Freeze the entire population, activate my Superman system?

After confirming that it was safe, the silver-black scales faded from Ling Shuang's body, and dark gray Night Demon scales covered her entire body again.

Her body temperature rose above the safe level within seconds. Ling Shuang stood up and walked towards the heavy sled.

The beetle didn't react at all to Ling Shuang in her Night Demon form; it just lazily flicked its tail and exhaled a puff of white vapor from its nostrils.

The cart was small, with thick animal bones forming guardrails on both sides and a layer of dried moss at the bottom.

The supplies weren't piled up completely; there was half a bag of unidentified black dried mushrooms, and a dozen or so crude bone knives and stone axes.

Ling Shuang continued to flip down and found a spherical object tightly wrapped in animal hide at the very bottom of the moss layer.

When the animal hide was removed, a fist-sized, dark red crystal was found inside.

Inside the crystal, there are flowing veins of light that move slowly, and the entire stone emits a faint but continuous warmth.

Ling Shuang murmured to herself,

"This should be the precious fire crystal they mentioned. The entire transport team is dedicated to serving this fire crystal."

Ling Shuang tried attaching the fire crystal to her right calf to activate the scales.

However, the crystal remained motionless, the scales showed no signs of absorption, and the system provided no indication.

Ling Shuang didn't hesitate for long. She wrapped the fire crystal again and stuffed it into a bag made of animal hide that she had temporarily sewn into her waistband.

Then, he chopped the giant beetle directly on the forehead with an axe.

The latter let out a mournful cry and fell heavily to the ground.

Ling Shuang added a few more blows to confirm that the beetle was dead.

He then walked up to the short, fat ghoul, squatted down, and dug out the three scales that had killed the ghoul.

Then, he used the Night Demon's claws to tear apart the wounds of the three ghouls, and deliberately smeared the Night Demon's special mucus on their bodies.

After doing all this, Ling Shuang disappeared into the snowstorm.

He decided to continue searching for traces of what appeared to be ghoul transport convoys.

If he obtains enough red crystals, he might be able to infiltrate the ghouls' ranks.

We must figure out exactly what kind of enemy we are!

......

Half an hour later, a huge outline appeared on the ice ridge to the north.

It is a giant centipede-like creature.

It is at least seven or eight meters long and moves extremely fast on the ice, its body undulating like waves.

On the back of that giant centipede sat a long-haired girl, holding a slender bone whip in her right hand.

With features resembling a human's, it looked at the corpses of the three ghouls and the giant beetle, and smiled coldly, revealing a curved canine tooth.

Those eyes were the same dark red as a ghoul's.

She crouched down, examined the fat ghoul's neck wound, a look of confusion on her face, and spoke in the ghoul's language.

"How could these three lowly pieces of trash have been killed by the Night Demon?"

Only one king can exist in a ghoul's territory.

Except for Wang Xuke, the other males had no mating rights and their status was comparable to that of slaves, only slightly higher than the livestock night ghosts.

Therefore, the nightingale does not feel sad about the deaths of these ordinary ghouls.

She casually flipped the sled, a playful smile on her face.

"The Fire Crystal has indeed been lost. Gertu, your reign as king won't last much longer."

About three hours later, Ling Shuang found two targets.

The two ghoul transport teams were stationed at opposite ends of an ice cave, presumably to temporarily avoid a blizzard.

Ling Shuang made her move.

Success!

There are a total of 7 light red crystals!

These ghouls have very weak defenses.

They seemed never to have imagined that any creature could ambush them in the ranch.

After absorbing three ghoul crystals, Ling Shuang's first-order evolution of her torso was barely halfway complete.

However, it seems that there is a conflict with the energy of the Night Demon.

The subsequent fusion process was very slow.

Ling Shuang frowned and temporarily stopped absorbing the nutrients.

He could sense that the conflict wasn't irreconcilable, but it would take time.

However, at that moment, Ling Shuang heard the distinctive sound of arthropods' toes stomping on the ground, rapidly approaching from the north!

In the blizzard, the silhouette of a giant centipede emerged from the white curtain.

The ghoul girl stood on the centipede's back, her bone whip already unfurled, making a series of piercing, crisp sounds in the wind.

She thought Ling Shuang wanted the fire crystal, and through special means, she found the nearest transport team!

Sure enough, they caught Ling Shuang in her Night Demon disguise.

The two faced off from a distance.

The giant centipede scratched restlessly at the snow with its segmented limbs, its antennae alternately pointing towards the frost in the blizzard.

Ling Shuang felt a pressure far greater than that of the Night Demon Mother at that time.

He instantly realized that

The enemy before us,

His strength has reached at least the second tier!

The girl's name was Ying.

A slight smile played on Ying's lips, her tone as languid as if she were toying with her prey.

"Thief who stole the fire crystal, you can't escape now."

She had already begun to imagine.

After Gertu is punished by her master, she will hand over the lost fire crystal.

She should be the queen of the tribe!

Female ghouls at the captain level are capable of becoming kings.

However, at that moment, a very piercing horn sounded from afar.

A low-frequency, vibrating hum.

Ling Shuang could understand the meaning; it was the language of the ghouls, which translated into only six words.

"Highest alert! Return to camp!"

The centipede suddenly slowed down and began to anxiously look back, but it didn't turn around immediately because of the warbler's control.

Ying's expression suddenly changed, and she bit her lip tightly with her canine teeth.

It was just a little bit short.

She can then punish Gertrude!

But she still yanked the reins sharply, and the centipede turned and rushed north, so fast that it left a trail of white snow mist on the snow.

Ling Shuang knelt on one knee on the ice, panting heavily, even the Night Demon scales were peeling away.

He had just finished ambushing the transport convoy, which had exhausted most of his strength.

He gritted his teeth and used a ghoul red crystal as an energy replenishment, which gave him the strength to transform into a Night Demon mimic.

Even in human form, I wouldn't last a minute in this freezing cold.

……

When Ying rushed back to the camp, the sight before her made her pupils dilate suddenly.

The camp no longer exists.

The twenty-odd animal-hide tents that originally stood in the ice hill basin were mostly overturned, and the animal hides were torn into strips that fluttered in the blizzard.

Dark red flames burned everywhere; they were the embers from the explosion of the fire crystals.

The charred remains of tents, scattered bone knives and stone axes, broken chains, and toppled bone stakes were all mixed together.

The most terrifying thing was in the center of the square.

Gertu knelt there, headless.

The massive body remained in a charging forward stance, knees on the ground, right arm still gripping an axe.

It felt like something had bitten off his neck from the front and then forcibly ripped his head off.

The cage that originally imprisoned the rebellious Night Demon Mother was torn to pieces!

A terrifying thought popped into Ying's mind.

What did it eat? It actually evolved to the third tier and completely lost control!