Big Trouble

After some thought, Yu Ziyu set aside his investigation of evolution points.

Instead, he turned his gaze toward the battlefield.

It was a scene of devastation, the ground stained red with blood.

Countless severed limbs and mangled remains lay silently on the ground.

"Whew..."

Letting out a deep breath, Yu Ziyu felt somewhat moved.

Survival of the fittest was the law of nature.

The mutation of species would not weaken it, only make it crueler and more primal.

Of course, one thing was beyond question.

Only by staying alive could one have the last laugh.

Sighing inwardly, Yu Ziyu put away his sentimentality.

Then, under his control, root after root churned through the earth.

A closer look revealed that Yu Ziyu was burying these severed limbs and remains deep underground.

He left only the bodies of the Golden Giant Eagle and the Mutated Wild Boar.

"They're your food."

Yu Ziyu conveyed this by gently touching the returning Red Fox and eight Peregrine Falcons with his branches.

As mutated beasts, the value of the Golden Giant Eagle and the Mutated Wild Boar went without saying.

Even their corpses should have been quite precious.

As such, they made fitting rewards for Red Fox and the Peregrine Falcons, who had protected their master.

Of course, if they could not finish the food and it eventually rotted, Yu Ziyu would have something to smile about.

He reckoned most of it would become nutrients for his roots.

After all, that was precisely what Yu Ziyu had in mind when he turned over the soil of the entire battlefield, burying countless severed limbs and remains deep underground.

From a certain perspective, these were the finest fertilizer.

They would be immensely beneficial to him.

A willow was still a tree, after all.

However, one thing worth mentioning was that Yu Ziyu did not want any humans mixed in with these severed limbs and remains.

Having been human in his previous life, some of the values he had developed made it somewhat unacceptable to use humans as nutrients.

That was no different from "eating people."

It was revolting, and Yu Ziyu felt a deep aversion to it.

So, if humans really had to die, they had best die far away and not disgust him.

Otherwise, he could only do what he was doing now...

Following Yu Ziyu's gaze, one could see creature after creature trussed up beneath his dozens of hanging branches.

The most conspicuous among them were the two women.

As for the others, they were beasts that had caught Yu Ziyu's fancy.

They either looked good or had decent combat strength.

Yu Ziyu had taken a liking to them at first sight, so he had not strangled them.

As for these two women, that had really been a spur-of-the-moment decision.

The thought that these two women might get caught up in the battle... and then Yu Ziyu might unknowingly absorb them as fertilizer...

Uh...

Just thinking about it made Yu Ziyu feel sick.

Thus, he had decisively rescued the two women.

"But what should I do with them?"

At this thought, Yu Ziyu's gaze toward the two women filled with conflicting feelings.

He had been human in his previous life, but was a tree in this one.

Although he had no intention of offending humanity, he still felt somewhat apprehensive.

Humans!

Ultimately, they were an extremely exclusionary race.

Moreover, they possessed power sufficient to threaten Yu Ziyu.

If he were exposed before he had the strength to protect himself, Yu Ziyu would certainly have no chance of survival.

Never mind anything else; even a missile bombardment would be more than Yu Ziyu could withstand in his current state, let alone humanity's many other methods.

As for whether humans would coexist peacefully with Yu Ziyu...

At that thought, Yu Ziyu could not help feeling a little self-mocking.

If he had no value but was somewhat pleasing to look at, he might even end up in a human zoo, reduced to an attraction for the world to view.

But the problem was that the life essence surging within him could accelerate the essence of species!

That alone meant humans would not leave him alone.

Value came before everything, and profit blinded people's hearts.

"Whew..."

Letting out a deep breath, Yu Ziyu fell into a rare bout of contemplation.

Let them go?

That was certainly impossible.

He did not trust these two women, much less the human race.

As for killing them...

There was a slight problem with that.

Yu Ziyu had never killed anyone. Although he showed no mercy when killing ferocious beasts, that was due to the influence of his previous life.

Besides, these two women were only potential threats at present, not enough to warrant killing.

If he really killed these two women and his reputation as a "Man-Eating Demon Tree" became established in the future, what awaited Yu Ziyu would surely be wave after wave of "brave woodcutters."

"Emmmm, these two are such a headache."

After hesitating for a long time, Yu Ziyu vented his frustration.

To kill or not to kill was a matter of a single thought.

But when he considered the trouble it would bring in the future, it was no longer that simple.

(*^▽^*) I hope everyone will keep supporting me.

(Event period: June 12 to June 14)

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