"Look how scared you were just now."
Zhang Hao chuckled: "That locust was only level six, and you're already level seven and you're still such a coward? Ya Ya, you're such a scaredy-cat!"
"I didn't know it was level six," Raven said, pursing his lips.
"Don't even mention level six, you can handle most level seven opponents as long as they're not mental types. Right now, besides me, you're the strongest in our Dawn Society. You can't stay like this."
Zhang Hao patiently said, "You need to train properly. At least you can't be so cowardly. Next time we encounter a level seven creature... I'll leave it to you to handle."
"???"
"Why? I'm just a crow, why should I need to build up my courage?"
"I just want to watch TV shows on my days, is that so hard? Dad... I'm only two years old. By human standards, I'm still a baby. Aren't you being a little too harsh on me?"
The raven looked utterly dejected.
Zhang Hao rolled his eyes: "You call yourself a baby? If we're talking about age by crow's standards, two months is already considered an adult... You're practically an old bird at that age, what's so harsh about that?"
"But……"
The raven said pitifully, "In my father's heart, I will always be a baby. I'm scared."
"Scared of what? Stop joking with me, there's no room for negotiation on this."
Zhang Hao was speechless.
In his past life, Raven was a formidable character.
They're the kind of people who'll shoot someone in the head at the slightest provocation, especially under Liu Yun's tutelage; Raven is practically a vicious demon in Linhai City.
Back then, as soon as the raven appeared...
Everyone understood that someone was going to die.
How come the raven has become such a docile girl in my hands? It's even afraid of a level 6 mutated locust.
Could it be that...
Is it because you've watched "Empresses in the Palace" too much?
Shaking his head to stop thinking about it, Zhang Hao had the Devilfish Clan Chief retrieve the crystal core and killed a total of 520,000 mutated locusts.
These locusts appear to be numerous.
But in reality, it doesn't even qualify as the smallest locust plague, because the number of locusts was already enormous before the apocalypse. It is said that in one year, the number of locusts on the entire planet reached over 400 billion.
What does 400 billion mean?
This is equivalent to more than forty times the total number of humans before the apocalypse.
This terrifying number of locusts is enough to sweep across almost every part of the world.
After the apocalypse, locusts will also mutate, but fortunately, locusts have a very simple biological structure, so the mutation process is not very fast.
Billions of locusts will not all mutate in a short period of time.
However, the locust population is so large that even with only a one in a thousand chance of mutation, there are still 400 million locusts that have already mutated.
A mere 500,000 locusts, not even one percent of the total.
Moreover, what's most terrifying about locusts isn't their sheer numbers, but rather their extremely short breeding cycle, which takes only two weeks.
They reproduce in an explosive manner.
Rapidly increasing the number of locusts will greatly increase the probability of mutations in the locusts that breed from the mutated locusts.
Once the time is right.
A locust plague of hundreds of billions sweeping the globe would be a catastrophe for humanity.
However, this is only one kind of creature. Other mutated creatures are equally threatening. While the unfathomable ocean creatures are certainly terrifying, what is terrifying is that there are too many creatures on the entire planet Earth.
The already small human population sees almost no hope.
The only fortunate thing is that the mutated creatures are not monolithic; they have natural enemies and cannibalize each other... Moreover, some mutated creatures can be recruited into the human camp.
But that's far from enough.
Humans need to become stronger; superpowers are only the foundation.
Biological modification experiments, supersequence metals—we have to get them all done. Only by becoming strong can we survive in this cruel apocalypse.
It was afternoon.
Zhang Hao and his group arrived in Da Nang, a city on the Annamese border.
This city is located by the sea and is one of the five municipalities directly under the central government in Annam. The urban area is divided into Hai Chau County, Thanh Khe County, Lien Nam County, Son Cha County, and Ngo Hang Son County.
Soncha County is a forested peninsula.
It is similar to Leizhou City, but its area is less than one-third of Leizhou City.
Upon arriving at Camellia Island, one is greeted by lush green forests, with hardly a decent street in sight.
There was no one guarding it.
"..."
Xu Mo muttered under his breath, "President, there's not a soul in sight along their peninsula's coastline. Aren't they afraid of being invaded by awakened individuals from other countries? Are the Annamese really that careless?"
"It's not that they're casual, it's that everyone does this in the apocalypse."
Zhang Hao shook his head: "There are threats from marine life along the coastline. They don't want to waste manpower and resources in this area, and they don't care about invasion at all. Everyone is on edge, and they can't even control themselves, let alone foreigners?"
“Since we’re using Leizhou as our base city, we naturally need outposts and the like for security. Look at Qiongzhou Island, almost all the Awakened organizations don’t gather near the coastline, so there’s no difference.”
"But isn't this still not a good thing?" Xu Mo asked again.
"Of course, when a large number of foreigners enter a country, do you think they come with good intentions? Aren't they still here to plunder resources? Or they can't make it in their own country, so they come to other countries to bully others."
Zhang Hao said thoughtfully, "After we go back and occupy Qiongzhou Island, we will need to build a lot of outposts for guarding, not only to guard against threats from marine life... but also to prevent foreigners from coming in."
"Let's forget about that for now, let's..."
He wasn't finished yet.
Strange noises came from the beach nearby.
There was a strange creature with a pale yellow shell, and in front of the shell were tentacles that looked like an elephant's trunk, each about half a meter long.
It crawled over from not far away.
Even though it's a peristaltic movement.
But they are very fast.
They quickly approached Zhang Hao and his group, attempting to attack them.
Xu Mo's eyes widened, exclaiming repeatedly, "Holy crap! What a huge mutated geoduck! It must be five or six times the size it was before the apocalypse! Its tentacles are over thirty centimeters long, so long and thick..."
Zhang Hao's eyes gleamed: "It is indeed a geoduck clam."
"The quantity doesn't seem to be large. Remember to capture them alive... Bringing them back can help Fang Ping recover; this stuff is a very aphrodisiac seafood."
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