Chapter 15: Before the World's Destruction

All of Yongguo began its most arduous period; no era has been more desperate than now.

However, there is still hope; Yongguo's observation of the Blood Sun never ceased, and a month later a huge blood-colored warship slowly emerged from the Blood Sun, which scholars of ancient texts identified.

They called it the Blood Mother Star Ship, similar to the Blood Nest of the heavenly calamity; they selected a strong individual of the heavenly calamity to become the mother body, wove a Blood Nest, and began to breed the heavenly calamity.

And after eliminating the mother body, all heavenly calamities born from it will die at the same moment, and the Blood Nest will wither as well.

They likened the Blood Sun to a Blood Nest, and the Blood Mother Star Ship to a mother body; just as they said, the Blood Mother Star Ship began to constantly split off small blood ships, just like the heavenly calamity mother body reproduces.

This viewpoint rekindled hope for everyone; as long as the Blood Mother Star Ship is destroyed, everything can return to normal.

This is everyone's last straw; they will spare no effort to grasp it.

Age 27: Yongguo began round-the-clock operations; many research institutes were built, and the Ark Project had already taken shape.

The Blood Tide coverage rate had reached 17% of the globe; countless warriors on the heavenly calamity frontline were resisting the attack, and everyone was striving for that goal.

You broke through to fifth-level Gene Warrior, and the number of seventh-level Gene Warriors reached five; Lin Ran broke through to eighth-level Gene Warrior the same year, but she lacked the ability to destroy the Blood Mother Star Ship.

That year, prototypes of space weapons appeared; humanity tried various methods to attack the Blood Mother Star Ship, but always ended in failure, and people finally realized the difficulty of this plan.

The small blood ships surrounding the mother ship possess powerful firepower; once they detect anything that could threaten the mother ship's existence, they launch a frenzied attack, and the mother ship's firepower is even more terrifying.

Age 28: Blood Tide coverage reached 41%; blood ships outside space actively attacked Yongguo, led by Lin Ran with seventh-level Gene Warriors wearing bio-armor, combined with space weapons to annihilate them, and brought back blood ship specimens.

After researching the blood ships, the Ark Project prototype was completed, meeting the standards for space survival, but its navigation speed is unimpressive.

The planet's temperature has plummeted to a very low degree; all construction has become difficult, and under these circumstances Yongguo cannot hold out much longer.

The plan to attack the mother ship has never ceased, yet it has never yielded any effect; despair is spreading, and that mother ship continues to orbit the Blood Sun unchanged.

The Ark Project no longer requires your excessive attention, and everything has once again stalled, just like when you previously tried to take the college entrance exam.

You are a genius in genetics, but on the eve of this world's destruction, what can you do to reverse this disaster involving the star?

If Lin Ran breaks through to ninth-level Gene Warrior, with the support of the five major gene equations, she will become the strongest person in Yongguo's history, and she may truly have a chance to destroy that Blood Mother Star Ship.

But how easy is it to unlock the ninth-level gene lock? The former ninth-level Gene Warrior spent a full thirty years on this; you do not deny that Lin Ran is a true genius, but in the final period before the world's destruction, can she really achieve it?

Everyone around is exerting themselves to the fullest, yet you feel leisurely; you don't know what else you can do, and time is running out.

The Blood Tide's coverage rate is growing ever faster; according to calculations, the real time left until the world's destruction is less than three months, and this two-year apocalypse has finally entered the countdown.

The Ark Project, after nonstop research, has preliminarily completed; the Starry Sky Voyager Vessel created by combining heavenly calamity blood ship technology and bio-mechanical technology can accommodate at most fewer than a thousand people for long voyages, belonging to an inferior product researched under emergency conditions; the originally envisioned Ark should have been able to accommodate nearly ten thousand people.

You well know that boarding this Ark means they will abandon their homeland, abandon the tens of millions of Yongguo's people, and abandon the desperate resistance of countless frontline warriors.

How is this different from a Judgment State? How is this different from a Loss of Rights State? How is this different from becoming a deserter?

You also know that if the world is truly completely eroded by the heavenly calamity, preserving human knowledge and the spark of fire is a necessary measure, but those who board the Ark should not include yourself.

You also know that for all of Yongguo's people, your boarding the Ark would give the Ark Project greater hope, but in your view, boarding the Ark is merely scraping by.

Plants have lost their root systems and soil; all that awaits them is death.

You stayed up all night compiling a list of top talents from every field, but no one noticed that your name was missing from that long list, because everyone assumed your boarding the Ark was a given, and no one knew your thoughts, not even Lin Ran.

You feel you must do something; you cannot rest.

You locked yourself in the laboratory, trying again to find a breakthrough from the genetic angle; perhaps everything is already fated, but you still do not want to just give up like that.

Two months later...

The Blood Tide coverage rate has reached 78%; if one could stand in space and gaze upon the entire planet, one would discover that the vast majority of the planet is covered in blood-red, which is precisely the Blood Tide, a membrane composed of thick, viscous blood and flesh.

Perhaps to hasten the process of destruction, perhaps to provoke humanity, or perhaps because they felt humanity posed no threat, the Blood Mother Star Ship, located 1.5 billion kilometers from the planet, actively descended upon the planet, and the sky-covering, sun-blocking blood-colored warship hovered over Yongguo.

But this action undoubtedly brings humanity its last hope; the reasons for being unable to annihilate the mother ship are many, but the main reason is that it has constantly orbited near the Blood Sun, with no means able to approach it.

But now, it is so close to Yongguo that this will be Yongguo's final opportunity; this is the final battle.

That day, countless space weapons roared; explosions continuously sounded in the sky; innumerable blood-colored lasers swept down from above, indiscriminately scouring every inch of Yongguo's land.

All the cities are now riddled with holes, limbs severed, ruins and debris everywhere, a scene of utter devastation.

Such a scene, calling it a human Fierce Prison would not be an exaggeration.

Yet this death-defying counterattack has never ceased; whether blessing or calamity, this battle will reveal the outcome.

At this very moment in the sky, a streak of azure light pierced the heavens, like a drawn sword, shooting straight to the firmament, its tip pointing at the Blood Mother Star Ship.

It is Lin Ran, as Yongguo's final strongest trump card; what she intends to do is not to shoot down the blood ships, nor to resist the attack.

But rather... behead!!!