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

After leaving Laboratory Two

Lin Xuankong went straight to You Rui's office on one side of the gene warrior training hall, where he found Han Liu, Han Bao, Ma Long and other gene warriors gathered.

Upon seeing Lin Xuankong arrive, You Rui was the first to stand up and speak:

"Director Lin, something happened. I originally asked Malone to look for you, but he heard that you went to Laboratory No. 2, so he didn't bother you."

Lin Xuankong looked at everyone with some confusion, "What's the matter that you all came here for?"

Yu Rui pointed to several flags on the table and said solemnly, "I originally planned to use flag signals to inquire about Han Liu's sister Han Yu's recent situation today, but I saw that Vault One sent out flag signals instead."

Since Stone City and dozens of other major cities were reduced to ruins, and various communication base stations and numerous satellites were destroyed, communication between shelters in these ruins reverted to a very ancient method: flag signaling! While this method of communication is affected by weather and nighttime, it is still quite effective during the day! Furthermore, because most shelters in Stone City have rather tall residential buildings, flag signals can still be used to transmit most messages between shelters, and with Shelter One. After all, most Dragon Elephant Gene Warriors have excellent eyesight; even those who, like Yu Rui, have awakened the special gene ability of the Eye of Truth, can easily see flag signals from dozens of kilometers away!
As for Han Liu's sister Han Yu, after Han Liu and the others returned to Shelter 36, You Rui used flag signals to contact Shelter 1 to inquire about Han Yu's whereabouts. The message from Shelter 1 was that Han Yu originally planned to travel nearly 20 kilometers to Shelter 36, but unfortunately, she encountered several waves of large source beasts on the way, forcing Han Yu and the others to quickly retreat to Shelter 1 to avoid being surrounded by a large number of source beasts!

In addition, according to the news from Shelter No. 1, Han Yu has advanced to the level of a mid-stage eighth-order life form. This extremely rare genius gene warrior with 100% gene compatibility does indeed have an evolution speed far exceeding that of ordinary gene warriors. In particular, Han Yu chose the Dragon Elephant Gene Warrior cultivation path, which made her already extremely fast evolution path even smoother!

If Han Liu, Lin Xuankong, Han Bao, You Rui, and the others do not obtain seventh-order source stone crystals to break through to the life level in a few dozen more days, this super genius with 100% genetic compatibility will probably advance to the seventh-order life level even faster than Lin Xuankong and the others, thus becoming the second seventh-order gene warrior in the entire Stone City Ruins, besides Commander Huang of Shelter No. 1!
A 100% genetic compatibility, free from any constraints encountered during life's evolutionary breakthroughs—this is something every gene warrior envies immensely. Even those with a 99.9% genetic compatibility, just shy of 100%, cannot possess Han Yu's innate advantage! Even someone like Lin Xuankong, an 'extraterrestrial,' cannot have Han Yu's natural advantage; he can only rely on higher-level source crystals to break through the constraints of life's evolutionary stages!
Of course, once they break through to the next level of life, the cultivation speed of Lin Xuankong and You Rui, Han Bao, and Han Liu, who were influenced by Lin Xuankong, far exceeds that of Han Yu by many times!

"The flag signals for Vault One? What do they say?" Lin Xuankong asked.

Yu Rui has recently been in charge of observation and reconnaissance of the area around Vault 36, responsible for detecting potential dangers in advance, and also for communication and coordination between Vault 1 and other vaults. During this period, she and Vault 1 have frequently exchanged messages, but rarely has she gathered all the gene warriors from Vault 36 together immediately after receiving a message from Vault 1, unlike this time.
Yu Rui's rather charming face showed a somewhat solemn expression. "Judging from the continuous flag signals from Vault One not long ago, it seems that apart from the three vaults we discovered earlier, Vault Nine, Vault Six, Vault Twenty-Three, and Vaults Twenty-Eight and Twenty-Nine have all been completely captured. Not only are many buildings completely silent, but no matter how Vault One tries to contact them, those five vaults have not responded at all!"

