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

Lu Yize pulled Jiang Yue along the dark path. Jiang Yue looked around at the bottles and jars as if she had noticed something. Lu Yize spread his spiritual power, and the smell emanating from these bottles and jars made him frown and become wary.

Morse and the others followed behind. Zhang Wenjing saw the deformed zombies soaking in the solution, and a sense of unease began to spread through her.

Lu Yize glanced down at his ability ring, stopped walking, and Morse stopped as well, asking in confusion, "Why aren't you continuing?"

Lu Yize lowered his left hand, which he had raised to check the time, and turned to look at the road he had already walked dozens of meters. "Since entering this door, we have walked past seventy-four pairs of filling containers."

"What's wrong?" Xian Wenrui looked back. It was pitch black behind him, with only the bottles and jars containing zombie corpses emitting a green glow, which was a bit creepy.

"Only fifteen seconds have passed since we came in."

Upon hearing this, Xian Wenrui and Morse immediately raised their hands to look at their ability rings. They didn't know how much time had passed, but as they stood in place, time seemed to move extremely slowly.

“We’ve walked at least several dozen meters, how could only fifteen seconds have passed?” Morse looked around, his supernatural abilities gathering around his body, ready to be unleashed.

Zhang Wenjing walked to the side and placed her hand on the containers. The moment she got close, the zombie inside one of the containers suddenly opened its eyes, and Xian Wenrui, who was approaching with her, was so frightened that he took a step back.

"Holy crap!" Xian Wenrui exclaimed subconsciously in a low voice.

Morse immediately stepped forward and covered his mouth, and Xian Wenrui was so frightened that he could almost hear his own heartbeat.

This zombie, like those aliens, also has a pair of pure black double pupils.

Zhang Wenjing unleashed her mental power, constantly intruding and attempting to read the other person's memories.

Just as her superpower entered the zombie's brain and read its chaotic memories, the zombie's eyes suddenly widened, and an outward force propelled Zhang Wenjing several meters away.

Jiang Yue caught Zhang Wenjing when she was close by. Some blood spilled from the corner of Zhang Wenjing's eye as she warily stared at the double-pupiled zombie soaking in the solution in front of her.

However, after the double-pupiled zombie expelled Zhang Wenjing's superpower from its mind, it made no further moves, closed its eyes again, and even the liquid in the solution returned to calm, as if nothing had happened.

Just as the last bubble in the solution disappeared, Morse asked in a low voice, "What's going on?"

"I'd like to answer your question." Zhang Wenjing wiped the blood from the corner of her eye and straightened up.

When Zhang Wenjing was confronting the zombie in the solution, Lu Yize sensed an unusual superpower.

The table that was once so close to me is now nowhere to be seen; this black road seems to be a supernatural space that appeared out of nowhere.

"Let's keep moving forward."

Lu Yize pulled Jiang Yue along and continued walking forward. The others followed after hearing his words. After walking a few hundred meters more, a bright door appeared in front of them.

Now that we're here, we have to go and see. Lu Yize pulled Jiang Yue across the door. Everything in front of us was white, and our eyes were momentarily disoriented as we went from darkness to light.

As the white light gradually faded, the scene before my eyes became clearer, revealing a chilling laboratory.

Xian Wenrui, Zhang Wenjing, and Morse were a step behind them, but everyone present looked extremely grim after they stepped into the laboratory.

This laboratory is completely different from the one on the top floor where the sixth-tier ancient tree is located. If that laboratory is a cage, then this place is purgatory for humans and other creatures such as zombies.

Many people who were half-dead were locked in vacuum-sealed plastic bags, with oxygen tubes inserted into their noses and needles inserted into their veins. These connected tubes provided nutrition and oxygen to these people inside the vacuum bags.

A tube is connected to the power core in their abdomen, which leads to a bottle on the other side containing the various powers that have been absorbed.

The supernatural abilities were stored in these rows of special containers. Lu Yize and the others recalled that the supernatural power supply that provided this entire laboratory—light, electricity, heating—required a huge amount of supernatural power every day.

And the source of these superpowers is none other than these people who are constantly exploited and left half-dead, zombies, alien plants, and alien beasts!

They continued forward with grim faces, dividing ordinary people into zombies and humans. The zombies extracted the superpowers from the crystal cores, while the humans squeezed the energy from the superpower cores.

Further on, I saw some humans who had been drained to the point of being almost nothing but bones, their eyes vacant and numb, their power cores teetering on the brink of collapse, yet they still managed to exert their last bit of value.

Their bodies are squeezed, processed, and transformed into food, returning to the first stage of production as medicine to supplement their nutrition.

Morse was trembling with rage. "Madmen, utter madmen! They're completely insane!"

He stepped forward to rescue one of the people sealed inside a plastic bag, but Lu Yize stopped him. Morse turned and demanded, "What are you doing!"

"This container contains a special spatial ability; they will all die the moment it is opened."

Upon hearing Lu Yize's words, Morston stood rooted to the spot, filled with anger and resentment. He looked up at the people in front of him, watching helplessly as they became part of the process, becoming creatures that continuously provided supernatural abilities.

Their humanity was erased, their human rights denied, and they were wantonly mated, exploited, and extracted. The superpowers they produced became the inexhaustible driving force for imprisoning them.

"Are we just going to watch like this?" Morse's eyes were red; he couldn't bear to watch any longer.

"It should be the spatial ability used by the monster that possessed Fan Jian's body. Defeating him should make the ability attached to them disappear. Then we can rescue them and they will still have a chance to live."

Zhang Wenjing kept looking around, memorizing everything in front of her. She was less emotional than Morse. She was also angry, but compared to useless anger, she knew better what she was doing and what she needed to do.

A few steps further on, I saw the heads of various creatures hanging on the wall, and in the largest room, there was a huge deer head.

"This is... that giant deer that speaks human language!"

Morse recognized the giant deer's head. The deer's eyes had turned gray, but its enormous head still made a huge visual impact.

The giant deer that perished before their eyes had its carcass found inside this laboratory. Its death, it turned out, was not only caused by an uncontrollable natural disaster, but also by the work of these monsters!

Jiang Yue felt Lu Yize tighten his grip on her hand. She followed Lu Yize's gaze and looked up, seeing the giant deer hanging on the wall, surrounded by a dense mass of human heads.

This bloody scene is probably just to satisfy some people's boring collecting hobby.