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

"Aaaaah! My leg! My leg is trapped!"

"Help! Consultant Su! Help!"

The carriage was filled with howling and wailing.

The mutated wild boar's blue-glowing tusks dug a deep trench in the ground, and two plumes of white steam billowed from its enormous snout.

Only the burly man named Wang Meng, though his face was covered in blood, was still tough enough to hold the deformed car door shut, trying to buy time for the others to climb out.

"roar!"

The horde of corpses closed in.

Without the armor protection of the infantry fighting vehicle, these fifteen delicate humans were like tempting sashimi to the zombies.

"Brother Su!"

Ye Xiao flashed away from the horde of corpses, noticing the situation of Mo Yun and the others. He came to Su Ran's side, his voice urgent.

"Mo Yun is alone!"

Following Ye Xiao's gaze.

A thin figure was struggling to climb out of the overturned car window.

"Cough cough cough..."

A piece of his glasses was broken, hanging precariously from the bridge of his nose.

"Help...help me..."

No one can save him.

The mutated wild boar, whose size was comparable to a tank, had half its body blown off by a 99A tank that came from the flank. In pain, it charged madly towards the tank formation, but this did not make Mo Yun and the others safe.

The ordinary zombies and mutated beasts, which had been suppressed by artillery fire, instantly turned their guns and surged toward the overturned infantry fighting vehicle like a black tide.

"ah!!"

A scream.

Luo Susu, who was the last to climb out, was grabbed by the ankle by a crawler and dragged to the ground.

The exoskeleton armor emitted a teeth-grinding scraping sound.

"Da da da!"

Wang Meng raised his electromagnetic rifle and fired wildly, helping Luo Susu block the zombie attack.

On the roof of the car.

Ye Xiao's hand was already gripping the hilt of the knife, his body taut like a bow.

"Brother Su, if we don't do something about this, people will really die."

His voice was low, his gaze fixed on the crowd below who were about to be engulfed by the horde of zombies.

"Smack."

Su Ran placed one hand on Ye Xiao's shoulder.

"Don't act rashly."

Su Ran spoke up, "Bai Lu's gun is pointed over there the whole time, and there are four sniper teams watching around. When it really comes down to it, the bullets will arrive before your knife."

"Now..."

"It's not time to die yet."

Su Ran interrupted him, her gaze falling on the trembling figure lying on the ground. "Look at Mo Yun."

Ye Xiao looked down.

Below, the chaos had reached its peak.

Mo Yun was cornered by two zombies in a dead end, caught between the armored vehicle and the enemy vehicle.

He had lost his gun while fighting the zombies, and now he was only holding a broken metal rod.

"Get away! Get away from me!!"

Mo Yun roared and brandished the iron rod in his hand.

But for zombies, it's like a tickle.

A female zombie with half her face rotting suddenly pounced on him, grabbing Mo Yun's neck tightly with both hands.

"Uh...uh..."

Mo Yun's face instantly turned a deep liver color.

"Help me...Advisor Ye! Help me!!!"

That nauseating stench filled my nostrils; it was the smell of death.

He could clearly see the flesh and blood hanging between the zombie's teeth, and his own weak and powerless reflection in its murky eyes.

Am I going to die?

I am a national first-level researcher, a genius with an IQ of 140... How can I die at the hands of such filth?

I can not be reconciled.

I am not reconciled!

Extreme fear, compressed to its limit in the suffocating feeling of impending death, then...

"Bang!"

That was the sound of something breaking deep within my mind.

Immediately afterwards, a surge of heat, as hot as magma, flowed through my veins and spread throughout my body.

Su Ran and Ye Xiao's pupils contracted sharply.

"Here comes X2."

below.

Mo Yun, whose neck was being choked, suddenly stopped struggling.

His eyes, which had been filled with fear and cowardice, now had the whites completely gone, replaced by an eerie, deep purple.

"I want to live..."

Mo Yun's voice was hoarse, like sandpaper scraping against rust.

"So, go to hell."

