The end of the world: The Goddess Catalogue, starting with sisters!

When a soldier who was pretending to be dead was sucked in, Mengde could clearly see through the monster's translucent abdomen how he was wrapped by dozens of barbed tentacles and sent into the digestive cavity.

As they began to ram the second alloy wall, the entire base suddenly lost power.

The backup generator exploded one after another as soon as it was started because the oil pipeline had been crawled with red nematodes.

Under the ghastly green light of the emergency lights, Mengde saw on the electronic screen in the command center that all the monitoring images had turned into pulsating flesh and blood.

The chunks of flesh are forming words—repeating the same sentence in English, Chinese, and even cuneiform: "Mengde is evolution."

Suddenly all sound disappeared. In the absolute silence, the fountain in the center of the base suddenly spewed out thick blood plasma.

The blood condensed in the air and gradually formed a blurry human shape.

When it opened its eyes, the voices of the dead simultaneously rang out on all of Mengde's communicators—a strange chorus composed of the voices of all the soldiers who had died in the past three months.

The morale of the defending forces collapsed completely at this moment.

Some knelt down to pray, some turned their guns on themselves, and many more walked towards the monster like zombies.

Mengde saw the captain of the seventh squad suddenly burst into laughter. He took off his protective suit and let the sac fall onto his bare skin.

When his eyes turned red, he began cutting his own cheeks with a military knife while humming an off-key lullaby.

The last hope was that Mengde activated the "Black Tortoise Wall" in time.

As the translucent energy shield rose, the monster's arm that first came into contact with it instantly carbonized. But Mengde clearly saw that after the charred pieces of flesh hit the ground, they immediately wriggled and reformed like slugs.

Outside the energy shield, the entire earth had become a pulsating carpet of flesh, with countless mutants emerging from the swamp of blood and gore—spiders with human faces, giant wolves with exposed spines, and even birds made entirely of fingers.
As the blood moon rose to its zenith, a song drifted from the crimson mist.

That was a hymn composed of the gasps of ten thousand dying people.

As the song plays, the distant city ruins slowly rise up—the architectural remains of the entire Donghai City.

They are assembling into a colossal monster thousands of meters tall.

The wind pressure it generated as it moved made Mengde and his men, ten kilometers away, feel suffocated.

A system panel immediately appeared before Meng De's eyes.

Information about the unknown scarlet monster was immediately displayed.

Mutant Monster: Crimson Queen

[Awakened Abilities: Crimson Mist Corruption (SS-rank), Crimson Regeneration (SS-rank), Crimson Tentacles (SS-rank)]

[Special Ability Level: Star Chart Level 9 Stars]

[Favorability: -100]

[Special Ability Notes:]
Red Mist Corruption: The released scarlet acid mist is highly corrosive, capable of dissolving metal and concrete, and catalyzing the mutation of ordinary zombies into "Red-Eyed Zombies" (increased speed and strength by 300%, enhanced skin resistance). The mist contains mental pollution; low-level ability users will experience hallucinations and self-harm tendencies upon contact.

Crimson Regeneration: Crimson hyphae possess swarm intelligence similar to slime mold, capable of mimicking the molecular structures of different tissues such as bones, muscles, and nerves. When Lei Qiang's lightning strikes the monster's chest cavity, the hyphae preferentially weave a layer of poorly conductive fat to isolate the current. The hyphal network retains the original genetic blueprint, allowing it to regenerate even if 90% of its body is destroyed. Residual fingertip hyphae can still regenerate complete limbs using this as a template. Crimson Tentacles: Five-meter-tall humanoid monsters with enormous bone wings formed from vertebrae extending from their backs. Their heads lack facial features, possessing only a gaping maw that tears vertically to their chests, filled with spirally arranged sharp teeth. In combat, the bone wings spray sharp bone spikes, releasing crimson hyphae upon impact, converting the victim into new nutrients. Evolved from ordinary zombies, their abdomens are completely split open, replaced by dozens of barbed tentacles. These tentacles can whip through armored vehicles like whips, and their tips have miniature mouthparts that can inject crimson toxins that paralyze nerves. Most horrifyingly, embedded within their chest cavities was a beating "core"—actually an undigested human heart, still twitching weakly. The elite individuals, retaining some human features, had ruby-red pupils and skin covered in translucent fascia. They could control lower-level zombies through mental resonance, and even temporarily "betray" infected superhumans.

"The Scarlet Queen?"

Mengde stood on the high wall of the Economic Development Zone, his black trench coat fluttering in the bloody wind stirred up by the red mist.

He narrowed his eyes, golden flames leaping deep within his pupils, his gaze piercing through the churning crimson mist, locking onto the enormous, twisting shadow within.

He sneered as he looked at the monster that was faintly visible in the red mist.

"You're already here, why are you still hiding things from me?"

"Show me your true form now!!!"

After saying that, his SSS-level Flame Overlord ability suddenly erupted!
Mengde's pupils transformed completely into two miniature suns, with golden-red light bursting forth from their sockets, leaving scorching trails in the air.

The ground beneath his feet began to soften, and the concrete melted like wax, forming a boiling pool of magma.

The air within a radius of 100 meters is distorted and deformed, and light is refracted into strange ripples by the high temperature.

"boom--"

A pillar of fire, more than ten meters in diameter, erupted from his body, shooting straight up a thousand meters into the sky and instantly evaporating the clouds.

That wasn't ordinary flame; it was plasma condensed from pure supernatural power, with a temperature exceeding that of a star's surface.

Around the pillar of fire, space itself began to distort, creating a gravitational lensing effect visible to the naked eye.

Mengde slowly raised his right arm, which had already transformed into flowing flames.

As he moved, thousands of fireballs suddenly appeared in the sky, each the size of a house, with blue-white plasma dancing on its surface.

These fireballs did not float randomly, but were arranged in some ancient and mysterious array, forming a matrix of flames that covered the entire city.

"fall!!!"

As he whispered the command, a thousand fireballs fell simultaneously.

At the moment of impact, the entire city felt as if it had been hit by hundreds of tactical nuclear bombs simultaneously.

The shockwave spread in a ring, and wherever it passed, thirty-story buildings collapsed like building blocks.

What's most terrifying is the nature of these flames—they don't go out, but instead chase after the red mist like living creatures, even burrowing into cracks in the ground and sewers to force out and burn the red mist monsters hiding within.

The ground began to liquefy on a large scale. The asphalt road boiled and bubbled, and the metal lampposts melted into molten iron.

The lake in the center of the city instantly vaporized, forming a steam cloud with a diameter of two kilometers.

The buildings, riddled with holes by the red mist, now shimmered like fragile paper models in the intense heat, emitting a red glow from within before collapsing into lava-like ruins. (End of Chapter)