“Rand, where are you now?” Qin Lun thought for a moment before asking his companions behind him.

Rand quickly said where he was. Qin Lun recalled that Jillim’s Dwarves expedition team was less than an hour away from him and the others.

After Qin Lun left the camp, Jillim immediately gathered his troops. Due to the need to prepare supplies, he was delayed for half an hour before leaving.

In this way, their speed in the past half a day was even faster than the Dwarves Exploration Team. Considering the battle time with the Terrorclaw Beast not long ago, they were still pushed back by nearly half an hour.

Thinking about it, it wasn’t surprising. Dwarves’s speed wasn’t fast, and he also had to carry exploration materials. Naturally, it wasn’t as easy as them.

“Then let’s wait for them. The distance is too wide. If we encounter irresistible dangers, it will be more troublesome.” Qin Lun discussed with the others and decided to wait for the large army.

Now that they had lost the traces of blood and cleaned up two more Devilclaw Beasts along the way, they should be able to explain their achievements to Jillim.

Although they decided to wait for the exploration team, they were unwilling to do nothing. Qin Lun and Hill each released a stone ghost and continued searching ahead. If they could find anything, they didn’t have to wait.

After releasing the statue ghost, Qin Lun and the others retreated a distance and rested near a pile of rocks. The thieves had set up a few small traps around them. The environment in the moss area ahead was a bit strange, so they needed to be more cautious.

“Looks like you guys are well prepared!” Wei Si looked at the stone statue ghost flying into the darkness and revealed a trace of surprise.

Alchemy creatures like stone statues and ghosts possessed night vision, which was a good way to explore in the dark.

“It’s just a coincidence!” Qin Lun smiled. When they first entered Toril World, they didn’t expect to enter the dark region. However, seeing that Wei Si’s expression was clearly unbelievable, he did not explain too much.

After resting for a while, Hill suddenly opened his eyes and frowned, “I think my stone ghost found something!”

Qin Lun and the others had already entered the dark region. The surroundings were like a network of hidden tunnels that stretched out in all directions. The two statue ghosts didn’t explore the same direction, so Qin Lun couldn’t sense Hill’s statue ghost.

Hill fed the image of the statue ghost back to the guild channel, and the others immediately saw a strange scene.

The statue ghost was currently in a vast plain, and with its vision, it could not see the edge of the plain. The subterranean plains are littered with plants that look like big mushrooms.

This kind of thing had a mushroom-like canopy, but the proportion of the strains below was relatively long. It looked like strange trees. This forest of large mushrooms could not be seen in the view of the stone ghost. It was initially estimated to be at least several dozen square kilometers long.

They were surrounded by a kind of pink smoke, making it impossible to see what was happening inside the forest. It was mysterious and strange.

“Mushroom Forest!” After seeing this mirror image, Qin Lun and the others exchanged a few glances, and a strange expression appeared on their faces.

He didn’t expect that after they gave up on advancing, the Stone Statue Ghost that they had casually released would actually give him another surprise.

“Are you going to take a look?” The thief rubbed his fists and was eager to try.

When he was searching the camp two days ago, he already knew that the previous Dwarves exploration teams had just arrived here and hadn’t really broken through to the Mushroom Forest Region. Since they hadn’t been able to see the trapped Dwarves along the way, then these fellows should be in the mushroom forest.

Of course, this wasn’t to say that Qin Lun and the others had caught up with Dwarves’s progress in the past few months on their first expedition. The reason why they were able to come here now was simply because of the results of tracking the bloodstains. The dwarves, on the other hand, were purposefully heading towards the Silver Hall. These were two completely different things.

“Wei Si Guild Leader, what do you mean?” This time, Qin Lun did not immediately make up his mind and asked the only high-level apostle in the team amicably.

Wei Si looked at Qin Lun and smiled. He knew that this was because the other party wanted to improve the relationship between the two of them to the point where they could truly become teammates.

However, he did not reject his good intentions. Judging from the probing over the past few days, Qin Lun and the others weren’t strong enough on the Apostles’ side and needed their help in order to obtain a higher completion rate.

They also needed Qin Lun’s storyline identity, so that they could dig deeper into the mission storyline. Moreover, Qin Lun and the others’ strengths were not bad in his eyes, and they were qualified to share the mission benefits equally with them.

Most importantly, Wei Si himself had an idea of his own. Toril World was a big world, and there were countless epic plots hidden within it. They had already betrayed the Santalin Society, and entering this world in the future was equivalent to starting over.

However, if he could establish a relationship with Qin Lun, he would be able to join the current plot camp. If they had the chance to enter Toril in the future, they would be able to participate in the storyline of the Silvermoon Alliance, Shield Dwarf, and even Royal Court of Shining Moon in the future. This was clearly a matter of earning money without losing money, so why not do it?

