Ice Age Apocalypse: I've Stockpiled Billions of Resources

Su Xinyue held the tablet with both hands, pressed her right index finger heavily down in the center of the screen, and then slid it outwards.

A large number of dense yellow dots flashed on the map module at the bottom of the screen, moving upwards at an extremely fast speed, heading straight for the southern city wall of Jinghai City.

Lin Luo walked to Su Xinyue's side.

Tian Xiaoyu pulled her black coat tighter, and Shen Kexin quickly came over as well.

"A high-temperature heat source has appeared 15 kilometers outside the southern defense line." Su Xinyue pinched two fingers together in mid-air to zoom in on the image. "The movement speed is extremely fast; the system has determined it to be a beast horde attack."

As the holographic image zooms in, the data charts disappear, and the image is directly switched to a real-time optical image transmitted from a high-altitude drone.

The wind and snow outside the city were heavy.

On the snow-covered plain, countless black creatures were running wildly.

They walk upright on their strong hind legs, leaning forward, with a thick, long tail covered in bone spurs swinging behind them to maintain their balance.

Their forelimbs are short, with three curved claws that can reach half a meter in length at the end.

Their entire bodies were covered in thick, black scales.

These monsters have long, narrow heads with open jaws that reveal serrated, crisscrossing teeth.

Tian Xiaoyu stared at the screen, her eyebrows lowered.

These monsters look exactly like the velociraptors of the old era.

“Their size is three times larger than previous records, with an average height of over four meters.” Su Xinyue: “After the Earth broke away from its original catastrophic orbit and regained stable rotation, the atmosphere underwent restructuring. In the past few days, the oxygen content on the surface has skyrocketed, currently reaching 38%. The gravity coefficient has also been slightly adjusted. This environment is extremely suitable for the reproduction of ancient gigantic creatures.”

"The oxygen-rich environment, coupled with the radioactive material left over from the catastrophe, stimulated genetic mutations in these hidden creatures. Their bone density and muscle fiber strength far exceeded those of ordinary mutants."

In the video, the velociraptor running in the lead is stepping on the wreckage of an abandoned old-fashioned truck.

The several-ton steel frame was dented by the weight of the vehicle.

It leaped up, its body tracing a twenty-meter-long parabola in mid-air before crashing heavily into the snow in front of it, sending snow flying everywhere, but its speed did not decrease at all.

Lin Luo unzipped his battle suit and pressed his finger against the circular communication module on his chest.

"The garrison on the south wall, enter Level 1 combat readiness." Lin Luo looked at the distance calculation on the holographic screen. "Karina, Yiyi, clear them."

"Received." Karina's hoarse voice, mixed with the sound of howling wind, came through the channel.

South side of Jinghai City.

The top of the 30-meter-high alloy city wall.

A gale-force wind, carrying hail, lashed at Karina's dark red armor.

She carried two heavy, high-frequency vibrating battle axes in both hands and strode to the outermost edge of the city wall.

The searchlights on the wall changed direction. A dozen huge beams of light swept out, illuminating the snowfield within five kilometers ahead in a stark white light.

At the edge of the snowfield, a long black line is rapidly thickening.

Tens of thousands of mutated velociraptors burst forth from the snow. As they ran, their hind claws slammed heavily into the ground, creating thunderous vibrations. Snow was whipped into the air by their flight.

Jiang Yiyi lay prone on the sniper platform, ten meters away from Karina.

She pushed open the dust cover of the long-barreled sniper rifle and pressed her right eye against the high-magnification thermal imaging scope.

The metal bipod beneath the gun barrel gripped the alloy ground tightly.

With her right hand, she pulled the bolt and pushed an armor-piercing explosive round with blue electromagnetic stripes into the chamber.

Two kilometers.

The raptor swarm entered heavy firepower range.

Karina raised her right battle axe and swung it forward with force.

The automatic defense matrix at the top of the city wall is operating simultaneously.

Hundreds of six-barreled Gatling guns with a 20mm caliber rotated their barrels.

