Chapter 111: The Era of Great Change!
In the afternoon, the live stream just started.
Qi Xuan was seen riding Sunday, rapidly advancing through the forest.
The sound of rapid pedaling came, and the woods brushed past, the speed being extraordinarily swift.
Seeing this scene, many netizens felt very envious:
“I’m so envious, Sunday’s speed is probably faster than a supercar, right?”
“The speed is similar to a supercar, but this is also much more stylish than a supercar. Who’s supercar can run like this in the forest?”
“The important thing is that even if Sunday is given to you, you can’t sit still at all. With that kind of terrifying impact, you can be thrown out on the spot.”
“I heard that Saudi Arabia seems to be trying to domesticate the Wild Boar King they bought, and the trainer was almost killed by that Wild Boar King on the spot.”
“The Wild Boar King is of course not so easy to domesticate, but now everyone is becoming Martial Cultivators. The Wild Boar King, which seemed terrifying before, is nothing. Maybe in a while, you can see Martial Cultivators riding lions and tigers on the street. The status of these large ferocious beasts, in front of human Martial Cultivators, will gradually decrease to pets.”
“But we also have to consider the safety of ordinary people. If we let ferocious beasts go out, even if they are well-controlled, what if they attack ordinary people?”
“China definitely won’t allow it, but it’s hard to say for foreign countries. Didn’t cases of ferocious beasts escaping from private zoos and eating people on the street appear before?”
“Ordinary ferocious beasts can no longer attract me. I now want a Giant-Toothed Demon Pig like Qi God, even if it’s a little smaller.”
“I remember that the Island Country’s exploration team was destroyed by the Giant-Toothed Demon Pig. Should they be able to find a way to capture some this time?”
“Didn’t they say they would directly use missiles to clear the ferocious beasts?”
“Although those ferocious beasts on the island are extremely dangerous, the exploration team definitely wants to capture live ones as much as possible. The research value of live ones is far greater than that pile of corpses.”
“Capture a bunch alive on the island! Whether I can ride a Giant-Toothed Demon Pig in the future depends on the exploration team!”
“But those big guys are not easy to capture alive, right?”
“That depends on the ability of the exploration team. Anyway, they are more professional than us. The think tank must have prepared various methods. Let’s wait and see. They should be going to the island in the afternoon.”
“That’s not right, I remember it was scheduled to start going to the island in the morning, why was it postponed again?”
“It is said that information about the missing exploration team came from the island, but the situation seems a bit unfavorable. The overall planning of the island exploration has undergone some changes. A team is being prepared to specifically investigate the situation of the missing exploration team.”
“Hiss! Is there another hidden monster?”
“There are so many unexplored places on the island, no one can say for sure.”
“By the way, don’t you think Qi God’s exploration direction is very clear? He doesn’t stop running at all.”
“It is indeed very clear. Does he have information related to the natives?”
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As the netizens guessed, Qi Xuan did indeed have information related to the natives.
To be precise, he had information about the murder of that Cultivator.
【Nangong】This token should have undergone special refining and is bound to the Cultivator’s life. If the Cultivator is killed, it will send a prompt to a certain place and mark the murderer.
If it were just this, it wouldn’t be anything. Many identity tokens that aren’t even Magic Artifacts can have these functions made by a Refining master.
The problem is that the Cultivator has been dead for who knows how long. Logically speaking, no matter how strong the mark is, it should have dissipated long ago. But when he touched the other party’s bones, the token reactivated and re-marked the murderer, which is quite terrifying.
【Nangong】The mark left by the token is just like it can’t be washed away.
Or it is extremely hidden, so that the murderer doesn’t even notice it.
But no matter from which angle, the value of this token is no less than a Second-Grade Spiritual Item.
And the victim, who was in the late Qi Condensation stage and not even in the Foundation Stage, was equipped with such a token, which made people think deeply.
If the token is only worn when hunting, just to avoid accidents when hunters are outside, it can also make sense.
Or his identity is special in the tribe, such as the tribal prince, the tribal chief’s son, the tribal female chief’s male companion, etc., then it is not impossible to obtain this high-grade token.
But if that’s not the case, and every tribe member can be equipped with such a token—
Qi Condensation can have a token with such a powerful effect, which not only shows that the other party’s tribe has a powerful Refining master, but also shows that the tribe itself is extremely powerful.
Because the materials for the token alone are not so easy to find, and even if they are found, they shouldn’t be wasted like this. Being able to make a token instead of a Magic Artifact shows that they are not short of them at all, and they have sufficient reserves.
The word “sufficient reserves” means that there must be extremely strong military force to guarantee it.
Multiple Foundation Stage?
Or late Foundation Stage?
Or Golden Core?
Qi Xuan’s eyes narrowed slightly.
Regardless of the outcome, it shows that contact with the other party must be cautious.
