Reborn as a tiger, he was chosen by the nation as its guardian beast.

Wang Hu tilted his head, sizing up the old man in military uniform in front of him.

He could clearly sense that the other party had no ill intentions towards him, but rather exuded a frank and benevolent attitude.

He didn't know why the old man suddenly acted this way, but since the old man had taken the initiative to show goodwill, Wang Hu naturally had to reciprocate.

His massive body leaned forward slightly, and he also extended his fleshy right paw, gently touching it to the old man's fist.

"Ha ha ha ha!"

Upon seeing this, Qin Tieshan couldn't help but burst into hearty laughter.

"OK!"

"From now on, we're friends!"

"Little Wang, if Big Cat gets into any trouble in the future, remember to report to me immediately. If he encounters any unfair treatment, I'll stand up for him, understand?"

He turned to look at Wang Mingyuan.

"clear!"

"Mission accomplished!"

Wang Mingyuan was overjoyed. He naturally understood how valuable Qin Tieshan's words were. With Qin Tieshan protecting him, Big Cat could practically walk sideways in China as long as he didn't kill people indiscriminately, and no one would dare to mess with him anymore.

Qin Tieshan seemed very busy. He quickly turned around and strode away to personally investigate the ever-expanding spatial passage.

Taking advantage of this moment, Wang Mingyuan waved to Wang Hu, signaling him to come out with him.

Wang Hu knew that Lao Wang was about to tell him about the other world, and he immediately became very interested and followed him.

The two men and the tiger quickly arrived at a small river behind Wangjiazhuang.

With no one else around, Wang Mingyuan stopped and, without further suspense, began to speak.

"Big Cat, I can tell you some information about the other world now, because we might need you to go into the other world with us later, so you need to have a basic understanding of it."

Seeing Wang Hu nod, Wang Mingyuan continued, "Actually, the news about the other world was discovered by the government along with the revival of spiritual energy."

His first words immediately piqued Wang Hu's interest.

"Initially, they were mirages that appeared randomly around the world. The images shown by those mirages were extremely strange."

"For example, a strange vine that can almost cover an entire majestic mountain."

"For example, schools of winged, strange fish that fly in the sky."

"For example, a desolate and dilapidated modern city, and within that city, as far as the eye can see... zombies."

Wang Mingyuan's voice was calm, but the content of his words made Wang Hu's heart sink.

He wondered if the world opposite him was a zombie apocalypse.

Wang Mingyuan's introduction continued.

"At first, the country thought these mirages were just images distorted by the atmosphere in some undiscovered corner of the earth, which were eventually refracted by chance."

"But just six months ago, the country discovered its first space passage by chance in the Kunlun Mountains."

"That spatial passage was very unstable and lasted for less than half an hour, but we still sent unmanned equipment in to explore part of the situation inside."

"On the other side of the passage lies the world depicted in those mirages."

Wang Mingyuan paused here, seemingly wanting to give Wang Hu some time to process what he was saying.

"Since then, unstable spatial rifts have begun to appear all over the country and even the world."

"Sometimes it lasts for one or two hours, and sometimes it can even extend to one or two days."

"Before the appearance of the spatial passage in Wangjia Village, the longest-lasting spatial passage appeared in India."

"It lasted for a full two days and one night."

Wang Mingyuan exhaled a breath of stale air, his face solemn.

"That time, tens of thousands of zombies poured out of it, and more than 100,000 people died in India as a result."

"Fortunately, the last passage closed by itself, otherwise India would probably have been wiped out by the zombie horde by now."

"However, because of the fear of causing panic on a global scale, this incident was suppressed by countries around the world, and all news was blocked."

Upon hearing this, Wang Hu's golden tiger eyes widened involuntarily.

He truly hadn't expected that so many earth-shattering events related to the revival of spiritual energy had secretly occurred in this seemingly peaceful world!

He used to think he was just an isolated case, the only protagonist destined by fate, and he even thought he could lie down peacefully in the zoo and enjoy his tiger life for the rest of his life!

Looking back now, I realize how ridiculously naive I was!

This world is far more dangerous than he imagined!

"So, this other world is a zombie world?"

As soon as Wang Hu had a thought, the grey parrot on his shoulder immediately raised its voice and asked the question that had been on his mind.

Upon hearing this, Wang Mingyuan shook his head.

Not entirely.

"Based on the intelligence we have gathered and the results of our analysis of various mirage images, there is a high possibility that intelligent life exists in that other world."

"Those zombies... are actually more like cattle and sheep being herded by intelligent life forms."

This analogy caused Wang Hu's mind to freeze for a moment.

Herding zombies?

What kind of operation is this?

"Those zombies, as well as various strange plants and animals in the other world, all have a special ability to perform energy conversion similar to photosynthesis, ultimately producing a special energy crystal core within their bodies."

"And in a mirage that appeared in Africa, we observed a crucial scene."

"The footage shows a strange flying insect, magnified countless times in size, resembling a mosquito, that periodically flies out from underground, uses its mouthparts to suck up the crystal nuclei born inside zombies and plants and animals, and then burrows back underground."

Wang Mingyuan's voice was very low.

"This almost proves that all the zombies and plants and animals still active on the surface of this other world are likely controlled and raised by some underground entity."

Wang Hu's heart sank slightly upon hearing this.

An intelligent civilization that lives underground and uses the entire surface world as a pasture, grazing zombies and mutated plants and animals, and harvesting energy cores regularly.

This is a huge amount of information.

It was so big that even this tiger, who had lived two lives, found it somewhat unbelievable.

Seeing Wang Hu deep in thought, Wang Mingyuan hesitated for a moment before finally adding another sentence.

"The gene-based drug that Gu Xing, that old guy, is currently researching at the Huacheng Extraordinary Biological Research Institute, which you just joined, is actually a product that incorporates those energy crystal cores as its core material."

As Wang Mingyuan finished speaking, he involuntarily turned his head and glanced at Wangjia Village not far behind him.

His gaze fell on the spatial rift that was still spreading in the void and becoming more and more stable.

"The spatial passage you created with a single slap this time is the largest and probably the most stable one I've ever seen."

"The nation has long suspected that the spatial barrier between our planet and that other world is becoming weaker and weaker, and the spatial passage connecting the two worlds will eventually be completely stabilized and form a permanent passage."

"if……"

Wang Mingming's voice became extremely serious, uttering each word slowly and deliberately.

"If what lies before us is the first permanent spatial passage to be stabilized on Earth, then there will inevitably be a war between our China and those possible subterranean intelligent life forms from other worlds."