Gate of Apocalypse

Adric stood on the top of a hill, looking down at the valley below him, hand in hand.

The previous valley was now completely different from what it had been before.

All the trees had been cut down cleanly, and even the underground stumps had been dug up. In its place, there was a huge, chrysalis-like biological tissue.

These tissues filled almost the entire valley, and each one had a tube extending out from underneath it, connected to each other like a spider's web, and finally extending all the way to the other end of the valley.

At the other end of the valley, there was the larger heart-like biotissue that Adric had used before. Now it had grown even larger than before, standing tens of meters tall, like a small mountain, and vibrating with every beat, causing the ground around it to shake slightly.

On the front of the giant heart was a huge opening. Numerous mutated citizens were arranged in a neat formation, entering and being engulfed by the giant heart.

All the pipes underneath the strange chrysalis were eventually connected to the giant heart, which was beating in rhythm with the heart. The translucent walls of the pipes were illuminated by sunlight, and you could see the liquid flowing through them.

Each "chrysalis" was slowly contracting and stretching at a certain rhythm. Every now and then, a chrysalis would open and a mutant monster would emerge.

Compared to the spore-infected mutant citizens in downtown Los Angeles, the monsters emerging from the chrysalis were not only much larger, but also much more agile and seemed to possess a certain degree of intelligence.

"Captain, are you sure these guys ...... won't pose a threat to us?"

On the mountain peak, Dodoro stood behind Adric and whispered a question. The scene before him had been going on for half an hour, but Adric was still standing here, looking down at the valley in front of him, without moving a step.

After Adric came out, the giant heart began to grow twice as fast, and hundreds of pupae grew out of the end of the pipes extending from its body. Since half an hour ago, countless mutated citizens had been arriving from the direction of downtown Los Angeles to enter the heart.

They were like nutrients that were consumed by the heart and then supplied to the pupae, which eventually grew into stronger monsters. The original mutant citizens, although their forms have changed a lot, are at least generally recognizable as having been human. But the monsters that emerged from the chrysalis no longer had any trace of human characteristics.

The entire valley had now been turned into a giant monster production factory.

"Captain, our coordinates have been released!"

Dodoro stepped behind Adric and whispered, "Should we ...... move?"

"Transfer? Why the shift?" Dumbfounded, Adric turned back and said, "After the protection period ends, our coordinates are displayed in real time. Wherever we go, the coordinates are updated on the personal radar of other players and awakened ones."

"I know." Dodoro nodded, "I'm just worried that it wouldn't be a good idea if they found out about this place ......?"

These strange pupae in the valley were clearly creating more troops and making the primary mutations more advanced. Although it was unclear how much the combat power had increased after the second mutation, Duo Duo believed that his leader wouldn't do anything that didn't make sense.

"You mean, after we shift, we can keep the enemy from finding this valley?" Adric smiled, "Don't worry, Dodoro, there's no chance they'll even get close to here. The number of mutants I've transformed now has ......"

He made a simple calculation in his mind: "There are more than two thousand of them. Based on the speed of their arrival, it will take at least an hour to reach here. By then, we'll have at least five thousand high-ranking mutants."

"How do you know the speed of their advance?!" Dodoro was stunned, "And just how many of the 5,000 ...... are really enough?"

"Even the unmodified mutants share these alien genes with me. Don't forget, I'm taking the place of the Lord now." Adric patted Dodolo's shoulder, "I can sense their general location. And as of just now, I have sensed a large number of deaths at the zoo, and the coordinates are moving here. As for the number of high level mutants-"

Adric smiled conceitedly, "Now, I have perfected the fusion of domination. These re-modulated mutants must obey me unconditionally. Their consciousness is my consciousness. My consciousness is their consciousness. I can even synchronize my mind with any of them at any time if I wish."

"Synchronize?" Dodoro pondered and was surprised, "You mean ...... is like entering the bodies of those monsters?"

"Correctly understood." Adric nodded.

A creature with a lion's head, but covered in scaly armor and a scorpion tail on its back had just emerged from its chrysalis and roared up to the sky, but suddenly turned its gaze to the next hilltop and looked at Dodoro, "As if it were now, understood, Dodoro?"

Dodoro looked at the monster's mouth as Adric's voice came out of it, and looked at Adric in horror, but saw Adric smiling back at him and saying in the same tone, "As if it were now, understand, Dodoro?"

