Global Catastrophe: I Became the World Tree-Chapter 417 - 262: Huge Harvest_1

"Dragon King, do you mean that we can send out Second-order Evolvers to the peripheral areas of the Land of Inheritance to collect these exotic fruits?" Bai Yinghui was the first to regain his composure and asked.

"Yes," Ye Feng nodded and suggested, "But it’s best to have more people; otherwise, the strength of the First Order Evolvers is too weak, and they can’t even beat the Third Order Mutated Insects."

The large troops dispatched by the military were only collecting resources in the outer areas.

However, his Dragon Hall was entering the intermediate and even the core areas, so there was no core interest conflict between the two, which is why Ye Feng was so generous in his suggestion.

"We’re extremely grateful for your reminder. Is there anything else we need to be aware of?" At this point, Liu Zaoxin spoke up.

"You will need to explore that yourselves; after all, I don’t have too much information on hand." Next, Ye Feng shared all the intelligence he had with them.

The two nodded repeatedly as they listened, and as soon as Ye Feng finished, they couldn’t wait to hurry back.

Thinking about those magical kiwi fruits being consumed by the Mutated Insects every moment, they felt an acute sense of loss.

Therefore, as soon as the two of them got on the armed helicopter, they immediately started to remotely command using the communication equipment here.

Very soon, the 20,000 strong army originally sent out to exterminate the Forbidden Area Creatures was recalled by as many as 10,000 men, who then rushed to the Ancient Ruins at top speed.

The movements in Yang City drew close attention from all parties, and seeing this scene, the higher-ups in the other cities naturally started calling to inquire about the situation.

Liu Zaoxin did not conceal anything and directly made the news public.

Upon learning that such treasures existed inside the Ancient Ruins, who could remain unmoved?

More importantly, according to Dragon King, the danger level in the outer area was very low, and it was only necessary to engage in combat with other Mutated Beings.

These kiwi fruits were simply there for the taking!

In an instant, city after city began to mobilize their Elite Squads, also heading for the Ancient Ruins.

Liu Zaoxin and Bai Yinghui didn’t even return to Yang City but directly took the armed helicopter to the Ancient Ruins instead.

In addition, more than a dozen transport helicopters swiftly took off from Yang City and followed them over.

After merely more than 10 minutes, they arrived near the Ancient Ruins.

From above, the ground was scorched everywhere; some areas were still emitting heat, and many places showed the remains of carcasses.

At this time, Tianhe City had organized a large number of workers to collect these bodies.

One could say this was a huge boon; any corpse of a Mutated Being was valuable, with many Special Alloys requiring these animals’ bones for production.

Furthermore, the skin and flesh of these Mutated Animals could be used for food, which was highly nourishing for ordinary people, and even more beneficial for Evolvers to improve their cultivation.

After this round of bombing, Tianhe City had made no small profit.

Of course, Bai Yinghui and the others were not concerned with this, and it wasn’t long before the helicopter formation landed in a relatively flat area.

Soldiers quickly disembarked from the transport helicopters and swiftly set up a perimeter.

But there were no Mutated Beings left here, as all the Mutated Beings that stayed here before had either been killed by the bombing or had entered the Ruins once they opened.

From these more than a dozen transport helicopters, a total of 200 fully armed soldiers disembarked.

Under Bai Yinghui’s arrangement, they split into two teams and then entered the Ancient Ruins for preliminary exploration.

Although they had received some intelligence from Dragon King, Bai Yinghui didn’t dare to dispatch the entire army in without first sending his own people for a thorough reconnaissance.

As Bai Yinghui watched those 200 people enter, he waited silently.

It wasn’t long before the sound of helicopters was heard again in the sky, and people from other cities also arrived one after another, especially Tianhe City, the closest, with their army already coming over.

"Old Bai, what’s the situation now?" A familiar officer came over to inquire after disembarking from the aircraft.

"I’ve already sent out a team to scout. Just wait, they should be back in no more than 10 minutes," Bai Yinghui said solemnly.

But his heart was far from calm; the current moment felt like the tense anticipation before lottery results, fearing that the situation inside might not match the description.

The other officers who had arrived felt much the same.

As time ticked by, the crowd did not wait that long; just 5 minutes later, a light flashed at the gate of the Ancient Ruins.

A small team of 10 people then emerged.

Bai Yinghui immediately went to greet them and asked, "What’s the situation inside? Does it match the intelligence?"

"The situation is accurate. This is the footage captured by the drone nearby, and this is the kiwi fruit we found," said the soldier, taking out two blue fruits.

Bai Yinghui took them in his hand; the fruits were the size of table tennis balls and felt slightly cool. After a moment’s thought, he popped one of them into his mouth.

Bai Yinghui’s genetic evaluation was Level C, which, while not outstanding, was also not bad—a rating indicating a 25% chance of becoming an Evolutionist with each Gene Potion taken.

