The man in sunglasses nearby immediately spotted the giant humanoid figure, which ran towards the door, making him somewhat annoyed. "Tch, it has accomplices, huh? But beast tamers are useless to me!"

"You guys wait in the back," the man in sunglasses said, brandishing a long gun and stepping forward without hesitation. A group of his underlings watched from behind. "Is our boss going to use that move?"

As the wooden figure ran towards the cave entrance, Hashirama suddenly felt it tilt, and then discovered that one of its legs had been cut off, and the whole thing became unstable.

Upon closer inspection, Hashirama noticed a figure constantly moving about below, continuously shortening the wooden figure.

Hashirama leaped onto a nearby tree, while the wooden doll crashed to the ground. The figure also stopped, and Senju recognized him as the one who had just appeared.

"That's quite a skill; you even fooled me," the man in sunglasses said as he watched the giant fall, only then realizing it was just a piece of wood. He poked it with his spear. "The one on the tenth floor, that's your masterpiece too, isn't it?"

"Hmph, I don't know what you're talking about, Wood Release: Advent of a World of Trees!" Hashirama didn't waste any more words with him and immediately unleashed his ultimate move. The surrounding trees immediately came to life and attacked him relentlessly, but the opponent easily sliced ​​through the surrounding trees with his spear. "So it's a magic that controls plants, huh? That's too weak."

"Hmph, I have another trick up my sleeve, Summoning Jutsu!" Hashirama slammed his hand on the ground, secretly summoning a two-headed dragon with his summoning staff. The appearance of the crystal dragon greatly surprised the dragon. "I didn't expect you could even tame a two-headed dragon. What an amazing trainer! Want to come work for me?"

"Go, two-headed dragon," Hashirama shouted, and the two-headed dragon breathed at the man in sunglasses. The man easily dodged it, then gently stretched out his hand and chanted to the two-headed dragon, "Lost, endless nightmare, Phappator Daedalus."

But to his surprise, the familiar red light didn't appear on his fingertips, and the two-headed dragon opposite him didn't go berserk. "What's going on?"

"Heh, do you think I wouldn't be aware of magic?" Hashirama sneered. When he summoned the trees earlier, he had already summoned countless sealing trees around him, completely sealing off any chance for his opponent to use magic.

Then countless vines flew out from all around, sealing the somewhat surprised man in sunglasses. However, he remained calm. He tried to forcefully break free of the vines, only to find that they were much tougher than before, and many of them had pierced his skin, sucking his blood. "Parasitic wood?!"

After binding the man, Hashirama used the wooden vines to apply a weakening potion to him before riding the two-headed dragon to the man in sunglasses. "Speak, who are you?"

However, the other party ignored Hashirama and was quite satisfied with his situation. "Hmph, this is a good seal. It can even completely suppress 'Blood Curse.' Not bad, I like you even more now."

"Hmph, caught and still dares to spout nonsense," Hashirama chuckled to himself, then found himself suddenly flying up, the two-headed dragon beneath his feet out of control. Looking at his opponent, he saw a hand extending from the sealing wood, holding a crimson spear, which was stuck in the two-headed dragon's body.

Seeing the two-headed dragon go berserk, Hashirama then dispelled it. However, the sunglasses-wearing man covered in sealed wood suddenly stabbed a gun into Hashirama's arm, saying, "You'd better watch out. This is a cursed spear. Without my dispelling, you're doomed."

“That’s really bad. Luckily, spearmen are always unlucky,” Hashirama nodded as he looked at the spear stuck in his shoulder. Then his arm transformed into a wooden vine and wrapped around it, the wooden spikes at the tip becoming extremely sharp as they pierced his arm.

The man in sunglasses released his spear, swung his hand to smash the incoming piece of wood, and then grabbed Hashirama by the neck. However, his expression suddenly changed, and with a forceful twist, Hashirama's neck snapped.

But Hashirama didn't react at all. His body transformed into a long vine that bound his arm again. At the end of the vine was a red crystal ball. "Be careful. If we're not careful, we'll both die, even though I'm just a clone right now."

Perhaps anticipating the danger, the man in sunglasses suddenly stopped. Hashirama increased the restraints on the man several times over before returning him to normal, but the crystal ball remained in his chest.

