What's wrong with being a little arrogant in the apocalypse just to support my wife?

Jiang Yue's figure suddenly appeared above their chaotic battle, her dark pupils surrounded by a subtle, almost imperceptible red hue, controlling the monsters before her.

Immediately afterwards, a domineering melody soared forth, instantly transforming into a sharp blade that severed the heads of those monsters on the spot. Countless vines seized the opportunity to pierce their abdomens, engulfing their supernatural cores.

The situation reversed in an instant, giving them a brief respite.

Zheng Lin handed over all the newly acquired fourth-tier ability cores to Zhang Wenjing. Zhang Wenjing used her ability to identify and classify these ability cores before handing them over to Chen Mingzhang for redistribution.

They now understand that absorbing abilities of the same type will be much more effective, and the absorbed abilities will be more stable.

While they were busy absorbing the supernatural energy core to heal their injuries, Lu Yize noticed Jiang Yue's pale face. He grabbed her wrist and used his mental energy to examine her condition, realizing that she had overused her mental energy and exhausted her supernatural energy.

Unfortunately, mental-type abilities are rare, and Lu Yize currently only has a few mental-type ability cores available for Jiang Yue to absorb.

"Let's absorb these fourth-tier ability cores first and restore our abilities."

Lu Yize handed her the only three mental ability cores he had. Jiang Yue didn't say anything and closed her eyes to begin absorbing them.

After confirming that she was alright, Lu Yize turned his attention to the laboratory. Zombies were indiscriminately gnawing on the corpses of monsters, and strange beasts were also involved. Strange plants were entrenched in the pool of blood, taking root and absorbing nutrients from the blood.

Humans extracted the remaining monster power cores from the bodies, absorbed them to restore their own powers, and each race gathered together to dismember the monsters' corpses, leaving the scene in complete chaos.

Lu Yize suddenly recalled the man named Julu, who possessed prophetic abilities but died silently. It was from that moment that he began to suspect Fan Jian.

At the time, Lu Yize thought that the giant deer's last glance was at him, but later he vaguely sensed that something was wrong. No, it wasn't looking at him, but at Fan Jian standing in front of him, or more precisely, at his double pupils!

The giant stag's last words were, "The convergence of power is feared; perhaps we were never enemies. Be careful..."

What it wanted to warn them about was probably the monsters hidden in the underwater laboratory, or monsters like "Fan Jian" that could disguise themselves as humans.

They had less than three minutes to catch their breath when the ground suddenly began to tremble. Many of the monstrous beasts and zombies fell to the ground. In the next instant, the deformed monsters that suddenly surged out of the ground swallowed them whole.

These monsters emerged from the ground one by one, looking like humans, zombies, and strange beasts... They had mixed genetic features, and each of them had a series of numbers printed on their chests.

Lu Yize recognized one of the monsters. He looked at the number marking on the monster's chest. The top row of numbers was Z00137, but that row of numbers had been crossed out and replaced with X00001.

Looking at the other monsters, I noticed they were different; none of them had a second row of numbers. Only this monster had two strings of numbers.

The monster probably recognized Lu Yize, and dragged its heavy body slowly toward him. Its simple mind, which only knew how to follow orders, remained motionless when it saw the people in front of it.

Zhang Wenjing recognized the monster as well. She was busy dealing with the other monsters and noticed X00001 moving around. She was momentarily distracted and was hit by another monster, kicked against the wall. The wall caved in, and Zhang Wenjing coughed up blood on the spot.

Seeing this, Xiaobai's anger erupted on the spot, and extremely fast purple lightning directly broke through the monsters' encirclement, with only X00001 watching from the side.

Zhang Wenjing loathed and hated this monster, and only wanted to erase its existence. Its existence was a disgrace to her sister!

The monsters her sister couldn't kill, she'll kill them herself!

Zhang Wenjing braced herself with her palms on the ground, dodging the monster's attack that was still struggling in its death throes. She used her spirit as a sword to attack the monster's memories, but Zhang Wenjing did not expect that her own consciousness would suddenly be sucked into it.

This monster also shares Zhang Wenjing's memories. It has always been puzzled as to why everyone hates it, and it has also wondered why its mother wanted to strangle it the moment it was born.

It was only at this moment that it accidentally accessed Zhang Wenjing's memories, empathized with her joys and sorrows, and its blank mind was filled with similar values. Only then did it understand those incomprehensible reasons.

So, it was a mistake from the start.

No wonder nobody cares about it; it turns out it's just a monster that no one welcomes into this world.

It understood Zhang Wenjing's disgust, and at the same time, Zhang Wenjing resonated with its sorrow.

The number was changed because this monster, which was destined to become a killing machine, actually grew a human heart and was tainted with the human flaw of sentimentality. It was destined to be a failure, a failure with emotions.

But it is not human at all; it is a monster created from a crystal core experiment. Its original body perished at the moment of its birth. It should not continue to exist in such a distorted way, demonstrating what happened in the past.

X00001 glanced at the area on its chest and suddenly found the numbers very irritating. It wanted to give itself a name, as if only in this way could it distance itself from the word "monster".

It has no kindred spirits, it is not accepted by any party, but it still wants to find the meaning of its existence and is eager to prove the value of its life or existence.

Zhang Wenjing took the initiative, attacking while quickly creating distance between herself and the monster.

Because of the difference in their levels, she was no match for this monster, which is why her memories were just being read by it.

A curtain of water blocked her way from the monster, giving her time to retreat.

"Are you alright?" Xian Wenrui's face was deathly pale, almost like a corpse. His superpowers were unstable, and he could only barely create a water curtain.

After being rescued, Sheng Xue used her supernatural abilities to heal him, managing to save his life. However, his left arm was crippled, and it was unknown whether it could be reattached. All that could be said for now, once he was alive enough to get out of there.

Zhang Wenjing stepped back to where they were, glanced at his half-dead state, and said, "It seems like I should be asking you that."

Xian Wenrui knew his current situation was definitely not good, so he forced a smile and cursed, "Damn it, that idiot Fan Jian, he didn't even say a word when his body was taken away."