206: improve dramatically

Under Lin Tianwei's ruthless suppression, Thorn and the Awakened Bees dared not be careless in the slightest.

The Thorn Nectar they brewed was a pure tonic, completely harmless to the human body.

Not only that, its effects were extremely potent, even capable of enhancing Mental Power attributes.

This kind of natural treasure, with no side effects and excellent efficacy, was naturally favored by countless people.

For a time, massive amounts of food were continuously transported to the Tiger King Farm.

Lin Tianwei's body was also developing steadily and rapidly.

It was believed that it wouldn't take too long for him to fully unleash the entire potential of his Super Multiplication (Extraordinary) Talent.

He would grow into a terrifying Super Behemoth.

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Three years!

No one would have expected that after Lin Tianwei broke through The Far North, a period of three years of peace would arrive, maintained by the concerted efforts of multiple parties.

Three years, neither long nor short, was enough for many things to happen.

Especially for America, these were crucial three years.

It was during these three years that they completely accomplished plan b and Plan M, gaining immensely powerful strength.

Plan M, short for Mecha Plan.

It was dedicated to building mechas capable of fighting the Awakened Beasts that ravaged human lands.

This plan had been shelved due to the failure of the Clone Tiger project.

However, it was brought up again after witnessing Lin Tianwei's despair-inducing power.

It was only officially announced for execution after being perfected by countless scientists and professors.

According to Plan M's projections, once the plan was completed, they would be able to build gigantic mechas hundreds of meters tall.

With such terrifying mechas, humanity would no longer fear the dreadful Awakened Beasts.

For the first time, humans, who had always been in a state of being crushed, gained the qualification to crush Awakened Beasts.

Even as mere prototypes, those mechas over ten meters tall possessed terrifying power.

Everyone believed that the massive mechas piloted by powerful Espers would surely bring America a long-awaited victory.

As long as the mechas were large enough and their power strong enough,

they were confident they could even defeat the once-unrivaled Giant Treant.

This was the wisdom of humanity, the power of technology.

However, for the Mecha Plan to be completed, two crucial problems had to be solved.

First, the materials for building the mechas, and second, the kinetic energy to drive them.

Neither could be lacking.

Conversely, mecha pilots were very easy to train.

With the experience of training Clone Tiger pilots, training mecha pilots was merely a matter of course.

Of course.

They still needed to pilot the mechas and undergo enough battles to accumulate sufficient combat experience.

Only then could they unleash the full power of the terrifying war machine known as mecha.

With the development of technology and the emergence of Awakened Beasts, the two key challenges in mecha production also seemed to have found answers.

The Carapace of the Hellfire Ants was the best mecha material.

After special treatment, these Carapaces would significantly increase in strength and hardness.

They would be able to withstand immense impact forces.

Conservatively estimated, city walls built with Hellfire Ants Carapace would even be sturdier than those made of superalloys.

Most importantly, the Hellfire Ants' Carapace was very light.

It was only one-fifth the weight of superalloys.

This greatly reduced the power requirements for the mechas.

The Carapaces of these Hellfire Ants, hunted by Lin Tianwei, would ultimately be transformed into materials for building mechas.

This would allow America to fight a beautiful comeback battle.

In a sense, this was also a form of irony.

As for the power to drive the massive mechas?

After discussing countless feasible solutions, America surprisingly set its sights on monsters, which were also Awakened creatures.

That's right.

The monsters on Sakura Island.

Those terrifying monsters with blood-red bodies and bulging muscles.

Under satellite observation, humans discovered that these monsters possessed a very frightening ability.

That was to absorb matter and convert it into energy for their bodies to move.

The efficiency of this conversion was very low, far inferior to nuclear fusion.

However, it was more efficient than most conversion methods in history.

The most crucial point was that this conversion method was very stable; with a little research, humans could completely master it.

It was perfectly suited as a power system for mechas.

It was precisely because of this terrifying energy conversion rate that

so many monsters could live on Sakura Island, a land that was extremely barren.

However, how to obtain the body tissues of these monsters was a major problem.

Although these monsters appeared to be loosely distributed across the entire Sakura Island,

as soon as any living creature approached, they would swarm forward and completely devour the opponent's flesh and blood.

Their extremely sensitive sense of smell allowed them to easily detect the scent of food even from several kilometers away.

Their sharp Claws, capable of tearing superalloys, could easily rip open most steel fortresses built by humans.

Their terrifying jumping ability allowed these monsters to easily leap hundreds of meters into the sky.

This could almost be considered an all-around defense.

However, for the mechas to be successfully born, America also went all out.

