Mushroom Lord in the Underground City-Chapter 284 - 276: Puki Remembers You

Treehouse Market Area.

"Xiao Ji——!" Elarwen’s shout, each time, sounded like her throat was being squeezed, starting with a desperate courage and ending with a faint, altered echo.

An overwhelming sense of shame burned her cheeks and the tips of her ears, and every breath felt scorching hot.

This was the third day. She forced herself to make her voice clearer, striving to look straight ahead, deliberately ignoring the gazes cast around her.

She now somewhat regretted not looking for that area first when she was with her brother...

But thinking about Xiao Ji possibly encountering misfortune alone in the forest, she took a deep breath, suppressed her timidity, and gathered the courage to call out again.

Not far away, two attractive female elves who had been watching this way frowned. One of them, a blonde elf with a flamboyantly colored bird on her shoulder, directly turned around, her face showing undisguised annoyance.

"Hey! Isn’t that enough, Elarwen?" The blonde elf’s voice was clear but harsh, "This isn’t your personal hunting ground! Is it noisy or what?"

She was Vilania, considered an "acquaintance" of Elarwen’s.

The elf next to her also chimed in, "Exactly, pitifully looking for what? Is it those quirky ’treasures’ you picked up again?" She deliberately emphasized the word ’treasure’, "Bear, snake, fluffy ball? Only that parrot seems normal."

Lina counted on her fingers, and with each name she reported, the mockery in her smile deepened, "Truly like attracts like, the owner is strange, and the pets are even stranger one by one."

Elarwen turned her head aside, not looking at them, her hands clenching for a while, planning to just leave.

But unexpectedly, Vilania suddenly said, "Where are you going? Tell us, what extraordinary thing is it this time? Maybe we’ve really seen it!"

Elarwen hesitated for a moment, squeezing out a few indistinct syllables: "Puki... Puki... with, with wings..."

"Puki?!" Vilania exaggeratedly mimicked the pronunciation, then exchanged a glance with her companion, bursting into even sharper, piercing laughter, "Ha ha ha! That kind of lowest-level, smelly mushroom that only moves in muddy and dark caverns?! Elarwen, you really are... undiscriminating! Taking anything home! Ha ha ha!"

They laughed until they were bent over.

However, just at the peak of this noisy laughter—

The flamboyant bird, which had been resting elegantly on Vilania’s shoulder, grooming its beautiful feathers, vanished into thin air without warning!

Only a colorful tail feather spun in the air, gently landing at her feet.

Vilania’s laughter came to an abrupt halt, and the smile on her face was quickly replaced by astonishment and bewilderment, "Luminous Feather? Where’s my Luminous Feather?"

Another elf beside her also got a laugh stuck in her throat, "Wh-what’s going on?"

The two hurriedly looked around, their eyes sweeping through the branches, across the stalls, but they couldn’t even find a shadow of the flamboyant bird.

Just as they were in a panicked state, turning around in haste—

"Plop!" "Plop!"

Two very subtle, almost drowned out by the surrounding noise, light sounds occurred almost simultaneously.

Vilania and her companion felt a sudden looseness around their waists! 𝐟𝗿𝐞𝚎𝚠𝐞𝚋𝕟𝐨𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝕔𝕠𝚖

"Ahhhhh——!"

"What’s happening?!"

Under the bewildered gazes of the surrounding crowd, the two fair elves, in embarrassment, grabbed their slipping pants and squatted down, filled with shame yet not knowing what to do.

Not far away, Elarwen looked at this sudden chaotic scene with cluelessness, and just then, a familiar, weighty sensation came from above her head!

"Xiao Ji!" A surge of warmth and reassuring comfort instantly spread throughout her body, dispelling all accumulated grievances and panic.

The invisible Scout Puki kicked her twice, indicating it was time for Elarwen to go.

In fact, it’s not that no one can see through Puki’s invisibility.

Looking at the panel alone, there are at least two elves nearby who can clearly see through this Refraction Invisibility trick, but none of them stood up.

Of course, that’s also why Puki didn’t directly cut up the two elves, breaking two belts was just within the scope of a small conflict.

Even if you couldn’t understand the Elf Language, just seeing the scene you could tell these two were bullying her elf steed.

Only because there were too many people here...

It wasn’t until returning to the tranquil forest below that Elarwen tentatively took Puki down from her head.

Scout Puki released its invisibility, revealing its round and chubby figure.

"Xiao Ji! Finally found you!" Elarwen happily petted Puki’s soft mushroom cap, then expertly reached into the pocket under the cap, at Puki’s tummy, and sure enough pulled out a fainted flamboyant bird, "Was it you who helped me just now? You’re amazing!"

Puki extended its mycelium tendril, seemingly still wanting to stuff this beautiful "trophy" back into its pouch, but was gently stopped by Elarwen, "Xiao Ji, be good, let this little one go, okay?"

The mycelium tendril hesitated in the air for two seconds before finally retracting.

The awakened flamboyant bird huddled in Elarwen’s palm, nervously glanced at the nearby Puki, and then was gently uplifted by Elarwen, flapping its wings in a panic and flying into the forest.

Its Colorful Radiance skill caught Lin Jun’s interest, perhaps it could cultivate a multicolored mushroom?

Anyway, it wasn’t far, it won’t be too late to "visit" again covertly once the Fungal Network spread over.

Opening the door, Feifei immediately chirped joyfully and pounced over, but upon glimpsing the white figure on Elarwen’s head it abruptly hit the brakes mid-air, scared stiffly retreating, and darted into the backyard like lightning.

Scout Puki lightly hopped off its "steed" and ambled into the backyard.

There, Feifei was seen trembling, hiding in the thick fur on Earth Bear’s back.

Douding and Bubble, seeing Puki approaching, lowered their bodies immediately, sticking close to the ground, only the silly fluffy ball was still lazily basking in the sun, completely oblivious.

Puki used its mycelium tendrils to pat each of their heads, including the unwilling Feifei.

Watching Xiao Ji getting along so "harmoniously" with her companions, Elarwen only felt a warmth in her heart, the fatigue and street grievances dissipated in an instant!

In the days that followed, Scout Puki roamed leisurely among several nearby Magic Potion Shops during the day, and at night it would return to the little house, also taking the opportunity to figure out where the two elves and the flamboyant bird lived.

Leisurely biding time, just waiting for the Fungal Mat from the Underground City to spread over!

Meanwhile, on the Extreme North Icefield, an unexpected guest arrived.

Broad-shouldered and burly, with pitch-black Demon Patterns all over its body.

This sixty-level Demon Race named Gallon was discovered from afar by the Fungal Mat spread over the surface long before reaching the tribe.