Chapter 00227: Fire Ganoderma
# Fire Ganoderma
Chapter 227
Novel: AFK Game: Portal to Another World
Chapter 227: Fire Ganoderma
After the ordeal with the dense fog, poisonous creatures, stone forest, and chameleons, the crowd was completely scattered.
Currently, there were about twenty to thirty people near Yang Yiyi.
Of course, if you counted the corpses, the number might be a bit higher.
Because the dense fog had not completely dissipated and a layer still remained, plus with the chameleons nearby, no one had the time to look around.
But Li Chengxi could see very clearly.
Hidden within the surrounding stone forest were many human skeletons.
Some were barely complete, while others were just a few bones.
Moreover, what he saw even more clearly was that the number of chameleons surrounding them seemed to be increasing.
Yang Yiyi had just kicked away a chameleon that was trying to sneak over and gnaw on her toes when she heard Li Chengxi say:
"This is not a place to linger. These chameleons are endless."
Upon hearing this, Yang Yiyi leaped up, stepping on the rocks to jump out of the encirclement of chameleons.
At this moment, she could not be bothered with figuring out the direction; in short, the priority was to run first.
The others were not stupid either.
They had come here to find treasure, not to become feed for the monsters of Thunder Mountain.
One by one, they quickly fought their way out of the encirclement.
As for whether they followed Yang Yiyi or ran around randomly on their own, that was unknown.
Li Chengxi did not have the time to pay attention to a group of unimportant NPCs.
Without a map in hand and no clear direction, Yang Yiyi was like a headless fly.
It was especially hard to see if there were any chameleons on the surrounding rocks capable of biting off half a person's head in one go, so she absolutely could not stay in one place for too long.
Therefore, she simply dived into any forked road she saw.
After a bout of chaotic running, the number of people around Yang Yiyi dwindled even more.
It was unknown whether they had gotten separated or ended up as shit in the bellies of chameleons.
Li Chengxi did not have any better ideas either.
After all, this was different from when he was the Demon God.
The game's camera view was locked near the Jade Tablet; otherwise, he would definitely have had Yang Yiyi find a safe place to hide first while he surveyed the entire Thunder Mountain.
However, one thing was certain.
Although she was running around randomly, Yang Yiyi was indeed moving away from the entrance and heading deeper into Thunder Mountain, because the surrounding fog was becoming thinner and thinner, until finally, it had no effect at all.
Since her vision was no longer restricted, spotting the chameleons perched on the rocks became much easier, so Li Chengxi had Yang Yiyi slow her pace a bit.
Who the hell knew how big this Thunder Mountain was.
Stamina could not be wasted, or it would be tragic when she needed to run but could not.
With this, only a dozen or so people remained around Yang Yiyi.
It was not that Yang Yiyi was following them, but that they were following Yang Yiyi.
Perhaps many people felt that sticking together in a group would be safer.
Even if they encountered danger, they would not necessarily be the unlucky ones.
At this moment, the crowd heard a clamor coming from not far ahead, as if people were talking.
"Listen! It sounds like there are people up ahead!"
"There are, and it seems like quite a few of them."
Guided by the voices, the crowd unconsciously moved closer in the direction of the sound source.
Before long, they felt their view suddenly open up; they had walked out of the stone forest.
Looking straight ahead now, they could see the towering body of Thunder Mountain reaching into the clouds, as well as the terrifying dark clouds that lingered above it year-round.
It could be said that only now had the crowd truly arrived at the foot of Thunder Mountain; what they had just gone through was not even an appetizer.
Some people were already thinking of backing out.
After all, they had suffered so much before even entering the mountain; who knew what other monsters were hidden inside.
But even if they wanted to retreat, they could not go back alone.
Leaving aside whether they could pass through the previous trials, just getting lost in the stone forest would be unbearable enough.
So even if they gave up and wanted to go home, it was best to find more people to go back with.
To go alone was simply courting death.
Harboring all sorts of thoughts, the crowd continued to approach the place where the clamor was coming from.
"Look at those flowers, are they a treasure?"
Not far below the hillside where the crowd emerged from the stone forest, there grew a large patch of strange, purplish-red flowers.
Their shape looked somewhat like peonies, but their petals were covered in black stripes.
They looked strange, yet seemed extremely alluring, drawing the crowd to gaze at them.
Someone took out a book from their satchel and began to flip through it, while someone else was even faster, running straight down to try and pick a flower.
As a result, the moment the person's hand touched it, the flower immediately released a large cloud of pink smoke, which blew toward the crowd with the wind.
"Hold your breath! It might be poisonous!"
The person who had touched the flower quickly covered their mouth and nose and ran back.
The crowd also held their breath and ran forward, trying to avoid the pollen.
In the end, it seemed like nothing happened?
The crowd escaped the large cloud of pink smoke.
They looked at each other, but no one was seen suddenly dropping dead.
Even the person who touched the flower only sneezed and was covered in pink powder.
It seemed to be just simple pollen.
"Better not to touch it. It does not look like anything good. There is plenty of treasure in Thunder Mountain."
These words also represented the thoughts of the crowd.
Everyone felt that if it were a real treasure, it would have been picked clean by those who arrived first.
Even if it was not poisonous, it was probably just a strange flower with no great use.
The relieved crowd continued forward.
After a few steps, they rounded a thicket of bushes and saw a large river appear before them.
The river was nearly thirty meters wide.
Its course was winding and twisting, like a great spiral.
One end originated from Thunder Mountain, while the other's destination was unknown, as it was shrouded in mist.
The river's current did not seem too rapid at the moment.
By the riverbank, forty to fifty people were gathered, shouting something loudly.
As the crowd drew a little closer, they heard someone shout:
"That is a hundred-year Fire Ganoderma!"
"Just one bite is equivalent to a full sixty-year cycle of bitter cultivation."
"Quick, chop down some wood! We cannot let others get it first!"
Similar shouts mingled together, causing the spirits of the approaching crowd to rise.
There's treasure!
Talk about this, and I am wide awake!
The group hurriedly rushed over, craning their necks and standing on their toes to peer over the crowd.
They saw, under a solitary rock on the opposite bank of the river, a large, orange-red Ganoderma.
It looked almost as big as a pot lid, its auspicious cloud-like form entering everyone's sight.
At this sight, everyone became excited.
But excitement was one thing; how to cross the river was another problem.
This river was at least twenty to thirty meters wide, and there was no place to cross nearby, nor were there any boats on the river.
For a river this wide, crossing it with a lightness skill was no easy task.
As for swimming across...
The crowd saw logs and large branches floating by on the river from time to time, and the water was exceptionally murky.
If they were to get in the water and get hit by a piece of driftwood, they could basically be served up as a cold dish.
So, with the treasure right before their eyes, the group of people could only gaze at the river and sigh.
Some were busy chopping down trees to build rafts, while others paced along the riverbank, trying to find a suitable place to cross.
"Brother Li, look! That is a treasure!"
Yang Yiyi's face was flushed with excitement.
She quickly squeezed her way to the riverbank to look at the Fire Ganoderma on the opposite side, fantasizing that she would become invincible throughout the world the moment she ate it.
Yang Yiyi vaguely seemed to hear Li Chengxi saying something, but she could not hear it clearly.
The surrounding crowd was also a chaotic mess.
"Ha! I found one! Watch me cross this river on a single reed!"
Just then, a man carrying a large tree branch laughed maniacally, threw the branch into the river, and then, amidst the crowd's gasps of astonishment, took a great leap.