Two hours after leaving the camp, the three squads of 033 successively met up with the tiger pack.

The tiger pack was large in number and spread out over a wide area. The captain received messages from Jiang Shuyin and the other team almost simultaneously.

Immediately issue the order: move at full speed towards the animal protection association! Animal traps have already been set up there; maintain a distance of more than five meters from the tiger pack.

They were too close to the tiger pack, and the road was difficult to travel. As Jiang Shu turned the car around, she instructed ICE: "Put a block of ice where the tigers are resting to slow them down."

ICE immediately climbed to the skylight and stood there, releasing his powers towards the spot where the tiger's claws had landed.

ICE could easily handle a few tigers, but it was struggling against a dozen or so. Jiang Shuyin then said, "Shui Ning, control the tigers at the front and make them stay where they are for now."

Shui Ning closed her eyes and focused her mind. The three young men saw in the rearview mirror that the tiger statue, which was about to chase the car, had been frozen in place.

"Do any of you three have special abilities? Since you're here, you must have some skills you can show off, right?" Jiang Shu asked, leading the car away.

The young man shook his head first, burying his face in his chest, his expression unreadable.

The other two exchanged glances, and the one wearing a ring on her hand said, "I have fire-based abilities, but they're not very offensive."

Jiang Shuyin didn't say anything, thinking to herself: Why isn't the fire element more aggressive?

The boy with the buzz cut said, "I don't have any superpowers, and my physical fitness isn't up to par... but I can do anything."

The young, handsome man and the fire-type man both looked at him. Jiang Shuyin frowned slightly: "Then you can watch the child for me first. We need to speed things up."

The lead tiger ran at an extremely fast speed, exceeding the world record for the fastest tiger speed, 100 km/h.

The man with the buzz cut tried to help the swaying ICE, but was glared at and withdrew his hand in frustration.

Jiang Shuyin slowly pressed the accelerator, and the car reached a speed of 120 lm/h. This speed might not be noticeable on the highway, but in the dense forest, every turn left the people behind her behind.

The man with the buzz cut shielded the two girls, cushioning their impact with his own hand each time they were about to collide.

Taking advantage of the straight road ahead, Jiang Shuyin glanced at the location of the conservation association. There were still 67km to go, with the tigers in hot pursuit. A group of tigers followed behind the leading tiger king.

"Are they too hungry?" the fire-elemental man asked.

Then they ate them.

Upon hearing this, everyone else shrank into a corner, wishing they could blend into the car.

Halfway through the journey, I felt like my bones were about to separate from my body.

After crossing a river, the tiger pack suddenly stopped following them and jumped into the river to lick the water and soak. Jiang Shuyin stopped 1,000 meters away from them to observe.

Just as I raised my hand to check the positions of the other two teams, a roar shook the mountains and forests, and a slightly larger red dot rushed towards the car.

The violent impact sent the car, weighing tens of tons, flying several meters. Had the body and windows not been made of bulletproof materials, it would likely have been destroyed.

A huge tiger strode out from the side of the car, roared, and leaped onto the hood, its eyes gleaming with ferocity.

Jiang Shuyin covered her head and stared at the tiger that had climbed onto the hood, determined not to lose in terms of momentum:

"ICE, cover the car with ice. Black Plum, protect it. Water Ning, attack with me."

"Why are you all here?" The man with the buzz cut saw the tiger, which had been in the river, twist its body and came over, surrounding them.

ICE has already started, and ice is gradually forming on the outside of the train cars, getting thicker and thicker.

Realizing the difference, the tiger swung its paw and smashed the ice, creating a large hole.

ICE pursed his lips, his superpowers being released at an accelerated pace in his hand, quickly patching up the hole and continuing to thicken it.

The tiger slapped at it again, but the ice didn't change; it continued to thicken. The tiger tried several times but couldn't break through, so it circled the ice cover once and then lay down to rest beside the ice.

Jiang Shuyin and Shui Ning began to act, two strands of spiritual energy piercing through the ice and reaching towards the tiger's head.

Animals are more sensitive to external stimuli than humans. Perhaps they have also evolved in the apocalypse. When the mental energy approached, the tiger immediately ran away and stared warily at the car.

"Roar—" The other tigers obeyed the tiger king's command and retreated fifty meters.

Jiang Shuyin took some time to look at the satellite map on her bracelet and asked the system: Have these tigers mutated?

[Due to certain factors, a group of genetic locks on mammals have been unlocked, bringing them close to the standards of intelligent life.]

Human DNA, like animal and plant DNA, is a double helix structure composed of two strands. The only difference is the arrangement and length of the base pairs in different DNA molecules.

Why do all living organisms share the same set of codons, but only humans have achieved intelligent life?

The answer could be that the translated protein structures are different, or that humans have fewer gene locks than animals and plants.

Jiang Shuyin wondered if the emergence of superpowers in people was also due to the unlocking of a set of genetic locks in their bodies. This question was worth pondering, but now was not the time.

On the map, the team leader and the other team saw the dense red dots on her side, so they chose to take a detour and asked her if it was safe.

Jiang Shu replied: Yes.

After turning off the bracelet, Jiang Shuyin called to Shui Ning: "Continue the attack and drive them away."

The ice layer both protected and restricted them. The temperature inside the car dropped to single digits, and the three young men, wearing short sleeves, huddled together for warmth, shivering all over.

They were close together so they could whisper to each other. The fire-type man, who was least afraid of the cold, was squeezed in the middle and thought, "Aren't they cold? Even kids are physically stronger than me?"

Crew cut: "So this is the kind of strength the captain meant."

The young man raised his chin, his heart pounding, a strong desire to possess power welling up within him: Why not me? I can do better than her.

Jiang Shuyin could hear the buzz cut and the fire elementalist's conversation, but she couldn't hear the young man's inner thoughts.

After the tigers were driven a hundred meters away, she used her mental power to open a path, broke through the melting ice layer inside, and rushed out.

She floored the accelerator, and the people in the car were pressed tightly against the backrests, unable to straighten up.