After paying the price of casualties from several elite units, they finally succeeded in capturing twenty monsters as research material.

On every monster, the blood and tears of Americans were condensed.

However, facts proved that all these sacrifices were worthwhile.

The flesh and blood of these monsters had very high vitality; even when separated from the main body, they would not die.

Instead, they would continue to live according to their instincts.

By simply guiding them in a specific way, they could be controlled to act as desired.

Thus, they became the best biological drivers.

Most importantly, even the separated flesh and blood completely inherited the monster's ability to convert energy.

With only a small supply of food, they could provide powerful kinetic energy.

It could be said to be a flesh-and-blood version of an engine.

This discovery could even be applied beyond mecha propulsion.

Daily life, machine operation, all would be very simple.

Thus, the two puzzle pieces for building mechas were considered completely finished.

Next, countless debugging sessions were all that was needed for the mechas to be successfully born.

In the long run, building mechas hundreds of meters tall would no longer be a dream.

America actually achieved such great success in mecha production?

This news could not be kept secret in the New World, which had few secrets to begin with.

For a time, everyone set their sights on Sakura Island.

They did not have enough Hellfire Ants Carapace and could only choose other biological materials as substitutes.

However, this new energy source, with low consumption and high output, was a universal resource.

Even if it wasn't used in mechas, it was definitely a new energy source coveted by countless people.

A super-effective new energy source, which countless years of research had failed to achieve,

was unexpectedly realized in the New World through magical Awakened creatures.

For a time, the first forbidden zone, which people had avoided, became a hot commodity.

Any place with a bit of strength would dispatch its specialized capture units.

To capture enough monsters to use as new energy.

Although Sakura Island's overall strength was immensely powerful,

it couldn't withstand the sheer number of people who attacked without martial ethics.

Stumbling and fumbling, quite a few monsters were lost.

The fate of these captured monsters was truly tragic.

They were kept in captivity as providers of new energy.

Once they reached a certain level of fatness, their flesh would be cut and blood extracted for separate cultivation, to be used as new energy.

Monsters from whom flesh and blood were taken would be severely weakened, emitting the most painful wails.

But it didn't matter; with a large supply of food, their wounds would quickly heal.

They would grow back to their completely uninjured state.

Then, once again, their flesh would be cut and blood extracted.

In this cycle, none of the captured monsters lived a life worth living.

Their only purpose in life was to provide humans with flesh and blood that could be used as new energy.

Extremely tragic... While Plan M was in full swing, plan b also achieved great success.

Facts proved that once a certain forbidden door was pushed open, humanity would achieve terrifying growth.

Domestication, from ancient times to the present, has been humanity's best means of turning enemies into friends.

Countless powerful Awakened Beasts were captured, domesticated, and ultimately transformed into human strength.

They became the best weapons for humanity to counterattack the Awakened Beasts.

Of course, Plan M was far more than just domesticating Awakened Beasts.

Transplanting powerful tissues from Awakened Beasts to heal incurable injuries,

or to gain extremely special abilities.

These were all methods that aligned perfectly with human expectations.

However, considering genetic rejection, not many people dared to attempt it directly until now.

But all of this transformed into operable surgeries in the face of Lin Tianwei's textbook-like transplantation surgery tutorials.

Although they did not possess Lin Tianwei's extremely precise Mental Power,

they had countless machines that could perform calculations in his stead.

This led to humanity completely mastering this new technology after paying some blood as a price.

The development of this transplantation technology exploded the moment t-metal was discovered.

t-metal was an incredibly miraculous metal, possessing extreme compatibility with flesh and blood.

If conventional limb transplantation technology still had flaws, with the possibility of severe rejection reactions at any time,

in transplantation surgeries using t-metal as the contact device, the possibility of such rejection was minimized.

In other words,

they only needed to create a simple contact device made of t-metal at the transplant site.

And use mechanical nerves made of t-metal to replace natural nerves for conduction, thereby achieving perfect surgical transplantation.

Transplanting powerful parts that originally belonged to Awakened Beasts onto themselves.

This undoubtedly greatly increased human combat power, giving them stronger competitiveness in the New World.

Most importantly, the production of t-metal was very high, completely capable of supporting humanity to squander it for countless years.

This further completely dispelled human concerns.

Not only that, the emergence of t-metal also facilitated the completion of Plan M.

Monster flesh and blood were still flesh and blood after all.

There was a slight rejection reaction with the bio-armor modified from Hellfire Ants Carapace.

This rejection reaction might not be obvious during normal times, but at critical moments, it could be fatal.

t-metal can fully meet the basic requirement of increasing the mecha's combat power by ten percent.

