124: Chapter 124 [Mother of the Forest]

"Could that place actually be an open-air Big Red spawn point...?"

The emerald green light passed through the leaf inside the amber gemstone, which was about the size of a goose egg in his hand, and reflected in Chu Hong's eyes. That sharp, eye-clearing stimulation made Chu Hong's spirits involuntarily perk up.

[Item Name]: mother of the forest

[Item Tier]: Red

[Value]: 9,293,000

[Type]: source energy matter

[Weight]: 0.2 kg

[Inventory Grid Capacity Occupied]: 1 × 1

[Item Description]: A natural gemstone formed in the underground mineral deposits of Primitive Valley No. 1 after tens of thousands of years of geological evolution and underground energy nourishment, possessing extremely high ornamental and research value. Resembling amber, it contains an unknown plant leaf shaped like a maple leaf. Sunlight shining through it onto a living body will rapidly heal its wounds and restore its vitality.

A red collectible worth over nine million source energy points per slot, this was already the highest single-slot value collectible Chu Hong had ever touched to date.

This filled Chu Hong with yearning and excitement for the new map, [Primitive Valley No. 1].

This was simply too suitable for knife-running!

As long as he encountered this Big Red [mother of the forest] once and put it into the [source energy space] at the very first moment, then even if he died in the hands of that giant ape boss a hundred or a thousand times, it would still be absolutely worth it!

Just as Chu Hong was admiring the gemstone shining with the light of life in his hand,

a voice from the Special Service Department suddenly came over.

[Ding!]

"Detected that the host has successfully collected the high-value collectible [mother of the forest] from the [Investigation] area [Primitive Valley No. 1]."

[Investigation] area unlocked: [Primitive Valley No. 1 · Confidential].

A double blessing!

Chu Hong walked into the [Big Red Collection Room] with a smile on his face, holding this [mother of the forest] amber gemstone.

As yet another display cabinet lit up,

Chu Hong also saw the effect of the [mother of the forest] display cabinet.

[Collectible]: mother of the forest

[Display Cabinet Tier]: lv0

[Activation Effect]: None

[Upgrade Required]: 1 million source energy points, [mother of the forest] * 1

[Collectible]: mother of the forest

[Display Cabinet Tier]: lv1

[Activation Effect]: Upon death in a single match, can revive in place once, limited to once per match

[Upgrade Required]: 5 million source energy points, [mother of the forest] * 3

"Holy crap! The effect of this thing is actually directly gaining an extra life?!"

Chu Hong, who had still been guessing that the effect of this Big Red display cabinet would probably be related to healing, couldn't help but sharply gasp in a breath of cold air after seeing the effect of the [mother of the forest] lv1 display cabinet.

A cheating dog!

Now he had truly become a cheating dog!

"Knife-run! Ruthlessly knife-run! As long as I fish out one more [mother of the forest], I will directly make a fortune!"

...

[Investigation area 'Primitive Valley No. 1 · Confidential']

[Admission Conditions: [Qiyuan Realm] Stage 5, equipment value ≥ 120k]

A confidential start with a combat preparation of 120k was simply nothing to Chu Hong; it was even slightly lower than the entry combat preparation threshold of 180,000 source energy points for [Cliffside Epidemic Hospital · Confidential] back then.

Casually taking a gun and body armor he had brought out from an earlier knife-run of [Cliffside Epidemic Hospital] from the [Warehouse], Chu Hong directly moved his mind and entered the map.

The start landed near the [Ancient Tree Altar].

As soon as Chu Hong landed, he immediately deployed the 'Transparent World' brought by the [cobweb brain-computer interface] display cabinet.

The one-kilometer coverage allowed him to instantly scan everything around his current location completely clear.

"Go eat the big safe first and see what this big safe container is...?"

[Ancient Tree Altar] was surrounded by a circle of towering giant trees twenty to thirty meters high. The lush tree canopies blocked the sunlight overhead, and right now, the tree canopies overhead could truly be said to be full of danger.

In Chu Hong's [cobweb brain-computer interface] scan,

right now above the canopies, along the entire way, there were monkeys crawling or hiding within them.

Among them, Chu Hong even saw monkeys holding sniper rifles!

Right now, leading to the [Ancient Tree Altar], there was even a shaded path obviously manually constructed.

If it were other [Pioneers], without powerful scouting-type skills, rushing onto this path rashly would definitely mean being greeted by overwhelming attacks from the surrounding tree canopies.

