Inside the shelter.

Lin Yi didn't want to sleep anymore.

So he helped Giselle prepare breakfast.

While cutting vegetables, Lin Yi asked the woman.

"How does it feel to become a professional? Do you feel any different, or how should I put it?"

"It's wonderful, boss! I feel like I really look younger and more beautiful now."

"Hey, you're right. Your skin looks much healthier, especially the color."

"Thank you, boss! I..."

Lin Yi had brought trouble upon himself.

For the next half an hour, Giselle chattered incessantly.

When the sleepy core members finally leisurely made their way to the breakfast table, Giselle dragged them into a conversation about beauty topics.

When Chen Youyou appeared, everyone fell silent and stared at her.

Since she learned the "Charm" skill, she became very, very beautiful, but... she looked exactly the same as before...

During the meal, everyone discussed the breeding of "silk spiders" raised by the Faru people.

Orianna and Regina had the elves fly back to their city and bring the spiders to a special farm prepared for them.

These creatures eat spider moss and insects, so the shelter also started breeding bugs.

The Faru elves also shared some secrets of collecting spider silk. For instance, you only need to cut open the back of the spider's body, take out a jelly-like silk material, and then process it into fabric.

But the spider cannot survive this process...

The Faru elves didn't care much, as these spiders were also very tasty.

Annie tried to imagine those cute little elves eating spiders, and ended up losing her appetite for the entire day...

"Martha, where's the professor?"

After drinking a large cup of strong coffee, Lin Yi asked, wanting to discuss the medical workshop with the professor.

The nurse quickly swallowed a slice of toast spread with jam, then answered.

"He's helping Louis repair vehicles, boss."

"Why? He's not a mechanician..."

"He said all knowledge is interconnected..."

At this moment, Melanie, sitting next to Xiaochuan, added with a smile.

"I heard the professor say he is very interested in those transparent-skinned invaders and has already studied elves, beastmen, and the Hilania people."

"Hilania people?"

"Boss... that's what those black people from the fragments of the underground shelter are called."

Chen Youyou explained to the boss.

Lin Yi nodded, indicating he understood.

"Solomon, how are the soldiers resting?"

"Boss, very well!"

Solomon was accustomed to using the shelter's healing spring to relieve soldiers' fatigue and muscle soreness, a good method learned from practice.

After breakfast, Lin Yi headed to the frontline.

Everyone was with him.

Hubert began to report the situation.

"Boss, we have collected all the rewards from the zombies killed when Da Chuan turned into a giant dragon, a total of nine! We also scouted that piece of the wandering island. All the zombies are in the desert, besieging the enemy ark."

"What about the spoils?"

"We collected them all, but most are first and second-level weapons."

"Understood. Any good stuff?"

"There's some quite nice second-level long spears, but the rest is all junk."

"Alright, we'll consider that later. How about the invaders?"

"Their city fell about an hour ago, with the surviving remnants retreating into some caves, but they won't last long."

When Hubert answered, there wasn't a trace of sadness or sympathy on his face.

These sun people were planning to invade their home just yesterday; without the boss, perhaps it would've been the shelter's downfall.

Lin Yi thought for a moment, then asked, "What's the situation with the zombies now?"

"There are about five thousand evolved zombies, two hundred second and third-level mutants, and one fourth-level. There are many first-level zombies, but fortunately, most of the zombie insects were killed by the Sun Army."

"Got it, Da Chuan, fly over there and take down some powerful zombies. But don't take unnecessary risks, especially don't do anything stupid."

"Yes, boss!"

Da Chuan replied, ran twenty meters away, then suddenly leapt, transforming into a giant dragon, flying towards the Sun people's ark.

This operation prepared four trucks and over twenty jeeps.

The vehicles were already waiting on the fragments, and the soldiers were in position, lightly equipped.

The main goal this time was to carry out some "offensive reconnaissance."

Lin Yi didn't want to take unnecessary risks.

They now had a reconnaissance drone, so unless the zombies learned to hide in the sand, no one could ambush them...

A road ran all the way through the fragment.

At the boundary with the ark, the road directly turned into sand, making the ride rather bumpy.

A red sun hung in the sky, intensely hot.

The temperature far exceeded one hundred degrees!

Fortunately, everyone was equipped with power armor, which included life support and temperature control systems.

Driving on the sand was tough, so when one of the trucks suddenly broke down, Lin Yi wasn't surprised.

He abandoned that truck, transferred people onto another truck, and continued on.

As the scouts advanced through the desert, the fire-breathing Da Chuan Dragon was causing havoc in the city.

