Because of the werewolf's excessive sharpness, when Xie Tianlang finally emerged from the deserted forest, he had two very clear scratch marks on his face.
Although the initially irritable honey badger Fugui could only reach the werewolf's knees when it jumped up, the werewolf couldn't resist the subtle guilt and unease in its heart, and finally took the initiative to bend down and let the honey badger Fugui slap its face hard.
Although he was scratched, Xie Langren still firmly believed that his Fugui was still very measured. Although it wasn't to the point of "hitting is affection" or "scolding is love," Fugui could have easily scratched his face to pieces, but in the end, he only left two light scratch marks.
That's probably what thoughtfulness is all about!
Then, Xie Tianlang, who had been scratched, led his family's wealth towards the sealed-off valley. According to Xie Tianlang's memory, the place with the golden flower field in the Savage Valley was in the southwest of the valley, and they now needed to head southwest from the east.
However, once you head that way, you'll inevitably encounter people who share the same desire for the valley and the golden flower fields.
The closest base to the southwest region of Golden Flower in Savage Valley is the American Forces, whose overall strength is slightly higher than that of Washington State.
With Honey Badger Fugui perched on Xie Tianlang's shoulder, he soon spotted American soldiers with guns facing off against a group of men in black suits who were also armed.
Xie Tianlang paused in his tracks when he saw this from afar, then slightly turned around and hid behind a large tree, where he began to eavesdrop openly.
"Richard's family! We've already told you this place is under our guard and sealed off! No one who isn't from our American base is allowed to approach. Don't you understand our warning?!"
One of the soldiers, holding a gun, spoke up angrily.
But the man in black confronting them shrugged dismissively, even with a hint of mockery: "Do you really think you're the world's police? Trying to meddle in every little thing? Do you think the whole world is your territory?"
"Open your eyes and look carefully. This is the forest of Latin America in Africa! It's not your place to be the world's policeman here! We've taken over this territory, and considering the environment, we're not going to fight you. But don't even think about taking over all the good places around this valley."
"The world is almost at its end, and the living dead are everywhere. What matters now is weapons and manpower, right? You have a lot of people, but look at your chaotic place. How many of them are truly obedient and willing to fight to the death? Our Richard family has been in Europe for hundreds of years. Do you really want to be our enemy?"
"Moreover," the leader of the men in black smiled, "it's not just members of the Richard family who have come here."
"Friends hiding behind trees and bushes, don't you agree?"
Xie Tianlang raised his eyebrows, and the honey badger, Fugui, perched on Xie Tianlang's shoulder and scratched its neck with its paw. "That Richard family seems pretty powerful."
Most importantly, they also have brains and know how to gather "allies" with common goals.
Xie Tianlang reached out and stroked the shiny, smooth fur of his flat-headed, wealthy dog. He looked at the many people from other factions emerging from behind the trees and bushes and smirked: "More people is good, it's more suitable for us to fish in troubled waters."
"Those American soldiers definitely can't stop these people from sealing off this place now. Shall we go and see what they're up to, and what methods they have?"
With that, Xie Tianlang led Honey Badger Fugui out from behind the tree and blended seamlessly into the group.
If it were just a matter of dealing with the Richard family's forces in Europe, the American soldiers could still forcefully block the valley passage that leads directly to the Golden Flower Fields.
But now several different forces have arrived, all wanting to pick flowers through the valley passage. No matter how powerful the American soldiers are, they can't afford to make enemies everywhere. They don't have Dr. Sanchez's Tier 1 vaccine or the Golden Flower Field as leverage, so after a stalemate of several minutes, the American soldiers finally gave up on blocking the valley passage.
But they didn't feel too much resentment, after all—
"Heh, so what if we don't seal this place off? The entrance to the passage is still covered by that corrosive net of mental toxins. Can you break through this corrosive net without harming the Golden Flower Field?"
"Even if you have a special way to destroy the poison network, there are at least thirty Sanchek's research institute mercenaries guarding the Golden Flower Field at the exit of the passage. That damned Sanchek has said that anyone who trespasses into the Golden Flower Field will be shot without cause. If necessary, he doesn't mind destroying the flower field in a desperate attempt."
"I refuse to believe you have any way to steal the Golden Flower!"
The American soldier spoke with a constant sneer. Although they were furious that Sanchez had refused their request to take over the valley, and had ultimately had no choice but to send their researchers into the valley as Sanchez demanded, the thought that all the forces that had come here had been subjected to the same demands by Sanchez somewhat eased their mood.
