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

Seeing that Su Ran had closed her eyes and entered a subconscious state, Ye Xiao and Bai Lu immediately became serious.

Thousands of mutated kangaroos, their eyes bloodshot, surged forward like a tsunami, trampling over the corpses of their companions.

"Perfect timing for me to have some fun!"

Ye Xiao burst into laughter.

The six-meter-tall Cheng Ying mecha slumped slightly, and blue light flashed from the engine nozzles on its back.

There were simply too many of these beasts to kill them all; the only option was to use the most brutal physical force to crush them!

The mech's right arm grips a three-meter-long high-frequency oscillating blade, while the single-soldier electromagnetic cannon on its left arm abandons charging and serves as a heavy shield to block its chest.

Ye Xiao maneuvered his mecha and took a step forward.

Its terrifying weight of eighteen tons instantly crushed the mutated kangaroo that was charging at the front into a pile of minced meat!

Immediately afterwards, the mech's waist bearing twisted at high speed, causing its right arm to swing wildly!

puff.

The sounds of flesh and blood separating were intertwined.

The high-frequency oscillating blade sliced ​​through the bones of a second-tier mutated beast effortlessly.

As the blade passed, several four-meter-tall kangaroos were cut in half at the waist.

"That was awesome!"

Inside the cockpit, Ye Xiao's eyes were filled with fanaticism, and he was about to make a move to charge forward and kill.

Fortunately, Bai Lu intervened in time.

"Ye Xiao, step back a little, don't go too far!"

Our primary task is to buy Su Ran ten minutes of absolute safety!

"clear!"

Ye Xiao forcefully suppressed the urge to charge.

Just then, from the blind spot on the left, three even larger second-order kangaroos leaped high into the air, taking advantage of the mountain of corpses as cover.

Their crimson tentacles, protruding from their pouches, danced wildly in mid-air, attempting to tightly entangle the mech's knee joint drive shaft.

"court death."

Instead of retreating, Ye Xiao advanced, his left arm meeting the attack head-on.

Clang.

A piercing metallic scraping sound rang out.

The second-order kangaroo's sharp claws drew sparks across the mech's antimagnetic alloy coating.

At the same second, Ye Xiao loosened the hilt of the sword on the right side, and the mecha clenched its right fist tightly.

Using the terrifying kinetic energy propelled by the engine at full power, it punched the chest cavity of the largest kangaroo in mid-air.

With its own weight of eighteen tons and initial speed like a sports car.

This punch turned the second-tier kangaroo into a mangled mess.

The massive body flew backward for dozens of meters, smashing and overturning a large swarm of charging beasts along the way.

"Bai Lu, keep an eye on Su Ge! I'll take care of all those long-legged rats on the perimeter!"

Ye Xiao roared as he pulled out his battle sword from the ground and charged into the beast tide once more.

Inner defensive line.

Bai Lu ignored Ye Xiao's shouts.

Her spiritual power materialized around her, forming visible ripples.

No matter how fiercely Ye Xiao fought on the perimeter, there were always some who managed to slip through the blind spots of the mechs' defenses and into the inner circle.

A mutated kangaroo with half its shoulder shaved off by a mecha crawled quickly along the ground, its scarlet eyes fixed on Su Ran, who was squatting in place.

The distance is less than ten meters.

It kicked off with its hind legs, opened its three-lobed mouth full of interlocking fangs, and lunged straight at Su Ran's upper body.

Bai Lu slightly raised the index finger of his right hand.

The kangaroo in mid-air suddenly stopped, hovering in mid-air.

"die."

The power of thought is contracted.

*Splat*

The kangaroo's head shattered like a watermelon smashed by a sledgehammer.

This is just the beginning.

More and more kangaroos crossed Ye Xiao's barrage of fire, pressing towards the center from all directions.

Bai Lu clasped her hands together, her deep blue eyes utterly indifferent.

"Go to hell, all of you."

Dozens of kangaroos that rushed into the 30-meter radius froze instantly, then flew backward and crashed into the outer herd of animals.

But the number is simply too large.

Bai Lu also felt the pressure; her mental abilities were being used for large-scale group attacks, which consumed a great deal of energy.

