"Why are they all coming to surround and attack you? Is it because you're richer?"

Lin Ye asked curiously.

"This is quite normal, because as long as I'm still alive, they can only die here or be cleared out by me. Also, they're not coming to surround and attack me; you look much easier to deal with than I am."

Xivia calmly drank her morning tea as if she didn't see those people at all.

"Don't these people know fear? Even if they can clear you out, many of them should still die here, right?"

Lin Ye leaned back in his chair, using his tail to coil around the kettle and pour himself a cup of black tea.

"Maybe they're all gambling that they won't be the ones to die. I can't and don't want to understand their way of thinking."

Although Xivia appeared very casual, Lin Ye could sense that she was already setting up a spiritual energy shield.

"How boring. Do you still want to eat something? I'm actually not very skilled at making desserts."

Lin Ye opened the suitcase again. Some ingredients and two books had appeared inside the previously emptied suitcase. The text on them should be the script of this Plane, but through the system, Lin Ye could understand the meaning of these words.

"You can prepare me your most skilled dish."

Xivia suddenly fired over a dozen compressed spiritual energy piercing attacks in all directions. This was a very terrifying attack method; not only could it penetrate the enemy's spiritual energy shield, but it would also produce a terrifying compressed spiritual energy shockwave upon piercing through the enemy.

The surrounding enemies used various techniques to dodge this attack, but still, over ten mid and high-level spiritual energy users were blasted into minced meat.

"《Complete Recipe Collection of This Plane》 and 《Collection of Good-Looking Short Horror Stories》, which one do you want to read?"

Lin Ye used those ingredients to make a seafood hand-pulled noodle dish. Compared to rice, he actually preferred noodles. Back when he worked a regular job, if he didn't want to eat at night, he would cook himself a cup of instant noodles with an egg added.

The heat control when cooking instant noodles was very important; it couldn't be too hard or too soft, and you definitely couldn't add too many things. Complexity was the enemy of taste.

"《Collection of Good-Looking Short Horror Stories》, I've never encountered a situation where I needed to cook for myself."

Xivia, who had intended to continue fighting, suddenly relaxed her body. She first tasted a mouthful of the warm noodle broth before eating the noodles, which had just the right texture. 𝐟𝐫𝕖𝗲𝘄𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝕧𝐞𝚕.𝕔𝕠𝐦

"Here you go. I have to cook for myself every day, so I can just research the local recipes."

The vast majority of the surviving ritual participants had gathered behind Lin Ye. Mad smiles appeared on their faces, and various alien limbs grew from their bodies.

"What did you do to them?"

Xivia frowned as she looked at those ritual participants. She was even starting to doubt whether her grandmother's friend was a normal human.

"Madness is a state that transcends common sense; it affects both spirit and body. I didn't do anything to them; I just made them recognize themselves."

Lin Ye flipped through the Recipe Book. Those ritual participants standing behind him, as if receiving some mysterious signal, began dispersing in all directions, leaving this area.

"These people are all cannon fodder sent to scout the path. Even if you enhanced them to a certain degree, it has no meaning."

Xivia quickly finished the seafood hand-pulled noodles and asked Lin Ye to make another bowl.

"Since we're idle anyway, what if they prove useful?"

Lin Ye quickly cooked two more bowls of noodles and pushed one of them in front of Xivia.

"As you wish... Didn't you need flesh and blood materials? Why did you send them all away?"

Xivia ate the hand-pulled noodles and asked, puzzled.

"This is an early-stage investment."

Lin Ye had already strengthened this host body to the third tier. He only needed to supplement some flesh and blood materials to advance to a mid-tier spiritual energy creature.

Some Red Frogs were carrying the materials he needed and approaching from various directions. They had found many biological nests here that could be used to create parasite nests.

"... It seems like something is approaching this area."

Lin Ye suddenly looked up into the distance.

"Something? Not human?"

Xivia asked, somewhat strangely.

"Mmm... Something with an exceptionally massive body type."

Lin Ye integrated part of the flesh and blood materials brought by the Red Frogs into his body. The remaining flesh and blood materials were alienated by him into some brightly red Parasitic Butterflies.

"Is it a native creature of this place... But to prevent the ritual from being affected, there shouldn't be any very strong spiritual energy creatures here."

Xivia put down the 《Collection of Good-Looking Short Horror Stories》 in her hand. For this kind of situation that exceeded the plan, she would maintain necessary vigilance until she found the cause of the problem.

"Speaking of which, is this area really the ritual site?"

The ground shook. Lin Ye looked at the massive figure rapidly approaching in the distance and suddenly felt he had been laughably naive.

How could a task the young girl needed to entrust to him be as simple as just accompanying a young lady on a camping trip?

"... I'm also somewhat uncertain now."

Xivia began retreating backward. Lin Ye could only grab the suitcase and run.

It was a Giant Creature composed of various plant structures. It was easily over a hundred meters tall; with the naked eye, you couldn't even see where its boundaries were.

Mismatched with its massive size was its exaggerated movement speed. Each of its tendrils provided propulsion for its movement, allowing it to continuously close the straight-line distance between itself and Xivia.

"It seems to have locked onto you."

Lin Ye's physical strength wasn't high enough yet; right now, it was entirely Xivia pulling him forward as they ran. He could only carve speed runes beside them to continuously increase their speed.

"Mmm, can you find its vital point?"

Xivia took out a long sword inlaid with various gems from a spatial item and asked.

"It has many control nodes on its body. Above each layer of control nodes, there are higher-level control nodes. Even if you can destroy its core part, the secondary control nodes will quickly become the new core part."

Lin Ye had actually already tried attacking the other party once, but the parasitic creatures could only hover around the periphery, completely unable to get close to the more core parts on the other party's body.

And even if some peripheral nodes were parasitized, it was meaningless; the other party could easily deal with those parasitized parts.

"If we consider all nodes that can become core parts as the core area, how large is the entire core area's range?"

Xivia gripped the long sword, brewing some very dangerous attack.

The surrounding spiritual energy gathered toward her. The nearby spiritual energy was almost completely drained by her.

"Very large, over a hundred meters in diameter."

Lin Ye didn't have a very good method to deal with this kind of enemy either. After all, he wasn't in his main body now and couldn't use various relics and props. The Tyrannosaurus rex Host was still too weak.

"You help me locate it."

Xivia drank a bottle of pure white potion and said with a serious expression.