My Human Identity Was Exposed by an Evil Spirit Wife

Chapter 174: Chapter 174: Burn It All with a Single Blaze

Flying Eagle immediately knew what they were thinking, and he rolled his eyes.

Not everyone is willing to be the first to try something new.

The first to act may reap many rewards, but if you follow quickly enough, there’s no real loss.

Similarly, if the first person makes a mistake and suffers a loss, others can learn from it and gain experience.

Flying Eagle didn’t say much more—he was that kind of person too; if it weren’t for the fact that this news came from his own daughter, he wouldn’t have believed it.

His daughter’s greatest strength was her rigor—once she informed him of something, it meant she’d strictly verified its authenticity.

The facts were exactly as his daughter had told him.

At the moment he deployed his power, a territory did indeed spread out around him, isolating the growth and propagation of the Dark Forest.

The only thing he didn’t understand was why, ever since she passed on the information, he’d lost all contact with her.

The only comfort he had was that, when his daughter shared the information, she didn’t mention being in any danger.

If she had access to information about ’anchor points,’ it meant there must be someone around her capable of deploying an anchor—she should now be within his territory and safe from the Dark Forest’s harm.

In today’s world, with the Dark Forest rampaging and base stations destroyed, losing contact signals had become normal.

Flying Eagle looked at the huge eyeball floating above everyone’s heads in his territory. He wondered, if his territory was big enough, could this surveillance view cover everyone in the world?

He told no one that the foundation of Flying Tiger Group’s survival, that streaming tool brought back from a Dungeon, was actually a huge, dead Evil Spirit’s head.

There were over a hundred eyeballs swirling around on its surface. The head itself had no nose or mouth, not even ears.

Calling it a head was inaccurate—it was more like a round ball covered in eyes.

After bringing it back, at first they had no idea how to use it.

But by accident, during their experiments, they placed a cell phone beside the sphere. For the first time, the sphere opened a fissure, its interior packed with razor-sharp teeth—enough to split most of the orb apart.

On that day, with the sphere’s mouth opened, he finally realized the object brought from the Dungeon was a head.

The giant mouth swallowed the cell phone beside it.

Flying Eagle could only call it luck, because that phone was a backup, with no SIM card—just one app installed, the Flying Tiger Streaming Platform app.

Ever since then, the Flying Tiger Streaming Platform’s app changed. Maybe because of the Dungeon item, the moment a Dungeon opened, he could monitor all Survivors participating, and stream their information live.

Now, as Flying Eagle watched countless watching eyes in his territory, he admitted that his evolution—growing these eyes—was indeed influenced by that streaming tool.

After reaching an agreement with the human experts, they agreed to head together toward the location of the new Dungeon.

Before leaving, he sent another message in the group chat.

"Hey, if you don’t deploy anchor points to form your own territory, what’ll you do when the Dark Forest grows over while you’re gone—what about the millions who’ve come to seek refuge in your territory?"

Flying Eagle’s concern was not without reason; the Dark Forest grows incredibly fast, and these people weren’t moving now only because the forest hadn’t yet reached them.

If you leave and the Dark Forest quickly spreads, millions will become its nourishment.

Lords leaving for a short time wouldn’t affect an already-formed territory; the Dark Forest would automatically avoid such an area as it grew.

Flying Eagle’s words made the chat fall silent. They really were worried about this problem.

But they couldn’t skip the new Dungeon either.

This Dungeon, which had suddenly appeared in humanity’s territory, had to be investigated no matter what.

"It should be fine. The satellite shows the Dark Forest is still far from me, and there are no humans between me and the forest. Its expansion shouldn’t be that fast."

"I’ve already sent people to calculate its growth rate—both with life and without life as nutrition. We’ve analyzed both modes. If I leave for a short time, it shouldn’t expand here."

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Seeing these responses, Flying Eagle didn’t say anything more.

He just felt uneasy. After the Dark Forest began spreading, humans had already abandoned their former habitats and gathered in whichever city hosted the most powerful experts.

Since the arrival of the bizarre, human numbers have dropped sharply. Survivors are rare everywhere—even after all the effort learning Dungeon strategies.

But there are just too many humans—even after countless deaths in bizarre Dungeons, the ten cities designated by top human experts still aren’t enough for survival.

Now, in these cities, both inside and outside, people are packed together at densities far beyond normal survival limits.

All the cities have begun dividing into classes. Those with connections, power, or wealth live in the inner city.

Those without strength or influence can only live in the outer city.

This survival pattern has already taken shape in several cities. Even in those yet to deploy anchor points, as long as the Guardian there is strong enough, people gather in huge numbers just the same.

Humanity has estimated the forest’s growth rate and paths, but will the Dark Forest really grow as they’ve calculated?

"According to our investigation, Dungeons in the Evil Spirit Realm also have many forests. These coexist with evil spirits for many years. The forests seem to have only instinct to seek advantage and avoid harm—no independent intelligence," someone said.

"Actually, I already ran tests near the Dark Forest. I found if you clear out all life here—be it trees or animals—the forest’s expansion slows to a crawl."

"I’ve cleared away all the vegetation on my city’s outskirts. To keep anything from surviving underground, I even set the land on fire."

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Hearing this series of solutions, Flying Eagle let out a sigh of relief.

The forest does have this weakness—with no life, it can’t reproduce, or at least grows extremely slowly.

Its ability to proliferate rapidly depends on endless life as nourishment.

Burning everything nearby—honestly, it sounded like a decent solution.

While the forest hasn’t grown here yet...

Flying Eagle pondered, thinking that if he burned all the land on the edge of his domain, the outer area could temporarily accommodate even more people.