Reborn as a tiger, he was chosen by the nation as its guardian beast.

Upon hearing this, Qin Tieshan did not answer immediately, but silently looked at the huge statue in the distance.

After a long while, he suddenly turned his head and looked at Wang Hu.

"Big Cat, have you ever thought about immortality?"

Wang Hu was stunned for a moment.

Of course he had thought about it.

But this problem seems somewhat distant for him.

After all, he is only one year old and is still a young tiger. Even if converted to human age, he is still just a child. And most importantly, he has already embarked on the path of the extraordinary and should be able to live for many more years in the foreseeable future.

This issue is not currently within his scope of consideration.

However, although he hadn't thought about it carefully, since Qin Tieshan asked, he nodded without any hesitation.

Wang Hu believed that there should be no living being in this world who did not wish for immortality.

Qin Tieshan was not surprised by the answer; he simply sighed involuntarily.

"Yes, the idea of ​​immortality has a fatal attraction for any living being, especially for old folks like us who have lived most of our lives."

He paused, then added.

"In fact, compared to China, other countries on Earth are more eager to make contact with intelligent life in this other world."

"And unlike us, who have always been wary of the intelligent life in this other world, many leaders of Western countries have shown great optimism, or even anticipation, towards this so-called intelligent life in another world."

"Especially those countries that are completely controlled by international conglomerates, they are more eager than anyone else."

"After all, regardless of whether immortality is even possible, the fact that the CEO of that other world, who is clearly human, can live to be two hundred years old far exceeds the lifespan limit of humans."

"And the heads of those big conglomerates are basically old guys in their eighties or nineties, with half of their bodies buried in the ground. They dream of ways to live to be two hundred years old."

At this point, Qin Tieshan couldn't help but let out a long sigh.

He turned his gaze down to the street below, to the dense horde of zombies that were emitting eerie light at the twin moons, and a sense of inexplicable helplessness emanated from him.

He seemed to be speaking to Wang Hu, but it also seemed like he was talking to himself.

"If that two-hundred-year-old thing really did play with fire and get burned, and was replaced by something else and is already dead, then so be it."

"But what if that guy really didn't die, and actually achieved immortality by sacrificing the entire world..."

"I'm afraid things will become increasingly uncontrollable."

"At that time, it will probably be an unprecedented catastrophe for our entire Blue Star civilization, especially for the unarmed ordinary people on Blue Star."

Hearing Qin Tieshan's words, Wang Hu inexplicably began to become serious as well.

He naturally understood the meaning behind Qin Tieshan's words.

If it were truly possible to achieve immortality through some form of sacrifice to the lower realms, it would definitely not be a good thing for the Blue Star civilization.

There will be far too many people willing to pay any price for this.

This is especially true for the leaders of large conglomerates in the West that have been passed down for thousands of years and possess vast wealth.

They possess wealth and power sufficient to overturn the world; the only thing they cannot contend with is time.

If they were given even the slightest hope of immortality, they would go absolutely crazy, more so than anyone else.

I'm afraid that the entire planet will be plunged into extreme turmoil and war as a result.

Add to that the increasingly intense resurgence of spiritual energy, and this ever-watchful other world…

No one can guarantee what the future will hold.

How much of China can be preserved in this monstrous wave?

Can this tiger, who only wants to lie down and enjoy his tiger life, still bask in the sun peacefully?

"I hope that old man is dead by now!"

Wang Hu silently muttered a sentence to himself.

And it was only when he and Qin Tieshan, one man and one tiger, stood on the roof of this building, looking at the boundless sea of ​​corpses below, that they remained silent.

Deep beneath this desolate city.

Within a dark and deep passage that had been unearthed at some unknown time, a faint blue light suddenly appeared without warning.

This tiny ray of light was like a spark that had fallen into the darkness.

It began to spread rapidly along the pathways of the passage at an unimaginable speed.

Soon, this underground passage, which had been silent for countless years, seemed to gradually come back to life.

Countless rays of light shone from all directions, colliding and converging in the complex network of channels, eventually forming a torrent that rapidly spread in a predetermined direction.

Ultimately, all of these surging rays of light were transmitted to the deepest part of the earth, to a vast and unimaginably empty space.

Within this vast space, countless enormous tumors composed of blood-red fleshy tissue, resembling the sulci and grooves of a brain, also began to glow with a faint blue light the instant they received these rays of light.

It looked as if the brain of an ancient giant, which had been asleep for countless years, had suddenly been revived from its slumber due to some kind of intense stimulation.

"Beep beep!"

"Beep beep beep!"

A piercing alarm suddenly rang out from the deepest part of this sarcoma.

There, something resembling a computer screen suddenly lit up.

Strange characters began to appear on it, being rapidly typed out, one after another.

[An anomaly has been detected; a large number of first-order light absorbers have died abnormally.]

[A Tier 1 alert unit will be dispatched to investigate shortly.]

[Simultaneously, it activates part of the light-absorbing organism's gene chain, restoring its self-defense and autonomous foraging abilities.]

[Current danger level: Level 1.]

[No need to activate more mainframe computing power for now; awaiting the results of the first-tier alert entity's investigation...]

As these words were typed out, the vast space was suddenly illuminated by even more eerie blue light. Strange creatures, resembling mosquitoes but hundreds of times larger, like giant eagles, were awakened. They buzzed and swarmed together, rapidly flying towards the surface through the passage.

Meanwhile, Wang Hu, atop the building, keenly sensed the unusual activity of the zombie horde underground. The zombies, who had been dazed and confused, simply tilting their heads back to absorb the moonlight, suddenly seemed to have been switched on, becoming visibly agitated.

These guys kept twitching their noses and quickly locked their gaze on the building where Wang Hu and the others were, then swarmed over in a frenzy.