Chapter 12

Translator: Dragon Boat Translation Editor: Dragon Boat Translation

Peter pointed at a pile of energy crystals in front of him again. “These are all mined by you and the killer whale?”

Peter asked because when Peter approached the Energy Crystals, he received a system notification showing that the number of energy crystals had reached 620 units. It was equivalent to the mermaid and the killer whale doing nothing but mining energy crystals Otherwise, how could there be so many energy crystals?

The mermaid put her hands on her waist and tilted her little head. Her proud look amused Peter.

Haha!

“Tell me, how do I reward you and the killer whale?”

When the mermaid heard that Peter was going to reward her, her eyes lit up as she looked at the dining table not far away. There was still the cup that Peter used to drink coffee on the dining table. This little guy was craving coffee..

However, this also made Peter feel a little guilty. At the moment, he could only take out coffee. The other delicious things had to wait for the fruit to ripen. 

Now, with enough energy crystals needed to build the energy defense tower and another night coming, he planned to start building the energy defense tower the next morning.

At night, Peter lit a bonfire beside the small dining table.

The mermaid was still lying in Peter’s arms, holding a cup of coffee and drinking it with a face full of enjoyment.

As for the baby killer whale, Peter filled a bucket with lake water and let the killer whale stay in the bucket.

The baby killer whale saw the mermaid drinking coffee in Peter’s arms and cried anxiously in the bucket.

Oh Oh!

Peter had no choice but to feed the baby killer whale with a small spoon bit by bit.

This warm scene was played out under the tree of life.

It was close to midnight when Peter brought the mermaid into the tent to sleep.

The baby killer whale was also carried into the tent by Peter in the bucket.

That night, they slept very soundly.

On the fourth day after entering the island world, Peter was still awakened by the sound of the tree of life growing rapidly. He opened his eyes and looked at the mermaid sleeping in the hammock. He found that the mermaid had grown up again.

The current hammock could no longer hold the mermaid. The mermaid’s pink tail stretched out of the hammock and swayed from time to time. It seemed that they had to make a new hammock for the mermaid first.

The little killer whale in the bucket had also grown in size after a night. Peter felt that with the growth rate of the little killer whale, it would not be long before it could enter the ocean.

After drilling out of the tent, Peter opened the interface of the Tree of life.

[ tree of life ]

[ level ] : 26/100.

[ life energy ] : 4,100 points. (Life energy can be used to breed and level up creatures. 300 life energy can breed a creature.)

[ daily output ] : 2,600 points per day.

[ tree spirit ] : 26 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.

Peter was shocked by the level of the Tree of life.

Level 26!

After a night of growth, the tree of life had leveled up by 10 levels. The amount of life energy stored had reached an astonishing 4,100 points.

Peter decided to use 300 points of life energy to nurture a living creature, the process for which immediately began. Meanwhile, Peter did not wait around and started to make breakfast. He brewed a little more coffee than usual because he had three mouths to drink. The amount he brewed before was obviously not enough.

After making the coffee, Peter saw that the mermaid and the baby killer whale had also woken up. However, the mermaid was very curious when she saw Peter brushing his teeth with his toothbrush. This was the first time the mermaid had seen Peter brush his teeth. Previously, when Peter was brushing his teeth, the mermaid was still asleep.

HMM?

Peter also noticed that the mermaid was waiting for her two big eyes to look at him.

“What… are you doing?” Peter suddenly realized that the upper half of the mermaid’s body was almost identical to a human’s. The little guy also needed to brush his teeth. Right now, the mermaid only ate life energy and a small amount of coffee. In the future, when the variety of food they ate became richer, it was inevitable that their teeth would have cavities without teeth brushing.

“HMM! This is a toothbrush, and this is toothpaste. It’s used to wash and brush your teeth. Do you want to try it?”

Pop! Pop!

The mermaid revealed two rows of white and fine teeth.

“Yes!”

Haha!

Peter held the mermaid in his arms and took out a new toothbrush. After applying toothpaste, he taught the mermaid how to brush her teeth.

The mermaid’s mouth was covered with the foam produced by the toothpaste, and she was still making sounds.

It took the mermaid nearly 10 minutes to learn how to brush her teeth.

After breakfast, the mermaid and the baby killer whale were both absorbing life energy.

Peter walked to a place not far from the dining table and began to build an energy defense tower.

Boom Boom Boom Boom!

After consuming 2,500 life energy and 500 units of Energy Crystals, five life energy towers were put under construction.

The main reason was that the current progress of mining the energy crystals at the bottom of the lake was still slow.

The mermaid couldn’t be blamed for this. The little guy was already working hard with the orca.

The only one to blame was the tree of Life’s astonishing growth rate.

Peter looked at the time. It would take half an hour to build five energy defense towers.

It was different from the previous energy defense towers.

This time, Peter simply put the energy defense towers together and waited for the tree of life to completely cover the island.

Then, he moved the energy defense towers to the previously planned location.

Now, if the island wanted to build a defensive net made of energy defense towers, it would need 112 energy defense towers.

This was a relatively time-consuming defense project. But once it was completed, it would completely solve the island’s defense problem. Any invading creatures would never return.

Soon, the mermaid and the baby killer whale had absorbed all the life energy. Peter sent the mermaid and the baby killer whale to the lake and told the mermaid not to be too tired. Although the work of mining energy crystals was very important and urgent, Peter did not want to see the mermaid and the baby killer whale exhausted. He was very happy to see the mermaid and the baby killer whale playing on the lake. It was like seeing his own child playing.

Then, Peter went to the planting area around the tree of life to see how the plants were growing. The roses with the shortest production period had already grown branches and started to form small buds. In a few days, when the buds grew a little bigger, the roses would be ready to mature.

By that time, the Roses planted around the tree of life would have ripened, and the delicate fragrance of the Roses would have filled every nook and cranny of the island.

Just as Peter was imagining this, the life-forms of the tree of life were finished. Peter immediately ran to the trunk of the Tree of life.

He had already experienced this, so he ran there in advance, ready to accept the unknown life-forms.

This time, what would the tree of life give birth to?