World-saving Plan: The Only Savior
Chapter 482 - 363: The Purple Woods

Chapter 482: Chapter 363: The Purple Woods

Zhang Xiaoman scratched his head helplessly, wishing he could collect some samples to take back for professional analysis.

If they proved to have mining value, he could even transport excavation equipment like a digger over with his spaceship, letting Star Guard do the mining.

Thinking of this put a smile on his face.

The Star Guards really were quite versatile; aside from fighting monsters to earn points, they could also spar, fill spaces, do laundry, clean, and take care of household chores, and now, they even took on space mining.

Zhang Xiaoman felt that using them in these ways really didn’t do their capabilities justice. Given his approach, it likely wouldn’t be long before the Star Guards would be capable of babysitting as well.

After pondering for a while, he ultimately decided to give up on the idea of collecting ore samples and dismissed the Star Guards.

This wasn’t because he was content to let a juicy morsel slip by, but rather because he felt that being alone and contemplating these non-professional matters assuredly meant overlooking something, which could lead to incalculable losses if real problems arose.

So, he planned to return and then bring in some professionals from relevant fields to handle the matter.

Anyway, he had the coordinates and could jump over at any time; the place was like his own backyard garden, so there was no need to rush into a decision.

Having come to this conclusion, he let out a relieved sigh. Just as he was about to dismiss Star Guard and return to Water Blue Star, one of the exploring Star Guards suddenly sent him an alert.

Although these Star Guards had no consciousness of their own, Zhang Xiaoman could set a command for them to signal him through a spiritual connection in certain situations.

He immediately switched his field of view to that particular Star Guard, and what he saw made him stare, dumbfounded—a small forest stood before his eyes.

"A forest!?"

Zhang Xiaoman’s eyes widened in disbelief.

"Isn’t the Moon lifeless? How could there be a forest here?"

He hurriedly ordered the Star Guard to get closer, and the distant view of the small forest became clearly etched into his field of view.

The trees looked nothing like those on Water Blue Star. They had no brown trunk or green leaves. The entire trees were bare, and their shapes were strange, like the twisted tree demons from fantasy movies, quite ugly to behold.

Under Zhang Xiaoman’s command, Star Guard approached and fired an arrow at the nearest tree from a distance. The tree was pierced immediately, and a purple liquid seeped out from its trunk.

"Are these things alive?"

Zhang Xiaoman muttered uncertainly. He didn’t know if these entities were alive, and if they were, he wondered how they could survive in this vacuum.

Humans had not left the far side of the Moon unexplored, though it was only in recent years that they had sent machines there, but no discoveries of life had been reported.

Of course, it’s possible that discoveries had been made but kept secret. However, Zhang Xiaoman believed that was highly unlikely.

This was a space environment, after all. The common understanding that life couldn’t survive here was known even to children.

While the possibility of humans being myopic couldn’t be ruled out, on a body as close as the Moon, such a low-probability event seemed improbable.

So, ruling out these implausible scenarios, the remaining possibilities started to become intriguing.

Zhang Xiaoman almost instantly associated these trees with the Touching Spirit Flower in Wencheen Manor. Could it be that these trees, like the Touching Spirit Flower, were projections from another universe?

Thinking this, he decided to go over and take a look for himself, using the Spirit Detection Technique to see if these things contained any Dark Energy Fluctuation within.

He knew that not everything from another universe necessarily carried Dark Energy Fluctuations, but most of the things that did were definitely from there.

Ordering the spaceship to move position, Zhang Xiaoman was also observing those trees through the perspective of the Star Guards.

These trees were roughly three meters tall, with a fierce and ugly appearance; at a glance, they did not look like anything good.

At this moment, the wound on the tree that had been shot through by a Star Guard’s arrow had already healed, which made Zhang Xiaoman even more certain that they were living creatures.

Just as he was intently examining them, his field of view suddenly spun around as if the entire Star Guard had been knocked over, followed by violent shaking. Zhang Xiaoman could vaguely make out some massive black limbs flailing around like scythes.

"There’s an Alien Species!"

He almost blurted out subconsciously, and it was obvious that in this small grove, aside from these strange purple trees, there lurked an unknown Alien Species.

By this time, Zhang Xiaoman could no longer sense the existence of that Star Guard; it must have been killed by the monster, which surprised him.

With a Spiritual Strength of 5 points, to be able to kill his Star Guard in such a short amount of time, the level of this monster seemed not low.

Ordering the other 7 Star Guards to convene here, the Dawn that Zhang Xiaoman was on quickly arrived above this patch of woods.

From a high-altitude perspective, he could see clearly that there was a giant insect crawling within the woodland below.

And at the area where the Star Guard was just now, there was a deep pit on the ground; it seemed that the insect had just emerged from this hole to launch a surprise attack.

This insect was entirely black, with a body length of over ten meters measured by sight, resembling an armored worm, with dozens of scythe-like legs along its sides. From its appearance alone, one could tell that this fellow must possess a strength of at least level 2.

Zhang Xiaoman activated the Spirit Detection Technique, and sure enough, the insect below was emitting strong Dark Energy Fluctuations, seemingly just as powerful as the level 2 Esa from Milk Town.

Beside it, the purple forest also displayed some faint Dark Energy Fluctuations, obviously, all these things came from another universe, and could be considered Extraordinary Plants.

"This fellow, it can actually survive in such an environment..."

Zhang Xiaoman marveled at the constitution of the monster before him while also feeling puzzled by the creature’s strange behavior.

He saw the insect cautiously weaving its way through the forest as if it was afraid of touching any of the trees.

It arrived at the tree with the darkest color at the edge and then extended a long tube from its mouth, slowly inserting it into the tree to start sucking.

"Is it feeding?"

Zhang Xiaoman watched this scene, and suddenly, an odd thought occurred to him.

"This creature, it seems to treasure these trees quite a bit..."