Landing 500 Years Early, I Became a God by Digging for Treasures 120

Chapter 119: Methods of Defeating the Monster

Lu Yuan wondered if the Monster followed the theory of evolution. From an evolutionary standpoint, the Monster’s setup seemed illogical.

Finally, Old Cat, hidden in his backpack, spoke up: “You’re thinking wrong. The Monster’s true goal isn’t to kill, but to select stronger servants.”

“Don’t think the Astral Space is invincible. There are always abilities in the world that can break through Astral Spaces.”

“Therefore, the Monster’s strength is closely related to the servants it enslaves. Right now, this Monster only keeps Rize civilization as servants, and even you, a human warrior, can’t defeat it.”

“Once it ‘raises’ stronger races, killing this human warrior will be a matter of minutes.”

“So its way of thinking must be inclined towards raising and enslaving, not directly killing.”

“Killing is meaningless to it.”

Lu Yuan rolled his eyes. Old Cat, do you have to put it down like that? What do you mean it only keeps the Rize civilization as servants?

The Rize people felt embarrassed. They were already desperate, and now they were being looked down upon… those controlled Rize people were their former compatriots.

However, Old Cat’s analysis did make sense.

“Each small monster here possesses its own abilities; some even possess Divine Techniques.”

“Your Rize people’s superpowers aren’t that widespread, are they?”

Tadu shook his head: “The percentage of those born with superpowers is about one-eighth. Most people’s abilities are very weak, barely worth mentioning.”

“That means the Monster does some selection,” Old Cat said coldly. “Individuals with powerful skills become its servants.”

“Those without skills, or with weak combat abilities, might be killed and become food.”

“Therefore, you few with powerful superpowers are quite attractive to the Monster. It wants to capture you as servants.”

The faces of the many Rize people weren’t pretty.

But it sounded somewhat reasonable.

The strength of a Monster and a Demon are on two different levels. Both have the potential for growth, but the Monster always hides in the shadows and never launches a frontal attack.

“From another perspective, if you simply use the Astral Space to trap enemies to death, it takes an extremely long time, and eventually, it might become unsustainable,” Old Cat continued. “The Monster also needs idealistic energy…”

It suddenly cried out: “Wait, I’ve figured out how to kill a Monster!!”

“How?”

“Through a prolonged war of attrition, first try to kill all its servants,” Old Cat said. “Once the army entering the cave shows signs of being mentally controlled, immediately use explosives to self-destruct!”

“Once the Monster is without servants, its combat power will plummet. Like a chess game with only a lone commander left, its combat power will naturally be limited.”

“You must understand that growing eyes on one’s body definitely consumes energy. With long-term consumption, it will also die due to energy depletion.”

Lu Yuan fell silent, touching the eyeball on his butt.

What kind of civilization could be so resolute as to willingly use human lives to deplete a strange phenomenon?

It’s difficult.

Current humanity certainly couldn’t do it.

Several Rize people were also silent, their civilization equally incapable…because they didn’t have that many experts.

After being enslaved by the Monster, the combat power of these servants would skyrocket, possessing abilities such as “mental spikes” and “one-second Astral Space.”

Their current population size and productivity couldn’t support a protracted war of attrition.

Lu Yuan shook his head: “Your method makes some sense. However, the Rize people now don’t even have Transcendent Fire Seeds. Sending a large army in would only result in collective madness.”

A Rize person said disappointedly: “Yes, this method is unrealistic… the rear will not agree, the stakes are too high.”

Old Cat nodded, and said indifferently: “In short, selecting powerful servants is the Monster’s innate instinct. Especially in the early era, time is precious. If it consistently fails to obtain powerful servants, over a long era, there’s always a chance of failure.”

“This innate instinct is its behavioral motivation.”

“Just as every Demon will possess, yearning for a powerful body, every Monster has an Astral Space, hoping to obtain powerful servants.”

“We must proceed from this angle to speculate on the strange phenomenon’s thinking.”

Old Cat had a wild idea: “Actually, the Astral Space ability is quite useful. If we could capture a Monster alive…it could protect civilization and calmly lift the safety zone.”

Lu Yuan raised an eyebrow: “Is there really a civilization that can capture this thing alive?”

Old Cat: “I’m just guessing. Compared to the strongest strange phenomena, it’s like a baby, at least you’ve been here for half a day and haven’t died, which is strong evidence.”

