Fang Ling and Li Ke lowered their heads, clenched their fists, and remained silent.
"Tsk tsk tsk~" A woman's voice rang out from behind, "Look at you, Lin Ruo, you risked your life, even going against us to protect them, but what did they do? They easily abandoned you for such a small amount of profit!"
As the sound drew closer, a woman in a white coat approached step by step, holding an umbrella. Her face was mocking. "What's the use of a level five ability user? What's the use of strong combat power? Right now, aren't you lying in front of me like a dog?"
This woman is Zhou Qing, the director of the research institute; she is the one who developed the crystal nucleus transfer method.
She slowly squatted down, her smile deepening. She reached out and touched Lin Ruo's face. "When you were always going against me, did you ever think about what would happen to you today?"
Lin Ruo smiled gently upon hearing this. She was already very beautiful. Lu Qi and the others only thought that Zhou Qing wanted to kill her, but they didn't know that Zhou Qing was the one who wanted to get her crystal core, for her experiment and for the greed of those higher-ups!
Lu Qi and his group were merely pawns for Zhou Qing and those higher-ups! Unfortunately, they only realized this when they were about to be discarded…
Those superhumans who defend Zhou Qing will eventually become her experimental subjects under her scalpel, and then they will realize how wrong they were!
In essence, crystal core transfer is transferring the crystal core in the brain of an ability user to an ordinary person without mental power, allowing that ordinary person to gain the same abilities as the original ability user, only that the abilities cannot be upgraded.
The happiest people about this research were the high-ranking officials in the base who didn't have superpowers. These people held high positions of power, and who wouldn't want to have superpowers themselves, not only to have explosive combat power but also to extend their lives?
Among the higher-ups, Lin Ruo, as the captain of the superpower team, resolutely resisted this research, even at the cost of going against all the higher-ups.
Unfortunately... in the end she still lost, defeated by the brothers and sisters she fought for.
How ridiculous! Those people don't even know the principle of "the rabbit dies, the hound is cooked"—how stupid!
Having witnessed the wickedness of humanity since the apocalypse, she laughed less and less. Now, her smile was like a plum blossom blooming in the snow, incomparably beautiful.
The apocalypse... it's really tough. Not only do we have to deal with mutated plants and animals and cope with ever-changing natural disasters, but we also have to deal with human nature!
Is there any need to preserve such a wicked place? No!
Lin Ruo's mental energy was running wildly, and a blue light flashed in her eyes. She could now mobilize her supernatural abilities, but they were very weak.
"The base commander won't agree to you doing this." Lin Ruo's superpower was too weak; she needed to buy herself some more time.
"Pshaw!" Zhou Qing sneered. "Do you think I could have mobilized so many high-level ability users today without the base commander's approval?! Naïve!"
"If Chen Yu hadn't been secretly protecting you all this time, do you think you would still be safe now?" Zhou Qing said sarcastically, as if she had the victory in her grasp.
"He always stood by your side, but what was his final fate? In the end, he still perished in the belly of a mutated beast!"
Although she had already made up her mind, Lin Ruo still closed her eyes sadly. Zhou Qing's words were like a sharp knife, piercing her heart.
The person who protected her died a tragic death; the person who promoted her and had her complete trust in her ultimately chose to send her to her doom.
She smiled gently; it was time.
Her mental energy was ready to be unleashed, and her tone became increasingly calm: "Very good, very good. Since those who truly cared for me are dead, there is nothing left here worth keeping."
Zhou Qing was startled and quickly stood up, looking at Lin Ruo with suspicion. Although Lin Ruo was a space-type ability user, her powerful combat strength still frightened her.
She quickly turned to her assistant and said, "Quick, get another P2 potion!"
Lin Ruo's eyes curved slightly, filled with malice. The reason she had wasted so much time arguing with them was indeed to buy time. Her teammates knew her best.
Her superpower was mutated, and her resistance to the drug was stronger than that of ordinary superpowers. However, she was not trying to escape. After experiencing this betrayal, she had become disillusioned with this cannibalistic apocalypse.
"You want the crystal core in my brain?" Lin Ruo's smile vanished, a faint blue light shone from her hand, and the surrounding blizzard suddenly froze in mid-air. "I'll give it to you right now!"
"What?!"
The confident smiles of the twenty-odd people present suddenly froze. They could feel the pressure emanating from the surrounding air, and a chill rose from their limbs.
Zhou Qing turned and ran, screaming hysterically as she ran, "Kill her! Quickly!"
In an instant, bursts of supernatural light flashed rapidly through the darkness, fireballs, earth spikes, ice cones... all rushing towards Lin Ruo, but were blocked by a transparent water membrane. The water membrane was incredibly tough, and those supernatural powers could not harm Lin Ruo in the slightest.
For so many years, no one knew that she was actually a dual-elemental ability user, but now she no longer needs to hide it.
Lin Ruo's expression grew colder, her face paler, and a stream of bright red blood flowed from the corner of her mouth. At the same time, the surrounding blizzard melted into water, frantically converging towards her to form a huge water sphere. The water sphere rapidly increased in size and was then rapidly compressed, its power multiplying with each contraction and expansion.
"Run!"
Seeing that they couldn't break through Lin Ruo's defenses, the composure on their faces vanished, and the horror in their hearts could no longer be concealed. They retreated hastily, wishing they had more legs to escape, but it was too late.
A massive, deep blue, high-pressure water bomb was ready in the blink of an eye, and a blinding light flashed.
Lin Ruo used the energy from his self-destruction to ignite the water bomb. The enormous explosive energy spread out, carrying a world-destroying force, and quickly swept away those who wanted to escape. Those people were blown to dust before they could even scream.
The combined power of a Level 5 ability user's self-destruction and a Level 5 water bomb was greater than that of a nuclear weapon, leveling the entire base to the ground. Naturally, the research institute and the base's government building, which housed countless evils, were also among them.
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