Evolving infinitely from ground zero

The very next second, a cherry-sized purple heart-shaped mist materialized out of thin air between the fox-eared girl's lips and jade hand.

As soon as the purple heart took shape, it leisurely floated toward Lin Zichen.

Lin Zichen wanted to dodge, but found his body couldn't move.

He had been mentally suppressed by the fox-eared girl.

His brain had lost control over his body.

He could only watch helplessly as the heart drifted closer, until it stamped precisely onto his lips.

Afterwards, a warm, moist heat emanated from his lips.

That was all there was to it.

Apart from that, he felt nothing else.

"Now that you've been struck by my Charm Technique, from this moment on, you will gradually start to care about me, admire me, obsess over me, until I'm the only one in your eyes, and you can't tolerate any other woman."

The fox-eared girl walked up to Lin Zichen, extended her slender, pale index finger onto his lips, and her exquisite, pretty face revealed a smirk full of playfulness.

She leaned in closer, pressing her lips near Lin Zichen's ear and softly said in a breathy, tender tone, "Soon, Shanhai City will be conquered by the Divine Plant Cult, and then Exotic Beasts will overrun it."

"During that time, I will quietly be your audience, observing how you perform amidst the beast tide."

"Little bed slave, I hope your performance will be breathtaking."

Having said that, her figure began to blur and was disappearing at a pace visible to the naked eye.

Just as her face was about to vanish, her lips parted slightly to add one more sentence, "Oh, and your future master's surname is Su, given name Jiujie; remember that well."

As her voice faded, her image had completely disappeared.

In its place, the words "Su Jiujie" slowly emerged at the spot where she vanished.

At the same time,

Lin Zichen found he could move again.

He didn't delay to concern himself with what the fox-eared girl was called, but was more worried about whether his body had undergone any adverse changes after being hit with the Charm Technique.

Very carefully.

Inside and out.

He didn't miss any part.

He checked everything once over.

And ultimately, he concluded that there was nothing abnormal with his body.

Lin Zichen furrowed his brows deeply.

Though there was currently no strange sensation in his body, the words of the fox-eared girl Su Jiujie filled him with unease.

What she said about him only having eyes for her in the future, unable to make room for any other women.

"When the Pavilion Master comes back, I'll have to have her check my body..."

Lin Zichen muttered to himself, his furrowed brows relaxing slightly.

However, they quickly furrowed again.

Before Su Jiujie disappeared, she said that it wouldn't be long before Shanhai City would be occupied by the Divine Plant Cult, and then Exotic Beasts would be everywhere in the city.

If that's true, that would be terrifying.

[You have survived a rat disaster, successfully living through the catastrophe]

[Achievement: Survive 100 times in different "extremely harsh environments" or "disasters"]

[Reward: Gain Biometric Attributes—Survival of the Adaptable]

[Total Survival Count: 3/100]

Suddenly, four lines of text notifications popped up out of the void.

Lin Zichen was momentarily startled, unable to grasp what was happening.

An old achievement task.

It seemed to have appeared back when he was in high school.

And now, after all this time, he had only completed 3% of it.

The completion seemed an eternity away.

He also didn't know what special effects the Biometric Attribute "Survival of the Adaptable" would have.

Attributes from the system, none were weak.

Such as:

[Use It or Lose It]

[Tianren Wisdom Root]

[Survival of the Fittest]

[Natural Selection]

[Sovereign Beasts]...and so on.

All of them were extremely unique.

Their effects far outweighed those gained from unlocking Attributes in the compendium.

Thinking,

Lin Zichen's attention quickly shifted back to the first line of the notification text.

——You have survived a rat disaster, living through the catastrophe.

The current rat disaster in the city center was orchestrated by the Sect Hierarch of the Divine Plant Cult, it was man-made, not a natural disaster.

Yet, it fulfilled the criteria for advancing the completion progress of the "Survival of the Adaptable" achievement.

If a man-made rat disaster counted, then by the same logic, wouldn't snake disasters, locust disasters, ant disasters, and other natural or unnatural beast disasters also contribute to the "Survival of the Adaptable" achievement progress?

If they indeed could, then the "Survival of the Adaptable" achievement didn't seem so difficult to complete after all.

By the time we enter the Origin Land, where giant beasts are as common as dogs and demons roam the earth, I estimate it won't be long before we complete our goal, and then obtain the Biometric Attribute "Survival of the Adaptable.".

