I transformed into a cute girl and lived a carefree life in the apocalypse.

"How's the observation going?" Mu Mu stepped forward and asked directly.

"...It's a perfect environment, but it's not very suitable for living things. Have any of you been to the very center?"

Surprisingly, Xue Yunling seemed very easy to talk to. Whose credit is this for all of this?

#Mo Sheng: Of course it's loving discipline~~#

"The very center?"

"There." Xue Yunling pointed to a direction that Mu Mu and the others had not yet been to.

The place was shrouded in icy blue mist, making it appear very close, but it was actually at least tens of kilometers away. There seemed to be nothing unusual there, and no strange fluctuations were felt from it, so it was temporarily ignored by people, who prepared to start exploring it after the next few groups of people arrived.

Mu Mu originally wanted to go and take a look, but due to this pile of 'baggage', she had to give up for the time being.

"The temperature there is much lower than here, clearly two levels lower, so it's very likely that the source of the mutation is there."

"I'm going to take a look now."

Mu Mu narrowed her eyes slightly. Now that Xue Yunling had arrived, she was free to move around as she pleased.

Without waiting for Xue Yunling's response, Mu Mu had already headed to his destination, leaving Xue Yunling behind.

"They haven't... explained the situation here to me yet..."

.............

"No matter how many times I see it, it's always so beautiful, the icy plains..."

Ye Qianxue sighed. If her older sister had some free time, she would love to come here and play with her for a while.

By the time she finally planted the beacon five kilometers away from the edge of the area, Ye Qianxue's luggage was already half empty, as she had used the other half to carry it along the way.

She then looked in the direction where she had spotted a figure the night before.

Now, the place is shrouded in ethereal, icy blue mist, which appears even more magnificent under the sun, like a fairyland on earth.

Go take a look.

In a flash of light, Ye Qianxue had already vanished into the spatial rift...

80. Overtime

"Report: There's activity within Tibet! A large-scale outbreak of mutated species has been discovered, with an estimated one million individuals crossing the border!"

Just after Qin Tianhai finished speaking with Mu Mu, he called Yan Shan again, and received this message from Yan Shan.

"Proceed according to plan. Launch the nuclear missile. Lao Tao, it's up to you now."

Yan Shan calmly relayed the order, and this time they could face the threat from Tibet Province without fear.

Early detection and prevention are key. After a nuclear bomb sweeps across the land, it's not so scary, unless there are multiple nuclear munitions.

However, this is unlikely. Liu Mengxian just went to Tibet yesterday to intimidate them, so the Rank 3 would not dare to make a move in the short term.

With himself and Huang Tao on the Sichuan side, the situation was impregnable, requiring no outside assistance and resolving the issue internally.

"Old Hai, there's no fighting on your side, is there?"

"We haven't found any signs yet, and even if we have, they're just minor incidents. Do you need my help?"

"Yes, they want you to guard Panzhihua."

“Okay, but you need to have a contingency plan. After I leave, Mo Sheng will be all alone here. If there is a sudden outbreak of war, we can’t be so passive.”

"can."

The conversation ended with the roar of several Dongfeng missiles soaring into the sky.

Several dazzling fireballs streaked across the horizon of Tibet. At first, they were just a few scattered flashes of light, but later they became a brilliance that lasted for over a thousand days.

boom......

The nuclear warhead detonated some distance from the ground, and a huge mushroom cloud appeared abruptly after the flash, followed by an explosion that could shatter eardrums. Thick smoke billowed like dark clouds, almost obscuring the entire sky, leaving only a few faint rays of light.

Both the Sky Dome and the Skeleton Hunter awoke from their slumber, and after a brief moment of attention, closed their eyes again.

This is just humanity's trump card. Although its power can pose a strong threat to them, they have countless ways to dodge it if they want to.

Even enduring it wouldn't be a big problem.

As long as it's not that monster Liu Mengxian who comes again, that's fine.

However... this nuclear explosion, which has nothing to do with them, is destined to affect the war situation there...

Tens of millions of meters away, cracks in the void kept appearing, as if dry, chapped wounds were being forcibly torn open, oozing out jets of black 'blood'—a 'phenomenon' formed by the condensation of ominous substances.

With a cry that shook the heavens and the earth, several branches that had been reaching for the sky were severed by the aurora itself, breaking down into tiny spores in the air and flying away into the distance.

When these spores encounter the fierce winds of a nuclear explosion, they appear to be light and weightless, yet they are able to break through the wind and move as if they were in an empty place.

