An emperor in his later years is summoned by his sister to save the nation's fate.

The eternal night wasteland.

Following Lu Li's guidance in her sea of ​​consciousness, Lu Xueyao led the White Bone Demon General deep into the Black Pine Forest.

This time, her target was several towering ancient trees exuding a strong aura of malevolent energy—millennium-old black pines.

"This thousand-year-old black pine wood is as hard as iron and naturally contains extremely strong corrosive and evil-repelling properties, making it an excellent primary material for setting up the Blood Transformation Array."

Lu Li patiently explained in his mind: "The Soul Refining Array mainly suppresses the soul, while the Blood Transformation Array is completely different. It is specifically designed to counter living beings and strange creatures with physical flesh and blood."

Once formed, it can not only trap any flesh-based monsters that intrude into it, but also forcibly dissolve and refine their flesh and blood, continuously condensing high-quality blood beads for you.

This is undoubtedly a tailor-made training resource for someone like you who specializes in blood nerves.

Lu Xueyao's eyes lit up when she heard this. She immediately commanded the White Bone Demon General to use its indestructible bone spear to quickly cut down and collect a large amount of thick, thousand-year-old black pine wood.

Just as she put the timber into her backpack, that familiar and grand national announcement once again resounded in the minds of people all over the world.

[National Prophecy Announcement: Lu Xueyao, the Chosen One of the Dragon Kingdom, has successfully collected a special building material: Millennium Black Pine Wood!]

[Triggering a critical strike that manifests a thousandfold increase in national fortune!]

[Reward: 1000 Millennium Black Pine Trees! Successfully materialized into the treasury of the 749th Bureau of the Dragon Kingdom.]

Upon hearing this deafening announcement, Liu Mengxi, who was hiding in the lord's manor and looking out at the black rain with a worried expression, was completely numb.

"It's her again... Why her again?"

Liu Mengxi bit her lip hard, her eyes filled with disbelief and jealousy.

In just two days since the start of the game, how many critical hits has Lu Xueyao triggered? Resources seem to be flowing into her arms as if they have eyes!

"Could it be that her green, unidentified creature possesses some kind of incredible power?" Liu Mengxi clenched her fists, her heart filled with frustration.

I originally thought that with my purple pet, I could dominate the game.

But after arriving in the Eternal Night Wasteland, she discovered that her beauty was utterly insignificant compared to these strange creatures.

Compared to the other party, her prized purple pet, Chu Renmei, was practically a useless ornament.

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Meanwhile, at the headquarters of Bureau 749 in the Dragon Kingdom, Director Shen Xingzhou, upon seeing the massive black logs that had suddenly filled an entire warehouse, immediately ordered Chen Yan to lead a team to analyze the supernatural components.

This thousand-year-old black pine tree exudes an eerie aura, from root to bark, and could not possibly be just ordinary wood.

Just half an hour later, Chen Yan, sporting dark circles under his eyes and clutching a sharpened black wooden skewer tightly in his hand, rushed into the director's office, trembling with excitement.

"Chief! Divine Tree! This is simply an unparalleled divine tree for slaying the bizarre!"

Chen Yan slammed the wooden stick on the table: "Based on our practical test in the containment room just now."

The interior of this thousand-year-old black pine wood contains a domineering, supernatural barrier! It's practically the nemesis of all the strange and eerie things!

"As long as it's crafted into a weapon, even just a tiny scratch on the creature's skin! That disruptive force will instantly cause the supernatural logic within the creature to collapse, forcing it into a forced shutdown!"

"Completed?" Shen Xingzhou suddenly stood up.

"That's right!" Chen Yan swallowed hard and reported loudly, "We've tested it. If you pierce an A-level anomaly with a black pine sword, even that level of being will be forced to shut down for at least 10 seconds! That 10 seconds is enough for us A-level anomalies to complete joint containment!"

"If you stab a monster below level A, the initial crash time will be at least 30 minutes! The lower the monster's level, the longer the crash time."

"If you stab a D-rank monster, it can even remain frozen for an entire day!"

Upon hearing this report, Shen Xingzhou was completely moved.

What is this? This is practically the physical control weapon that humanity has always dreamed of when facing paranormal events! With this thousand-year-old black pine wood, the Dragon Kingdom will no longer be helpless lambs to the slaughter when facing desperate paranormal events.

"Act immediately!" Shen Xingzhou slammed his hand on the table and ordered sharply, "At all costs, have all this black pine wood processed into uniform-sized black pine swords tonight!"

"Once they're made, immediately distribute them to all active-duty Special Investigators in the Dragon Kingdom. Each person must carry one! With this, we'll have the confidence to proactively eliminate any A-level or lower-level anomalies entrenched in various locations!"

Meanwhile, far across the strait, in the land of cherry blossoms, at the headquarters of the Bureau of Paranormal Investigation.

This is a massive fortress that extends hundreds of meters underground.

At this moment, dozens of the most outstanding A-rank demon hunters in the Sakura Kingdom gathered together, and the atmosphere was extremely tense.

On the screen in the center of the conference room, the tragic scenes of major cities falling to the enemy were being continuously played.

A thousand C-rank starving monsters, manifested through punishment, are devouring everything at a terrifying speed.

Even more deadly is that the Starving Monsters have the characteristic of unlimited growth. If they are not curbed in the early stages, once they are well-fed and watered and evolve to A-level or even S-level, the entire Sakura Kingdom will be completely wiped off the map of Blue Star within a week!

"Damn it! What are we supposed to do?!" A furious demon hunter slammed his fist on the table. "Conventional methods are completely useless! Sending our manpower to detain them is just a drop in the ocean!"

Just when everyone was at a loss and arguing incessantly.

Sitting at the end of the long table, the A-rank demon hunter, Chiba Genjin, who had been resting with his eyes closed, slowly opened them.

A sinister smirk curled at the corner of his lips: "Gentlemen, since these monsters can't be killed or contained, why don't we... shift the blame elsewhere?"

Upon hearing this, the entire room fell silent. Qianye Xuanzhen stood up. The A-grade monster he was riding was named "Ghost Lake". This monster did not have direct physical killing power, but it possessed a rare and strange spatial teleportation ability.

By leaving "the water of the mysterious lake" in two different places as a medium, he can open a one-way supernatural teleportation channel between the two points.

Chiba Genma presented a sinister draft plan.

"You may not know this, but half a year ago, I was ordered to secretly infiltrate the Dragon Kingdom to carry out a reconnaissance mission."

Back then, just in case, I left a pool of eerie lake water in a hidden basement in Tianhai City, Dragon Kingdom.

"As long as I open the entrance here and drive the starving monsters inside, they will be continuously transported to the heart of Tianhai City in the Dragon Kingdom!"

"In this way, we can not only perfectly resolve the threat of national subjugation within the territory of our great Sakura Empire."

Furthermore, this opportunity allows them to deplete the resources of the Dragon Kingdom's 749th Bureau! It's truly killing two birds with one stone!

Upon hearing this plan, the Sakura Kingdom's demon hunters present were first stunned, then their faces revealed smiles of wild joy and cruelty.

"Great! Chiba-kun, this plan is perfect!" The director approved it immediately. They even gave this shameless plan a grand name—"Project Dawn".