Chapter 9

Translator: Dragon Boat Translation Editor: Dragon Boat Translation

After Peter and the mermaid finished their breakfast, they went to the lake. Because it was early in the morning, the lake water was still relatively cold —- Peter’s concerned about letting the Mermaid in at that temperature.

This is like a pet in the outside world: they usually make you happy and help you solve your problems, but when it rains, you will involuntarily hold the pet in your arms, afraid of the cold rain to even touch it.

Peter was the same. He didn’t even treat the mermaid as a pet, but as a family. In this island world full of opportunities and dangers, only the mermaid was with him. The longer this state lasted, the deeper the relationship between the fish and the man.

Peter sat by the lake with the mermaid and watched the sunrise on the surface of the sea to calm himself down. When the sunlight was strong enough, Peter let the mermaid dive to the bottom of the lake and extract energy crystals.

Considering the mermaid’s physical strength, he let the mermaid rest several times in the morning, so it was not until noon that the mermaid extracted enough energy crystals to build the energy defense tower.

Peter used his life energy to give the mermaid lunch.

Then, he immediately opened the tree of life interface. After seeing that the materials for building the energy defense tower were ready, he clicked OK.

Construction began.

However, Peter did not have any reaction after he clicked OK.

Huh?

What’s going on!

At this time, Peter exited the tree of life interface and looked around.

Suddenly, a green sign appeared under his feet.

What is this?

Peter stood in place for a moment. He didn’t understand what the sign meant until he started walking.

The green sign was the location where the energy defense tower was built.

In other words, Peter had to choose a location before the energy defense tower could be built.

This was easy.

Peter started walking towards the beach.

After the protection period, the beach was the first place to be attacked by the sea monsters. The beach would give the sea monsters a base upon which they can progress inland.

After walking for about half an hour, the sign under Peter’s feet turned from green to red. This was to tell him that he had gone beyond the limit of building a defense tower.

He walked back a few steps until the sign under his feet turned green again.

“Here it is!”

Peter chose the location to build the energy defense tower.

It was still half an hour away from the beach.

At the current level of the Tree of Life, he could only build an energy defense tower so far away.

He would build it first. After all, he can move it around after the Tree of Life is upgraded enough later on.

When the cursor first appeared, Peter noticed that the energy defense tower could be moved after it was built anyway.

After choosing to build it, Peter began to wait patiently, since a 10-minute countdown appeared beside the defense tower. It felt like playing a game in the outside world.

At this time, Peter had nothing to do, so he planned to enter the chat group to take a look.

It was already the third day since he entered the island world, yet he didn’t know how the others had developed.

Peter opened the chat group and was shocked by the huge amount of content.

“This morning, I caught a very special fish in the lake. I can’t tell its name, but the fish will glow.”

“Put it on the exchange and see if there’s a boss who knows what’s good for him.”

“What’s the big deal? I caught a water monster in the lake yesterday.”

“If you caught a water monster, why didn’t it eat you?”

“Did I say that the water monster is very big or dangerous?”

After Peter saw the message in the chat group, his first reaction was whether it would be dangerous for the mermaid to go to the lake to mine energy crystals.

Because of the system, after Peter entered the island world, he did not follow the way of ordinary people to develop the island. This caused him to ignore the creatures in the freshwater lake.

No matter how small a mosquito was, it was still meat.

Peter decided that he needed to find time to develop the resources of the freshwater lake.

Just as Peter was thinking about it, the energy defense tower was built.

[ congratulations to the host for completing the energy defense tower. The reward is 1,000 life energy points. ]

Peter ignored the system notification and opened the energy defense tower’s interface.

[ energy defense tower ]

[ level ] : Level 1.

[ attack range ] : 100 meters.

[ energy consumption ] : 100 Life Energy Points/day.

Peter looked in excitement at the energy defense tower in front of him. This was the first defense structure built on the island. 

Then, Peter carefully studied the energy defense tower for half a day.

The final result was that this energy defense tower was a passive defense. In other words, any creature outside the island, as long as it appeared within the attack range of the energy defense tower, would immediately activate the attack of the energy defense tower.

This was equivalent to having a fully automatic defensive counter attack weapon.

Of course, this kind of energy defense tower, the more the better. Only with the advantage of numbers, could the characteristics of the energy defense tower be maximized.

Imagine a defensive net formed by Energy Defense Towers. How terrifying would it be! Any foreign invasion would instantly be turned into ashes. However, there were no foreign enemies at the moment, and there was no way to know the effect of the energy defense tower’s attack.

Peter could only imagine it in his mind.

Then, he prepared to return to the lake first to see what the Little Mermaid was doing. It seemed that he was having a good time in the freshwater lake. Otherwise, he would have called him through the sonar.

On the way back, Peter was not idle either. Instead, he was replaying the next plan in his mind.

Now, all the plant seeds have been planted. Moreover, with the addition of the tree of life, each plant’s level would increase by at least 2 levels when it bore fruit, the point Peter was most satisfied with.

The first energy defense tower on the island was also completed.

Peter had a plan in mind regarding the materials used to build the energy defense tower.

An energy defense tower requires 500 life energy points and 100 Energy Crystals. According to the current output of the tree of life, 1000 life energy points per day, excluding daily consumption (i.e, mermaid’s food and tree spirit’s consumption), leaves only enough for an energy defense tower per day.

This speed was still very fast.

Next, Peter had to walk around the island’s border and plan the construction site of the energy defense tower. This was to prepare for the future construction of the defense net.

There was also a mermaid born from the tree of life, which was currently growing in a very healthy state.

The Tree of Life had a quota to give birth to a creature every day. Later, Peter planned to use today’s quota to give birth to a creature. He just doesn’t know what creature the tree of life will give birth to today. 

Peter opens the Tree of life interface in anticipation.