Especially the existence of the single horn on the forehead, even more care must be taken. Sufficient information needs to be collected in advance before it can be determined whether to make contact.
Too dangerous, or the hostility is too heavy, it is better to live in seclusion in the Jungle and cultivate, rather than risk contact.
Treating a Qi Condensation and treating a Golden Core, they should have two attitudes.
As he was thinking, Sunday’s speed suddenly began to decrease, his back tensed, and his expression became nervous.
“A dangerous Demon Beast?”
Qi Xuan’s expression moved slightly, and he also began to be more vigilant.
He rode Sunday and walked slowly forward. Before long, he saw a cave that had been forcibly opened near a rock body on the hillside.
Seeing the scene presented in the camera, the netizens were all shocked:
“Wow! Such a big cave?!”
“What kind of ferocious beast would dig a hole in the rocks?”
“As far as I know, in the history of Blue Star, there was indeed a creature that could dig holes in rocks. This creature was called a giant ground sloth, which had a huge body, amazing upper limb strength, and specialized three-toed hard claws, which had the ability to excavate holes in rocks.
This is the only creature confirmed to be able to dig holes in rocks. Unfortunately, it became extinct more than ten thousand years ago.”
“I don’t think there’s anything special about digging holes in rocks. After all, I’ve seen a lot of messy ferocious beasts on the Floating Continent, and digging holes in rocks can only be considered a very ordinary skill.
The key is the skeletons of many ferocious beasts near the cave. I even saw the remains of the Woolly-Haired Plate-Toothed Elephant and the Red-Haired Square-Eared Bear. This guy is too strong.”
“Qi God, be careful, don’t flip over in this kind of place.”
“Don’t worry, Qi God is a Supreme Grandmaster, and all the ferocious beasts are easily captured.”
“You think you’re a Land Immortal, and you can easily capture them? If you get a beating, you’ll be honest.”
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While the netizens were chatting, Qi Xuan was also observing the scene.
Through the remains of the ferocious beasts left around, as well as the other party’s living traces, and the crawling tracks all around, he determined that this was a Spiked Demon-Patterned Crocodile.
And the aura remaining on the scene gave him a sense of familiarity.
If nothing unexpected happens, the one living here is probably the one that fought with the Six-Clawed Black Serpent for the Demon King Fruit.
Qi Xuan was a little surprised.
Now he can still recall the terrifying scene of the Spiked Demon-Patterned Crocodile bursting out countless spikes.
As powerful as the Six-Clawed Black Serpent, it couldn’t avoid it and was severely injured on the spot.
If it weren’t for the Six-Clawed Black Serpent’s huge body blocking it, he would probably have had a hard time escaping.
I didn’t expect to encounter its nest now, it can only be said to be very coincidental.
It’s a pity that its nest is just a simple habitat, and it doesn’t store any special minerals or Spiritual Items. Looking around at the skeletons of the Demon Beasts, he couldn’t find any valuable materials.
“Well, consider it lucky that it’s not at home, otherwise I would have to find the place that day.”
Qi Xuan shook his head, his eyes fell on the latest crawling tracks on the ground, and suddenly moved slightly.
Most of the tracks under the slope look very free and easy, which is very consistent with its performance in the habitat. Only the latest one is very messy and hurried.
Capturing prey is definitely not like this.
Could it be that it encountered a natural enemy?
Or did it encounter an extremely powerful enemy?
Qi Xuan looked in the direction of the track extension, and his eyes slowly became concentrated.
【Nangong】The token also indicates that direction.
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United Nations camp.
The sound of people was deafening, and the noise was everywhere.
One after another exploration team, carrying a large amount of equipment, rushed to various places.
This time, there were twenty-one teams in the second wave of island exploration organized.
Originally, there were twenty teams, but because they accidentally received information from the Southeast Asia Joint Exploration Team in the morning, they temporarily added one.
Although the number of exploration teams this time was not as good as the twenty-seven teams last time, the number of people in each team increased to two hundred. In addition to well-trained soldiers, they also brought a large number of medical personnel and auxiliary personnel such as engineering construction, geological exploration, and biological research.
Behind the exploration team, there are even many backup support teams, ready to enter and replace them at any time, and even set up related strongholds.
Yes, they are even ready to set up strongholds, and they are completely planning to keep moving forward until they completely occupy the entire island.
This is not because the leaders of various countries are too arrogant, but because of the conclusions drawn after collecting data from many aspects and comprehensive evaluation.
The first wave of exploration teams could only be said to be exploratory exploration, and there were many restrictions in various aspects. Many high-power weapons could not be used, and many tactics could not be used.
But after the island auction, the spread of Martial Arts cultivation and other events, now the whole world has formed a highly unified opinion on occupying the island and obtaining internal resources.
No matter what country, no matter what nation, no matter whether they have faith, everyone does not want the resources on the island to be wasted there.
