The Season of Harvest

Could it be—

Meng Chao's hair stood on end.

Ignoring the spinning sensation, amidst his family's cries of alarm, he lunged to the shooting hole and looked down.

Sure enough, the Ghost Eye Golden Winged Flame Beetle had crashed heavily to the ground. Despite the golden liquid flowing everywhere, it wasn't completely dead.

It was only feigning death for a moment. As the golden liquid gradually solidified, its wounds wriggled and healed, and its wings even began to tremble slightly again.

Not good, my body is ultimately too weak, the hidden injuries haven't healed yet, and I haven't mastered powerful Spirit Energy.

Although I possess the consciousness of 'Perfect Level Basic Gunmanship' and the memories of the weaknesses of monsters from my past life, the coordination between my brain and body isn't seamless, and it will take a long time to break in.

Just now, this shot had slight flaws in accuracy and timing, and I actually failed to score a headshot.

Meng Chao felt despair.

Could it be that, just like his sister was almost certainly going to turn evil, fate was like a rushing river, not something that human power could change?

"I insist on changing it!"

He gritted his teeth, his eyes bloodshot, and he was about to climb downstairs to fight the super beast hand-to-hand using the Wild Bull Technique.

Suddenly, a bolt of lightning tore through the mist, stabbing straight down at the Ghost Eye Golden Winged Flame Beetle.

Chi!

The Ghost Eye Golden Winged Flame Beetle had just risen half a meter when it was firmly nailed back to the ground.

The lightning surged, like hundreds of gleaming military knives simultaneously piercing into the super beast's body, cutting every organ to pieces.

The super beast let out a mournful cry, and pieces of its carapace were warped by the electricity, the flesh inside bursting apart, completely dead.

Only when the lightning dimmed did Meng Chao see that it was a ten-foot-long silver spear that had pinned it down.

The silver spear coiled with dragons, the end of the spear trembling incessantly, emitting a proud hiss.

A figure in white, like a celestial being descending to earth, lightly landed on the end of the spear.

The powerful aura instantly enveloped the entire Tianfu Garden, and many low-level monsters were even intimidated into not daring to move.

"A Superhuman!"

All the residents were overjoyed, letting out cheers of relief.

Meng Chao had still shattered Tianfu Garden's nightmare.

He had delayed for the most crucial five minutes, allowing the Superhuman to arrive in time before the super beast caused tragic destruction.

Information arrived belatedly:

[Assisted a Superhuman in killing the Ghost Eye Golden Winged Flame Beetle, playing a key role, Contribution Points +758]

[Performed outstandingly in the Tianfu Garden defense battle, making the greatest contribution to this neighborhood, saving a large number of ordinary citizens, Dragon City has become stronger because of you, Contribution Points +436]

[The Ghost Eye Golden Winged Flame Beetle is far beyond the level you can handle, congratulations to the Flamebearer for fighting bravely, overcoming the strong with the weak, once your deeds are spread, they will inspire more ordinary citizens to take you as an example and fight to the end for civilization, additional Contribution Points +899]

[Special Citizen Bai Jiacao (Black Night Witch) has a 1% reduced chance of turning evil, the future chaos in Dragon City has been reduced, Contribution Points +500]

[Current Contribution Points 2478, can awaken new basic skill "Dragon Snake Force", auxiliary skill "Elementary Harvesting Technique"]

Nearly two thousand five hundred Contribution Points kept flashing.

Several grayed-out new skills waiting to be awakened also appeared.

Counting the "Basic Gunmanship" that was raised to "Perfect Grade" in one breath, the harvest can be said to be very rich.

Meng Chao was a little lost.

He sat against the corner of the wall for a long time, making an unwilling murmur:

"Superhuman, huh..."

With the appearance of the Superhumans, there was no suspense about the outcome, and the battle ended within half an hour.

Apart from two residents accidentally breaking their arms, Tianfu Garden suffered no other casualties.

In the eyes of Dragon City people, this kind of injury can be solved with a few band-aids.

"We won!"

"Finally slaughtered these beasts."

"Superhumans are awesome."

"Old Meng from Building 19 is also awesome. He was the first to inflict heavy damage on the super beast. He deserves to be the army's sharpshooter from twenty years ago."

"Stop arguing, in the end, Tianfu Garden is awesome, Dragon City is awesome, we Earthlings are the most awesome!"

The shooting squad and the Bayonet Squad praised each other, the residents were all smiles, and the community was filled with a happy atmosphere.

Next is the harvest session that everyone loves to see.

It's not much different from killing pigs for the New Year in the countryside during the Earth era.

The Crystal Loudspeaker played the cheerful music of "Today is a Good Day", and the old and young men all went into battle, sharpening their knives, and harvesting monsters.

Ordinary monsters all belong to Tianfu Garden.

Don't look at how ugly the Black Beetles are, the clumps of flesh and blood inside their shells taste particularly delicious. Steamed and dipped in ginger vinegar, they taste just like hairy crabs from the Earth era.

Just imagining the chicken leg-sized clumps of "mock crab meat" makes many residents drool.

Moreover, the rich mucus in its body is also a high-quality fuel additive, which can be sold for a lot of money.