"A clone? Could your true form be Parasite Tree?" The man in sunglasses stared at Hashirama for a long while. "I didn't expect to encounter such a well-disguised monster. How many years have you been lying in wait?"

"Don't even think about running away. This bomb can wipe out everything around you in an instant, even if you're a Level 5," Hashirama warned. He knew his opponent was powerful and was afraid he had more tricks up his sleeve.

“Of course I know, I can sense the life-or-death crisis,” the man in sunglasses said cooperatively. “Besides, it’s very comfortable in here, and that bastard’s voice can’t get through.”

"I don't know what you're talking about," Hashirama shook his head, the other person was quite talkative, "Do you know Daedalus?"

"I don't know, but I think I've heard of it," Hashirama shook his head boredly. The man in sunglasses seemed to choke on his words. "Have you ever seen the grandeur of Orario and wondered who built it?"

“Ah, is Orario magnificent? Without the people here, it would just be a small, rural place,” Hashirama shook his head. “You must have never seen a truly magnificent city. Whether it’s the multi-layered steel city that can support tens of millions of people or the sky city of Corinna Dirchi, they are all a hundred times more spectacular than this. Are you trying to say that the person who built this ordinary city was Daedalus?”

"Don't talk to me," the other person seemed furious. Although he loathed Daedalus, he didn't want anyone to belittle what he hated.

"This is really inexplicable," Hashirama thought, fearing that the other party might have another trick up their sleeve. He summoned countless flowers to make the man in sunglasses faint.

Chapter 512 Gathering Laborers

However, Hashirama still felt uneasy, so he plucked a bunch of flowers from the ground, stuffed them into his mouth, and casually added some parasitic tree seeds inside, letting them grow straight...

They extended their reach to the vicinity of the opponent's brain and heart before replacing the crystal ball with a remote-controlled grenade, which, of course, was very powerful.

"Phew, capture complete," Hashirama breathed a sigh of relief as he looked at the helpless opponent. Now it was time to reap the rewards. After bringing him back to his main body, Senju locked him deep underground in the space.

"Who is that person?" Lila asked from the side. Thousand Hands shook his head. "I'm not too sure either, but there shouldn't be any problem catching him. Let's go over there and see what's hidden in the passage."

The two rushed toward the passage, but it had been turned into an intact rock wall, and the henchmen there had vanished without a trace. He had no choice but to summon Weeks again, trying to find the passage behind the rock wall.

“Leave it to me,” Lila said, swinging the wooden stick sharply. A section of the rock shattered, revealing a huge square passage with a sealed door at the front. After trying it, Lila tossed the broken stick aside. “This is no good.”

“Let me do it,” Senju said, taking out the diamond pickaxe he was carrying. He knocked on a small door in the main gate and threw it into his spatial storage. But when he turned around, he saw that the rock wall behind him was rapidly recovering. The two of them immediately went inside.

It was pitch black inside, and it seemed that everyone had evacuated. After Lila drew a spell mark on the side, Senju discovered that he could actually see the surrounding situation. "Not bad magic. Come this way with me."

The two followed the passage to the room, where countless Weeks were still flying around. Thousand Hands dispersed them, then he and Lira looked at the cages around them.

"Lila, dispel the night vision spell, I'm going to use a light spell." After the surroundings darkened, Senju threw a ball of light, and the surroundings immediately brightened. Using the light, Lila looked at the scenery around her.

"These are alien races?!" Lila was shocked by the sight, but immediately shook her head. "Could they be creatures like Baiyan?"

“Not bad,” Thousand Hands nodded. The creatures inside were bound by iron chains and had many wounds on their bodies. Some of the cages were already dead.

Although the monsters were weak and chained in cages, they still glared at the people outside, unaware of their purpose.

After looking at them with a complicated expression for a while, Lila suddenly swung her sword, shattering the cage and chains together. The monster, freed from its restraints, stared at Lila in terror, too afraid to move.

Senju was also helping out, but when he casually opened a few cages, real monsters jumped out. They were a type of inorganic monster that Senju had seen on the 27th floor, very beautiful gem beasts.