The overall strength of these five shelters is no weaker than that of Shelter Thirty-Six from back then. There's only one reason for this: these five shelters, located in different directions, have all been attacked by large numbers of Tier 8 Predator Source Beasts or Tier 7 Source Beasts. This prevented them from even sending out distress signals before they were completely overrun!

At this point, You Rui looked at Lin Xuankong with a solemn expression, "Director Lin, what you said before was correct. When you see a cockroach, it means that the corner of the kitchen is already teeming with cockroaches. There are probably quite a few seventh-tier source beasts in the Stone City ruins, definitely more than one, and definitely more than one source beast colony! Among these source beasts, there must be more than one super source beast with 100% genetic compatibility. They are constantly attacking and hunting each other, and their evolution speed is no less than that of the gene warriors on the human side!"

The gene warriors present all frowned when they heard what You Rui said.

Although Han Bao and Han Liu both gained extremely powerful special genetic abilities when they advanced to the eighth-order life level, these special genetic abilities were not enough for them to actually fight against seventh-order source beasts. Moreover, the key issue was that when a seventh-order source beast actually attacked Shelter No. 36, it was very likely that it would not be a seventh-order tyrannical source beast!

Malone frowned, his face showing worry, and said in a deep voice, "Although our Shelter No. 36 has Lu Ye and those weapon and metallurgical experts with newly configured automatic and heavy machine guns, the current number of automatic and heavy machine guns is far from enough to truly resist the attack of a seventh-tier tyrannical source beast! According to the assessment, at least a hundred heavy machine guns and a supply of more than 100,000 eighth-tier SW alloy bullets are needed to possibly repel an extremely powerful seventh-tier tyrannical source beast!"
Of the dozens of shelters now nestled in the ruins of Stone City, only Shelter No. 1 likely possesses this level of firepower!

Of the group, only Lin Xuankong remained calm after hearing the news, as if he had already anticipated it.

"Besides this news, is there any other news from Shelter One?" Lin Xuankong looked at You Rui carefully.

You Rui shook her head, hesitated for a moment, then glanced at the people around her and said:

"The flag bearer at Shelter One also conveyed another message using flag signals! The message was that Commander Huang ordered all the captains of the shelters in the Stone City ruins to begin preparations. Within seven days, they were to bring all armored vehicles and key personnel from the shelters to Shelter One. This was partly to gather all the gene warriors, increasing Shelter One's resistance several times over, and partly to prevent the numerous shelters from being destroyed one by one!"

"This order."

Han Bao's expression changed slightly. "As far as I know, most of the shelters in the Stone City ruins, including Shelter No. 36, only have no more than ten armored vehicles and armored buses. With such a transport force, they can at most transport the gene warriors and a very small number of disaster victims from each shelter to Shelter No. 1. What about the tens of thousands of disaster victims in each shelter? If those disaster victims are made to walk with the armored vehicles and buses, it will take an extremely long time, and they will definitely be attacked and hunted by a large number of source beasts along the way, which will inevitably cause the death of most of the disaster victims."

Han Liu spat on the ground and said coldly:
"Brother Leopard, since that so-called Commander Huang of Vault One was able to issue such an order, he must have already considered these situations."

This means that the so-called Commander Huang is already preparing to have the gene warriors in each shelter abandon most of the ordinary disaster victims in those shelters! Sure enough, the guy who was able to choose Xu Rong as the captain of Shelter 36 can't be a good person!
Dozens of shelters, each abandoning tens of thousands of refugees—meaning nearly two million refugees rescued over the past two years will mostly become food for the source beasts!

Han Bao's expression also turned cold. After a moment of silence, he looked at Lin Xuankong and asked, "Master Lin, what should we do?"

Lin Xuankong raised his eyebrows and said, "The reason why the man surnamed Huang did this is probably mainly to protect most of the gene warriors and important people among the disaster victims. In addition, it is also to prevent them from being divided and defeated. However, our Shelter No. 36 never intended to have too much to do with his Shelter No. 1!"

Other shelters that want to join can join there!