In the beginning, Gene Potions were scarce, so of course, he didn’t take any, but after a month, the production capacity for Gene Potions had long since increased.

Half a month ago, after taking five bottles of gene potion consecutively, he finally became an Evolutionist, and now his Realm had reached the Middle of the Second Order.

At this moment, as he swallowed the blue fruit, he instantly felt a cool energy swiftly spread to all his limbs and bones.

Moreover, this energy was extremely easy to absorb, and he could even clearly feel his muscles and bones quietly undergoing changes.

Bai Yinghui briefly estimated that once the energy from the fruit was fully consumed, he would almost certainly break through to the Late-stage Second Order.

"Old Bai, how is the effect?" an officer asked eagerly.

"Very good, it’s the same as the Spirit Fruit. If it’s a Second-order Evolver, one fruit can probably improve one Minor Boundary," Bai Yinghui responded with a nod to the expectant eyes of the officers.

"Brothers, follow me." Zhao Sheng, who was in charge of leading the team from Tianhe City, immediately took the 2,500 Evolutionist Soldiers and was the first into the Ancient Ruins.

The other officers, seeing this, hurriedly made phone calls to rush their troops.

If the troop carriers were too slow, then they would use helicopters to transport the vanguard, as everyone wanted to get into the Ancient Ruins as quickly as possible.

After thinking it over, Bai Yinghui spoke to Liu Zaoxin, deciding he would also head in now.

"Be careful. You are still quite weak, especially when you just enter, as everyone will be scattered in different places," Liu Zaoxin reminded.

"Don’t worry; the area we’re entering has already been cleared by Dragon Hall. The chance of encountering danger is still very low."

"What’s more, I’ve brought the backup power armor. Unless I’m really out of luck, I should be fine even if I run into Fifth Order Mutants," Bai Yinghui said before quickly returning to the armed helicopter to don his power armor.

Then, he joined the large force from Tianhe City as they entered the Ancient Ruins together.

...

When the military’s large force arrived at the Land of Inheritance, Zhang Ji and the others naturally received the communication quickly.

However, they did not stop, but instead, after passing on the information they had collected, continued to advance.

Their mission was different, after all. The large force was tasked with collecting cultivation resources.

The team Zhang Ji led was composed of top experts from various cities, and their mission was to explore the central region.

If possible, they might even enter Rule Mountain in the core area later on to try their luck.

As for Ye Feng, he was even less concerned with such matters.

He had already led his large force approximately 30 kilometers forward, and the air reconnaissance unit, led by the Mutated Eagle, had advanced a full 60 kilometers, yet they still hadn’t seen the so-called guardians.

"This Land of Inheritance is really vast! We’ve come this far, and we’re still in the outer area," lamented Ye Feng.

Of course, it was just a passing remark for him and did not affect him much.

Along the way, he had already collected more than 300,000 kiwi fruits in just this 60 kilometers span.

Moreover, as they penetrated deeper, the number of kiwi fruit trees scattered everywhere continued to increase, and he anticipated that the later gains would be even greater.

Simultaneously, as he collected continuously, he confirmed that there were seven types of kiwi fruit trees, each yielding fruits of different colors.

There were gold, green, blue, red, brown, white, and purple.

Each type of fruit contained different types of Special Energy.

Ye Feng, by taking different fruits and sensing their nuances, quickly discovered that these seven types of fruits actually represented the seven basic attributes: metal, wood, water, fire, earth, wind, and thunder.

If animals of the same attribute ate these fruits, their enhancement speed would be quicker.

For instance, the Mutated Eagle, after consuming the white fruit representing the wind attribute, experienced at least twice the enhancement effect of other fruits, and his wind-related abilities even saw slight improvements.

This also made Ye Feng more aware of the complexities of the Land of Inheritance and increased his anticipation for what the ultimate inheritance might be.

But of course, the current priority was to raise the strength of the Animal Legion as much as possible.

The more than 300,000 fruits collected along the way had already been distributed.

The quantity sounds substantial, but it actually wasn’t enough.

After all, the number of animals in the Animal Legion had grown to over 24,000, not to mention the Insect Army he brought was even larger, numbering 200,000.

If divided evenly, each animal would only get one fruit at most.

Of course, he would not distribute them in such a manner. The rewards for the Insect Army were put on hold for now; he could always compensate them with Spirit Fruits later.

The kiwi fruits would be prioritized for the Animal Legion.

Particularly, his Contracted Animals, as per the allocation plan he had set earlier, received 40% of these fruits—nearly every animal got more than 4,000 kiwi fruits.

Depending on their different physiques, each Contracted Animal only needed between 1,000 and 1,300 fruits to break through a Minor Boundary.

So just this batch of fruits could take all of these Mutated Animals, who were simply in the Early Stage of the Fifth Order, and allow them to break through to the Sixth Order in one go.