Bai Ling's attempts to stop them were useless; the more they fought, the wider the area affected.

With a loud bang, a huge crater was blasted into the forest. As the dust settled, Gu Lingchuan was thrown directly to Bai Ling, his clothes torn and blood dripping from the corner of his mouth.

But the injury wasn't very serious; he was just exhausted.

"Is that all? If you ever try to boss me around again, I'll cripple you myself." Gu Lingxiao also had many injuries, including a large hole in his chest.

From an outsider's perspective, the two seem to have really fought, even to the point of being irreconcilable.

Bai Ling's eyes instantly reddened. "You guys are brothers, what are you doing?"

"Heh," Gu Lingxiao sneered, then turned and left, disappearing into the forest.

After arriving at a cave, Gu Lingxiao's injuries quickly healed completely.

Upon receiving the news, Hua Zhiyuan quickly arrived at Gu Lingchuan's side and even summoned an evolved human with healing abilities to treat Gu Lingxiao's injuries.

Hua Zhiyuan hadn't expected the two to fight like this. It seems that Gu Lingxiao is the most unstable one. He's too unscrupulous, to the point that even his brother can't stand it anymore. As long as Gu Lingxiao doesn't affect Gu Lingchuan, it seems that Gu Lingchuan can still stay.

If he could separate the two of them, Gu Lingchuan would still be very useful, but only if he obeyed orders. The falling out between the Gu brothers gave him hope that Gu Lingchuan could stay.

The previous decision can be reconsidered. Jiahao's guess was correct. Gu Lingxiao is indeed a dual-ability user, and he is somewhat unscrupulous in his pursuit of his goals. The military absolutely cannot tolerate this.

Hua Zhiyuan even suspected that Lu Ming's riot was orchestrated by Gu Lingxiao, with the aim of eliminating the light element that restrained him.

Once everything had settled down, Gu Lingchuan was taken back to a new house to rest.

After resting for a day, Gu Lingchuan was given permission to take Lin Yu out again to search for traces or remains of the giant alien.

Gu Lingxiao also absorbed the element of light as his fourth superpower.

He rummaged through his pockets but found no crystals. "The consumption was too great; I need to find some crystals to upgrade my Light Element to stage four."

"The element of light is still too weak."

A beam of light shot out from Gu Lingxiao's eyes, only enough to shatter a small piece of rock.

The only consolation was that the attack speed was almost the same as his teleportation speed.

Three more days passed, and on this day, a large number of people arrived at the military survivor base, totaling more than eighty, who also brought with them some control of the weapons there.

Once the launch pad is set up in the Third Military Region, it can provide remote support here. Previously, the authority could be transferred directly, but unfortunately, insufficient power prevented some machines from starting, so the controllers had to be sent over as well.

A small number of them were injured. When they first entered Lijiang Province, the number and strength of the monsters suddenly increased, catching them off guard.

Later, researchers from Wanlin Province also arrived, but the military sent people to meet them; otherwise, they wouldn't have been able to get here at all.

With more people, combat effectiveness increased, morale stabilized immediately, and even fighting spirit was ignited.

On the other side, Gu Lingxiao also raised the light element to the fourth stage, with dark elements permeating one side and light elements permeating the other.

His left pupil turned pure black, like an abyss where not a ray of light could be seen, while his right eye emitted a white light.

After several attempts, the two elements gradually merged. Behind Gu Lingxiao, two elements, one white and one black, rotated rapidly, slowly transforming into the shape of a Tai Chi symbol. His eyes also transformed into Tai Chi symbols, slowly rotating.

This scene resembles a scene from a myth.

The dark element transformed into a giant hand and grabbed a wild rabbit, but instead of corrupting it, it froze it to death alive.

"Haha, it's done!" When using the dark element, as long as the light element is added to balance it, you can distinguish between friend and foe according to your own plan.

When Gu Lingxiao loosened his grip a little, the rabbit's tail was instantly corroded, but it didn't kill the rabbit.

Try increasing the light element; the black hand instantly turned white. The dark element also counterbalanced the light element, otherwise the rabbit would have been burned to death. The light element's regenerative ability was applied to the rabbit, and its corroded tail slowly grew back. The regeneration speed was still acceptable for creatures of lower rank than itself.

I tested my recovery ability on myself, and it had some effect, but not much; it didn't even reach one-tenth of the rapid regeneration.

Fortunately, the stacking effect can be stacked, making Gu Lingxiao even harder to kill.

Now he can go back and try out that sniper rifle. He had previously thought about whether he could enchant technological weapons, such as imbuing bullets with dark elements, which would make them even more powerful.

They even used elements to create bullets, achieving an unlimited ammo effect. Unfortunately, when they tried it before, the dark elements corroded the bullets and even the gun itself.

Meanwhile, Gu Lingchuan has also made new progress.

A large number of aliens gathered in the underground river not far from the military survivor base, only a couple hundred meters below the surface.

The news was quickly relayed to Hua Zhiyuan. Upon receiving the news, Hua Zhiyuan realized it was too late to use weapons of mass destruction. If he dared to bomb, he could even blow up the military survivor base.

Low-powered firearms couldn't inflict much damage on the aliens.

Quickly gather people to find a solution.

When the only conclusion is reached that if the aliens launch an attack, they have only one path to take, and no other choice.

"Are we really going to retreat?"

Personnel can be evacuated, but a lot of equipment and thermal weapons have to be left here, as well as a relatively important satellite control station.

Moving things out was difficult even before the apocalypse, let alone now. In the past, it might have been possible to transfer control to other military regions, but now there's a lack of talent in that area.

The solution was to "first evacuate the civilians, leave some mobile troops behind, and then decide whether to retreat or defend based on the situation."

Gu Lingchuan was also present at the meeting. This result left him speechless. If they left, then they would have to find a way to evacuate their survivor base as well.

Without the military survivor base acting as bait, the aliens might attack their survivor base instead.

They couldn't stop them at all back then.

After the meeting, Lin Yu found Gu Lingchuan and said, "Lingchuan, I've discovered a place, in that underground river. The animals I sent there lost all contact the moment they arrived, and they haven't sent any messages back."

"I want to send down an evolved creature that I've subdued and established a connection with to see what's going on through its eyes."

Gu Lingchuan thought for a moment and then directly refused, "If that really is that giant alien, you might become deformed if you accidentally make eye contact with it."

"If it's just a mutation, that might be okay, but if it merges with the power of corruption and turns into a zombie, then it can never turn back."