Doomsday Reboot: My Superpowers Absorb Everything

As the sunflower petals unfurled in the morning dew, Lin Ye squatted on the ruins of the Bone Castle, watching golden roots burrow into the black soil. The land that had once been covered in bone meal, under the dual influence of the white-scaled snake bile and the silver-patterned energy, had turned a healthy, oily black, and even the air carried the sweet, earthy scent of soil.

"Old Zhao said this soil can grow potatoes three times the size." Skinny Monkey walked over carrying an iron shovel. The scale vine armor on his left leg had been replaced with a new one, forged by Old Zheng using bone fragments from the White Bone Castle mixed with scale vine sap. It gleamed with a faint blue light. "Scarred Sister-in-law is leading the migrants to turn the land. She says she wants to build a new stronghold here."

Lin Ye's silvery veins gently adhered to the black soil, and he could feel countless tiny lives wriggling within them—microorganisms transformed from purified red rashes mycelium, greedily decomposing the remaining bone fragments and providing nutrients to the soil. "Tell them to plant sunflowers first," he stood up, patting the soil off his hands. "These flowers can stabilize the energy in the soil. Plant crops when it's safe."

Su Ya came over carrying a basket filled with wild fruits soaked in purifying flower dew, the crystal-clear juice glistening with a golden film. "Old Zhao found something strange over there." She handed over a wild fruit, green energy dancing gently at her fingertips. "He said it's the Bone King's storage room, filled with many samples of mutants he'd never seen before."

The storage room was hidden in the basement of the Bone Tower. The door was forged from a single piece of white-scaled snake scale, engraved with the same patterns as the snake scales of the underground lake. When Lin Ye's silver pattern was applied, the scale door slid open automatically to both sides, revealing a dazzling array of glass jars inside—each jar containing different mutated organs, some tentacles with eyes, some hearts covered in red bruises, and in the innermost jar, a gray fleshy tumor the size of a human head, covered with tiny mouths, slowly opening and closing.

"This is... the core of the Devourer?" Zhao Shan's voice was filled with shock. He pointed to the mouth on the tumor, "A product of our failed experiment back then, capable of devouring all energy, including red sha and white scale energy. The Bone King actually preserved it!"

The moment Lin Ye's silver markings touched the jar, they ignited intensely. The mouth on the tumor suddenly opened, spewing out a cloud of gray mist that struck the glass, leaving a corrosive mark. "This thing is dangerous," he said, his energy shield positioned in front of the jar. "It must be destroyed."

Suya's green energy spread along the walls of the jar, attempting to entangle the tumor with vines, but was instantly corroded by the gray mist. "Ordinary methods are useless." Her fingertips trembled slightly. "Its energy is different from the red sha and white scales; it's like... pure nothingness."

Suddenly remembering something, the skinny monkey pulled out a piece of bone he had knocked off the Bone King's throne from his backpack. It still contained the energy of the Red Pestilence Mother Core. "Want to try this?" He threw the bone into the jar.

The gray tumor immediately pounced, its countless mouths opening simultaneously, instantly devouring the shattered bone. Surprisingly, after absorbing the red energy, the tumor's surface glowed with a faint red light, and it stopped emitting gray mist. Instead, it began to shrink, like a dehydrated fruit.

"It's afraid of the red sha energy?" The skinny monkey's eyes widened. "But didn't the Bone King nurture it using red sha?"

Zhao Shan suddenly understood: "The Bone King wanted it to devour the red sha energy and become a devourer controlled only by him! Unfortunately, he failed. This thing will go into hibernation after devouring energy and can only be awakened with more powerful energy." He looked at Lin Ye's silver patterns, "For example... your white scale energy."

Lin Ye's back was drenched in cold sweat. If the Bone King really succeeded, the consequences would be unimaginable. He gestured to Su Ya to seal the jar with vines, and then wrapped it with three layers of scale vine iron: "Take it back to the fortress first, find a safe place to store it, and we'll deal with it after we've studied it thoroughly."

