With little time left, Jiang Ziliu could only search nearby to see whether he could find high-grade resources that would strengthen or evolve the Mutated Lightning Snake.
"What's the probability that there are treasures within ten kilometers of my current position that can help my contracted beast, the Mutated Lightning Snake, improve?"
Jiang Ziliu began analyzing with Probability Judgment.
Given how much time he had left, he could only obtain things within a ten-kilometer radius in time.
Otherwise, he would not even have time to return before school started.
So he had to find a high-grade treasure that could strengthen or even evolve the Mutated Lightning Snake within the allotted time.
The probability analysis gave its result: 99.7%!
This meant that within ten kilometers of him, there was one or even several lightning-type treasures that could strengthen or evolve the Mutated Lightning Snake.
"What's the probability that treasures of this kind are to my east?"
0!
"What's the probability that treasures of this kind are five kilometers away from me?"
97.6%!
"What's the probability that treasures of this kind are no deeper than three meters underground?"
100%!
"What's the probability that there is no lethal danger near treasures of this kind?"
86.3%!
Using Probability Judgment step by step, Jiang Ziliu successfully pinpointed the exact location of such a treasure.
He also learned that there were three kinds of treasures nearby that could strengthen the Mutated Lightning Snake.
But the best of them lay to his southwest.
Moreover, after obtaining the treasure at that location, he could return to the base along the way.
The only thing Jiang Ziliu could not determine was exactly what this treasure capable of strengthening or even evolving the Mutated Lightning Snake was.
But once he knew its exact location and had confirmed that the danger was not great, he set off.
He was currently in a small mountain forest, while his destination had a small peak.
According to the map, the treasure was somewhere on that small peak.
Only after making a difficult climb to the mountainside did Jiang Ziliu find the spot where the treasure was suspected to be.
It was actually in a crack in the cliff face.
After changing his vantage point, Jiang Ziliu finally saw the treasure's true appearance.
It was a peach tree with a section broken off, its broken surface charred black and bearing scorch marks.
Judging by those marks, Jiang Ziliu determined that this large tree had been struck by extremely powerful natural lightning.
The peach tree itself could be called an excellent treasure material: lightning-struck wood.
After such a powerful lightning strike, this peach tree should have been dead, but not only had it survived, it had actually burst into new life amid death, reviving after lightning's destructive force and sprouting new branches.
The lightning-struck peach tree's renewed life had not only produced new branches but also flowers and fruit, yielding fresh peaches.
Jiang Ziliu understood now. This peach tree had regained its vitality after the lightning strike and was now a precious medicinal spirit plant!
It could be considered an unusual existence akin to a plant-type mutant beast.
Because of their special mutation, the treasure peaches it bore not only possessed extraordinary Dark Energy power, but also powerful vitality and the even rarer power of lightning.
Although there were only three ripe peaches on the tree, all of them were dual-attribute treasures of wood and lightning.
At least B-grade ones!
Why did he judge them that way? Because Jiang Ziliu noticed that this peach tree spontaneously emitted flashes of lightning from time to time.
Even the peaches themselves flickered with electricity.
That was the peach tree's own mutated power, as well as its means of self-defense.
Its unusual location on the cliff, along with its own lightning, left ordinary mutant beasts unable to do anything to it.
Even so, these treasure peaches held a fatal attraction for some mutant beasts.
Jiang Ziliu had yet to find the mutant beasts guarding it, but he knew that some kind of mutant beast had to be there, guarding that lightning-struck peach tree.
So he had the Azurite Rock Man sneak over and finally confirmed what was guarding this treasure.
Thunder Sparrows!
These were mutant beasts descended from sparrows of the original world. Individually, they were only Gray Rock Grade, but they were numerous and belonged to a special type of social mutant beast.
The small holes densely covering the rock were not weathered cavities at all, but their nests.
There were at least ten thousand Thunder Sparrows around that peach tree.
Thunder Sparrows were also very dangerous mutant beasts. When they gathered together, they could form a special collective thundercloud.
Every Thunder Sparrow was a part of the thundercloud, and when their lightning gathered together, they would unleash a terrifying concentrated lightning attack!
The power of their collective lightning attack was no weaker than an all-out strike from a Bronze Rank lightning mutant beast. It was incredibly formidable.
Flocks of Thunder Sparrows were not to be trifled with and were highly aggressive.
Everyone knew this, and people generally stayed away from the places where they lived.
Jiang Ziliu also understood why this special lightning-struck peach tree existed here without being discovered by the adventurers who frequently passed through the vicinity. They feared the Thunder Sparrows, so no one approached this place, and naturally, no one discovered anything unusual here.
These special peaches were excellent treasures for strengthening or evolving the Mutated Lightning Snake.
But Jiang Ziliu needed to think carefully about how to obtain them.
He thought of the Thunder Sparrows' weakness: they were formidable during the day, but their eyesight was not so good at night.
So he settled on a plan and prepared a concealed cave at the foot of the mountain as a hiding place in advance.
Then he returned to the mountain and waited until night fell.
He had the Azurite Rock Man use its Rock and Earth Evasion skill to pass through the rock layers, quietly reaching the rock beneath the peach tree under cover of night.
Then it swiftly stole all three peaches.
It moved quickly, but still caught the vigilant Thunder Sparrows' attention. Lightning flashed incessantly across that stretch of cliff. The Thunder Sparrows could not see who had stolen their treasures, but they instantly launched indiscriminate lightning attacks.
Their attacks came a little too late, however. The Azurite Rock Man had already escaped through the rock with the three lightning treasure peaches.
But the lightning power of these treasures was indeed strong. To obtain them, the Azurite Rock Man had suffered considerable electric shocks from the lightning-struck peach tree itself, sustaining some minor injuries.
Had this happened before its evolution, the wounds from such lightning attacks would certainly have been severe.
Jiang Ziliu had succeeded. Only through the combination of nightfall, the Thunder Sparrows' poor night vision, the Azurite Rock Man's ability to carry objects through rock and earth, and various other factors had he successfully obtained these three treasure peaches.
There was now hope for the Mutated Lightning Snake to improve and evolve again.
At this point, there were still four days before school started, leaving more than enough time to strengthen and evolve the Mutated Lightning Snake.
Jiang Ziliu still had plenty of time!