264: Chapter 264 The Final Adjustment

Domanao Grasslands.

Countless ethnic groups and tribes inhabit this place, adhering to the law of the jungle.

Powerful tribes collect tributes and wantonly plunder other tribes, living in luxury.

Meanwhile, the weak tribes can only work tirelessly without a moment's rest, striving to gather enough resources for tribute to seek protection from the powerful ones.

Bitterly struggling to survive in the cracks.

However... today the situation was somewhat different.

On the grasslands where the sun usually shone brightly year-round, a grayish-green mist drifted in from nowhere.

It was like a harbinger of hell's descent; wherever it passed, vegetation withered instantly, living creatures turned into bloody water, and its range of spread grew larger and larger.

When the grayish-green mist covered one-tenth of the entire grasslands, the most powerful tribe on the plains, the Tiger-men, finally could no longer sit still.

This was all their wealth!

They immediately dispatched experts from within the tribe to investigate.

"Damn it, what on earth is playing these tricks!"

A man over three meters tall with a tiger's head and a human body looked grimly at the grayish-green mist spreading at a visible speed.

Suddenly, he grabbed a fleeing Rabbit-man behind him and tossed him into the mist.

"Ah!!"

The agonized scream lasted only half a second before coming to an abrupt halt.

The Rabbit-man's one-meter-tall body turned into a pool of blood in an instant.

"This..."

The Tiger-man's pupils shrank suddenly.

The power was far more terrifying than he had imagined; he couldn't just enter casually.

He immediately looked toward the creatures fleeing around him.

Suddenly, he struck again, dragging over a burly Werewolf.

"Mercy, my lord! Mercy!"

The Werewolf pleaded frantically for his life.

He had seen with his own eyes the fate of that Rabbit-man just now.

"Shut up. This time, I will use my battle qi to protect you. Go into the mist and see who exactly is playing tricks."

The Tiger-man snorted coldly, and a bright yellow energy burst from his body, enveloping the Werewolf in his grasp. Without waiting for the other to object, he threw him in again.

"No... no... Awoo!"

The powerful protective energy didn't do much; it only held out for two more seconds before being completely corroded.

Leaving only the Werewolf to turn into blood amidst desperate wails.

"How is this possible!"

The Tiger-man backed away repeatedly as if he had seen a ghost.

He was one of the top experts in his tribe, yet now even the energy protection he deployed with all his might couldn't last two seconds.

Didn't that mean even if he fell into it, he would die instantly?

"No, I can't take the risk."

Thinking this, he fled into the distance without looking back.

Behind him, far away in the Jungle Base, Zhang Huaiyuan watched this scene through the satellite's view and didn't care.

His goal was only this grassland and the resources beneath it.

As for these native creatures, as long as they didn't deliberately make an enemy of him, he wasn't a bloodthirsty person and naturally wouldn't hunt them down for slaughter.

"However..."

Zhang Huaiyuan watched the helpless grassland creatures fleeing, and couldn't help but think of the world he was originally from.

Weren't people like him just like those from the Xuanjian Sect, arriving here abruptly, wantonly destroying and killing, and squeezing the living space of the indigenous people?

Of course, this world was somewhat lucky.

Having been chosen as a trial ground by a major power like the Leviathan Academy, once everything concluded, a Zerg powerhouse would reverse time and space, resetting everything here and granting them a stroke of good fortune.

But there were many more low-level worlds transformed into slave worlds, with trillions of lives treated as mere games.

"I can't slack off... although things seem fine for now. But even major powers like the Association, the Zerg, and the Holy Light Monastery have enemies. I don't want to be like I was back on Blackstone Star... watching tragedies unfold one after another while being powerless to help."

Zhang Huaiyuan's face was calm, but his heart grew increasingly firm.

He quietly watched the spreading poisonous mist.

One day... two days...

By the tenth day, the entire grasslands were permeated with the grayish-green poisonous mist.

The original tribes on the grasslands had all fled, leaving behind only a dead silence.

Countless modified engineering robots entered the field and began scanning and locating the mineral vein resources on the grasslands.

They dispersed the poisonous mist in the center and began manufacturing Automatic Energy Storage Towers—devices that could automatically absorb stray energy, such as solar power, and convert it into Energy Blocks.

The total resources of this planet were limited; a sustainable development strategy had to be considered starting now.

After seeing the grasslands get on the right track, Zhang Huaiyuan turned his gaze elsewhere.

The mountain range shrouded in poisonous mist was also occupied by a large number of engineering robots.

To his delight, thanks to the protection of the poisonous mist, no life seemed to have entered this mountain range for a long time.

Not only were the underground and mountain resources abundant, but there were also many open-pit energy mineral vein resources.

With simultaneous mining in both locations, the energy he possessed grew more and more, breaking into double digits for the first time.

"It's time to prepare for total war."

Zhang Huaiyuan went to the newly built automated production line and implanted blueprints for some modified war weapons.

These were the most cost-effective ones he had selected and designed based on the current situation.

"Multi-purpose Infantry Fighting Vehicle..."

"Magic Crystal Tank..."

"Variable Bomber..."

"Mobile Rocket Launcher Site..."

One by one, weapons suitable for large-scale warfare were quickly put into production.

Now, the number of engineering robots exceeded ten thousand; they shuttled rapidly between the base and the two resource extraction sites, constantly bringing back the necessary resources.

Only a month later.

He already had over five thousand tank formations, three thousand bombers... and over one hundred thousand "terminator generation one" combat robots.

They were stationed in neat formations to the east, their bodies shimmering with a piercing metallic luster under the sunlight, inspiring awe and fear.

During this time, Zhang Huaiyuan was not idle either.

From the items left by adventurers on the grasslands and in the mountains, he obtained many manuals regarding this world's power system.

At his current level, studying a power system that didn't exceed level 2 rules was as easy as pie, and he soon mastered it completely.

"The power of Rune Magic exists in this world. If my calculations are correct, magic above level seven can completely destroy this modified alloy... This is also one of the greatest threats to the steel army."

Zhang Huaiyuan pondered quietly.

Although he didn't know how his other opponents were developing.

But presumably, that monastery centered on faith could definitely recruit many native experts for its own use; he had to consider countermeasures and reduce losses in advance.

"Hmm... wait, since my transcendent abilities haven't been cut off... doesn't that mean..."

Zhang Huaiyuan suddenly thought of a possibility.

If he used the Omniscient Deduction ability now, would it deduct resources from the current world or from his original body?

If it were the latter... deducing a world where the strongest combat power didn't exceed level 2 rules would probably only cost no more than 100 time coins!

With that thought, he immediately tried to activate the Omniscient Deduction ability:

"I need to design an Anti-Rune Magic Alloy that can counter the magic of the current world. The specific requirements are as follows..."

"Begin deduction."

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