65: Chapter 65 Revenge! Obtaining a C-Rank Superpower!

Lin Yuan arrived at the ant nest he had encountered before.

Previously, it had been obscured by mist, but now, Lin Yuan could clearly see the layout of the place.

It was an abandoned factory, with the ant colony's nest located deep underground.

Lin Yuan did not hesitate and jumped directly into the underground passage.

In the dark underground passage, the sound of dense crawling could be heard.

"Shasha—"

Countless giant mutated ants swarmed in from all directions!

Each one was the size of a fist, their bodies covered in hard black armor, with mandibles as sharp as steel pincers.

The numbers...

Tens of thousands!

They were so densely packed it made one's scalp tingle!

If an ordinary person saw this scene, their legs would definitely go weak with fear.

But Lin Yuan...

Just smiled faintly.

He raised his right hand, pointing it toward the ground.

Rumble—!!!

A terrifying scene unfolded!

Countless thick vines burst frantically from the ground!

Each vine was as thick as an arm, its surface covered in sharp barbs!

The vines swept across like wild pythons, instantly strangling hundreds and thousands of ants!

"Chichichi—"

The ants' black armor was pierced by the vines, and green blood splattered everywhere!

But there were too many ants.

The killing seemed endless!

With a thought from Lin Yuan,

The shadow beneath his feet suddenly began to wriggle.

"Kaka—"

Three pitch-black figures crawled out from the shadow!

They were the Shadow Puppets of the three D-Class Evolved Beasts Lin Yuan had previously killed!

A giant Mutated Wolf, a Mutated Spider, and a Mutated Tiger!

Each one possessed 50% of the combat power they had while alive!

"Kill."

Lin Yuan calmly gave the command.

The three Shadow Puppets instantly charged into the ant swarm, slaughtering frantically!

The Mutated Wolf's claws swept across, crushing over a dozen ants with a single swipe!

The Mutated Spider spat out shadow silk, binding large patches of ants!

The Mutated Tiger's fangs tore and bit, crushing the ants' black armor with every mouthful!

The puppets charged through the front lines.

The vines strangled and swept across.

Lin Yuan alone had the momentum of a vast army!

He advanced slowly; wherever he passed, the ant swarm was slaughtered to the last!

Green blood gathered into a river.

The ants' corpses piled up like mountains.

Lin Yuan's expression was calm, and he wasn't even out of breath.

The terror of his physique was displayed to the fullest at this moment!

...

Over ten minutes later.

Lin Yuan finally reached the depths of the underground where the broodmother was located.

This was a massive underground space, as large as a football field.

The air was filled with a putrid stench.

On the ground, ant eggs and corpses were everywhere.

And in the center of the space,

A massive broodmother was lying there!

It was ten meters long!

Its body was covered in pitch-black carapace, with eerie green liquid flowing over the surface.

Six thick limbs supported its massive body.

Its head had a pair of huge compound eyes, glowing with a bloodthirsty red light.

The most terrifying part was its mandibles.

Like two giant steel pincers, they were incredibly sharp, enough to bite through steel!

The broodmother had long sensed Lin Yuan's presence and let out a sharp hiss!

It had been waiting for this human.

If it hadn't been at the final moment of its evolution,

It would have charged out to kill this human no matter what!

The broodmother clearly also remembered that this human was the first to ever escape from its grasp.

"Hiss—!!!"

The sound was ear-piercing, making the underground space tremble!

The remaining surviving ants swarmed frantically, but under the sweep of Lin Yuan's vines, they were instantly strangled!

The broodmother was enraged!

Its massive body charged toward Lin Yuan at an astonishing speed!

Boom—!!!

Deep pits were stomped into the ground!

Lin Yuan's eyes turned cold.

"Damn it! You made me look so pathetic before, you must've enjoyed that."

"Now... it's my turn to enjoy myself."

He raised both hands, fully erupting his E-rank Life Control Superpower!

Rumble—!!!

Countless thick vines burst forth from all directions!

Each one was as thick as a bucket, its surface covered in sharp barbs!

The vines wrapped around the broodmother like giant pythons!

"Hiss—!!!"

The broodmother struggled desperately!

Its strength was incredible, and the vines were snapped one by one!

But Lin Yuan's vines seemed endless!

As soon as one was snapped, ten more would wrap around it!

The more the broodmother struggled, the tighter the vines coiled!

Lin Yuan shifted his focus.

The three Shadow Puppets pounced on the broodmother simultaneously!

The Mutated Wolf's claws slashed fiercely at the broodmother's compound eyes!

The Mutated Spider spat out shadow silk, binding the broodmother's limbs!

The Mutated Tiger's fangs bit into the gaps of the broodmother's carapace!

Enraged, the broodmother spat out a poisonous liquid!

"Chiii—"

The green poison was highly corrosive, burning holes into the vines!

The Shadow Puppets were also splashed by the venom, and black smoke rose from their bodies!

But Lin Yuan didn't panic at all.

Because as long as his puppet corpses existed, he could continue to control them.

He took a step, his figure flickering like a ghost!

The speed granted by his physique was incredibly fast!

The broodmother's venom couldn't hit him at all!

Just then!

The broodmother's compound eyes suddenly erupted with an eerie red light!

"Buzz—"

An invisible mental shockwave instantly expanded!

This was the broodmother's strongest attack method: a mental attack!

