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

(Word count has been increased in the previous chapter!)

"Platoon leader, that thing... seems to have grown even longer."

Behind the cover, the soldier put down his binoculars, slapped his heavy helmet hard, and spoke with a hint of frustration.

He was just transferred to the first line of defense yesterday, and after only a few hours, strange buzzing sounds started coming from his head.

The platoon leader crouched behind the cover, clutching a walkie-talkie, his face grim.

"Stop looking at that! Put your anti-interference earplugs in tight! Don't listen to those sounds!"

He grabbed the soldier, his eyes bloodshot, and roared.

"We are the last batch of defenders. We've received a death order: without a signal to retreat, this line of defense is nailed down, and we're stuck here!"

"Buzz!"

As soon as he finished speaking, an extremely low-frequency vibration spread violently outward from the Jin Mao Tower.

"Ugh..."

The soldier groaned, and a warm sensation welled up in his nostrils.

He looked down and saw that his outstretched palm was covered in blood.

Not only that, his eardrums even started to bleed, and the auditory hallucinations were amplified tenfold in an instant!

Just as the platoon leader was about to rush over and grab him, the piercing alarm tore through the enemy lines!

"Platoon leader! There are a large number of dense heat sources behind the defensive line!"

The communications soldier abruptly ripped off his headset, pointed at the radar screen, and screamed at the top of his lungs.

"The sewers! They...they've all crawled out of the sewers!"

The platoon leader turned around abruptly, his pupils suddenly contracting.

Behind the position, at the city's sewage pipe outlets, which had long been blasted to pieces by artillery fire, countless scarlet, savage eyes lit up one after another in the darkness.

swarms of first- and second-tier mutated zombies and mutant rats were rushing towards the mother nest like a pilgrimage!

"Fire! Fire! We absolutely cannot let them get through!"

The platoon leader, his eyes bloodshot, picked up his crystal energy rifle and frantically pulled the trigger at the black raging tide.

"Old Li! Medic! Old Li's intestines have been ripped out!"

Not far away, a new recruit shouted in a tearful voice.

The platoon leader wiped the blood splattered on his face. As far as the eye could see, the dark horde of beasts had already rushed to the edge of the position.

The fourth-tier mother's advanced pulse has completely ignited the instincts of all low-tier monsters around Jiangcheng.

They are using their lives to fill the last energy gap in the mother nest!

"Hold the formation!"

The platoon leader roared in despair, and just as the defensive line was about to collapse, a black afterimage tore through the clouds in the sky.

A deafening sonic boom suddenly exploded in the sky!

"Boom! Rumble!"

Su Ran and her group, who were originally planning to parachute directly to the top floor of the Jin Mao Tower, noticed the unusual changes at the front line while still in mid-air.

Without any hesitation, the fighter jets forcibly changed course and headed straight for the position!

The Xuan Nu fighter jet flew directly over the defensive line.

The extremely high temperature of the tail flames turned a large group of mutated rats below into charcoal.

The soldiers looked up at the futuristic-looking fighter jet hovering above the mothership, their eyes filled with the shock of surviving a catastrophe.

Su Ran stood at the hatch, looking down at the writhing, fleshy giant tower below.

"Old Ye, be dedicated, clear the area," Su Ran ordered.

"Leave it to us."

Ye Xiao drew his twin swords and leaped into the air.

Zhu Jingye followed closely behind, carrying the tactical shield that weighed several hundred kilograms.

While in mid-air, two Tang swords were suddenly drawn!

The moment he landed, Ye Xiao's blade flashed, slicing several second-tier zombies that pounced on him into pieces.

Mo Yun also chose to jump directly from the high altitude.

Just as he was about to land, he braced himself with both hands.

"Poison Swamp."

A dense, dark green poisonous fog erupted instantly around him. The maddened mutated rats that came into contact with the fog turned into pools of blood before they could even scream.

Inside the cabin, Su Ran turned to look at Bai Lu beside her.

"Walk."

He grabbed Bai Lu's shoulder, and the spatial rules were activated.

The two disappeared into thin air inside the cabin.

Only a barely perceptible ripple appeared in the air. The two figures vanished into thin air from inside the cabin.

The next second, they landed steadily on the open ground cleared by Ye Xiao and Zhu Jingye.

"Holy crap..."

Ye Xiao turned his head and saw the two people who had appeared without warning, and immediately exclaimed in surprise.

"Brother Su, why did you just come here? Did you teleport?"

"A small application of spatial principles."

Ye Xiao's eye twitched slightly, but he ignored this Soviet-style Versailles.

He flicked the blood off the blade and pinched his nose in disgust.

"The rats that crawled out of the sewer smelled awful."

"Mo Yun, immediately activate full-band scanning to detect all energy fluctuations in the surrounding area."