As they left the storeroom, wisps of smoke rose from the castle ruins. The migrants had built makeshift stoves out of bone fragments, and pots were simmering with mutated beast meat cooked in purified spring water, the aroma wafting far and wide. The scarred woman's son and the children from the cryogenics room were watering newly planted sunflowers; the silvery-blue seedlings swayed gently in their hands, like a group of obedient little elves.

"Chief Lin," a migrant carrying a bow and arrows ran over, holding a blood-stained strip of cloth in his hand, "this was found in the western mountains, it looks like someone was attacked by mutants."

A strange symbol was embroidered on the strip of cloth—it looked like a tree struck by lightning, with a few gray hairs clinging to it, hard like metal wires. Lin Ye's silver pattern touched the hairs and felt a faint electric current; the hairs instantly stood on end, tiny sparks flying from their tips.

"It's fur from the 'Thunder Beast'." Zhao Shan's expression was solemn. "It was also an experimental subject back then. It can release high-voltage current, and its speed is even faster than the mutated bone beast. Even the Bone King couldn't do anything to them."

The skinny monkey gripped his iron spear so tightly it creaked: "What about the symbols on that strip of cloth? What organization's insignia are they?"

"Not an organization, but 'Wanderers'," Zhao Shan sighed. "A group of survivors who wander between various factions, hunting mutants for resources. They move around unpredictably, but never provoke others. The fact that they were attacked by Thunder Beasts means that the number of Thunder Beasts in this area has increased."

Lin Ye looked at the bloodstains on the cloth strip, which were still fresh: "We have to go and see, maybe we can save someone."

Suya immediately prepared ten bottles of insulating potion, applying them to her weapons and clothes to temporarily resist the Thunder Beast's electric current. Skinny Monkey, meanwhile, found some conductive copper wire and wrapped it around his iron spear: "I heard the Thunder Beast is afraid of metal; this will definitely work."

After walking westward into the mountains for about an hour, they smelled a burnt odor in the woods. In a forest scorched by lightning, they discovered the nomads' camp—three shattered tents, several charred corpses lying on the ground, and scattered around the bodies of more than a dozen thunder beasts, each the size of a calf, with gray fur and arcs of electricity wrapped around its horns.

"It was the Thunder Beasts that attacked them." The skinny monkey examined the corpse of a Thunder Beast, his iron spear thrust into its heart. "These Thunder Beasts all have a red crystal in their hearts, which looks a lot like the red pustule mycelium."

Lin Ye's silver markings touched the crystal, and he indeed felt the familiar red sha energy, only more violent than ordinary red sha, and it even carried an electric current. "It's a thunder beast infected by red sha." His voice was as cold as ice. "Someone is deliberately cultivating them."

Just then, a faint groan came from deep within the woods. Lin Ye and the skinny monkey rushed over immediately and found an injured young man hiding behind a charred tree. His right leg was burned black by the lightning beast's electricity, and he was still tightly clutching a broken knife with the symbol of the tree that had been struck by lightning engraved on the blade.

"Don't...don't come any closer..." The man's voice was hoarse, his eyes filled with vigilance.

Suya's green energy gently brushed over his wounds, and red blood seeped from beneath his charred skin: "We're here to help you. We have Thunder Beast Antibody Potions."

The man's guard relaxed slightly, and as he looked at the green energy in Su Ya's palm, his eyes suddenly widened: "You are... the 'Green Vine Messenger'? I've heard rumors about you in the South, saying you can cure red sha infection!"

Suya paused for a moment, then understood—the Wanderers' intelligence network was indeed impressive. "My name is Suya," she said, handing the insulating potion to the man. "How are you? Do you have any other companions?"

The man drank the potion, his complexion improving. "My name is Amu, and I'm the captain of this group of wanderers. The others... didn't escape." He pointed into the depths of the forest. "The leader of the Thunder Beast pack is over there. It's a female beast twice the size of an ordinary Thunder Beast, and the red aura energy in its crystal is the most concentrated. Our traps can't hold it at all."

Lin Ye's silver markings suddenly pointed in the direction Amu indicated, and he could sense a powerful electric current, like a moving high-voltage power tower. "It's still here," he said to the skinny monkey. "Get the copper wire spears ready, let's go and meet it."

Amu struggled to his feet: "I'll go with you! That beast killed three of my brothers, I want to avenge them!"

