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That piece of land...

That's what all her hard work has been for the past two days.

She personally picked out each stone and each dead branch, cleaning them one by one.

She separated the different kinds of seeds, planning which patch to plant potatoes in and which to plant berries in...

They even transplanted several healthy wild plants over as if they were their ancestors, hoping they would provide the team with plenty of vitamins.

—This was a task that was arbitrarily assigned to her!

It is in this perilous "Ocean Era" that we planted our own seeds of hope for the "future" and "harvest"!

...But now, that hope is being ruined by a group of monsters?!

She felt a tightness and swelling in her heart, and an inexplicable anger consumed her, making her lose all reason.

"Ah—you damned thieves!"

"My God..." Ivan finally snapped out of his daze and quickly grabbed his axe and gave chase. "Watch out!"

The commotion blew the three people and the mascot out from deep inside the cave.

"What happened?"

Klaus pulled up his pants and ran outside, while Ren Yi leisurely took Xiao Jiu off his head and put it in his pocket.

As soon as the two emerged from the cave, they witnessed a magnificent yet bizarre scene.

In the distance, in the direction of the newly reclaimed experimental field,

The usually gentle and quiet Aurora seemed possessed by Ivan, wielding [Light Chaser] with ferocious power.

She cleaved a monster's head in two with a single sword stroke, not caring that blood splattered all over her. She turned and swept her sword across the monster that was trying to sneak up on her, cutting it in half at the waist!

Looking again at the group of uninvited guests, they were snake-like monsters over three meters tall.

With a long snake tail, it moved silently, emitting terrified hissing sounds as it fell under Aurora's sword.

Ivan was frantically circling around them, carrying an axe.

The main focus is on companionship, yet there's simply no opportunity to get involved and contribute.

"Hey! Athena! Save one for me!"

Aurora's sanity had vanished; she could barely hear anything.

She leaped up, stepping on the corpse of a basilisk, and pierced the eye socket of the last basilisk with her sword.

Ivan held his axe in mid-air for a moment, then silently lowered it.

[...Was that the incredibly gentle nun?]

[I used to think of her as my goddess... Waaaaah...]

[It's okay, she's my goddess now o(￣▽￣)d, she's so cool!]

[The new generation of berserker, the rancher god of war!]

By the time Renyi and Klaus got close, the battle was over.

The air was thick with the stench of blood and the sap of broken plants. The corpses of a dozen or so tall basilisks lay scattered inside and outside the field, and Aurora's carefully tended fields were trampled into a mess.

Aurora leaned on her sword, her chest heaving violently.

Her face was covered in mud and blood, her hair was disheveled and stuck to her cheeks, and there was still anger in her eyes.

Ivan gestured respectfully to Renyi and Klaus:

"Her bottom line... has been trampled on by these things."

Klaus suddenly realized,

It was too dark. With the faint light of the remaining campfire on the high ground not far away, one could barely make out the mess on the ground.

Take the [Desert Corona Stone] from the system inventory at will.

Illuminated by the 'miniature sun'

They saw clearly what the basilisks looked like—

Like a snake that has been forcibly straightened, it is not elegant at all, like a failed product pieced together haphazardly.

They appear to crawl upright using the tips of their thick tails, and their upper bodies retain human-like arms, but are covered with fine scales.

Ivan kicked the corpse of a basilisk next to him, and there were several roasted lizard monkeys scattered around, which looked like the ones the cavemen had moved to the highlands earlier that evening.

"Isn't this the food that Dala Bengba and the others eat at their parties?"

Klaus, his brow furrowed, leaned over to examine the area.

"It seems that it wasn't a celebration, but an offering."

No sooner had he finished speaking than Dala Bengba led several of his tribesmen out of the cave dwellers' burrow in a panic.

Seeing the corpses of the serpent monster scattered on the ground, it staggered in fright and let out a whimper that was difficult to understand.

From Dala Bengba's mouth (actually, you guess what I'm talking about).

The details of the matter were pieced together:

The basilisks that Aurora killed were similar to the cave-dwelling monsters driven by the cavemen; they were vassals of a more powerful tribe to the southeast.

They are responsible for coming here regularly to collect "protection fees".

After being robbed several times by intruders who broke through their tunnels, resulting in the deaths of many of their people, the cave dwellers learned their lesson and began to regularly, like at dusk, take out all their food and place it outside, lighting a bonfire as a form of "tribute" in order to ensure their safety.

Finally, Dala Bengba pointed at the snake monster's corpse on the ground and waved his hands in terror.

Core idea—

If you beat the little one, the big one is coming!

[Got it, it means the big boss's team offended the local gang Ծ‸ Ծ]

[Judging from the chief's words, that tribe to the southeast is very powerful!]

[So, did the nun kill the rent collector?]

Should they flee overnight, or hold their ground?

After listening to Dala Bengba's lament, he nodded slightly.

"The jungles to the southeast..."

He remembered that when he first landed, he went that way and saw what looked like dinosaur footprints on the ground. However, according to Dala Bengba, the snake people's tribe was located further east, in a tropical jungle environment.

"What specialties do they have over there?"

It can now understand the word "specialty products," and judging from Renyi's expression, it doesn't seem to be joking. Dala Bengba is so anxious that he's scratching his head.

"Hiss, hiss, woohoo!"

"Those snake people are incredibly strong and there are so many of them!"

"Yes," Renyi nodded, "I'll ask about local specialties."

Is this the variability of the world?

Dala Bengba gave up trying to persuade him and instead thought for a long time before stretching out his animal skin clothes and stroking the furry side repeatedly.

"Mao?" Ivan tried to decipher.

Dala Bengba nodded vigorously, gesturing a large outline.

"A big, hairy thing?"

Nod, nod, and nod again.

Their eyes lit up. Since entering the game, the creatures they had encountered were either thin-skinned or scaly. If they had fur, they could make more comfortable clothing or armor.

"We need to calm down," Klaus said, pouring cold water on the idea.

"The fact that those snake people still come here to steal food means that there aren't many crops there. Our place has a suitable temperature, fertile soil, and abundant water, making it more suitable as a long-term base."

What he said was indeed true.

Furthermore, according to our understanding of Earth, tropical jungles mean humid and sweltering conditions, unfamiliar swamps teeming with poisonous insects, and perhaps even miasma.

Going to the other side's territory to conduct reconnaissance is too risky.

He randomly walked over to a snake monster corpse and squatted down.

[Decomposable target detected: Lv4 Basilisk corpse]

Disassembling the snake yields: 2 snake skins, 1 complete snake bone, and 50 snake meat.

[Confirm decomposition?]

Those responsible for collecting rent are all at least level 4.

"Boss!" Ivan licked his lips. "When are we going to attack?"

"No rush."

He arbitrarily abandoned the decomposition, stood up, and

These bodies are still of use for the time being.

"Huh?" Ivan's face instantly fell. "How can we not be anxious? Are we just going to wait for them to attack?"

"Let them do it."

He walked arbitrarily to the edge of the experimental field that had been completely destroyed, and rubbed the sticky marks on the ground with his toes.

"We know nothing about their numbers, the rank of their leaders, or their abilities."

Taking the initiative to attack is too risky.

"But here, we are the masters."