"There's something else that I think you don't have to worry about, Big Sis Ya."
Meng Chao stared into Lu Siya's eyes and said seriously, "Even though many of the forces of power in Dragon City, such as the Red Dragon Army, Battle God Palace, Broken Star Club, and Blue Home, are displeased with the nine great mega corporations monopolizing everything, we can tell right from wrong and what is important. We won't be easily provoked by our enemies and do something that will make our enemies happy.
"At that moment, all Dragon Citizens only have one goal, and that is to beautifully win the final victory in the Monster War.
"So, I believe that most of the explorers, including Railway Cannon Long Feijun, won't be brainwashed by the monster master so easily."
Lu Siya bit her lip and snorted coldly. She finally shook off Meng Chao's hand and said, "Then, we have to stop the wisdom tree before it shows its most monstrous side!"
"What do you mean?" Meng Chao asked.
"You can't possibly think that the so-called Harvest Ceremony will end so easily, right? We just listened to the town chief's nonsense and breathed in some hallucinogenic pollen and spores. That's not true brainwashing, "Lu Siya said.
"This is just the appetizer. The main show has just begun. I heard from the townsfolk that during the harvest ceremony, the wisdom tree can connect the brains of all humans and monsters together so that everyone can share their feelings, memories, and thoughts. Through this method, humans and monsters can understand each other deeply and build a bridge of empathy and communication.
"If my guess is correct, this' understanding each other deeply 'thing is just a pretense. The goal of the monster mastermind is to figure out a way to break the defenses of our brains and read our thoughts and memories so that they can plant even more secret and sinister information in our brains!"
Before Lu Siya's voice could fade away, the crowd suddenly surged forward.
All the townsfolk looked like they had just received rain after a long drought. They stood on their tiptoes and stretched their arms at the tree crown that covered the sky above their heads.
Thousands of crystalline buds bloomed on the tree crown. They bloomed into colorful flowers that looked like they were blooming.
The color was so thick that it looked a little oily. It made them not look like plants, but like squirming organs of some huge super creature.
The concentration of the sparkling pollen that filled the air instantly increased to a whole new level.
Everyone's heads, faces, hands, shoulders, and bodies were covered in pollen.
They giggled, held hands, and danced tirelessly, sprinkling pollen on each other like colorful mist.
"Slurp, slurp, slurp, slurp." Suspicious noises suddenly came from the crown of the tree, which was full of leaves and blooming flowers.
Colorful, translucent, and translucent tentacles were swimming slowly among the branches.
Seeing these translucent tentacles, the Peach Blossom Town's residents became even more excited.
"… I have a bad feeling about this."
Meng Chao licked his chapped lips and stared at the semi-transparent tentacles hanging down slowly from the branches and flowers. "Big Sis Ya, what's your plan?"
"Over the past few days, I contacted a group of trustworthy explorers who haven't been brainwashed and thought of a way to retrieve a batch of crystal bombs. They're mainly anti-monster grenades and modified with the ammunition and weapons removed from the Bread Crabs and Peregrine Falcons," Lu Siya said.
"Our plan is to use the harvest ceremony and the wisdom tree will show its savage face and brainwash all the explorers. Then, we'll use the crystal bombs to take drastic measures.
"It's definitely not easy to implant information into the resolute explorers' brains. We believe that it will be the moment when the wisdom tree is at its weakest, and the success rate of our ambush will be the highest."
"That's it?"
Meng Chao frowned. "Before we can figure out whether everything in front of us is real or just an illusion, your plan is to pretend to be brainwashed by the wisdom tree and sneak closer to it to use crystal bombs to blow it up?"
"That's right. We were in a hurry, so we could only think of this plan," Lu Siya said.
"Even if everything in front of us is fake and even the crystal bombs we retrieved are fake, it's fine, because in the illusory world, imagination itself is a very powerful weapon.
"As long as we firmly believe in the existence of the crystal bombs, an explosion that only exists in our imagination can make our brainwaves surge to the max. Then, through the resonance of our brainwaves, we can wake up all our companions who are lost in their nightmares. In fact, we can even cause a powerful mental backlash to the mastermind."
Meng Chao was an expert in mind attacks.
He knew that Lu Siya was right.
Meng Chao thought about it for a while before he continued, "Do the newest exploration teams, the people who were lost in Peach Blossom Town with me, and Long Feijun and the others, know about your plan?"
"No." Lu Siya shook her head.
"You've only been here for a few days, and before I could find a chance to shake off the surveillance of the Peach Blossom Town citizens and contact you, the day of the harvest ceremony arrived.