The gears rubbed together, producing a piercing buzz, and the cannon spewed out a two-meter-long orange-red tongue of fire.

A large number of light-pulling projectiles intertwined in mid-air to form a dense fire net, which crashed directly into the beast tide.

The velociraptors charging at the forefront were instantly covered in bullets. High-speed spinning armor-piercing bullets tore through their black scales, penetrated their muscle tissue, and exploded.

Severed limbs sprayed black blood into the air.

A velociraptor with its left arm and half a shoulder blown off continued to run more than 300 meters across the snow using only its legs.

It didn't collapse until a 30mm cannon shot shattered its head. The headless body slid across the snow, carving a deep furrow.

The velociraptors behind them continued their charge, stepping over the corpses of their fallen comrades. Despite being locked onto by artillery fire, they leaped and changed direction across the snow, even using the backs of the monsters in front as springboards, pushing forward through the hail of bullets.

Five hundred meters away.

More than a dozen leader-class velociraptors, each nearly eight meters long and covered with red barbs on their backs, broke through the fire blockade.

They roared, their hind legs slammed into the ground, and their bodies shot up into the 30-meter-high city wall.

A red velociraptor's claws dug fiercely into the smooth alloy wall.

Sparks flew everywhere. It pressed its long tail against the wall to support its weight, and used its limbs to paddle alternately, quickly climbing up the vertical wall.

The soldier pressed the trigger with his right index finger.

A puff of eerie blue flame erupted from the muzzle. The immense recoil slammed into his right shoulder.

The bullet broke the sound barrier, leaving a white trail of air in its wake.

The bullet precisely struck the red velociraptor's right eye socket, pierced its brain, and exited from the back of its head.

The explosive warhead exploded the moment it left the skull, bringing with it a large cloud of red and white mixed material.

The enormous corpse peeled off the wall and crashed heavily onto the snow below.

Karina looked down at the dense herd of beasts and grinned, revealing her teeth.

She bent her knees and jumped directly off the city wall.

Karina landed heavily on the snow outside the city walls. Her combat boots, with their shock absorption system fully activated, trampled a three-meter-diameter crater into the snow and frozen ground.

Three velociraptors surrounded her. The one in the middle opened its massive jaws and lunged at Karina's head.

Karina raised her left-hand battle axe from bottom to top.

The high-frequency vibrating blue blade sliced ​​directly into the monster's jaw, splitting its head in two.

With a sweeping motion of his right-hand battle axe, he severed the legs of the monster that lunged at him from the side.

"Activate the ground-to-ground laser network!" the garrison captain on the city wall roared.

A series of red, high-energy laser beams shot out from the base of the city wall, forming a cutting net fifty meters away from the wall.

The velociraptors that followed crashed into the laser net, their bodies instantly sliced ​​into neat chunks of flesh. The smell of burning flesh filled the air.

The battle ended quickly.

The area outside the city walls was covered with a thick layer of scraps of flesh and charcoal. The remaining hundreds of velociraptors turned and ran into the depths of the snowstorm.

The city's defense system ceased firing.

The gun barrel emitted hot white steam. The robotic arm began automatically cleaning the chamber and reloading ammunition.

The walls of Jinghai City remained smooth. No tremors were felt inside. All the monsters were firmly kept outside the walls. The city was safe.

Two hours later.

The third district of Jinghai City, downstairs from a newly built residential building.

The interstellar transport ship, fully loaded with returnees, has successfully landed.

Elderly people wearing the Mars Alliance uniform lined up to pass through automatic gates and register their fingerprints and iris information.

Zhang Cheng stood at the end of the line.

He is eighty years old this year.

He was wearing a slightly oversized thermostatic suit, with a faded gray old cotton-padded jacket over it.

His back was hunched high, and his face was covered with deep wrinkles.

Zhang Cheng was leaning on a cane made from discarded metal pipes from Mars in his left hand. His right hand was being tightly gripped by a young man in his twenties.

