy process.

Once Dark was on top, it carried out its mission: stab the mushroom mercilessly.

*Clink!~*

After the first strike, all three of them realised it was poontless: the top was as hard as stone – perhaps even harder since the dagger helplessly bounce off.

“Damn. It was worth a try. I guess it solidified in the sunlight.” He shrugged.

Another thing Jay was curious about was where the underground lizards were taking all the mushroom fruits, and, what were they doing with them?

Seeing the large quantities of fruit being harvested, he began to doubt it was merely being stored as food.

Dark jumped off the mushroom and followed the lizard trails back to another rocky burrow.

The sand was filled with more pebbles here and it seemed that it made it harder to dig through, and once the creatures were inside the burrow, they walked on top of the earth, assuming they were safe.

Unfortunately, the burrow was too dark to see inside, but it was no problem for the eyes of the undead. Jay used the [Host] skill as Dark crawled onto its knees and peered inside.

As soon as Jay peered into the darkness he regretted his decision.

Immediately, Jay wished he hadn’t seen this greusome sight.

There was a larger creature inside, similar to the lizard-like ones except without any arms or legs. It seemed more like a slug. Pulsing along its body were puss-filled sacks of white and red, while it crunched on some vile secretion. This lizard had a tail though; it was pumping as it was in peristalsis, and finally a large egg was squeezed out of its fleshy tail.

Of course, it still had the side-ways jaws with multiple small noses on either side, so it was related to the lizards in some way.

Compared to the others though, it was many times larger. It probably wouldn’t even be able to leave this rocky burrow. The smaller lizards, if rolled into a ball, were about the size of human babies – though this thing was about the size of a plump cow.

It laid lazily on its bloated belly as its jaws slowly opened and closed with drool as it waited for its next snack.

But what was it waiting for? The red fruit?

If only it were that simple.

Eating the red fruit by themselves was impossible, even for these lizards.