She decisively changed tactics.

Abandoning the large-scale pressure, he compressed his mental energy into invisible spikes, precisely targeting the most deadly threat closest to Su Ran.

Just as a second-tier kangaroo, which had been sneaking up from behind an abandoned minecart on the right, was about to leap, its brain was pierced by telekinesis, and it collapsed to the ground, stiff as a board.

Another mutated beast that attempted to emerge from the underground mine was thrown by the white deer along with ten tons of surrounding ore, and accurately crashed into the direction where Ye Xiao was located.

Thanks!

Ye Xiao turned around, swung his battle blade, and cleaved the ore containing the mutated beast in two.

The two worked seamlessly together, one inside and one outside.

He single-handedly created an impenetrable protective umbrella for Su Ran amidst the rampaging beast tide.

Su Ran shut down her hearing and vision, focusing all her energy on maintaining her mental strength at its limit.

Fifty meters underground. One hundred meters. Three hundred meters.

The high-purity iron ore veins are layered upon each other, and their quality is astonishing.

Inside the space, a dark red iron ore mountain rose from the ground at a speed visible to the naked eye.

One million tons. Ten million tons. Thirty million tons.

Su Ran's face instantly turned sickly pale, her mental energy was exhausted to the limit, and she felt a series of needle-like pains deep in her brain.

But he gritted his teeth and showed no sign of stopping.

The Great Xia Expeditionary Force, with its twelve million soldiers, consumed a bottomless pit of weapons and ammunition every day.

Gun wear and tear, shell manufacturing, mech mass production—which of these doesn't require massive amounts of steel to support it?

This utterly devastated, unclaimed land of Australia is the perfect logistical support package for Great Xia.

"No, this is far from enough! Take it all...!"

Su Ran bit her tongue, forcibly stimulating her mental energy to continue probing downwards.

Rumble.

Large-scale collapses began to occur throughout the open-pit mine.

Large sections of the ground collapsed after losing their underlying support.

Before the mutated kangaroos could even get close to the defensive line, they plunged into a giant pit tens of meters deep along with the collapsing ore.

But this did not stop their attack; mutated kangaroos continued to leap over.

Many of the mutated kangaroos that fell into the deep pits even used their powerful hind legs to frantically climb upwards along the constantly collapsing edges.

"Damn, these bastards have all gone mad."

Ye Xiao's roar came through the communication channel.

"White Deer, keep an eye on the flanks for me, I'm having trouble breaking through!"

If he could take on a hundred opponents single-handedly, Ye Xiao, in conjunction with the tactical mech, would face absolutely no pressure.

If he could fight against a thousand men single-handedly in open terrain, he was confident he could wear them all down.

But now it's one against ten thousand! It's an impenetrable, close-quarters combat!

Moreover, in order to protect Su Ran, he could not retreat; he had to stay at the forefront and act as a meat grinder!

The outer armor of the Cheng Ying mech was covered with dark brown bloodstains, and deep grooves were scratched into many places of the antimagnetic alloy coating.

The energy shield flashed at an accelerated frequency, and alarms blared throughout the cockpit.

No matter how powerful the mechs are, the energy of the crystal core array ultimately has physical limits.

Even more problematic is the alarming density of kangaroos that have poured in from the edge of the mine.

Looking out, the entire horizon seemed to be wriggling.

"Leave it to me."

Bai Lu spoke coldly, her face turning somewhat pale.

She grabbed a crystal core of extremely high purity directly from her pocket, brutally covered it with her mental energy, and forcibly extracted its violent energy to replenish the depletion in her brain.

Under such intense exertion, even she, a top-tier mentalist, was almost unable to cope.

While the two gritted their teeth and withstood the beast tide, Su Ran completely rewrote the landscape of the entire mine.

The original highlands have been transformed into a bottomless rift valley.

Fifty million tons! Eighty million tons! One hundred and twenty million tons!

That's enough.

Su Ran opened her eyes and casually wiped away the blood under her nose.

Within the consciousness space, iron ore reserves have exceeded 120 million tons.

This batch of supplies is enough to keep the entire Xia military industrial system running at full capacity for more than ten years.

"Old Ye, White Deer, retreat!"