Wonderland Plan (Please Click and Favorite)

Up to this point.

During the days Gamia had been asleep, True Points had accumulated to around seven or eight.

Moreover, as the faith continued to spread, the rate at which True Points accumulated was growing faster and faster.

By a fairly optimistic estimate, over the next month, the exclusive True Points Gamia gained through faith conversion would likely reach around one hundred and fifty.

That was enough for one draw for a rare-tier talent reward.

The only pity was that the True Points accumulated through faith could not be used to unlock templates.

Otherwise, unlocking the remaining templates would become much, much easier.

Aside from gaining True Points, Su Heng had also sensed faintly unusual traces within this primeval forest.

It felt as though a limit-breaking Great Yokai had been active nearby, yet the aura was extremely weak and vanished in an instant. Su Heng could not determine whether that faint presence he had sensed—

—was merely an illusion born of his own overcaution, or whether it truly existed.

Either way, staying vigilant could never be wrong.

He glanced at Gamia, curled up in the hot spring pool and sleeping soundly without a care in the world, then could not help but sigh as his consciousness gradually withdrew from Gamia.

In fact.

The next few days were peaceful.

Whether it was Centipede Forest, where the first template Gamia was located, or the Dark Mountain Range, where the Second Template Willow Tree stood—

—nothing particularly unusual happened.

Even in Qing City, where Su Heng himself lived, the incident at the KTV seemed to have been deliberately suppressed by certain people.

The KTV was shut down for rectification, and the news was blocked. Not even the slightest trace could be found online.

Though Su Heng was relieved by this outcome, he also felt a measure of concern.

Clearly, the Inspection Department had extensive experience handling such matters. That meant the special incidents exposed in the news accounted for only a small fraction of the disasters that had truly erupted.

Most of the truth had been concealed.

The seemingly peaceful routine was not necessarily truly safe...

"Humanity is like a prison."

Inside the rundown apartment building, Su Heng sighed. Raising his head, he saw the blood-red full moon hanging high outside the window, and those words suddenly came to mind.

Swish!

He drew the curtains, lay down on the bed, and entered the Dreamscape once more.

The Dark Mountain Range, where the Second Template Willow Tree was located.

Everything was shrouded in bright red moonlight. Compared to a pitch-black, lightless night, such a night was instead even more dangerous.

Within a valley blooming with countless flowers.

A willow tree over ten meters tall grew quietly beneath the moonlight. Its graceful, supple branches swayed in the wind, rippling with hazy pale-green spiritual light.

Atop the willow's crown, six spirited peregrine falcons, their feathers sleek and their eyes gleaming sharply, meticulously observed their surroundings.

Outside the valley.

A wild boar nearly three meters long from head to tail stood with bloodshot eyes. Two enormous tusks pierced through its lips and jutted high into the air as it greedily stared at the tall, upright willow in the center of the valley.

Several peregrine falcons took to the sky, chirping noisily as they flapped their wings and made threatening cries.

But this wild boar had clearly already been affected by the Red Moon.

Beneath its thick hide were slabs of armor-like muscle. Relying on its massive size, it did not regard the peregrine falcons in the sky as a threat at all.

Snort!

Finally.

Driven by desire.

The mutated wild boar slowly pawed at the soft earth with its hind legs, then kicked off with all its strength.

Bang!

Soft dirt sprayed out, leaving a shallow pit.

The boar, weighing at least several hundred kilograms, shot forward like a cannonball leaving its barrel. Letting out excited grunts, it charged toward the willow tree.

Its enormous body, its frenzied speed—the combination produced devastating kinetic force.

Together with the two sharp tusks jutting high from the corners of its mouth.

It was not hard to imagine that if the willow truly took a direct hit from this boar, even if the more than ten-meter-tall tree was not smashed apart outright, it would still suffer severe damage.

"How annoying!"

Within the willow's body, Su Heng watched the frenzied giant with an utterly calm gaze.

"What exactly has happened in these mountains? There have been more and more Mutated Creatures lately..."

He sighed.

But his movements were not affected in the slightest.

The slender Willow Branches tightened, letting out creaks like bowstrings being drawn taut.

Whoosh!

The force built up to its limit erupted. Pale green Willow Leaves, dense as flying knives, scattered across the Mutated Wild Boar's path.

Bang bang bang bang bang!

The Mutated Wild Boar was enormous, but its movements were far from clumsy.

With several agile dodges, it evaded most of the Willow Leaves. Even the few that struck its body only became lodged in its thick muscles.

They could hardly inflict any effective damage on a creature with such extraordinary vitality.

"Fell for it!"

Su Heng was not surprised by this sight.

Instead, he sneered.

Then—

Boom!

From the soft, damp earth ahead of the Mutated Wild Boar, soaked by the stream—

A thick black tree root shot up from below.

Pfft!

The force carried by the spear-sharp root was far beyond that of the Willow Leaves. Combined with the enormous momentum of the charging Mutated Wild Boar itself—

The two forces stacked together.

The boar's body was completely pierced through and impaled high in the air.

Squeal, squeal, squeal!

Under the intense pain, the Mutated Wild Boar finally felt fear. It let out piercing shrieks and struggled frantically, its cries echoing through the valley and threatening to spread into the forest beyond.

"As expected of a Mutated Creature. That vitality..."

An ordinary wild boar would have died on the spot after being pierced through and hung in midair.

Yet this boar was still howling, and even showed signs of struggling free from the tree root.

"It would be troublesome if stronger predators heard it."

Su Heng lifted a Willow Branch and gave it a light wave.

The six Mutated Peregrine Falcons had long been ready. Upon receiving the command, they folded their wings, suddenly accelerated, and dived from the sky.

Bang bang bang bang bang bang!

Amid a rapid series of dull impacts, six vivid blood-red blossoms bloomed across the Mutated Wild Boar's body almost simultaneously.

Large amounts of blood, along with chunks of organs, fell from the Mutated Wild Boar.

Several peregrine falcons flew back from the air with pieces of meat in their beaks, landing on the Willow Tree's branches to enjoy their dinner.

The thick tree root slowly withdrew. Meanwhile, several smaller roots rose from the side of the ground, gradually burying the boar's corpse in the soil to prevent the bloody scent from drawing more predators.

At the same time, the organic matter decaying in the soil could also be absorbed by the Willow Tree, accelerating its growth.

After finishing all this—

Su Heng let out a breath, but immediately afterward, he felt an urgent sense of crisis.

The Mutated Wild Boar he had faced today was already no weakling. If Su Heng had not used a bit of strategy, it would not have been easy to kill it.

And in the future, as the Willow Tree grew, even more dangerous Mutated Creatures would be drawn here.

Before the real trial arrived, he had to make thorough preparations.

"Looks like the Wonderland Plan has to be put into action ahead of schedule..."

This afternoon, I wrote four thousand characters. But when I revised it at night, it didn't feel right, so I deleted it and rewrote it all. Truly the ultimate waste of effort.

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