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

"Fire! Turn them into mincemeat!"

With a hysterical roar from the burly man, dozens of automatic rifles simultaneously spat out blinding tongues of fire.

Da da da da!

Bai Lu snorted coldly. An invisible mental force erupted like a tsunami.

The bullets in mid-air froze instantly, hovering less than half a meter in front of the three people.

"What...what kind of monster is this?!"

The guards who fired the shots stared in horror.

As Bai Lu's gaze turned slightly cold, all the bullets changed direction.

"Here you go."

Puff puff!

It flew backwards along the same route.

The dozens of guards in the front row didn't even have time to scream before their foreheads exploded with bloody holes, and they fell straight down.

The burly man who witnessed this scene had his eyes twitching wildly; he knew he had kicked a hornet's nest today.

"You're asking for it!"

He roared, and his bones cracked like popping beans.

The second-tier peak mutated snow bear, which was originally eating, roared madly and leaped out.

This ferocious beast, over five meters long, with Victor's severed limb still hanging from its mouth, lunged straight at the burly man.

The burly man did not dodge; instead, he charged towards the snow bear.

An astonishing scene unfolded.

The burly man crashed into the snow bear's body, their flesh and blood mingling.

Just two seconds.

The strong man's body was embedded in the blood bear's body.

A four-meter-tall orc monster covered in white bristles and icy spikes stood in the center of the field.

Its eyes gleamed with a bloodthirsty red light, and its aura suddenly surged even higher!

At the same time, five figures suddenly sprang up from the shadows surrounding the mine.

The remaining five second-tier awakened leaders, accompanied by violent elemental fluctuations, attacked Su Ran from five blind spots.

Fireballs, wind blades, and earth spikes instantly sealed off all escape routes.

"They can even combine? That's fancy, quite interesting."

Ye Xiao gripped the hilt of his knife tightly, his eyes burning with fervor.

With a stomp of his foot, he transformed into a streak of black lightning, shooting headlong towards the four-meter-tall behemoth.

The giant beast roared, wielding its bear paw the size of a water vat, creating a sharp whistling sound as it slammed it down on Ye Xiao.

"Let me see for myself what kind of people you foreign charlatans really are!"

Ye Xiao burst into wild laughter.

Clang!

The blade flashed like a bolt of lightning; there were no fancy supernatural clashes, only pure, unadulterated physical skills and strength.

The long knife cuts into the bear's paw as easily as a hot knife cutting through butter.

Stab it!

The entire thick bear arm was severed at the root.

The giant beast let out a mournful cry, and before it could regain its footing, Ye Xiao had already used the momentum to complete a turn in mid-air.

Second knife.

The blade created a deafening sonic boom.

The giant beast's other arm shot into the sky.

boom!

Its massive body lost its balance and crashed heavily to its knees, kicking up clouds of coal dust.

The combined state collapsed instantly.

The Slavic man was forcibly ripped from the snow bear's body, his arms severed at the roots, and he lay convulsing wildly in a pool of blood.

The mutated snow bear wasn't much better off; it had lost both claws and lay on the ground howling in pain.

Immediately afterwards, Ye Xiao chopped off his head with a single stroke.

the other side.

The attacks from the five awakened beings were about to land on Su Ran and Bai Lu.

The white deer hovered in mid-air, its red lips slightly parted, uttering two cool words.

"Lie down."

The azure spiritual essence transformed into an invisible mountain, crashing down with a deafening roar.

boom! boom! boom!

The five second-tier awakened individuals, who were in the midst of their charge, didn't even have time to react before being pinned to the ground.

The immense pressure caused their bones to creak and groan under the strain.

The fireball extinguished, and the wind blades dissipated.

"Leave one alive," Su Ran said.

Bai Lu nodded slightly, her vast mental perception precisely slicing into the brains of the five people like a scalpel.

In an instant, they identified a tall, thin man whose mental state was relatively stable and whose violent tendencies were the least.

"puff!"

The other four awakened individuals bled from all seven orifices, their internal organs were crushed, and they died on the spot.

Only one tall, thin man with the ability to strengthen bones remained, and he was still desperately holding on even though Bai Lu was holding back a little.

But his entire back was caved in, his mouth was agape and he was spitting out large amounts of blood, his eyes filled with extreme fear.

The battle lasted less than ten seconds from start to finish.

The entire mine was deathly silent.

The guards who were still alive in the distance immediately turned around and ran away.

The two women, who had narrowly escaped death, hugged each other tightly, staring blankly at the scene before them.

Ye Xiao flicked the blood off the blade.

He walked up to the burly man screaming in a pool of blood and stepped on his chest.

"I thought that people who dared to be warlords and feed live people to bears in this kind of world were all ruthless characters."

Ye Xiao's tone was full of disappointment and mockery.

"At first, I thought you wasteland awakeners all climbed up by stepping on piles of dead bodies, and that you were all extremely powerful in combat."

I even made myself nervous, so I went all out from the start.

He pressed down slightly with his foot, causing the burly man's sternum to crack with a loud thud.

"Is this all the ability you've got?"

Ye Xiao spat, his eyes icy cold.

"Those who only wield their swords against ordinary people will always remain trash, no matter what."

The burly man's face was contorted with pain as he stared intently at Ye Xiao, cursing hoarsely in Russian.

Su Ran stepped forward.

He walked up to the only surviving, tall, thin Awakened.

The white deer withdrew some of its mental pressure, giving the opponent a chance to catch their breath.

I won't kill you.

Su Ran looked down at him, her voice devoid of any warmth.

"But you'd better think carefully before you answer my next question."

The tall, thin man nodded frantically, then coughed up a mouthful of blood.

"You...you ask! My name is Andrei! I'll tell you everything!"

Su Ran's gaze swept across the massive open-pit coal mine tunnels, where hundreds and thousands of tons of mined raw coal were piled up like mountains.

"The coal extracted from this mining area is far more than your settlement of five thousand people can consume."

Su Ran stared into his eyes. "Tell me, who are you working for? Where did all these supplies end up?"

Andrei's body trembled violently, and his eyes visibly darted away.

Just that one second of hesitation.

Su Ran turned her head and glanced at Ye Xiao.

Without the slightest hesitation, Ye Xiao's eyes flashed with cold light.

The burly man, who was wailing in agony, had his head fall to the ground.

Andrei was so terrified that his scalp tingled and he screamed.

"I'll tell you! I'll tell you! North! To the northwest, 300 kilometers away, lies an abandoned underground nuclear submarine base!"

"There is a powerful force there called the 'Black Swan'!"

The nearby mines, forest farms, and food processing plants are all supplying them with resources!

Andrei was so afraid that he would be beheaded if he spoke too slowly that he spoke at breakneck speed.

"They not only control over 40,000 survivors and possess a large quantity of heavy weaponry, but they also have over forty high-level Awakened individuals!"

He opened the tactical terminal and brought up a map showing the distribution of large-scale human settlements marked by the information command center.

Su Ran narrowed her eyes slightly.

Sure enough, on the northwest coastline that Andrei pointed out, there was indeed a huge survivor camp.

The initial estimate from the intelligence department was 40,000 people, and it now appears that the intelligence was completely accurate.

"Black swan, black swan..."

Su Ran tapped her fingers lightly on her side, her brows furrowed.

"This name sounds like a villainous organization, not a good one."