Exploring the cave

James stopped the digging work after a few hours, he checked the watch which showed the timing to be afternoon. So he decided to have the lunch meal and some rest.

When he went out of the pit a different scene was presented in front of him.

On the two farms, there were two tall umbrella-like fungi with the top head shining with blue light. The completely black cave was now showing a little bit of illumination.

Except for that two ordinary fungi, there was another fungus of the same height, but the light it emitted was a bit small only illumination small farmland below it, but it had four large palm-sized green leaves. And the most amazing was the Mysellium Fungus on the other side of the farms, it has rapidly increased its colony and there was a big cluster of small fungi giving out bright light illuminating a very large area.

Seeing the light after a long time gave a feeling of hope in James's heart. For all this time it was not easy for him, with the dark and silent atmosphere it was easy to cultivate the lonely feeling. If he was not able to find a way out of this he might have gone crazy sooner or later.

With a relieved expression his lightly tightened nerves were relaxed. When he came to the farm near the fungus he found that there was very little change in the temperature around the fungus body.

After observing the magical fungi for some time he went to cook some food. It was not a luxurious food but an ordinary cup of noodles with a spicy flavor. These things were the only food products that others traded for his Ice.

While eating the noodle he opened the chatbox to check out for anything new. From the time they have come here he has not opened the chat column more than four times.

He didn't know the reason for this, it might be due to the dark environment around him giving him a sense of urgency.

When he opened the chatbox, million of chats were continuously popping out and were scrolling down without giving him time to take a look.

After a few seconds, his eyes were already dizzy, he hurriedly stopped the scrolling and started scrolling manually.

"Good Morning everyone."

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"........+15343467"

"Guys, I found an odd type of pink leaves, they smell great. (.png). Should I eat them"

"Hahaha, brother upstairs, if you want to you can have it."

"Hey... Brother upstairs, don't have much of them, it might be a load on your kidney."

"Brothers? why do the replies seem to be odd? What is this plant?"

"The guys upstairs, I am a student from the botanical department. I hope you don't touch that thing, it is an aphrodisiac plant. And it seems to be mutated."

"WHAT?!"

"I have seen those plants too, the valley near my safe house has a lot of them. I once saw a heard of mutant beasts eat that things then there were odd noises from the valley for two continuous days."

"Hahaha, little brother upstairs. Hope you didn't eat those leaves."

"..."

After this there were no messages from that person, maybe he needed something to relieve his stress.

"Guys, did anyone found any source of water?"

"Lao Tzu has traveled for a long-distance from the safe house but I didn't find even a small drop of water. And I am in a rainforest."

"There is a huge mountain in the distance from me, but I don't know how far it is, I have been walking from the time we came here. But it is still of the same size. I can see some white spots up the mountain."

"Brother, don't waste your time. I am on the mountain in a small cave. But I can see anything below and above. God knows how big this thing is."

"Uhh...., guys I have found a footprint of an animal near my safe house. It seems to have passed from near me at night, but the only thing that makes me worried is this footprint if as big enough for 10 adults to sleep in a line."

"Man, pray that you don't meet that thing again."

......

There was not much information in the chat, after James read the messages he found that the world outside is huge.

This increased his determination to explore it, even more, he wanted to plunder all the useful things from this world before the end of the test.

Even though he had a lot of Ice to exchange for a huge amount of resources. He can't rely on this completely. Once the novice protection ends he will be in great danger.

Hence he has decided to explore the cave he was in and start finding a way out of here.

When he closed the chat his meal was also finished, then he took the shovel and dug a big piece of Ice from the surface nearby. It was the size of a footfall. He opened a hole inside the ice piece and took out as much as ice he can. Then filled it with a small amount of soil from the farm, and then plucked some fungi from the Mysellium and placed them inside the ice container.

With this, a makeshift lamp was created. The ice crystals worked as a refracting material and the lamp easily illuminated 3-4 meters ahead of him. With the shovel in one hand, he wrapped himself with a few clothes for warming and started the exploration.

He decided to first find the wall of this cave and then search alongside. As he kept moving forward the brightly lit farm got smaller and smaller until it was turned into a small light spot.

The cave was far bigger than James had thought, but he didn't give up.

The ice lamp gave off a faint light illuminating a small area ahead as James kept walking. When he was a long distance away from the farm he found something, there was an old broken wooden board frozen inside the ice surface.

Seeing this James was excited as his pace of walking increased. In a few more minutes the scenery in front of him change into something that shocked him.