Lin Yuan had previously suffered from this sudden attack.

Lin Yuan's mind jolted as if it had been struck hard by a heavy hammer!

"Ugh!"

He let out a muffled groan, his footsteps faltering slightly.

His vision instantly blurred, and double images appeared before his eyes!

A sharp pain shot through his brain!

But just one second later,

Lin Yuan's eyes regained their clarity; although he was slightly affected,

It was far from reaching a fatal level.

Lin Yuan rushed to the broodmother's side and raised his right fist!

Boom—!!!

One punch slammed into the broodmother's carapace!

"Crack—"

The black armor the broodmother was so proud of shattered instantly!

Green blood gushed out!

"Hiss—!!!"

The broodmother let out a shrill scream of agony!

It hadn't expected this human's strength to be so terrifying!

To be able to shatter its carapace with a single punch?!

This was impossible!

But Lin Yuan gave it no time to think.

Countless vines bored into its body through the shattered carapace!

"Chichichi—"

The vines grew frantically inside the broodmother, tearing its internal organs apart!

The broodmother struggled desperately, but it was already too late!

Lin Yuan walked to the broodmother's head and looked down at it.

Without a word,

He raised his right fist toward the broodmother's head.

Boom—!!!

One punch came crashing down!

"Crack—"

The carapace on the broodmother's head shattered completely!

White brain matter mixed with green blood gushed out!

"Hiss..."

The broodmother let out one last weak hiss.

Its massive body crashed to the ground, completely devoid of life.

From the moment Lin Yuan entered the underground to the killing of the broodmother,

The entire process...

Took less than ten minutes.

And Lin Yuan had been extremely relaxed throughout.

His clothes were barely even dirty!

...

Lin Yuan walked to the broodmother's corpse and extracted a demon core from its body.

The demon core emitted an eerie green light, its surface flowing with unique energy fluctuations.

To Lin Yuan's surprise...

There was also a seven-colored snowflake inside the broodmother!

The seven-colored snowflake emitted a dreamlike glow, beautiful and mysterious.

"This broodmother... was indeed a C-Class Evolved Beast!"

Lin Yuan realized.

He quickly put the demon core and the snowflake into his system space, his eyes flashing with excitement.

With these two items,

He would be able to awaken his third Superpower!

At the same time, Lin Yuan looked at the broodmother's corpse again.

Without a word, he stored it in his system space.

Next time, when a slot opened up in his Shadow Puppets, he could control this broodmother.

Thinking about how this broodmother could control an ant colony, Lin Yuan suddenly felt that the playability of his Superpower was too high!

But then he remembered that the limitation of this Superpower was that the corpse could not have been dead for more than an hour.

However, time was frozen in his system space.

He wondered if he could exploit this bug...

But it was too early for that; he could only wait for his Superpower to level up before seeing.

Thinking this, Lin Yuan turned and left the underground nest.

...

By the time Lin Yuan returned to the villa, it was already noon.

He went to his room and locked the door.

He took out the seven-colored snowflake and the c-rank demonic core from his system space.

The moment the two were placed together,

The seven-colored snowflake began to melt rapidly, turning into a stream of seven-colored energy.

The demon core emitted an eerie green light, and the patterns on its surface wriggled frantically.

The two energies intertwined and fused in the air, slowly condensing.

Over ten seconds later, a fist-sized energy orb appeared!

The orb emitted an intertwined glow of green and seven colors, both eerie and beautiful.

Lin Yuan reached out and touched the orb.

Instantly,

Boom—!!!

Terrifying energy flooded into his body!

"Ugh!"

Lin Yuan let out a muffled groan, cold sweat pouring from his forehead!

Pain!

A pain far more intense than the previous two times!

It was as if countless steel needles were being driven into every one of his cells at once!

His blood was boiling!

His bones were being restructured!

His muscles were tearing and then healing!

A splitting pain came from his brain!

But Lin Yuan gritted his teeth and endured.

Lin Yuan wondered when there would be a way to awaken Superpowers without such agony...

He hoped the system could solve this problem in the future.

At this moment, Lin Yuan gripped the edge of the bed tightly, the solid wood bedboard nearly crushed by his grip!

One minute.

Two and a half minutes.

Five minutes.

The intense pain finally began to subside.

Lin Yuan felt an eerie perception ability added to his brain.

That was...

An early warning of danger.

[Ding!]

[Congratulations to the Host for awakening the C-rank Superpower: Danger Perception!]

[Superpower Description: Can perceive danger directed at oneself in advance, with a perception range of 1000 meters.]

[Host's physique has increased to 650!]

Lin Yuan opened his eyes, which flashed with excitement and shock.

A C-rank Superpower!

And it was a life-saving type!

This meant...

In the future, he would be able to perceive any danger directed at him in advance!

This was simply a god-tier life-saving skill!

Lin Yuan immediately tried to use the Superpower.

He closed his eyes and sensed his surroundings.

Instantly,

Everything within a 1000-meter radius clearly surfaced in his mind.

Every person in the villa.

The Evolved Beasts lurking in the ruins.

Even the flock of mutated birds approaching in the distance.

Everything was crystal clear!

And if there was danger directed at him...

He would be able to perceive it in advance!

Lin Yuan opened his eyes, a satisfied smile curling at the corners of his mouth.

With this Superpower,

In the Apocalypse, it was equivalent to having an extra layer of protection.

He would never be ambushed again.