"Life is short, find joy in hardship. If you keep a constant tension, it'll snap," Xu Xin said with a laugh, plopping onto the sofa.

Li Wenxi immediately scooted over, sitting next to him, and giggled at the others, "Fei'Er's cooking is really good. I came to eat this morning too and ate a ton, but now I'm hungry again."

Qi Xuefei also sat down, laughing, "You guys really know how to enjoy life. Maybe I should join you for meals too. With the portal, it's like visiting each other daily."

"Come on over, no problem!" Lou Fei'Er came out of the kitchen with the last dish and placed it on the table, "Now it's complete! You can all come by. My cooking skills have been practiced since I was a kid, guaranteed to satisfy you all."

Lou Fei'Er continued to play the role of a good girl in the eyes of the other members.

As for her cooking skills, there was no choice. If she didn't cook for herself when she was little, she'd go hungry; the nanny wouldn't cook for her.

She learned to stand on a small stool to reach the stove and cook, honing her skills ever since.

The group gathered around the table, starting their feast and discussing today's experiences.

Each person explained the situation around their treehouse, the numbers and status of the mutated creatures.

It basically matched what Xu Xin saw on the map.

Ji Chaoyang, after clearing his own treehouse area, went to help Qi Xuefei.

"Although I couldn't reach you, I knew you'd definitely go to help Li Wenxi," Ji Chaoyang said with a smile, "so I went to help Qi Xuefei."

"Hehe..." Li Wenxi leaned against Xu Xin, chuckling secretly.

Xu Xin also had a slight smirk at the corner of his mouth.

Not much, his mind was calculating something else.

This time, the scale of the beast tides each treehouse faced seemed to be influenced by two factors.

One is the treehouse's level, and the other is the number of survivors.

Xu Xin's was the highest-level purple treehouse, with three survivors. Since Ma Hongwei's parasitic treehouse was also blue, the threat from the beast tide was the greatest, with not only many low-level mutated creatures but also five mid-level ones.

Ji Chaoyang's side, although also the highest-level purple treehouse, still hadn't let others parasitize it. He was the only survivor in the area, so the beast tide was much smaller than Xu Xin's.

It was even smaller than Li Wenxi's side. Li Wenxi's treehouse was blue-level, but Li Yajun and Le Youfang parasitized there, making three people in total, leading to a larger beast tide, even bigger than Ji Chaoyang's.

Qi Xuefei's side was also a blue-level treehouse, but with only the one survivor Ji Chaoyang brought over back then, there were only two survivors in the treehouse's range, so the beast tide was the smallest.

Xu Xin shared his speculation with the others.

"That should be it," Ji Chaoyang agreed after a moment of thought.

Without Xu Xin's map, he could only analyze from the newly received information, "We've all heard that strange whistling sound; it's indeed caused by the mutated humans from my prediction."

Hmm?

Wait a second...

Xu Xin suddenly thought of something.

The mutated humans in his prediction seemed different from the one in his wristband, right?

In his prediction, it was like those he encountered in the dungeon, a kind of reversion, resembling ape-like, hairy humans, right?

But the person in his wristband resembled Lou Fei'Er and Ma Hongwei in their outbreak mode.

What's going on here?

Could it be that the person in his wristband isn't the "Marauder" he just speculated?

The meal was almost over, and Xu Xin shared his theories about the marauders with the others.

"Are you saying our biggest enemies now are another group of humans? Mutated humans?" Qi Xuefei's expression was somewhat solemn.

"...Very likely."

Ji Chaoyang, holding his axe, pondered for a moment and said, "Your speculation aligns to some extent with my latest prediction. How about you release that mutated human now, so since everyone's here, we can try to extract some information from him?"

"Okay." Xu Xin nodded, turning his wristband.

"This..."

"Oh my god!"

The mutated human suddenly appearing on the floor made Qi Xuefei and Li Wenxi exclaim, even Ji Chaoyang took a sharp intake of breath.

Xu Xin and Lou Fei'Er had been prepared mentally; they had seen it before.

This mutated human looked the same as before, lying motionless, eyes bulging. The moment he appeared, his eyes slowly scanned everyone present!

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