The next evening, as soon as Lin Ruo opened her eyes, she felt the oppressive atmosphere. After washing up briefly, she walked outside the fortress wearing short sleeves and shorts. The sky outside was gloomy, with dark clouds pressing down on her head. The temperature remained high, making her feel as if she had been in a sauna for a long time, and she couldn't breathe at all.

After standing outside for just one minute, Lin Ruo felt sticky all over, unsure whether it was from her sweat or the dampness in the air that was clinging to her skin.

She activated her water-based superpower, and a film of water flowed over her body, washing away the stickiness from her skin without wetting her clothes.

It's going to rain again. When the downpour soaks the soil of the entire mountain and the environment becomes suitable, those sea beasts will come ashore again. She turned to look at the two crystal energy cannons installed on top of the fortress. This time, the crystal cores will definitely be more than last time.

She walked over to A-Liu and carefully taught her how to use the crystal energy cannon. Although she had already taught her once before, she was always afraid that A-Liu would forget.

"...If you think there are too many sea monsters coming ashore and you can't handle them, then use this crystal energy cannon. Don't conserve your crystal cores; just fire at the area with the most mutated sea monsters. Timing is crucial; don't let them get too close, or the explosion might injure you..."

Ah Liu's willow branch kept tapping. The last time its master taught it how to use the crystal energy cannon, it wanted to try out the power of this thing. Now it finally had the chance.

Old Bai also curiously stretched out a branch. It could understand what Lin Ruo was saying, but it didn't understand what it meant for mutated sea monsters to come ashore. Could sea monsters really come ashore?

Once she confirmed that A-Liu was alright, Lin Ruo once again focused her mental energy into the space and checked the truck inside. Today she was going to earn crystal cores, and the thought of soon getting tens of thousands of crystal cores made her feel much more comfortable; the surrounding air seemed to have cooled down.

With this wonderful feeling, she returned to the fortress and began her daily training. This time, she didn't spend much time training and didn't completely exhaust her superpowers. Under these circumstances, she still managed to train for three hours.

After training, she took a nice, relaxing shower, changed into sun-protective clothing, and put on a heat-insulating suit. With a thought, dense water molecules quickly enveloped Lin Ruo, and she instantly transformed into a mutated owl. The owl stood on the ground, flapped its huge wings twice, and immediately took off into the sky.

Because of the sweltering heat, many mutated birds flew low in the sky, hunting insects flying in the low air. Because Lin Ruo's mutated owl was enormous, none of the surrounding birds attacked her; they were only focused on their prey.

This was a novel experience for Lin Ruo. She controlled her mimicry to get closer to the flock of birds, and after flying with them for a while, she flapped her mimicry wings to speed up and leave the flock.

At that moment, a metal arrow shot rapidly toward Lin Ruo. Lin Ruo dodged the metal arrow to the side. She looked down and saw a group of people standing below, wearing the clothes of the Qiyuan Base. Several metal arrows were also around the metal ability user, ready to be fired at her.

Meanwhile, the other ability users in their team also unleashed their abilities at the other mutated birds, indicating that they were specifically hunting mutated beasts. They must have mistaken her for a mutated beast when they attacked her.

Lin Ruo dodged the attacks one after another, but she couldn't let the people below continue to attack her. Her gaze suddenly turned cold, filled with murderous intent. Just as she was about to test the fighting power of this mimicking owl and kill the person who attacked her, she saw smoke rising around them, instantly enveloping everyone.

Lin Ruo blinked in the sky, her figure rising again, but her spiritual power probing downwards. This smoke looked so familiar, it should still be that woman from last time, right?

She flapped her wings, flew downwards, turned and landed on a tall, mutated tree. She unleashed her spiritual power, silently watching below as if she had opened the eye of God.

Sure enough, the woman and her group were all lying in ambush behind the bushes. She was accompanied by two ability users, one a level 3 metal user and the other a level 3 earth user. Their levels were not low. There were also a dozen or so ordinary survivors around her.

They had been waiting in the bushes for a while, just waiting for the right moment to strike. The moment when these superhumans attacked the mutated birds in the sky was the perfect opportunity for this woman to make her move.

After the group of people were drugged and lying on the ground, the woman emerged from behind the bushes. This time...

This time, they still didn't kill these people directly. Instead, they transported them away. The ordinary survivors following behind the three superhumans carried these people onto the wooden planks and pulled them forward.

Lin Ruo's eyes flickered slightly. She had only seen these same people yesterday, and today they were hunting superhumans again. Wasn't the hunting frequency a bit too high? Just how many cannibals were there, consuming them so quickly? Or had all these superhumans been taken back and controlled to be used by them?

Regardless, this matter had nothing to do with her. She looked at the metal-type ability user who had attacked her earlier. She only needed to kill this one person. With a thought, the man's head suddenly exploded, and the crystal core that had been blasted into the air immediately disappeared.

The unexpected turn of events threw everyone into disarray. "What's going on?!"

In an instant, smoke enveloped the entire group. Outside the smoke, a metal shield and an earthen shield immediately appeared. Lin Ruo glanced at them, then controlled the mimic to turn around, spread its wings, and fly into the sky, quickly leaving.

The people below waited for several minutes in their ability shields but saw no other movement. The three ability users removed their ability shields and found that there was nothing around them at all.

The woman frowned as she looked at the headless corpse of the metal-type ability user on the ground and said in a deep voice, "This person's crystal core is missing."

"Hurry! There are experts around. We've been targeted. Go find the boss. Only the boss can deal with this guy." The metal-type ability user didn't care about putting on airs at this moment and quickly pulled the plank away with the ordinary survivors.

The woman and the earth-elemental ability user quickly followed to help.

Lin Ruo quickly moved to the vicinity of the B City base using her mimicry ability. She landed lightly on the branch of a mutated tree, her water-based powers dissipating to reveal her true form. As soon as she removed the water molecules around her, she felt a wave of sweltering heat wash over her, and a fine layer of sweat immediately appeared inside her heat-resistant suit. The weather was truly hot.

Lin Ruo once again activated her supernatural ability to regulate her body temperature. She stood on the mutated tree for several minutes, but the tree did not move at all, as if it were an ordinary tree.

Then a huge truck appeared under the tree. Lin Ruo jumped down from the branch and landed steadily on the ground, deliberately making a sound. But the mutated tree behind her did not move. Lin Ruo slightly raised the corner of her lips. If it didn't want to be taken away by her, then so be it. Anyway, her mutated forest was already quite large. She turned around and got into the truck.

After Lin Ruo drove away in the truck, the mutated tree swayed its branches slightly. My God, that tree was so scary!