Su Ran narrowed her eyes slightly and looked up at the towering wall of flesh and blood in front of her.

"I don't want any unexpected factors to interfere in the upcoming takeover of the Matrix."

Hearing Su Ran's call from behind, Mo Yun quickly withdrew from the battlefield and deployed the portable high-precision radar equipment borrowed from the Academy of Sciences.

Mo Yun's expression suddenly changed as he rapidly tapped the screen with his fingertips.

"Brother Su! Something's wrong."

He suddenly raised his head and shouted at Su Ran.

"Underground pipeline area C, abandoned commercial street to the east, fault line of the elevated bridge in the southwest corner..."

"From these three directions, at least three waves of mutated beasts, each exceeding a thousand, are heading towards us. Their target is all here."

At the forefront of the position, the fighting was fierce.

Ye Xiao's twin swords transformed into two silver storms.

"Pfft! Pfft!"

The blade, imbued with the violent energy of a third-tier crystal core, sliced ​​through the skull of a second-tier hellish giant rat as easily as cutting tofu.

But you can't kill them all.

Mutant rats poured out of the sewer openings in an endless stream.

Their biting of the defenders was merely a side effect of their instincts; their true aim was to frantically charge towards the massive wall of flesh and blood at the center.

"Get out of here!"

He kicked the half-corpse off the defensive line, then turned and shouted.

"Cut off as many as they come! Be dedicated, protect those soldiers!"

"Alright! Brother Ye, go all out!"

Zhu Jingye shouted, then picked up his tactical heavy shield and strode into the wounded soldiers' camp.

"Good brother!"

Ye Xiao gripped the Tang sword in reverse and slashed back two strangely shaped mutated creatures with a horizontal slash.

The situation for the troops defending the front lines is dire.

The mental pulse just now caused many soldiers' eardrums to bleed, and some even hallucinated, raising their guns and aiming at their comrades.

"Damage transfer, activate!"

Zhu Jingye's eyes widened, his hands gripping the edge of the shield tightly, his supernatural powers fully activated.

"Buzz!"

An invisible ripple spread out from him.

Those soldiers who were clutching their heads, bleeding from their seven orifices, and writhing in pain on the ground instantly felt the nerve in their brains that was about to snap relax, and the stinging pain lessened by more than half.

Zhu Jingye's face turned pale, and he let out a muffled groan.

The mental anguish of hundreds of soldiers was all on his shoulders. Although the intensity wasn't great, it was still unbearable to be overwhelmed by it all.

The platoon leader, his face covered in blood, stared blankly at the position where the wounded had been brought under control in the blink of an eye, his breath caught in his throat.

Is this the true value of the most elite Awakened Ones in the Great Xia Dynasty?

One person held an entire defensive line!

Seeing the warriors, who were previously almost completely covered in negative buffs, recover, the platoon leader's eyes instantly turned red.

"What the hell are you all standing there for?!"

He immediately picked up the crystal energy rifle and roared at the top of his lungs.

"Everyone who can breathe, get moving! Firepower! Keep those rats pinned down fifty meters away!"

"Da da da da!"

The roar of heavy machine guns rang out.

Aside from making a move the moment he landed, Su Ran didn't make any further moves throughout the entire process.

He stood behind the defensive line, arms crossed, looking up at the Jin Mao Tower.

The flesh and blood wall appeared to be several meters thick, with countless dark red fleshy buds intertwined and wriggling, as if they were breathing.

Fight your way in from the ground and hack your way all the way to the core area?

It takes too long.

The military's missile countdown is on and waiting for no one, and the fourth-stage motherboard incubation is also ready to be completed at any time.

"Old Ye! Take care of the tough guys inside, leave the rest to the garrison, and bring Old Zhu back!"

Su Ran pressed the tactical communicator and decisively gave the order.

A moment later, Ye Xiao and Zhu Jingye retreated to the rear of the battle line.

Mo Yun and Bai Lu also came closer.

"Brother Su, your teleportation was so cool!"

Ye Xiao pointed at the massive building of flesh and blood, his eyes shining.

"Can you teleport us directly inside that huge tumor?"

"I'd better teleport right up to that fourth-tier main body and then I'll strike!"

Mo Yun, Zhu Jingye, and Bai Lu also turned to look at Su Ran, their eyes filled with anticipation.

If we can skip the outer layer of flesh and go straight for the enemy, the difficulty of this mission will be greatly reduced.

Upon hearing this, Su Ran merely gave an awkward smile and shook her head mercilessly.

"If something like that were really so good, would I have asked you guys to make this trip? Wouldn't it have been better if I just took Bai Lu and did the job myself?"

He raised his hand, and a faint spatial fluctuation condensed at his fingertips.

"This is the spatial application I figured out after breaking through to the fourth level."