Da Chuan truly enjoyed being a Giant Dragon, constantly gaining a massive amount of Experience Points, turning the desert into a Purgatory with Flames.

...

When Lin Yi saw a ten-meter wall built from sand mixed with some kind of debris, he frowned.

"Their wall seems too small... Seems like he has only dealt with the weak fragments like the Beastmen once did... Haha, blow this gate to smithereens."

"Yes, boss!" Solomon prepared for action.

But everyone's headsets buzzed with Hubert's anxious voice.

"Boss, Da Chuan was shot down, he's still alive, managed to land on the palace rooftop, but mutant zombies want to turn him into a zombie bone dragon!"

"I ordered that fool to be careful!"

Lin Yi slapped his forehead, but he had already planned ahead.

In truth, he knew Da Chuan got a bit carried away after becoming a dragon, and this time he intended to humble him a bit.

"Blow open the gate, activate the bait, thrash the zombies until we're tired, then leave here, oh, and I still need to find the Ark's lord."

Lin Yi commanded, put on his helmet, mounted his Fourth Level motorcycle, and issued commands mentally.

The "Dagger" motorcycle roared to life, switched to flight mode, and began to take off.

Lin Yi had never tried flying the motorcycle this high before, but now he planned to fly over the wall...

Magic Power consumption increased to 100 units per hour.

Magic Power consumption increased to 250 units per hour.

Magic Power consumption increased to 500 units per hour.

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The motorcycle struggled, but eventually reached a height of ten meters, flying up the wall.

This city was built following the finest traditions of Ancient Egypt, but its current state was quite miserable.

Signs of battle were everywhere—

Bloodstains, innards, severed limbs, everything was present!

Several places were on fire, with smoke thick in the air, but this was likely Da Chuan's handiwork.

The rider Lin Yi accelerated along the city wall, placing a zombie bait every half kilometer and cranking its intensity to the maximum.

When he reached the middle of the north wall, he turned around, heading towards the rooftop of a building.

Hordes of ordinary zombies, began losing control from the mutant zombies, rushing towards the bait from the city streets.

Lin Yi flew over rooftop after rooftop, using the motorcycle's laser to eliminate some blocking zombies.

He didn't take long to reach his destination.

The injured Giant Dragon rested on the palace rooftop, occasionally spitting flames at enemies attempting to construct a zombie wall, but its Physical Strength and Magic Power were quickly depleting…

There was a singular road leading to that mountain.

That mountain was a huge stone road, about fifteen meters above the ground, covered with blood and bodies, and filled with zombies everywhere.

Despite the bait, these zombies wouldn't budge, which meant they were likely controlled by a more powerful foe than the mutant zombies.

Lin Yi activated the ramming Shield, floored the gas pedal, speeding along the stone road, crushing every zombie in his path into pulp.

The "Dagger" was equipped with six Second Level cores, and one Third Level core, now consuming energy at a tremendous rate.

After dispatching two Third Level mutants.

The "Dagger" drove into the cave.

The cave was full of torches, walls reinforced, floor tiled, though nearly invisible under the heaps of bodies piled at the cave's bottom.

A fierce battle had once taken place at the entrance, judging by the faint echoes Lin Yi heard from afar, the battle had moved deeper into the cave.

He occasionally stopped to swap the motorcycle's energy core, quickly advancing through the cave, stopping only when encountering armored zombies.

The Shield couldn't penetrate their Armor, could only knock them down, which consumed a lot of energy.

Lin Yi had to use the Laser Gun to shoot these enemies, wasting a bit of time.

After killing another batch of zombies, he stared into this enormous and dark cave.

There were shadowy arches here, at the cave's farthest, darkest corner, lay a gigantic object.

This huge thing was alive, still moving, emitting a low rumbling sound.

This massive beast was chained to the wall, almost invisible in the thick shadows.

Its claws scraped the stone walls, sending chills down Lin Yi's spine.

The ground surrounding this creature was littered with cocoons.

Too many to count!

Everywhere Lin Yi looked, rows of eggs were neatly arranged on every surface.

And they weren't small centipede eggs, but more like the ones from the movie "Alien."

Huge and terrifying, engulfed in darkness, the whole cave was filled with them.

There were also people, more like humanoid beings.

Thousands of them... Due to the dim light, it was impossible to know their exact number.

There were cries of children, comforting voices of women, and a few officers and doctors seriously discussing at the edge of the battlefield—

"Your Highness, the next generation of beetles will hatch in an hour, we…"

"We won't last that long."

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