Everyone who came here was naturally after the raw materials for the vaccine and the gold liquid. But their confidence in getting it was shattered by Sanchez's threat of a net and a flower field. Which force would be willing to accept that?
Even if they were unwilling, there was nothing they could do now. At least for now, they had no way to force their way through the metal net in a short period of time without alerting the guards.
Every faction here is well aware of this, but that doesn't stop them from giving it a try.
Since we're already here and haven't achieved our goal yet, we should at least give it a try.
What if it works?
The American soldiers vacated the area, but none of the nearly one hundred people from the various factions who had arrived took any action.
The American soldier raised his eyebrows defiantly at the European man in black: "What's wrong? We've already given you the space, so why aren't you doing anything? Are you just all talk and no action?"
The European squad of men in black scoffed, led by Richard's chief bodyguard: "Since you put it that way, then let us show you the high technology of the Richard family."
As he spoke, he waved his hand to the people behind him, and immediately a man in black took out a sharp, metallic pangolin-like mechanical beast from his backpack.
After landing, the mechanical beast spun around in place, its two small, dark eyes darting up and down animatedly, looking quite convincing.
“Sanchez is just a PhD who studies pharmaceuticals; his understanding of weapons and machinery is far from sufficient. We don’t need to go up from above; we can just dig a tunnel from below.” The man in black said, a smirk playing on his lips. “The mechanical pangolin can drill up to 100 meters underground.”
Upon hearing this, people from various factions around them showed surprise. However, most of them were annoyed that they hadn't expected this to happen.
Honey Badger Fugui, perched on Xie Tianlang's shoulder, sighed, "Wow, they really are quite clever."
"That machine feels even better to use than I am."
Xie Tianlang patted his little irritable head and denied it with particular favoritism: "That's impossible. No matter how sophisticated a machine is, it can't replace a human. Yuanyuan is the most amazing."
Roundy the honey badger stretched out its paw and gently scratched the guy. "Shut up, you can't praise someone so bluntly in a place like this. Even though he really is the best."
After the members of the Richard family of Europe displayed the mechanical pangolin, they looked at the other factions around them with a noble and arrogant gaze.
When the men in black looked at the other factions, two of them frowned and remained silent, but the others were not intimidated.
"Sometimes, great people can come up with the same great methods. To paraphrase an old saying from Huazhou, it's like—great minds think alike?"
One of the team leaders from Fusang Province spoke with a smile, and as he did so, someone in their group pulled a mechanical beast from their backpack. However, this mechanical beast was not the easily impressed pangolin, but a mechanical snake that sent chills down one's spine at first sight.
The snake isn't the point; the point is this mechanical snake, which has eight heads. It looks damn much like an alien.
Upon seeing it, Honey Badger Fugui covered his small black eyes with his paws in disgust. "Why do these Japanese guys like to make these weird things? They're so ugly."
"I wouldn't eat it even if you gave it to me!"
Even though honey badgers naturally prefer to eat venomous snakes, this mutated one is truly repulsive!
Because of his genuine disdain for this Yamata no Mechanical Serpent, Honey Badger Fugui's voice rose a little. They happened to be standing not far from the Fusang team, and Xie Tianlang keenly noticed a short man from the Fusang team giving him a gloomy look, his gaze finally settling on Fugui's round figure, who was covering his face with disgust.
Xie Tianlang, who had been smiling slightly, slowly straightened his lips, and his wolf-like eyes suddenly met those of the short Japanese man. In an instant, the Japanese warrior felt an intense killing intent and pressure, causing him to instinctively take a half-step back in horror.
This Washingtonian...a formidable foe!
Just as the Japanese samurai prepared to look at Xie Tianlang again, Xie Tianlang had already led his Yuanyuan in another direction. It's best to avoid looking at things that are bad for your eyes.
At this time, people from other factions also revealed the methods and results they had devised.
The vast majority were mechanical products capable of drilling into the ground, demonstrating the presence of clever individuals within each team. However, among this pile of machinery, there were two items with a completely different style. They looked particularly, well, particularly attractive.
It also attracts honey badgers.
"Am I seeing things? There's a live... monkey among that pile of mechanical products?" Honey Badger Fugui whispered in Xie Tianlang's ear.
Xie Tianlang laughed: "You didn't see wrong, and neither did anyone else. Hmm, this is a method that came up with in India. This monkey must have been specially trained. Although this monkey doesn't have a sturdy metal shell for defense, its mobility might be more useful than these machines."
Xie Tianlang scratched the honey badger's back. "Aren't you the same?"
