Chapter 489 Exploding Mushrooms

Cheng Yiyi and the others couldn't wake up for a while, so Wang Tao checked the loot first.

A total of 4 physical trophies and 5 trophy packages were released from Red Mushroom.

[Obtain: Level 5 crystal core·Psychic attack rebound*1]

[Obtain: Awakening Key*1]

[Get: Psychedelic Red Mushroom*1]

[Obtain: Real Illusion Bead*1]

When Wang Tao saw this mutated monster, he guessed that it most likely had spiritual powers. After all, it could also control illusions. Looking at it now, it is indeed the case.

Wang Tao had obtained this "mental attack rebound" crystal core before, and only spiritual awakeners could fuse it.

[Level 5 Crystal Core·Psychic Attack Rebound]

[Quality: 100% (epic)]

[Purity: 30% (side effect: reduced defense)]

[Psychic Attack Rebound: Passive ability, when attacked mentally, there is a small probability of rebounding double damage (if rebound is triggered, awakening energy will be consumed, and rebound cannot be triggered without awakening energy. Only those with spiritual awakening can use it)]

Wang Tao is also a spiritual awakener and can fuse this crystal core. But the side effects are too great, and the rebound is a small probability event. In addition, Wang Tao has not encountered many powerful spiritual enemies so far... so the cost-effectiveness of his fusion of this crystal core is very low.

After all, he only has the last slot left in his superpower. He still wants to fuse the [Almighty Shield], but forget about this [Psychic Attack Rebound]...

Wang Tao looked at the next trophy, the psychedelic red mushroom.

[Psychedelic Red Mushroom: Production Materials]

The red mushroom is the entire body of this monster.

"The whole body is made of material?"

This is the first time Wang Tao has seen this situation.

He touched Lightning's dog head. Since it was a crafting material, Lightning couldn't be fed to it.

As for the last [True Illusion Bead], this is also an item that Wang Tao has obtained before.

[Real Illusion Bead: It contains a certain amount of spiritual power and can be fused. If your mental power is higher than the Real Illusion Pearl, you can gain a hidden ability. If your mental power is lower than the Real Illusion Bead, you will always fall into the Real Illusion]

He gave Yang Changhong the Real Illusion Bead to use, and Yang Changhong successfully fused it and awakened a very good mental attack ability.

This bead is a good thing, keep it for now, it can be used when they want to awaken for the second time in the future.

Wang Tao put these things away and then looked at the trophy package.

The first crystal core gift pack contains a total of 5 crystal cores. They are red [Level 5 Crystal Core·Promotion], orange [Level 5 Crystal Core·Almighty], red [Level 5 Crystal Core·Awakening], blue [Level 5 Crystal Core·Spiritual Amplification] and purple. [Level 5 Crystal Core·Psychic Defense].

Seeing these crystal nuclei, Wang Tao suddenly felt enlightened. No wonder this red mushroom had been beaten before but would not attack itself. It really doesn't have any attack power.

The second loot package contains a potion.

[Obtain: Antidote Potion*50]

[Obtain: Illusion Breaking Potion*50]

"Huh?"

In addition to the antidote potion, there is also a hallucination-breaking potion that Wang Tao has never seen before.

[Illusion Breaking Potion: Can Break Most Illusions]

"This potion is good!"

Seeing this introduction, Wang Tao immediately grinned.

If you have this potion, it will be much easier to face enemies like red mushrooms again.

However, there is a prerequisite for breaking through the illusion, that is, the person in the illusion knows that he has fallen into the illusion and takes the initiative to take medicine.

If everyone is like Cheng Yiyi, who doesn't even know they've been attacked and is still frantically attacking the target they think they are, then no amount of medicine will work...

The third and fourth loot packages contain secret keys and energy beads respectively.

[Obtain: Awakening Key*1]

[Obtain: Awakening Energy Bead*1]

And the last loot package naturally contained blueprints.

[Obtain: Explosive Red Mushroom Production Drawing*1]

[Drawings for making explosive red mushrooms: You can make an explosive mushroom. Materials required: Psychedelic Red Mushroom*1, fifth-order crystal core*1]

[Exploding red mushroom: unknown attributes]

"Um?"

Seeing the introduction of this blueprint, Wang Tao suddenly thought of the [Explosive Heart] he obtained and used from the treasure box... This seems to be something similar!

