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

"Damn it! What bad luck! I got wounded as soon as I got to the battlefield!"

Taking advantage of the momentum, Zhu Jingye kicked the chameleon hard in the chin.

Taking advantage of this opening, Ye Xiao also made his move.

"die!"

A blur flashed by, Ye Xiao's figure stretched across the air, and he beheaded his opponent with a single strike.

"Pfft!"

The first chameleon to attack him, a six-meter-long chameleon, sent its massive head soaring into the sky.

Black blood gushed out like a waterfall as the headless body crashed heavily onto the sand.

Upon seeing this, the remaining three chameleons let out a terrified hiss and turned to burrow into the sand.

"Trying to run now?"

Ye Xiao landed, his legs slightly bent, just as he was about to give chase, when a sudden change occurred.

The headless chameleon corpse suddenly convulsed violently.

An invisible and extremely sharp sound wave suddenly erupted from its severed neck.

This is not an ordinary sonic boom, but a pure mental interference wave!

"Buzz!"

Invisible ripples swept across the entire venue.

The ten logistics reconnaissance soldiers were instantly struck dumb. Their eyes rolled back, they dropped their weapons, clutched their heads in agony, and collapsed onto the sand, rolling around and screaming in agony.

Some even pulled out tactical knives, their eyes glazed over, and tried to stab their comrades next to them.

I couldn't distinguish friend from foe, and I completely lost my sense of direction.

"Holy crap, what's going on?!"

Zhu Jingye also covered his ears tightly, his brainstem feeling as if it had been pierced by a rusty steel needle, buzzing loudly.

"puff!"

He bit the tip of his tongue, using the pain to stay awake.

Ye Xiao's mind went blank for a moment, and the scene before him briefly doubled.

Without hesitation, he slashed his thigh with a knife, creating a bloody gash.

The excruciating pain instantly shattered the illusion.

"You beast, you dare to trick me!"

Ye Xiao's eyes turned completely cold as he turned to look at the tallest sand dune not far away.

There, the sand and gravel are sliding rapidly.

A terrifying aura, far surpassing that of the minions from before, is awakening.

"Old Zhu, forget everything else, protect them! Something big is coming!"

Without a moment's hesitation, Zhu Jingye spread his arms and charged directly into the midst of the group of scouts who were fighting each other.

"You all better wake up!"

He grabbed one soldier in each hand and used the most brutal physical methods to pin the crazed soldier to the ground.

Regardless of who stabbed whom, as long as they didn't go too far, all the physical damage was forcibly transferred to him.

In less than ten seconds, Zhu Jingye had seven or eight bloody gashes on his body.

Ahead, the huge sand dune, more than ten meters high, collapsed with a deafening roar.

As the yellow sand cascaded down like a waterfall, a giant chameleon, over ten meters long, slowly crawled out.

Unlike the dark yellow monitor lizards, this leader's scales had an eerie dark golden sheen.

Most disturbingly, a row of fleshy growths resembling human eyeballs grew on its back.

As its breathing opened and closed, it emitted a strange spiritual fluctuation.

"This energy fluctuation... is not something that a typical third-order creature can possess."

Ye Xiao licked his chapped lips, his eyes showing no fear, but rather a hint of surprise.

He clearly sensed that the monster in front of him was far superior to any of the mutated beasts he had ever hunted before.

However, compared to the fourth-tier hellhound mother I had seen, it seemed to be a bit weaker.

A near-fourth-tier mutated beast!

Especially that row of tumors; that mental interference I just experienced was definitely caused by that thing.

"Now that you've shown your face, leave your lives behind."

"Hiss!"

The chameleon leader roared, and its dark golden scales rippled like water.

Its enormous body, right before Ye Xiao's eyes, melted into the air.

Perfect optical stealth!

"What kind of class do you think you are, daring to play hide-and-seek in front of me?"

Ye Xiao snorted coldly, closed his eyes, and lowered his twin swords.

He shut out all the sounds of the wind, the sand, and the screams of the scouts behind him.

My heartbeat slowed down, and every change in the airflow within a ten-meter radius was clearly reflected in my mind.

"Left."

Ye Xiao suddenly turned around, and with his right hand, he slashed upwards, unleashing a crescent-shaped gleam.

"when!"

The blade cleaved precisely into the void.

An extremely powerful recoil force struck Ye Xiao along the hilt of the knife, causing his tiger's mouth to split open and blood to spill out.

The dark golden scales flashed for a moment, then disappeared again.

That's really tough!

The power of a peak third-tier sword, combined with a specially made Tang sword, only left a cut mark on it, without damaging its bones or muscles.

