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

As we left Factory No. 01, it was nearly midnight.

The motion-sensor lights in the underground emergency passage illuminated in sequence as the vehicle sped along, then rapidly receded backward.

Su Ran leaned back in the Jeep and rubbed her throbbing temples.

"Go to the outer perimeter, ventilation shaft number three," Su Ran said.

The driver stepped on the gas.

The jeep turned into a newly constructed tunnel.

The tires made a sound as they rolled over the gravel.

Below the No. 3 ventilation shaft is the newly established biological defense hatchery.

Initially, the production capacity of the three production lines in the underground arsenal was limited, so Zhou Jian directly applied to have a cultivation pit with a diameter of 100 meters dug outside the base.

The car came to a complete stop.

The air was filled with the smell of blood and highly concentrated chemicals.

Su Ran pushed open the door and got out of the car; the huge searchlight illuminated the entire circular pit.

More than a dozen heavy trucks with a carrying capacity of seventy tons were lined up in a straight line.

"Buzz!"

As the hydraulic rods rose, piles of zombie carcasses and mutated beast fragments rolled down the slope and crashed into the thick, grayish-white fungal carpet at the bottom of the pit.

The grayish-white tissue surged up like living water, covering the flesh and blood.

Within moments, large chunks of flesh and bone melted away completely.

Wearing a safety helmet, Zhou Jian stood on the control panel outside the safety net, staring at a digital screen.

Hearing footsteps, he turned around.

"Advisor Su has arrived."

"Dr. Zhou, is the industrial-scale production going smoothly?"

Su Ran stepped forward, placed her hands on the railing, and looked down.

"It went very smoothly!"

Zhou Jian didn't look up, his fingers swiping across the screen.

"As long as the supply of organic matter can keep up, there is no upper limit to the large-scale production of this microbial community."

It has been expanding exponentially.

Su Ran nodded.

"What's the progress on the opening of the border?"

Upon hearing this, Zhou Jian's relaxed expression vanished, and he shook his head repeatedly.

"Still a long way off."

"Our Great Xia's border is really too long."

This thing is basically a bottomless pit; it needs to be filled with a massive amount of mutated beast corpses, and the consumption is terrifying.

Zhou Jian sighed: "It will take a lot of time to completely build a living wall that surrounds the whole country."

"Take it slow, there's no rush. Safety is the key."

Su Ran turned to look at Zhou Jian, her gaze sharp as a knife.

"We must prevent this from getting out of control."

Even now, Su Ran still harbors deep fear of this bottomless, devouring gray-white fungal carpet.

Last time, he also used a trick to forcibly contain it by using his spatial abilities.

But if this thing really spreads out like a wall around the border and something goes wrong, even if he has infinite space, he won't be able to "cut" the entire long border into his space in the first instance.

"Advisor Su, are you afraid they'll turn against you?" Zhou Jian sensed the weight in her words.

"Um!"

Su Ran nodded, without any hesitation.

"Inhibitors must be plentiful. If this stuff is spread all over the border, and gets out of control, it could become a dagger aimed at the Great Xia homeland."

Zhou Jian's expression turned serious, and he solemnly guaranteed...

"The Academy of Sciences has been closely monitoring the situation."

A new generation of potent inhibitors is already undergoing research and development testing.

Any signs of abnormality will be suppressed immediately upon detection.

"That's good. Stay alert, and contact me immediately if you need any equipment."

After saying goodbye to Zhou Jian, Su Ran got into the jeep for the return trip.

After going around in circles, when I returned to my rest room at the Kunlun base, the clock on the wall pointed to 1:45 a.m.

The lights in the living area were switched to a dim, nighttime mode.

Occasionally, patrolling guards would walk by in formation.

Su Ran took off her tactical jacket and leaned back on the sofa.

Since leaving the highest command conference room that evening, he has visited several of the most critical national-level classified projects in China.

Brain-computer interface, the Ascension Project, space carrier, biological defense line.

Four massive projects that could rewrite the fate of humankind were all being pushed forward at breakneck speed with the full support of the state apparatus.

"call……"

Su Ran looked up at the ceiling, a slow smile spreading across her face.

"Several national-level projects are progressing steadily and positively, and Daxia is holding more and more cards in its hand."

"Given enough time, no matter how the monsters outside evolve, Great Xia can crush them."

……

Time slips away unnoticed.

For people living in the end times, the numbers on the calendar have lost their original meaning.

The only measure of time is the number of kilometers the battle line has advanced.

Two months later.

The global safe zone distribution map on the big screen has completely changed.

Millions of expeditionary troops crossed north and south, bringing the flames of war to the ruins of cities across the African continent.

Faced with the rampant and inescapable horde of mutated insects spreading across the South Asian subcontinent?

The answer given by the Great Xia Command was extremely simple and blunt.

Countless mushroom clouds rose over South Asia, and even Latin America, the region furthest from Great Xia, was completely liberated under the normalized, dimensional-reducing attacks of nuclear weapons.

Faced with the time lag between the rampant evolution of zombies and mutated beasts, humanity no longer wanted to waste even a single day!

The battle has never stopped since the moment the army crossed the border.

The Great Xia war machine has maximized its efficiency.

The global territory was gradually recovered.