"Okay, I can understand the monkey. But what's with that thing that looks like a radish? It looks like a mechanical product, but why is it wrapped in a radish skin?"
Xie Tianlang's lips twitched slightly as he looked at the radish-shaped machine controlled by the Koreans.
This radish does look a bit off, and it seems particularly useless.
But the Koreans proudly declared, "Your countries only focus on performance, not appearance! Our Bubble, Cough, and Radish are top-notch at disguise. Plus, we have two operating systems! Once we enter the flower field, we're guaranteed to get the Golden Flower!"
The other factions just chuckled.
Even Sanchez, who was watching the group's movements through the monitor, chuckled.
"Doctor, these people are still determined to steal flowers from the flower field. Should we issue a warning?"
The young and handsome Dr. Sanchez laughed: "Why warn them? Didn't we already warn them? Since they're like this, we should teach them a lesson so they'll behave and obey my commands and requests to the greatest extent possible."
"Anyway, it's been set up to be foolproof, isn't it?"
"Don't worry too much about them. Your most important task right now is to find Mingri's whereabouts. That child... is the most talented child I've ever seen. There are some crucial things that we still need him to do."
"I suppose he must really want to see me too."
The technician next to the monitoring computer nodded and continued to check various surveillance videos and search the network.
Meanwhile, the forces along the passageway were already prepared to steal the flowers. The mechanical controllers all turned on their computers and remote controls.
They might be aware that Sanchez might have made other defensive preparations around the flower field, but as mentioned before, since they were already here, they wanted to test Sanchez's capabilities and see if they could seize the initiative.
Anyway, since there are so many people around and things are so muddy right now, maybe we can take advantage of the chaos and become the ultimate winner?
At worst, we'll just perish together. These mechanical devices do have self-destruct mechanisms.
Then, after a silent standoff, the members of the Richard family from Europe took the lead in controlling the mechanical pangolin. The black and gold pangolin's head spun rapidly like a giant drill, quickly creating a hole in the simulated metal net filled with neurotoxin.
Meanwhile, machines from other factions also began digging tunnels and burrowing underground.
Honey Badger Fugui perched on Xie Tianlang's shoulder, craning his neck to peer inside, estimating the size of his body and the hole dug by the mechanical pangolin.
Then he happily discovered that he no longer needed to dig a hole.
At that moment, the slightly smaller monkey, guided by the animal trainer, squeaked twice and darted into the hole dug by the mechanical pangolin.
Then, the animal trainer from India smiled at the men in black from Europe.
Sorry, animals are just that mechanically agile.
The group of men in black glanced at the smug Indian man, smirked, and said nothing. He was just a stupid monkey; there was no need for them to bother with such a bunch of presumptuous fools.
At this point, more than a dozen pits of varying sizes had appeared underground on the side of the poison net. The people operating those expensive and sophisticated machines also saw the machines moving underground on their computer screens.
At least for now, these machines are progressing very smoothly.
Honey Badger Fugui also perched on Xie Tianlang's shoulder and looked around. Then, he suddenly stretched out his paw and patted Xie Tianlang's shoulder twice.
Xie Tianlang, who had been handling the situation with ease, tensed up slightly. He reached out and pressed down on the honey badger perched on his shoulder. "Shall we check the situation again?"
Honey Badger Fugui returned the blow with a powerful claw and a kick, and then, under the watchful eyes of everyone who heard the commotion, he darted into the mechanical tunnel that had been created, just like the monkey had done before!
In an instant, everyone present turned their gaze to Xie Tianlang, and then to Chi Yuanshan and his group who had led the team there.
At the same time, their eyes conveyed a message: Why don't you Washingtonians have any sense of martial ethics? You use machines and animals!
Chi Yuanshan touched his nose, then revealed an impeccable smile.
Can he say that the honey badger wasn't theirs? Can he say that he initially thought Xie Tianlang was just bringing the honey badger along for fun?!
Of course not.
Washingtonians won't undermine Washingtonians!
If this honey badger can find the golden flower, he can exaggerate its abilities and make it a Washington State Secret Mythical Beast!
Then, very quickly, the face of a black and white, mischievous honey badger began to appear frequently in the mechanical videos of various factions.
The honey badger was initially just following the pangolin machine, but because the pangolin and other machines were digging, their speed was naturally much slower. It was quickly caught up by the little monkey and the honey badger.
However, the mechanical eyes of the pangolin and the monitoring device worn by the monkey showed that after the monkey caught up with the mechanical pangolin, it stayed still and followed the mechanical pangolin step by step. But the honey badger started to get restless after circling around in the burrow, and began to dig horizontally with its sharp claws.