It is also an important part of completing Plan M.

Of course.

plan b cannot be that simple.

Artificially cultivating powerful Awakened Beasts is also part of this plan.

Humans, after all, possess terrifying wisdom.

After countless summaries of experience and case analyses, they finally understood the characteristics of Awakening.

That is randomness and uniqueness!

Randomness is easy to understand; it means that the abilities gained from each Awakening are completely random.

It is a feast for Europeans and tears of blood for Africans.

A way of Awakening that is both equal for all beings and completely unequal.

Uniqueness is even simpler.

It means that Awakening can only grant a single ability.

Perhaps some people might think that powerful Awakened creatures gain more than one powerful ability.

They often possess multiple abilities, making them very troublesome.

But this is merely an illusion.

Because Awakening not only awakens new abilities but also reinforces the creature's original abilities.

This leads to some creatures' originally ordinary abilities appearing like bugged Esper abilities after Reinforcement, causing misunderstanding.

Many abilities are even new ones gained after a surge in attributes!

Take the Brain-Eating Worm, for example!

This was originally a simple collective consciousness creature; although a collective has many individuals, there is only one dominant consciousness.

They feed on brains and were originally very tiny worms.

However, after Awakening, they not only gained the Mental Food Talent but also drastically increased in size, growing into the silver beetles Nobles saw back then.

As for consciousness transmission?

This was originally a special ability gained by the Brain-Eating Worm when its Mental Power was strong enough, combined with its collective consciousness.

The only Esper ability it truly gained through Awakening was Mental Food!

This is the main reason why the uniqueness of Awakening was discovered so late!

Now that the two major characteristics of Awakening are clear, there is room for maneuver when selecting cultivation targets.

People in each region will control a being similar to an Ant Queen or Queen Bee.

These beings merely Awaken but do not gain Esper abilities, ensuring that their own limitations do not affect the offspring they bear.

They will be cultivated by humans as breeding machines, valued for their terrifying reproductive capacity.

Countless individuals, countless opportunities for Awakening, mean there is a very high probability of Awakening powerful Esper abilities.

Although this cultivation method is time-consuming, requiring cultivation from the target's infancy.

It is the best way to control the other party.

After all, brainwashing education must start from childhood.

plan b and Plan M cooperate and work together, causing the overall strength of America to grow rapidly.

In just three short years, they gained the ability to contend with wild Awakened Beasts.

They cleared out most human forbidden zones.

Only the most terrifying few remained.

The first forbidden zone, Sakura Island!

The second forbidden zone, Misty Forest!

The third forbidden zone, Lake Siouxie Anne!

The fourth forbidden zone, Tak Desert!

The fifth forbidden zone, Maya Rainforest!

The sixth forbidden zone, Nature Tree!

The seventh forbidden zone, Crazy Zoo!

The eighth forbidden zone, Tiger King Farm!

The ultimate irony is that even with such powerful strength, humanity only managed to clear the Lionheart Grassland out of the top ten forbidden zones.

Far inferior to Lin Tianwei's terrifying achievement of taking down three in a row.

Sakura Island is easy to understand; its terror can be felt even through satellite images.

Especially that giant beast sleeping under Corrosion Mountain.

It's just that it hasn't shown any signs of waking up yet.

Otherwise, this would absolutely be a terrifying giant beast to the extreme.

However, humans are not particularly afraid of Sakura Island.

After all, everyone on the island is a landlubber.

Sakura Island itself is the best confinement for them.

If it weren't for acquiring new energy, humans would be too lazy to set foot in this uninteresting place.

Misty Forest?

This human forbidden zone, which was originally ranked very high, has always performed consistently.

Even powerful mechas sent in would only disappear.

It lives up to its name as a forbidden zone.

However, recently, humans seem to have made a breakthrough.

It is very possible to obtain the treasure Tofur mentioned that can immune Mental Shock.

Lake Siouxie Anne?

Even a lake is not a place humans can easily tread.

Water is the best weapon for the Awakened Beasts hidden beneath Lake Siouxie Anne.

Unless the water of Lake Siouxie Anne is drained, no one should want to explore it.

This is a terrifying place no less than the deep sea.

Tak Desert?

This is also a tough nut to crack.

Terrifying sand worms occupy the underground, possessing a natural advantage.

Coupled with almost no resources, it is also an incredibly difficult bone to chew, and almost no one is willing to set foot there.

Maya Rainforest?

This place, originally extremely rich in biodiversity, is now even more terrifying.

Countless terrifying Awakened Beasts reside within it.

