At Zhang Fan's firm insistence, the Human Emperor Plan began moving forward in an orderly fashion.
Just as Buffett had predicted, shortly after the Giant Beasts drove the villagers away, a Commander arrived with human soldiers to subdue them.
Buffett had set up numerous high-tech traps at the foot of the mountain: illusions created by holographic projections and low-energy Portals that sent people back to the foot of the mountain without them realizing it. He had also installed real-time surveillance equipment in concealed locations to monitor the humans' movements.
He himself posed as an old mountain caretaker, trying to dissuade anyone planning to climb the mountain and kill the Giant Beasts.
Hu Baili had also gone to considerable trouble. With human technology still in the cold weapons era, killing even one Bone Shield Elephant Bug was nothing but a pipe dream. He had specially hatched another batch of relatively low-level members of the Insect Race. These training insect race creatures were designed solely to improve the humans' combat abilities.
Although they were only training specimens, they still qualified as monsters to the humans. Hu Baili had distributed them across Mount Kunlun in ascending order of strength. Only those who passed every trial would qualify for the next stage of testing.
Standing on the summit, Zhang Fan surveyed their arrangements with satisfaction and nodded slightly. "Lord Hu Baili, shouldn't you weaken those training insect race creatures a little? I'm not sure the humans can..."
"Overlord, you have far too little faith in humans. Their potential is limitless. Although this generation isn't as physically strong as the Second-Generation Humans, I've recently discovered that the power they unleash in a crisis is beyond imagination. Don't you also unleash greater power when you're driven into a desperate situation?"
"Right, right! I've been meaning to