Armed Train in the Apocalypse

Just before he calmly closed his eyes, a warning suddenly rose in his heart, even the fungus carpet issued an internal alert, frantically retracting, leaving the laboratory in chaos.

The eyes, which were once almost shut, suddenly opened wide, glaring like the eyes of a bull.

Startled, he looked at the scene before him, as a hand enveloped in a ghostly blue light ”reached” in through the ceiling, effortlessly piercing through both the base’s hard alloy and the fungus carpet that could corrode various metals.

With earth and stone cracking, a head of wild hair, Su Huan appeared with a reckless stance, his dark eyes staring directly at him while letting out a sneer, ”So here you are?”

In the dazed gaze of Ma Hongyu, the captain released a multitude of thunderbolts around him, tearing apart layers of the fungus carpet, grabbing at his neck with one hand, and lifted his entire body out of the nutrient pool!

Energy patterns crawled over the captain’s eerily smiling face, standing here alone as if facing the whole world!

Ma Hongyu opened his mouth, disbelief etched on his face, ”You...”

Su Huan shook the man in his hand, his fingers squeezing red streaks into his neck, with the corners of his mouth nearly reaching the back of his ears, ”I rescued you from the fungus carpet, how are you going to thank me?”

But Ma Hongyu was already at the critical evolution stage, beset inside and out, completely unable to respond.

He could only open his mouth helplessly, making several strange ”heh heh” noises.

With a ”boom,” Liang Kuan, holding an axe and shield, jumped down from the passage Su Huan had opened, carrying a strong killing intent, his voice rolling out like muffled thunder from his chest, ”It’s all cleared out above.”

As he spoke, Yu Yue, Lin Jin, and others also jumped down.

Seeing the scene in front of them, each one showed confusion on their faces.

Ignoring them, Su Huan turned his gaze to the shrinking pool beside him, squinting closely, and said sinisterly, ”Where are you trying to take my spoils?”

The surging fungus carpet suddenly froze, not because it was scared by a mere threat from Su Huan.

Rather, Su Huan had locked onto all the energy in it and the nutrient pool with a forceful presence!

The previously benign energy pool no longer belonged to it the moment this man looked over; let alone employing the energy to create fungi, it even sensed that if this man gave the order, this energy might even become the culprit of its demise!

The territorial nature of the fungus carpet kept it confined to the base, and such a terrifying energy explosion left it no chance of survival.

As for Su Huan supposedly not blowing up the base, these words were already forgotten; it trusted its instincts more than human words!

Su Huan beckoned to the curled-up fungus carpet with a finger, ”Give me my things.”

The fungus carpet hesitated for a moment, then laid all the valuable items in the laboratory before Su Huan, including the three Skill Potions that Ma Hongyu had prepared for advancing to Tier Four.

Su Huan glanced over them, smiling satisfactorily, seeing that this fungus carpet was smart and played no tricks.

To him, the entire base was almost defenseless, regardless of how many genetic barriers Ma Hongyu had set or how many layers the fungus carpet stacked on.

He wasn’t interested in these appearances, but in the essence of the energy.

As long as there was energy, it could be sensed by him.

Unless someone surpassed him in grasping the Energy Rules and seized the control of energy, nothing could stop him!

This was the tyranny of mastering the Rules.

Director Xu, who came down last, quickly began to collect the various Genetic Potions. As the core laboratory of Tianze, it was almost the inventory of the entire top power, and such a harvest even made Director Xu thrilled.

Su Huan turned his gaze to the Ma Hongyu in his hand and said casually, ”Advancing to Tier Three, using so much energy is too wasteful; how about I keep it for you?”

Ma Hongyu’s eyes remained tightly shut, a look of immense pain painted across his face.

Not a word could come out.

”He’s going to die if there’s no energy.”

A male voice appeared in Su Huan’s mind.