Bullets, spears, slingshot pellets...

After personally experiencing the power of these things, the winding path before his eyes was, in Chu Hong's eyes, completely the fastest route to the [Special Service Department].

His figure was concealed in the bushes on one side.

Utilizing the shelter of tree trunks and bushes, Chu Hong either crawled or lowered his body to quickly sneak forward.

After twisting and turning all the way, taking nearly ten minutes, he finally sneaked near the [Ancient Tree Altar].

A huge stone tablet, over a dozen meters tall, with inscribed text resembling the blue-purple crystals on the body of the boss [King Kong Giant Ape], stood tall in the clearing specially reserved in the center of the surrounding towering trees.

And right in front of the [Ancient Tree Altar],

a silverback gorilla whose figure was more than a meter taller than ordinary chimpanzees, with the hair on its head faintly emitting a blue-purple light, was quietly guarding the spot.

And on its back, it unexpectedly crossed two giant hammers.

Those were hammers from [Palino Group Heavy Armored Hammer Guard]!

Damn it!

Chu Hong was truly a bit curious: within the story background of this secret realm, just what kind of "brilliant" combat plan did the NPC [Parino Vincent] have to allow this group of monkeys to directly advance to this degree?

Isn't this purely making trouble???

Before Chu Hong's eyes, a line of text prompts displayed the information of the silverback gorilla in front of him.

[Simian General: Codename 'Hammer-Blaster']

"Auw oooh oooh~"

On the towering giant trees around him, monkeys constantly let out calls.

Amidst the rustling sounds, the branches in the tree canopies swayed faintly... What a tree-quake!

Chu Hong stepped out from the hidden bushes.

Given the current situation, he could only forcefully attack!

"Roar!"

Discovering Chu Hong, Hammer-Blaster immediately let out a furious warning shout at the very first moment.

However,

at that very instant, Chu Hong had already rushed right in front of it before the latter could even unstrap the twin hammers from its back.

"[Haji Dragon]! Bite it!"

Chu Hong could be said to be increasingly proficient in this set of "releasing dogs to raid" tactics nowadays.

The moment he rushed in front of that gorilla Hammer-Blaster,

terrifying thunder accompanied the descent of a pitch-black colossal object.

[Thunder Horned Dragon] instantly made its debut!

"Roar!"

It was still a bite to open!

And immediately casting thunder magic upon succeeding!

While sharp fangs pierced and tore apart Hammer-Blaster's sternum, the terrifying thunderstorm also scorched its entire body's fur pitch black.

"Bring the flower!"

Chu Hong let out a low shout.

The ability [Slaughter Overlord] activated!

A scarlet energy tide erupted from his body, making him look like a crimson afterimage rushing into the monkey troop.

"Woo gagagaga!"

"Squeak squeak squeak!"

Sharp cries carrying obvious anger and panic rang out from among the monkey troop.

Gunshots boomed heavily on the surrounding tree canopies.

However,

those dense bullets not only failed to cause any effective damage to Chu Hong, but even directly helped Chu Hong clear out more than half of the monkeys in the altar clearing at this moment.

[source blade] stabbed horizontally straight into the skull.

Fine monkey brains turned into a red-and-white mottled puddle of tofu pudding under the stirring of source energy.

Tidal waves of life energy continuously surged into Chu Hong's body.

Meanwhile, [Ke Xiaoken] had already turned into a high-altitude hunter in the bushes, even more agile than those monkeys.

With tentacles tightly cooperating with each other, the moment it rushed onto the canopy of a giant tree, it immediately caused a burst of sharp screams from the monkeys above.

Some monkeys that accidentally fell from the trees

were easily harvested by Chu Hong once more.

"Da da da!"

An AK12 assault rifle brought in to stall combat preparation was in his hand; blue-quality bullets were poured by Chu Hong entirely into the head of the gorilla, which was already powerless to resist under the [Thunder Horned Dragon]'s frenzied lightning strikes and bites.

As the latter died,

the monkey troop, whose roaring sounds had been incessant on the surrounding tree canopies, instantly scattered like birds and beasts...

Chu Hong sneered.

A beast was a beast!

To genuinely think that by evolving a bit bigger and grabbing a few human tools and weapons, they could turn the tables and become masters...

He reached out and pressed on the opponent's corpse.

Searching [Simian General: Codename 'Hammer-Blaster']:...

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