Ice Age Apocalypse: I've Stockpiled Billions of Resources

The following morning, the first rays of Martian sunlight pierced through the thin atmosphere, making the red wasteland even more vibrant.

The amphibious assault vehicle, like a steel behemoth, slowly drove toward the edge of that desolate little city.

"Let's go here." Lin Luo glanced at the distance; it was about 500 meters from the city entrance. "Any closer and we'll be surrounded."

The drop hatch at the rear of the vehicle opened, and the synthetic beef, mixed with a plasma inducer, was pushed out by the robotic arm all at once.

The pile of meat chunks, stacked high, was exposed to the air, and the strong, pungent smell of blood instantly drifted towards the city on the morning breeze.

"Fall back!"

Lin Luo quickly shifted gears and reversed, creating a safe distance of 200 meters, then stared intently at the screen.

Less than three minutes later, the ground began to shake.

"They're here!" Natasha whispered.

On the edge of the city, amidst the ruins, the black tigers that should have been dormant seemed to have caught a whiff of something that drove them mad. Completely ignoring the dreaded sunlight, they rushed out one after another!

One, two, five... a dozen or so huge black tigers, their eyes bloodshot, with sticky saliva dripping from their mouths, were driven by an extreme craving for high-calorie food, a craving ingrained in their very bones by genetic modification.

"Roar!"

The largest of the black tigers was the leader. It slapped away another tiger that tried to steal its food, then bit into a large piece of "added" beef and swallowed it whole without even chewing.

The other black tigers were not to be outdone, and pounced on the pile of meat with frenzied ferocity, driven by the most primal instinct of wild beasts to feed, with reason completely absent at that moment.

Looking at the giant beasts tearing at the food on the screen, Karina swallowed hard: "They... are eating so deliciously."

"Eat your fill before you go." Lin Luo's finger hovered over the red detonation button, a cold smile curving his lips. "Remember not to eat random things in your next life."

Just as most of the black tigers had swallowed the pieces of meat and were still licking the bloodstains on the ground with lingering satisfaction, Lin Luo pressed the button hard.

"burst!"

There was no earth-shattering fire, because the explosives detonated inside them.

All that could be heard was a series of muffled "poof" sounds, like water-filled balloons being stomped on under the covers.

That was the sound of internal organs breaking.

The dozen or so once majestic black tigers suddenly stiffened, their abdomens swelled violently, and then blood mixed with broken pieces of internal organs gushed from their mouths, noses, and even their eye sockets!

Several smaller ones were blown open and cut in two.

Although the lead tiger's tough outer skin withstood the impact, its insides had already been blown into a mess. It didn't even have time to let out a scream before its massive body crashed to the ground, twitched a couple of times, and then fell silent.

"Great!" Zhang Min excitedly pumped her fist.

More than a dozen apex predators were instantly killed.

Looking at the motionless pile of corpses in the distance, Chen Shuang's tense nerves finally relaxed. She unbuckled her seatbelt and was about to stand up: "I'll go see if there are any good spoils, and maybe finish them off a couple more times..."

"sit down!"

Lin Luo's sharp shout startled Chen Shuang, making her tremble.

"Look at the radar!" Lin Luo pointed to the screen, where the number of red dots was still increasing, his face grim. "This is nothing! After the stench of blood exploded, all the monsters in the city woke up!"

Before the words were even finished, an even more terrifying roar came from the depths of the city, rising and falling, as if the gates of hell had been opened.

"Quick! Keep making the bomb-sized meat chunks!" Lin Luo roared without turning his head. "Karina, bring out all the remaining stock! There's plenty of meat for today!"

What followed turned into a tedious and bloody tug-of-war.

Lin Luo drove the tank like he was flying a kite. Every so often, he would drop a new batch of "added" chunks of meat, then retreat and detonate them.

Boom! Boom!

The muffled sound of the explosion echoed across the desolate Martian wasteland for an entire day.

The number of black tigers was beyond imagination. They poured out of every corner of the city, stepping over the corpses of their own kind and greedily devouring the deadly bait.

In this wasteland where food is scarce, the "feast" offered by Lin Luo has a deadly attraction.

The carriage was filled with the smell of gunpowder and the tense smell of sweat.

“This is the fifth wave…” Karina’s hands were trembling as she mechanically cut chunks of meat and stuffed in explosives. “We’re almost out of C4, and we don’t have much meat left.”

"How many are left?" Lin Luo asked calmly. At this moment, the wasteland outside the car was already covered with the corpse of the black tiger, with limbs and broken arms everywhere, and the dark purple blood made the red sand even darker.

"The last ten portions."

"Throw them all out!" A ruthless glint flashed in Lin Luo's eyes. "The red dots on the radar are thinning out; this is the last batch!"

As the last ten pieces of bomb-like meat were thrown out, the black tigers that charged out this time were noticeably smaller. Although they were still ferocious, their carapaces were not as thick, and their movements were somewhat clumsy.

“They’re larvae.” Natasha looked at the screen, her brow furrowed. “Even the young ones that haven’t fully grown out have rushed out. It seems we’ve really emptied out this city’s nest.”

"Whether it's big or small, as long as it eats people, it will die."

Lin Luo ruthlessly detonated the final bomb.

With a few final muffled thuds, the young black tigers were blasted away, rolled a few times on the ground, and lay still.

As the sun set, the world finally quieted down.

All that remained was the mournful sound of the wind blowing through the ruins and the thick, pungent stench in the air.

“It’s over…” Chen Shuang slumped in her chair, looking at the scene outside the window that resembled a battlefield, her face pale. “How many did we kill? Two hundred? Three hundred?”

"Two hundred and sixty-three." Lin Luo glanced at the system's kill statistics and said calmly.

"These Martians are truly deranged." Natasha looked at the corpses, even the juveniles, which had grotesque mouths, and couldn't help but curse, "What kind of twisted mentality could lead someone to develop such biological weapons purely for killing? And they even have such a high reproductive rate. If this were on Earth, it would be an ecological disaster."

"Perhaps it was precisely because it was too dangerous that they couldn't control themselves, which led to the destruction." Lin Luo put away the control panel, not letting victory go to his head.

Although the radar no longer showed a large number of red dots, he remained extremely vigilant.

"Shall we go in now?" Zhang Min asked. "Should the obstacles be cleared by now?"

"We can't let our guard down yet." Lin Luo shook his head, his gaze fixed intently on the seemingly empty city entrance. "We just killed beasts driven mad by their appetites. What if there are even more advanced monsters inside, monsters that can suppress their instincts?"

He turned and walked toward the armory, dragging out the remaining box of high-explosive shells.

"Karina, see if there are any leftover scraps or scraps."

"There's just a little bit left, what are you going to do with it?"

“Smear this scraps of meat on the shells, or just wrap them with duct tape.” Lin Luo picked up a shell, his eyes sharp. “Since meat works, let’s keep using it. But this time, we don’t need them to swallow it. Just let them come close and sniff it…”

He patted the cold projectile: "I'll send them to heaven."

"Get ready for the city!"

Lin Luo returned to the driver's seat, and the amphibious vehicle's engine let out a deep roar as it rolled over the black tiger carcasses scattered on the ground and arrived at the Martian city.