Chapter 17

Translator: Dragon Boat Translation Editor: Dragon Boat Translation

After Peter returned to the tree of life, he began to build energy defense towers frantically. While waiting for the construction process, Peter also checked the interface of the tree of life.

[ tree of life ]

[ level ] : 50/100.

[ life energy ] : 10,500 points. (Life energy can be used to nurture and level up creatures. 300 life energy can nurture a creature.)

[ daily output ]5000 points per day.

[ tree spirit ] : 30 points per day. (short tree spirit, very good at planting all kinds of plants.)

[ energy defense tower ] : construction requires 500 life energy points and 100 units of Energy Crystals.

[ time accelerator ] : Used.

The number of life energy points produced by the Tree of life had already greatly exceeded the daily usage. Now, the limiting factor becomes energy crystals: as the 100 crystals required per energy defense tower did not change, it became a constraint.

However, this was not a problem. Now that the mermaid had grown up, the efficiency of extracting energy crystals would be greatly increased.

Previously, the mermaid had already extracted 1000 units of energy crystals along with the killer whale and the White Tiger. Adding the previous stock, the storage capacity of energy crystals had already reached 1400 units.

This time, Peter had used up all of the energy defense towers he had built. A total of 14 energy defense towers had been built, which was only half a day’s worth of extraction. From tomorrow onwards, the progress of building the defense towers would be greatly increased.

14 energy defense towers, plus the 8 energy defense towers that were previously built, made a total of 22 energy defense towers.

At this point, Peter can start assigning towers to their defense locations.

Peter saw that the tree of life could now produce 30 tree spirits, so he let the Tree of life produce all of them in one go.

Adding the 15 tree spirits from before, a total of 45 tree spirits were under Peter’s command, and they began to head in different directions.

Peter divided the 45 treants into nine groups, each with five treants. Then, each group of treants learned how to move the energy defense towers most efficiently.

Each group of treants would work on two or three energy defense towers.

Peter, the director of the show, had 22 energy defense towers erected at the designated location just before sunset.

This didn’t seem difficult, but there was still a reason to prioritize erecting energy defense towers at that location.

If one didn’t follow the plan and randomly erected energy defense towers at the defense network points, it would greatly affect the efficiency and accuracy of the final network formation.

At that point, adjusting energy defense towers would become much more difficult.

If one energy defense tower was moved, another energy defense tower would have a blind spot in its attack range. It’s simply not worth it.

To ensure that the energy defense tower would not go wrong this time, Peter had to personally go to every point to check after the tree spirit finished his work.

This could only be carried out after the White Tiger returned with the mermaid.

When night was about to fall, the white tiger finally returned to the tent with the mermaid.

These two guys really knew how to play.

However, the mermaid also brought back a piece of news: the killer whale found a treasure under the ocean.

According to the killer whale’s description, the treasure was a few heavy boxes, each of them several times bigger than the killer whale.

The killer whale’s body was now about three meters long, and the box containing the treasure was more than 10 meters big.

Peter planned to put the killer whale’s discovery aside for now since he couldn’t bring up something that large from the bottom of the ocean: the treasure isn’t fleeing anyway.

The mermaid began to make dinner, another thing Peter had taught her.

Because Peter had used the time accelerator, many plants that originally needed more than ten days to bear fruit bloomed and bore fruit in advance. Although there were still very few varieties, it was better than nothing.

The mermaid made a fruit salad out of mango and pineapple, while Peter rode the white tiger to various points in the defense net to check if there were any mistakes in the locations where the tree spirits placed the energy defense towers in the afternoon.

Because of the White Tiger, Peter’s inspection process was much faster. After half an hour, he had finished checking all the locations where the energy defense towers were erected and was very satisfied with the results.

He was proud of the special ability of the tree spirit to focus on doing everything. If this were to be done by a human, there would always be a mistake somewhere.

By this time, the mermaid had already prepared dinner. Although she and the white tiger mainly relied on eating life energy, they still welcome human treats.

The mermaid also found a glass bottle from the box that Peter brought in and filled it with fruit salads.

This was to be brought to the killer whale tomorrow.

Peter shook his head when he saw it. It seemed that there was a deep relationship between them.

When the mermaid returned, Peter found that the mermaid was holding two beautiful shells. The killer whale found them for the mermaid at the bottom of the sea. Although the mermaid said that one was specially given to him by the killer whale, the mermaid’s expression showed that she wanted both of them.

Peter turned on the energy-saving lamp, which lit up the surroundings of the dining table. 

The mermaid was now nearly 160 centimeters long, so she could not stay in Peter’s arms. Moreover, now that she had legs, she could sit on a chair and eat by herself.

As for the White Tiger, Peter also prepared a chair for it.

The white tiger imitated Peter and sat on the chair. On the plate in front of it was a fruit salad, which was equivalent to an appetizer before the outside world ate.

Then, the mermaid and the White Tiger Ate Life Energy.

Peter had always been thinking about the killer whales in the ocean. He had already fed the life energy to the killer whales through the tree of life interface.

The life energy could fly far away. Once it found a target, it would automatically fly into the killer whale’s mouth.

After Peter finished his dinner and watched the mermaid clean up the table, he began to stare at the mermaid. This made the mermaid’s face start to heat up.

How could she not know what Peter was looking at her for? Even the white tiger saw something and crouched to the side, staring at Peter.

Sigh! It was not a good thing that the tree of life was born with a high IQ.

Peter felt that now that the mermaid had grown up, the sleeping bags they used now were very small.

He had to consider changing to a bigger sleeping bag.

No!

It was better to have a small room with a big bed in it.

No!

It was best to have two small houses, one for the white tiger.

Now that Peter’s Island was the first to bear fruit, he planned to go to the island world’s trading board to have a look.

It was better to exchange for more urgently needed supplies since there was a luggage limit of 50kg per person when entering the island world.