In the apocalypse, I hoarded goods and handed over my storage space to the government.

Ten minutes later, at the forefront of the alienated forest.

Mo Yun walked at the very front.

He took a deep breath and pushed his hands forward sharply.

boom!

A ghastly green poisonous mist, like a burst dam, gushed forth from his palms.

Second-tier poison-type superpowers fully activated.

The dozen or so vines blocking the way instantly turned into a pool of viscous pus upon contact with the poisonous mist.

Mo Yun stepped inside.

"Keep up!"

The white deer followed closely behind.

A faint blue light shone in her eyes, and an invisible spiritual force spread outward from the four people, forming a circular barrier with a radius of five meters.

Countless black corpse beetles swarmed in from all directions, crashing into the psychic barrier and instantly being crushed into clumps of flesh.

Su Ran walked in the middle, while Ye Xiao and Zhu Jingye walked at the back, their steps steady.

The five-man team, like a red-hot dagger, plunged deep into the flesh of this behemoth.

One kilometer, two kilometers, three kilometers.

Mo Yun stopped in her tracks.

A huge crater appeared on the ground ahead.

A deep purple main vine, over three meters in diameter, pierces the ground, its surface even displaying veins that pulsate like blood vessels.

"This is it, the main vine."

Mo Yun glanced at the precise coordinates provided by Zhou Jian on the tactical terminal.

He pressed down with both palms, and the dense poisonous mist transformed into a green pillar of fire, pouring straight into the main vine stem.

"Hiss!"

The ear-piercing sound of corrosion was accompanied by a mournful screech that no plant could produce, and the entire forest instantly became restless.

"Down!"

Mo Yun leaped into the huge passage that had been opened up by the poisonous mist.

"This stuff's juice is disgusting..."

Bai Lu wrinkled her delicate nose and moved closer to Su Ran.

Su Ran smiled slightly, her thoughts stirring subtly.

A transparent yet indestructible spatial barrier instantly enveloped the five people, isolating them from the strong acid and pus dripping from the walls of the passage.

"Let's go."

Bai Lu and his two companions followed without hesitation.

The passage was pitch black, and the ground beneath our feet was covered with sticky, corroded flesh and blood.

The passage slopes downwards at a 45-degree angle, pointing directly to the Earth's center.

The monster seemed to have been provoked.

The roots on the four walls of the passage began to wriggle and squeeze wildly, trying to crush the four intruders to death inside.

"Disgusting! Get out of my way!"

A hint of murderous intent flashed in Bai Lu's cold eyes as she uttered a cold shout.

The power of telekinesis suddenly erupted.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

The sound of muscle fibers snapping echoed in the darkness.

"This monster is starting to get angry."

Ye Xiao kept staring at the sky as he walked down.

Above the passage, swarms of corpse beetles poured down like a waterfall, crashing one after another against the spatial barrier erected by Su Ran, attempting to block their escape route.

"Why are there so many?"

Zhu Jingye looked at the terrifying sea of ​​insects overhead and spoke in horror.

"Ignore what's behind you, go full speed down!" Mo Yun shouted.

The toxic fog cleared a path ahead, burning through layer after layer of tough cornea.

Thirty meters underground.

Eighty meters underground.

"How much deeper?" Ye Xiao drew his Tang sword.

"Soon!"

Mo Yun broke out in a cold sweat; the intense release of the poisonous fog had greatly depleted his mental energy.

Just then, the flesh wall in front of them suddenly split open.

The space suddenly opened up.

The five people landed steadily.

This is a huge underground cave.

There was no purple mist.

The cave ceiling and surrounding rock walls were covered with glowing glands, which made the entire cave appear eerily green.

In the very center of the cave, something was suspended.

It was a dark purple tumor, as big as a shipping container.

The surface is covered with thick vine roots that extend all the way to the four walls of the cave, connecting to the entire forest on the ground.

The sarcoma was beating violently, just like a heart.

"Thump! Thump! Thump!"

Each throb caused the entire flesh-and-blood cavern to tremble.

"What exactly is this thing?"

Mo Yun squinted, staring intently at the beating heart in front of him.

Bai Lu's face was pale as she struggled to suppress the churning in her stomach. Su Ran's gaze sharpened slightly.

The apocalyptic mutations spawned some strange and unusual creatures.

But the beating heart in front of me, which is half plant and half flesh, is indeed a bit beyond the scope of this discussion.

"It has the appearance of a plant, but it has followed the path of physical evolution, and the entire mutated forest is controlled by a single core..."

Su Ran silently assessed in her mind, "This mutation is truly unreasonable."

"Whatever it is, just do it."

Ye Xiao, however, was oblivious and licked his chapped lips.

Before the group could even discuss tactics, the rock walls surrounding the cave suddenly exploded.

Dozens of main vines, thicker than water buckets and covered with black bony scales, lashed out at the four of them like enraged venomous pythons.

"Let's do it!"

Ye Xiao shouted sharply, his whole body turning into a blur as he charged straight at the central tumor.

The wind howled.

