Apocalypse: Become stronger by absorbing flames at the start; my name is the Flame Emperor.

"Let's leave it at that for now. Let's go check on the survivors here; they should be up ahead."

Upon reaching the end of the warehouse, a massive iron gate blocked the way.

"The door isn't locked!"

Liu Yu stepped forward and gently pushed the door open.

"Who is it?"

A loud shout rang out.

As Lin Yu and his group went inside, they saw a group of people staring intently at them.

He frowned.

There were over a hundred people inside, and about twenty of them, sitting on the sofa, were smoking, most of them holding weapons.

The other seventy or eighty people were all women, and all of them were quite attractive.

They were all barely clothed and huddled in a corner.

Upon seeing Lin Yu and his group suddenly burst in, the twenty-odd people on the sofa immediately stood up and stared intently at them.

"How did you end up here?"

The man in the lead narrowed his eyes, which gleamed with a dangerous light.

"We came in through the back door."

"Impossible! The back door has been reinforced; no one could get in from there!"

The man looked incredulous.

The back door was reinforced by their boss using his superpowers; even a level 5 evolved being would have a hard time breaking it.

"Otherwise, do you think we've been hiding in here all this time?" Lin Yu looked at him with a half-smile.

"I don't want to know why you're here. I'm giving you two choices."

"First, hand over these three women, and I'll spare your lives, and I might even let you join us."

"Secondly, even if I kill you, the woman will remain."

A lewd glint flashed across the man's face; the three women before him were even more beautiful than the ones belonging to his boss.

"I choose the third one!"

"Haha, you're smart enough to know what's good for you... Hmm, what did you say?"

The man in the lead was stunned for a moment, then roared angrily, "Kid, are you kidding me?"

"Congratulations on answering correctly, but unfortunately there's no prize."

"Quick-tongued, it seems you won't shed a tear until you see the coffin."

The man yelled at his thugs, "The women stay here, the men have their limbs broken."

Four people immediately surrounded him, each holding a weapon, such as a steel pipe or a fire axe.

"Kid, you dare to be so disrespectful on our turf? You're asking for death."

As they spoke, the men swung their weapons and smashed them down on Lin Yu's legs.

"Thorns of the Sand!"

Yang Shanshan, however, made the first move.

With her extraordinary ability, four vines, each as thick as a bowl and made entirely of sand, broke through the concrete floor and pierced straight into the bodies of the four people, penetrating them completely.

When she saw the women in the corner, barely clothed and tortured to the point of death, her anger surged.

Seeing the other party attack Lin Yu, he could no longer hold back and instantly struck, killing all four of them.

The sand scattered, and four corpses crashed heavily to the ground.

"Awakened Talent!"

The man in the lead screamed and jumped up from the sofa, a look of fear flashing across his face.

He knew very well how terrifying those with awakened talents could be.

"Everyone, it's a misunderstanding!"

His face instantly lit up with a smile.

He hurriedly smiled ingratiatingly and said, "Gentlemen, our boss has led his men out to kill zombies, and they should be back soon."

"Our leaders are also awakened talents. It's better to resolve conflicts than to let them fester. Who knows, we might even be able to create a great enterprise together."

The man smiled broadly and cupped his hands in greeting to Lin Yu.

"Shanshan, your special ability can control earth elements to turn into sand thorns, so why don't you feel and think more, and try to turn the earth into sand to form sand swamps or something similar?"

Lin Yu ignored the man and instead taught Yang Shanshan a lesson.

"Okay, I'll give it a try!"

Yang Shanshan was overjoyed, for the Sand Thorns was a skill she naturally acquired when her talent was awakened.

But in fact, there is no sand in the earth, so where did her sand thorns come from?

So, tracing back to the source, her talent is the ability to turn earth elements into sand.

The thorns of the sand are merely a ready-made means of attack after the sand has turned into dust.

"Not yet. When I use Sand Thorns, sand will naturally form and condense into thorns to attack."

Yang Shanshan tried her best and found the process very difficult.

"Don't rush, I'll tell you the method. Practice more when you have free time, and feel more when you use your talent."

"Feel the process of sand formation. When you grasp the essence of elemental transformation, you can develop more attack techniques."

Lin Yu said to Chen Jing'er and the others, "You are the same. Only by experiencing and studying more can you fully discover your own talents."

The group nodded, seemingly lost in thought.

On the other side, the man, feeling ignored, could no longer contain himself.

His face darkened. "What do you all mean? Don't think you're the only ones with awakened talents; we have them too."

"Oh? Where is it? Show it to me!"

"you……"

The man was so angry that he turned red in the face.

The leaders who had awakened their talents had all gone out to kill zombies; they were just the underlings left behind to guard the supplies.

"Ha, kill them all!"

Lin Yu's casual words sent a chill down the spines of everyone present.

Lin Yu frowned: "What's wrong? Can't bring yourself to do it?"

"Boss, they..."

Liu Yu just opened his mouth.

Lin Yu interrupted him: "If you can't bring yourself to do it, don't call me boss!"

"They deserved to die!"

With a wave of her right hand, Yang Shanshan sent dozens of sand thorns bursting through the ground and stabbing towards those people.

Lin Yu glanced at her in surprise.

This woman is actually more decisive than Liu Yu now, which is quite impressive.

Chen Jing'er also moved.

She snatched a steel pipe and actually pierced the throat of the person opposite her, blood gushing out.

Lin Yu was embarrassed; this woman was actually quite violent!

"kill!"

Seeing that the two women had already made their move, Liu Yu gritted his teeth, conjured a wind blade, and charged towards the group.

In less than two minutes, the ground was covered with corpses.

Seeing this bloody scene, everyone except Lin Yu felt somewhat uncomfortable.

Although the scenes of killing zombies are even more disgusting than this, these are still living, breathing people.

This was their first time committing murder.

"Ah! I'll kill you!"

Sudden.

A dozen or so people rushed out from the group of women in the corner.

They picked up various weapons from the ground and smashed them violently against the already dead people.

Even worse, those who couldn't get a weapon resorted to verbal abuse.

They tore the man's ear off with their teeth, venting their rage wildly.

"Let's go take a look on the second floor."

Lin Yu lifted his foot and took the lead in walking up the escalator next to him.

The second floor was mostly filled with daily necessities and such. After looting out the useful items, I saw several women on the third floor.

These women were all beautiful, but they were also tormented to the point that their eyes were lifeless.

"These beasts!"

Yang Shanshan angrily cursed.

The others didn't speak, but their faces were grim and dark.