As for those refugees who may have been abandoned by other shelters, those shelters that are too far from Shelter 36 are difficult for us to rescue, and we don't have enough manpower. But we are able to take care of the refugees in Shelter 35, Shelter 34 and Shelter 33, which are located nearby!
"If the refugees in Shelter 35, Shelter 34, and Shelter 33 have truly been abandoned, Han Bao, you should bring people to gather them here. Shelter 36 definitely needs more personnel and manpower to develop, and besides, we don't lack shelter and food here!"

Han Bao gave a solemn military salute. "I'll make the arrangements immediately. The newly established Auxiliary Security Brigade at the shelter has been training quite well lately. It's time to let these youngsters go out and get some experience!"

After Han Bao and Han Liu left, You Rui and Ma Long looked at Lin Xuan Kong. Ma Long hesitated for a moment before speaking, "The heavy machine guns in Shelter No. 1 are large enough to stop a seventh-tier source beast's attack. As for the current progress of our shelter, it will probably take at least another month to reach the level of Shelter No. 1. Director Lin, what about this period of time?"

Lin Xuankong waved his hand, "Just do your best to allocate manpower and coordinate well with Lu Ye and the others to expedite the manufacturing of the heavy machine gun. Don't worry about anything else!"

When Ma Long heard him say this, he hesitated for a moment, then gave Lin Xuankong a military salute and left the office.

Yu Rui watched Malone's departing figure and shook her head, saying, "It seems Malone is very worried that the shelter will be attacked by seventh-tier tyrannical source beasts before the heavy machine guns are deployed. Actually, I'm also a bit worried. Although the shelter has strong individuals like you who can instantly kill eighth-tier life forms, we still have too few people and too few Dragon Elephant Gene Warriors. And Laboratory Two still hasn't produced the YZMM gene serum! If this continues, the shelter will be in a difficult situation if it encounters a large number of eighth-tier source beasts or seventh-tier tyrannical source beast groups!"

Lin Xuankong looked at his charming teacher and smiled, "There shouldn't be any problems in the short term. After all, with so many shelters operating at the same time and a large number of armored vehicles being transferred, it will inevitably attract the attention of many powerful source beast groups. For those ferocious source beasts, the bodies of those dragon-elephant gene warriors who have left the shelter fortresses are much more attractive than the flesh and blood of ordinary disaster victims!"

As for what happens next, Captain You, I have great confidence in Lu Ye and Mr. Li Pingfei!

Seeing him say that, You Rui stared at Lin Xuankong intently for a long time.
The former vice-captain's eyes were clear and her gaze was deep. Lin Xuankong suddenly felt as if she could see right through him, and he couldn't help but feel speechless.

After a while,

You Rui waved her hand gently and said:

"In my opinion, Director Lin, you don't have confidence in Lu Ye and Mr. Li Pingfei, but other things have given you confidence!"

Otherwise, how could you remain indifferent when a large number of seventh-tier source beasts appeared in other shelters?

I'm very curious, what could have made you so calm even when facing the danger of a seventh-tier source beast!

You clearly haven't obtained a seventh-tier source stone crystal yet, and haven't truly advanced to the seventh-tier life level, so where does your confidence come from!

Lin Xuankong laughed, but clearly didn't intend to say it aloud. He turned and walked outside. "Where I get my confidence from will remain a secret for now! However, there is one thing I am very confident about: Shelter 36 is thriving right now. Every refugee and gene warrior is so actively busy with their own affairs. Shelter 36 will get better and stronger every day!"

Yu Rui watched Lin Xuankong's retreating figure as he walked out of the office. Seeing that he still refused to reveal the truth, a hint of helplessness appeared in her beautiful eyes.
After Lin Xuankong's figure disappeared, she whispered:

"Two months ago, Shelter No. 36 was a lifeless place, with almost every refugee starving. Now, many of the refugees in Shelter No. 36 are showing signs of weight gain. In any case, he has truly transformed Shelter No. 36! It's just unknown how much more he can change the situation, the situation in the ruins of Stone City, or even bring about greater changes to the Tang Kingdom?" (End of Chapter)