They must get their hands on them.
They must increase research.
They must fully develop the entire island!
The era of great change is coming, and the future destiny of mankind is closely related to it.
Under this amazing impetus of unity, the new exploration team was able to be established quickly, and the use of various weapons was also quickly approved.
Now, the equipment of the island exploration team can be said to be extremely luxurious.
Not to mention the upgrade of individual equipment and the large-scale import of heavy weapons.
Because the mist covering the island has completely dissipated, the shielding and interference have been reduced to the lowest level. Not only can they obtain information support from satellites and other aspects at any time, but they can also use many new devices, including UAVs and machine dogs.
In addition, each exploration team can also obtain remote fire support, including warships and fighter jets.
Once they encounter ferocious beasts that cannot be matched, they can let them know the terror of human firepower.
Referring to the route map brought back by the first batch of exploration teams, and the relevant information given by satellite reconnaissance aircraft and other means, the twenty-one exploration teams selected the twenty-one most suitable landing locations and advanced towards the interior of the island from all directions.
Although these twenty-one exploration teams are no longer completely responsible for one team by many countries alone, after comprehensive adjustments, except for the one specifically responsible for searching for the missing team, seventeen of them will still have a single country or alliance-style dominant force, such as the Lighthouse or Da Qian. This situation is almost unavoidable.
And the remaining three are also not to be underestimated. Theoretically, although they are all composed of multiple small country teams, they actually have top rich men as individual investors behind them.
In order to obtain permission to go to the island, in order to be able to participate in the island exploration, they also donated a large amount of funds to the United Nations to maintain and equip all the exploration teams, and even the consumption of military supplies generated by this island exploration, they have to bear a part of the share.
Moreover, this does not mean that they can keep all the various resources and Precious Medicines they obtain on the island.
In fact, because of the constraints and balance of the United Nations, plus the continuous monitoring of satellites and reconnaissance aircraft, even if a strong country obtains the dominant power of a certain exploration team, it cannot privately take the resources on the island like before. They must be reasonably allocated according to the degree of effort, the consumption of weapon resources, and other factors, but that is another game of power.
As for what those three top rich men can gain at a huge cost, in addition to being able to get a very small share during the allocation, and obtaining relevant information about the interior of the island and various resources in advance, basically nothing else. The gains and the payments are not proportional, and they will lose all their money if they are not careful. Therefore, only the three of them entered the game, instead of all the top rich men swarming in.
As the exploration teams quickly went to the island and kept advancing, the long-silent island once again sent out a familiar roar, but this time the roar was much stronger than before.
The northwest side of the island, in the Jungle.
The exploration team led by Britain once again saw the Serrated Tyrant Yuan that had collapsed the entire British Special Air Service Regiment.
In fact, they have better routes to choose this time, and they can avoid these ferocious beasts in advance, but Britain strongly demanded to go this way.
Not only for revenge, but also to wash away the shame!
After observing the herd of beasts inhabiting the forest through UAVs and determining the approximate range, the leading captain immediately had the UAV drop a smoke grenade.
Thick smoke rose into the sky, and several Serrated Tyrant Yuans nearby approached curiously.
At this moment, a Typhoon fighter jet that flew by at high speed accurately dropped several bombs into the target area.
The bombs fell near the airspace of the forest. With a crisp explosion, the bombs’ mother bombs detonated one after another under the action of special fuses, evenly distributing the fuel in the bombs into the air. The forest was shrouded in a cloud of white mist-like gas.
The Serrated Tyrant Yuans on the ground hadn’t figured out what was going on. In the next second, the terrifying explosion of thunder and lightning suddenly came, and the entire white mist group was completely detonated, instantly forming a huge fireball, which rapidly expanded in all directions.
The high temperature and heat continued to spread, and the scorching wind burned the trees into pieces.
It took several minutes before several UAVs flew back into the ruins.
Although the lightest fuel-air bomb was selected, the killing effect was still very terrifying. Nearly a hundred Serrated Tyrant Yuans were left with only charred remains, including the special species that had carried out a massacre of the entire Special Air Service Regiment, leaving only a skeleton.
Only dozens of Serrated Tyrant Yuans scattered on the edge were seriously injured and fainted under the action of the overpressure field and shock wave caused by the fuel-air bomb, and they could no longer resist.
Immediately, a large number of team members carrying anesthetic gun bullets hurried forward, and through special alloy chains, they bound all these remaining Serrated Tyrant Yuans and carried out containment. A large number of corpses were also taken away for related research.
A battle ended so quickly and unexpectedly.
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The southwest side of the island, a huge Gravel Ground.
Several UAVs hovered in the sky, and then also dropped smoke grenades.
Before long, an attack hawk fighter jet that flew by dropped a nickel-cobalt steel alloy bunker buster.