He released his grip on the iron bar, then suddenly raised both hands and grabbed the zombie's wrists.

No force was used.

Just contact.

"Sizzle!!!"

A terrifying sound, like strong acid corroding metal, suddenly exploded.

Before Ye Xiao's horrified eyes, the zombie arm that was gripping Mo Yun's neck turned black at a speed visible to the naked eye, and then liquefied!

It's like a candle meeting a raging fire.

"Aww!!!"

The zombie let out a horrific scream and instinctively tried to retreat.

But it's too late.

Mo Yun suddenly stood up, and his hands, which had turned purplish-black, slapped straight onto the zombie's face without any technique or method.

"Pfft."

It's like a hot knife cutting into butter.

The zombie's head, along with half of its shoulder, melted into a pool of foul-smelling, black pus the moment it touched Mo Yun's palm!

Sold out instantly.

There wasn't even a physical collision; it was pure chemical destruction.

"vomit……"

Seeing this, Wang Meng, who was standing nearby, couldn't help but gag even in the face of life and death.

It was too tragic and disgusting.

But it's not over yet.

After awakening, Mo Yun seemed to have turned on some kind of switch.

The timidity that belonged to bookworms vanished, replaced by an almost neurotic madness.

"My hands can release highly toxic and corrosive substances; I can dissolve any carbon-based organism..."

He looked at his hands, muttered to himself, and turned to look at the two other zombies that were rushing at him from behind.

Raise your hand.

Waving.

Purple poisonous mist spread from his fingertips.

As soon as the two zombies came into contact with even a trace of the poisonous mist, their skin began to rot and peel off, revealing their bare white bones. Then, even their bones began to turn black and soften.

Three seconds.

He single-handedly melted away what was originally a hopeless situation, creating a vacuum.

"this……"

Ye Xiao swallowed hard, feeling a chill run down his spine. "Is this some kind of superpower? Or a biological weapon?"

"S-Class Ability: Poison Control"

Su Ran released her grip on Ye Xiao's hand and explained, "In my previous life, Mo Yun was the strongest poison master in the Great Xia Dynasty. He could defend an entire city all by himself."

Below, the crisis has been temporarily averted.

The other "geniuses" were also stunned by Mo Yun's outburst, but soon, this shock turned into a kind of motivation.

Even a bookworm can kill zombies.

I can do it too!

Zhao Tian roared, activating his exoskeleton armor at full power, and smashed a zombie's head with a single punch.

Although it was a mess, and although the movements were awkward.

The scales of the battle have begun to tip.

The regular army's tank units finally completed the encirclement, and the mutated wild boar was riddled with holes by a round of concentrated fire before collapsing to the ground.

Su Ran jumped off the roof of the car.

The military boots made a cracking sound as they stepped on the scorched earth.

He walked straight up to Mo Yun, who was still in a state of excitement and whose hands were dripping black water.

Mo Yun was panting heavily, the purple in his eyes was fading, and his body began to tremble violently.

In no time, Mo Yun had returned to normal.

"Advisor Su...Advisor Su..."

Mo Yun looked at his hands, feeling both fear and excitement. "I've awakened! I've awakened my superpowers!"

"How are you feeling?" Su Ran handed him a bottle of water.

"That felt great."

Mo Yun unscrewed the bottle cap and gulped down half of it in one go.

"Remember this feeling."

Su Ran patted him on the shoulder, then he turned around to face all the still-shaken students.

"Now, everyone, listen to my command."

Su Ran drew her dagger, found a mutated beast, and pried open the back of its head.

The tip of the knife stirred in the red and white mixture, producing a crisp "ding" sound.

Su Ran bent down and picked up a grayish-white crystal, no bigger than her little finger and stained with blood, between two fingers.

In the sunlight, the crystal refracted an eerie luster.

"Clean up the battlefield."

Su Ran raised the crystal high, and her voice echoed throughout the entire venue.

"Dig out the back of the heads of all the evolved zombies and mutated beasts."

"Find this thing; it's called a 'crystal nucleus'."