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

"Clatter."

A dull thud echoed as the five men's boots landed on a thick, sticky, dark red fungal carpet.

This was originally the observation deck on the 36th floor of the Jin Mao Tower.

The once pristine marble floors, glass curtain walls, and load-bearing columns are now completely gone.

As far as the eye can see, the building structure has been completely transformed into a writhing labyrinth of flesh and blood.

Thick bone pipes replaced reinforced concrete, supporting the dome above.

The walls were covered with dark red fleshy buds, and a dark blue high-energy biomass flowed through the translucent veins.

"Pfft!"

The moment everyone landed, the muscle fibers of the ten-meter-long cross-shaped gash that Ye Xiao had slashed open behind them began to intertwine wildly.

Accompanied by a tearing and healing sound that made people feel physically uncomfortable, the escape route was completely blocked in just five seconds!

It only took two seconds to completely close the suture.

"The space here is shrinking!"

Mo Yun's gaze fell on the fleshy walls around him that had begun to writhe violently.

The entire flesh passage resembled a giant esophagus that had been stimulated, with flesh walls from all sides suddenly squeezing and crushing inward, attempting to digest these five outsiders directly.

"Buzz!"

Before everyone could adjust to the environment, a terrifying mental noise, almost tangible, suddenly erupted from the contracting flesh walls!

It felt like thousands of insects were gnawing at my brain, and my eardrums were pierced with a sharp, stabbing pain.

Ye Xiao's reaction was particularly noticeable.

Ye Xiao's reaction was particularly fierce. He was a pure warrior and lacked mental defenses. His eyes instantly became bloodshot.

"Damage transfer! Activate it!!"

With a roar, Zhu Jingye forcefully absorbed all the mental shock that Ye Xiao had endured into his own body.

"Thanks, Lao Zhu."

Ye Xiao swallowed a mouthful of dry food and quickly steadied himself.

"I must stand directly in front of that embryonic mother to implant my mental anchor directly into its brain's core!"

Bai Lu's expression was equally grim, and her tone was urgent.

"Then let's charge in."

Su Ran's face was cold and his eyes were expressionless. "Mo Yun, lead the way."

Mo Yun had already activated the anti-jamming tracking radar provided by the Academy of Sciences.

On the screen, a huge, deep red heat source was pulsating violently at the very center of the thirty-sixth floor, emitting terrifying energy fluctuations.

"Ten o'clock position! 160 meters as the crow flies!"

Mo Yun pointed to a bony passage completely sealed off by granulation tissue ahead, "We have to get through there!"

As soon as Mo Yun finished speaking, another strange change occurred on the writhing flesh walls around him.

"Gurgle... gurgle..."

Hundreds or even thousands of huge fleshy sacs suddenly bulged on the surface of the flesh wall.

These sacs are translucent, and within the amniotic fluid-like mucus, one can vaguely see curled-up, hideous black shadows.

"Sizzle!"

The capsules ruptured completely, splattering mucus everywhere.

A large number of second-tier hellhounds broke free from the hatching sac, their scarlet eyes fixed on the five people, and they let out bloodthirsty growls.

A huge quantity!

They were densely packed, almost filling every inch of space within sight.

"What the hell have we done?!"

Ye Xiao spat and gripped the Tang sword tightly with both hands.

"There are too many! We can't let them get to us!"

Su Ran's eyes turned cold and sharp. "Old Mo, lead the way!"

Mo Yun took a step forward and pushed his hands forward sharply.

"Poison Swamp!"

A thick, dark green toxic fog swept forward like a tsunami.

Wherever the poisonous fog passed, whether it was the writhing flesh or the hellhounds that had just pounced, a violent hissing corrosion sound instantly erupted.

The flesh walls corroded by the poisonous fog also stopped compressing, and the granulation tissue quickly withered and turned black.

They forcefully carved out a passage in the sea of ​​monsters!

"Walk!"

The others quickly followed.

But the speed at which the Mother Nest could produce units far exceeded expectations.

On the ground, on the dome overhead, more incubation cysts are forming and bursting.

Mo Yun's poisonous mist could only clear the area directly in front; the blind spots on the left, right, and above were already covered by the sea of ​​monsters, which was pressing down like Mount Tai.

"The rest is up to you!"

Ye Xiao wielded his twin swords wildly, sending limbs and severed arms flying everywhere, his body splattered with dark red blood.

"Pfft! Pfft! Pfft!"

He slashed each of the hellhounds that tried to attack from behind, one by one.

Facing the monsters surging in from above and both sides like a tide.

Su Ran finally moved.

He raised his right hand, his five fingers slightly spread, aiming at the dense sea of ​​monsters above.

"Space, strangle."

Su Ran's thin lips moved slightly.

The next second, within a 30-meter radius centered on him, the laws of space suddenly descended!

"Snap! Snap!"

Countless transparent cracks, barely visible to the naked eye, appeared in the air.

That's a misalignment caused by the forced division of space.

The hundreds of second-tier hellhounds that rushed into this area suddenly froze in mid-air for a moment.

Immediately afterwards, their heads, torsos, and limbs became displaced and separated without warning.

"Splash!"

Numerous pieces of corpses and flesh rained down on the ground.

One strike instantly killed over a hundred Tier 2 mutated beasts!

Ye Xiao glanced back briefly from behind, his eyes twitching wildly.

"Is this... the value of Su Ge's fourth-tier qualification?"

Su Ran withdrew her hand, her gaze sweeping over the fleshy walls around her, which were still sprouting new sacs, her eyes cold.

"I suspect that these second-tier hellhounds produced are from the original batch that was integrated into the flesh and blood wall."

"Speed ​​up."

"clear!"

Mo Yun's supernatural abilities were being exploited at an extreme pace.

The concentration of the dark green toxic fog rose again, forcefully corroding a huge gap in the flesh-and-blood passage ahead.

A mere 160 meters.

Normally, for a third-tier awakened individual, it's just a sprint away.

But inside the nest, teeming with second-tier monsters, it is a path of death paved with flesh and blood.

It took a full eight minutes.

When Mo Yun's last bit of poisonous mist completely corroded and ulcerated the large bone flap blocking the way.

"We've arrived. The heat source is behind this thin film."

Mo Yun glanced at the radar in his hand.

"This is... the soon-to-be-born fourth-tier king-level mother body."

The view ahead suddenly opened up.

The true core incubation chamber was now fully exposed to the five people.

The entire Jiangcheng Mother Nest is continuously pouring the high-energy biomass it has devoured into this fourth-order body.

In the center of the cavity, there is a translucent bone membrane.

The membrane was filled with a thick liquid that emitted a faint blue light.

Through the liquid, a huge shadow, five meters high, could be clearly seen curled up inside.

Dark red bony plates covered its joints, and a row of sharp, incompletely unfolded bone spurs grew on its back.

What sends chills down your spine the most is the sound.

"Thump! Thump! Thump!"

Vibrant, powerful, and even with a strange rhythm.

It is hatching.