His fingers instantly turned into lightning, intending to electrocute the mutated rats to ashes. However, remembering that these creatures were edible, he decided to kill them first and then take their corpses and core crystals.

He wielded lightning with his left hand to attack, while his right hand conjured ice blades to pierce through the rats.

Despite the Lord's tremendous efforts in the battle, the number of mutated rats seemed endless. They kept surging in, as if they could never be eradicated.

The mutated rat king is a mutated fire-elemental rat. It keeps squeaking and giving orders, and occasionally launches a few fire-elemental sneak attacks.

There was no sign of backing down in Junjue's eyes; to him in his previous life, this was just a minor incident.

He knew he had to persevere, otherwise it would be difficult to upgrade his superpower.

He used his teleportation skill to dodge all of the mutated rat king's attacks.

Then, concentrating all their power, they unleashed the full force of lightning and frost to engage in a final battle with the mutated rats.

Time seemed to stand still during this battle, as the power of thunder and frost intertwined in the air, and the mutated rats fell one after another under the bombardment of thunder and fire.

Junjue, drenched in sweat, still stood there, using his strength to protect this last glimmer of hope.

Looking at this desolate place, with smoke billowing everywhere and dust flying all around, his eyes became even more determined.

The mutated rat king had developed intelligence. Seeing that all its subordinates were dead, it stared at the Duke with its scarlet eyes, let out a squeak, and turned to run away.

"Trying to run away? You're the most valuable thing there."

Seeing the mutated rat king trying to escape, the Duke gathered all his supernatural abilities in this life, and instantly a powerful bolt of lightning and two terrifying ice spikes struck the mutated rat king.

"Aww...squeak~".

The resounding crash of the massive object hitting the ground echoed. The Rat King struggled and convulsed a few times before dying.

In the end, all the mutated rats fell to the Lord's power. A semblance of tranquility returned to the supermarket, with only the Lord's breathing echoing in the deathly silence.

Seeing the mountain of mutated rat corpses, the Lord used his psychic powers to envelop the cores of all the mutated rats and gently pulled them outwards.

Instantly, a red, walnut-shaped crystal appeared in the space, along with tens of thousands of crystals the size of longans.

"I didn't expect that there would be level four supernatural animals so soon after the natural disaster. This rat king must have mutated a long time ago."

Thinking back to the news reports I saw six months ago about many cases of people being killed by wild animals, it must have been caused by mutated animals.

In fact, mutated animals have existed for a long time, but people just haven't paid attention to them.

Junjue took a deep breath, feeling the exhaustion in his body. He had almost used up all his superpowers. Fortunately, he had mastered superpowers in his previous life, otherwise he really wouldn't have been able to eat so many mutated rat cores.

With a wave of his hand, he stored all the mutated rat corpses into his spatial storage. He might not eat them himself, but he could give them to the people in his shelter to eat in the future!

Although it tastes terrible, it's still a hundred times better than eating something even more disgusting.

He knew that the mutated creatures in this life were evolving even faster than in his previous life, and this was just the beginning; many more difficulties and trials awaited him.

But he was not afraid, because he believed in his own strength and believed that he could overcome everything.

Seeing the mess on the ground, riddled with holes from the lightning and ice spikes, the Duke brushed the dust off his nose and teleported to the door of the first large warehouse.

Looking at the locked warehouse, he used his ice to freeze the large iron lock, and then used a magical fire to burn it. After a while, the large iron lock fell to the ground with a crack.

I opened the first large warehouse, which was several thousand square meters in size, and saw that it was full of neatly stacked boxes of various new daily necessities. I put them all into my space.

Then they opened a second warehouse, several thousand square meters in size, filled with neatly stacked boxes of compressed biscuits, instant noodles, canned goods, self-heating meals, self-heating hot pots, canned fruit, canned fish, and various canned meats, all of which were stored in the space.

Open the third large warehouse, which spans several thousand square meters. Inside, there are neatly stacked bags and boxes of all kinds of things: rice, flour, rice noodles, various beans, dried goods, and various cured meats and sausages. Put them all into your space.

It seems like this harvest was quite good, and it's all thanks to me for coming here. With so many mutated rats here, who else would dare to come here to die besides me?

It would be such a waste if I didn't come myself. So many good things are in the underground warehouse. If floods and tsunamis come, all the good things will be ruined.

Seeing that there was nothing left to use, the Duke turned around and left the messy place.

He continued onward, searching for the next place with more supplies. Before the mutated creatures grew stronger, he wanted to kill as many as possible and collect as much supplies as he could.

The city may have been destroyed by natural disaster, but he will strive to find a new home and create a better future for himself and other survivors.

Junjue slowly walked out of the supermarket, exhausted and in pain. But he knew he had to persevere.

Behind him lay ruins and desolation, while before him lay the unknown and hope. He decided to continue onward, for survival and the restoration of human dignity, for that once beautiful world.

In this post-apocalyptic adventure, the Lord will face many more difficulties and challenges, but his perseverance and courage will lead him to farther places, to find more resources and hope for the survival of future generations of humanity.

He teleported to another location, ate something to replenish his strength, and allowed his powers to gradually recover.

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