Lin Ye didn't stop him, but simply handed him a bottle of sobering agent: "Be careful, the Red Sha Thunder Beast might cause hallucinations."

After venturing three miles into the forest, they finally spotted the Thunder Beast leader. It lay sprawled on a massive rock, its muscles bulging beneath its gray fur, and crackling arcs of electricity crackling from its horns. The surrounding trees had been charred. Most eerie of all, a red crystal the size of a pigeon's egg was embedded in its forehead, like an open eye, staring intently at them.

"That's it!" Amu gripped his broken sword so tightly it creaked. "Its red crystal can control other thunder beasts!"

Lin Ye gestured for everyone to disperse, while he gripped his energy blade tightly, silver patterns condensing into a blue-purple shield on the blade—he wanted to personally test whether the white scale energy could restrain the red-spotted thunder beast.

The Thunder Beast leader clearly sensed the threat and leaped off the rock. The moment its four hooves slammed into the ground, lightning-shaped cracks appeared, spreading towards Lin Ye. Lin Ye's energy shield deployed in time; the lightning struck the shield, making a hissing sound, but failed to penetrate it even slightly.

"Its electric current has no effect on Silver Pattern!" the skinny monkey shouted, hurling the copper wire spear at the Thunder Beast's abdomen.

The Thunder Beast leader dodged to the side, its tail sweeping out, crackling with electricity as it struck the skinny monkey. Amu's broken sword blocked the attack just in time, but the shockwave sent him staggering backward, his hand splitting open. Suya's green vines seized the opportunity to entangle the Thunder Beast's limbs, an insulating agent forming a protective film on the vines, temporarily immobilizing it.

"Now!" Lin Ye's energy blade gathered all the silver pattern energy, and a sharp beam of blue-purple light formed at the tip of the blade, stabbing fiercely at the red crystal on the forehead of the Thunder Beast.

The Thunder Beast leader let out a deafening roar, and the red crystal erupted with a blinding red light. The electric arcs surged instantly, melting Suya's vines. But the energy blade had already pierced the red crystal, and blue-purple energy spread along the crystal. The Thunder Beast's body convulsed violently in the light, and its gray fur quickly fell off, revealing the flesh and blood eroded by red rashes.

Finally, the Thunder Beast leader's massive body crashed to the ground, the red crystal shattering completely under the energy blade, turning into countless tiny specks of light, which were absorbed by the silver pattern energy. After absorbing the specks of light, Lin Ye's silver pattern even shimmered with a faint electric light, as if tiny lightning bolts were dancing between the patterns.

"Your silver markings...have evolved?" Suya's eyes lit up.

Lin Ye clenched his fist, feeling a new energy flowing through his body, carrying the speed of electricity and the resilience of silver veins. "It seems so." He smiled and looked at Amu, "Now that we're safe, where do you plan to go next?"

Looking at the corpse of the Thunder Beast leader and then at the distant ruins of the Bone Castle, Amu suddenly knelt down: "Chief Lin, please take in the rest of us wanderers! We are willing to hunt and guard for you, as long as we have a safe place to stay!"

Lin Ye helped him up and looked at the migrants working in the distance, and the sunflower seedlings swaying in the wind: "This will be your home from now on. But we have a rule—never abandon your companions, never fear challenges, and work together to restore this land to its original state."

Amu nodded heavily, his eyes regaining their light.

As the sun set, they took Amu back to the ruins. The migrants had already built more temporary shelters, and people sat laughing around the campfire. Even Zhao Shan was pestered by the children to tell him stories of his past encounters with the white-scaled snake.

Lin Ye sat by the campfire, watching Su Ya bandage Amu's wounds, while the skinny monkey boasted to the wanderers about the battle they had just fought, the lightning on his silver tattoos flickering in the firelight. He knew that new challenges awaited them—the core of the Devourer, the horde of Thunder Beasts infected by the Crimson Sha, and the experimental subjects lurking in the shadows…

But he was no longer lost. Because he had more and more companions around him, the black soil beneath his feet was nurturing new life, and that ever-evolving silver stripe would be like an inextinguishable flame, illuminating their path forward.