A Level 7 Emperor Crab charged at the forefront.
With its hard carapace, its defense far surpassed ordinary Level 7 creatures, its body nigh impervious to damage.
Its eight long claws flailed.
It ran quite fast!
As it ran…
It found its vision blurring.
Suddenly!
Two clusters of miniature honey mushroom clusters grew from its eyes.
Then its mouth, its joints.
In the beginning, wherever the carapace wasn't sealed, small mushrooms sprouted rapidly.
Later, it slowed down as it ran.
Plant life has boundless vitality.
Like a blade of grass, to grow, can break through hard cement.
The Level 7 Emperor Crab’s shell was tough, but these mushrooms were no ordinary ones.
Snap!
With a crisp cracking sound.
In the end, the once-invincible carapace was burst open by countless mushrooms, fragments flying.
Thus.
The mighty Level 7 Emperor Crab, covered in small mushrooms, stood motionless like a sculpture.
It was not an isolated case.
Countless sea creatures, one after another, were covered in small mushrooms, very few reaching the defense line.
They seemed frozen mid-run.
Their flesh and blood became nourishment for the spores.
Inside their bodies, spores divided and grew at astonishing speed, expanding infinitely before bursting forth.
In front of the defense line.
Thousands of people stood dumbfounded.
This was Xiao Ruoruo's combat power?
No!
Xiao Ruoruo was not this strong; the honey mushroom was the powerful one.
And she was the controller!
The seafood army numbered in the tens of millions.
Without the honey mushroom, let alone a base with only over twenty thousand people, and just a few thousand combat personnel, even if their numbers increased tenfold, they would still suffer heavy casualties.
With the honey mushroom, it was no longer about 'defense' on the front line, but a counter-attack using offense as defense!
Judging by this situation.
Let alone tens of millions of seafood, even hundreds of millions would be useless.
All would be sacrifices!
For the honey mushroom, it was a virtuous cycle.
Countless sea creatures were parasitized, spores spawned small mushrooms, giving birth to new mycelia.
New mycelia extended underground.
At the same time.
The seafood's bodies became nutrients.
As new mycelia grew underground and connected with the parent mycelia, they continuously supplied nutrients.
Of course.
The honey mushroom also had its flaws.
It could only anchor itself to a fixed area.
It was more than enough to protect the base, but once the enemy retreated beyond its growth range, it could do nothing.
It had no legs.
Whether attacking or defending, or for mycelia to rush to support in a certain direction, it was limited to its area.
In the distance.
The Giant Crocodile was completely bewildered.
How could this happen?
It couldn't understand why the seafood were growing mushrooms.
In fact, living in the bay, it had never seen a mushroom before.
"Retreat!"
It roared at the Bottlenose Dolphin, "Quickly order them to retreat!"
The Bottlenose Dolphin used telepathic communication to send the retreat order to the leaders.
The leaders kicked and shoved their subordinates, stopping their charge.
This was suicide!
Whoever charged would die.
"Yo!"
High in the sky.
Qin Feng stood on the back of a Tiger-headed Sea Eagle.
At a glance, he saw the Giant Crocodile in the center of the seafood army, "Is that you? Did you bring these sea creatures?"
The moment it saw Qin Feng, the Giant Crocodile's rage flared.
It was him!
It was him!
He was the one who made it lose a head!
The one who caused its crushing defeat and forced it to flee back into the sea!
Through the Bottlenose Dolphin, it understood Qin Feng's words.
Using the dolphin as a communication bridge, it roared, "Qin Feng! I came here to kill you!"
"And your base, and everyone here, not a single one will live!"
Puff!
Qin Feng burst out laughing.
It was truly…
Uttering the fiercest words, suffering the most brutal blows!
"Not a single hair of my people is missing."
With millions of seafood voluntarily sending crystals, Qin Feng was in a particularly good mood today.
He, in his rare generosity, deigned to waste his breath, "But why are your subordinates all growing mushrooms?"
"Don't get cocky!"
The Giant Crocodile was quite clever.
It noticed that as its subordinate seafood retreated, the mushrooms did not pursue them. "I will use millions of my army to trap you here—starve you to death!"
"It says it wants to surround us and starve us!"
Han Xiao's telepathic link understood the Giant Crocodile's intent.
So.
The team members were stunned.
Didn't that fool know that Captain's dimensional space…
Contained infinite resources?
By the time these sea creatures all died,
The resources would still not be depleted!
"Can the honey mushrooms be eaten?"
Bird Grandpa nudged Zhou Haiyang, who was standing beside him, with its wing.
"Mutated animals aren't tasty, but mutated plants… haven't eaten them." Zhou Haiyang shook his head.
"Are the mushrooms growing from the seafood bodies called seafood mushrooms?" Bird Grandpa asked again.
"That's right!"
Zhou Haiyang's eyes lit up.
Aren't the mushrooms on the seafood just seafood mushrooms?
"Let's go! Let's try!"
"Alright!"
Bird Grandpa and Zhou Haiyang crossed the defense line.
They swaggered up to the mushroom-covered seafood.
Zhou Haiyang plucked a cluster of mushrooms and put one in his mouth.
Yum!
It's so delicious!
He quickly shoved a clump to Bird Grandpa and shouted to Qin Feng in the air, "Captain! These seafood mushrooms are amazing!"
"These are Armillaria mushrooms, not seafood mushrooms," Qin Feng corrected.
"If they grow on seafood, aren't they seafood mushrooms?"
Zhou Haiyang was excited, "And they have a seafood flavor, completely different from ordinary Armillaria mushrooms, absolutely top-notch!"
The Giant Crocodile, through the Bottlenose Dolphin, understood their conversation.
"Ah!"
It was driven mad with rage.
The seafood army it had painstakingly subdued,
Had actually…
Traveled thousands of miles just to provide these scoundrels with delicious seafood mushrooms?
Preposterous!
These humans are unforgivable!
But it dared not attack.
Once it attacked, it would only provide more seafood mushrooms to fill the bellies of these scoundrels.
"Surround them, starve them to death!"
The Giant Crocodile issued the order again, gritting its teeth, "I want to see how long this meager amount of seafood mushrooms will last them!"
"So…"
High in the sky.
Qin Feng smiled, "Aren't you attacking anymore?"
"Scram!" The Giant Crocodile roared.
"If you don't attack, I will," Qin Feng grinned.
In fact.
Even he himself didn't notice that his smile was becoming more frequent.
Shortly after his rebirth.
His memories were still stuck in the final stages of his previous life.
The apocalyptic star was destroyed.
Planet Blue was destroyed.
His parents were long dead.
Few of his teammates remained.
At that time, his heart was filled only with despair, and he was extremely cold towards people and things.
He was reborn!
With a second life, he had the opportunity to change everything.
Great Xia was safe and sound, his parents were alive and well, more and more people gathered around him, and he had so many teammates.
In his previous life, his almost completely frozen heart had slowly come back to life.
"You're attacking?"
The Giant Crocodile was taken aback.
Immediately.
It burst into laughter, pointing at Qin Feng with its claw, "Come on! Attack me and let me see!"
The Bottlenose Dolphin translated simultaneously.
The Giant Crocodile had already discovered the honey mushroom's weakness.
It was confined to a fixed area and could not attack proactively.
Without the honey mushroom…
To attack its army of millions?
Suicidal!
Qin Feng glanced at Zheng Rui, frowning slightly.