"Now, I just hope that you're right and that Railway Cannon Long Feijun and the others aren't affected by the mastermind and still remember their mission. Once we start our operation, they will immediately work with us and destroy the Tree of Wisdom!"
"That's too risky …"
Meng Chao looked up and stared at the increasing number of semi-transparent and fluorescent tentacles that crawled out of the branches.
As if they had heard the humans' calls and the monsters' roars, the tentacles slowly lowered themselves and drew closer to the brains of the humans and monsters.
They looked like colorful venomous snakes, but also like parts of large glowing jellyfish. They also looked like the nerve bundles of some ancient creature that could not be seen.
The ends of the "nerve bundles" released thousands of colorful electrical arcs. They were like a bioelectricity net that covered the sky and earth, and they enveloped all the carbon-based lives under the wisdom tree.
"Big Sis Ya, don't be in a hurry to take action."
Meng Chao gritted his teeth. "Let me go and divert the wisdom tree's attention first."
Lu Siya was stunned. "What?"
"Your plan is too simple and risky. If the so-called wisdom tree in front of us is really the mastermind behind the monster civilization, I don't think that it will be so easy to blow it up," Meng Chao said.
"But you're right about one thing. When the enemy reveals its true intentions and launches its strongest mind attack, it will be at its weakest and most defenseless state.
"At that moment, if someone can divert its attention and use powerful brainwaves to interfere with its brain so that they can pin down its mind power, their chances of success will be much higher."
"That's too dangerous!" Lu Siya blurted out.
She paused for a moment before she added, "I mean, how can you be so sure that you can attract all of the wisdom tree's attention?"
"Because I'm the person who stopped the White Spirit, Earthquake, Demonic Abyss Eye, and the Vortex!"
Meng Chao's gaze was sharp, and he released great confidence and determination. "If you were the monster mastermind and ran into a person who stopped your plans multiple times and caused you to fall short of success, then took the initiative to jump into your trap, wouldn't you be very interested and do everything in your power to look into that person's mind? You'd even want to modify that person into your strongest puppet."
"That's …"
Lu Siya had nothing to say to that.
Meng Chao had not done this on a whim either. Instead, before he entered Hidden Fog, he had been planning to come into close contact with the monster mastermind.
In the beginning, when he had just returned to the past from the apocalypse, he thought that if he wanted to change Dragon City's fate, he just needed to win the Monster War in a simple and crude manner and reduce all the monsters to pulp.
But after he returned to the past, he came into contact with more secrets, especially the core secrets regarding the ancient ruins. It allowed him to gain a deeper understanding of the Other World, the war that was about to happen in the Other World, and the mysterious power that summoned Earthlings to this strange planet.
Destroying the monster civilization in a simple and crude manner was far from enough to help Dragon City win the war in the Other World.
They had to decipher the secrets of the monster mastermind to digest and absorb the monster civilization's power so that Dragon City's civilization could advance triumphantly.
Just what was the monster mastermind? Was it really the powerful human Jin Qianxi who fell into Red Dragon River and was corroded by the mysterious power in the fog and turned into a monster?
Why had Dragon City transmigrated and landed at the center of the basin surrounded by Monster Mountain Range? Was this a coincidence, or was it fate?
Where did the sinkhole come from? If it was really a sinkhole left behind by an attack from beyond the atmosphere during the ancient war billions of years ago, what was hidden in the sinkhole that was worth using such a terrifying space-based orbital weapon?
If the monster horde that filled the sky was man-made, could humans master this technology and mass-produce monsters on gene farms or assembly lines so that they could become a powerful supplement for the steel army?
The X-shaped eye that came from the depths of the ancient ruins had nothing to do with the birth of the monster civilization. It had to be known that the same picture had appeared in the Demonic Abyss Eye's memories, on Battle God Lei Zongchao's body, and on the back of the future Dark Witch's hand.
Could it be that the mysterious power that created the first Supernatural Entity had been in Dragon City for a long time?
Were the Monster War and the upcoming war in the Other World two separate wars, or was the former the prelude to the latter, and there was a dark and subtle connection between them?
He could only learn these secrets after he came into close contact with the monster mastermind.
But this sort of contact was a double-edged sword.
Meng Chao was still willing to take the gamble.
At the very least, the human army was accumulating strength at the perimeter of Hidden Fog.
Even if something went wrong on their side, the indiscriminate bombardment of the steel torrent could still remedy the situation.
"We don't have time to be conflicted, Big Sis Ya. You have to trust me."
Meng Chao looked above him and whispered, "Careful, those tentacles are coming!"
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