"Hiss!"

An angry hiss filled the air, and a menacing wind blew.

A giant claw came straight at them.

Too fast! Too close! There was no time to dodge!

"Old Zhu!" Ye Xiao shouted.

Behind them, Zhu Jingye, his eyes bloodshot, roared in response.

"I'm right here! Go for it!"

"boom!"

The giant claw slammed directly into Ye Xiao's chest.

Ye Xiao didn't even finish a complete blocking motion before he was slammed and sent flying backwards, landing flat on the ground.

But the moment he was attacked, a circle of blue light flashed around him.

Zhu Jingye, who was a hundred meters away, suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood, knelt on one knee, and his chest bones made a teeth-grinding cracking sound.

He withstood 80% of the damage from that attack.

"Damn it... Brother Ye... Crush it..."

Old Zhu, spitting out blood, forced himself to curse.

"Thanks, bro."

In the deep pit, Ye Xiao did a somersault and leaped out of the sandpit.

Zhu Jingye absorbed most of the damage, and he only suffered 20% of it. He felt a surge of blood and qi in his chest, but his fighting power remained undiminished.

Using the distance created by being knocked away, he finally pinpointed the location where the chameleon leader was distorting the air.

"Got you?"

Ye Xiao took a deep breath, frantically squeezing out his supernatural power to the limit, his skin turning a completely dark red.

"Asura, Instant Kill!"

He vanished with a deafening sonic boom, more than twice as fast as before.

He crossed his twin swords in front of him and charged straight at the distorted phantom in mid-air.

The chameleon leader seemed to sense a deadly danger, and the tumors on its back suddenly opened wide.

A mental storm, almost tangible, transformed into invisible spikes, piercing Ye Xiao's brain once more.

"Buzz!"

It was as if a flashbang had been detonated in Ye Xiao's mind, causing his movements to stiffen slightly.

But it was this slight stiffness that prevented him from switching from offense to defense; instead, he completely abandoned all defense.

"No more defense! Die, you bastards!"

Relying on the muscle memory honed through countless life-and-death battles, even with his vision completely blurred, Ye Xiao's twin blades followed the trajectory he had just locked onto, and fiercely stabbed into the air.

"Pfft!"

This time, although there were hard scales to block it.

But under the absolute power of this desperate attack, the two Tang swords still pierced through the scales without any hindrance, and went straight into the center of that writhing eyeball tumor!

Ye Xiao suddenly twisted his wrist outwards, desperately straining his twin blades in both directions.

"die!"

"Hiss!"

A bloodcurdling scream, utterly devastating, rang out.

Dark blood gushed out like a fountain, and the chameleon leader's massive body instantly became visible.

It twisted its body wildly, violently flinging Ye Xiao away, and then rolled in agony on the sand.

Even after suffering such a severe injury, its survival instinct still drove it to try to burrow underground again to escape.

"Still trying to leave?"

Ye Xiao, who had just landed, followed closely behind, suddenly rising up again and delivering several more blows.

Two full minutes passed before the massive body stopped convulsing and died completely.

With the leader's death, the surrounding mental interference field dissipated.

The group of frenzied scouts finally stopped their self-harm and collapsed onto the sand, panting heavily.

Ye Xiao used his Tang sword to support himself and slowly stood up.

He wiped the blood from his face and limped toward the leader's corpse, his expression grave as he looked at the row of shattered tumors.

This beast has physical defense approaching level four, knows how to perfectly hide, and has even evolved a mental attack organ.

Ordinary Awakened Ones, even elite squads at the peak of the third tier, cannot do anything to it.

If it weren't for the cooperation between myself and Lao Zhu—one daring to attack recklessly, and the other willing to fight recklessly—we would have definitely suffered a great loss in this desert today.

"Brother Ye... Phew... Are you alright?"

Zhu Jingye, supporting the two reconnaissance soldiers, walked over with faltering steps.

"I'm fine, how are you?"

Ye Xiao kicked the dark gold corpse, then turned to look at the gruesome sight of Zhu Jingye.

"He won't die... his bones are very tough." Zhu Jingye grinned.

"Contact nearby transport planes to land."

Ye Xiao turned his head and exhaled a long breath towards the reconnaissance squad leader who had just stood up shakily.

"Pack this thing up completely and bring it back to Kunlun Base."

"well……"

He looked around at the vast desert, his eyes filled with worry.

"There is definitely more than just this one composite evolved monster that combines multiple abilities."

If Academician Wei and his team can't come up with a targeted countermeasure, our Great Xia will have a very difficult time fighting future wars.