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

(This will be adjusted tomorrow!)

"How long will it take to produce the finished product?" Su Ran asked.

Zhang Qian stared at the dark red piece of flesh in the culture chamber, his eyes bloodshot.

"Seven days!"

He turned his head abruptly, his voice hoarse, "Give me enough resources, and I can produce the first batch of bio-coatings in seven days!"

Su Ran pulled up a chair and sat down, tapping her fingers on the table. "What do you need?"

"Flesh and blood! A large quantity of living, mutated beast flesh and blood!"

Zhang Qian, like a gambler who had lost everything, braced his hands on the table.

"For this fourth-order tissue to divide and proliferate, it must engulf living biomass."

I need at least ten tons of Tier 3 mutant remnants every day, the higher the activity, the better!

"I'm granting you the highest level of logistical access."

Without wasting any words, Su Ran swiped a few times on the tactical terminal.

"I've asked Liu Wenbo to transfer fifty tons of the Tier 3 biomass stored at the Jiangcheng Mother Nest."

Zhang Qian's eyes lit up, and he rubbed his hands together, laughing so hard his shoulders shook.

"Enough! Absolutely enough!"

Once the first batch of bio-fusion armor is produced, your Warcraft legions will not only have no rejection reaction, but will also be able to heal themselves while fighting on the battlefield!

Their combat power will definitely double!

"I'm waiting for your good news."

Su Ran stood up and strode outside. Time was of the essence.

Su Ran glanced at the terminal.

The nuclear winter following the Yellowstone eruption has completely altered the Earth's ecology.

He took the elevator directly to the underground headquarters command center of the Awakened.

Mo Yun was standing in front of the giant holographic sand table, while Zhou Rui and a dozen staff officers were rapidly processing data beside him.

"Brother Su."

Hearing footsteps, Mo Yun turned around and greeted them.

He had dark circles under his eyes, clearly indicating that he hadn't slept for several days.

"Has the announcement regarding the lifting of the ban on civilian armed groups been issued?"

Su Ran stepped forward, her gaze falling on the sand table.

The sparse green dots on the sand table are now spreading outwards at an explosive rate.

"It was just announced across the entire internet half an hour ago."

Mo Yun took a deep breath and pushed a piece of data in front of Su Ran.

"You have no idea how crazy the reaction outside is."

Zhou Rui pushed up his glasses, suppressing the excitement in his voice.

"Advisor Su, after the Peach Blossom Spring points system went online, all 170+ survivor camps worldwide were connected within ten minutes."

The number of registered civilian bounty hunter teams has now exceeded five thousand!

Su Ran looked at the constantly changing numbers on the screen, unsurprised.

"People die for wealth, birds die for food."

Su Ran sneered.

"In the past, when they killed monsters, they could only exchange them for some moldy, stale grain; their lives were worth less than grass."

Now, with the chance to exchange for a crystal energy gun, for third-order crystal core extraction fluid, for the means to survive, who wouldn't risk everything?

"It's not just working desperately, it's downright insane."

Mo Yun pulled up a live surveillance video. "Look at this."

The footage is from an abandoned town on the outskirts of the Siberian defense line.

A blizzard was raging. The outdoor temperature was minus fifty-five degrees Celsius.

A dozen or so Russian survivors, dressed in tattered winter clothes and with faces purple from the cold, mostly armed with old-fashioned AK rifles, and the entire group possessing only a single Tier 2 Crystal Core Rifle, were frantically attacking a Tier 2 Ice Wolf.

There are no awakened ones, only ordinary people.

They were risking their lives; three of them had their necks bitten off by dire wolves.

Blood and flesh flew everywhere, and they were eventually wiped out.

The leader, a one-eyed burly man, dug out a blood-stained second-order crystal core from the snow.

He held the crystal core high and roared at the drone camera.

Although I couldn't hear his voice, I could clearly read his lip movements.

He was shouting, "Points! Exchange them for a gun from Great Xia!"

The video cuts off.

"This is just a microcosm."

Mo Yun pointed to the sand table, "North America, North Africa, Australia. All the survivors have started moving."

They spontaneously formed hunting teams, following behind the regular army of Great Xia to scavenge for kills, and even actively entered the red zone to lure high-level monsters.

"The equipment department is under a lot of pressure."

Zhou Rui opened the report in his hand and added,

"At the current rate of points redemption, our regular crystal energy weapon inventory can only last for half a month at most."

"We have to hold on, even if we can't."

Su Ran's tone was cold and firm, brooking no argument.

"Go and inform Qian Liye to have his arsenal operate in 24-hour shifts. Even if it means hollowing out the Kunlun Mountains, we must ensure the supply of weapons to the front lines."

"By issuing one more gun, the Great Xia Expeditionary Force will lose one less soldier."

"clear."

Zhou Rui immediately turned around to give instructions.

Su Ran walked to the panoramic floor-to-ceiling window.

Everything is proceeding according to his plan.

