The manager of the base and the two superhumans at the peak of Earth Realm had seen hunters harvest monsters on the spot before.
In truth, while the forward operating base modified the environment, it was also in charge of clearing the monsters around it and harvesting monster materials. There were plenty of experienced harvesters in the base.
The two superhumans at the peak of Earth Realm went deep into the wild to kill monsters. Before the harvesters arrived, they could personally process the materials.
But even so, the three of them had nearly one hundred years of hunting experience.
They had never seen anyone remove a Tyrant Mammoth's flesh and blood before they pieced its bones together to form a skeleton specimen!
Each of the Tyrant Mammoth's bones had been removed, and they looked like crystalline white jade. Not a single bit of flesh or crack could be seen on them.
Even the cervical vertebrae that had been severed by the saber had been pieced together seamlessly.
This exquisite craftsmanship could be described as "miraculous".
The trio's nostrils twitched, and they smelled a strange fragrance.
Following the fragrance, they saw a yellowish-brown object that was nearly half a meter in diameter and looked like amber.
It was a stone that contained powerful spirit energy that was unique to the Tyrant Mammoth. It was just like the Calculus Bezoar, Dog Treasure, Musk, and Ambergris. It was a priceless treasure, and it was the source of the Tyrant Mammoth's strength.
It was precisely because it contained peerless energy that after the Tyrant Mammoth died, its spirit energy would easily go out of control, and it would turn into an unstable ticking time bomb.
When normal harvesters processed such dangerous high-calorie materials, they would pursue safety. They would use special methods to shatter the stone and harvest it one small piece at a time.
Even though its quality would be reduced by a large margin, at the very least, they could put it in mithril-based stabilizing fluid and preserve it properly to avoid the tragedy of an explosion.
But Meng Chao was bold because he was skilled. He plucked out the entire irregular stone without touching it in the slightest.
The manager of the base and the two superhumans at the peak of Earth Realm were veterans in the industry. Forget about seeing such a large Tyrant Mammoth stone with their own eyes, they had never even heard of it.
They were both surprised and impressed. They were even more certain that this was definitely a lone hunter who had been active in the depths of the fog for many years. Without decades of experience, it was impossible for him to deal with the Tyrant Mammoth with such ease.
The manager of the base coughed dryly and was about to go forward to express his gratitude and respect when Meng Chao recognized him.
Meng Chao recognized him and said with a smile, "Manager Jiang, so you work here?"
The overly young and familiar voice stunned Supervisor Jiang of Soaring Dragon Construction. He widened his eyes and tried his best to identify the "master" in front of him. The more he looked, the bigger his eyes became. After being stunned for half a minute, he said hoarsely, "Chairman Meng?"
"Ha, I'm a little sloppy. You can't recognize me, right?"
Meng Chao was in a really good mood after obtaining a supreme-grade Tyrant Mammoth stone that weighed more than one hundred kilograms. He pushed his fingers together, and a wisp of spirit flames surged out of the edges of his palm. With his hand in place of a knife, he shaved off his tense beard and pulled out a Tyrant Mammoth tendon. He tore it into a hairband and casually tied his messy hair into a ponytail. He felt much more refreshed, and he grinned at the trio again.
Manager Jiang was an old acquaintance of his. He was a member of the Broken Star Club.
The Broken Star Club had more than two hundred thousand members. Logically speaking, it was impossible for Meng Chao to recognize all of them.
However, Supervisor Jiang's situation was rather special.
He did not burn his main meridians when he first awakened to supernatural abilities and became a broken-star superhuman.
Instead, he had reached the peak of Earth Realm seven years ago, but something went wrong when he tried to reach Heaven Realm three years ago. He burned twenty-eight main meridians, and his cultivation realm fell back to two-star superhumans.
When he heard that the Broken Star Club had a way to cure his withered main meridians, he came to them in hopes that he could regain the chance to reach Heaven Realm.
