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

Bai Lu pointed to the disgusting ball of flesh behind her, her eyes full of disgust.

"I've already uploaded this location. A few shells will take care of it completely."

Upon hearing this, Li Guodong immediately nodded and grabbed the communicator to give the order.

"Bai Lu is right! This kind of unknown, high-threat target must not be allowed to remain! I'll mobilize the nearest bomber squadron right now. Since it won't run away, let's just wipe that area off the map!"

This is the safest approach for the military.

When facing outcasts, there's no need for understanding; all you need is saturation firepower.

When you're poor, use tactical infiltration; when you're rich, bomb me!

"Wait!"

A hand suddenly reached out and firmly pressed down on Li Guodong's wrist as he picked up the microphone.

Su Ran raised her head, her eyes resolute. "Don't blow it up yet, keep it."

All eyes were drawn back and forth between Li Guodong's hand, which was suspended in mid-air, and Su Ran's cold, stern face.

"Not going to blow it up?"

Li Guodong's eyebrows were almost knotted together. He withdrew his hand and raised his voice: "Comrade Xiao Su, do you know what you're saying?"

He pointed to the disgusting nest on the big screen that was constantly hatching mutated monsters.

"This thing is a living arsenal! According to the data transmitted back by Bai Lu, its current production capacity is one every five minutes. That's twelve per hour, and nearly three hundred of these monsters per day!"

The accompanying operations staff exchanged bewildered glances, hesitant to speak.

Although Su Ran's previous decisions have never been wrong, is this time she being a little too overconfident?

Su Ran did not rush to defend herself.

He stretched out his finger and calmly swiped a few times on the touch screen. "This is a live video feed of the area within five kilometers of the Jinmao Tower in Jiangcheng."

The screen image changed instantly.

In the footage, apart from the roaming mutated dogs, the area within several kilometers was so clean it looked as if it had been licked by dogs.

The streets were deserted and deathly silent, with no sign of any roaming mutated beasts or zombies.

"Old Li, everyone, have you noticed?"

Su Ran countered, "Within a five-kilometer radius of the Jin Mao Tower, besides those mutated dogs, can you see even a single wandering zombie or mutated beast?"

Li Guodong frowned, staring intently at the unusual blank area.

This is definitely very unusual.

Even if there aren't large hordes of mutated beasts, there should be a few scattered ones.

But that area did indeed seem too empty.

"They were all eaten clean."

Su Ran pointed to a mutated dog on the screen that was dragging a zombie into the building, revealing the mystery to everyone.

"We didn't lay a single soldier, and this area was already completely cleared. They're helping us clean up the city."

A murmur rippled through the conference room.

This is a clever angle, viewing the source of the terrifying monster as a free city cleaner.

"This is called 'niche suppression'."

Su Ran paced back and forth in the room, saying, "The hatching of the mother nest follows the law of conservation of energy. In order to reproduce, it needs a massive amount of biomass energy, which requires it to eat. It will frantically hunt down all organic life forms in its territory; zombies and low-level mutated beasts are its nourishment."

Su Ran paused, then threw out that chilling analogy: "It's like we're raising a venomous snake that eats field mice in a field. As long as the snake hasn't grown big enough to eat people, it's the best pesticide."

"This is tantamount to asking a tiger for its skin!"

Li Guodong slammed his hand on the armrest of the chair, he was really anxious, "That's not how you calculate it! It does eat zombies, but what it spews out are stronger, more organized and disciplined mutated monsters! Once all the mutated monsters there are eaten, the mutated dog packs in this city will rush out and endanger humans in the end."

"The risks are manageable."

Su Ran picked up a laser pointer from the table and drew a circle around the building.

"This kind of nest is a stationary target, and it doesn't have legs. The mother herself has no ability to move before hatching."

"Move all the surrounding drone formations over there for 24-hour hovering monitoring."

Su Ran's voice was calm to the point of being cold, "Once it gets out of control, a few more shells can be fired before it's too late to destroy it directly."

Li Guodong, panting heavily, stared at the screen for a long time, his chest heaving violently.

Finally, he took off his hat and slammed it on the table, giving in.

"Okay, I'll do as you say. But I'm warning you upfront: if there's any sign of things getting out of control, I'll immediately physically clear this area."

As long as it's within range, the truth will always be in our hands.

Since it's a fixed target, it can indeed be sent on its way at any time.

Seeing that Li Guodong had relented, Su Ran pulled over a chair and invited Li Guodong to sit down.

"Actually, there's an even more important reason why I don't want you to blow it up."

Su Ran made a startling statement, saying bluntly, "I want to incorporate them."

"puff!"

Li Guodong, who was drinking water nearby, sprayed it all to the side.

He didn't even bother wiping his mouth, his eyes wide: "Recruit? That's no joke at all."

"The Academy of Sciences has a sub-project on the development of a zombie vaccine, which aims to bypass the effects of the Omega-9 virus and awaken the mutated beings' own rationality. I've been keeping a close eye on the progress of this project."

"But the Omega-9 virus is extremely aggressive; at least with current biotechnology, it's impossible to restore the organism's instincts, so there's no basis for it to be domesticated!"

Su Ran hadn't expected that the Academy of Sciences had this project team that wanted to directly restore the original thinking of the Omega-9 virus infected body.

If this actually happens, perhaps we can resolve this doomsday crisis in a gentler way.

"Conventional methods certainly won't work."

Su Ran's voice became somewhat meaningful, "The queen hive looks scary, but its structure is actually very simple. It's like a giant beehive, where all the worker bees and combat units are controlled by the queen."

Su Ran lightly tapped the core of the fleshy ball on the screen with her finger.

"By forcibly invading its consciousness through mental power and controlling the mother body, one can directly control the entire mother nest..."

Li Guodong was stunned.

He may not understand biology, but he understands tactics.

This is like a decapitation strike; once the enemy's command system is controlled, the remaining soldiers are just puppets on strings.

The meeting room was completely silent.

Everyone was stunned by the scene Su Ran described.

Control the mother nest and enslave the alien army.

This goes beyond tactics; it's a completely new form of warfare!

But... this is brainwave control!

Is this still within the scope of human warfare?

In an instant, everyone's eyes were drawn to the girl in black on the screen.

Bai Lu also sensed that something was wrong and paused in her actions.

Why are you looking at me? I don't know how either.