These days of not going out, Liu Jun didn't find it boring.
Instead, he felt that life had never been so full of anticipation, and nothing gives more confidence than becoming stronger step by step.
Perhaps it's an inherent fear of powerlessness as a transmigrator, or perhaps he's lived in fear and anxiety for over a decade, but he just fell in love with this reclusive lifestyle.
Not going out.
Just don't want to go out.
Hide in the room playing with Mushroom Soup, let two dear roommates bring meals.
Open the Mushroom Soup, look at the bottom of the pot, new Talent Mushrooms floating there.
Because no evolutionary raw materials were thrown in, [Low Consumption] branched into the three original branches from the game.
Mushroom One.
The round-cap mushroom like a firefly emitting faint glow points.
[With Light and Dust]: Slightly absorbs light energy, feeds on light. Initially, people only noticed the city's brightness reduced until this disaster intertwined with every human.
Perhaps one day in the future, when you open your eyes, the place where you are will be nighttime.
...
Mushroom Two.
The decayed mushroom like an old man's left ear.
[Clear Day and Fresh Wind]: Slightly absorbs wind energy, feeds on wind. The world fell silent because of you, and all things are voiceless because of you.
Perhaps one day, you have sprawled across the expanse of the earth, and the world has no more sound flow; this planet becoming like a cosmic vacuum.
...
Mushroom Three.
A kind of plush fungal blanket like a heap of soft muddy mush.
[Clear Moon Shining Spirit]: Slightly absorbs radiation, feeds on rays, mutation, irradiation, frenzy.
More cancer patients appeared in hospitals, growing dense pustules similar to mushrooms; no one knew what happened until the first mutation beast was born, but people couldn't control the disaster anymore.
...
This made Liu Jun feel both thrilled and a bit fearful.
These three talents could truly be described as monstrous, meeting his expectations completely.
Currently, perhaps there's no strong or weak distinction among the three.
But at this moment, what tempted Liu Jun the most is feeding on radiation.
This city has continuous rainwater, perfect for absorbing more radiation to become a high-quality environmental purifier in Rehe City.
Can get stronger by lying down.
But these talents, for now, must be postponed.
[Low Symptoms]
He silently tapped the initial talent.
For now, steadily tapping into the mushroom with a concealment aura talent is the way; surviving allows development.
As for the mushrooms with talents for light, wind, and radiation absorption?
They will float in the Mushroom Soup to be selected anytime in the future.
Swish!
With a thought, a [Low Symptoms] fungus lump burst from the soup and merged into Liu Jun's body, then swiftly concealed its breath, disappearing without a trace, seemingly gaining some unique Power of Concealment.
His shape changed again.
Liquefying and shedding the skeleton, then reorganizing, he found himself becoming a soft mushroom of 1.4 meters tall.
It looked like a dreamy fairy tale style, plump and juicy, tender and cute, with a chewy texture that suggests it's a natural treasure at first glance.
[Name: Liu Jun]
[Race: Fungus]
[Realm: Rain Realm Eighth Level Telekinesis Master]
[Talent: Low Consumption, Low Symptoms]
[Mushroom Soup: Low Wisdom, With Light and Dust, Clear Day and Fresh Wind, Clear Moon Shining Spirit]
In that pot of Mushroom Soup, the four talent mushrooms Liu Jun didn't choose to exchange floated up and down, colored brightly, inexplicably giving people a mouthwatering feeling.
"Leveled up two more levels!" Liu Jun was both surprised and delighted.
"Broke through seven stages in two days? How can I attend school like this? Then there's even less reason to go to school!" He found an excuse, contentedly staying home.
But Si Anhe, the teacher, is too responsible, or should I say she's too good at squeezing students, after all, she has performance evaluations. I'm afraid if I completely stayed home for a few days, she would visit.
But this is not a big issue.
Delay verbally for a few days, when the third talent is cultivated, he will storm into the third stage, even the teacher will have to eat a telekinesis barrier from me, unable to find my issues.
Each time I evolve, it boosts my spiritual power.
Bottleneck?
No bottleneck makes perfect sense!
Ordinary life has such a high limit, requiring breaking cultivation bottlenecks one by one.
But gaining one talent after another, the whole life form's tier elevates, how could one encounter a cultivation bottleneck? It's equivalent to the mythical Young God, naturally growing to that level.
"But according to the Mushroom Soup evolution process in the original game, more terrifying viral or infectious talent branches may appear as it continues!"
"I'm the Plague Mushroom God, bringing plague, but in reality, there's no point in selecting these talents, selecting them is courting death, seasoned players know to choose stealth first, endure to develop, can't select pathogenicity."
"Life happens only once, I want to be a harmless spore."
"The fairy tale style is pretty good, the natural treasure route isn't bad either? Being a thousand-year-old ginseng is better than infecting and killing everywhere."
"Therefore, I need to start changing the route, adding raw materials to the Mushroom Soup to evolve the corresponding talents."
Liu Jun continually explores the future path.
He decided to aspire to be a good mushroom that abides by laws and regulations, work hard to make money, and work honestly.
The fungus loves talent, and it's taken with moral principles.
He felt the power inside his body, and three more days passed silently.
He sleeps during the day, wakes up at dusk, eats the dinner brought back by two roommates, relying on low consumption for one meal a day, and puts all the nutritional supplements into that pot of Mushroom Soup.
Recharge, let me get stronger!
10%
Rush!
40%
Rush!
70%
Silently hanging on, waiting for the next talent, every day felt fulfilling.
But he discovered a problem.
87%
Couldn't charge any further.
Couldn't wait for the third talent to be cultivated, he must go out directly.
Because his savings were almost exhausted.
"What a pity, my intention was for the third talent to be cultivated, storm into the third stage, directly break through hierarchies, then go out to make some money..."
He already understood the implication of unstoppable evolution once it begins.
Continual evolution, only evolving!
This means once he stops absorbing energy, he'll be drained dry by the Mushroom Soup, which has continuously nurtured mushrooms.
But before going out.
Another tax notification on his phone harshly pulled him back to reality.
[Dear Liu Jun, you have not posted on social platforms within 48 hours, considered as "refusing to participate in social consensus building," you need to pay a silence tax of 500 Thought Blades, and receive a warning, exceeding three times will be considered as having personal accidents, local duty organization will visit to confirm safety.]
Oops, forgot to post, and still have to pay the silence tax!
Liu Jun casually wrote a few words about unity, love, diligence in the college entrance exam, and building Rehe City on the school platform.
The text was filled with humbleness, flattery, and sycophancy.
He stretched lazily, opened the window, looked outside at the rain-fogged urban skyline, and a faint smile appeared at the corner of his mouth:
"In this world, you can't escape three things: taxes, conglomerates, death."
Although the words were cold, he suddenly felt the world was so beautiful for the first time.
The past weak me is dead, now standing before you is an even weaker me.
But before, weakness was due to helplessness, now weakness is stockpiling and enduring, awaiting an invincible future.