In the apocalypse, I hoarded goods and handed over my storage space to the government.

Time: The third day after the red rains began.

The alarm shattered the tranquility of the Kunlun base once again.

"Thump! Thump! Thump!"

The entire second basement level was shaking.

Li Guodong's roar rang out on the communication channel. This National Security Bureau director, who could usually chat and laugh with terrorists, now had a hint of exasperation and collapse in his voice.

"Su Ran! The murderer you brought back has gone mad!"

"Twelve tranquilizer darts were fired! That's a dose that could take down two elephants, and this kid is still tearing down the wall!"

The image on the monitor screen was shaking violently.

The alloy training room, which was originally used to allow special talents to vent their energy, has now been completely demolished.

The solid steel door, ten centimeters thick, was punched out and embedded hard into the concrete wall opposite.

Amidst the billowing smoke and dust, a figure emerged.

Ye Xiao.

Or rather, a humanoid monster resembling Ye Xiao.

His bare upper body was no longer human-colored, but rather a terrifying dark red.

The entire body is covered with strange patterns.

"It's so hot...it's so hot..."

Ye Xiao lowered his head, his voice sounding like he had a mouthful of scalding lava in his throat, his mind filled with only the urge to destroy everything.

"Come cool down, you bastards! Or I'll kill you all!"

He suddenly looked up, and in that instant, the nearby guards involuntarily took a step back.

What kind of eyes were those?

There were no pupils, only a boiling crimson.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

The heavily armed special operations team at the end of the corridor opened fire.

To prevent accidental injury, they switched to a specially made, powerful stun gun.

However, a desperate scene unfolded.

A dart with an electric shock power of up to 50,000 volts?

Ye Xiao didn't even flinch; he grabbed the conductive wire with his other hand and yanked it hard.

"what!"

Three fully armed special operations team members were pulled several meters away by the brute force and crashed heavily into the ceiling, their bulletproof vests cracking.

"Is...is this still human?"

Li Guodong's face turned deathly pale, his palms drenched in cold sweat. "Can humans really control such humanoid weapons?"

"Chief! The target is advancing towards Area B! That's the energy core! Once..."

"Damn it!"

Li Guodong gritted his teeth, his hand reaching for the live-fire pistol at his waist. "Notify the sniper, prepare..."

"Put the gun away, Old Li."

A hand gently pressed down on Li Guodong's arm, which he had just raised.

Li Guodong suddenly turned around.

Su Ran was standing behind him without him noticing.

He was dressed in a black combat uniform, and still had that expressionless, deadpan face.

Behind him followed a white deer, also dressed in a black combat uniform.

"Su Ran! Look at the bunch of troublemakers you've attracted!"

Li Guodong panicked. "That kid's gone mad! If we don't stop him, he might tear this whole floor down!"

"That's an awakening manifestation, a loss of control caused by an overflow of energy."

Su Ran calmly took a sip of tea. "Good thing, it means he has S-level potential."

"Good news?!"

Li Guodong pointed at the monster on the screen that had smashed half a wall with a single punch, "You call this a good thing?!"

"Since it's a wild beast, it needs to be tamed."

Su Ran turned to look at the girl beside her.

"Bai Lu, time to get to work. Whether you get extra food tonight depends on your performance."

Bai Lu's eyes lit up, she snapped the lollipop in half with a "crunch" and strode forward.

……

The corridor in Area A was sweltering.

All the automatic fire sprinklers were spraying water, but this turned the scene into a sauna.

Steam filled the air, and visibility was extremely low.

Ye Xiao had now completely descended into rage.

Reason? What is that?

He had only one thought in his mind: to tear apart everything in his way and release the explosive energy within him.

"roar!"

Ye Xiao roared and grabbed a metal equipment cabinet weighing two hundred pounds, throwing it at the approaching second echelon of soldiers like a building block.

The soldiers closed their eyes in despair.

Just then.

hum!

The heavy iron cabinet that was flying in mid-air suddenly stopped.

Not only did the metal cabinet stop, but the surrounding steam, the spilled water droplets, and even the dust floating in the air all froze in that instant.

It was as if someone had pressed the pause button on the world.

A flicker of instinctive astonishment flashed in Ye Xiao's bloodshot, savage eyes.

He felt like he had run into a wall.

An invisible and intangible, yet indestructible wall of air.

"It's so noisy."

Bai Lu slightly raised her right hand, her slender fingers pointing towards Ye Xiao, and made a loose fist.