Meng Chao had discussed this with Gu Jianbo before.
A large number of poor children in Dragon City had turned into broken-star superhumans because they used too much strength when they awakened to supernatural abilities.
There were also plenty of experienced superhumans who, due to various reasons, were heavily injured when they fought fiercely or tried to break through important stages. Their main meridians were burned, and their cultivation realms fell.
If the Ultimate Style could not just help the former regain the possibility to cultivate, but also help the latter return to the peak, it would be greatly beneficial to the development of the Ultimate Style and the overall increase of Dragon City's fighting strength.
Therefore, they attached great importance to Manager Jiang's case. They had communicated with each other a few times, and they had even secretly created a few gene medicines for Manager Jiang based on his physiological parameters and the distribution of his spirit meridians.
Even though he did not manage to help Manager Jiang reach Heaven Realm …
But they also helped him repair around five main meridians, and he saw hope that he could return to the peak of Earth Realm.
Manager Jiang was forty-seven years old. He had fought and killed most of his life, and he was covered in injuries. He had long since given up on increasing his cultivation realm. He had only gone to Meng Chao and Gu Jianbo to help him as a last resort, but he did not expect that he would really be able to revive. Naturally, he was grateful to them.
When he saw that the mysterious "master" was Meng Chao, Manager Jiang was surprised and delighted. The shock in his heart also increased by ten times.
He knew very well that Meng Chao had just reached Heaven Realm a few months ago, so he should be a four-star superhuman.
And the Tyrant Mammoth was definitely a Grade Six Hell Beast.
Besides, there were plenty of rampaging Demonic Halberd Pigs, Iron-armored Rhinoceroses, and Bloody Hippopotamuses.
Were the youngsters nowadays so relaxed when they fought against monsters who were stronger than them?
The two superhumans at the peak of Earth Realm also managed to guess Meng Chao's identity through their conversation.
Right now, Meng Chao could be considered a minor celebrity in Dragon City. There were a lot of his achievements and information on social media and monster forums.
The two superhumans at the peak of Earth Realm knew that Meng Chao was one of the youngest Heaven Realm superhumans in Dragon City, but they did not think much of it. Just like the mainstream opinion online, they believed that more haste, less speed. If Meng Chao could level up so quickly, his foundation would definitely not be stable. In fact, he might just be an armchair strategist and lacked practical experience. He would just use gene medicine and high-calorie nutritional fluid to push himself to Heaven Realm.
No matter how great the parameters on paper were, once they entered the depths of the wilderness where danger lurked everywhere, they would reveal their true colors.
They might have only managed to reach the peak of Earth Realm in their early forties, but their advantage was that they had a steady foothold and had gone through hundreds of battles!
But the real Meng Chao in front of them shattered the fake image in their minds.
Both of them instinctively remembered how Meng Chao had glared at the Tyrant Mammoth before he delivered that fatal slash.
Even though Meng Chao's Fear Bomb was only targeted at the Tyrant Mammoth.
However, when the brainwaves spread in all directions, they still felt shock and fear, as if they were facing the end of the world.
"Are you kidding me? Is a Heaven Realm martial artist in his early twenties really that strong?"
"He's just a four-star superhuman, but he can already kill a Grade Six Hell Beast. When he reaches Spirit Vision Realm and Spirit Armor Realm, won't he have the guts to fight against Apocalyptic Beasts alone?"
"I thought that the so-called club leader of the Broken Star League was just a gimmick and that he's a celebrity created by Agricultural University's martial arts course and other forces of power. I didn't expect that he would be this terrifying in person!"
The two superhumans at the peak of Earth Realm looked at each other and gulped at the same time. They were completely convinced by Meng Chao and treated him as a master who was at the same level as Soul Breaking Saber Luo Wu.
No, he might be even more terrifying than Luo Wu.
At the very least, when Master Luo Wu was in his early twenties, it would have been impossible for him to fight against a Tyrant Mammoth alone.
