Freeze the entire population, activate my Superman system?

Outside the animal-hide tents on the north side of the ghoul camp, Ying sat on a frozen rock about half a person's height, her bone whip across her knees.

Her gaze passed over the scattered campfires in the camp and landed on the territory of the Kisame clan to the north, her fingers casually twirling the dark red mane wrapped around the whip handle.

"Commander Ying!"

Suddenly, Herto's round figure rolled out from the narrow passage in the middle of the camp, clutching a bunch of ice moss flowers that he had picked from who-knows-where.

Ying's eye twitched.

She thought Ling Shuang was joking, but she didn't expect that Herto would become so bold after reaching the second-tier mature form.

"Commander Ying"

Herto stopped three steps in front of the frozen rock.

He stood up straight, puffed out his chest, and shouted, "I'm strong enough to compete for the throne now! Can you give me a baby?!"

Herto's voice was so loud that several young ghouls in the two animal skin tents scattered behind the frozen rock stopped what they were doing at the same time and turned their heads to look in this direction in unison.

Ying slowly raised her eyelids, her dark red pupils gleaming with a dangerous cold light.

"Even when Gertu was alive, he didn't dare to be so presumptuous with me. Do you think a second-tier mature body is strong?"

"Do you dare say that again?"

"I want to have your child..."

Herto stiffened his neck, but didn't get a chance to finish speaking.

Ying's bone whip swept across his breastplate, lifting him up abruptly.

Despite his enormous size, Herto was lifted into the air!

It tumbled several times in the air before crashing face-first into a pile of ice next to it.

However, the nightingale's anger had only just begun.

Heto, who had just poked his head out of the ice pile, was struck on the shoulder blade and lay flat on his back, embedded half an inch deep in the frozen ground, leaving a human-shaped crater beneath him.

The third lash, the fourth lash, the fifth lash...

There was complete silence all around.

The other ghouls all scurried back into their tents, too scared to even peek out to watch the spectacle.

After venting her anger, Ying put away the bone whip and left with a cold snort.

Herto stared blankly for a while, then suddenly slapped his thigh and grinned.

"She didn't kill me!"

Herto shouted at the ghouls peering around, his voice tinged with an inexplicable excitement, "She didn't kill me!"

The oldest ghoul silently shook his head, leaned on his bone cane, and turned to walk back to his tent.

This was the scene that Ling Shuang saw when she pushed open the curtain and came out.

Herto, covered in mud and ice shards, sat in a crater in the frozen ground, grinning foolishly.

"The Takeki brothers!"

As soon as Heto saw him, he immediately climbed out of the pit and limped over, exclaiming, "I've had close contact with Commander Ying!"

Ling Shuang remained silent for two seconds.

"She whipped you, is that considered intimate contact?"

"Of course."

Herto's voice was filled with blissful ecstasy.

He patted Heto on the shoulder: "You ghouls...don't you have plenty of females? Why do you have to make trouble with the orioles?"

"Where are the females in the camp?"

Herto scratched his head and looked at Ling Shuang with the eyes of someone looking at an idiot.

"You forgot?"

All the female ghouls reside in the main city; only the king can periodically return to the city to mate.

Commander Ying was sent down from the main city on orders from the rancher.

"She whipped me seventeen times. Do you think she has feelings for me?"

Ling Shuang immediately felt a pang of regret and turned to leave.

That pile of source crystals is indeed better used to feed the giant beetles.

After confirming that no one was following her, Ling Shuang quickly switched to her Night Demon form and disappeared into the snowstorm.

Ling Shuang found a secluded cave near the underground river, took out a miniature walkie-talkie from the waterproof bag inside her scale armor, and pressed the call button.

"Zhang Mu, please reply upon receipt."

This time, the white noise in the walkie-talkie lasted only one second before Zhang Mu's clear voice came through.

After the signal base station was upgraded to the intermediate level, the overall communication became much more stable.

"Received! Brother Shuang, you finally contacted me!"

What's going on where you are these past few days? What big thing have you been up to?

The system suddenly notified me that I had completed a milestone achievement and earned a whopping 8000 achievement points!

Ling Shuang briefly recounted her experiences over the past two days.

The plan includes killing Kuro, becoming the new vice commander, merging the ghouls and the Oni-shamans, and entering the ruins of Atlantis.

There was a few seconds of silence on the other end of the walkie-talkie, followed by Zhang Mu gasping for breath.

"Wait, wait, what did you call that ruin? Atlantis?"

"Yes. The system gave you a notification too, right?"

"They gave it to us! At the time, Lao Guo and I almost thought there was a bug in the system."

