End of the World Cycle

Zhou Lili hid the child in a small warehouse in the villa, and Xie Ran was in charge of the child. Although the two children were about the same age, the difference in their abilities was huge, one at the fourth level and the other at the first level.

Zhou Lili, the child captured according to Xie Qin's instructions, was fed only with corpse crystals. The child was hungry and had no choice but to eat large amounts of corpse crystals. However, in less than half a month, his supernatural power broke through to the second level.

During the past half month, Xie Qin has been staying in the research institute to explore something that he has always found strange.

Ever since she learned how to mix supplements, she seldom saw Lu Chaoyun that often. She also tried to use her mental power to follow Lu Chaoyun and explore his secrets, but every time her mental power followed Lu Chaoyun to the fourth underground floor and the door was closed, she could no longer feel anything with her mental power.

Xie Qin also tried to ask once unintentionally, but Lu Chaoyun just smiled and said it was nothing. People are always curious about unknown things. After learning that the child she brought back had the second level of mental power, Xie Qin returned home.

Almost greedily sucked the child's mental power, leaving only a little bit to keep him alive, and Xie Qin's mental power also reached the fourth level. After figuring out the surveillance of the entire institute, Xie Qin controlled everyone and quietly followed Lu Chaoyun to the fourth underground floor.

A fourth-level psychic is almost a god-like existence in the current apocalypse. As long as Xie Qin wants, everyone under her control can die without knowing it.

Xie Qin went downstairs from the emergency passage and watched Lu Chaoyun open the door with his own eyes before he controlled Lu Chaoyun and followed him.

Lu Chaoyun had empty eyes and walked forward slowly. Everything inside surprised Xie Qin. There were columns of liquid in front of him, and there was a baby in each column. And these babies looked exactly the same!

Their hands and feet would move from time to time, and it was obvious that they were all alive. There were tubes inserted into their bodies. What was even more terrifying was that every baby had a crystal core in their brain, and they were all different. Among the dozen or so people, almost all of them had supernatural powers except mental power and healing power.

They even have rare space, wind, thunder, and fire abilities. The most shocking thing is that these people's abilities are all level three. It is conceivable how terrifying these babies will be if they continue to be nurtured and grow up.

"What are these?" Xie Qin asked, and then Lu Chaoyun replied in a toneless voice.

"My Clone"

"Why are there so many?"

"I want to have all the super powers."

“Did your research succeed?

As Xie Qin and Lu Chaoyun asked and answered questions, Xie Qin roughly understood the situation of these clones.

These clones are what Lu Chaoyun is truly researching. These clones are all artificial biological cells. Hundreds of babies have been implanted with the crystal nuclei of artificial mutants, and these are the only ones that survived.

Moreover, these clones share the same mind with Lu Chaoyun, which means that all these superpowers are controlled by Lu Chaoyun's mind. Once his research is successful, Lu Chaoyun's power alone will be able to build a terrifying army of superpowers in the future, and these superpowers can still be controlled.

Just thinking about such a future is enough to scare anyone. This means that if Lu Chaoyun does not die and his clone walks out of this research institute, Lu Chaoyun will become the strongest existence in this doomsday.

At this point, Xie Qin finally understood why Lu Chaoyun was willing to work for Du Yuexuan, and why Du Yuexuan later acquiesced to the heroine killing Lu Chaoyun.

Not to mention Du Yuexuan, even Xie Qin felt a little scared at this moment. That kind of fear of the strong could indeed be a reason to kill him.

Xie Qin felt more and more that Lu Chaoyun was a genius. If Lu Chaoyun had not died, then in the last days when mankind was lingering on, could a different scene have been created?

Although she was afraid of the strong, after spending so much time together, Xie Qin could feel that Lu Chaoyun had no ambitions. As this thought entered her mind, Xie Qin asked the last question.

"Why did you create so many powerful clones?"

"Humans will not lose to ignorant animals and plants."

Xie Qin's eyes widened suddenly. Until now, no mutant plants and animals had suddenly appeared, let alone when Lu Chaoyun just started his research.

“When did you start studying this?”

“May 2017.”

Five years before the end of the world, Lu Chaoyun had begun research on cloning humans with special abilities, which meant that Lu Chaoyun was also a reborn person.

"Are you reborn?"

"Yes."