Since Manager Jiang was familiar with him and he was so friendly that Meng Chao felt a little embarrassed, it made things much easier for him.
Meng Chao had killed the Tyrant Mammoth alone, so all the materials naturally belonged to Meng Chao. He just needed to remember to register himself in the Supernatural Tower and pay a hunting tax.
As for the hundreds of normal monsters, Manager Jiang was the one who hunted and captured them. Logically speaking, there was no need for him to split the loot with Meng Chao.
But Manager Jiang knew how to conduct himself. He said that if Meng Chao was not around, everyone in the base would have died, so there was no need for him to talk about prey.
He insisted on giving Meng Chao the value of all the prey.
Meng Chao rejected it repeatedly, and in the end, they split the loot fifty-fifty. Everyone was happy.
Manager Jiang used the chance to represent Soaring Dragon Construction and invited Meng Chao to the base as a guest. He said that he had already asked for reinforcements from the rear, and the higher-ups of Soaring Dragon Construction would soon receive the news. He believed that they would be very grateful for Meng Chao's help.
Meng Chao would naturally not reject the chance to come into contact with the higher-ups of Soaring Dragon Construction.
But he thought about it and decided to patrol the area first to see whether there were any monsters who had slipped through the monster horde and posed a threat to humans.
It had to be known that the appearance of a monster horde meant that the ecosystem in the area was out of balance. Many of the monsters who were originally the kings of the area had fled in panic because they were afraid of the Tyrant Mammoth. Who knew where they had fled to and whether they would become desperate and attack humans?
"Manager Jiang, do you have any exploration teams scattered outside the base? Can you contact them?" Meng Chao asked.
"No, we sensed the tremors beforehand. Before the monster horde arrived, we called all the exploration teams and construction teams back."
Manager Jiang thought about it and frowned. "But there seems to be an unlicensed pioneering point about five kilometers away from here in the swamp forest to the south. There should be dozens of pathfinders there. I don't know whether they ran into the monster horde."
"An unlicensed pioneering point?" Meng Chao frowned as well.
The expansion of living space in Dragon City was mainly carried out by the exploration teams from the Red Dragon Army, the nine great mega corporations, and the four great research centers.
Even though the nine great mega corporations had the problem of their abnormal expansion and standing above the Survival Committee, correspondingly, they were rather standardized. Before they opened a forward operating base or pioneering point, they would repeatedly demonstrate and plan. They would also go through the related departments' examination and approval, which allowed them to obtain the support of the Red Dragon Army and the Supernatural Tower.
But humans' desire for living space could not be completely monopolized by certain corporations and forces of power.
Tens of millions of people lived in Dragon City like ants. Most of the youngsters among them could not find suitable and dignified jobs.
But the world outside was vast and boundless. It was fertile land filled with spirit energy and filled with crystals. It was a chance for people to become rich overnight.
In the past, when monsters surrounded them, humans could only hide and defend themselves.
But once they gained victory at the northern frontlines, humans switched from defense to offense. Many normal people obtained a sufficient amount of weapons and ammunition. In fact, they even received firepower support from the second-hand armored vehicles and armed drones that the Red Dragon Army had abandoned.
Most of the fierce monsters were killed by superhumans like Meng Chao, whose cultivation realm had increased by leaps and bounds. The monsters with some intelligence fled to the periphery of Monster Mountain Range, which was far away from Dragon City.
"Let's go all out and claim territory! Whoever gets it first will get it!"
"Dragon City is constantly expanding, and sooner or later, it will reach the territory we occupied first. At that time, even if the Survival Committee expropriates the land, we won't be able to enjoy the compensation for the rest of our lives!"
"The cowards will starve to death, and the courageous will die from eating too much. If we stay in Dragon City for the rest of our lives, we'll have no future. It'd be better for us to risk our lives and fight in the wild!"
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