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

November 1st in the Great Xia Calendar.

Three and a half months have passed since the red rains began.

In the northern part of the Great Xia Dynasty, in the cleared area of ​​Jizhou.

On what was once a ruin, the Third Division of the Great Xia Expeditionary Force is working with engineering troops to set up a high-energy power grid.

This area had already undergone three thorough sweeps a month ago.

In theory, apart from rats and cockroaches, there should be no large mutated creatures.

"drop!"

A sharp alarm pierced the sky.

Inside the monitoring station, red lights were flashing wildly.

"Coordinates 114, 89! High-energy biosignal!"

"Hierarchical assessment... Level three! It's level three!"

"Damn it, it crawled out from underground!"

Before a young soldier could pull the trigger, the thick concrete ground beneath his feet shattered with a deafening roar.

A giant, jet-black burrowing beast with bone spurs covering its back burst forth from the earth.

With a sudden, powerful suck, its mandibles, like heavy drill bits, churned the two soldiers into a bloody mess as they screamed in agony.

"Scatter! Heavy weapons cover!"

The company commander roared at the top of his lungs.

However, the carapace of a third-tier mutant beast is strong enough to ignore ordinary tungsten bullets.

It emitted a piercing sonic roar, causing the surrounding soldiers to feel excruciating pain in their eardrums and their minds to go blank.

Just as the giant beast was about to unleash its carnage, three sharp whooshing sounds came from the sky.

"Squad 07, take over the battlefield."

A cold voice echoed throughout the arena through the exoskeleton armor's loudspeaker.

Three Awakened Ones dressed in dark special forces uniforms leaped out of the airdrop pod.

The moment they landed, a burly man pressed his hands to the ground, shouting, "Gravity field, suppress!"

hum!

Centered on the Digging Beast, the gravity within a radius of fifty meters instantly increased tenfold.

The once invincible third-tier behemoth suddenly sank its heavy body, causing the ground beneath its feet to collapse layer by layer.

"Thunder".

Another woman's fingertips crackled with azure lightning.

Instead of attacking directly, she condensed lightning into a slender spear and precisely pierced the crack in the burrowing beast's shell, which had been crushed by gravity.

Conductive, control, paralysis.

The last awakened one, wielding a long sword, swept past like a phantom.

"Go to hell!"

A flash of blade light, and the third-tier monster's head fell smoothly to the ground.

The battle lasted no more than sixty seconds from start to finish.

……

The cold wind outside the Kunlun base was becoming increasingly biting, and the thick snow had blocked most of the ground entrances.

With the absolute computing power of the Pangu system, the Great Xia Dynasty completely eradicated the tentacles left by Eden on the earth's surface.

However, before everyone could breathe a sigh of relief, a new problem arose.

"A Tier 3 alien target has been detected in Jinan's No. 2 residential area!"

Inside the command center, the piercing sound of an alarm shattered the silence.

Mo Yun stood in front of the main control panel, where a huge mutated creature was displayed on the screen.

The creature resembled a pangolin, but its scales gleamed with a metallic sheen as it frantically rammed against the base's concrete exterior walls.

"Calling nearby Awakened squads to arrive within three minutes."

Mo Yun didn't waste any words and directly issued the order.

In just two and a half minutes, three Awakened Ones wearing new exoskeletons and wielding crystal energy short swords appeared on the monitoring screen.

This is an elite squad assembled according to the "superpower puzzle model" proposed by Su Ran.

Mo Yun stared at the screen, his brow furrowed.

"This is the fifth third-order attack in the domestic airspace in three days."

Mo Yun turned around and looked at Su Ran, who had just entered the hall.

"Brother Su, these places have been cleared out more than three times already, it's almost like the whole country has been plowed up, where did they come from?"

Su Ran took the report from Mo Yun and glanced at the combat data.

"It didn't just appear out of nowhere; it evolved in place."

He threw the report on the table and pointed to the remaining biological remains on the screen.

"The remaining first- and second-order small organisms, and even the subterranean arthropods that we have not noticed, are evolving at an accelerated pace."

The time is approaching; the ascension wave is about to begin.

This conclusion caused everyone to pause for a moment.

Areas that have been cleared are no longer absolutely safe, which means that humans must maintain high-intensity patrols at all times, and the cost of war will increase exponentially.

"Where's Lao Li? Wasn't he just here?" Su Ran asked.

"He returned to the conference room after less than five minutes; there must have been some urgent military situation."

Mo Yun gave a bitter smile.

Five minutes later, in the core conference room of the Kunlun base.

On the holographic sand table, the colors of Eurasia and North America are basically stable in a deep blue, representing that a preliminary restoration of order has been achieved.

But shifting the gaze southward, the map of South Africa and Latin America is covered with a dense array of deep red spots that send chills down one's spine.

"We can't break through their defenses, we simply can't break through them!"

The voice of the South African commando roared through the video window.

"The mutated beasts in these places evolve too fast. Drones that fly in are shot down by unknown creatures in less than five minutes."

We're using soldiers' lives to fill that bottomless pit!

Li Guodong's face looked very grim.

He held a casualty report in his hand, showing that the casualty rate of the South African and Latin American expeditionary force, composed of ground survivors, had climbed to 14%.

In modern warfare, this is a figure that is close to collapse.

"Advisor Su has arrived."

Seeing Su Ran enter the room, Li Guodong seemed to have found his pillar of support and got straight to the point.

"Xiao Su, the situation in South Africa and Latin America is out of control. According to images transmitted from the front lines, a large number of unknown nests have appeared there."

We suspect that something more advanced is being nurtured there.

Su Ran walked to the sand table and pointed to the center of the Amazon rainforest.

"No doubt about it, that's it."

He watched this scene and sighed.

"But Latin America and South Africa are connected to the continent. Once the monsters there complete their large-scale evolution, they will flood the safe zones we have painstakingly cleared along the coastline and inland passages."

"What is your suggestion?" a general asked in a deep voice.

"Before they fully evolve intelligence, before the ascension wave reaches its peak."

Su Ran looked up, her gaze sweeping over the generals present.

"Use targeted nuclear weapons again to completely wipe out these high-risk areas. This is not about destroying the land, but about healing the wounds of civilization."

The meeting room fell into dead silence.

Nuclear weapons.

This is still a word that sends chills down everyone's spine.

"Advisor Su, besides our gradually forming coalition, there are also many survivor organizations rooted here in Latin America."

A staff officer whispered a reminder, "Our allied forces retreated on the order, but these..."

"Give them 24 hours to evacuate with the main force."

Su Ran interrupted the other person, her tone leaving no room for negotiation.

"Those who cannot evacuate will pay the price of an apocalypse. We cannot gamble the future of 1.4 billion people for the sake of a few tens of thousands of disobedient vagrants."