There are also the newly evolved Ghost Eye Golden Winged Flame Beetles, because they are appearing in Dragon City for the first time, they have high research value. The Superhumans will send them to the Monster Research Institute, and they will also be converted into a large amount of cash, weapons, ammunition, and cultivation resources, which will be returned to Tianfu Garden.

Meng Yishan wore a hazmat suit, anti-corrosion gloves, and overshoes, waving a butcher knife and a scalpel.

He looked like both a barbaric butcher and a crazy witch doctor.

He is not only one of the most powerful gunmen in Tianfu Garden, but also the strongest harvester, bar none.

In fact, he is a professional. Whenever the mist descends and the monsters swarm out, he and a group of old brothers are hired by resource recycling companies to specifically clean up the battlefield.

Meng Chao was too exhausted and lay on the balcony, watching the bustling labor scene.

After injecting a few highly concentrated nutrient solutions and emptying the emergency compressed food at home, he finally recovered a little.

But he was still hungry, as hungry as if a main battle tank had fired a shot into his stomach.

The pain in his head hadn't lessened much either. He had used ice to compress it for half an hour, which made his teeth ache, but he was still dizzy and in dull pain.

He covered his head, rubbed his stomach, recalled the battle just now, and pondered the next development plan.

"Since the Ghost Eye Golden Winged Flame Beetle has appeared, it means that the monsters are constantly upgrading, and the war is about to get out of control.

"I must race against time and become stronger as soon as possible."

He thought for a long time and first confirmed one thing.

His memories from his previous life were blurred, which should be a kind of protection for his brain.

Matter determines consciousness. The number of human brain cells is limited, and the capacity of memory cells is also limited. No one can remember every detail and every skill of decades of life clearly.

If, at the moment of rebirth, all the information from decades of memories in his previous life were poured into his seventeen-year-old brain, the only result would be that his brain would burn out and he would become an idiot.

"It seems that only by constantly becoming stronger through cultivation, possessing more powerful brain cells and central nerves, will the memories of my previous life be continuously released?

"That makes sense. Every time I awaken a small piece of memory and a skill, I feel a splitting headache and ravenous hunger. If I were to awaken decades of memories and hundreds of skills in an instant, either my head would explode, or my life force would be instantly drained.

"It's like encapsulating my previous life's memories in a 'sustained-release capsule', releasing them little by little, so that they can be safely absorbed by the brain and body. I wonder if this is the law of rebirth, or the protection of the Fire Seed?"

In addition to this, Meng Chao also discovered that it wasn't that mastering a "perfect level" skill meant it was truly perfect.

Awakening the memories of his previous life can only help him possess perfect consciousness.

The brain says, "I have perfect level gunmanship, super strong!"

The body says, "No, you don't."

It's probably like that.

"The 'perfection' that is achieved by using Contribution Points to increase proficiency, even if it can directly reach the nerve endings, still has many flaws. It needs to be constantly used in actual combat to achieve a high degree of unity between consciousness and body.

"But without cultivation resources, and being hungry like a weakling all day long, panting for a long time just to kill a Black Beetle, how can I engage in actual combat?"

Going around in circles, he returned to the old problem: a poor family...

"I have the Fire Seed and the memories of my previous life, so my learning efficiency is much higher than others. Correspondingly, my consumption of cultivation resources is also three to five times or even more than that of ordinary students. Where do these resources come from?

"Relying on the study group to earn resources from classmates is not a long-term solution. How much money can classmates have? If it's really too exaggerated, the school won't allow it.

"Going to society to open training classes, specializing in teaching the Super Raging Bull Force? Impossible. Opening this kind of class requires qualifications, fame, registering a company, advertising, and inviting experts to be brand ambassadors. Without a year and a half to cultivate the market and promote it, no one will come based on just me, a senior high school student, and it wastes too much time. How can I take the college entrance examination?"

Meng Chao scratched his head in distress.

The Black Beetles below were dismembered into eight pieces, and the pungent smell of flammable mucus soared into the sky, suddenly making him feel a little familiar.

The appearance of his father wielding a butcher knife and dismembering the monster into eight pieces stimulated the fragments of his previous life's memories to shine.

"Eh?"

Meng Chao discovered something.

The two newly emerged skills, the exchange price of "Dragon Snake Force" is still quite normal, but "Elementary Harvesting Technique" is very cheap!

Whether it's "Raging Bull Force", "Dragon Snake Force", or "Basic Gunmanship", they all require two to three thousand Contribution Points to exchange, which is equivalent to guiding a hundred or so ordinary citizens, or slaughtering hundreds of monsters. This "price" is quite reasonable.

But "Elementary Harvesting Technique", doesn't need 3000, doesn't need 2000, doesn't even need 1000, it only needs 998!

"Is it especially cheap because it's an auxiliary skill? Wait, I remember, in my previous life, I seemed to have followed my dad as a 'harvester' for ten years!"

Meng Chao closed his eyes, and some images flashed through his mind like fleeting shadows.

In his previous life, his mother was seriously injured by a super beast, and he failed the college entrance examination. In order to survive and to raise medical expenses for his mother and tuition fees for his sister, he was brought into the business by his father. He harvested countless fierce beasts in the monster war, and his skills were quite good.

"Harvester... seems to make a lot of money?"