Her family, Du Yuexuan, Lu Chaoyun, how many reborn people are there in this world? But she does not exist in the future of these people, but these people are clearly written in that book, so her existence is unknown to them. These people do not pose a threat to her.

But she wanted to be even stronger. No matter the male and female protagonists in this world, or the living Lu Chaoyun and Du Yuexuan in front of her, they were all powerful beings for her now. She couldn't always rely on others as a medium to make herself stronger. She wanted a shortcut, she wanted a golden finger.

There was one thing she hadn't tried yet, the crystal cores of mutant animals and plants, so she needed to go out for a while. When Xie Qin returned to her workstation, everything had returned to normal, and everyone just thought she was stunned for a moment and continued to do their own things.

In the evening, Xie Qin went to a hotel near the entrance of the base. A pretty girl was sitting at the front desk. Seeing Xie Qin coming, she happily came to greet him.

"Miss Xie, you are here?"

"Yeah. Where's Liu Zhengdong?"

"My second brother hasn't come back yet. He went further south this time. The plan was to stay for a week, but it will probably take another two days."

"Okay, ask him to come to me as soon as he comes back."

"Okay, thanks Miss."

Perhaps they heard the conversation between the two, the door of the lounge that was originally closed was opened, and two middle-aged women came out, also smiling, and politely stood next to Xie Qin and asked her to wait a moment.

After a while, another person came out with a bag.

"Miss Xie, this is the dried konjac we made ourselves. Last time I gave it to your mother, she said you liked it very much, so I made some more. You can take it back."

Xie Qin could feel that these people were very grateful to her, but Xie Qin didn't care. After all, she had promised Liu Zhengnan to protect his family when she drained his fire ability. She opened this hotel and let their family work here, and it was also because Liu Zhengnan was helping her now.

Not only this family, but also people from the South China base who were affected by the tsunami came to the First Base four months ago. People from other bases have also come here one after another. Zhou Lili's parents-in-law and the boy Qiao Zhishuo who she met at the beginning are now working for Xie Qin.

In addition, Zhou Lili's biological brother has also been found. Now, there are people asking for information in almost every crowded place in the base. There is a hotel run by Liu Zhengdong's family, a hardware store owned by Zhou Lili's parents-in-law, Qiao Zhishuo and his cousin are still working as real estate agents, and Zhou Lili's brother has opened a new restaurant.

All these people's work was done by Xie Qin, so she was asking Xie Qin for information. As someone who had read the book of this world, it was necessary for her to pay attention to the male and female protagonists of this book. She was very afraid that her rebirth would cause a butterfly effect and change the plot, so that some things that were originally clear would become unknown.

She always felt that if she took Lu Chaoyun away, the world would change drastically, but if she just let Lu Chaoyun die according to the plot, she would be reluctant to do so. As such a smart person, she never felt that she was living in a book or that she was fake.

On the contrary, she truly feels everything around her. Her family is real, and everyone she knows is alive and well. She never regards this as a book revolving around the hero and heroine. This is the world where she was born, grew up, and exists.

Two days later, Liu Zhengdong brought back good news from the south. Mutated plants have begun to appear in the forests further south. Everything happened after the acid rain a month ago. All the surviving plants have mutated. Some plants seem to have their own consciousness, can move, and hunt zombies or humans in various ways to provide themselves with nutrients.

Mutated plants appeared in the mountains 500 kilometers away, which meant that the mutant plants in the tropical regions had already developed. It would be best to go out and try out the effects of the plant crystal core on myself at this time. Thinking of this, Xie Qin decided to set out directly.

Zhou Lili bought a Hummer pickup truck in the second-hand market and spent three days modifying it. Except for the driving position, the back seat and the co-pilot seat were connected together to form a soft and comfortable bed. All the glass was replaced with bulletproof ones, and anti-collision steel frames were added to the front of the car and the parking space. The pickup truck compartment was filled with daily necessities and gasoline.

Although it is an off-road vehicle, after Zhou Lili's meticulous modification, it has become a car that can run and live.

Xie Qin claimed to be sick and stayed at home. She drove away from the base and headed south. Xie Qin was familiar with the road to the south. Liu Bo and Xie Ran wanted to follow, and even Liu Zhengdong asked Xie Qin to go with him several times, but was rejected every time.

Lu Chaoyun is still at the base, and her presence has changed many of the original plots. She is afraid that the heroine Ning Cheng will appear when she is not there. In addition, Xie Jin is growing up and can no longer control himself. Once he leaves Xie Ran's comfort, zombies will come. It's not that she is afraid that the First Base cannot resist zombies, but she is afraid that someone will find something wrong and invite the base to check again.