Zhang Mu paused for a moment, "That thing actually exists?"

Atlantis, that's outrageous. And the Mayan civilization was real too...

Ling Shuang was both amused and exasperated.

"I know nothing. The ruins of this Atlantis civilization should be friendly to us humans on Earth, otherwise it wouldn't give the system a notification. If I'm lucky, I might be able to advance to the third or fourth tier."

"Brother Shuang, but Ying and Yuan are both at the peak of the second tier, and they can likely be promoted to the third tier at any time."

"If these ruins really allow them to reach the fourth tier, wouldn't we be at a significant disadvantage when the safe zone is reopened?"

Ling Shuang continued,

"I will try my best to limit their growth."

Now that I've mastered the ghoul's talent, I'll have to compete for that Fire Crystal Mother Ore too.

That's a legacy left by our ancestors.

Wang Can's loud voice came from the other end of the walkie-talkie, clearly indicating that he was also next to the information base station.

"Xiao Ling, please don't be reckless!"

Those two are kings of other races. If we really can't get them, so be it. Anyway, our territory is now as impregnable as an iron barrel. We have eight thousand achievement points now, which is enough to expand a whole bunch of buildings!

Ling Shuang chuckled, "Have Zhang Mu use the eight thousand points where they're needed, focusing on studying the city defense weapon blueprints sent by the military. If we can replicate them by combining them with the system, that would be a great victory."

Zhang Mu chimed in, "Okay, I'll discuss it with Lao Guo right away and start planning immediately."

Oh, and there's some good news too.

The first batch of wheat in the botanical garden started to sprout today, and Grandpa Hao and the others were overjoyed.

In addition, the parasitic spore mother plant is growing very fast. Brother Wang said it may mature a week earlier than the system gives.

"Let me tell you, he's practically obsessed with the spore area now, spending all his time there."

Hearing that things were developing rapidly and in an orderly manner within the safe zone, Ling Shuang felt a sudden sense of disbelief.

It was as if the apocalypse had never happened.

But soon, painful memories of the South Heavenly Gate Command Center flooded back into Ling Shuang's mind.

His eyes suddenly turned cold.

The current calm is just an illusion.

The hatred of the nation and its people who perished in the entire command post has yet to be avenged!

At this moment, everyone on the walkie-talkie was still reporting their work to him in a flurry of voices.

Ling Shuang's eyes inexplicably welled up with tears, and he slowly began to speak.

"Time is tight, I have to go to the camp to meet up and set off. Take care, everyone."

"Take care, Shuang-ge. Dad is waiting for you to come home."

The sadness and longing that had just welled up in Ling Shuang's heart vanished at this moment.

"Go to hell..."

After hiding the walkie-talkie, Ling Shuang quickly walked out of the cave and disappeared into the snowstorm once again.

However, what Ling Shuang couldn't hear was that just half an hour after they lost contact, a piercing emergency broadcast sounded from the other end of the safe zone.

This was immediately followed by Guo Yueshan's furious roar.

"All residents along the lake must evacuate! All residents must evacuate!"

"The Tier 3 Night Demon Mother is attempting to enter the safe zone!"

The Night Demon larvae are coming up from the east again! Arrow towers, cover them! Frostbow towers, be ready!

However, the Night Demon Mother never fully entered the safe zone; she merely extended her tentacles in, continuously stimulating the birth of the larvae on the suckers.

What Zhang Mu and the others couldn't see was that the Night Demon Mother's face was contorted with extreme pain and pain.

Its neck was being tightly gripped by a pair of rough, large hands, and a fawning voice came from beside it.

"Inspector Night Owl, you are truly a genius! You knew that after injuring this beast, you would definitely flee to the place where it broke through to the third rank."

The owner of the hand was now extremely excited.

"I, Night Owl, have stumbled upon this new spark of life! Hahaha, it's just my destiny!"

But as he looked at the solid security barrier in front of him, his face gradually darkened.

"Is someone already sent to inform the master?"

"Yes, Inspector Night Owl, I have already sent the slaves of the Catfish Clan to carry the letter across the Frostspine Wasteland at full speed."

Night Owl had considered keeping the spoils of victory for himself, but remembering the other's brutality, he restrained his greed.

Behind the Night Demon Mother was a nearly eight-meter-tall Cyclops!

His eyes flashed with malice, and he slammed his fist on the outside of the safe zone barrier again.

"Perhaps the master has a way to break down this barrier."

However, according to legend, the new spark will not awaken and evolve so quickly.

I'll use this beast first to test the waters.