At this moment, our men are only using bows and arrows for ranged attacks. The main source of damage comes from the falling rocks from both sides of the cliff, which can greatly reduce the casualties caused by our direct confrontation with Haru.

This time we directly annihilated Haru's main force. Without the support of the main force, Haru's remnants could only flee in panic, but I don't believe they were afraid and were simply preserving their strength.

Afterwards, we entered Haru's settlement, where I found many adult grayish-white mushrooms.

I tried to test the effects of these mushrooms, so I fed one of them to a mouse. Before long, the mouse, like the crazed Haru, had all its physical abilities enhanced.

Later, I tried eating some myself. This mushroom can temporarily affect and paralyze the central nervous system of the brain, preventing people from feeling pain. This is also the main reason why those Haru people are so fearless.

However, that's not the main point. At first, I thought those grayish-white mushrooms were just a kind of poisonous mushroom that Haru had accidentally found. I thought that planting them was just to give them an advantage in the fight against us.

But a few days after we left, a patch of Procyonella grew there.

It was then that I realized where these Protozoa came from; they need to combine with spores on adult Protozoa to undergo secondary growth and become their final form.

What this mysterious man wrote next made my eyes widen. He wrote on the bamboo slips:

We discovered an ancient stone house near this pine forest. I have no way of knowing how old it is, but the craftsmanship of the stone house is extremely exquisite, and I estimate that only the pyramids can compare with it.

I went inside and saw that it seemed to be an altar, with a complete stone tablet standing on it.

Later, I discovered Sumerian cuneiform script on the stone tablet. I then copied the script from the stone tablet and brought it back to my tribe for research.

The above records some accounts of a mythical civilization that created numerous prehistoric civilizations more than 700 million years ago.

The most crucial information inside is the record about Protozoa, a creature created by the gods that is more successful than humans.

The landforms of hundreds of millions of years ago were shaped by them, and many of their genes are also found in the DNA of plants and animals.

In fact, this *Prosopaena* is related to the evolution of the vast majority of organisms on Earth. It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that it single-handedly manipulated the development of several eras.

Among them were intelligent humans in the form of mantises who appeared hundreds of millions of years ago. However, these mantis-like beings, who considered themselves intelligent, were merely tools secretly and invisibly manipulated by the original cypress.

The inscription on the stone tablet states that the creator god, fearing that the Protoceras molluscs were evolving too quickly, destroyed them all and created us to replace the Protoceras molluscs and the series of civilizations that they derived from.

Our development trend did not frighten God; my evolution was a form of reverse evolution in God's plan.

Our lifespan has gradually decreased from tens of thousands of years to thousands of years, and eventually even to only a few hundred years. This means that we are destined to face the judgment of destruction one day.

Ultimately, we are nothing more than tools of God, and God will not allow tools to surpass Him.

But in the end, for some unknown reason, the gods abandoned this world, space began to fall into chaos, and the previously destroyed Harasuga was revived.

The writing abruptly ends there, and some of the following content seems to have been deliberately erased; that information was perhaps something even the Sumerian civilization could not reveal.

………

However, having read this far, I've been able to piece together all the mysterious events that have occurred here.

My general guess is this:

More than ten years ago, a modern human accidentally entered this world. In order to find his way back, he began to wander around this world and collect useful information.

This modern man then encountered the Asada tribe and joined them.

For some reason, the tribe and the Haru had a conflict, and the tribe won in the end, establishing their own settlement on this land.

The modern man stumbled upon ancient writing on a rock face and deciphered its contents.

Next, Haru went berserk and attacked the tribespeople, and the two sides began to fight. At this time, a down-on-their-luck indigenous tribe sought help, and together they defeated Haru.

Furthermore, more information about ancient civilizations was discovered at their habitat, although it seems there are no records of them on the stone tablets here.

There are actually two such stone tablets. The other one is in a sinkhole in the eastern forest. Perhaps it was recorded later, but it was erased by someone.

Moreover, they didn't seem to discover the secret hidden in the stone house, a secret that Dante discovered by accident.

What exactly is under that stone slab? Is there a similar stone slab inside this stone house?

Everyone just watched me, no one disturbing my thoughts, until I slowly closed the bamboo scroll, and then Dante spoke.

"Sir, can you understand what's written on it? What does it say?"

I breathed a sigh of relief and solemnly said to Dante.

"Dante, tell the chief that we'll probably have to go check out the stone house they found tomorrow."

"Huh? A stone house?"

Dante looked at me with some doubt, his eyes filled with shock.

Next, I shared the information from the bamboo slips with everyone. Some of the things in the slips were new to the leader, which greatly surprised him.

I shared my speculation with everyone that those seemingly mute *Gynostemma pentaphyllum* might possess wisdom unknown to us.

Its vast and dense underground hyphae can emit electrical signals just like neurons in the brain, and these signals can be transformed into information if arranged in a reasonable manner.

One of the organisms that supports this theory is *Hylocereus polycephalus*.

The multicephalopoda is a fascinating organism. It feeds on fungal spores, bacteria, other microorganisms, or fragments of organic matter, and prefers starchy foods and mushrooms.

They possess a unique "external spatial memory" ability, which allows them to avoid repeating previously traveled paths when moving.

It can navigate mazes and anticipate periodic events;

They can learn to ignore harmful substances and remember this behavior for up to a year. When encountering harmful substances at different distances, they will prioritize choosing the shortest path to effectively avoid them.

All of this shows that mushrooms, which we have been overlooking, actually possess intelligence comparable to that of higher organisms, and some may even surpass it.

Everyone was speechless after hearing my speech. Could mushrooms really be smarter than humans?

I didn't care about everyone's opinions; I just continued to express my thoughts. If this *Prorocentrum cylindrica* is truly as recorded on the stone tablet, then this thing must possess a high level of wisdom.

In this way, Haru, the enemy we have been facing all along, may also be one of the unwitting victims in this whole affair.