Nuclear explosion center.

Dried blood, like watercolors splashed with charred debris, was splattered intricately across the ubiquitous gullies. Everywhere, the ground bore the marks of vitrification caused by the extreme heat. Gray dust drifted from the sky, passing over the mangled, charred corpses, and settling on the ground...

Among them, a cluster of spores, with a soft "poof" sound in mid-air, instantly burst into thousands or even hundreds of tiny hairs, which took root in this land.

These seemingly tiny fluffy seeds, which can travel as far as dandelions with a gentle breeze, take root in the ground and rapidly expand. Each seed sends out thousands upon thousands of tiny roots, so fine they are invisible to the naked eye, connecting with other fluffy seeds, intertwining and twisting tightly, drawing upon all that the earth has to offer...

"Oh no! Something is replenishing its energy!" Waste Xi suddenly thought to Yan Zimo with a sense of foreboding.

"what?!"

Yan Ziming wanted to say, "What the hell is this? Who is this damned bastard giving Aurora freebies?"

"Far away, there's a force of the same origin, and... a very powerful energy storm! We should have stopped its movements just now!"

"Huh... why does this scene you described look so familiar... Holy crap!"

At this moment, Yan Ziming realized a crucial point—having learned from the previous lesson, would China suffer the same loss again?

Nuclear weapons are the most destructive weapons in human history. Without them, we could never defend our country. Would China abandon such a weapon because of mere nuclear radiation and pay with the lives of its soldiers?

Are you kidding me? Of course not.

Anyway, Tibet is already a dead land contaminated by nuclear radiation, so let it be. It's a good opportunity to make use of waste.

This will inevitably cause Yan Ziming some trouble. Nuclear radiation is the energy source for the aurora borealis, and now that China has done this, its foundation is even stronger.

#Aurora: "Thank you for nature's gift."#

While it wouldn't necessarily put Yan Ziming at a disadvantage, the nuclear explosion only made Aurora's reserves more abundant; its actual combat power remained the same, and its reserves would eventually be exhausted, whereas their own reserves were limitless.

When traditional energy devices encounter perpetual motion machines, the outcome is already decided before it even begins.

However, the nuclear explosion will still have a significant impact on Yan Ziming—the battle, which he was confident would end within two years, will inevitably be prolonged.

The prolongation of the war is highly likely to bring about changes, and whether it will bring fortune or misfortune will depend entirely on fate.

As for how long the extension will last, it depends on how many nuclear bombs China drops here.

However, the outcome is obvious: the nuclear bomb will not be dropped only once. It will definitely be dropped again when faced with threats from Tibet Province. Yan Ziming is prepared to fight more than ten 'overtime games'.

"Ugh... can anyone tip me off...? I really don't want to play so many overtime games..."

..........

Bei'an Military Administrative District.

At home, Liu Mengxian seemed to sense something, slightly turning her head as if she had just remembered what had happened there, but she just smiled faintly.

"No rainbow without rain."

Truly powerful people are never made overnight; there's no such thing as a sudden stroke of luck that leads to instant success.

Let it undergo some more refinement!

..........

"To be honest, I still don't really feel like it's real..."

Yan Ziming felt the earth-shattering power surging within his body and wondered, "Is this really me?"

She is now basically certain that she possesses Sequence-level combat power, not Ninth-tier.

In fact, there was one thing that Yan Zimo had been wondering about for a long time: Xi, who was clearly not a mutated species and did not have a body strong enough to shatter the heavens and earth, why did she have the combat power of a sequence level?

The answer lies in her uniqueness, which has a similar effect to my own situation at this moment.

This makes things clear. Although Lei Ling doesn't have such powerful physical attributes, in terms of physique, she's no worse than Xian Ling. The Void Mirror is definitely not the end for the useless Xi.

Therefore, the seemingly useless Xi is not "sequence-level", but rather possesses "sequence-level" combat power.

The term "sequence level" is only used for mutated species and cannot be applied to an existence like the useless Xi. Therefore, it must be given another name.

Just as the ninth rank is divided into three levels: Qi Evolution, Divine Gathering, and Void Spirit, if Yan Zimo were to describe the combat power of the useless Xi, he should add several levels above the Void Spirit Mirror!

Upon experiencing this power, Yan Zimo suddenly felt a surge of ambition.

She wants to wait until she truly reaches that level of strength in the future before personally bestowing upon it the title.

81. Extreme cold

Ye Qianxue approached the peak where she had seen the figure yesterday, and as she entered a certain boundary, something changed.