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

"Old Ye, be dedicated. Mo Yun, hold the line around us."

Su Ran's gaze swept over the incubation sacs that were still swelling around her.

"Clear all living things within ten meters of the membrane. White Deer, do it. Before it fully awakens, stamp the metal seal in!"

"clear."

Without a moment's hesitation, Ye Xiao crossed his twin swords and turned his back to the membrane.

Zhu Jingye slammed his shield heavily onto the fungal carpet.

Mo Yun pushed his hands out, and the dark green poisonous fog quickly spread along the ten-meter warning line.

Bai Lu took a deep breath and strode to the membrane.

"Follow the lab procedures: breach the defenses, anchor the core, implant the stamp..."

She muttered something under her breath to bolster her courage.

"No problem, I, the Empress, can definitely do it."

She stared intently at the giant beast that was not yet fully awake.

Raise both hands, fingers spread wide.

The invisible spiritual force instantly transformed into a sharp cone, piercing towards the translucent bone membrane.

Their mental defenses were breached.

Contrary to expectations, the overwhelming resistance was unexpected; the natural mental barrier belonging to fourth-order beings was surprisingly weak.

The sharp cone tore open a gash without any hindrance, and Bai Lu's consciousness sank directly into the other party's brain.

A vast and dark sea of ​​consciousness.

Countless orbs of consciousness of varying sizes wander here, colliding, merging, and separating.

"There are so many different and chaotic manifestations of consciousness?"

Bai Lu's heart skipped a beat.

"Is this what a fourth-tier king-level creature is about to awaken its intelligence? Its consciousness is so complex..."

This is completely different from the quasi-fourth-order snow owl that she controlled in the laboratory, which was forcibly induced to grow. This is a high-order life form that has truly evolved naturally!

Bai Lu kept moving, her mental energy rapidly traversing her sea of ​​consciousness, locking onto the largest and most active dark blue sphere of light at the very center.

That is absolutely where the core consciousness lies!

"Got you?"

A fervent glint flashed in Bai Lu's eyes as he forcefully drove the nascent mental steel seal he had already constructed into the sphere of light.

Intrusion, coverage, closed loop.

The whole process was exceptionally smooth, without encountering even the slightest decent resistance.

The logic chain of the steel stamp was perfectly integrated into the other party's control center.

She opened her eyes and exhaled a long breath.

The stray hairs on his forehead were damp with sweat and clung to his pale face.

"Su Ran, I did it."

In reality, Bai Lu turned her head, her tone carrying the lightness of someone relieved of a heavy burden and an barely suppressed excitement.

"The spiritual imprint has been implanted!"

Upon hearing this, Su Ran, who was standing to the side, suddenly had a flash in her eyes, and her brows furrowed instantly.

"So fast?"

That's too fast! It's faster than anything we'd expect!

Even if this is the weakest window before it hatches, the mental defenses of a fourth-tier king-level creature should not be this fragile.

"Brother Su! Something's wrong!"

Mo Yun spoke very quickly.

"The frequency of the mental pulses released by the brood chamber has not decreased, but has instead increased!"

The outer sub-units show no signs of stopping their attack; they're still rushing towards us!

"White Deer, immediately take control of the mother nest!"

Su Ran's eyes turned cold, and she shouted sharply, "Stop the mother nest."

"it is good."

Bai Lu also noticed something was wrong and immediately closed her eyes.

Her mental energy, following the anchor point she had just established, once again probed into that sea of ​​consciousness, preparing to issue the command to "stop".

However, the moment her mental tentacles touched the core consciousness sphere, a sudden change occurred!

The once docile, perfectly accepting blue sphere of spiritual imprint suddenly cracked open.

An invisible, gigantic mental maw suddenly opened, biting down on the mental anchor point that the white deer had probed into!

"Hmm!"

Bai Lu groaned, his body trembled violently, and two streams of blood gushed from his nose.

"wrong!"

She tried to sever the connection, but found that the other party's mental energy was flowing back into her brain through the anchor point.