Then, he dug a tunnel to the Yamata no Mecha in Fusang Province.
Upon seeing the Yamata no Orochi, the honey badger seemed to be extremely angry and let out a howl. Then, it swatted the Orochi away with a single swipe of its paw, so fast that the Japanese samurai controlling the Orochi didn't even have time to react.
By the time the Japanese samurai reacted angrily and prepared to retaliate, the honey badger had already dug up the big carrot from South Korea.
The Korean radish, which had basically no weapons, lay there nervously, afraid that the honey badger would destroy it.
But the honey badger only stared at the radish for two seconds before suddenly opening its mouth and taking a bite out of it. After leaving a neat teeth mark on the realistic radish skin, it continued digging horizontally.
The South Korean team was so angry that they yelled at Xie Tianlang and Chi Yuanshan.
Then the honey badger took photos with the mechanical spider and the small mechanical excavator. Finally, it seemed to be tired and decided to follow the small excavator.
Just as the various foreign powers finally breathed a sigh of relief at the sight of the honey badger no longer causing trouble, they suddenly discovered that the screens of the high-end, sophisticated machines they were controlling went black in an instant!
"XXX! What's going on?"
"The power suddenly went out! Was the signal interfered with?!"
"Damn it, I knew Sanchez was on guard. He must have installed a super-powerful signal jammer in the flower field!"
"Captain, our machines are out of control. Or rather, all the machines are out of control." The man in black controlling the pangolin said this with a sense of helplessness. Then, almost at the same time, everyone looked towards India and China, the two countries that had allowed living creatures to enter.
Damn, monkeys and honey badgers are actually useful?!
Meanwhile, the animal trainer on the Indian side shouted triumphantly, "Haha, our divine monkey is still moving forward! Our video signal hasn't been lost!"
So everyone present instinctively craned their necks to watch the short video of the Indian monkey.
At this point, the Indian monkey had no machinery to help it dig, so it could only stretch out its little paws and slowly dig the soil, which was quite distressing to watch.
But at least for now, this monkey can still move.
It was the hope of the whole village.
Then, suddenly, a sound came from directly above the monkey. Before anyone could figure out what the drill-like sound was, a sudden explosion rang out in the opposite valley.
In the video of the monkey, a scream of agony can be heard before everything goes black.
Thus, the various national forces that made their first attempt were almost completely wiped out.
It's almost, because...
Everyone looked at Xie Tianlang.
I wonder if the honey badger that this guy is carrying was killed by the explosion?
Xie Tianlang scoffed. "Even if you all die, my Yuanyuan won't die."
"He will come back with flowers."
Everyone: Haha. You're probably daydreaming.
However, even though these people thought this way, seeing that Xie Tianlang and the people from Huazhou had not left, they inexplicably stubbornly refused to leave as well.
We just have to wait for the result.
By this time, it had already gotten dark. At this moment, Fugui, the true hope of the entire village, had bypassed the various traps that Sanchez and his men had laid below the flower field and arrived at the foot of the golden flower field.
He silently dug upwards into the soil, and soon unearthed a golden flower.
This was the first time Gou Fugui had ever seen a pale golden flower that almost shimmered with a soft glow. It was indeed extremely beautiful, so beautiful that it seemed unreal.
The moment he dug up the first flower, the alarm in the golden flower field went off.
With a flick of his eyebrows, the honey badger dug out three more golden flowers and stuffed them into his pocket.
The road back must be riddled with thermal imaging cameras and bombs by now, so Honey Badger Fugui grinned. He slapped his left wrist with his little paw, and the next second, a brown and white owl flew out of the flower field. Before any of the guards could react, it spread its wings, snatched a flower in its beak, and flew straight out of the flower field into the dense forest!
"Damn it! Why is it an owl?! Wasn't that a gopher I saw before?!"
"It's not a gopher, it's a honey badger!"
"Screw your honey badger! That's clearly an owl!!!"
While all the guards in the valley searched the trees and the owls in the sky, the people from all the factions waiting outside the poison net had already heard the commotion. They stared intently at the several holes that had been dug out, their feelings indescribable.
Then, they suddenly saw a round, black-furred head with a white forehead sticking out of the hole made by the mechanical pangolin.
Then, the honey badger grinned at all the people who were staring at it in disbelief, revealing a set of small white teeth.
And there was the half-golden flower it was holding in its mouth.
Oh my God!
This honey badger actually succeeded!!
Grab it now!!
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