Having thought this through,

Lin Zichen reined in his thoughts and focused his attention on the battlefield below.

Standing on the railing of the shopping mall's rooftop, under the enhancement of the "Eye of the Sky," he could see the entire central city's battle situation at a glance.

There were still many Giant Mutant Rats in the city center.

But compared to the beginning, their numbers had sharply decreased.

And no more Giant Mutant Rats were emerging from the holes beneath the Scarlet Giant Tree.

With the constant advance from all sides, it was only a matter of time before the Giant Mutant Rats were eradicated.

It could only be said that the strength of Jiuzhou Country was indeed incomparable to that of Sakura Sea Country.

The rat plague that had ravaged Sakura Sea Country couldn't even stir a ripple in Jiuzhou Country.

Without further thought,

Lin Zichen swiftly leaped from the rooftop more than a hundred meters high,

descending in free fall.

It wasn't until he was about to touch the ground that he released his Qi-Blood to slow the descent, landing safely without stirring a speck of dust.

When Lin Zichen got to the back of the shopping mall building,

Lü Qingyu, who had been bisected at the waist, and her master, whose body had been separated from her head, were both attaching various parts to themselves.

The two had just remotely sent instructions to bring over two dedicated repair boxes, using the alloy parts inside to fix their damaged bodies.

Seeing that the master and disciple were alright, Lin Zichen didn't stick around and intended to leave with Shen Qinghan.

"Wait a moment,"

Lü Qingyu called out to the two people about to leave.

Both Lin Zichen and Shen Qinghan stopped in their tracks.

Lin Zichen asked, "Is there something you need?"

Lü Qingyu: "That... I'd like to add your Han Han's WeChat."

"Then go ahead and add her, just hack into her WeChat and do it yourself,"

Having said this, Lin Zichen left with Shen Qinghan, heading deeper into the city center.

He didn't bother to ask Lü Qingyu why she wanted to add Shen Qinghan's WeChat. Right now, he just wanted to take Shen Qinghan with him to kill more Giant Mutant Rats and collect more of these hard-to-come-by Evolution Resources.

"Squeak--!"

At the sound of a sharp noise, Lin Zichen, who had traveled less than a thousand meters, encountered a Giant Mutant Rat nearly eight meters long in a park ahead.

At that moment, this Giant Mutant Rat was fighting with more than ten students from Shan University.

Among these students, Lin Zichen spotted a familiar figure,

It was his deskmate from high school—He Yu.

He Yu, at that time, was not participating in the attack on the Giant Mutant Rat but was leaning against a tree with a pale face, appearing to be in great pain.

His right arm was gone.

During the recent attack on the Giant Mutant Rat, he had been bitten and lost his arm.

Now he was in agony while receiving treatment from a battlefield medic.

More unfortunate than him was the body lying on the ground,

whose head had been bitten off by the Giant Mutant Rat,

forever remaining on this battlefield.

This is the reality of the battlefield.

Cases like Lin Zichen and Shen Qinghan bulldozing their way through were ultimately rare.

Most people faced the risk of being killed by Giant Mutant Rats.

"He Yu, how did you get so seriously injured?!"

Shen Qinghan spotted the injured He Yu and immediately ran over to him with concern.

Meanwhile, Lin Zichen raised his hand towards the Giant Mutant Rat ahead and flicked his finger, shooting a blood arrow at the Giant Mutant Rat, an arrow formed from condensed Qi-Blood.

Soon, a "puff" sound was heard,

Lin Zichen's blood arrow pierced through the head of the Giant Mutant Rat, bursting into a thick spray of blood.

Having instantly killed the Giant Mutant Rat, Lin Zichen did not approach to devour it.

Although this Giant Mutant Rat was slain by him, in essence, it was the prey of those dozen or so students from Shan University,

It would have been a bit too much for him to go up and devour it.

With his strength, he wasn't lacking in Giant Mutant Rats to devour, so there was no need to snatch others' kills.

Upon inquiry, he learned that Director Wu had died,

swallowed whole by a Rat King over ten meters long,

And in this process, inevitably, many would die at the mouths of the Giant Mutant Rats, forever remaining on this battlefield strewn with ruins.

Just then,

the ground trembled!

Countless vines shot up into the sky,

forming a massive Tree Cage,

trapping the entire city center.

Beneath the Scarlet Giant Tree, a pile of known and unknown terrifying Exotic Beasts emerged,

Everyone was running for their lives!

If they didn't escape now, they would die!

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