At the same time, as if sensing a deadly threat, the mother hive went completely berserk at this moment!

"Crunch! Crunch!"

The steel structure of the entire building groaned under the strain.

The walls of flesh and blood, several meters thick, began to shrink and compress wildly.

The originally spacious incubation chamber is being compressed at a visible rate.

Hundreds and thousands of fleshy sacs suddenly appeared on the wall and burst open at the same time.

Thick amniotic fluid sprayed out.

Countless larger, more muscular second-tier hellhounds broke free from the pouch, their scarlet compound eyes fixed on the intruder.

"roar!"

From all directions, along with the dome and the ground, a dark, monstrous tide of mutated beasts surged forward like a flood bursting its banks.

"Damn! The more we kill, the more there are!"

Ye Xiao cursed angrily, stomped his feet on the ground, and charged into the horde of beasts directly in front of him.

"Die, you son of a bitch!"

The twin swords unleashed two cross-shaped beams, each over ten meters long.

The seven or eight hellhounds at the front were instantly shredded, their limbs flying everywhere.

But the monster behind them ignored them completely, opening its huge mouth full of fangs and continuing to pounce and bite.

"There are too many!"

Mo Yun pressed his hands firmly to the ground, his superpowers being squeezed to the limit.

Although it was a third-tier fighter against a second-tier fighter, his personal ability reserves were simply insufficient in the face of such a seamless beast tide!

……

But on the battlefield in another dimension.

Bai Lu's perception of the real world was completely severed.

The blood-red sky hangs upside down.

The entire city of Jiangcheng was reduced to scorched earth.

Bai Lu stood in the center of the ruins, her body stiff.

Ten meters ahead, Ye Xiao's prized twin swords were shattered into pieces, and he was hanging on a bone spike.

Mo Yun was left with only half a body, and Zhu Jingye's heavy shield was also torn to shreds.

Su Ran, with her back to her, was kneeling in the pool of blood.

Several hellhounds were crawling on him, tearing at him frantically.

The blood stained the ground red.

"Su Ran! Everyone..."

The white deer cried out hoarsely.

Su Ran turned her head with difficulty.

Half of his face had been gnawed away to the bone, his eye sockets were empty, and blood kept gushing from the corner of his mouth.

"You failed..."

His lips moved slightly, but his voice was devoid of warmth: "You killed us."

Just then, at the edge of the horizon.

Three glaring red trails tore through the clouds.

The military's thermobaric bomb, carrying the kinetic energy to destroy everything, crashed down with a deafening roar.

Aurora bursts forth.

"No!"

The white deer clutched its head and let out a desperate scream.

in reality.

The white deer's eyes rolled back, and not only its nasal cavity, but also its ear canals and the corners of its eyes began to ooze glaring black blood.

Her body trembled violently like a leaf in the wind, and her mental defenses were about to completely collapse.

"White Deer!"

Su Ran, who was closest, grabbed Bai Lu's shoulder and touched something icy cold.

"Dedicated! Quickly bring the white deer back!"

Su Ran turned her head and shouted fiercely towards the defensive line.

"They're here!"

Upon hearing this, Zhu Jingye threw down the heavy shield in his hand, turned around and strode behind Bai Lu, pressing his large hands firmly against her shoulders.

Without a moment's hesitation.

"Damage transfer! Give me another chance!"

Zhu Jingye's forehead veins bulged, and his eyes instantly turned bloodshot.

The mental pollution belonging to the fourth-order mother body that surged in through the white deer's mental anchor point, as well as the suffocating despair in the illusion, were forcibly extracted by Zhu Jingye and directly poured into his mind.

"Ugh!"

Zhu Jingye let out a beast-like growl, and two jets of blood spurted from his nostrils as he fell straight backward.

"Dedicated!" Su Ran shouted.

"Brother Su... I'm alright..."

Zhu Jingye raised his hand with difficulty, his voice trembling, "I won't die..."

Although he said he was fine, the last time almost made him faint.

His gaze was somewhat unfocused, staring blankly upwards.

"This time... I'm really going to burn myself out..."