“From the test results, her pollution level has already reached 95%. Fortunately, the medication brought it down, but in the end, it only treats the symptoms, not the root cause.”
Zhao Pingsheng said this with a heavy tone. The reflection on his glasses made his eyes look a little dazzling.
Huo Ling remained completely silent at the time.
And now, there was still no solution.
From the wood-type energy core, Zhao Pingsheng had extracted a substance that could treat her condition, but it could only suppress it temporarily. There was currently no way to cure it.
It was cruel.
Huo Ling closed his eyes, growing more irritated the more he thought about it. Unable to sleep, he was also waiting for someone.
Ability users had extremely sharp senses.
Even the slightest movement downstairs couldn’t escape his perception.
He heard the sound of Lin Shuangshuang’s door opening. She walked up the stairs step by step.
Huo Ling silently counted her footsteps, his mood gradually becoming a little lighter. He sneered inwardly—he knew it, she would sneak upstairs in the middle of the night.
He was even preparing to sting her verbally later.
But then she stopped.
Huo Ling thought, Don’t tell me she’s going to sleep at my door again to make me soften?
Impossible. He absolutely would not soften.
He gritted his teeth tightly.
But Lin Shuangshuang only stayed for a short while at the door—then turned back.
Huo Ling opened his eyes, face blank. His heart felt sour and tight, like it had been soaked in lemon juice, extremely uncomfortable.
Suddenly, his wristband’s health AI spoke up anxiously:
“Abnormal heart rate detected. Captain Huo, are you alright? Do you need me to contact—”
Every member’s wristband was connected to Zhao Pingsheng’s system.
Annoyed, Huo Ling directly shut the AI off and turned over, wishing he could suffocate himself under the blanket.
As a result, the next morning he woke up in a very bad mood.
His brows were tightly furrowed, his handsome face carrying a sharp, irritable expression. Anyone could tell he was unhappy.
Robot Xiao San passed by and greeted cheerfully:
【Good morning, Captain Huo! Would you like a glass of milk? Start your day with a good mood!】
Robot Xiao Si added:
【Xiao Huo, Xiao Huo, are you sexually frustrated?】
Huo Ling nearly choked to death and almost missed a step on the stairs.
Laughter could be heard from the side.
He turned around sharply, only to see Wu Zhe and Gao Lei quickly fleeing.
Household robot Xiao San said in a distressed tone:
【Oh no, that’s really bad! Captain Huo, Xiao San suggests you might need a cup of herbal tea to cool down your temper. What do you think?!】
Huo Ling told them both to shut up.
The two robots still couldn’t understand why humans were so irritable in the morning.
【Morning grumpiness is so hard to understand.】
【Yes, yes indeed.】
They chirped in cute electronic voices before going back to their work.
On the first floor was a large table and a giant screen. The mobile fortress was surrounded by dense surveillance cameras, and the screen displayed the outside world while also controlling the fortress’s movement.
The basement held the main control system.
The living room screen could also be used to watch news. Surprisingly, communication signals had not fully collapsed—thanks to Zhang Dapeng’s craftsmanship. He claimed that as long as even a single signal existed, he could connect to it. A top-tier engineer was that arrogant.
Lin Shuangshuang was eating buns while watching the news broadcast.
Luo Na, Wu Zhe, and Gao Lei were also there, all focused on the news.
When Huo Ling came downstairs, the four of them turned to look at him, greeted him, and then went back to watching.
Huo Ling looked extremely gloomy.
Lin Shuangshuang had taken her medicine the previous evening. Based on its effect, she would remain stable until tonight before losing her memory again. So from last night until now, her memory was still intact.
Because of that, she felt a bit guilty when she saw Huo Ling and could barely pretend anymore.
She could only force herself to act dumb while listening carefully.
A chair scraped.
Huo Ling sat down and poured himself soy milk.
Then—
“F*ck!!”
Wu Zhe suddenly shouted, staring at the screen in shock.
Luo Na gasped sharply.
Gao Lei also looked completely stunned.
Lin Shuangshuang was drawn to their reaction and looked at the screen as well.
And what she saw—
Was terrifying.
A small island in R Country was surrounded by densely packed monsters.
The pressure was overwhelming.
“What are those things? Monsters? Creatures coming out of the ocean?”
Luo Na’s face turned pale.
The scene was eerie and horrifying—countless mutated sea creatures were swallowing the island whole. There were clearly no survivors.
Wu Zhe panicked. “We’re not far from the coast either, right? Hurry—tell Zhang-ge to speed things up. We need to leave this area ASAP!”
They couldn’t win.
Most of them were only at first-tier strength. Only Huo Ling was at late second-tier.
Huo Ling looked out the window, then activated his wristband. Everyone’s devices connected to the main screen, splitting it—half news, half external surveillance.
Only now did they notice it.
The sea had already invaded the land.
Not far away, a mutated starfish was devouring zombies.
It was three meters in diameter, moving rapidly across the ground. Once it bit onto a zombie or any living thing, it immediately began tearing it apart. Blood spread beneath it in a bright red stain.
Zhang Dapeng came upstairs after washing up, though his hands still had traces of grease.
“Xiao Huo, how are we planning to move?”
While speaking, he grabbed a big meat bun and ate it in two bites. His hands and mouth were huge—what was a fist-sized bun to others was nothing to him.
Lin Shuangshuang stared at him in shock.
He nodded at her casually in greeting and grabbed more buns.
Wu Zhe poured him soy milk. “Zhang-ge, drink some. Wherever we go, we should leave quickly. Those sea monsters look terrifying.”
They couldn’t fight them.
Zhang Dapeng had already eaten eight or nine buns in the meantime, as if they were nothing.
Huo Ling was thinking, then used his psychic ability to scout the area. His perception could extend very far, allowing him to view all directions.
“Head east, toward the inland.”
He drew a route on his wristband screen and sent it to Zhang Dapeng.
“Got it. I’ll set the route downstairs. Let me know if anything changes.”
Zhang Dapeng left, finishing another bun on the way.
High Lei was already slurping a huge bowl of handmade noodles. The bowl was bigger than his face—spicy beef sauce, hand-pulled noodles made by a machine.
It looked extremely appetizing.
Luo Na sighed. “Our supplies only last half a month, and look at how much they all eat. I’m getting anxious.”
Wu Zhe didn’t care. “We’ll just find more supplies. What else can we do? We can’t starve.”
Ability users consume far more energy than ordinary people, so they need more food.
Luo Na shook her head helplessly.
Huo Ling casually checked their inventory, confirming how much supplies remained.