Dozens of main vines covered in bone scales blocked all angles, and with terrifying kinetic energy capable of crushing a tank, they slammed into Ye Xiao in mid-air.

"I'll do it."

Bai Lu forcibly suppressed the nausea in her heart and suddenly raised her hands upwards.

hum!

The air was violently distorted.

An immense, suffocating psychic force suddenly descended.

Those unstoppable main vines were frozen in mid-air three meters away from Ye Xiao.

The vines twisted and turned wildly, but could not advance an inch.

"Well done!" Ye Xiao laughed.

Taking advantage of the absolute opening created by Bai Lu, he instantly closed the distance to the tumor.

"Smash it!"

He gripped the hilt of the sword tightly with both hands, pouring his peak second-tier power into the Tang sword without reservation.

The blade tore through the air with a piercing shriek as it slashed fiercely at the pulsating core.

when!

A deafening clang of metal clashing rang out.

Sparks flew everywhere.

Ye Xiao's tiger's mouth instantly split open, and blood splattered everywhere.

He was thrown back by a terrifying recoil force and slammed heavily against the rock wall.

"Cough, cough cough!" Ye Xiao coughed up a mouthful of blood, staring intently ahead.

The sarcoma was intact.

Just as the blade was about to make contact, the surface of the tumor secreted a layer of grayish-white, high-density bony shell.

That cut left only a one-inch-deep white mark on the bone.

"What a hard turtle shell!" Ye Xiao gritted his teeth.

"This thing's defensive capabilities have exceeded the limit of a normal second-tier weapon."

Mo Yun's eyes turned cold, and he strode forward, slamming his hands onto the ground.

"Poison Swamp!"

The ghastly green poisonous mist spread wildly along the ground, climbing upwards from the junction beneath the tumor.

The venom adhered to the grayish-white bone shell, triggering a violent chemical reaction.

Acrid white smoke rose.

Dense bubbles began to appear on the surface of the bone shell, and the hard texture quickly softened and became brittle under the erosion of the strong acid venom.

The tumor seemed to be in pain, and its throbbing became even more frantic.

"It's working desperately!"

Bai Lu reacted the fastest, her mental energy rapidly depleting. "Hurry!"

"Brother Ye! Go!" Zhu Jingye roared.

He suddenly rushed behind Ye Xiao and pressed his palms firmly against Ye Xiao's back.

"Damage transfer, unleash full power!"

The shock that Ye Xiao had just felt vanished instantly, and his body was filled with power again!

"Thanks, bro!"

He exerted force with both legs again.

boom!

This time, he crossed the two Tang swords in mid-air, forming a cross.

The target was the most vulnerable piece of bone that Mo Yun had corroded with his venom.

"Die!"

The cross-shaped blade slashed in fiercely.

The moment of contact, a terrifying recoil force surged back into Ye Xiao's arms through the hilt of the knife.

Ye Xiao groaned, and the veins in his arms bulged out.

It suddenly flipped its wrist.

"Armor-piercing!"

The blade sliced ​​through the softened bone shell, penetrating deep into the dark purple tumor.

Then, he suddenly ripped his arms outwards!

puff!

The huge tumor was torn open with a two-meter-long gash.

Thick, dark red, high-energy blood gushed out like a high-pressure water gun. Fortunately, Su Ran reacted quickly, and a spatial barrier instantly enveloped Ye Xiao's entire body.

"Old Mo!" Ye Xiao drew his sword and retreated.

"They're here!"

Mo Yun was prepared.

He clasped his hands together, and a dense cloud of poisonous mist gathered, shooting into the horrifying fissure of the tumor.

Time seemed to stand still at that moment.

"Gulp..."

A dull dissolving sound came from inside the enormous tumor, and the heart, which had been beating violently, suddenly stopped beating, like a machine whose power had been cut off.

Dozens of main vines remained suspended in mid-air before falling limply to the ground.

A half-step third-tier mutated behemoth.

dead!

The once tough muscle tissue instantly lost its vitality and began to decay at a visible rate.

The underground cavity showed faint signs of collapsing.

"Well done."

A hint of admiration flashed in Su Ran's eyes, who had been silently holding the line.

Holding up the barrier, he shouted, "Finish the job and call it a day! Quickly! We need to get out!"

……

However, shortly after the five people left.

In the constantly collapsing underground cavern, filled with vines and rotting flesh.

From the broken, corroded tumor, only half of which remained, a chilling tearing sound suddenly came.

A tiny claw with sharp black nails suddenly emerged from the dead flesh.

Immediately afterwards, a bizarre figure, no bigger than an infant and covered in black slime, crawled out from the depths of the tumor.

It lay on the ground and slowly raised its head.

Its face had no features, only a mouth covered with fine, sharp teeth, and above the mouth were a pair of pure black, lifeless pupils!

It stared intently at the passage where Su Ran and the others had left, its chilling eyes fixed on them.

Then.

This withered "black baby," using all four limbs like a giant spider, vanished instantly into the endless darkness deep within the rock strata.