Xiao Wu turned his head, his hair swaying in the lake water like a slow-motion shot. Through the clear water, he saw the struggling natives of Four Seasons Star.

The sudden deluge of water that could drown even Earthlings, who can only drink through their mouths, let alone this species that can absorb water through their fontanelles.

"Boom!" He burst forth, like a missile ascending into the sky, trailing a long wake.

He gave a glance at the girl who was rescuing others and rushed toward the children and the elderly.

"Puh-ha!" Qing Shui emerged with a child in her arms, her face spinning twice, transforming gradually into a look of stunned horror.

All around her was vast water, with only a distant sand dune confirming that she was still in the desert.

Standing on the sand dune, or gazing directly from above, her and the child's heads in her arms appeared solitary above the lake surface, like a black dot on a mirror.

Xiao Wu darted about the bottom of the lake like a fish, directly from underwater, transporting people to the desert shore in the shortest distance.

On the edge of the lake, like fish left out to dry, lay the bloated bodies of the natives from Four Seasons.

Qing Shui, having barely endured the agony of water flooding into her, swam ashore with the child. Kneeling and vomiting lake water, a rushing sound came from behind her, a flow she had never heard before, resembling the "Desert Waterfall."

She kept her kneeling posture and looked back to see Xiao Wu pulling a rope, walking out of the water, with the three Sand Camel Beasts tethered to it, emerging from the surface like small hills.

Their leg wounds had already healed; with water present, any injury to a Sha Tuo Beast is nothing but mud clinging to their skin.

The Sha Tuo Beasts were also expelling water.

Neither Qing Shui and her people nor the Sha Tuo Beasts had ever experienced being fully immersed in water before.

Even at the oasis bestowed by the Wind and Light King, they only dared dip their hands, not daring to waste a drop.

Where had this lake water come from?

She looked towards Xiao Wu.

"That," Xiao Wu rolled up the rope, "are you okay?"

"You... Puh!" Another mouthful of lake water sprayed from Qing Shui's mouth.

It wasn't just the mouth; water seemed to flow from her nose and eyes as well.

Cloud Platform descended, and Li Changzhou assessed the natives of Four Seasons Star in front of him, all with wheat-colored skin, mostly red hair, eyes of sky blue or lake green, wearing desert yellow.

That these people could recognize them as Earthlings at first glance, did it mean this planet had no people with black hair and brown eyes?

He turned his gaze to Qing Shui, "May I ask, what you mentioned earlier, 'Wind and Light Blessing,' what is it? Is it your faith or the faith of everyone on this planet?"

To make the people of Four Seasons Star surrender willingly, destroying their faith was one method, possibly even the most effective.

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Northeast line.

'Signal Light' sat on a fallen tree trunk, guarding the beehive above his head.

Long spear stabbed into the mud nearby, he gripped the forelimb of a quadruped, flinging his head to tear off a strip of flesh with his sturdy teeth.

Chewing heartily, blood on his lips, raw.

"Tastes a bit better than raw deer, horse, sheep."

To avoid drawing the native's attention, 'Signal Light' didn't make a fire.

It wasn't that he feared the natives; his current task was to ensure the beehive's safe incubation and didn't want any unwanted complications.

Eating raw meat was not a big deal for him, having encountered various environments during the First Stage and consumed all sorts of things, drinking his own urine in the desert, even the blood of other players.

As for why he was eating...

'Signal Light,' as one of Earth's top players, required a massive amount of food daily. He had 'Hundred Vegetables Pill' on him, but he wasn't hungry at the moment. He was eating out of boredom and precaution, and naturally, he couldn't touch his stored supplies.

Scanning left and right, the climate was as warm as spring, petals like an ocean. The lethally venomous Golden Ring Wasps collected nectar, providing for the queen bee's reproduction.

Every time the Golden Ring Wasps left the hive, there were more than before.

When they swarmed like dark clouds, half of the wasps would escort the new queen to another location to build a new nest.

'Signal Light' had been guarding for about two hours. The beehive had split five times, averaging 24 minutes per split.

Faster than the 'Bonsai Enthusiast' guy's estimate of 30 minutes per split by 6 minutes; was it because there were more flowers here, the nectar more nutritious?

"Meat tastes better too," 'Signal Light' bit another mouthful.

At his feet lay an animal carcass, stripped to the bones.

Swoosh, Swoosh!

A barrage of arrows, like a black Giant Python, lunged at 'Signal Light.'

'Signal Light' continued to chew, the long spear beside him emitting a Green Light Barrier enveloping him.

The arrows struck, making a thudding sound, and the barrier rippled as if it were rain-streaked.

"Still got discovered, raw meat was for nothing. I should've cooked it," Signal Light took another bite of the meat.

Arrows fell to the ground, piling around him like kindling, ready to roast him.

'Signal Light' decided to use the arrows for roasting meat later, yes, and for skewering.

The world fell eerily quiet. He looked up to see the beehive pinned by arrows, thorn-like protrusions on the shafts, piercing and killing all the Golden Ring Wasps inside.

"Fuck!" He dropped the raw meat, stood up, and reached for his long spear.

Boom!

A three-meter thick log hurtled towards him with the weight of a thousand pounds, shattering the Green Light Barrier in an instant. 'Signal Light' was propelled like a cannonball, tumbling amongst a pile of haphazard wood and flowers.

Swoosh, Swoosh, Swoosh, Swoosh!

Countless arrows rained down, engulfing where 'Signal Light' lay, with Thorns spread throughout the area.

A group of forest people with bark-like skin of various hues emerged from around the forest.

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