After casually tying up a few troublesome monsters, Hashirama looked at the weakened heretics on the side. After treating the first few, Senju told them to rescue their companions themselves.

However, their subsequent handling also proved somewhat troublesome. Judging from their eyes, these tormented heretics did not have much affection for humans. However, once they recovered from their injuries, they would become a decent fighting force.

"What do you plan to do next?" Senju asked, standing to the side as he watched the heretics release all their kin.

After hearing the voice of the Thousand Hands, the monsters turned around and looked over. After a while, a raging bear stepped forward and said, "Thank you for your rescue. After we recover from our injuries, we have decided to take revenge on the people outside."

"That's right, revenge! Revenge!" The shouts started sparsely but then became much more unified. Senju sighed helplessly. If he had been treated the same way, he would have taken revenge too. Unfortunately, he was now on the side of humanity.

"Shut up!" Lila suddenly stood up and released her aura. A heavy pressure pressed down, and the monsters, who were not very determined to begin with, stopped shouting and squatted on the ground, not daring to move.

“Stop, Lila,” Thousand Hands stepped out from the side and opened a spatial portal leading to a dense rainforest. “I have a safe environment here where no monsters or humans will disturb you. You can live here in peace, but in return, you must accept my employment.”

"Hired?" The monsters crouching below began to whisper among themselves. Thousand Hands nodded. "That's right, this forest is your territory now. But if you want anything else, you'll have to accept my hiring. By the way, the hiring I'm talking about isn't about fighting."

"Not a fight?" A group of monsters looked puzzled. Thousand Hands nodded, then looked at the rare and strange beasts tied up to the side. "I want to hire you as my zookeepers and the guards of the underground prison."

"..." Lila and the monsters beside her were speechless. "Aren't these two a bit too different?"

"Well, there are other positions available later," Senju looked at them speechlessly, "Those who are suitable can be maids, members of a band, or even hunters or farmers."

A moment of silence followed, then a timid voice asked, "Isn't anyone going to arrest us inside?"

“Of course,” Senju nodded, “but only if you don’t hurt anyone else.”

“Of course,” the other person shouted suddenly, then stood up. “I want to go there.”

"I want to go too!" Most of the monsters stood up, only a few remained silent, while Thousand Hands summoned...

Hashirama instructed him to start building houses inside, and then deployed a batch of robots and supplies via a starship.

Seeing the village that appeared inside, a group of monsters went in, and then saw many 'monsters' that were even stranger than themselves, and then they started communicating there.

Senju looked at the dozen or so monsters still on the ground. "What are you planning to do?"

“Thank you for rescuing us, but we still want revenge and to find the guys who killed our friends,” they said, their eyes red.

Thousand Hands nodded. "You're talking about that guy in sunglasses and his gang, right? He's been caught, but his accomplices are still hiding nearby."

As Senju spoke, a patch of flowers suddenly appeared and spread outwards. A moment later, Muteng pulled a group of people out of the surrounding passages. "These will be kept in the dungeon."

“Let us be jailers there!” A group of monsters stared at the group of people who were tied up, their eyes red. Thousand Hands shook his head. “It’s possible, but I don’t want any abuse to happen.”

Chapter 513 Recruiting a Private Army

“Of course not,” a group of monsters said, even though they didn’t believe it themselves. “We just want to put them in cages and let them taste what we’ve been through.”

"Well, it would be even better if they confessed something," Senju nodded, and sent them and the cage underground.

“Senju, you really are a strange person,” Lila said, somewhat speechless. She felt that he was too fond of helping people. “Aren’t you afraid of the backlash from those alien races?”

“Of course I’m not afraid,” Senju said as he led the exotic animals into the zoo. “I’m just worried about the staff. There are many places that are short-staffed. Oh, right, there’s another place we can dig.”

“Is that so?” Lila fell silent. Thousand Hands closed the entrance and looked at her. “Let’s go to the next place.”

With a flash of light and shadow, the two had been teleported to the heretic's secret realm. The monsters inside were quite surprised to see the sudden appearance of the figures, but after taking a closer look, they breathed a sigh of relief. Lei walked out from the side, "It's you, Senju. Your sudden appearance startled everyone. And who is this?"

