Chapter 25 Provocation

Li Tianran dared to be so unscrupulous in his provocations for a simple reason.

The counterattack against the Beast Kings had already begun in countries around the world, and the battle lines had been drawn across the globe. The Beast Kings' operational locations were scattered, so they wouldn't focus all their attention on one place.

The world's many Beast Kings couldn't possibly gather from all corners of the earth, millions of miles away, just because Li Tianran slaughtered some mutated beasts.

Therefore, Li Tianran's enemies were, at most, the monsters within a few hundred nautical miles around Kuangxi Island.

The Beast Kings possessed intelligence and thus had a strong sense of territory. Under the command of the sea demons, they could restrain their desire to devour each other. But if they were far away from the sea demons, the desire to fight and devour, deep in their genes, would become extremely strong. Therefore, there wouldn't be too many Beast Kings of different races in one sea area, at most six or seven, forming a delicate balance between them.

"It's been two days, and the Beast Kings don't seem to be making any moves..." Lu Chi stood behind Li Tianran, asking with some uncertainty, "Will these highly intelligent creatures really come ashore because of the deaths of these low-level mutated beasts?"

Lu Chi wasn't optimistic about Li Tianran's plan.

In his opinion, the Beast Kings and the mutated beasts no longer belonged to the same species. Although the Beast Kings could drive the mutated beasts, they would never regard them as their own kind, just like humans and monkeys.

Would humans empathize, become incredibly angry because monkeys were slaughtered, and run to avenge the monkeys?

Obviously not!

Li Tianran heard Lu Chi's worries and said with a chuckle, "The lives of mutated beasts are indeed worthless to the Beast Kings, but you haven't seen the essence of our actions."

"I'm not trying to anger the Beast Kings through the deaths of these mutated beasts, but rather to make the Beast Kings feel threatened by the act of 'invasion'."

Mutated beasts were indeed like monkeys and dogs to the Beast Kings, and the Beast Kings wouldn't feel bad no matter how many died.

But Li Tianran's act of boldly occupying Kuangxi Island and slaughtering mutated beasts to display his power was an act of invasion in the eyes of the highly intelligent Beast Kings. For humans, the death of monkeys wasn't something that would cause anger and grief.

But if someone broke into your home, killed the monkeys you raised, and hung them at your door, that would be a bit unbearable!

The monkeys aren't worth much, but my dignity and territory are damn valuable!

The Beast Kings possessed extremely high intelligence, but the emotional changes deep in their genes also became more active as a result. Emotions such as anger, shame, and revenge, which were once only clearly expressed in humans, would also appear in these Beast Kings.

"Wait a little longer, I believe these Beast Kings will soon be unable to restrain themselves." Li Tianran looked at the calm sea.

Lu Chi frowned tightly.

…

In the afternoon, Li Tianran stood in the southern mining area, watching the heavy equipment smashing large amounts of ore with a roar, a capitalist smile on his face.

For the past two days, the mining area hadn't stopped working for a moment.

The reward for such diligent work was also extremely huge. The daily output of ore from the mining area was nearly 20,000 tons, and with the harvest from the expansion of the farm's planting area increasing tenfold, Li Tianran had obtained about 60 million points in just two days.

Looking at these points, Li Tianran became even more convinced that his decision to leave Nancheng was correct.

And these points didn't stay in Li Tianran's hands for too long. Before they could even warm up, Li Tianran bought a large amount of equipment needed for the biological laboratory in the mall.

Internationally, pathogenic biological laboratories are divided into four levels according to protection level and research level, with Level 1 being the lowest and Level 4 being the highest. All the equipment and structure of the farm's biological laboratory are in accordance with the highest level standards.

"No wonder biological laboratories are being built by some countries and big consortia, these equipments are outrageously expensive..." Li Tianran exclaimed. Nearly 60 million points were invested in the biological laboratory, which was just barely enough to allow the laboratory to operate normally.

Among the equipment in the biological laboratory, the price of a single ultra-high-speed centrifuge was as high as 8 million points, and other equipments such as ultra-clean workbenches, inverted microscopes, and ultrasonic cell disruptors were relatively cheaper, but the price of many equipments added up to a terrifying number.

A biological laboratory emptied Li Tianran's accumulated wealth.

Professor Nan was naturally very happy, his old face smiling like an old chrysanthemum, and he immediately started working, with his research direction related to the genes of the evolved.

Two helicopters and five adult-level Combat Manba and five grenade combat vehicles patrolled the mining area.

This was the main place for Li Tianran to obtain points, and no problems could be allowed.

Li Tianran sat on the rock next to him, feeling happy.

Qin Yiming was designing the border defenses of Kuangxi Island. As more and more buildings were built on the farm, it now seemed a bit crowded, and it would definitely need to be expanded in the future.

Ding Lu continued to be busy in the planting area.

Tang Su was also cleaning up the villa-style castle, and everyone was preparing to move in from the slightly dilapidated small building.

As for Han Han, she had also become much more diligent and began to work hard to exercise her mind power.

Everyone was doing their job... very good.

Li Tianran took a deep breath. He saw a helicopter coming from the distant sea. When it reached the sky above the mining area, Lu Chi jumped down from a height of twenty meters, his face somewhat solemn, and said, "Boss, there's movement on the sea."

"Half an hour ago, a large number of human corpses floated along the sea to the vicinity of the 'Sea Beast Exhibition Board,' looking very miserable..."

Li Tianran thought for a moment and smiled, "These Beast Kings are very cautious! I've provoked them so much, but they still don't dare to attack Kuangxi Island. Instead, they got some corpses from somewhere else to scare me."

"Notify Ding Lu, let the remaining Tank-class Combat Manba, helicopters, and gunboats all set out to clean up the nearby sea area. Any sea beasts that can be seen with the naked eye should be dragged ashore and nailed to the mountain wall!" Li Tianran said expressionlessly, "I don't believe these Beast Kings can still hold back!"

That afternoon, fighter jets set out from the farm and carried out a crazy cleanup of the sea area within a radius of 300 nautical miles around Kuangxi Island.

Machine guns, bombs, and small missiles flew all over the sky, a large number of mutated beasts died violently, and two Beast Kings tried to fight back, but their heads were directly blown to pieces by bombers...

A few hours later, the helicopters and gunboats retreated, and the sea returned to calm.

Li Tianran's behavior of actively provoking was very barbaric and domineering, but he had no choice. If he wanted to develop safely on Kuangxi Island, he had to quickly clear all threats. He didn't have the time to carefully probe and fight a protracted war with the sea Beast Kings.

He wanted to use this most direct method to force all the sea Beast Kings near Kuangxi Island to show up and have a decisive battle with him.

Late at night, the sea was silent.

Thousands of meters below the sea, a large number of turbulent currents surged, and countless huge figures came from all directions.

Hundreds of Beast Kings emerged from the water, their cold eyes staring at the distant mountain wall of Kuangxi Island.

Suddenly, a giant sea snake roared, its bright yellow eyes filled with malice and anger. Then, roars shook the sky above the sea.

Even the sea was trembling slightly.

Li Tianran sat on the sofa with his eyes closed, watching the images transmitted back by the patrol radar, and suddenly opened his eyes and said, "Stop work in the mining area immediately, summon all the Combat Manba..."

"They're here."