I transformed into a cute girl and lived a carefree life in the apocalypse.

The first clash between sword and spear sparked countless fires.

Liu Mengxian was Liu Mengxian after all. She simply lifted her toes and took a half step back, then held her sword horizontally, easily blocking the spear of victory. With another lift, Yan Ziming lost his balance, and the weakness of his unbalanced movements was magnified infinitely.

With her other hand, she lightly pressed down on Yan Ziming's abdomen. The movement was slow, yet she managed to bypass all his defenses as if they were empty right under his nose.

Her intuition told her that if she were to be touched, the first round of the contest would be over.

Yan Ziming instantly lifted both feet off the ground, his body sliding down sharply to narrowly avoid Liu Mengxian's hand. He quickly turned around and controlled the Spear of Victory to move horizontally, aiming to lift Liu Mengxian's feet and make her lose her balance completely.

This little trick was nothing to Liu Mengxian. She stepped on the spear with both feet, jumped away, and then rushed forward again, knocking Yan Ziming back.

Both women appeared to be frail, yet their strength was by no means light. The sound of metal clashing was loud and clear, and afterimages rippled out as their weapons vibrated.

If Yan Ziming were to describe it himself, he would say that his grip strength alone is enough to mold a piece of special steel into a ball.

They are all people who have overcome countless difficulties and dangers. While becoming stronger, they are also constantly keeping up with the process of evolution. Their physical qualities are already at a superhuman level.

After only about ten rounds, Yan Ziming's Victory Spear was knocked away by Liu Mengxian, and the blade was placed against her neck.

Liu Mengxian released her grip on the sword, and with her other free hand, she wrapped her arms around the woman's slender waist, and laughed, "Do you admit defeat?"

Without waiting for Yan Ziming's response, she leaned in and kissed the woman's lips. This time, she had improved and kissed her for a full two seconds.

Although it wasn't a long time, it was still progress.

Yan Ziming finally understood that Xian'er was the kind of person who... well... became aggressive when she gained the upper hand in matters of love.

Normally, she would probably press her step by step to break down her psychological defenses before making her move, but now she's skipped that step altogether.

Seeing Yan Ziming standing there blankly without speaking, Liu Mengxian's face moved even closer. "Continue?"

"...Continue! Of course, continue!"

Having tasted the sweetness of success after being provoked like this, Yan Ziming was unwilling to let it end there and became self-righteous and defiant in his defiance.

Hmph! I'll see who benefits from this situation!

Even if I lose everything except my panties, I'll still have come out on top!

Of course, they weren't talking about undressing, just normal kissing; there wouldn't be anything like that.

For the rest of the day, Yan Ziming had truly lost all semblance of dignity and, in shame and anger, vented his frustration on Liu Mengxian.

"That doesn't make sense! Xian'er, why are you so strong in close combat?!"

"How am I supposed to answer that now...?"

Liu Mengxian helplessly and lovingly held the hand that was hitting her shoulder, and she didn't know how to deal with the unreasonable behavior of the person in her arms.

He couldn't hit her or scold her, so he could only silently endure her resentment.

"I don't need your answer!" Yan Ziming buried his head between Yan Ziming's collarbones, he was just angry.

Whether using superpowers or simply relying on physical abilities, he would be completely overwhelmed.

Although she had been kissed so many times by Liu Mengxian, the humiliation of her repeated defeats made her no longer satisfied with the joy of being kissed by Xian'er.

In conclusion, Yan Ziming's situation can be summed up in four words: her mentality collapsed.

Her emotional instability also brought out her usually hidden personality traits.

"Mo'er, victory and defeat are common occurrences in war..."

Yan Ziming shouted in despair, "You're my wife, can't you let me win just once?"

"..."

Liu Mengxian smiled helplessly, "Of course."

"Ugh!!! Tch—! Tch... Talk is cheap!"

Yan Ziming muttered angrily, but her mood had calmed down. Recalling her behavior just now, she blushed and felt hot for a moment.

However, this wasn't the first time he had shown this side of himself to Xian'er, and her mind was now completely absorbed in something else.

Liu Mengxian: "Then what will it take for Mo'er to believe me?"

"Then don't move."

Yan Ziming's slender fingers climbed up to Liu Mengxian's lips, slowly and gently caressing them, and then moved down to her shoulder blades.

He gently peeled away the clothing, like peeling an eggshell, revealing a delicate, rounded shoulder.

