As fellow Explorers, whether they became enemies depended on the specific mission and their personal goals. There was no reason they had to fight to the death the moment they met.
But Lu Li could clearly sense that the people above had come with hostile intentions. If they had merely wanted to come to Earth for good food and experience a gourmet lifestyle like he had, they could have descended openly and directly.
There would have been no need to make a deal with the Blue Nitro and use them to probe the depths of Earth first.
Their actions clearly showed an invasive intent toward Earth. That was why they needed to test the combat strength of those on the planet.
Now that their entire party had descended, they must have been confident they could conquer this planet and make Earth part of their history of gourmet exploration.
The Deer King's Inner World was still in effect, but aside from the creatures on the Deer King's back being frozen in place, it had failed to restrain anyone else.
The people who emerged from the spacecraft seemed unaffected by the Inner World's ability to stop living beings from thinking. An aura covered them, granting them immunity to mental control.
From Lu Li's own experience, he believed the controlling force within the Deer King's Inner World was actually a form of mental control. A person's body could age, yet they could not think. In essence, it was spiritual control directed at the soul.
To those under its control, thinking became difficult. Since they did not think, they barely noticed the passage of time in relation to the outside world. Thus, even after a thousand years in the Inner World, they would not feel that much time had passed.
But their bodies were