Summit Cave

Now Lin Shen was certain that those sacrifices were people from the Qi and Wang families.

What was strange was, for what reason did they become sacrifices for the Sacrifice to Heaven?

On the way to Gourd Mountain, people had also died, and Lin Shen already possessed the Sacrifice to Heaven skill, but the Sacrifice to Heaven wasn't triggered then.

Lin Shen thought about it repeatedly, and finally his gaze fell on his watch.

If there was any difference between now and before, it was that they had all come to this planet, and they all had an extra watch on their wrists that could teleport.

"Could it be that anyone with a watch is considered my teammate? Tian Xin also has a watch, does that mean he's my teammate?" Lin Shen now had an urge to immediately go back and kill Tian Xin to test it out.

Lin Shen thought for a moment and suppressed the urge.

Ignorance was terrifying, so Lin Shen wanted to know more, to understand as much as possible what this world was like.

Wei Wufu was a window to understanding the world, but the problem was this window wasn't big enough and had some issues, making it very difficult to open.

The window of Tian Xin was large enough, so he still needed to learn more from Tian Xin and couldn't kill him so easily.

The Qi and Wang families suffered heavy casualties, almost all Steel Grade individuals were dead. No Steel Grade could survive such a battle.

The Alloy Grade Gene Mutators weren't much better off. If it weren't for the Crystal Gene Level pets in the hands of Qi Shuheng and Wang Tianer supporting them, they would have almost all died out too.

Lin Shen had no intention of rushing out to help, he just quietly lurked and watched the battle.

Although it was cruel, this was the law of survival.

If he hadn't been lucky enough to possess the Tinder ability, he would have likely fallen into the hands of the Qi and Wang families long ago, and his fate would have been even worse than death.

The most striking presences in this brutal battle were undoubtedly Bai Shenfei and the two Mystic Birds.

Bai Shenfei fought the Giant King, and while she didn't gain the upper hand, she wasn't completely suppressed by the Giant King either; it was a back-and-forth fight.

Lin Shen estimated that the Giant King was most likely a mutated Crystal Gene, an existence with similar combat power to that Azure Python.

Bai Shenfei could actually fight the Giant King without falling behind, her level was not much different from Tian Xin's.

The two Mystic Birds were equally fierce. They circled in the air and occasionally swooped down. The Alloy Giants couldn't even block one of their claws and would have their heads directly crushed.

The Crystal Gene Giants also dodged and defended frantically in front of the Mystic Birds, not daring to directly confront them.

The two Mystic Birds alone tied down over ten Crystal Gene Giants, while the other four Crystal Gene pets couldn't gain an advantage in one-on-one fights.

"How did these people get surrounded by giants in this place?" Lin Shen frowned and surveyed the surroundings.

Logically speaking, the area around this mountain was bare. With so many people, why weren't they hiding in the Steel Forest where it was easy to conceal themselves, but instead came to this bare place?

With so many people, and being so tightly surrounded by giants, this was even more abnormal.

"They weren't surrounded while trying to go up the mountain, were they? Then why would they want to go up this isolated mountain?" Lin Shen couldn't help but examine the mountain.

The mountain wasn't very high, a few hundred meters. From a distance, one could see rows of pits on the mountain body, and there were many of them.

Lin Shen estimated that it was very likely that those giants usually curled up like stones and stayed in those pits.

The people from the Qi and Wang families wanted to go up the mountain, didn't realize those weren't natural stones, and as a result, they were surrounded.

"What exactly did they want to go up the mountain for?" Lin Shen was too far away to see what was on the mountain.

"Those giants should have been lured down by them. I'll go up the mountain now and see. Maybe I can get some benefits." The power within Lin Shen's body continuously surged, raging within him, making it quite uncomfortable for him to just lie here and do nothing.

Without further ado, Lin Shen circled around to the other side of the mountain. After carefully observing and confirming that there were no Gene Mutator giants, he began to climb up.

Actually, even if there were Gene Mutator giants, Lin Shen wouldn't be afraid. As long as he didn't encounter the Giant King, he wouldn't even need to use his Tinder ability now. Just relying on his physical strength, he could compete with those giants.

Under the blessing of the Sacrifice to Heaven, his four attributes had all broken through twenty and were approaching thirty, making him fully qualified to fight ordinary Crystal Gene Level creatures.

As the offerings increased, his four attributes were still growing, just not as quickly.

The giants were indeed all lured away by the people from the Qi and Wang families. There were also many pits on the mountain here, which must have been places where the giants rested before.

He climbed all the way to the summit but didn't see even a Steel Grade giant. However, he did find a cave.

"I was wondering why I didn't find anything on the way up. It turns out the cave is over here and can only be seen from the front. Could it be that those people were trying to enter this cave and that's why they were surrounded by the giants?"

Lin Shen thought for a moment: "Were they trying to hide inside the cave, or did they discover something inside the cave?"

Fortunately, Lin Shen didn't need to dwell on this question. He just needed to sneak into the cave and take a look.

He looked down the mountain. The battle was even more brutal. There were less than twenty people left from the Qi and Wang families, and countless giants had been killed or injured. There were giant corpses everywhere down the mountain.

The Giant King and Bai Shenfei were fighting even more fiercely, with no energy left to pay attention to the summit.

Lin Shen lay on the ground and crawled forward, approaching the cave. He didn't want to attract the Giant King.

Fortunately, the Giant King indeed had no energy to spare for other matters, and Lin Shen successfully entered the cave.

"Gene Mutation Egg!" The first thing Lin Shen saw upon entering the cave was the Gene Mutation Egg in a pool at the very back of the cave.

The cave was quite large but not deep. You could see the bottom at a glance. At such a high place, there was actually a hot spring pool at the very back, and the spring water in the pool was steaming.

In the middle of the pool, there was a black diamond-like Gene Mutation Egg, half a meter tall. This was the largest Gene Mutation Egg Lin Shen had ever seen with his own eyes.

From its appearance, it was clear that this was a Crystal Gene Level Gene Mutation Egg.

"Could this thing be the Giant King's offspring? If so, I'm rich." Lin Shen jumped into the pool. The water in the pool was not deep and didn't even cover his calves.

He grabbed the Gene Mutation Egg with both hands, trying to pick it up, but failed on the first try.

Lin Shen was greatly surprised by this. His current strength was 27 points. He could easily lift an elephant with one hand and play with it like a ball, yet he couldn't pick this thing up. How heavy must this thing be?

Of course, Lin Shen hadn't expected it to be so heavy and hadn't used much force.

This time, Lin Shen took a stance and used his strength in the easiest posture to exert force. As expected, he picked up the half-meter-tall black diamond-like Gene Mutation Egg.

"It's really heavy!" Lin Shen felt a little strained. He carried the Gene Mutation Egg out of the pool and put it down.

It was too heavy. All his strength was used to carry it, and walking was too slow.

"Fortunately, the Gene Mutation Egg is egg-shaped." Lin Shen directly pushed the Gene Mutation Egg and walked out. There was nothing else in this cave except this Gene Mutation Egg.