The Power of the Military

The energy stirred within the mutated Kapok tree grew increasingly immense.

Like a chain reaction, the scale of its rampage expanded rapidly.

The tree seemed to have absorbed far too much power that did not belong to it.

It had merely stored nutrients without undergoing its own evolution, which resulted in its extremely weak control over its own power.

On this point, Ren Anhua was the exact opposite.

And this, too, led to her becoming the sole release point for these vast and uncontrolled energies.

Ren Anhua could feel the pure and frantic energy flows continuously pouring into her body.

Power was gradually filling her, but she no longer felt the formidable sensation of the past.

Instead, a gentle and healing power, seemingly devoid of any killing ability, was taking its place.

Ren Anhua knew that the nature of her ability had completely and fundamentally changed.

But in a sense, this was also her own choice.

She had hesitated after learning the truth.

The RV team had indeed deceived her, but in a way, they had also given her that rare warmth.

Perhaps it was that rather warm memory that made her pause the detonation of the unstable energy flow.

Perhaps at that time, she was only hesitating and did not truly want to give up her ability, but at such a time, even a moment of hesitation would ultimately lead to irreversible changes under the drive of ability stripping.

Ren Anhua was a person who valued sentiment and loyalty very much.

Sometimes she would make overly impulsive choices, and then regret them afterwards.

For example, Ren Anhua was now very regretful.

If she could, she really wished she still had her original high-temperature ability, so she could roast this guy who was carrying her and running from the outside in to a perfect medium-rare.

“It’s okay, my injuries are all healed.
No more treatment is needed,” Lu Shanshui’s voice sounded incredibly annoying in Ren Anhua’s ears.

“Do you think I’m trying to heal your f*cking injuries right now?!
What I want to do right now is to burn you, you son of a b*tch, to a crisp!”

As soon as Ren Anhua’s words fell, a white light representing healing power lit up on Lu Shanshui’s body again.

A large amount of masterless energy flow filled her body, and the current Ren Anhua had actually stepped into the realm of a Level Four Awakened.

She had originally belonged to the group of people who were closest to Level Four through ordinary training, and this breakthrough could be said to be a natural progression.

But unfortunately, the nature of her ability had completely and fundamentally changed.

Even with a Level Four ability, she couldn’t cause any harm to Lu Shanshui with such an ability, at most bringing about stronger healing.

And the physical strength she could use was rendered useless by Ke Xingmei’s debilitating effect.

She was almost in a paralyzed state, and could only be carried by Lu Shanshui as he ran.

The only thing she could do now was to madly smash healing spells on this guy who was carrying her to vent her anger.

Unfortunately, this did not cause any hindrance to Lu Shanshui, and she only received one healing feedback after another.

Ever since he had caught this little thing, the white light on Lu Shanshui’s body had almost never gone out.

If these madly released healing energies were replaced by Ren Anhua’s original fire-type ability… Lu Shanshui felt his scalp tingle.

It seemed that Ren Anhua was indeed very angry, but on the other side of the scale was Ke Xiaoshan’s life.

The RV team had no other choice from the beginning; they had to strip Ren Anhua of her fire-type ability.

As for Ren Anhua, the team could only slowly compensate her in the future.

After all, the ultimate goal of these two days of deception was only to save Ke Xiaoshan’s life.

The RV team had no essential malice towards Ren Anhua.

On the contrary, they all quite liked this new teammate.

The army’s actions were already very swift, but they were caught between a rock and a hard place.

The advantage of having a large number of people was that they could carry out large-scale control, but it also brought a corresponding disadvantage, that is, when they encountered a large-scale attack, the losses were often the most severe.

The current army was in this state.

The Zombie Broodmother did not come alone, but brought a large number of secondary zombies.

If the military did not send people to deal with them, they would inevitably suffer heavy losses.

In contrast, the RV team, with its small number of members and all of them being elites, showed an extremely flexible advantage.

After Lu Shanshui carried Ren Anhua on his shoulder, the situation was basically decided.

Ke Xiaoshan, who had obtained a powerful fire-type ability, instantly transformed from a healer to a main DPS.

Even if she just released high temperatures, no one could stop her.

She returned to the side of the RV almost without anyone’s help.

Lu Shanshui, who had set off first, and Ren Anhua together became the last to reach the RV’s defensive point.

Tossing the loli in his hands in the direction of the sofa, Lu Shanshui immediately jumped into the driver’s seat.

“Hold on tight!
We’re leaving!”

Although he shouted this, he had actually already stepped on the accelerator before shouting.

The team members in the car almost all took off.

The RV rushed to the other side of the hall with a completely unreasonable power and speed.

That position was opposite to the position where the army had entered and relative to the position where the Zombie Broodmother had broken in, and the defense was the weakest.

After the entire team entered the RV, the military lost the condition to hold them back.

This RV, which had been solidified by Xu Huairou’s space, was ridiculously hard.

Coupled with that unscientific power and speed, even an armored car parked there might not be able to stop it.

The RV team directly ignored the concept of a “road” and crashed through the tempered glass wall on the other side of the hall, rushing out to escape.

Under the military’s divided forces, the RV team managed to break out of this fully armed hundred-man elite force.

Of course, the fact that the RV team was able to break out was not unrelated to Wan Xingbang’s combat principles.

“Captain!
They’ve already escaped!”