“Let’s go take a look! However, it’s best not to go deep into the mushroom forest. Let’s explore the periphery. Something that can trap an entire team of Dwarves will pose a great threat to us.” Wei Si replied after some thought.

Qin Lun nodded in agreement and sent a message to the other stone statue ghost to return. Then, he led the crowd forward. With a clear target location, they could bypass the moss area in front of them to avoid the risks that lay ahead.

About an hour later, Qin Lun and the others finally arrived at the vast plains where the mushroom forest was located.

Standing on the cliff closest to the plain, Qin Lun and the others discovered that the mushrooms in this forest were much larger than they had seen before. Not mentioning the giant mushrooms in the middle of the forest, even the mushrooms on the periphery were almost ten meters tall, and the radius of the mushroom cover was about three meters.

“Rand, did you get any information about the Mushroom Forest?” Qin Lun asked on the guild channel.

Before they left, they had Rand secretly ask the dwarves for information about the mushroom forest. Because this was not a secret in the dwarf camp, the dwarves did not conceal it.

Mushroom forest is a special biological community in the dark region. Most of the mushrooms belong to plants and look like big mushrooms. But large areas of mushroom forest will also give birth to a kind of intelligent creature similar to forest tree demons, known as mushrooms.

Mushrooms were a little similar to tree demons. They were docile and didn’t like to fight. They even allow many underground creatures to feed on plant mushrooms. As long as they do not destroy large areas of the mushroom forest, they will basically ignore foreign creatures.

However, in terms of combat ability, individual mushrooms were incomparable to tree demons. They did not possess the defensive power of tree demons, nor did they possess the strength of tree demons, and their movements were even slower.

There were two main types of combat skills. One was to spit out body fluids. It was a very corrosive acid, and it also carried a lot of toxic damage. Another method was to stimulate the mushroom forest to release a spore cloud. This method was incomparably sharp.

There are two types of spore clouds in the mushroom forest. One is nontoxic, while the other is highly hallucinogenic, equivalent to nerve agents. Even if a high-grade creature inhaled this spore cloud, it would faint in a very short period of time and eventually rot in the mushroom forest.

Lander finally reminded Qin Lun and the others that the dwarves understood the mushrooms’ habits and had not alerted the mushrooms during their previous expeditions to the woodlands. This time, the unknown attack might not have been caused by the mushrooms. Otherwise, once the spore cloud was activated, the dwarf would never be able to escape.

“So it seems that the dwarves might have encountered an attack from another underground creature in the mushroom forest?” Qin Lun touched the tip of his nose thoughtfully.

Mushroom forests are like forests on the surface. Because mushrooms allow other underground creatures to feed on plant mushrooms, there may be other nests nearby. If the dwarves were unlucky, they could be attacked by these underground creatures.

“Yes, it’s very likely. I just don’t know what kind of underground creature they encountered!” The few of them looked at the message from Rand and felt that it was a bit troublesome.

Dark areas are poor in resources, especially food. Most underground organisms are omnivorous, so there are many nests of associated organisms near the mushroom forest. From high-grade ox-headed monsters and manticore lions to mid-grade salamanders and even low-grade rat humans, cave humans were unable to make specific judgments.

“Let the stone statue ghost go in and scout first!” Qin Lun said helplessly, “It’s good to meet a Lord creature, but you can’t beat it and run away. If you meet a group of ox-headed monsters or salamanders, it’ll be fun.”

“The Stone Statue Ghost is too big. Most underground creatures have night vision. If it alerts the snake, it will bring unnecessary trouble to the follow-up exploration.” Wei Si warned cautiously.

“Then what good suggestions does Wei Si Guild Leader have?” Qin Lun asked with a smile. Since Wei Si had raised this question, there was probably another solution.

After spending a few days together, Qin Lun had gained a better understanding of this high-level Apostle. Wei Si was different from the high-ranking Apostle he had met before. His personality was extremely steady, and he could even be said to be in his twilight years.

Along the way, most of the suggestions he put forward were not for merit but for nothing. Perhaps this was also the main reason why the plan of the Santalin Society in Silvermoon City had been a complete failure, but his team had been able to escape unscathed and make up for some of the losses.

Qin Lun didn’t like Wei Si’s personality, and it didn’t fit his temperament. However, he acknowledged that such a Apostle was difficult to deal with, and that despite the benefits of the mission, perhaps in the dangerous Toril world, Wei Si was better suited for adventure missions than he was.

“This is the second time we have entered Toril World like you. We have prepared some items to explore the Dark Region because we descended to the north.” Wei Si smiled and took out two palm-sized alchemy creatures from his storage space.

“This is a soft-sounding bat. Not only does it have the ability to detect ultrasound and form images, it can also fly at subsonic speeds.” Wei Si tossed the two palm-sized bats upwards, causing an explosion above everyone’s heads. The two little bats instantly disappeared without a trace.