Anyone attempting to enter must be prepared for death.

The most terrifying thing is that the Maya Rainforest is still expanding!

That's right, it's actually expanding!

The aggressiveness of Awakened plants can be seen from the Giant Treant.

The plants in the Maya Rainforest naturally would not be content to lie dormant within the Rainforest.

So, outward expansion is pretty much a foregone conclusion.

Coupled with the generally weak strength of surrounding countries, they lack the ability to restrict the expansion of the Maya Rainforest.

They can only watch helplessly as the Maya Rainforest grows wider and wider, gradually encroaching on human living space.

Nature Tree?

No one could have imagined that this rising star could also grow into a terrifying human forbidden zone.

Although it ranks behind the Maya Rainforest, its combat power is in no way inferior to the Maya Rainforest.

The only difference is that the Nature Tree's enemy is the incredibly powerful America.

They squeeze each other's living space, and Lin Tianwei occasionally comes to stir up trouble.

Naturally, this created the illusion that the Nature Tree was inferior to the Maya Rainforest.

However, if you truly underestimate the Nature Tree because of this, the countless Awakened Beasts it controls will definitely make you regret it.

That's right.

The Nature Tree actually understands beast taming.

Or perhaps it's not beast taming at all, but some other special method.

Within the Nature Tree's domain, countless powerful Awakened Beasts gather.

They are the Nature Tree's natural barrier.

Of course, if you think the Nature Tree only has this much strength, you'd be greatly mistaken.

The Nature Tree itself is already incredibly powerful.

Its sky-covering branches stretch out, and calling it 'sky-covering' is absolutely accurate.

Some even suspect that this Nature Tree, born from the body of a Giant Treant, also possesses the ability to transform into a treant.

With the Nature Tree's current height of nearly three hundred meters.

Once it transforms into a treant, it would absolutely be a disaster no less than that of the Giant Treant.

This time, there will be no Tiger King to help them clean up the mess.

Crazy Zoo?

This is the only human forbidden zone that surprised everyone.

Originally, it was thought that this was just a human forbidden zone made up of Zoo animals, and it would be easily leveled by humans.

But unexpectedly, even powerful America was helpless against it.

Led by a powerful tiger, the Crazy Zoo possesses terrifying strength.

Every animal is deeply Awakened and possesses great power.

Most importantly, they are incredibly united.

It's truly miraculous that a combination of herbivores and carnivores can unite and face external threats together.

Some speculate.

This might be related to their method of Awakening.

Perhaps a special animal Awakened first, and then used its special Esper ability to allow other animals to Awaken and gain powerful strength.

Under the maintenance of this special animal, the Crazy Zoo was able to unite and face external threats.

Based on behavioral analysis, most people believe this should be a herbivore.

If a carnivore had Awakened first, it would have mercilessly devoured these herbivores.

There would be no possibility of them uniting.

Addressing this possibility, America deployed dedicated personnel to continuously monitor the Crazy Zoo.

They believe that in the near future, America will definitely be able to clear this human forbidden zone.

As for the last human forbidden zone, it is naturally Tiger King Farm.

Strictly speaking, this place cannot even be considered a human forbidden zone.

Because it does not restrict human entry and exit at all.

It even maintains good relations with humans, serving as a very good transit point existing in the wild.

If it weren't for the terrifying strength of the Tiger King, humans would never have listed this place as a forbidden zone.

The reason Tiger King Farm is open is naturally to attract more people to join.

Especially those special Talents, who are the main targets for Tiger King Farm's recruitment.

This is also unavoidable.

Although there are many people in Tiger King Farm, most of them are commoners, and the things they can do are very limited.

They can't even make good use of the Hellfire Ants' corpses.

Not recruiting some special Talents would also be a waste of resources.

As time went on, under the excellent conditions of Tiger King Farm, more and more people joined.

Various buildings were also erected.

For a time, it even formed a large city, named 'Farm', but in reality, it was extremely luxurious.

During the process of attracting people, Lin Tianwei's miracle outside Pent City also played a decisive role.

It was truly an acknowledgment of Lin Tianwei's strength.

It was because they yearned for the place where Lin Tianwei resided that so many people came here.

Thomas, who showed great desire for the farm back then, was one of them.

Although America knew that Tiger King Farm was stealing their population.

But for some unknown reason, they did not stop Tiger King Farm's actions.

The two sides lived in peace and quiet for a very peaceful and harmonious period of time.

However, it was under these circumstances.

One day, fair and clear.

A team of uninvited guests, heavily wrapped, arrived at the farm. (End of this chapter)