Just limited income.
What Awakener would love to watch his boring stream? Theyâd rather go for a walk outdoors themselves. Ordinary people donât have much Source Crystal, and after the apocalypse, their spending habits became even more conservative.
What? Youâre talking about the rich second generation? Awakening Second Generation?
Impossible!
If elders are powerful, even if itâs a pig, it can be turned into an Awakened Pig!
With Green Shadowâs technology, various Awakening Potions, Body Tempering Potions, and a complete set of auxiliary awakening processes... itâs already very mature. No matter how poor the qualification is, as long as you can spend Consuming Crystal, itâs not a problem.
After streaming for two or three months, Meng Kongâs livestream was neither alive nor dead.
Until he participated in the mission to explore the New World.
Initially, he was just to earn some rewards, killing a few attacking Mutant Beasts during the city-building missions.
But at some moment,
Meng Kong accidentally discovered that the New Continent had a network connection, it actually had internet!
The costly livestream equipment he purchased was also carried with him!
Overwhelmed with excitement, he directly started streaming, changed the name to "Shocking, So This Is The New Continent", and within a few minutes, the stream attracted a large audience.
The ones most curious about the New Continent were none other than those adventurers who signed up but couldnât be among the first to land.
They are desperate to know about the New Continent!
More and more adventurers assisted in building the city, and they were not limited to defending near the city walls but moved forward according to their assigned defense areas, clearing all threatening entities within their range.
"Look, thatâs a Ghost Face Tree. Newcomers might not know, on the New Continent, besides the Mutant Beasts, Demon Plants are also common. Theyâre slower, but at the same level, theyâre more dangerous than the Mutant Beasts. The Ghost Face Tree is a Demon Plant with mental attacks!"
"But according to our research, the Ghost Face Tree has dull perception. Itâs only discovered when you step within a 500-meter radius. It emits a piercing wail that can cause mental confusion, coma, or even brain death... Of course, its mental impact is nothing to this streamer."
Meng Kong still chose to stop 600 meters away from the Ghost Face Tree according to his instincts.
The streaming equipment behind him â a sphere with floating capabilities, zoomed in and the audience clearly saw the 20 to 30-meter-tall, gray, almost leafless tree trunk, with a twisted human face emerging.
"The Ghost Face Tree fears not fire, but lightning."
Meng Kong took out a one-time throwing spear from the Space Backpack, rubbing the spear shaft.
Buzzâ
Strands of blue-purple arcs emerged on the spear, crackling with electricity. Meng Kongâs muscles bulged, his left foot stomped the ground, and his right arm grasped the electrified spear and threw it fiercely.
The spear wrapped in blazing lightning streaked across the 600-meter distance, hitting the ghostly face on the tree trunk, piercing right through, then exploded violently.
"Hissâ"
A sharp wailing resounded, Meng Kong had already retreated 800 meters away, covering his ears, moments later, the wailing completely dissipated, and the tree trunk cracked, leaving only a stump. He rushed forward and rummaged through the broken trunk, finally extracting a round object.
"Nice! This is a Demon Plant Tree Heart, at least worth a thousand Source Crystals!"
Meng Kongâs eyes shone brightly.
Streaming took off, New World exploration kept discovering treasures, thatâs double the joy!
But when he turned and looked at the streaming chat, he was instantly dumbfounded.
What floated up were all jealous and sour comments, no one was giving him Floating Chariots or Floating Airships anymore.
This is the price of expansion.
...
Building a city on the New Continent is in full swing, and several kilometers away from the city, in the jungle, a pair of emerald green eyes were hidden.
Swoosh!
A figure leaped down from the treetops.
He was covered in dense fur, with claws on both hands and feet, his body was thin but agile, dressed in beast skin clothes, with a few feathers sticking on his head.
It was a Gnoll.
"Elder, what suddenly appeared at the shoreline were some hairless apes."
The old Gnoll walked out from the jungle, also dressed in beast skin clothes, hunchbacked.
"Hairless apes?"
"Yes, they are similar to those Ape-men but smaller and without fur, very ugly."
The Gnoll was disdainful, "But those hairless apes seem strong; theyâve killed many Mutant Beasts and Demon Plants, and they built very tall, very tall city walls. I didnât dare get close."
