They won the Holy Grail War, but this turned out to be the Virtual Tree Universe.

Chapter 49 The Legend of Ejihazo's Insects (Seeking recommendations and further reading)
Egihazo, an oasis near the planet's equator, has recently been visited by a strange man.

This person can command a unicorn to help him drag supplies or monster corpses, and he also has a slave girl with him.

However, his methods were extremely cruel and brutal. As soon as he arrived at the oasis, he launched a massacre, which made even the local administrators, who were known for their cruelty, dare not point fingers at this strange man.

This strange man was none other than Dan Lei. After arriving in Aijihazo, Dan Lei took the Stellar Energy Desert Vehicle and a series of supplies that he had purchased through the [Minghuo] Merchant Guild and drove directly out of the city.

Dan Lei was well aware that he would have absolutely no place to set up an array in the major cities controlled by the Interstellar Peace Company.

Although Dan Lei made a lot of money selling toys and puppets in Luofu and was considered a wealthy household in Jinren Alley, he was nothing in the network of Interstellar Peace Company.

Despite its remote location and limited intrinsic value, the Ajihajo gold mine case resulted in losses for more than just the Bo Shi Society. In fact, the Bo Shi Society was just one of the biggest losers among the investors who were scammed by the gold mine.

Therefore, after this incident, the Interstellar Peace Corporation retaliated against Eji Hazo by exploiting him relentlessly.

Land prices in the major city of El Jihadzo have been driven sky-high by various investors, just to lure a few unlucky people into buying them.

Therefore, Danlei didn't plan to stay in these big cities for long. After downloading the map, he drove straight to the surrounding oases.

For Danlei, the environment in Aijihazo wasn't actually that bad. He could summon water directly from the air using Cloud Chant and Water Element Magic, it just consumed more energy than normal.

As for food, these desert creatures wouldn't starve to death. Small creatures like Danlei, which travel alone in the desert, are the best food in their eyes, and they would definitely line up to deliver it to them.

For Dan Lei, the most troublesome thing was that he underestimated the madness of those interstellar refugees in the uninhabited gray zone.

Can you imagine? Driving in the desert, listening to music and eating local grilled sandworm jerky, and suddenly being robbed by desert bandits!

These guys have no sportsmanship. In order not to trigger the high-energy detectors of the high-end vehicles, they actually buried a metal plate in the sand and then used the simplest lever principle to flip the desert vehicle over at the right time.

Dan Lei said he was stunned at the time. After getting out of the car, he turned more than a dozen bandits into magic crystals on the spot, and then left one person to lead the way and destroyed their lair.

However, just like how a hero will immediately encounter clues or people to guide him forward after leaving the starting village.

Dan Lei also gained an unexpected bonus during the raid on the bandit's den.

A local Ajihazo girl named Ashley.

This frail teenage girl was branded a slave by bandits and sold in several places along the way, eventually arriving here near the planet's equator, close to 30 degrees north latitude.

This young girl had probably met members of the Encyclopedic Society who had been active on this planet a few years ago; she immediately recognized Danlei's uniqueness and shouted in the Galactic Common Language upon seeing him.

"Sir! I know the legend of the insects! Help me! I'll take you to find them!"

Upon hearing this, Dan Lei immediately felt that he had struck it lucky today. The information about breeding was something he had been searching for but couldn't find anywhere, and he had obtained it without any effort at all.

Then, Dan Lei decisively hypnotized Ashley and got her to reveal everything she knew.

However, Ashley knew less about breeding insects than Danley had imagined.

The girl had never seen breeding insects before. She was just listening in when her grandmother was talking about ancient legends at the Knowledge Society. The aliens were left behind to search for the insects. If you provided information about the insects, you could exchange them for food and daily necessities.

However, the breeding information the little girl knew was still somewhat useful. Her tribe had a legend that when a sandstorm simultaneously covered seven oases, the temple where the insect god resided would appear among them. As long as the temple was worshipped, the tribe would welcome a batch of newborns.

To be honest, this myth is quite plausible. The native inhabitants of Ejihazor never left the planet, so they couldn't have made up such a legend.

The temple where the so-called god resides, coupled with the fact that its sacrificial function is to produce offspring, seems perfectly aligned with the destiny of reproduction. Moreover, the Knowledge Society would certainly not mobilize such vast resources based solely on a legend from a single indigenous tribe; the surrounding tribes undoubtedly possess many more legends, and might even have more concrete evidence.

That's why the subsequent "Ajihazo gold case" became such a huge scandal.

However, now that the entire planet has been scanned, the so-called dust storm must have been inside as well.

The Knowledge Society never found the so-called Temple of the Insect God, so the Interstellar Peace Corporation must have already treated this legend as a rumor.

However, Danlei said it was very interesting and he could definitely go and check it out.

The fact that a sandstorm could engulf seven oases proves that these seven oases are not too far apart.

On a planet where most of the world is covered by wasteland and desert, the existence of an oasis proves that the earth's veins are active.

There are seven oases in this area, making it an ideal location to set up a ley line absorption array.

So Danlei took Ashley with him and let her lead the way based on her memory, while he took her home.

As you can imagine, what kind of route could a teenage girl remember? She was just leading Danlei around aimlessly.

Only Dan Lei knew that no matter which way he went, heading towards the equator was always the right thing to do, otherwise he would end up going in the opposite direction.

However, during their journey, Danlei's expensive desert vehicle was ambushed and destroyed by a giant horned beast (the Diablos from Monster Hunter with its wings removed).

Enraged, Danlei defeated it and then turned it into a familiar for transportation.

It has to be said that, given enough food, unicorns can travel faster across the sand than a desert vehicle.

Moreover, it is very good at digging, and at night, it can easily dig out a shelter.

The only problem is that, as the apex predator of this land, it scares away all the "small animals" around it, severely impacting Danlei's hunting efficiency.

However, with its help, Danlei was able to reach the largest oasis in the Ejihazo equatorial region, as recorded by Yuzhao.

Danlei has been in the Aijihazo wilderness for some time now and knows the most efficient way to communicate with the people here.

Therefore, after arriving at the oasis, Dan Lei went straight up the line of the first person who had provoked him, fighting his way up until his gang leader was killed.

In this way, the people of this oasis will never provoke a completely lone, mad killer.

As for whether Danlei will directly offend someone he can't afford to offend.

Dan Lei can only say that not every place is Luofu, and those who follow the path of destiny are extremely rare in the universe.

Ejihazo is a place that the Interstellar Peace Corporation has made use of. The treasure hunters who come here, to put it nicely, are here to hunt for treasure, but to put it bluntly, they're here to pick up trash.

It would be good if you could find ten Fate Walkers on the entire planet.

Dan Lei is no longer the novice who had the power of destiny but didn't know how to use it.

Dan Lei, who is already able to fight Yan Qing, might need to reconsider claiming to be the strongest on the entire planet, but he's definitely in the top three.

(End of this chapter)