"Lie down."

boom!

It was like an invisible mountain descending from the sky.

Ye Xiao, who had just been rampaging through the land like a demon god, didn't even utter a sound.

He was forcefully pressed to the ground by this terrifying mental force!

"roar!"

Ye Xiao roared in frustration, his muscles bulging, and beads of blood seeping from his dark red skin.

He struggled, he resisted, and the brute force belonging to S-level potential erupted wildly, trying to push aside the mountain on his body.

"what?"

Bai Lu seemed somewhat surprised that this big guy could still move.

She frowned slightly and pressed her right hand down another inch.

"I'll let you have it."

This time, it's not a test.

The S-rank mentalist's aura erupted in full force.

"Lie down properly."

Bang!

Ye Xiao's head slammed heavily onto the floor, his limbs pinned to the ground by an invisible force, rendering him unable to move.

The ironclad rule of the superpowered world.

At the same level, the mental system is a dimensional reduction attack on the physical enhancement system!

No matter how powerful you are, if you're not strong enough to shatter the void, you're just a sitting duck if you can't hit anyone.

The corridor was deathly silent.

The surviving soldiers stared wide-eyed at the monster embedded in the ground, their worldviews shattered.

This is... a battle of gods?

Su Ran stepped over the mess on the ground and walked up to Ye Xiao.

A wave of heat hit them, and the intense heat emanating from Ye Xiao even scorched Su Ran's trouser legs.

Su Ran crouched down, looking at Ye Xiao, who was still growling and whose eyes were still fierce and defiant.

"Are you awake?" Su Ran asked.

"Kill...kill...I'm going to kill..."

Ye Xiao was still roaring unconsciously, like a biological instinctive stress response.

"Looks like he's still not awake."

Su Ran nodded, and without any fancy movements, raised her fist.

"Bang!"

The punch landed squarely on Ye Xiao's eye socket.

Ye Xiao was stunned by the blow.

It doesn't hurt.

He was stunned by this humiliation.

"This punch was for Director Li. He's treating you well, not for you to destroy his house."

Su Ran remained expressionless and threw another punch with her backhand.

"Bang!"

"This punch was for me. I went through all that trouble to save you from the execution ground, and this is how you repay me?"

The red light in Ye Xiao's eyes began to flicker, and the violent aura he possessed actually showed a crack under the series of humiliations.

"Bang!"

The third punch.

"Look at me!"

Su Ran suddenly roared, her voice booming like thunder, "Who do you think you are? Are you a monster? Or a beast?"

Su Ran grabbed Ye Xiao's burning hair and forced him to raise his head, her eyes fixed on Ye Xiao's bloodshot eyes.

"You are a soldier. Or rather, you are about to become a soldier."

"You can't even endure this little bit of pain? You can't even control this little bit of strength?"

"If you can only be a beast driven by desire, then I'll have the white deer snap your neck right now. Anyway, I'll save you the bullets at the execution ground."

Dead silence.

A long period of deathly silence.

The only sound was the whooshing of air coming from the ventilation ducts.

The dark red color on Ye Xiao's skin began to fade, and the bulging blood vessels slowly subsided.

The frenzied killing intent in those scarlet eyes gradually dissipated, returning to the clear black and white of human eyes.

"Huff... huff..."

Ye Xiao was panting heavily, and the sweat on his body instantly soaked the ground.

He felt as if all the bones in his body had been removed, and he was so weak that he could hardly move a single finger.

"I...I'm still alive?"

Ye Xiao's voice was hoarse, carrying a hint of bewilderment from surviving a disaster.

Su Ran let go and disgustedly wiped the oil and sweat from her hands on Ye Xiao's clothes.

"White Deer, let him go."

The gravity that almost squeezed out the internal organs vanished instantly.

Su Ran stood up and looked down at the future "Shura" who was lying on the ground like a dead dog.

"Congratulations, Ye Xiao. You just had a brush with death."

Su Ran straightened her collar, turned around and waved to the dumbfounded soldiers, "Call the doctor, give him two sedative injections, observe him for a while, and then give him a psychological assessment."

After saying that, he didn't even glance at Ye Xiao, his gaze sweeping over the closed doors in the distance.

That was where Pei Miaomiao, Mo Yun, Xu Yang, and other "geniuses" lived.

Su Ran's lips curled up. Those people must have been watching through the crack in the door just now.

To kill the chicken as a warning to the monkey.

The desired effect was achieved.