Lin Ruo's eyes flashed with blue light. Since it was so intelligent, she would let it see how lucky it was!

She quickly raised her hands, instantly activating Absolute Zero. Centered on herself, ice spread rapidly, freezing everything in its path. Even the underground pipes covered in ice were devoid of life!

This is Lin Ruo's most powerful attack with the largest range, capable of spreading outwards for a full kilometer!

This move is highly destructive and has a wide range, but it also consumes a lot of supernatural power. With Lin Ruo's level 6 water-type supernatural power, he can only use this move once.

The mutated rats outside the frozen circle instantly sped up their escape, disappearing into the underground drainage pipes as if flying.

Lin Ruo's face was slightly pale as she stood in the center of the frozen circle, surrounded by an aura of icy coldness.

Within a radius of one kilometer, there was a white, cold mist everywhere, like frost, snow, or fog, creating a hazy, indistinct atmosphere.

The temperature was so low that it felt like it could freeze a person to pieces.

"If you're lucky and don't fall within this area, I'll let you off the hook today!"

A bright white light shone in her eyes, and all the mutated rats that were frozen in the ice were taken into her space.

Having just used so much mental energy to store so many mutated rats into her space, she had no strength left and sat exhausted on the ice.

So it wasn't that she wanted to let the Rat King go; she simply didn't have the strength to chase after him.

"If I still can't get the Rat King's crystal core, then I'm really destined to never have it."

Lin Ruo used the last bit of her mental energy to take out a few crystal cores. Without bothering to choose a location, she simply sat cross-legged in the ice and began to recover her mental energy.

Once her mental strength had recovered somewhat, she withdrew the supernatural power around her, and all the ice instantly turned into ice crystals and dissipated into the air.

She then took out a modified off-road vehicle from her spatial storage, not caring whether the vehicle was too new or whether it would attract attention. She simply didn't have the energy to run or slide back.

Fortunately, she didn't encounter a single person on her drive back, only a few mutated animals, which Lin Ruo shot and killed with a sniper rifle and threw into her space. She returned to the fortress without any major incidents.

When they returned to the fortress, Afu and Ashou had already gone home. Lin Ruo had instructed them not to wait for her and to bring the prey back to the fortress as soon as they caught it.

When they saw Lin Ruo drive back, they went up to him in confusion. They hadn't seen Lin Ruo drive since the apocalypse. If it weren't for Lin Ruo's scent in the air, they would have already attacked.

Afu ran forward a few steps and pressed his big head close to Lin Ruo's car window, "Awoo!"

Lin Ruo got out of the car and put the SUV into her spatial storage. Her face was still a little pale. This rat swarm was really difficult to deal with. Even though she used all her strength, she only eliminated a few hundred thousand of them, which was only a very small part.

Knowing that Afu was worried about her, she patted Afu's outstretched head and comforted her, "It's okay, you're just exhausted. You'll replenish your energy this afternoon."

Ah Fu was relieved. When Ah Shou heard that Lin Ruo was not feeling well, he ran over and wanted Lin Ruo to sit on his lap. "Woof woof!"

Lin Ruo chuckled and shook her head, gently stroking Ah Shou's fur a few times. "It's alright, I'm not that fragile. I've recovered a bit already, I'm fine now."

A willow branch from Ah Liu's hand was wrapped around Lin Ruo's hand and gently swayed, as if Ah Liu was also a little worried.

Lin Ruo sighed helplessly. It seemed that all three of them thought of her as very fragile. Oh well, they were just worried about her.

Lin Ruo looked at the three mutated beasts placed on the fortress platform: a mutated cow and two mutated sheep.

The mutated cow was four meters long, while the mutated sheep was much smaller, only two and a half meters long. Lin Ruo didn't care about the crystal cores and just put them into her space first.

Back home, Lin Ruo insisted on preparing lunch for the three of them. She herself only ate a little before getting up to go to the training room. She needed to recover as soon as possible, as tomorrow was the day the rat swarm from her previous life would break out, and she couldn't be careless.

Lin Ruo sat there for three hours, and it took her nine crystal cores to replenish her depleted supernatural power.

"But it must contain the Rat King's crystal core, otherwise it would be a waste of all my efforts if it were all first-level crystal cores."

Her mental energy probed into the space, took out the mutated rats from the static space, melted the ice, and then began to search for the crystal cores in their brains.

In the end, she searched through all the mutated rats and found only 8,546 level 1 crystal cores, but not a single level 2 one!

Lin Ruo looked at the pile of level-one crystal cores in the space that had suddenly expanded in size, and chuckled, "You're really something, you managed to escape even with all that!"

She was referring to the Rat King, and she was absolutely certain that the real Rat King was present when the fake Rat King died, but despite using her wide-ranging superpowers, she still couldn't catch it!

How cunning!

"Oh well!" Lin Ruo sighed, comforting herself, "If I can't catch it, I can't catch it. It's just a level 2 crystal core anyway!"

Putting aside the fact that she didn't catch the Rat King, Lin Ruo's harvest today was enormous. She collected over 8,000 crystal cores. Normally, it would take her many days to defeat her, but she collected so many in just one day!

As she mentally touched the piles of crystal cores in the space, she pondered that although the rat swarm was terrifying, hiding in the back would bring many benefits.

But how could he possibly survive and kill all these rats? Lin Ruo withdrew his mental energy from the space and began to ponder this question.

By the time she came out of the training room, it was already dark.

Afu and Ashou were lying in front of the training room door. As soon as Lin Ruo came out, they raised their heads. They were relieved to see that she was in good condition and no longer looked pale and unable to walk.

"I already told you I'm fine."

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