Starting Off Survival With A Small Treehouse

Chapter 1211 - 634: It Looks Like It’s Smiling (Part 3)

"But because all the alien invaders stayed far away from it, yet it still saw itself as one of them, at the very beginning it shifted all that hatred onto us humans."

"During that period, this monster killed a lot of our people, purely because it didn’t like the sight of humans."

Xu Xin’s eyes flickered.

Back then Yingying had indeed told him this monster was moody and unpredictable, had killed many people, and if the other alien invaders hadn’t stopped it, it might have wiped them out completely.

"And then what happened?" Zeng Tao pressed.

"After that, it suddenly became friendly toward us humans," Xu Ying said.

"Friendly?" Everyone was stunned.

"Yeah, friendly. At that time, it discovered our organization that wasn’t under the alien invaders’ control."

"Your organization was discovered by it?!" Zhao Xiaochuan cried out.

"Yeah, but... anyway, it didn’t make a move on us, it even... secretly gave us a lot of the alien invaders’ cutting‑edge tech."

"...Huh?!"

"It... it gave you technology?"

"This..."

The Explorers all stared, so shocked they didn’t even know what to say.

Especially Shi Wanyun, who had seen that monster in person; her face was full of disbelief.

"...We don’t know why either, but it really did help us a lot."

Xu Ying’s eyes flickered, she looked at Xu Xin and forced a smile. "Bro, those weapons from the other timeline I gave you were researched and made using the alien invaders’ cutting‑edge tech it gave us."

Xu Xin narrowed his eyes slightly.

She had said before that their organization had stolen high‑end alien technology, so these weapons were stronger than what the Order Maintainers had. Turns out, that tech wasn’t something they’d stolen themselves at all, but...

It was that half‑human, half‑monster freak who stole it and handed it to them!

Of course, for that half‑human, half‑monster guy, this probably wouldn’t even count as stealing.

Even though it wasn’t tolerated by the alien invaders, its status was still something like a crown prince. Getting its hands on tech was easy.

"With its help, our organization progressed extremely fast. You could say that without the tech it gave us, we never could’ve invented the time machine, and everything that happened afterward would’ve been impossible. Its gift practically put our team’s tech level at the same starting line as the alien invaders."

Everyone was utterly shocked.

This half‑human, half‑monster existence had influenced them that deeply?

Wang Lei couldn’t help asking, "Then... then isn’t it actually pretty good? Can’t we work together with it?"

"Back then, that’s exactly what we thought," Xu Ying said with a bitter smile. "But it’s just... way too moody and unpredictable. Like I said, no one knows what it’s thinking. It can give us technology, and it can also... slaughter more than half of our team."

As she spoke, Xu Ying looked around at everyone present. "In that timeline, all of you were people who survived its claws. You could say you were... the survivors among the survivors."

She hadn’t gone into details, but everyone present could hear the heaviness in her tone.

So something like that had happened...

"And it also..."

Before Xu Ying could finish, her expression suddenly changed.

Then she shot to her feet, quickly scanning the surroundings, her eyes full of suspicion, shock, and a trace of panic.

Her reaction made everyone else stand up as well.

"What’s wrong?!"

"What happened?!"

"What’s going on?!"

The crowd grew tense and panicky along with Xu Ying’s behavior.

"Some things, I think, I can personally explain to you."

Right then, a hair‑raising voice suddenly came from a corner of the room!

Strange and rasping, halting and broken, like a newbie who had just learned to speak the language.

Everyone’s face changed drastically on the spot!

They all snapped their heads toward that corner and drew their weapons at the same time!

A row of black muzzles aimed at that corner, ready to fire at any moment!

"Ah..." Shi Wanyun’s legs went weak and she collapsed back onto the sofa.

In that corner, at some unknown point, a half‑human, half‑ghost monster had appeared.

It looked like it was made of a lump of pitch‑black rotting sludge.

Its whole body was covered in eyes, its limbs horribly uncoordinated. Only the two eyes in the spot corresponding to a human face were open, staring at everyone present.

"Do not be, nervous. Right now I, have no hostility, toward you."

As it spoke, its horrific mouth gradually split all the way to the back of its head, a mouthful of sharp teeth laid bare under the crowd’s shocked, terrified gazes.

It looked like it was laughing.