Wang Tao immediately started production.

After a moment, a fist-sized and coquettishly red mushroom appeared in Wang Tao's hand.

【Exploding Red Mushroom】

[Level 5 (Epic)]

[Durability +1, explodes after 30 seconds of activation, forming an illusion (activation requires awakening energy)]

Sure enough, as Wang Tao guessed, this [Explosive Red Mushroom] is a one-time weapon similar to [Explosive Heart], with only 1 point of durability.

However, unlike the exploding heart, this exploding red mushroom does not have any attack power bonus. But after it explodes, all life within the range will fall into an illusion!

Wang Tao has seen the illusion of red mushrooms before. He can't tell whether it is true or not. If he can't see the health bar, he should have a chance to break this illusion. After all, his mental power is not low, but it will definitely be very troublesome...

If this illusion of exploding red mushrooms could be similar to that of red mushrooms, it would be awesome. It is estimated that even those at level five and below cannot easily break through it!

Although Wang Tao prefers weapons like [Explosive Heart] that can directly cause damage, he always feels that creating an illusion is not direct enough. But Wang Tao doesn’t choose, it’s good to have it. This will be another one of his trump cards.

After Wang Tao sorted out all the loot, Cheng Yiyi and the others still hadn't woken up yet. If he hadn't seen that their health bars were still healthy and only had a [Coma] state, Wang Tao would have doubted whether they were going cold.

But sleeping like this is not an option. Wang Tao is still waiting to explore this place. It would definitely not be appropriate to leave them here...

After thinking about it, he simply mobilized some mental power and rushed into their minds.

Strong mental power can make people dizzy, but it can also stimulate people to wake up. It depends on whether you can control the degree.

If you don't grasp it well...either the other party will become an idiot, or you will become an idiot. Of course, with Wang Tao's mental strength, they would definitely become idiots.

However, Wang Tao still had confidence in his mental control. He controlled the mental power to enter Cheng Yiyi's brain and stimulated it a little. Cheng Yiyi instantly opened his eyes in horror.

After waking up, Cheng Yiyi subconsciously wanted to pick up the minigun, but she was held down by Wang Tao while wearing power armor.

Cheng Yiyi instantly felt as if a mountain was pressing down on her, and her face looked a little desperate. However, when she saw through the dim light that the person holding her down was Wang Tao, she was dumbfounded again.

"Hey, do you recognize me? If you know me, let me go."

Wang Tao pressed Cheng Yiyi with one hand and gently patted her cheek with the other hand.

Feeling the warm touch on her face, Cheng Yiyi came back to her senses and nodded quickly.

"Wang Tao, what happened to me...what happened to them?"

Cheng Yiyi sat up with Wang Tao's help, her eyes a little confused.

"Don't worry, they are all fine and will wake up later. You all fainted at the time... Can you first tell me what your situation was like? It was when we saw the big red mushroom."

Wang Tao asked directly.

He was actually very curious and wanted to know what Cheng Yiyi saw in the fantasy.

Cheng Yiyi was relieved when she heard that the others were okay, then she frowned and recalled.

"At that time, your fireball lit up the entire space. I saw the red mushroom in the distance, and then I started to attack. The defense of the red mushroom seemed to be very hard, and my bullets shot on it without much reaction... …Suddenly, a terrifying snake-like vine came to me. I didn’t even realize how it came here! And at this time, I found that I was the only one left, and you all didn’t know where to go! ... I had no choice but to change the target to prevent being attacked by this vine. After that, I don’t know whether the vine was killed by my machine gun or ran away. Anyway, it disappeared after entering the darkness. ...I don’t know how long the attack lasted, but I suddenly felt a pain in my head...When I woke up again, I saw you pressing on me..."

Wang Tao raised his eyebrows slightly after listening to Cheng Yiyi's words.

Obviously, the vine monster Cheng Yiyi mentioned... is him.

Most of the situations that Cheng Yiyi encountered were the same as those of Wang Tao, but there were some differences.

The difference is that Cheng Yiyi sees him as a monster, Lightning sees him as a monster, but Wang Tao sees Cheng Yiyi and the others as normal...

In other words, Wang Tao is not completely trapped in the illusion, at least he will not kill each other...

Cheng Yiyi and the others are only fourth level, and they are not spiritual awakeners. It is normal for them to be completely unable to distinguish the fifth level red mushroom illusion.

