"That thing indeed belongs to the [Second Epoch], but due to surveillance reasons, I underestimated its level....."
The storm gradually calmed down, in the northwest region of the Ba Mountain Sky Pit, dust and smoke filled the air, spiral burnt ravines appeared on the surface, extending with increasingly dense patterns into a pit.
Wang Qiqi glanced around and, somewhat awkwardly, began explaining to Master Fuli.
Although the Security Bureau didn't open the ceramic box, they collected the leaking mucus from the bottom of it for analysis.
The fungal organism inside the ceramic box, in terms of level and activity, was inferior to [Candle Nine Yin], and the fungus that produced the core of Candle Nine Yin should belong to a decomposition fungus in a recycling station in [Second Epoch] civilization.
All the above were civilian goods.
Meanwhile, the fungal armor on the Dragon People is made from the secretions of the fungal mother strain, which created the biological battle armor.
"Underestimating the level doesn't matter; I thought you were going to tell me you bombed the wrong target..."
Master Fuli, in Beastman form, laid down the Gravity Hammer held in front of him, looked with a slightly strange gaze at the Golden Leopard sniffing near him, and asked: "What are you..... sniffing?"
"Smelling the scent of a powerful male...."
The Golden Leopard responded, turning his large leopard head towards Wang Qiqi, stood up, lifted his paw and pointed at Master Fuli, saying to Wang Qiqi:
"Like that, go find me a feline for matchmaking with such a powerful scent."
"......" Wang Qiqi rolled her eyes and did not want to pay attention to the absurd words of the Golden Leopard.
Find? And limit it to felines? How polite are you?
".... As for matchmaking, let's talk about it later!" Master Fuli looked at Wang Qiqi and asked: "Earlier, you said the biomimetic detector has found the cave, do you have the route map to the cave now?"
"Yes, we placed optical cables along the underground river to synchronize with the cloud server, now we can call up the data modeling at any time..." Wang Qiqi took out her phone and brought up a somewhat rough 3D model, then marked a route map on it, fully marked with red crosses.
The red markings on the route map indicate the locations where detectors on the map were destroyed.
When that strange thing emerged, it showed no mercy to the detectors in the underground river, sweeping away all the things and detectors along the path.
"Lead the way up front, and along the way, have your logistics team doing guard duty at the cliff add up the accounts, see what's been destroyed, action funding, member wages, celebration banquet... no, I mean, compile all expenses related to the Treasure Tree mission together."
"I want to talk sense to it!"
Master Fuli raised his Gravity Hammer, tossed it to the Ba Mountain Mosquito beside him to carry, then said to Wang Qiqi:
"This time..... we have reason, wait until I've defeated it with battle CG and then seize it directly."
"Is that how the accounts are done?"
Wang Qiqi led the way up front, guiding the Golden Leopard to dig out the collapsed entrance of the underground river. She took out the walkie-talkie with an odd expression and gave orders to the logistics team members: "By the way... according to Master Fuli, we should also include the interest on the funding."
"The cost of weapon validation during the capture of Ba Mountain Mosquito should definitely be counted against the Treasure Tree! What were you thinking, if not for the cultivation of Ba Mountain Mosquito by Treasure Tree, how could we have fired billion-dollar shells that day."
"I haven't even accounted for satellite fuel costs." Wang Qiqi said with a face full of exasperation.
Master Fuli nodded happily, showing preliminary approval of Wang Qiqi's accounting skills.
...
Under the joint efforts of the Golden Leopard and Ba Mountain Mosquito, the entrance to the underground river, once flattened, was exposed to sunlight again.
Wang Qiqi took the lead into the underground river, guiding Master Fuli along the route map.
The Golden Leopard and Ba Mountain Mosquito followed behind, carrying Master Fuli's Gravity Hammer into the river channel.
After passing several branch intersections in the underground river, they proceeded nearly eight kilometers inside to reach the entrance of the cave where all the biomimetic detectors were lost; streams of ice-cold water from tributaries fell into the cave, creating a sound of flowing water.
In the "whala-la" sound of flowing water.
Wang Qiqi grabbed an outcropping on the rock wall, climbed to a platform beside the waterfall, then turned around and picked up Master Fuli, who was swimming in the underground river.
"Pa——"
However, at this moment.
A crisp sound of bamboo slats snapping against skin entered everyone's ears.
Master Fuli followed the direction of the sound, looking towards the waterfall mouth of the cave.
At the top of the cave, there was a section of a tree occupying the entire rock ceiling; dense treeless branches hung down like willow twigs, gently swaying.
The hanging branches had a protective posture, encircling what seemed to be a ten-meter high tower, with branches extending inward from various directions of the tower, extremely strange.
Outside the high walls formed by the intertwining branches, on the cave ground, were dozens of black creatures that Ansheng had just seen; they were oddly square, with heads like they were topped with a ceramic box.
Treasure Tree.....
It should just be as the Security Bureau's speculation, truly presenting an inverted posture, but the reason for its inversion wasn't through branches searching for Spiritual Particles, rather because the Treasure Tree found a [Spiritual Particle Civilization Relic].
The branches were absorbing nutrients inside the relic, and the roots were actually its dispatched feelers searching for Spiritual Particles.
The Treasure Tree was a tree without leaves, both ends of the tree completely metamorphosed into root tendrils, constantly seeking Spiritual Particles.
As for the creatures surrounding the Treasure Tree, they didn't seem to be the coerced subordinates by the Treasure Tree, more like..... coming to snatch something?
"This tree, just by looking, I can tell it's very selfish." Master Fuli's face darkened, shaking off the water droplets on his body.
"Tree roots absorbing nutrients would bloom fruit, or produce leaves that fall and rot into humus soil, but now it's just devouring without excretion, like a Pixiu..."
"You all stay in the underground river and wait for me, I'll go over and directly pull down the entire tree."
Seeing the appearance of the Treasure Tree, Master Fuli's heart revealed a hard-to-conceal disappointment.
He originally expected to pick a hundred pounds of tea greens from the Treasure Tree to fry a pot of green tea.
But totally unexpectedly, in just half a year, the Ba Mountain Mosquito's tree trunk mouth full of honey-drenched Tree Grandfather turned from a collective good tree to a selfish tree not benefiting the group.
"Roar——"
Unable to hide his disappointed expression, Master Fuli, holding the Gravity Hammer, leaped into the cave.
The black creatures roared, immediately shifting their attention from the Treasure Tree to Master Fuli.
The muscles of the black creatures bulged, their malice unmasked burst out, suddenly pouncing, opening sinisterly twisted abyssal mouths, shooting out red slender tongues.
"Silence——"
Master Fuli raised the heavy hammer with one hand, swung it directly towards the cave ground; the intense light of fire emerged in the crushing between the hammer and the ground, a wild wind pressure exploded, and swept to the surroundings outside.
The black creatures seemed to hit a wall, their bodies being swept away by the storm.
Some tried to clutch the ground tightly, but their efforts only left scratches on the ground; their bodies were thrown and spun to crash onto the ground.
"Go! All go squat over there!"
"Master currently has no mood to eat bullfrogs, tightly hug your heads and squat down!"
Master Fuli glanced askew at the square-headed bullfrogs, pointed to the corner of the cave, instructing them to go squat there.
"Woo woo..."
Under Master Fuli's gaze, the black creatures felt immense pressure; one by one, they obediently backed against the rock wall, squatted to the ground, hugging their heads.
After finishing all this, one of them, possibly the smarter one, raised its head, let out a whimpering noise towards Master Fuli, as if asking:
"Master, do you find my squatting standard?"