CHAPTER 495: CHAPTER 375: ULTIMATE EXPLORATION, MAJOR STRATEGIC RESOURCE DISCOVERY!

Upon the boundless wilderness, the ice and water that covered the land yesterday have largely vanished, replaced by a field blanketed with vegetation.

The ice and water haven’t completely disappeared; they have gathered in lower areas, forming small ponds, small lakes, and even wider bodies of water.

From above, these watery surfaces resemble enormous mirrors, reflecting the azure sky. The reddish-brown and yellow-green plants look like a massive mottled carpet, occupying the entire view.

"This place really does resemble Earth..."

Lin Yue gazed at the desert, hills, and water surfaces below, inevitably recalling the prairie beauty he had once seen on Earth.

In this Otherworld, he hadn’t expected to witness such scenery.

However, there are no cattle or sheep here, only mutant creatures, like small black dots, wandering across this "carpet".

Moreover, their number seems quite overwhelming.

"Gawu." Bai let out a low growl, its flame-like burning eyes fixated on these mutants that were far more numerous than usual, seemingly developing a layer of concern.

Indeed, just dozens of kilometers from the shelter, so many mutant creatures survive here. Might they pose a threat?

"Don’t worry, it’s just the numbers," Lin Yue reassured his companion, feeling more concerned about opening low-tier treasure chests repeatedly.

Lin Yue glanced around again, but the scenery remained unchanged, with nothing worth noting.

Yet the direction where the two giant creatures came was clearly this way.

According to the previous patterns at the Natural Sulfur Ore Mountain and Nitrate Ore, there should be a massive mine at the center of the giant creatures’ original activity range.

This mine is what the system referred to as a "resource point".

Whether it’s Natural Sulfur Ore or Nitrate Ore, these are incredibly vital resources, enabling survivors to harness technologies like gunpowder in the early stages, and which played significant roles in past disasters.

But up to now, he hadn’t discovered anything.

But speaking of which, it seems only the first Ox-Carrier Serpent Dragon could emit poison gas causing high fever; later giant creatures were merely big and tough.

Gazing at the barren ground, he noticed the sparse distribution of the Mad Poison Herb and still couldn’t understand why it was this way.

The high fever he suffered felt like a dream.

However, he wasn’t the only one to experience this dream.

In previous groups and later on the world channel, many mentioned this incident. Even in the desert, the mysterious owner of the diary, as well as Old Wang from his home, had faced high fevers, although Old Wang had died, and that person had survived.

But when recalling, that fever was utterly ridiculous.

Suddenly falling ill, becoming so delirious, then quickly draining one’s physical strength, leaving them extremely weak.

And then, the fever vanished as if it never happened.

The whole process was rather surreal.

He remembered seeing numerous Mad Poison Herb seeds on the Ox-Carrier Serpent Dragon and speculated whether it ate both the Natural Sulfur Ore and Mad Poison Herb, causing the gas to combine and result in a sudden high fever.

Yet that was just his speculation, not entirely correct.

After all, from conversations on the world channel, he learned the phenomenon wasn’t exclusive to the desert.

Similar "high fever" cases appeared elsewhere, some people succumbed, but quite a few managed to survive.

Including people like Lily Kalahao, Caspar, and others.

So was his prior conjecture accurate? As of now, Lin Yue had no further evidence or intelligence and temporarily could only believe it to be true.

"Gawu?" At this moment, Bai suddenly interrupted his thoughts.

"What’s up?" Lin Yue noticed Bai’s flying height lowering, and its speed was becoming much smoother.

Soon, Bai landed on the ground, and after Lin Yue hopped off its back, he suddenly saw dozens of previously unseen mutant creatures approaching from afar!

"Impressive, quite aggressive!"

Lin Yue, uninterested in observing their appearance, quickly donned his armor and exoskeleton. As he picked up the sniper rifle, those long-howling mutants were already closing within a hundred meters, while Bai charged ahead!

With a chorus of roars, wails, clashes, and bites, peace returned once more.

Bai whipped its tail, shaking off the blood from its arms, the ferocious low growls gradually calming down.

Lin Yue looked over at the bodies of twenty-three mutant creatures lying on the ground, glanced back at Bai, unable to hide his admiration.

Could Bai’s battle prowess now instantly dispatch these rhino-sized mutants?

As he marveled, Bai had already dragged all the mutant corpses together, forming a small pile.

The ground monsters looked incredibly heavy. Each had snake-like black scales, heads resembling those of dogs, topped with a pair of outward-facing horns, with eyes glowing red, and fearsome fangs.