They tied the will to survival of all humanity to the war chariot of the Great Xia, using the blood and flesh of hundreds of millions of people to bridge the evolutionary gap.

But the vague unease in his heart did not disappear.

"How's the clearing operation going in North Africa?"

Su Ran looked away and turned to ask.

Mo Yun's face instantly darkened. He walked to Su Ran's side, his brows furrowed.

"Progress is very slow. After the temperature plummeted, all the mutated sand pythons burrowed deep underground."

The armored forces' artillery couldn't hit them at all. And..."

Mo Yun paused for a moment, then rapidly tapped his fingers on the control panel, bringing up another top-secret briefing.

Mo Yun rapidly tapped his fingers on the control panel, instantly switching the images on the giant holographic sand table.

A 3D topographic map of the North African theater of operations, where yellow sand is covered by snow, emerges.

Look here.

Mo Yun pointed to a red shadow in the center of the sand table.

"The S-11 defense line was completely blocked after advancing thirty kilometers to the south."

As the temperature dropped to minus twenty degrees Celsius, the mutated sand pythons, which were originally active on the surface of the desert, all burrowed into rock fissures three hundred meters underground.

"Heavy artillery bombardment is useless?" Su Ran stared at the densely packed red dots.

"It's no use."

Zhou Rui handed over a battle damage report.

"The rock strata are too thick. Conventional bunker buster bombs can only penetrate up to fifty meters. The sand serpent has constructed a complex network of tunnels underground."

The armored forces pressed forward, causing frequent ground collapses. Yesterday, an armored company fell directly into a sand pit and was completely wiped out.

Su Ran did not receive the report.

His gaze was fixed intently on the movement of the red dot on the sand table.

"They are gathering," Su Ran pointed out the key point.

Mo Yun nodded in response.

"Yes. That's the most unusual part."

Sand pythons are cold-blooded animals, and at this temperature they should be in a semi-hibernating state.

However, monitoring data shows that their vital signs are extremely active.

Moreover, all the sand pythons are converging on this coordinate.

On the holographic screen, a glaring red X lit up.

Coordinates: 23 degrees North latitude, 11 degrees East longitude. Inland area of ​​the Akhagarh Plateau.

"What's here?" Su Ran asked.

"A zone of extinct volcanoes."

Zhou Rui quickly pulled up a geological map. "According to the latest geological survey, the Yellowstone volcanic eruption triggered global crustal movement."

The geothermal network of this dormant volcano has been reactivated. Five hundred meters underground lies a massive, high-temperature lava lake.

"High temperature, high-energy biomass accumulation."

Su Ran placed her hands on the edge of the sand table, her eyes cold and sharp. "They're not trying to avoid the cold."

"They are making kings."

The air in the conference room froze instantly.

Mo Yun gasped, "Brother Su, are you saying they're stimulating the growth of fourth-tier beings?"

"Apart from the fourth rank, nothing can transcend species instincts and forcibly drive hundreds of thousands of sand pythons to their deaths."

Su Ran straightened up.

"They are using the geothermal network for insulation while simultaneously engaging in a brutal cannibalistic process."

If they are allowed to evolve underground, the North African defense line will be sitting on a live volcano.

"So what do we do now?"

Zhou Rui's forehead was covered in cold sweat.

"Bunker bombs can't penetrate it, and nuclear bombs can't be detonated underground indiscriminately. A chain reaction of earthquakes could bury our bases on the surface as well."

"If they want to hide, let them hide."

Su Ran said calmly, "Pass on my order: the troops on the North African front must immediately cease their blind advance."

A comprehensive defensive posture was adopted, establishing a blockade around the Ahaghar Plateau.

Mo Yun quickly took notes.

"All sonar radars and geological detectors were deployed there."

"I don't ask them to kill the enemy. I just want them to know the exact layout of the underground tunnels and the exact location of that lava lake," Su Ran gave the order.

"What happens after we figure it out?" Mo Yun asked. "We can't get in."

"Seven days later, I will personally lead the team in."

Su Ran glanced at the time on the terminal.

"Zhang Qian's side can produce the first batch of bio-fusion armor in seven days."

Then let the Warcraft Legion go underground and play with these Sand Pythons.

The underground space is too narrow for artillery to maneuver. In hand-to-hand combat, the Hellhound is the true king.

"Understood!" Mo Yun immediately turned around to give the instructions.

Su Ran turned and walked to the other side of the combat hall.

The large screen displays real-time battle reports and exchange records from around the world.

The full lifting of restrictions took less than five hours.

The data is skyrocketing.

"Advisor Su, the combat effectiveness of the civilian squad has exceeded expectations."

A staff officer in charge of logistics and equipment stepped forward, his face beaming with excitement.

"On the North American front, a team of survivors composed of local miners used abandoned mines as traps to kill a Tier 3 mutated grizzly bear."

They just traded that crystal core for two sets of exoskeleton armor and a Gauss sniper rifle.

