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

Su Ran jumped down from the hovering fighter jet and landed beside him.

"You're not like Lao Ye!"

He smiled and continued, "Old Ye has two Tang swords and brute strength. He just goes up and slashes at any monster he encounters."

"I'm so tired."

Mo Yun rubbed his aching wrists. "This whole combo took more effort than me unleashing my superpowers for half a day."

"But you've learned something."

Su Ran bent down, took out the Crystal Core Battle Blade, and directly pierced the rhinoceros's forehead, taking out the crystal core and tossing it to him.

"I know what the mechs can withstand and what they can't. It's data, data written in my head."

Mo Yun caught the crystal core and nodded.

Su Ran recalled Mo Yun's series of actions just now, a thoughtful look flashing in her eyes.

The mecha is a great mecha, and Old Wei's craftsmanship is impeccable.

But Mo Yun's close-quarters combat style was too clumsy.

Grab the corner, flip over, stomp heavily—every move was textbook perfect, yet each was a beat too slow.

The body reacts and makes judgments, but the mind can't keep up.

If you switch to a monster with a faster reaction time, that half-beat could be fatal.

It seems that I, the "Chief Instructor" of the Awakened Headquarters, will be making a limited-time return.

"Old Mo," Su Ran said.

"Um?"

"Your fists still need practice."

Mo Yun was taken aback and subconsciously looked at his hands.

"My special ability is to follow the mage path; I just need to keep my distance and cast spells. Melee combat has never been my strong suit."

He paused, his voice not evasive, but simply stating the facts.

"Knowing your own position and immediately maintaining a safe distance is a basic skill."

Su Ran interrupted him, her voice not loud, but every word was firm and impactful.

"But what if we can't pull it open?"

Mo Yun opened his mouth.

"What if a monster gets right in your face? What if one day, like today, you can't use your powers anymore, and all you have left are your fists?"

Su Ran interrupted him and turned her head to the side.

"Combat skills are something you don't usually need."

"The only time you'll need it is to save your life. It might only happen once in your entire life."

Mo Yun lowered his eyes, staring at the crystal core in his palm that still carried the warmth of blood.

After a long while, he clenched his fist.

"I see."

……

Over the next few days, the two swept westward along the front line.

Fighter jets flew over the ruins of Eurasia.

At each location, Su Ran would call out names, and Mo Yun would go down to fight.

Alpine Pass.

A third-tier mutated porcupine that can instantly harden all the bone spurs on its body.

Su Ran also couldn't understand why there were porcupines near the Alps.

However, since everything has been transformed into a post-apocalyptic world, its existence is justified!

The thing curled up into a ball, and the bone spikes that exploded from its body were longer than javelins, capable of shooting out in all directions at the speed of sound.

Mo Yun suffered a loss on his first charge.

Three bone spikes pierced the coating on the mech's chest. Although they didn't damage the core structure, the alarm in the cockpit startled him.

"There's a hole in the mech."

Su Ran's voice came through the channel.

"Caution: The outer coating is damaged. If you use your powers to release poison mist in this state, the toxins will flow back into the mech through the hole."

"I know."

Mo Yun, also harboring a fierce determination, said, "I'm going to punch it with my fists."

"It needs time to change its thorns!"

After observing from high above, Su Ran gave another tip: "When the bone spurs haven't grown back yet after the blast, that's when it's at its softest!"

Mo Yun remembered it.

During the second round of bone spur attacks, he controlled the bone-corroding crouch to avoid one round.

In less than two seconds, Mo Yun's mech sprang up and lunged forward to get close to the porcupine.

Before the bone spurs all over its body could harden again, it punched the soft flesh of its curled-up belly.

This punch was much cleaner and more decisive than the one he used to hit the rhinoceros.

The punch, the exertion of force, and the retraction of the fist are all completed in one smooth motion.

The porcupine's skeleton shattered under the fist, and its skull broke open from the inside.

……

In the Danube Delta, there is a mutated bat that can emit high-frequency sound waves.

With a wingspan of six meters, it was shockingly ugly.

Its attack method is not physical contact, but rather it opens its mouth and emits a sonic cone that is invisible to the naked eye.

When Mo Yun first went to meet it, he was so shocked by the mecha that his scalp tingled and the data display panel on the holographic screen disappeared.

Fortunately, the mech can still be controlled normally!

"We can't force our way in! Sound waves have indiscriminate coverage; even my poison fog wall can't block the sound!"

Mo Yun quickly calmed down and immediately coordinated with Su Ran.

Su Ran used space to create an invisible barrier in mid-air, cutting off the bat's flight path and forcing it to detour.

Mo Yun seized the window of opportunity, circled around from the side and rear, and precisely applied a high-concentration toxic fog to the base of its wing membrane.

The bat screamed and fell to the ground.

Mo Yun stepped in and broke its neck with a single stomp.

This battle was fought smartly, not recklessly.

……

The final mission location is an abandoned airport.

That's a mutated vulture that can only generate electricity; its feathers are electrified, and if they touch you, you'll be paralyzed.

Mo Yun suffered two setbacks; the mecha's circuitry short-circuited due to electric shocks, nearly causing it to break down on the spot.

In the end, Su Ran managed to pluck the thing from mid-air using his spatial manipulation, and then he stepped forward to deliver the fatal blow.

Afterwards, Mo Yun leaned against the mecha's leg and stared at the screen full of battle damage data for a long time.

"What if Brother Su isn't here?" he muttered to himself as he stood on the track.

Without Su Ran's spatial abilities as a backup, even if he could freely use his powers, it would still take him a lot of effort to deal with this mutated beast.

This realization made him very uncomfortable.

……

After cleaning up the battlefield.

Five battles, five completely different mutated creatures.

Speed ​​type, power type, defense type, sonic type, electric type.

He played differently in every game, and he suffered at least one loss in each game.

But in each and every game, he learned things he could never have learned sitting in the headquarters office his whole life.

Su Ran was now completely certain of Mo Yun's position.

Mo Yun's special ability makes him destined to become a top-tier expert capable of single-handedly holding off an army of ten thousand.

It's no exaggeration to say that he alone is worth five armored divisions.

However, he is not suited for one-on-one fights.

That's right, Mo Yun is very suitable for the battlefield, especially the kind of battlefield where a million zombie hordes attack a city.

Only then can the value of a mobile natural disaster be truly realized.

"If we're not suited for one-on-one fights, then we'll maximize our strengths."

Su Ran thought to herself,

"At worst, when king-level mutated creatures start to appear in large numbers, we can just arrange a personal bodyguard for Old Mo."

"Brother Su, I've thought of something," he suddenly said.

"What is it?"

"I've been thinking about this for a while now..."

Mo Yun pulled up the internal structure diagram of the Bone-Eating Corruptor and pointed his finger at the row of crystal core interfaces.

"The ten crystal cores on Corrosion Bone's body are now used for power supply, running with the mecha and fighting with the mecha."

But they are simply ordinary energy sources.

Su Ran didn't speak, waiting for him to continue.

"But what if we replaced these ten with poison-type crystal cores?" Mo Yun asked.