Chapter 660: Seed

Outside the Twin Stars Base, heads crowded together.

Lin An lightly patted Xiong Hanzi's shoulder, indicating he shouldn't blame himself too much.

Several graves dug deep, stretching in a line for meters, were buried and leveled.

No tombstones, no flowers.

Here lie the Hua Guo survivors who died in the laboratory, who died under mechanical transformation, 93672 of them.

They only found fewer than two hundred corpses.

The remaining corpses.

After digging for half a day, members of Long'an Base discovered that the corpses in the basement of the laboratory had dissolved and rotted together.

Unable to separate them, they silently reburied the laboratory, using it as another burial grave.

These people had survived the first wave of the apocalypse outbreak and escaped the zombies' jaws.

But they died at human hands.

"Captain Lin..."

Zhang Tie turned his head, squeezing out a bitter smile.

"I don't even know her name..."

"Or rather, I don't know what any of them are called..."

Grief could not be contained.

The last survivors who remained alive also couldn't help but sob softly.

"You say, will all this ever end..."

"Why are there so many enemies..."

Lin An looked at Zhang Tie's somewhat dazed eyes, hesitated a moment, then nodded heavily.

"I think."

"It will..."

Sunlight pierced the thick clouds.

It dispelled the morning chill.

Fushan war zone, the American garrison.

Holding a psychic sniper rifle, he stared at the Awakened Ones at the base exit, his uneasy expression frequently looking up.

"Did you watch the Fushan channel?"

"What on earth happened!!"

Cannot be understood.

A strong sense of unease filled the heart.

In the channel, a moment later came news that the Fushan war zone had killed Lin An, using nuclear bombs.

The next moment, the Fushan military suffered defeat, and the president demanded accountability.

The next moment, it turned into Long'an Base launching a nuclear strike retaliation against Daehan.

Amid the chaotic information, they could not tell which side's intel was true.

The only thing certain was that the nuclear bombs had indeed detonated.

"Lord Max and his crew, why haven't they returned yet!!"

At a loss.

As the strongest in the base, Max, although not their commander, is also their most vital fighting force.

The world ranking only shows 999, so they cannot know the life or death of Max and others via the second-level ranking.

"I don't know..."

"The Eagle Eye captain who went with them also hasn't sent any word back."

"My private messages got no replies at all."

"Could it be that this group of yellow-skinned monkeys teamed up to deliberately set a trap for me!!"

Amid all these suspicions, everyone grew wary.

Relying on pre-apocalypse weapon stockpiles and a large number of Awakened Ones,

occasionally forcing Fushan to provide supplies, their lives were still fairly decent.

When they first encountered this change, nobody knew what to do.

Inside the base, the highest commander of this military base hesitated a moment, then took a deep breath:

"No matter what happened to Max and his crew,"

"I think death isn't that likely."

"Fushan shouldn't have the guts to dare move against us."

"Raise alertness, activate the anti-air system."

He glanced at the base's most core installation area, and his unease lessened considerably.

As the garrison, they actually possessed tactical nuclear bombs, though they had never publicly advertised it.

If that bunch of yellow-skinned monkeys really is up to something, he wouldn't mind launching a nuclear retaliation.

But just a second later, the piercing air-raid alarm suddenly sounded.

Chaos, shrieks.

Red alarm lights flashed.

"My God! What monster is that!!"

"Dragon! Is that a dragon!!"

In the high sky, a huge black dragon traced an afterimage, spreading its wings like a dive-bombing fighter jet.

It blotted out the sky and covered the sun.

On the dragon's back, Gao Tian and an excited archer drawing a bow, two mental links from the ground continuously provided him support.

One came from Lin An's battlefield simulation, the other from Wen Ya's mental sharing.

Below, the black dragon let out a dissatisfied roar.

Twenty minutes ago, Lin An had it carry Gao Tian, preparing to take the garrison base.

"If you keep stepping around, I'll eat... you..."

The voice was childish.

The black dragon was displeased that besides Lin An, someone else was stepping on its back, especially this guy who smelled quite tasty.

Three hours later, the midday sun was scorching.

Above Fushan, over seventy supersonic fighter jets escorted two Tu-21 transport aircraft flying at high speed.

Inside the cabin, Mo Ling gave Lin An a speechless look.

"Are you trying to wear me out..."

"With such a huge aircraft, I can't possibly teleport it back."

"Chu An tested it before; it can only teleport people, at most carrying a few small items..."

Holding Chu Colonel's specially made teleportation device, a mirror-surfaced square meant to be placed on the head.

Little Mo Ling had already prepared to behead.

Lin An awkwardly touched his nose and gave a light cough.

He had just suggested teleporting the entire Space Sky Force back at once to save time.

After all, Chu An said he would keep researching the effects of teleportation; maybe there's some new progress lately.

After confirming it couldn't be done, he had to abandon that idea.

"Mm."

"Then let's first teleport the squad members back."

"Gao Tian, Yun Tian."

"You two, as wingmen, fly back slowly."

After all, needing to cross the sea and several war zones, Lin An still decided to play it safe, letting Gao Tian return as a wingman.

After issuing the order.

Yun Tian had a mournful face, full of gloom.

Recently, spiritual interference has been getting worse.

Lin An had the black dragon sweep through the garrison base with devastating speed, then actually emptied the entire base.

All undamaged fighter jets and transport aircraft were taken away in one go.

This really sucked for him.

Just thinking that if any malfunction occurred on the flight, he'd be the worst off.

Not daring to say more, he could only sigh and miserably merge with the largest transport aircraft.

His dream was to pilot mechs to fight mutants.

Rather than being a tool, constantly repairing aircraft...

On Lin An's side, though.

At this moment, he felt somewhat excited.

This trip yielded rich spoils; although it didn't greatly boost his strength, for the base as a whole.

The loot from two safe zones, plus the "compensation" supplies from the Fushan military, could once again strengthen Long'an Base's strength.

After returning, he could then activate the training tower.

Once distant, the third rank is now within reach.

After officially advancing to the third rank, how much would his strength increase?

Just don't know how many Awakened Ones will participate in this training tower.

Suppressing his thoughts, Lin An took a deep breath and directly hugged Mo Ling.

"Prepare to return! Coordinates, Long'an Base!"

As the words fell, amidst Little Mo Ling's helpless sigh, everyone inside the cabin instantly vanished.

Twin Star Base, deep within the underground core fortress.

Exposed rebar in the ruins.

The damaged spiritual energy core leaked rich spiritual energy.

From among several corpses with their hands bound behind their backs, killed by shock on the ground, came a hoarse groan.

A rat, its whole body oozing pus, dying in the radiation, carried a slip of paper, clutching a frozen heart in its mouth, crawling step by step toward the source of the sound.

"Squeak-squeak!"