Liu Zhengdong is considered cautious among this group of people. It is best to leave him and Zhou Lili to take care of things for him at the base. His younger brother and Uncle Liu Bo can protect the family, and his younger brother can also pay attention to Lu Chaoyun to protect him. With his current strength, he can be careful and nothing will go wrong.

It would only take a little over a month, and she felt she could do it.

On the road, zombies were still everywhere. After all, this country used to be the most populous country in the world. Xie Qin did not stop to kill zombies, because the zombie crystals were not very useful to them now. Unless it was a zombie above level three, Xie Qin would stop to deal with it. Other zombies did not attract her attention at all.

Xie Qin hardly stopped, and was almost always on the road except for eating and sleeping. It took him less than three days to reach the mountain that Liu Zhengdong mentioned.

Linglong Mountain.

This mountain was also very famous before the end of the world. It is only about 800 meters high, but it is very wide. Its area is comparable to that of a small county town. It used to be a small tourist attraction. Therefore, there is a two-lane road leading up the mountain.

The sound of the car was particularly obvious in the quiet forest. The higher Xie Qin went, the more he felt that the vegetation was different from the surroundings. In addition to becoming taller, the colors became brighter. After reaching the top of the mountain, Xie Qin quickly dealt with the dozen zombies wandering around here, then wrapped his jacket tightly, picked up an axe and walked into the dense forest.

The mental power spread rapidly, but unfortunately it could not find the crystal core of the plant. It could only rely on the slight movement of some mutant plants to sense its position.

It took Xie Qin a whole day to find three mutant landscapes. Fortunately, these were all first-level landscapes, and they didn't attach to people very quickly. In addition, they were afraid of fire, so Xie Qin only burned them a few times and they died. However, for this kind of vine-like mutant plants, the crystal core is usually in the root. Later, he dug almost three feet into the ground before he dug out the roots of these landscapes. Although it was not laborious, it was very laborious.

Xie Qin threw three small green crystal cores that were as big as peanuts into his mouth and swallowed them. A plant fragrance instantly spread, but it disappeared after a while.

Xie Qin was instantly happy. Plant crystal cores did not contain any toxins, so it was fine to eat them directly. When the smell dissipated, Xie Qin knew that his body had absorbed the energy of the plant crystal cores. This meant that the plant crystal cores were useful to him. Moreover, these crystal cores not only improved a certain ability, but also improved all the abilities he possessed.

This means that in the future, perhaps I won't have to work so hard to find someone with abilities that match my own.

Without any stopping, Xie Qin returned to the car. She was going to go further south, to the tropical rain forest, where the plants were the first to mutate, and there were many types of mutations.

She didn't have maps of foreign countries, but she did have maps of China. She wanted to go to the southernmost rain forest in southern Yunnan. When she thought about where she wanted the most, Xie Qin drove even harder.

The further south Xie Qin went, the fewer zombies there were. Even if he occasionally saw some, they were only level 2 or level 3 zombies with a bit of survival awareness. The cities he passed by were almost all occupied by vines. From a distance, it was a green expanse.

Xie Qin had also passed by one or two bases. Now, a deep ditch was dug outside the base. There was a fire at every interval, and there were special people guarding the fire. The spreading plants would stop behind the deep ditch.

Under the current circumstances, as long as humans pay a little attention, even those without special powers, can deal with mutant plants of about level one, and they do not pose much of a threat.

Before reaching the tropical rainforest area, Xie Qin's car was entangled by a wrist-thick vine while passing a mountain road, and was forced to stop. Xie Qin did not rush to solve the problem, but read the relevant introduction. He learned that this was a second-level bougainvillea.

It was indeed worth stopping to solve it. After getting off the car, Xie Qin realized that something was wrong. This was just a branch of bougainvillea. Xie Qin could already feel the dense vines coming towards him.

The speed was even faster than the three dogs he raised. As the vines got closer and closer, Xie Qin realized that this vine was much larger than the one he had seen before.

The largest part of the extension is already about 20 centimeters in diameter, not to mention the root of the bougainvillea. This vine is far more than the second level. I'm afraid it's also the third level.

Thinking of this, Xie Qin was not afraid but happy instead. How much energy would the third-level plant vine replenish for him?