Lu Yuan’s eyelids twitched several times, wanting to strangle this fat cat. With outsiders present, couldn’t you give a little face?

The few Rize people were sweating profusely.

Some of this conversation was in human language, which they didn’t understand, but they did understand Old Cat’s language.

Keywords like “Demon” and “Monster” made their heads spin.

But this information was truly precious; they memorized it and had the telepaths transmit it.

“Old Cat, our think tank has asked through telepathy, will the Monster’s intelligence slowly increase over time?”

“I have that memory… but the process is slow, calculated in hundreds or thousands of years, not something that increases in a short time. So don’t worry too much.” Old Cat slightly shook its head, its cat eyes reflecting the blazing fire.

“In that case, according to your previous analysis, the Monster’s intelligence may stem from two possibilities.”

Tadu let out a deep sigh.

“The first possibility is that it gains intelligence by eating intelligent beings.”

“That is, the special attribute of ‘god’ may contain higher idealistic energy, allowing it to undergo subtle evolution.”

“The second possibility is that it may be a hive-mind organism…the Monster’s core and the series of servants it controls form a hive mind with intelligence.”

“This can also explain why it sets so many layers, instead of simply trapping the enemy to death.”

“A hive mind tends to expand itself; killing one person is not very meaningful. The number and types of servants can enhance its intelligence.”

“In addition, the eyeballs growing on us may be like sensors…the more eyes, the greater the hive’s influence on us.”

“It is because of the information transmitted by these eyes that the monsters here can anticipate our movements, greatly increasing the difficulty of battle…”

“The wolf by your side isn’t parasitized by eyes, which is evidence. Because it’s too stupid, the existence of such low-intelligence individuals might affect the hive’s overall intelligence, making it an object of rejection.”

The hive mind has a “queen,” a central will, and other sub-individuals with semi-independent consciousness.

Individuals must, to a certain extent, obey the highest consciousness; disobedient individuals will be eliminated to prevent the whole from collapsing.

But conversely, other sub-individuals will also affect the hive’s overall intelligence.

“Makes sense…so the monster’s preemptive attacks and the collective Astral Space are provided by the hive mind?” Lu Yuan stroked his chin.

This information was naturally analyzed by the think tank in the rear.

Every civilization has brilliant minds, especially technological civilizations, which are always good at turning the unknown into the known.

Even if the conclusion isn’t necessarily correct, it always tends towards the correct path.

Lu Yuan let out a soft sigh. If he imagined the dense eyes as “hive network sensors,” it didn’t seem so terrifying anymore?

However, even if the real conclusion was guessed, it didn’t matter much.

Because they couldn’t enter deeper.

As long as they couldn’t go deeper and kill the Monster’s core body, they couldn’t win this battle.

“Even if we did enter the deepest level, what could kill a Monster?” Lu Yuan pondered his trump cards.

The Monster’s true form is of unknown strength; overestimating it is never wrong.

He carefully considered it.

The first is to turn himself into a Demon. The Demon’s Shadow of the Heavens possesses abilities like “dark teleportation” and “shadow tentacles,” making it like a fish in water in this ghost place. As long as the Demon can see the Monster’s true form, killing it shouldn’t be a problem.

The second is to use that drop of Ghost blood.

He picked up the mass of sickly green resin; the Ghost’s blood, like tadpoles, wriggled inside.

Seeming to sense the life force outside, it emitted a chilling coldness.

“Using a strange phenomenon to fight a strange phenomenon…no.”

What nonsense Great Earth Mother God, it’s clearly the terrifying Ghost.

Once the Ghost’s blood is released, the consequences are unpredictable…Lu Yuan didn’t dare to gamble; this involved the most terrifying natural disaster, and his understanding of the Ghost was incomplete.

As for the third option, he could only use high-explosive bombs and other technological weapons…

The Rize warriors did bring some bombs in.

But could simply using high-explosive bombs kill a Monster?

Technological weapons are quite powerful; if Lu Yuan were to take a high-explosive bomb, he would either die or be injured. If the Monster took several, it would also die.

“It seems I can only choose the third method…but I can’t give up the first and second methods either…”

Lu Yuan thought for a while and didn’t find a surefire way to win.

He finally understood why some people would willingly eat the remains of a Demon; they were all forced into it.

He now faced the same choice.

“If possible, hold on a little longer,” Old Cat suddenly said, “The time flow ratio between this place and the Pangu Continent is 1:100. Wait a few more days.”

Lu Yuan frowned slightly and nodded.

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