I am getting stronger and stronger in the world of demons and monsters

Upon seeing the person who came,

Vice Captain Malone was the first to stand up, a look of joy on his face.

"Han Bao, you are indeed still alive! When Mr. Lin and Mr. Han Liu told me you were still alive, I was a little uneasy. It's so good to see you now!"

As he spoke, Malone walked over to Han Bao's side, carefully examining Han Bao's current height and build, before revealing a look of surprise.

"With this physique and this vigorous vitality, Han Bao, you are already an eighth-order life form, and a top-tier eighth-order life form at that! This physique is comparable to Xu Rong's before!"

The white-haired biologist Li Pingfei and Vice Captain You Rui, among others, also looked at Han Bao with considerable surprise. Although, in this office, besides Han Bao, there were also Vice Captain You Rui, Lin Xuankong, and Han Liu, all of whom were top-tier eighth-order life forms!
However, as a woman, Vice Captain You Rui's physique differs somewhat from that of the male Dragon Elephant Gene Warriors. She is more inclined towards graceful, flowing lines and agile movements. Lin Xuankong and Han Liu, one an elemental gene warrior and the other a material gene warrior, don't appear to have changed much in physique compared to ordinary people. On the other hand, Han Bao is different. His current physique is even taller than the deceased Xu Rong, nearly 2.4 meters tall, with broad, muscular shoulders, making him look like a human iron tower, with a truly different visual impact!
Most importantly, just over a month ago, Han Bao's physique was only slightly more robust than that of an average person, with no significant difference. However, in just over a month, Han Bao has become a completely different person, which naturally leads to different feelings among the people.

Especially Vice Captain You Rui, she glanced thoughtfully at Han Bao, then her eyes fell on Lin Xuankong.

She suddenly had a hunch that her own rapid increase in strength, as well as the rapid increases in strength of Han Bao and Han Liu, were definitely closely related to Lin Xuankong in front of her! She just couldn't understand how Lin Xuankong managed to influence the cultivation speed and strength improvement rate of those around him!
At this moment, because of this intuition, You Rui felt that she could see through Lin Xuankong even more, and felt that Lin Xuankong was not so simple!
Lin Xuankong stood up as well, frowning as he looked at Han Bao. According to their previous agreement, Lin Xuankong and Han Liu would arrive at Shelter 36, handle everything, and then leave to meet up with Han Bao. Normally, given Han Bao's rather composed nature, it was impossible for him to suddenly appear at Shelter 36 and let everyone witness his rapidly improving strength!
"What happened? Why are you in such a panic?" Lin Xuankong asked, frowning.

Han Bao glanced at Li Pingfei, the biologist in the office, and hesitated for a moment.

Seeing his reaction, Lin Xuankong shook his head and said, "This Mr. Li is one of us now, so just say what you have to say!"

Han Bao nodded, a hint of nervousness appearing in his eyes, and replied somewhat hastily, "Master Lin, after I parted ways with you, I originally planned to go with the Princess to some nearby source beast nests to hunt some ninth-order or eighth-order source beasts!"

However, on their way to one of the eighth-tier source beast nests, while passing by Shelter No. 39, they discovered that something terrible had happened there!
All twenty-odd buildings in Vault 39 have been destroyed. The genetic warriors and tens of thousands of refugees inside have almost all disappeared, leaving only some damaged automatic cannons and some bloodstains!
Vault 39 is one of the larger vaults in the vicinity. It has more genetically modified soldiers than Vault 36, and it also has more automatic and heavy machine guns deployed there than Vault 36!

Normally, for a group of Source Beasts to break through the defenses of Shelter 39, at least seven or eight top-tier Tier 8 Predator Source Beasts would need to attack simultaneously to cause any chaos or damage!

However, the thirty-ninth shelter was completely empty.

"Shelter Thirty-Nine?"

