As everyone looked around, the entire stone forest had become lush and verdant. Red branches and green fruits were everywhere, swaying silently. An indescribably eerie and terrifying sensation permeated the air.

"What on earth is this thing?" Elton scratched his head and asked.

By then, the meteors in the sky had finally crashed to the ground. These numerous meteors caused continuous vibrations and loud rumbles, making the whole earth tremble.

The meteor shower landed not too far from them. Before they hit the ground, Chen Gu vaguely saw that within the intense flames, they didn't appear to be warship wreckage or insect corpses, but rather individual, irregular spheres.

However, faint dark blue stripes could be seen on their surfaces.

"But they don't seem like ordinary meteors either."

As the ground vibrated from the meteor shower's impact, the red branches shook even more violently. The earth's trembling gradually subsided, and the planet's surface seemed to return to calm, though the temperature felt even more scorching.

Ma Shuwen pricked up his ears. "What's that sound?"

Everyone listened intently. Faint, indistinct sounds could be heard, which then swiftly grew louder. From the direction of the meteor fall, a group of strange creatures suddenly appeared, blue flames burning on their bodies, roaring as they rushed towards them.

From a distance, these creatures somewhat resembled the Energy Gathering Mechanical Species. At first, only a few dozen were visible, but in an instant, a vast horde appeared behind them. They quickly surged forward, covering the land, their numbers in no way inferior to the largest insect swarms!

A chill ran down everyone's spine. Did the meteors bring these creatures? What exactly are they, and where did they come from?

Only Chen Gu pondered a different question: Why have they come?

This horde of terrifying monsters, swarming across the land, soon charged to the edge of the stone forest.

However, because their numbers were so vast, only a small portion passed through the stone forest; the majority of the creatures rushed over the mountain peaks and stone embankments flanking the forest.

They were agile and powerful, able to sprint rapidly over even the most rugged terrain.

As the creatures charged into the stone forest, the peculiar "plants" were the first to bear the brunt. The outermost plants instantly shattered under the onslaught, trampled into fragments by the stampeding monsters.

But as the creatures penetrated deeper, the plants suddenly stirred. The peach-shaped green fruits hanging from their branches burst open with a PUFF, shooting out countless tiny, needle-like objects.

These projectiles did little harm to the creatures' metallic bodies, striking them with a series of CLINKs before falling off. However, many needles managed to find their way into the crevices of the creatures' metal exteriors.

Chen Gu observed that as soon as those hair-like needles penetrated them, the rampaging creatures began to move unnaturally. They slowed, grew increasingly uncoordinated, and eventually collapsed to the ground.

The moment they fell, the branches would entangle them. The tendrils then inserted themselves into the crevices of their bodies, and with a single draining action, the blue flames on the metal creatures' bodies conspicuously flowed into the branches.

Even the red color of the branches slowly changed to a mix of red and blue.

When one of these extraterrestrial Energy Gathering Mechanical Species fell, it would often attract dozens, or even hundreds, of branches vying for it.

With so many branches and so little to go around, many failed to absorb the blue flames. They continued to burrow into the bodies of the extraterrestrial Energy Gathering Mechanical Species, swiftly extracting a deep blue liquid that also seemed to satisfy them.

As for the Energy Gathering Mechanical Species lying on the ground, they could still scream and struggle as the blue flames on their bodies were drained.

And when that blue liquid was completely depleted, they truly became inert, lying on the ground, unable to move.

Moreover, their originally lustrous metallic bodies rapidly began to rust and corrode.

Of such a massive horde of extraterrestrial Energy Gathering Mechanical Species charging through the stone forest, only seventy percent managed to break through. A full thirty percent were left behind, buried within the "mouths" of those bizarre branches!

From their vantage point atop the stone pillars, Gong Shuxu and his group could see that even outside the stone forest, in certain unique terrains, large-scale traps would occasionally appear.

Various unique indigenous creatures would bravely emerge from underground, ambushing these extraterrestrial Energy Gathering Mechanical Species.

As if summoned by something, the extraterrestrial Energy Gathering Mechanical Species kept running in a specific direction, utterly indifferent to the losses they suffered along the way. They crossed the vast wasteland and disappeared over the horizon, providing the native creatures of this planet with a veritable feast.

The Professionals were utterly baffled. "They came from beyond the stars, just to die?"

Gong Shuxu couldn't help but ask, "Chen Gu, what do you think?"

But he received no answer from Chen Gu. When the old man turned his head, he saw Chen Gu staring intently at the branches.

By now, all the branches in the stone forest had "eaten their fill."

Having absorbed so much blue flame and blue liquid, they had changed into a strange, deep blue color tinged with red. The sight involuntarily reminded onlookers of the recent slaughter, making them feel deeply uncomfortable.

The peach-like fruits they had grown were all used up in the recent massacre.

Even those weren't enough; many branches had hastily produced more fruit.

Now, they swayed lazily a couple of times, then drooped. However, they didn't immediately retract into the stone crevices; they had also swollen to several times their original thickness.

In each cluster of branches, one began to grow particularly thick and robust, as the other branches in its vicinity started transferring the blue "substance" to it.

This particular branch swelled until it was as thick as a bucket, then burst with a POP, transforming into a large, fluffy, strange ball!

The ball was filled with numerous seed-like entities. In total, ten such balls were produced throughout the stone forest. These balls bounced and tumbled out of the stone forest, rolling far into the distance.

Chen Gu was staring intently at these large balls, completely ignoring the inquiry from the distinguished Sixth Energy Level expert.

He swallowed hard with a loud GULP. A feast beyond compare!

Then, before Ma Shuwen could grab him, Chen Gu was already hopping along the tops of the stone pillars, chasing after the balls!

The branches in the stone forest, having produced these seed-filled balls, seemed to have completed the final step of their hunt. They slowly retracted back into the stone crevices. Before long, only the broken metallic carcasses would remain on the ground.

Gong Shuxu watched Chen Gu, speechless, while Ma Shuwen asked, "Should we... go with him?"

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