Su Ran looked at the sniper rifle redemption record on the screen.

"With these two exoskeletons, they can kill two Tier 3 monsters tomorrow."

Su Ran tapped the screen.

"Go tell Qian Liye not to worry about the inventory."

It's better for a weapon to become a hole in a monster than to let it mold.

There aren't enough bullets to make bullets, and not enough gun barrels to make gun barrels. But as long as someone dares to kill, Great Xia will have plenty.

"yes!"

The Siberian defense line.

The wind and snow were howling, and visibility was less than ten meters.

Ye Xiao pulled the Tang sword from the eye socket of a second-tier ice wolf. The blood that came out instantly froze into ice shards in the extreme cold.

He flicked the blade and skillfully scooped out the crystal core.

"Brother Ye! It's all taken care of here!"

Zhu Jingye came running over, panting, with seven or eight wounds of varying sizes on his body. The wounds were healing rapidly.

His damage transfer ability, combined with his high self-healing ability, gives him extremely high survivability in the second-tier battlefield.

"Twelve in total." Ye Xiao tossed the crystal cores in his hand into his tactical backpack. "Go back and report."

The two walked through the thick snow toward the temporary supply point.

Before we even got close, we could hear a commotion coming from the outskirts of the supply point.

Dozens of burly Slavic men dressed in cheap winter clothing were surrounding the Great Xia military's exchange terminal.

His eyes were bloodshot.

"Don't push! Line up!"

A Daxia soldier holds a gun to maintain order.

"Sir! This is a Tier 3 Snow Demon's crystal core! We lost five men to get it!"

A burly man with a full beard slammed a crystal-clear core onto the table, his voice hoarse.

"We need to replace it with that heavy crystal energy machine gun! And we also need ten basic healing potions!"

The soldier checked the crystal core level by performing a few operations on the terminal.

"Points have been credited to your account. Go to the warehouse on the right to pick up your goods."

The burly man led his men and rushed towards the warehouse.

When they came out carrying that brand-new crystal energy machine gun, all the survivors around them let out beast-like howls.

Everyone's eyes were shining.

Ye Xiao stood on the outside, watching this scene, and clicked his tongue.

"Brother Su's move was really vicious."

Ye Xiao lit a cigarette and put it in his mouth.

"These people used to run away at the sight of a Tier 3 monster. Now, when they see one, they practically want to bite it."

Zhu Jingye shrank his neck.

"People die for money. Holding that machine gun in your hand is your lifeline in the wasteland."

"Let's go, let's recruit some people."

Ye Xiao exhaled a smoke ring.

"Brother Su told us to form a mixed brigade. These people may not have much else, but they are fearless."

Pick a few good marksmen and take them to raid a Tier 3 wolf den tomorrow.

As time went by.

Kunlun Base, deep underground.

Seven days passed in the blink of an eye.

November 24th.

Zhang Qian's biology lab remained closed for seven days.

Every day, more than a dozen heavy-duty carts haul tons of flesh and blood from third-tier mutated beasts into the area.

Su Ran stood outside the isolation door.

Bai Lu stood beside him, her hands in her pockets.

His expression unusually showed a hint of tension.

"He won't kill Little Grey, will he?"

Bai Lu stared at the tightly closed metal door.

"Won't."

Su Ran said with certainty, "He cares about these test subjects more than you do."

The sound of exhaust escaping filled the air. The airtight door slowly slid open to both sides.

Zhang Qian staggered out, his eyes bloodshot and filled with fanaticism.

"It's done!"

Zhang Qian gripped Su Ran's arm tightly, his nails almost digging into her flesh.

"Advisor Su, it's done!"

Su Ran reached out and supported Zhang Qian, glancing past him towards the interior of the laboratory.

Inside the huge sterile observation area, twelve third-order hellhounds lay quietly on the ground.

They have changed.

The titanium alloy armor that was originally forcibly implanted into the bones is now covered with a layer of dark red keratin.

There was no longer any gap between the metal and flesh.

Dark red active cells completely fused the cold machinery with the frenzied, mutated body.

It is a seamless whole.

"There was no rejection reaction."

Zhang Qian's voice trembled.

"The neuronal connection rate reached 99%!"

Their current armor strength is sufficient to withstand a frontal hit from a heavy armor-piercing projectile.

As long as it doesn't die, the armor can absorb biomass and repair itself!

The white deer's eyes lit up. She immediately released her mental energy.

"Awoo!"

The largest hellhound suddenly stood up. It was Little Grey.

Its dark red armor on its back popped open instantly, and two thick crystal energy cannons rose up, the movement so smooth that there was not a trace of metal jamming.

"Beautiful." A sharp glint flashed in Su Ran's eyes.

He turned to look at Mo Yun behind him.

"Notify the North African front to prepare to open the airdrop route."

Su Ran strode towards the elevator.

"Let's go and dig out those sand pythons hiding underground."