The old Gnoll pondered.
The Gnoll warrior before him belonged to the tribeâs elite, second only to the chieftain, high priest, and some elders.
But he still believed those hairless apes were strong.
The place where the hairless apes appeared was only two or three daysâ journey from the Gnoll tribe, too close, too close.
This would inevitably further compress the tribeâs living space.
"Elder..."
The old Gnoll said in a deep voice, "Letâs return to the tribe first, those hairless apes came bizarrely, we need to rely on the high priestâs wisdom."
Dozens of Gnolls swiftly left.
...
A few miles away,
the members of the Far Voyage Adventure Group were inside a cave opened by Earth Series magic, surrounded by a simple concealment array.
Isolating aura, isolating detection.
One of them, a young man wearing glasses and looking unkempt, operated a crystal brain with his hand like an illusion.
The crystal brain screen split into several visuals, there were towering peaks like swords, a willow demon plant dropping countless vines over a hundred meters high, all moving at a moderate speed, outlining a three-dimensional terrain map, and some places were circled in red, marking danger zones where Transcendent-tier demon plants and mutant beasts appeared.
The man with the glasses had a mechanical modification ability, focusing on mechanical support. Although this style is niche, it has mature inheritance in Green Shadow City.
It bears some resemblance to puppet techniques.
He dispatched many mechanical reconnaissance drones to explore the surroundings. The drones had no aura, and the visuals were relayed through several layers, preventing enemies from having the "being watched" feeling during investigation. Many Transcendent-tier mutant beasts and demon plants didnât even notice... just casually crushed the drones.
Even if ninety percent of the reconnaissance drones were lost, the remaining ten percent still brought much information to the Far Voyage Adventure Group.
He Yuanhang and the others focused on one of the visuals, and through the flickering trees, they saw a group of upright figures.
Alien races!
Gnolls!
"New continent, how can there be alien races? Werenât they all exterminated?!"
"Wait, take a closer look, those Gnolls arenât quite the same as the alien races under the Devil Race."
Itâs known that alien races under the Devil Race, aside from having distinct auras, often have eyes emitting a scarlet glow, but that group of Gnolls has ghostly green pupils, clearly different.
"And they canât be Reincarnators either, first, from the information I learned from a friend, Reincarnators are scarce, usually in groups of three to five, and that group of Gnolls has dozens. Second, those Gnolls are too weak; going by their displayed strength, theyâre not even Transcendent-tier. How could Reincarnators be this weak?"
After a round of analysis, He Yuanhang was quite satisfied, and the others nodded repeatedly, apparently not wanting to think.
"So hereâs the question, why are there alien races on the new continent? Could it be that our Earth is a multi-racial planet?"
He Yuanhang pondered, resting his chin on his hand.
He Yuanhang scratched his head in thought.
He Yuanhang looked at his teammates, "Letâs follow them, find their tribe, and persuade their chieftain, then weâll know everything!"
...
The Gnoll elder, along with the tribeâs warriors, advanced in a roundabout way, avoiding territories of many powerful creatures, and finally returned to the Gnoll tribe, a place adjacent to a river, with fertile land but not a high concentration of Source Qi.
The Gnoll elder brought the strongest warrior with him to find the chieftain and high priest, informing them of everything.
"Hairless apes? Appearing suddenly?"
The chieftain frowned and could only look to the side, to the hunched, sparsely-haired, and coughing high priest.
The high priest was the wisest in the tribe, and the Gnoll tribe had relied on the high priestâs guidance to survive amidst the adversity of mutant beasts and demon plants many times.
This generationâs high priest was already very old, and the new generation hadnât grown up yet.
The chieftain was worried, but the hairless apes came with great menace, possibly more threatening than mutant beasts and demon plants, so they had to ask for the high priestâs intervention.
The high priest had closed his eyes, and the ancient scepter in his hand tapped the ground in a rhythm of varying speeds.
"Thump thump~ thump thump thump~~"
It could have been a minute, or maybe ten minutes.
The high priest opened his eyes, and amidst his murky gaze, there was a hint of clarity. He moved his lips slightly, his voice light and hoarse:
"The god... has returned."
After speaking, his aura completely dissipated, standing still with the scepter like a stone sculpture.
Yet his eyes remained open, reflecting the future.