"This ...... "Dodoro was almost stunned.

"And their fighting power well ...... since you're worried about it, let's give it a try." Adric laughed, didn't see any movement, ran out of the next few monsters, leapt a few times, and climbed to the top of the mountain: "I want you, full force!"

......

Immediately after leaving the park, the number of variants became larger.

Two thunderstorm chariots in the front at medium speed, the muzzle of the cannon is always aimed at the front of the most densely populated mutant orientation, each shot can dozens of mutants blown to smithereens.

On both sides of each thunderstorm chariot, there are seven or eight people standing parallel to each other, holding guns and pouring ammunition forward continuously, for the thunderstorm chariot's main gun to do fire supplement.

On the outside, there are more than ten people holding melee weapons, was a semi-encircled thunderstorm chariot hunched behind, with a wary eye on the front, occasionally a mutant broke through the fire network, they will immediately advance, to block the mutant in front of, once killed, then immediately retreat, never stalking.

After the two thunderstorm chariots and the attached foot personnel, there are dozens of pickup trucks. These pickups are not system props, but just temporary vehicles collected on the streets. There was only one driver in each vehicle, while the rest of the men were on the buckets of the pickups, half sitting and resting, half standing and alert.

At the end of the line, a third Thunderstorm vehicle, driven by the Moonlight Lizard Regiment, was deployed in the same configuration with fire support and melee security personnel, moving while clearing the mutants coming from the rear.

Tire sat at the center of the group, keeping an eye on the situation, with Xiu Xiu and Qiao Qiao staying by his side, while the others were scattered throughout the group, each leading a few teams.

As for Roddy, he was flying the tidal fighter, hovering above the team, keeping a low altitude of about one hundred meters, and giving fire support from above at all times.

The team had been moving forward for half an hour, taking shifts every ten minutes, always making sure that a third of the members were guarding the perimeter of the thunderstorm fighter, and then getting a twenty-minute break.

The tires did not disrupt the original deployment of each team, but rather kept the teams as much as possible in their original formations, moving simultaneously. Each team takes a different number of pickup trucks according to its size, and shifts are made on time. With the thunderstorm chariot as the backbone, and the tidal fighters roaming around to support the team, there had been no casualties until now, despite the fact that the surrounding mutants were constantly pounding the team, leaving only a trail of broken monster corpses in the back of the team.

"Looking good, Tires! At this rate, we'll reach the other side's location in another 20 minutes at most. The coordinates haven't moved so far, and it looks like the other side is so confident that they'll just stay put and wait for us to come to their door and be killed by him."

Roddy slouched in the pilot's seat of the tidal fighter and spoke to the team channel. After entering the enemy identification markers, the Tide Fighter was fully capable of flying and firing on the ground automatically.

There were already enough people and firepower on the ground to save energy and ammunition, so the Tideshifters only opened fire on the most concentrated areas where the variants were piled up, with the goal of just breaking them up. So far, there were no individuals with flight capabilities that could threaten the tidal fighters. In this way, Roddy had instead become the most leisurely person in the entire team.

"He has that kind of capital." Tire looked up at the tidal fighter overhead and coldly said, "The S-class giant of Zero City's resident team, and having gotten such power in the copy, we could be wiped out in minutes if we're not careful."

"Hehe ...... Don't we have an S-rank on our side too?" Xia Xiaolei chimed in on the team channel, "Brother Dagon may not be weaker than him, right? With him here, our chances of winning are not that low."

Although he knew that Dagon was Tian Lie, Xia Xiaolei was still used to referring to him as Dagon.

Roddy stopped talking.

"Okay, don't talk nonsense in the future!" Qiao Qiao heartbroken Roddy, quickly fierce Xia Xiaolei: "Be careful around, always pay attention to your radar, don't think that you have strong recovery ability and everything is fine. Even a perverted body like Tian Lie will die, let alone you."

"Yes!" Xia Xiaolei honestly bowed his head to admit his mistake and suddenly said, "Eh, Miss Qiao Qiao, it seems that ...... some life reactions move very fast and travel in a straight line."

This was still the edge of the city, and although there were no more high-rise buildings around, the architectural plan still allowed these mutants to move only along the road.

Since Xia Xiaolei's perception organs detected the creatures traveling in a straight line, that might mean that the ......

