Gao Peng wanted to upgrade Da Zi, but after looking up the price of the materials needed to upgrade Da Zi, Gao Peng temporarily gave up on the idea. Monster trainers were not a profession that ordinary people could afford. Now, just the meat that Da Zi ate every day was enough to make Gao Peng feel the pinch.
The most expensive materials needed to upgrade Da Zi were the crystal cores of Level-10 and above Thunder Attribute monsters. The price was at least 10 Alliance Credits.
Alliance Credits were a high-level currency that all the countries on Earth Star had united to form the New World Alliance two years ago. The old currencies of all the countries on Earth Star had been abolished, and they were unified into two currencies set by the New World Alliance Government: Alliance Dollars and Alliance Credits.
Alliance Credits were a high-level currency that was based on Alliance Dollars. They could be exchanged directly with Alliance Dollars. Ten thousand Alliance Dollars could be exchanged for one Alliance Credit.
Now, the currency used by ordinary people was Alliance Dollars. The main group of people who used Alliance Credits were Monster Trainers, major financial groups, and the higher-ups of the New World Alliance Government. It was said that Alliance Credits were just a number to the truly powerful people. Those powerful people were all particular about bartering.
Now that they were in the new era, monsters had all kinds of strange abilities. Moreover, the materials of monsters were far more valuable than most of the various metal and polymer materials on Earth Star.
The materials of these monsters were extremely valuable, but it was not easy to obtain them. This was not a game, but the real world. There was no resurrection, no health potions, and if you died, you would die. If you wanted to obtain materials from a monster, you would have to go into the wilderness, or even into other worlds to fight these monsters.
In the process, if you were not careful, you would encounter all kinds of accidents. This was not a game dungeon! No monster would stay in a fixed place. It was possible to encounter a King-tier monster in an ordinary suburb. Of course, this was about the same as winning the lottery for a month in a row.
One could only infer that a certain monster would live in a certain area based on the collected habits of monsters and what they had seen and heard.
A year ago, there was a big incident that shocked Earth Star. A famous high-tech company on Earth Star spent a lot of money to hire a top Monster Trainer in the world. This Monster Trainer had two extremely powerful Commander-level Monster Trainers.
What the high-tech company needed was only the body parts of an ordinary Commander-tier monster.
However, two days after the Monster Trainer led his two familiars deep into the forest, a terrifying roar of a dragon erupted from the forest. Through the images captured by the drone in the sky, they could clearly see that in the middle of the forest filled with towering trees, a terrifying giant beast had raised its head — a dragon!
The iron-black spiral horn on its forehead indicated that this giant beast was not a real dragon. According to ancient Chinese mythology, it should be a horned dragon with a horn on its head.
Even so, the image captured by the drone shocked the world.
The mythical beast from the ancient myths had actually descended into the human world!
The popularity of this incident completely overshadowed all the other major events in the world at the time. Everyone was talking about this incident. Some people were panicking, some were excited, and some were ambitious. However, the monster trainer who entered the forest never made it out alive.
Before this Monster Trainer went deep into the forest, no one would have thought that there would be a King-tier horned dragon in the middle of this seemingly ordinary forest!
Before this, the strongest monster that had been found in this forest was Commander-tier. There was not even a single Lord-tier monster. This incident became a wake-up call for everyone in the world, making them realize the unpredictability of the wild.
Even now, the middle of the forest was still a forbidden area. No one dared to go deep into the forest. Even if they did, they would only rush past the periphery, for fear of disturbing the terrifying existence in the middle of the forest.
Therefore, it was not easy to obtain a Monster Core Crystal. This also caused the price of Monster Core Crystals to remain high.
Monster Core Crystals could be absorbed by other monsters to promote their evolution. This was an open secret that was discovered long ago. Therefore, no matter how many Monster Core Crystals there were, they would never be enough.
As for the military's use of missiles and cannons to eliminate monsters, during the early stages of the Cataclysm, humans still relied on these firearms to fight against monsters. However, they soon realized that although these weapons could quickly eliminate mid-tier and low-tier monsters, they were not effective against the truly powerful monsters. They could only hurt and enrage them.
Moreover, most of the monsters killed by the missiles and cannons had been blasted into smithereens. Most of the materials had been destroyed, and only a portion of the hard materials and the monster's Crystal Core remained. It was impossible to obtain materials by killing low-level monsters in large numbers.
Of course, it was also because of the large number of Monster Cores obtained in the early stages that the first batch of monster trainers' familiars grew so quickly. They fought against monsters together and protected humanity's homeland.
Following the Cataclysm, humans also realized that the Earth Star was constantly growing and expanding. Because of the early stages of the Cataclysm, all the satellites in the sky were destroyed. This caused humans to be unable to observe the changes in the Earth Star from the sky.
It was not until two years after the Cataclysm that the aftermath of the spatial turbulence in the sky gradually stabilized that humans began to launch satellites again. It was then that humans realized that the Earth Star had become unfamiliar to them.
The surface area of the entire Earth Star had expanded by several times! Moreover, this number was still increasing at a slow pace!
The areas where humans lived did not change much. The real changes were in the forests, rivers, valleys, and areas where humans rarely set foot after the Cataclysm. Looking down from space, the Earth Star had completely turned into a green planet.
All kinds of terrain had changed drastically. The planet that humans were once familiar with had suddenly become unfamiliar.
What was even more frightening was that there were cracks on this planet that led to other worlds. Although the information about these worlds was a taboo for the upper echelons of humanity, it was still like a sharp sword hanging over their heads. It made humans understand that danger could befall them at any time. They were not completely safe.
Gao Peng, who was worried for nothing, fell asleep on the sofa. The tentacles on the top of Da Zi's head swayed. Then, it slowly crawled into the bedroom. Its huge mandibles grabbed the blanket on the bed and dragged it into the living room with great effort. Its purple-black carapace shook and rubbed against the blanket, producing a sonorous sound. It was like a taut arrow being released from a bow!
Da Zi stood up, the blanket tightly held in its mouth. Then, it was dragged out and flung onto Gao Peng's body.
With its front limbs on the ground, Da Zi's body shook as it shrank back under the sofa. Its thousand legs curled up together as it hid on the cold floor.
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