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[Ding! Triggered the in-game benchmark quest "Wrath of Nature"!]

[Accept quest?]

The quest details panel for "Wrath of Nature" appeared.

"[High Value] Wrath of Nature"

"Action Location: Parino Valley Base"

"Time: 30 minutes"

"Rewards: 100k Source Energy Points, unlock Vincent's Private Collection Room"

"Probability Drops During Action: [flower of eternity] [enterprise sailing ship model] [golden apple] [dukes cane]"

Meanwhile, on Chu Hong's map, located in the middle of [Jiangxin Islet] and not far from Xiaomianbao, a new quest prompt marker appeared.

Clearly, that was the hiding place of the "token" mentioned by the woman before him.

"Darling, the guys at Palino Bio-Group are a bunch of selfish lunatics. They plunder everything in nature, mine for ores, and render innocent animals homeless just to earn that filthy, stinking money..."

In reality, money didn't stink.

Chu Hong speechlessly turned back to glance at the woman, who had already walked dozens of meters away and was still endlessly shouting about the various crimes of Palino Bio-Group.

He gently shook his head.

If it weren't for gathering intelligence within the secret realm, would he bother with such an idiot?

Once again boarding the [Ke Xiaoken] "assault boat".

Arriving at [Jiangxin Islet], he looted Xiaomianbao as he passed by out of habit.

It was as if he had used up all his drop rates back at the [Ancient Tree Altar] at the start.

The loot from Xiaomianbao turned out to be nothing more than some stinking trash of blue and green quality, making Chu Hong wear a look of disgust.

"Doesn't the Xiaomianbao on [Jiangxin Islet] drop any good items?"

Grumbling, he arrived at the location marked by the quest on the map. After digging at the sandy soil on the ground for a while, he indeed saw a flute below that looked like it was carved from a [mutated crystal].

This item could be held in his hand, but there was no way to store it in his backpack.

Furthermore, there wasn't even any item information prompt, causing the thought that had just germinated in Chu Hong's mind—to secretly pocket this item if it turned out to be a high-value treasure—to die in its infancy.

Still riding [Ke Xiaoken], he came to the east bank.

However, this time Chu Hong was different from last time; he had accepted the human faction's benchmark quest. When those mutated monkeys hiding in the dark or guarding near the waterfall saw the stone flute in his hand,

Immediately, several monkeys excitedly let out "Ooh, ooh" cries and rushed forward.

Without even giving Chu Hong a chance to communicate,

They hoisted him right up on the spot and sprinted toward the cave.

Inside the familiar [Monkey Village] cave, it was still as foul-smelling as ever, and within the perception of the [cobweb brain-computer interface], monkeys were still doing some things that required censoring in unknown corners.

However.

When this time Chu Hong, full of anticipation and even with a hint of excitement, was brought by these monkeys to the boss karst cave where he had previously lost his life,

Chu Hong raised his gaze upwards, but his expression instantly collapsed!

There was no [mother of the forest]!

Furthermore, this time the boss [Lord of the Ape Clan: Codename Primitive One] did not have those obvious and severe scars from last time, nor was it curled up on the stone platform fast asleep.

When Chu Hong was brought here, what he saw was it polishing a giant battleaxe whose blade seemed to be forged from a [mutated crystal].

The screeching friction sound abruptly stopped the moment the latter saw the flute in Chu Hong's hand.

"Roar!"

Amidst the deafening, angry roar, Chu Hong only felt his hand suddenly pulled by an invisible force. Immediately following that, the flute broke free from his palm and flew into the boss's hand... looking like a tiny toothpick.

And at this very moment, the quest objectives in front of Chu Hong also changed accordingly.

[Benchmark Quest: Wrath of Nature]

[Please continue to adhere to the quest objective: Follow "Lord of the Ape Clan: Codename 'Primitive One'", rescue Smith Molly, and defeat all obstructing enemies]

[Current Remaining Time: 14:59]

"Roar——!"

The entire mountain range of the [Monkey Village] on the east bank seemed to boil over in an instant.

The moment Chu Hong followed the boss out of the cave, he was directly dumbfounded by the lush mountain scenery behind him.

Holy crap!

Tens of thousands of monkeys were acting as if they had received some monumental stimulation; some were holding rifles and machine guns, some were holding long sabers and spears, or simply beating their chest muscles angrily like chimpanzees.

A vast, dense swarm of them, making Chu Hong's scalp tingle at this moment.

This quest could actually summon so many bots all at once?!

However.

The [Monkey Village] side was filled with righteous indignation.

The opposite bank's [Parino Valley Base] also made a response in the very first instance.

From afar, one could see the gates of [Parino Valley Base] being blasted open, as armored vehicles and tanks, accompanied by a large number of fully armed personnel carrying live ammunition, drove grandly out of the base.

[Outlying Outpost] [Transport Line Station] [Huaxi Wharf] [Old Logging Camp]...

Those bots, which originally numbered at most three to four hundred or even two to three hundred along Chu Hong's looting route under the scan of the [cobweb brain-computer interface], also seemed to appear out of thin air.

Thousands of people began to gather and assemble...

Swoosh!

Two piercing sounds whistled through the turbulent air.

Those were two jet fighters from [Palino Bio-Group]. Just as they swept over their heads, Chu Hong saw the missiles mounted under their fuselages.

It made one's scalp tingle just looking at them.

However.

The next second.

"Roar——!"

Amidst the fierce and brutal roar, the boss holding the blue-purple crystal giant axe suddenly, under circumstances no one expected, gave a fierce swing.

It actually directly hurled the giant axe in its hand towards the sky, in the direction where the fighter jets had just flown away.

The giant axe flew through mid-air leaving an afterimage, flying several hundred meters away in the blink of an eye.

Amidst a violent surge of energy and carrying purplish-blue electric light, it suddenly executed a turnaround and blasted down one of the fighter jets that failed to dodge in time right on the spot.

Watching the boss, with a wave of its hand, grasp the giant axe back into its hand once more,

Chu Hong's eyeballs almost popped out on the spot.

Holy crap!

Can this even be played without a nerf?!

Watching that fighter jet, which looked like a meteor carrying raging flames, crashing diagonally and heavily down near the wharf on the opposite bank, cold sweat poured wildly from Chu Hong's forehead.

However.

The ape clan on this side had already fiercely launched a general offensive.

"Roar——!"

Boss [Lord of the Ape Clan: Codename Primitive One] fiercely swung the giant axe in its hand, slashing hard at the bank of the east bank in front of it. Only a series of huge sounds, as if river water was being frozen, were heard coming over.

Under Chu Hong's dumbfounded gaze,

The originally surging river water was instantly "frozen".

In the blink of an eye, a blue-purple "ice bridge" spanning across the river, crossing [Jiangxin Islet], and then leading straight to [Huaxi Wharf] appeared before Chu Hong.

Chu Hong: "..."

This... it seems I entered a classified mission, right?