Regardless of how rich Itef's inner monologue was or how much he struggled, Lin Ruoke activated her mental power, and several water blades within the water membrane immediately began to rotate.

The water sphere, more than a meter in diameter, was like a giant meat grinder. The water blades slashed at Itef's body. After he turned into a beetle, his shell was originally very hard, not as hard as underground ore but not much harder. However, under these water blades, such a shell was like waste paper, and was almost instantly shattered by the spinning water blades.

Under intense pain, Itef could no longer maintain his transformation and reverted to his original form. He was covered in blood and, under the high-speed rotation of the water blades, was shredded into a pool of flesh and blood in just a few seconds.

Chen Yu stood behind Lin Ruo, utterly shocked by what he witnessed. A level six expert had been dealt with by Lin Ruo just like that, without even leaving her current position the entire time.

Lin Ruo didn't just throw the pile of flesh on the ground. Instead, she turned to Chen Yu and asked, "This thing is a bit disgusting. Where should we throw it?"

Chen Yu looked up at the mass of flesh and blood enveloped in a film of water in mid-air, and could only shout outside, ordering someone to bring a huge iron bucket, "Just throw it here, I'll have someone come in and deal with it."

Lin Ruo manipulated the water sphere to fly above the iron bucket. In an instant, the water film disappeared, and the blood-red liquid fell into the iron bucket. The superhuman responsible for bringing the iron bucket in turned pale. It was indeed disgusting.

After the blood mud was poured into the container, a colorless crystal core flew out from it. Although it flew out of the flesh and blood, it was not stained with any blood and was extremely clean and transparent, just like a colorless crystal. It flew directly into Lin Ruo's palm.

Lin Ruo only glanced at it before throwing the extremely rare level-six ability crystal core directly into her spatial storage. She couldn't absorb it, so it was just for decoration, and naturally she didn't show much enthusiasm for it.

After finishing all this, Lin Ruo turned to Chen Yu and said, "Let's go find the others."

Half an hour later, Lin Ruo followed Chen Yu out of the prison cell. After leaving the cell, Chen Yu subconsciously let out a breath. In the past half hour, he had witnessed all sorts of ways to die and had gained a deeper understanding of the flexibility of Lin Ruo's ability to use her special ability.

He never knew that someone could use their superpowers so flexibly. He even secretly tried to control his superpowers according to Lin Ruo's method, but found that he couldn't do it at all. His superpowers simply wouldn't obey his commands.

When Lin Ruo came out, she was unusually cheerful. From now on, her list of enemies had been temporarily cleared, and she no longer needed to think about this matter all the time.

She turned to look at Chen Yu and said, "I've finished my business, so I'll be leaving now."

Chen Yu glanced at the darkening sky, then looked back at Lin Ruo beside him. Only when standing next to this person could he truly feel that she was a human being, not a high and mighty god.

"It's already dark, and the mutated sea monsters are just emerging from their nests. It's a bit risky for you to go out like this..."

He was about to say it was unsafe, but remembering Lin Ruo's methods that he had witnessed before, he couldn't bring himself to say the words "unsafe."

"...It's inconvenient." In the end, he found another excuse for himself.

Lin Ruo shook her head. What was inconvenient for her was being in this base.

"It's alright, I know what I'm doing. I'm leaving."

Having wasted so much time, she wanted to go back into the ocean to see if there were any more of those white crystals. She couldn't let all her time be wasted here.

After saying that, without waiting for Chen Yu to react, she activated her mental power, and a pair of ice wings unfolded on her back, reflecting a diamond-like light under the streetlights.

With a flap of her wings, she flew rapidly into the distant sky and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

The air around him still carried a slight chill from the appearance of those ice wings. Chen Yu looked at the figure that had long since disappeared into the distance, and only after a long while did he turn his gaze away. He sent a message to Jiang Yue, telling him that Lin Ruo had left the United States, and then turned and walked towards his residence.

Under the rare starry sky in this apocalyptic world, Chen Yu felt an unprecedented envy for Lin Ruo. As fellow people in the apocalypse, they all carried too heavy burdens and were far less free and unrestrained than she was. How could she possibly stop moving forward?

Thinking of this, he suddenly chuckled. The apocalypse might be coming to an end soon, and once everything was back on track, he should go and pursue his own freedom.

...

In the pitch-black night, the moonlight illuminated the shimmering sea. Lin Ruo was flying low over the sea. The sea area near the Arles Mountains used to be part of the territory of the United States. It was later submerged by the sea and formed the ocean, so it is not very deep even at the seabed.

With Lin Ruo's mental power, she could easily scan the seabed. She was just flying through the sky, and she could see everything that was happening on the seabed at a glance.

After flying for several hundred kilometers, Lin Ruo paused, hovering in mid-air. He frowned slightly. The crack and the white crystal he had seen earlier were clearly not easy to form; it might take ten years to form such a crystal. The seawater had just been brought up, so there couldn't possibly be anything special underwater.

It seems that to find such a good thing, she still has to go to the deep sea. Searching her mind for the locations of those extremely deep sea areas before the apocalypse, she defined the scope for herself in her mind. After determining her target, she quickly teleported away in that direction.