“This is Lila,” Thousand Hands introduced, then looked around at the heretics. “I just found a lot of heretics in one place. I wonder if any of you are interested.”

"A large number of our compatriots?!" Lei took a few steps forward excitedly. "Where did you find them? How are they doing?"

"It's really bad, I can only say. They were captured by hunters and I just rescued them. They're not very strong now and need someone to take care of them, which is why I thought of you guys," Thousand Hands explained the situation to the heretics around him, and the crowd immediately erupted in excitement.

"Can we live inside too?" Lei asked, looking at the bright environment inside. The people inside also looked at their kind in the shadows outside with complicated emotions.

Senju nodded. "Of course, you are free to move around inside."

“I…” Lei looked at the sky and sun inside and couldn’t help but reach out her hand. As a result, a stone dragon with wings on its back emerged. “Lei, don’t be fooled. There might be a trap inside!”

"Don't worry, there are no traps," Thousand Hands shook his head and then introduced Lila, "With her here, there's no need to set traps at all, since no one can beat her."

"This little girl?" A black bull stepped out from the side, panting heavily, its horns pointed in their direction. "Let me give it a try."

"Lord Thousand Hands really enjoys all sorts of trouble, but considering your kindness in reviving everyone, I'll play along with them," Lila said helplessly, then gently grabbed the charging black bull, which couldn't break free no matter how hard it tried.

“It’s too weak,” Lila said, lifting the black bull up and throwing it back. The bull tried to charge, but Lila’s gaze brought it down. “So you don’t need to worry about us having any bad ideas.”

The people around fell silent. After Thousand Hands explained the environment he had provided, the heretics inside and outside the space looked at it for a while and then huddled together to discuss it. Old Wood Dragon also came over. "Inside, can we really be treated equally?"

“Of course,” Senju nodded solemnly, “you can live in the sunlight, but you can’t hurt others indiscriminately.”

After receiving the assurance, they breathed a sigh of relief and bowed to the Thousand Hands, saying, "You allow us to live in the sunlight, so we swear our allegiance to you."

“I accept your allegiance, and this forest is your territory,” Senju responded in kind. Lila watched from the side, her eyes twitching. She wanted to make a sarcastic remark, but unfortunately, she wasn't good at it, so she could only remain silent.

The group entered the space, and then Senju closed it. However, a few heretics remained outside. They looked at Senju and shook their heads. "Although it's nice inside, new comrades will be born in the dungeon, and we still need to help them."

“I see. You are welcome here anytime,” Senju nodded. “But you must be careful, there may be secret passages in the dungeon.”

“A secret passage? I see. No wonder those poachers appeared so strangely,” Shi Long pondered for a moment. “Thank you for the reminder, Lord Thousand Hands. We will be careful of that.”

"That's good," Senju nodded, then

Then a unicorn emerged and said, "There are still our compatriots in the Water City on the 27th floor. We hope you can take her to live there."

"Are you talking about Mary?" Senju asked after thinking for a moment. The other person seemed a little surprised, then looked at Senju carefully for a while. "Could you be the terrifying tree-man that Mary mentioned?"

"What the hell is a giant tree person?" Thousand Hands muttered, then shook his head. "If Mary can survive on land, no problem, but in the water, there are no aquatic creatures there. I'm not sure if she can survive there."

"What exactly happened?" Shi Long asked. Qian Shou shook his head. "We once collected a group of strange fish in there, and they all drowned."

"The fish drowned?!" the group said speechlessly, then looked at the serious-looking Senju and said, "You're not kidding, are you?"

“Of course not,” Thousand Hands shook his head, but then he remembered the city’s water tanks. “There is one place that is fine, but the main race there is the machine race.”

"Mechanical race?" A few people were curious. Thousand Hands opened the fish farm in the city. There were several robots running inside, but there were many more fish in the tank.

After asking around, Qian Shou learned that Yuri often came over to play and bought a lot of aquatic creatures to release into the wild. Now, the fish farm has become Yuri's grilled fish reserve center.

After watching them speechlessly for a while, Senju felt that it was a bit dangerous for Mary to be there. Moreover, the few heretics next to them listened to their conversation, glanced at the pool on the side, and quickly shook their heads, no longer talking about Mary.

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