Vice Captain You Rui's pretty face showed a solemn expression, and she shook her head.
"Han Bao, you underestimate Shelter Thirty-Nine!"
Within Shelter Thirty-Nine, there are five eighth-tier Dragon Elephant Gene Warriors, two of whom are powerful individuals whose strength is comparable to Xu Rong's, and both have awakened the Six-Armed Dragon Elephant Gene Ability!
If it were a head-on confrontation, the five eighth-tier Dragon Elephant Gene Warriors, along with the large number of automatic weapons in Shelter 39, would cause heavy casualties to the seven or eight Predator Source Beasts even if they managed to break in. In the end, they would all be annihilated in Shelter 39!

Moreover, there are more than 240 Dragon Elephant Gene Warriors in Shelter No. 39. Even without the five Tier 8 Dragon Elephant Gene Warriors and the automatic machine guns, these 240-plus Tier 9 mid-to-late stage Dragon Elephant Gene Warriors, along with a large number of alloy rifles and weapons, are enough to make seven or eight Predator Source Beasts hesitate!

To cause the entire Vault 39 to collapse,

To ensure that not a single gene warrior survives in Vault 39, the number of Predator Beasts would have to be tripled!
However, no group of Source Beasts with more than twenty predatory Source Beasts ever appeared in the ruins of Stone City!

Malone nodded gravely. "Captain You is right. There has never been such a large horde of predatory source beasts in the entire Stone City ruins. If they want Shelter Thirty-Nine to fall completely..."

At this point, Malone paused and fell silent.

At this moment, Han Bao frowned and continued, "It's not just that there's a problem with Shelter 39. After the Princess and I discovered that there was a big problem with Shelter 39, we quickly rushed to Shelter 36 in a straight line, wanting to quickly bring this news to Master Lin and also wanting everyone in Shelter 36 to prepare in advance!"
However, during the return to Vault 36
The Princess and I were horrified to discover that both shelters along the way—Shelter 40, ten kilometers from Shelter 36, and Shelter 38, seven kilometers from Shelter 36—had suffered the same fate! All the residential buildings and structures were severely damaged, leaving behind numerous burn marks resembling those of flames. Apart from that, not a single body was found—neither the bodies of ordinary disaster victims nor those of genetically engineered warriors, not even remains. Only large amounts of blood were left in the plaza and some unburned areas!

"what?
You said that Vault 38 and Vault 40 also had accidents?

Have all the disaster victims and genetically engineered warriors disappeared?

Upon hearing this, Vice Captain You Rui paled.

Malone frowned and said, "The number of gene warriors and tier-eight gene warriors in Shelter 38 and Shelter 40 is not small. Although individually they are only slightly more than Shelter 36, the combined number of gene warriors and tier-eight gene warriors in these two shelters is greater than that in Shelter 39! The captain of Shelter 38 is named Zhao Ying, who is said to have awakened a tortoise shell body, second only to the Vajra Body in defensive capabilities. His combat and survivability are extremely strong, and he can easily withstand attacks from life forms of the same tier for a long time! If Shelter 38 and Shelter 40 have also suffered a major incident like Shelter 39, then it is definitely not something that predator-level source beasts could have done!"

As Ma Long finished speaking, he looked at everyone present. He saw that everyone present, whether it was Lin Xuankong, Han Liu, Han Bao, or Vice Captain You Rui, had their brows furrowed. Clearly, they, like him, had thought of an extremely terrifying possibility.

Han Bao hesitated for a moment before continuing:
"There's another very serious matter. When the Princess and I were rushing towards Shelter Thirty-Six, we discovered some unusual and enormous claw marks on the three shelter buildings. They seem to be the claw marks of some kind of giant rat! And the size of those claw marks seems to vary slightly, suggesting they didn't come from the same source beast!"

Hearing Han Bao say this,
The eyelids of everyone present twitched involuntarily, and an even more terrifying thought surfaced in their minds.

Upon hearing this, Lin Xuankong frowned and said in a deep voice, "Han Bao, do you mean that the source beasts attacking these three shelters might be seventh-tier brutal-level source beasts? And it seems there's more than one of these seventh-tier brutal-level source beasts?"

Han Bao remained silent for a moment, then nodded with an extremely solemn expression.

"Although I can't be sure, the possibility is extremely high!"
After all, the number of refugees and gene warriors in those three shelters was extremely large. Normally, even if they were attacked by a group of source beasts, it would be impossible for them to be completely wiped out and not a single survivor would be left!

