Containment Starting from Umbrella
Chapter 267

Two Kinds of Fruit

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"Boss."

Before long, Serena, who had been facing the front display, turned toward William and reported:

"I discovered two... two rather strange trees somewhere, and there's also a large amount of thermal energy near them."

As she spoke, Serena marked the location on the floating screen to William's left.

William glanced at the screen, then pushed both control sticks forward, sending the divine body swiftly toward the marked location.

He said to Serena, "Thermal energy... If I'm not mistaken, it should be a group of giant humanoid creatures."

"Yes..." Serena wore a worried expression as she continued:

"There are at least a thousand of them. Moreover, my Pulse Scan detected buildings resembling a large village centered around those two strange trees.

"Boss... Can a single divine body like ours handle this many giants?"

"Don't worry. We didn't come here to fight."

William maintained his calm, faint smile. "If necessary, I can control the divine body to charge in at high speed, snatch the fruit from those two trees, and run. How does that sound?"

Hearing the words "snatch them and run," Serena couldn't help covering her mouth and giggling. "Hehe, all right. Let's observe the situation first."

"That's more like it. You're my Artificial Intelligence, so you have to stay calm at all times."

"Yes, Boss."

As the boss and secretary conversed, the divine body, radiating pale-yellow and Emerald Light, flew low over this vast forest of giant trees.

Soon, they arrived ten kilometers south of the marked location.

By then, William and Serena could already use the divine body's vision to see a "giant" tribe in the forest of giant trees.

Judging from the tribe's architectural style, it looked like the crude grass huts from a textbook's illustration of the Stone Age.

The giants living there included both males

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