"So, what happened in the end? Where is the red mushroom..."

Cheng Yiyi rubbed her temples and then looked at Wang Tao.

She felt her head hurt, as if she had been hit with a sap, but there were clearly no wounds on her forehead...

"Actually, we were all under the illusion of the red mushroom. You seemed to be attacking the red mushroom, but in fact, it hit the red mushroom with rocks. And the so-called vine monster you saw was actually me..."

Wang Tao explained directly.

He omitted some places, such as how he found the red mushroom body and reduced the place to ruins.

It was very troublesome to explain these things. He just said that it was probably because his mental power was higher than that of ordinary people, so he was not completely affected by the illusion...

"Ah? The monster I attacked was you?! Then, are you okay?"

Cheng Yiyi was shocked by this result. She didn't expect to be hit by the red mushroom at the first sight! She didn't expect that she would actually attack Wang Tao, which made her embarrassed and blamed herself at the same time. Unexpectedly, one day, I would be the one holding back...

"I'm fine, your moves can't hurt me."

Wang Tao said confidently.

"..."

Cheng Yiyi became even more embarrassed, and she quickly changed the topic.

"What about the enemy?"

"died."

Wang Tao directly took out the fifth-order crystal core, physical key, and real illusion beads and let Cheng Yiyi take a look.

"died!"

She and her teammates were stunned, and there was no one else around, so Wang Tao had obviously killed this red mushroom. While Cheng Yiyi was surprised, she was also very envious - Wang Tao was indeed Wang Tao! Even in the face of such a weird ability, he can still kill the enemy!

Facing these trophies, she shook her head.

"We didn't help at all, and we even didn't help... You killed this yourself, and the spoils are naturally your own, and we are not qualified to share them."

Cheng Yiyi knew that these were good things, but she had no shame in asking for them.

Wang Tao originally thought of giving her a physical awakening key. After all, if she hadn't invited him over, Wang Tao wouldn't have had the chance to kill the red mushroom.

But seeing that Cheng Yiyi really didn't want it, Wang Tao stopped being polite and put it away. If he wants to awaken for the fourth time, he still needs many awakening keys.

After communicating with Cheng Yiyi, seeing that the others were still awake, Wang Tao mobilized his mental power to wake up the others one by one.

They were similar to Cheng Yiyi. They wanted to attack when they opened their eyes. Fortunately, Wang Tao took the weapons away from them in advance.

Everyone got up in a daze, and after listening to Cheng Yiyi's explanation, they understood what had happened, and suddenly felt frightened.

This kind of illusion is hard to guard against. Fortunately, Wang Tao didn't get caught, otherwise they might have been wiped out and killed each other... It's scary to think about it!

"What to say next?"

Wang Tao looked at them.

Although Cheng Yiyi and the others woke up, their mental state was very poor, and they still had a lot of residual blood... This had nothing to do with the red mushrooms, and was entirely caused by Wang Tao's mental attack. Even though Wang Tao saved a lot of energy, it still cost them half their lives.

This state is obviously not suitable for continued exploration.

"I feel like I'm not in a good state..."

Deputy Legion Commander Pei Hai shook his head bitterly. He and Cheng Yiyi had acted separately before, so he had never fought against the fifth-level lord. Now I meet up with Cheng Yiyi, but in this battle I have lost all my fighting power... I feel like a failure.

The others were all similar and looked embarrassed. Lin Kaiyang, the other deputy commander, moved his mouth. He obviously wanted to continue exploring, but in the end he sighed.

"Let's go back."

Cheng Yiyi was also very reluctant, but there was nothing she could do about it.

"I won't go back, I'll continue shopping."

At this time, Wang Tao spoke.

Cheng Yiyi is not surprised that Wang Tao continues to explore this matter. After all, Wang Tao is much stronger than them. She got up and walked back.

"Okay, then be more careful!"

"Um."

When leaving, Cheng Yiyi hesitated for a moment, but still asked:

"Wang Tao, you...shouldn't you be at level five already?"

"Guessed it right."

Wang Tao smiled and nodded.

"..."

Everyone's eyes widened instantly.

The news about Wang Tao's fifth level was even more shocking than his killing of the fifth level red mushroom!

After all, Wang Tao said, this red mushroom has no other means of attack except illusion...