Ultimately, it cannot be considered pure teleportation; it's more like a high-dimensional spatial positioning and displacement.

His gaze swept over the crowd, his tone serious.

"I use my mental power to lock onto a specific area in advance, and then overlap and swap the space I am in with the space of the target area."

Rather than saying I teleported, it's more accurate to say that I, along with the entire space around me, were transferred there.

He emphasized his tone again.

"But this move has a prerequisite. The coordinates where I land must be absolutely clean."

There must be no unnecessary physical obstacles.

Mo Yun pushed up his glasses, his mind racing, and he immediately realized what was happening.

"Is it because when spaces overlap, an irreversible repulsive reaction occurs?"

"That's right."

Su Ran turned her gaze and nodded.

"If I could forcibly teleport to a space filled with solid matter, like directly passing through that wall of flesh and blood..."

"If we teleport there and there are obstacles at the landing point, then..."

The result is that we will be directly embedded in the wall by the laws of space, or become one with that flesh and blood.

"For me at this stage, mastering this level of spatial jump is already the limit."

"hiss……"

Ye Xiao gasped.

Su Ran looked towards the middle floor of the Jin Mao Tower.

"Everyone has seen the surveillance footage captured by the monitoring equipment deployed by the Academy of Sciences in the early stages."

The incubation chamber was overgrown with granulation tissue, leaving no large open area.

Blindly teleporting in is tantamount to suicide.

"Shall we go back to the Xuan Nu Fighter?" Zhu Jingye asked, holding up his shield.

"Need not."

Su Ran brought up a 3D structural diagram of the Jin Mao Tower on the tactical terminal and pointed to a position in the middle section.

"Look here. The observation deck on the 36th floor of the original building was the location of the incubation chambers that the Academy of Sciences had established."

I'll take you and jump directly to mid-air outside this level.

After speaking, Su Ran turned to look at Bai Lu, who had remained silent.

"White Deer, the moment you landed, you used your spiritual power to support all of us, allowing us to stay in the air."

Old Ye, you're in charge of cutting through that outer layer of flesh. We'll just storm in from mid-air!

Bai Lu's gaze was firm as she nodded and said, "Leave it to me, I'm fine with it."

"Leave the final step to me. Watch me chop him in half with one stroke."

Ye Xiao gripped the hilt of the knife with both hands, his thumbs gently rubbing the guard.

Once the tactics were finalized, not a single word wasted.

"Mo Yun, Lao Zhu, stay close. Leave the defense line to the garrison, we'll go raid their stronghold."

The five quickly regrouped.

Su Ran's mental energy spread outwards, forcibly locking onto the void outside the 50th floor of the Jin Mao Tower.

"Everything is ready."

hum!

Space was violently distorted.

The soldiers on the position only saw a ripple spread out like water, and the figures of the five awakened ones instantly disappeared from the spot.

next second.

The Jin Mao Tower is located on the outside of its 36th floor, nearly 200 meters above the ground.

The spatial ripples reappeared, and the five figures suddenly emerged from the void!

A faint light shone from between the white deer's eyebrows.

An invisible spiritual force quietly spread, suspending everyone steadily in mid-air.

And less than two meters in front of them was that dark red, fleshy outer wall.

The visual impact is far stronger when viewed up close than when seen on a screen.

The dark red membrane had a semi-transparent texture, and large blood vessels could be vaguely seen pulsating inside, transporting high-energy biomass that emitted a ghostly blue light.

Through this fleshy wall, you could hear a dull "thump-thump" sound coming from inside.

That was the heartbeat of the fourth-order mother.

"Old Ye, make your move!" Su Ran urged sharply.

Ye Xiao took a deep breath.

He crossed the two swords in front of his chest, and his third-level supernatural power surged wildly into the blades.

The blade gleamed with a dazzling silver light.

"Open it, you bastard!"

Ye Xiao's arms bulged with veins, and he slashed forward with his twin swords, forming a cross!

Two silver blades, each over ten meters long, tore through the air and slammed into the outer wall of flesh!

"Pfft!"

A huge cross-shaped gap was forcibly cut open in a wall of flesh and blood that was more than ten meters thick!

The mother nest instantly detected the deadly invasion of the enemy.

The previously gently undulating flesh began to contract violently and wildly, and countless thin granulation tissues instantly sprouted from the edges of the incision, desperately trying to stitch the wound back together.

Moreover, a low-frequency pulse, several times stronger than before, shot straight out through the cut.

"Ignore the pulse! Charge in!"

Su Ran grabbed Bai Lu's arm, enveloped everyone with her spiritual power, and rushed into the mother nest through the opening.

The moment you step into the incubation chamber, the pungent smell of blood and the strong smell of ammonia fill your nostrils.

What was originally an extremely spacious observation hall has now been transformed into a giant biological nest.