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72: Nuclear Threat

Yes, a murderous impulse just surged within Shen Yi.

He planned to kill Lin Zhiwei right there in the underground lab and dispose of her corpse.

That way, even if the army managed to track him down through some channel, he would not panic at all.

But if the soldiers discovered Lin Zhiwei in his hands, he had no idea what means they might use to snatch her away.

What Shen Yi feared most was not Lin Zhiwei being taken back but the secrets she might reveal once she returned.

For example, his body could host more than 3 superpowers.

Many people would definitely covet that fact!

Although Shen Yi had the System and several remarkable superpowers, he was not arrogant enough to think he could wrestle with the military.

However, he soon gave up the idea of silencing her.

Compared with the value Lin Zhiwei could provide alive, killing her felt like a loss.

So Shen Yi said, “I don’t feel like it anymore.”

…

Lin Zhiwei glanced at him, said nothing, and turned to pack up her files.

Shen Yi also knew Lin Zhiwei might be upset, but he did not care.

The two of them had only met a day ago and shared no deep feelings yet.

Moreover, his impression of her was not exactly positive.

Because Lin Zhiwei kept trying to turn him into a test subject, Shen Yi did not think well of her.

Since Lin Zhiwei did not care about his life or death, he naturally would not care about hers.

If Lin Zhiwei were not so valuable, Shen Yi would have driven her away long ago for harboring so many messy ideas.

Cold-hearted as it was, the world had entered an apocalypse, so who still had time for slow romances?

It was better to stay rational, bind themselves together, and act as a community of interests.

Similarly, Shen Yi did not demand deep feelings from the women around him; as long as they neither betrayed nor back-stabbed him, they could still enjoy ample supplies and the safety of his shelter.

If they wanted to talk about feelings, that could wait until he had absolute power.

After the two finished packing the basement, the gunfire upstairs ceased as well.

Through Telepathy, Shen Yi saw the mutant dog husky by the soldiers’ heavy fire to retreat into the black fog and flee elsewhere.

Apparently, even the greatest regenerative power was nothing in front of a special-forces barrage.

After that, the soldiers entered the research facility and began searching.

Shen Yi used Teleportation and took Lin Zhiwei away from the research facility in time.

With the black fog as cover, Shen Yi would not panic even if aircraft did appear overhead.

“By the way, did the army encounter something too, so that it couldn’t launch a rescue?”

Hiding in a shopping mall with Lin Zhiwei, Shen Yi took out a bottle of mineral water and asked her.

Given Lin Zhiwei’s presumably complex background, she surely knew more than the low-level policewoman Su Yun.

“Yes,” Lin Zhiwei nodded and continued, “before the black fog appeared, the ground cracked first, causing many roads and bridges to collapse, so the military couldn’t start rescue operations immediately.”

“Later, many birds mutated, and those mutant birds could easily shoot down planes, so aircraft had a hard time taking off for combat.”

“Of course, the main problem was that while assembling, the army was attacked by numerous powerful mutant monsters, losing many weapons and soldiers.”

“Those mutant creatures were no weaker than the No. 001 mutation, and some of them were so strong that several small cities have already fallen, with all the rescue troops losing contact.”

“Therefore, the number of surviving troops is now at least two-thirds less than before.”

“The remaining deployable forces are basically scattered across the country, so providing effective nationwide rescue is almost impossible.”

At this point, she glanced at Shen Yi.

“Besides, the remaining troops are not united, either.”

“Under an apocalypse, divergent intentions are inevitable.”

“In addition, a portion of the military must guard against other nations and therefore cannot carry out rescue missions.”

“Although this disaster is global, no one can be sure whether other countries will take the opportunity to do something irrational.”

Shen Yi frowned deeply as he listened.

He had not expected such things to lie behind the catastrophe.

No wonder rescue never arrived.

Even putting aside the hordes of mutant plants and animals in every city, the threat from hegemonic nations alone could not be ignored.

Who knew whether the United States would take the chance and launch a nuclear strike against the country?

After all, they had been at odds for years.

That was not surprising, either.

At the outset, many people in the country might have thought the United States was behind the disaster!

Conversely, the United States might have believed that China had unleashed some outrageous weapon on its homeland.

At present, the strongest military powers in the world were the Western United States and the Eastern China.

“Human hearts are truly complicated… even after the apocalypse they keep fighting among themselves.”

Shen Yi did not believe humanity would get through this apocalyptic disaster easily.

If humans could not keep pace with the mutation rate of plants and animals, they might truly go extinct!

Complaints aside, what concerned Shen Yi even more was that other cities also had mutant monsters as terrifying as the giant tree!

Then where the hell was he supposed to run in half a year?

If he chose the wrong city, he might as well stay in Shancheng.

Shen Yi furrowed his brow deeply.

Given the current situation, he had to accelerate the unlocking of supplies!

It seemed the shelter needed to be built as soon as possible.

With a shelter, he could unlock supplies on a production-line basis.

Even if he unlocked only 30 items a month, as long as one of them was a superpower fruit, Shen Yi’s growth rate would far surpass everyone else in the world!

Moreover, ordinary people could host at most 3 superpowers.

But Shen Yi had no limit!

He could stack the number of superpowers, and their levels as well!

Most superpowers were not especially strong by themselves, but if he found a compatible one to pair with, their power would multiply several times at once!

Even an already formidable superpower would produce results far beyond its base value if matched with an even stronger one!

Take Teleportation, for instance; it was already a powerful, almost broken superpower, yet paired with Telepathy’s omniscient vision, its strength easily doubled.

Add a potent offensive superpower on top of that, and the combined strength could increase several times more!

Pulling his thoughts back, and with his stamina almost fully recovered, Shen Yi scanned the surroundings with Telepathy, saw that the soldiers had withdrawn, and said, “Let’s go too.”

“Wait.”

Lin Zhiwei suddenly stopped Shen Yi and said earnestly under his puzzled gaze, “Can you let me try taming Little Ha one more time?”

“I feel this is a very good opportunity right now.”

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