That's his grandson, Zhang Yu.

The green light on the turnstile illuminated. Zhang Cheng pressed his thumb onto the scanning area.

"Identity confirmed. Zhang Cheng. Assigned address: Unit 5, 1st Floor, Building 17, Zone 3." A synthesized female voice announced.

The metal baffle opens.

Zhang Cheng strode out of the turnstile.

His boots landed on the smooth, high-polymer shock-absorbing asphalt pavement.

Zhang Cheng stopped in his tracks. His grip on his cane tightened abruptly, and several bluish veins bulged on the back of his hand.

"Grandpa, this way." Zhang Yu pointed to the street on the right.

Zhang Cheng didn't move. He turned his stiff neck, looking at the replica old-era buildings on both sides of the street, at the ventilation vents overhead that emitted a constant temperature breeze, and at the green street trees projected holographically.

He raised his right hand, which was missing half of his little finger, and made a few grasping motions in the air.

Sixty years ago, a catastrophe struck. The city collapsed. Countless enormous mutant dogs emerged from the ground and began to bite people.

He grabbed his wife's hand and ran frantically toward the launch site of the interstellar transport ship.

His left pinky finger was bitten off by a mutated dog. He stabbed the dog in the stomach with a steel bar and continued running, dragging his wife along. Before the spaceship took off, the crowd separated them.

A concrete pillar crushed his wife's leg. He was pushed onto the spaceship by the crowd.

The moment the hatch closed, he watched through the glass as his wife was dragged into a sea of ​​fire by several monsters.

There are tens of millions of people who have gone to Mars.

Countless people succumbed to radiation and exhaustion. Of the hundreds of neighbors who lived in the same neighborhood as him, not a single one survived the first ten years on Mars.

Later, life-extending drugs were developed. But many people still exhausted their organ lifespan and were buried in Martian cemeteries.

He survived. He lived to be eighty.

The Martian doctor told him that the body was on the verge of collapse and recommended that it be cryogenically frozen.

He refused. He then pressed his fingerprint on the application form to return to Earth.

"Medicine. Get the medicine." Zhang Cheng's voice was extremely hoarse.

Zhang Yu released his grip and took a white plastic bottle from his pocket. He unscrewed the cap and poured out two red heart stimulants. He put the pills into Zhang Cheng's mouth, then unscrewed the thermos and brought it to the old man's lips.

Zhang Cheng swallowed the pills with water. His chest heaved violently, and the heart monitor on his wrist flashed a yellow alarm.

My breathing has become slightly more stable.

Zhang Cheng pushed Zhang Yu's hand away. He threw away his metal cane. The cane hit the asphalt road with a crisp sound.

His knees buckled, and his bones creaked as he knelt in the middle of the street.

He spread his arms out and placed them flat on the cold pavement.

The roughness of the asphalt particles could be felt in my palm.

He lowered his head and pressed his cheeks tightly against the pavement.

"I'm back," Zhang Cheng said.

Cloudy tears spilled from the corners of his eyes, sliding down his gaunt cheeks and dripping onto the black asphalt, creating tiny dots.

He straightened up and dug his fingers into the cracks at the edge of the pavement. His fingernails broke.

Dirt mixed with asphalt debris got stuck under his fingernails.

Zhang Cheng put his mud-covered index finger into his mouth and sucked hard.

The earthy and bitter taste spread in my mouth.

He grinned. He didn't make a sound, just opened his mouth, revealing the few teeth he had left.

Zhang Yu stood to the side, holding a thermos in both hands, looking at the old man kneeling on the ground.

In the distance, a squad of soldiers in silver power armor, carrying Gauss rifles, marched in orderly steps across the intersection.

The sound of combat boots pounding the ground echoed through the streets.

The metal streetlights on both sides of the street emitted a dim yellow light, which shone on Zhang Cheng's old gray cotton-padded coat.

A gentle breeze blew out of the exhaust vent, lifting the sparse white hair on his head.