Unless it's a tyrannical source beast with an extremely large appetite, especially a rodent-type tyrannical source beast, it's impossible for it to possess such a capacity to devour hundreds of thousands of disaster victims and hundreds of gene warriors!

After hearing Han Bao's words, even though everyone in the office wanted to refute him, they had to admit that Han Bao's judgment was very likely!

"grass!

I thought I had become a top-tier eighth-order life form.
In these ruins of the stone city, you can practically roam freely! Damn it, how did several ferocious-level rat-race source beasts suddenly appear?!

Han Liu couldn't help but rub his messy hair in frustration and frowned.

"It has been almost two years since Stone City became a ruin. In such a long time, a large number of humans have been devoured, a large number of mutated plants have been devoured, and a large number of source beast groups have devoured each other. The possibility of the emergence of seventh-order source beasts other than cloud beasts is not small!"
"But the fact that these seventh-tier, brutal-level source beasts have appeared near our Refuge No. 36 is really troublesome!"

Vice Captain You Rui frowned and spoke in a low voice.

After a moment's thought, she turned to Lin Xuankong. "Lin Kong, what do you think we should do next? Should we immediately notify all the refugees in Shelter No. 36 and have them gather together to leave the vicinity of Shelter No. 36? Otherwise, if we really encounter an attack from several seventh-tier tyrannical source beasts, we won't have a chance to survive, and these tens of thousands of refugees will also become food for those tyrannical source beasts!"

Upon hearing Vice Captain You Rui's words, Vice Captain Ma Long, the white-haired biologist Li Pingfei, Han Liu, and Han Bao all looked at Lin Xuankong.

These people are currently in a state of confusion and have left the decision of what to do next to Lin Xuankong.

Lin Xuankong frowned and walked to the side of the desk, silently sat down on the sofa, and fell silent.

For Lin Xuankong, he was already at the top level of an eighth-tier life form, a gene warrior possessing powerful genetic abilities such as the Water Drawing Technique, Ice Blade Technique, Primordial Vajra Body, Eye of Truth, and the manifestation of the Void Devouring Insect, plus the enormous Princess, a top-tier eighth-tier source beast, as his pet! If he wanted to avoid this terrifying danger that might be caused by a seventh-tier tyrannical source beast, he could easily take Han Liu, You Rui, Han Bao, Li Pingfei, Ma Long, and the others and leave this place quickly!

However, now, apart from Lin Xuankong and his group, there are no more gene warriors left in the entire Shelter No. 36. Furthermore, all the automatic weapons and heavy machine guns have been damaged in the previous battles. This means that once Lin Xuankong, Han Bao, Han Liu, You Rui, and the others leave, all the refugees in Shelter No. 36 will be in utter danger, completely defenseless! At that point, let alone an invasion by a seventh-tier tyrannical source beast, even a few ninth-tier source beasts could turn Shelter No. 36 into a sea of ​​blood!
Lin Xuankong simply couldn't bear to abandon the lives of tens of thousands of ordinary disaster victims so easily!
However, if he stayed to resist the eighth-tier source beasts, Lin Xuankong would have a 100% chance of winning. With Han Liu, Han Bao, You Rui, Ma Long, and the others, even if twenty or thirty predatory source beasts came to provoke him, or even a hundred, they would just be delivering source crystals to Lin Xuankong! But the seventh-tier tyrannical source beasts were helpless against the Water Draw technique, which was far above Lin Xuankong's life level. The Frost Blade was also completely incapable of breaking through their defenses! The fatal flaw was that, according to Han Bao's description, there seemed to be more than one of these tyrannical source beasts!
The current crisis, which could arrive at any moment, is indeed giving Lin Xuankong a slight headache!

now,

The entire office was quiet.
Only the sounds of everyone breathing and heartbeats remained.

Everyone understood perfectly what the appearance of several seventh-tier, brutal earth-source beasts meant. It was not just a problem that shelters number 36, 39, 38, and 40 could not handle, but a terrible disaster that even the most powerful and sturdy fortress in the ruins of Stone City—Shelter No. 1—could not withstand!
As time goes by,
The mood among those present grew increasingly heavy. (End of Chapter)