Having experienced the Ghost Umbrella Mushroom Carpet, Su Huan was no longer surprised by this form of communication. Ignoring the imminently dying Ma Hongyu due to intense genetic mutation, he became intrigued as he looked at the bluish-purple fungus carpet, ”Are you the Fungus Carpet of Corpse Mushroom?”

”Yes.”

”Where’s your stone, where did you hide it?”

”It’s underground between the fourteenth and fifteenth sublevels.”

”What’s at the bottom layer?”

”An absolute safety zone made of lead alloy, specifically to withstand the digestion period; however, the passage to the bottom layer is completely sealed, leaving only a gap I can enter. Unless you’re willing to let me wrap you, you’d have to break in like before, but the resistance to energy intensifies at fifteen layers.”

The fungus carpet was very honest, answering every question Su Huan asked without reservation.

Because intuition told it that the man in front was hesitating whether to kill it directly.

Director Xu silently walked to Su Huan’s side, looking at the Ma Hongyu in his hand with a complex expression, ”He is preparing to ascend to Tier Four.”

”Tier Four? Impossible!”

For the first time, surprise appeared on the captain’s face, he looked at Director Xu’s eyes that held no hint of jest, slowly pulling back his smile, examining Ma Hongyu from top to bottom thoroughly once again.

He frowned, ”I’m certain he was only at Tier Two before, now he’s at Tier Two evolving towards Three, but with insufficient energy reserves, and this environment isn’t conducive to him; without that pool of energy, he couldn’t even reach Tier Three, and you’re talking about Four?”

Director Xu clutched a piece of manuscript paper, speaking heavily, ”It’s from Tier Two leaping and ascending from Tier Three to Tier Four, an insane plan, but I must say, this insane plan truly is... admirable!”

Su Huan narrowed his eyes; although he didn’t know the principles of ascending to Tier Four, there must be a substantial threshold.

Otherwise, in the last life, He Jie and many others from the Steel Council wouldn’t have been stuck at Tier Three with no progress.

The Eastern empire, with billions of people, had a pitifully small number of Tier Fours.

Although his own advancement was like a rocket, he knew less about the principles of evolution than the researchers under Director Xu.

Moreover, his method was completely unreplicable: unleashing suppression, madly absorbing energy, relying on instinct to generate skills, keeping the useful, allowing the useless to disintegrate; with massive life force consumption, he could always find the most correct evolutionary path.

He wasn’t even sure if the same method could ascend to Tier Four.

Fortunately, he always stayed ahead of this world, so there was never a time to be anxious about prowess.

At this moment, Su Huan suddenly raised his head and looked at the ceiling.

Several people were puzzled, faintly guessing that Su Huan should have perceived something on the surface.

Director Xu asked, ”What’s wrong?”

The next moment, a violent tremor came from the ground, the deep underground laboratory also shook violently, everyone’s faces changed drastically.

This was hundreds of meters deep underground!

If it really collapsed, even Tier Two Evolvers wouldn’t be able to escape easily.

Yu Yue nervously said, ”It seems like there’s an earthquake outside, it’s affecting a large area!”

But Su Huan merely withdrew his gaze silently, saying coldly, ”Just a few spirits rushing to be reborn.”

The slightly uneasy voice of the Corpse Mushroom Fungus Carpet simultaneously arose in everyone’s hearts, ”The digestion period has begun!”

Lin Jin checked the time, wondering, ”Wasn’t it supposed to be tomorrow afternoon? It’s only the early morning now?”

Su Huan waved his hand, cutting off further exploration into this topic.

”What’s the key to advancing to Tier Four?”

Director Xu replied calmly, ”I don’t know; there are many experiment logs here, maybe some clues can be gleaned, but there’s probably not enough time now, it would be best...”

Director Xu’s gaze fell on Ma Hongyu, he did not continue.

Su Huan picked up the already nearly exhausted Ma Hongyu in hand, eyes narrowed into sharp lines, and under the anxious stares of everyone, suddenly retracted all sharpness, casually saying, ”Since you’re so confident, I’ll give you a chance then.”