"Roddy, stay alert, a flying individual may appear at any moment. Nicole, lift off and prepare to cover Roddy."

After temporarily joining the meteorite squad, Nicole and Skylie were also able to use the team channel for the time being in this copy.

"Understood." Nicole replied briefly and immediately took to the skies from the front of the team, hovering around the tidal fighter.

"Ah!"

Suddenly there was a scream from up ahead.

The tire standing on the pickup truck looked in the direction of the scream.

The two melee awakeners were covered in acid and were rolling around on the ground. The acid had burned through the low-grade protective clothing and was beginning to burn the skin. A blister appeared and burst rapidly.

In front of the two was a fallen mutant corpse with a huge gaping hole in its chest and abdomen. The acid just now was the same that had splattered outward when its dead body burst open.

"Fellow team members, help them evacuate back to the vehicle and administer treatment. Keep the team moving and do not stop."

Each team was assigned an intercom, and after the tire gave the order. Members of the team to which the two wounded men belonged immediately grabbed up and sprayed the two Awakenings with neutralizer, then picked them up and climbed into the bucket of an empty pickup truck, first feeding each of them a serving of healing animal blood, then quickly began to treat the injuries.

"The acid is not very strong." Tian Lie looked twice and said in the team channel, "It was just a rather sudden self-destructive attack. Those two guys will be able to regain their combat strength soon after a simple treatment."

"But I've never seen this type before." Tire looked grim, staring at the two Awakened ones who were being urgently treated in the pickup bucket in front of him: "It looks like ...... these monsters are still evolving."

"Sure enough, here comes the new guy!"

Roddy called out.

The sky also began to show mutant figures sporadically, either with insect-like membrane wings, or bird-like feathered wings, or even skin membrane wings like bats or pterosaurs, sprinting down toward the convoy at high speed.

"All crews, begin covering fire! The convoy accelerated to 30 kilometers per hour."

The sound of tires came over the intercom again, and before his command was given, the occupants of the pickup had spontaneously started taking out their guns and aiming at the mutant in the sky to start firing.

Roddy also immediately increased his speed, widened his hovering radius, and changed the direction of the gunfire from the ground to the sky.

Nicole hovered around him, and the energy cannons on the float flew into rapid fire, shooting down any mutants that came close to the tidal fighter.

"If it's just the way it is for now, it's fine. As long as there aren't a lot of monsters with long-range attack capabilities, the overall formation isn't that easily disrupted." Spare Tire was alone in a pickup truck, with ingots piled up beside him, and his left arm turned into an anti-aircraft machine gun that kept pointing at the sky, "But looking at this trend, there's no guarantee that there will be."

"Damn, if it's my brother, just cut the crap, you ravenous bastard!" The tire looked bad and cursed.

I don't know what happened, but the surrounding mutants suddenly began to become far stronger than before.

The previous mutants were still largely in human form, but now the new mutants that had appeared had changed significantly in size.

The quadrupedal walking, insect-like, winged ones ......

It is not the beasts that were simply enlarged in the zoo in the first wave, nor the humanoid monsters that were mutated by humans in the second wave, but a mixture of the two, with their features mixed together haphazardly.

In terms of attack methods, the new mutants have also diversified.

Either remotely spitting acid or firing spikes, the melee individuals have become more resistant, more agile, and more hardened.

"The pressure's a little ...... high! Brother Tire!"

Xia Xiaolei relied on his superior resilience and versatility to stay at the top of the advancement line, but now there was some strain. Although the resilience of the alien insect armor was strong, it also required a large amount of energy to replenish. After the new enemy appeared, Xia Xiaolei's frequency of firing the biomass hot-wire cannon suddenly multiplied several times, and within a few minutes, he already had to replenish his sugar once to provide heat.

"Tian Lie, go to the front!" Tire locked eyes, "Don't you have group attack skills! When it's time to use it, it's time to use it! If you need an ingot, get a spare tire to replenish it!"

"Don't give orders to my fucking master!" Tian Lie grimaced, but still quickly rushed to the front of the team, jumped onto a thunderstorm chariot, opened his mouth wide and roared, a sound wave spread out to the front.

In the path of the sound waves, cracks appeared in the asphalt, while the mutants were even more shocked and tumbled to the ground, the brunt of the few were even directly shaken into pulp.

"This guy, now his temper has gotten better." Roddy looked down in the cockpit and muttered quietly.