As if carrying a breath of air, Yan Ziming opened his mouth and took a bite.

With that bite, blood seeped out, and the blood blossomed on her taste buds with a subtle sweetness that made her thirsty.

"Remember, you absolutely mustn't move."

An invasion was being waged silently.

34. Timely rain

As the days passed, the turmoil caused by the halt of the recapture campaign gradually subsided in the tide of time.

Late May 2030, Bei'an City

Nearly half of the year has passed, and two months have passed since the campaign to recapture the city was suspended.

Luo Li brought a large report to Li Haoyi's office and placed the previous experimental data on the table.

"The preliminary results of your research on whether the evolution of insectoid beasts is related to nuclear matter, which you asked me to investigate last time, are in."

"Oh?"

Li Hao stopped what he was doing, picked up the document Luo Li had placed on the table, and read it carefully.

"We kept the insectoid beast in a room filled with nuclear material for more than a month. This is all the data about this experiment."

Luo Li sat down opposite Li Haoyi without any hesitation.

Since the last time Luo Li's team conducted related research to explore whether the Gu King was the ultimate mother of the insect beasts.

Experiments show that insects and animals are related to nuclear matter, but there is no direct connection.

“Nothing has changed…” Li Hao murmured.

"Yes, nothing has changed, even indoors filled with nuclear material, which means that the insectoid beasts will not undergo new mutations due to nuclear material."

Luo Li nodded affirmatively; this was a small achievement of her team over the past two months.

Li Haoyi had a general understanding of the situation. He put down the documents and got up to pace back and forth. Luo Li watched him quietly from the side, waiting for the conclusion.

Suddenly, Li Hao stopped and asked, "But that doesn't completely prove it has nothing to do with the Gu King, does it?"

"That's right, perhaps all the operations were carried out by the Gu King alone, and all the choices were in its hands."

The only clue they have now is that nuclear waste must have some positive effect on the Gu King.

Otherwise, they wouldn't have gone to such lengths to empty out all the nuclear waste.

The technical team also conducted an on-site investigation at the original nuclear waste burial site, carefully studied the whereabouts of this batch of nuclear waste, and incidentally found out the location of the Gu King.

But the insect beasts wiped out all traces, leaving no results and instead causing significant losses to our manpower.

"Our northern neighbors haven't been very peaceful lately either," Li Hao sighed.

Unsurprisingly, after a thorough investigation, Russia discovered more than 300 insect nests within its borders, more than half as many as China, which greatly troubled the Russians.

Their population was already small before the apocalypse, and even smaller after the apocalypse, numbering only around 40 million.

This number is less than half the population of a single military administrative region in China.

If a country were to try and wipe out all the insect nests within its own borders by itself, it would probably collapse.

As a result, Russia provided international aid, but with little to show for it. Western countries only sent symbolic scientific expeditions and weapons, along with some people with supernatural abilities, and did not provide any further assistance.

After all, who would be willing to go on an aid mission that would require the use of a large number of people?

Population is the foundation of a country. If it's all consumed in your own country, what will we do?

Therefore, Russia's only hope rested on China.

China certainly has sufficient military strength, but it would be painful to lose it on someone else's territory, wouldn't it? They can hardly protect themselves!

Nevertheless, China still provided considerable support, dispatching a substantial force of superhumans to assist them in eliminating the queen insect, while advising them not to rush into clearing the insect nest and to refrain from large-scale operations until a suitable method was found.

However, the hunting plan for the queen insect has not gone as well as expected in the past two months.

After experiencing the initial few instances of the mother insect being killed, this group of insect beasts became very cunning, secretly moving the eggs after each mother insect laid them.

According to Luo Li's team's research, the egg-laying cycle of a female insect is about ten days.

In other words, they never leave the mother insect in the same place for more than ten days, which adds a lot of difficulty out of nowhere.

So far, China has only killed twelve queen insects.

According to the survey, there are more than 200 insect nests across the country, and each nest has at least one or more female insects, so twelve insects seem too few.

Moreover, these twelve were basically killed by the ninth-rank individuals who stormed into the insect hive; the elite teams composed of other ability users of various ranks failed to achieve any results.

"The situation is urgent."

Thinking about this gave Li Haoyi another headache.

Fortunately, China recently gained another mysterious superhuman with the ability to locate enemies. It was a timely and wonderful stroke of luck!