After landing, the bunker buster directly penetrated the surface Gravel Ground and reached the underground. After the delay fuse detonated it, in the next second, with a loud bang, the earth shook, and smoke and dust filled the sky.
In the flying dust, there were also many shell fragments of the Golden Sand Scorpion.
This overlord who ruled the area of several kilometers has come to an end.
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In a certain mountain area on the island.
The Eight-Bladed Bug swarm, which is still in the breeding period, was densely covered on the ground, like falling snow.
The exploration team led by France came here again.
Recalling the scene of the team members being killed by the Eight-Bladed Bugs not long ago, the captain who had narrowly escaped couldn’t help but have red eyes.
But thinking of the order issued above, he couldn’t help but take a deep breath and began to implement the live capture strategy.
After all, there is a high probability that the Eight-Bladed Bug gathering place will give birth to Precious Medicines like the Cold Moon Ephemeral.
Therefore, dealing with the Eight-Bladed Bugs cannot be as easy as killing other ferocious beasts. It is necessary to capture them alive as much as possible.
In this way, after figuring out their survival and reproduction mechanism in the future, maybe the Cold Moon Ephemeral can be mass-produced.
With the captain’s order, a group of UAVs quickly flew above the Eight-Bladed Bug swarm under the control of the pilots.
Then these UAVs dropped Sticky Foam Bombs one after another.
The gelatinous cloud produced by the detonation of the Sticky Foam Bombs covered the entire Eight-Bladed Bug swarm on a large scale.
The sticky foam formed by the super-adhesive polymer fell on the Eight-Bladed Bugs below, and immediately glued and fixed each Eight-Bladed Bug.
In the blink of an eye, the huge swarm was completely glued, and no matter how they struggled, they could not move.
Seeing those easily captured swarms, the captain indifferently ordered:
“Okay, start capturing.”
A large number of team members rushed out like wolves and tigers.
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In the forest on the island, a huge Beehive stood above the slope, and countless Silver-Winged Wasps were flying around, buzzing constantly.
Watching the bee swarm around the Beehive from a distance, dozens of UAVs quickly approached under the control of the exploration team members.
After arriving nearby, these UAVs launched alloy capture nets made of special alloys.
A large net of capture nets fell down, and a large number of Silver-Winged Wasps were instantly covered by surprise.
After noticing the attack, Silver-Winged Wasps kept rushing out of the Beehive, trying to protect the Beehive, and their continuous emergence was only increasing the number of victims.
Until the last Queen Bee was also captured, the exploration team members immediately cheered.
Then the engineering team members transported large equipment to the slope and began to carefully lift the Beehive and transport it off the island. The team members who had just gathered a large number of Silver-Winged Wasps also suspended the follow-up exploration and acted as the guard team, closely protecting the Beehive to be transported backward.
This is the precious asset of all mankind and must be strictly protected.
Everything is proceeding in an orderly manner.
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The exploration teams on the island kept sending out various good news. Even if there were small-scale losses due to certain accidents in the middle, everything was within a controllable range.
The Joint Command was very satisfied with the progress of all parties.
“If this continues, maybe within five days, we can occupy the entire island.”
“Haha, you are too conservative with five days. According to their progress, even if there are terrain obstacles and various trophies to deal with, three days at most will be enough.”
“I say it would be better to directly airdrop a batch to the center of the island, one batch from the outside to the inside, and one batch from the inside to the outside. The speed of the two sides meeting will only be faster.”
“We still have to be cautious. The situation in that forest in the center of the island is a bit special. Not only are the trees tall and dense, but the interior is always shrouded in mist. It is difficult for reconnaissance aircraft to find out the situation inside. The UAVs will directly lose contact after entering. It is better to push from the periphery to the inside.”
“But it’s just a black forest. If you really encounter any problems, just bomb it again, and I don’t believe anything can stop us.”
“Hehe, are you going to bomb the Precious Medicines in the forest too?”
“This…”
While the United Nations camp was in a heated discussion, the exploration situation on the island was also transmitted to the outside world through various channels. For a time, the whole world fell into great joy:
“Haha, I said the island is nothing to be afraid of! What about ferocious beasts? They still have to submit to our firepower!”
“It seems that the exploration teams that went to the island this time should be able to gain a lot.”
“I heard that the Silver-Winged Wasp’s Beehive has been successfully transported out. Maybe we can buy Honey in the market in the future.”
“I am more looking forward to the other gains of the exploration team on the island. After all, there must be other various Spiritual Plants and Precious Medicines on the island.”
“If they harvest Precious Medicines that even Qi God doesn’t have, that would be great.”
“Hahaha, then I have to show off in the Live Stream Room, even if he can’t see it, even if I can’t eat it, I still have to show off to him.”
“Together! Together!”
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While the people outside were cheering, at this moment, a huge Light screen suddenly appeared, covering the entire world!
