Lin Yiran: Anyway, she won't hand over the task.

He then looked at Wu Yongde beside him and sincerely thanked him: "Thank you for telling me this news, Brother Wu. I will keep an eye on it. However, it won't be so easy for them to take this mission from me. If they dare to come, I will make them regret it!"

Xiaoman: "Sister, you still need to be careful. This Cheetah Mercenary Group is protected by the Emperor's Domination Mercenary Group. Generally, no one dares to mess with them. I estimate that they will be upgraded to a Level 3 mercenary team after the competition. Sister, you can't underestimate them. You'd better be careful. Moreover, there is an S-level mental power warrior named Zhou Ling in their team. His strength is not to be underestimated. He is also a captain. You need to be even more careful. His mental power attacks are very powerful. In severe cases, they can directly turn a person into an idiot!"

But she was still worried.

"Brother, how about we skip the mission and escort Miss Lin out instead? I'm afraid they might really hurt her."

Wu Yongde: "Miss Lin?"

Lin Yiran didn't hesitate. "It's alright, we'll deal with whatever comes our way. Let's take it one step at a time. Let's split up, I still need to do that S-rank mission, so I won't chat with you anymore. But don't worry, I have a way to deal with them."

Wu Yongde couldn't stop Lin Yiran either. He knew that Lin Yiran had an advantage in the Forest of Hope, so he wasn't too worried. Instead, a thought vaguely rose in his mind: what if Lin Yiran could defeat the Cheetah Mercenary Group?

However, he immediately shook his head in fright. The thought was too terrifying. The people in the Cheetah Mercenary Group were not to be trifled with. It was already good enough that Lin Yiran could take down a few people. To take down everyone, including that S-rank captain Zhou Ling? That seemed impossible.

"Oh, by the way, Miss Lin, please accept this!" Then, before Lin Yiran left, he slipped a small bomb into her hand.

"This is a bomb I got in exchange for the core of the mutated green bean you killed last time. It's quite powerful; you can keep it."

Lin accepted their kindness and then continued on her way.

She accidentally stepped on some plant vines on the road, and annoyed by their entanglement, she had no choice but to remove all the vines that had bothered her. She obtained the cores of more than a dozen mutated plants.

Soon, they arrived at the area where the pine and camphor trees stood.

This is on the shore of a lake. The water in the middle is a vibrant emerald green, and you can vaguely see tiny fish swimming in the clear water. A pine and camphor forest grows in a circle around the lake.

Lin Yiran walked along the path, looking at the towering pine and camphor trees. In her palm were four or five crystal cores. After absorbing them all at once, the originally golden crystal cores shattered into white powder and fell into the soil. Her dantian's ability level had recovered to 60%, and she was now a fourth-tier metal-type ability user.

Then Lin Yiran drew her large machete and hunting knife and rushed forward quickly.

A fourth-tier metal-type ability should have been enough to chop down the trunks of these pine and camphor trees. Unfortunately, the moment Lin Yiran's large cleaver touched the branches of the pine and camphor trees, it triggered the trees' ability to turn people into hedgehogs.

In an instant, thousands of pine needles flew towards Lin Yiran with the force of a thousand pounds. Lin Yiran hurriedly used her large cleaver to block them, but she only heard a loud 'clang' as the sound of the pine needles hitting her cleaver was so piercing!

Just like the sound of metal striking metal, the "sizzle" at the end makes your eardrums hurt.

This clearly shows that the pine needles are as hard as, or even harder than, an embroidery needle.

"Host, this is a sixth-order mutated plant, so it's normal for it to have enhancements in its body."

These words forced Lin Yiran to take the situation seriously, belatedly realizing that she was facing a sixth-tier mutated plant today! Unlike the mutated plants she had faced before, except for the tenth-tier mutated sedge! The sixth-tier mutated plant was already the highest level among the mutated plants she had ever encountered.

It has to be said that it is indeed powerful; the sheer density and relentless barrage of flying needles alone exhausted Lin Yiran.

She summoned all her knives, which spun rapidly around her, fast enough to form a small barrier that blocked all the pine needles. Then, she used her supernatural power to wield the hunting knife and slashed directly at the tree trunk.

After the loud clang, Lin Yiran's wrist ached from the impact, and she realized just how hard the pine and camphor tree trunk was.

What should we do? This hunting knife, made of some unknown material, couldn't even hold the tree trunk, and other knives bent their blades when they touched it.

After chopping a few times but only making a few small cuts in the tree trunk, Lin Yiran simply asked the system, "101, do you sell any weapons for cutting down trees? I want to buy some!"

System 101 was overjoyed and immediately opened a pop-up window in front of Lin Yiran, which contained various tree-cutting weapons with marked prices. The lowest price was five popularity points, while the highest-level laser cutter cost fifty popularity points each.

"Yes, we have laser cutters that cost fifty popularity points each. They cut trees as fast as cutting vegetables! Would you like one, host?"

Lin Yiran took a breath and decisively chose the laser cutter worth five popularity points.

"No, a laser cutter that costs five popularity points isn't durable. It'll break after at most three uses. Host, why didn't you buy a better one? You can't be so stingy! You can earn popularity points again."

Lin Yiran ignored its babbling and replied, "Your price is too high, fifty popularity points each? A weapon of this level would only cost a million star coins, right? There's no need to buy something so good. I'll just use this one with five popularity points."

She's still too poor right now, so her main focus is on saving money wherever possible.

The system had no choice but to give Lin Yiran a laser cutter worth five popularity points. After receiving the cutter, which looked like a black flashlight, Lin Yiran held the laser and pressed the button on the handle. A yellow laser blade then protruded from that end, and she aimed the laser weapon at the sixth-tier pine tree.

The trunks of the pine and camphor trees were immediately covered with sawdust.

This thing is like a chainsaw; if you keep applying force, you can cut the tree trunk. Sensing the pain, the pine and camphor tree struggled even more fiercely, but unfortunately, there was nothing Lin Yiran could do, and she resolutely took its life.

Then, with a loud crash, the massive pine tree trunk fell to the ground, startling a flock of birds in the distance, as well as other pine trees of different grades that were closest to it.

Those pine and camphor trees seemed to have gone mad, launching needles at Lin Yiran as if they were afraid they would be the next unlucky ones.

Lin ignored the flying needles and, carrying the laser cutter, headed towards another sixth-tier pine and camphor tree.

But then I heard the sound of bullets whizzing through the air behind me!

She turned around quickly and looked back.