Hearing his subordinate’s report, Wan Xingbang did not show any emotional fluctuation.

“Don’t worry about them!
Focus all your efforts on the Broodmother, and be sure to protect this tree for me!”

Yes, Wan Xingbang’s ultimate bottom line had always been this tree.

Ren Anhua was certainly important, but it was not impossible to find a certain degree of replacement for his ability.

Although it was difficult, it was not hopeless.

But if this tree was gone, then it was really who knows when the next one would appear.

The energy flow that Ren Anhua had detonated was scattering everywhere, almost visible to the naked eye.

The Zombie Broodmother was probably also attracted by this thing.

Wan Xingbang could also roughly guess what the Broodmother was going to do, which was nothing more than the two zombie sets, absorption and assimilation.

“If this kind of precious ability is assimilated by these scums, that would be a real loss!”

Looking at the zombies continuously pouring into the hall, Wan Xingbang was extremely anxious in his heart.

The zombies carried by the Broodmother were really too many.

According to the military’s data, the Broodmother’s ability was not only to produce zombies on its own, but also to a certain extent, it had the ability to forcibly summon zombies, and after the zombies died, they could be quickly reshaped into inferior versions through the Broodmother.

This directly led to the zombies that followed the Broodmother’s attack being like spring grass, endless and inexhaustible, coming in one wave after another.

Unless they could directly kill the Broodmother, and this was almost the only way to solve the problem.

“Qin En!
Haven’t you f*cking prepared yet!
Did you feed all the crystal cores I gave you to the dogs!?”

Wan Xingbang didn’t have the bad habit of playing his trump card only at the end.

He had always been decisive in his actions, and this time was no exception.

Faced with the Broodmother with its endless source of troops, the military was not helpless.

On the contrary, the Level Four Awakened they had brought this time was to deal with this kind of problem.

Qin En’s ability had no attack power at the beginning, but after Level Four, it underwent a qualitative change.

In terms of attack power alone, it could completely crush Ren Anhua’s full output, and the only drawback was… this guy’s wind-up was too long.

“It’s already very fast.
The ability’s spread is so wide, at least give me some time,” Qin En’s helpless voice came from mid-air.

A Level Four ability user could already achieve anti-gravity levitation through a powerful energy flow.

And for Qin En, this ability was particularly crucial, and it cooperated with his ability, forming a huge bonus effect.

“It will disappear soon,” Qin En’s confident voice soon entered Wan Xingbang’s ears, and this, finally, made Wan Xingbang heave a sigh of relief.

It was autumn, but the sun was very bright today.

This was not a coincidence, but a deliberate choice of the military.

Even arriving at the destination at noon when the sun was at its strongest was also deliberate.

Otherwise, with their marching speed and efficiency, they would not have arrived so late.

At this time, the weather was just right.

The sky was cloudless, and the bright sunshine was scattered on this gray and dilapidated city.

It was a rare good weather in this cold autumn.

But in the next second, the bright sunshine dimmed.

This dimming was relatively slow at the beginning, but then it suddenly accelerated, as if night had suddenly fallen.

This celestial phenomenon even included the RV team that had escaped a considerable distance.

The road went dark, and the weathered RV almost crashed into the scrap iron on the side of the road.

Lu Shanshui quickly turned on the car lights, but found that the light cast by the car lights had become distorted and dim.

“What’s going on?” Ke Xingmei asked.

“It’s the light, there’s something wrong with the light,” Lu Shanshui said, looking at the still dim road, a little worried.

He had already turned on the brightest headlights, so bright that before the apocalypse, he would have been chased and cursed for being a high-beam dog for several streets, but he still couldn’t see the blurry road clearly.

Qin En’s ability was precisely light distortion.

This ability was initially developed as a camouflage and infiltration function, but the army found that his ability evolved very quickly.

Under tentative cultivation, he surpassed those combat-type abilities and was the first to reach Level Four.

And after reaching Level Four, his ability truly showed its hidden terrifying power.

Qin En’s new ability after Level Four had a new name—Focus.

This ability, combined with anti-gravity levitation, could greatly expand the effective range of the ability.

Within a radius of ten miles, he could gather the power of the sun at his fingertips.

Abandoning the past’s meticulous craftsmanship, he now used the powerful strength after Level Four to violently distort all the light he could touch, twisting all the light into an extremely fine point.

This was the new way his ability worked.

In the center of this night that appeared at noon, a dazzling white light lit up, like a long sword twisted from the sun, melting everything it touched without any hindrance.

Under this power, the Zombie Broodmother was like a piece of butter that had met a hot knife, and was cleanly divided into several pieces.

The harsh and overlapping screams traveled for a thousand meters, and even the people on the RV team could hear them clearly.

“I didn’t expect the military to still be hiding this kind of power,” Lu Shanshui’s expression was very solemn.

He remembered what Wan Xingbang had said to Ren Anhua, ‘You will be wanted by the military.’

Abandon Ren Anhua?

Of course not.

After the ability exchange, the entire RV team owed Ren Anhua a favor.

If they abandoned her at this time, what was the difference between them and the heartless and ungrateful scumbags they despised?

Lu Shanshui thought that what the team had done to Ren Anhua was already too much.

If possible, he wanted to do everything he could to compensate for Ren Anhua’s losses.

But what he didn’t expect was that Ren Anhua’s actions were beyond his expectations.