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World Refresh: I Knew the Inside Info Ahead of Time

Chapter 52: SS-Rank Calamity

Author: 苗苗种树
updatedAt: 2026-01-21

The battle lasted for a very short time, with the Prehistoric Colossus ending this slaughter in a completely overwhelming manner.

Ordinary zombies couldn't withstand the footsteps of the Prehistoric Colossus at all, and even mutated zombies only caused some trouble for it, rather than posing a real challenge.

The Prehistoric Colossus grabbed the Supernatural Characteristic and without hesitation, swallowed it whole.

Huh? Not a speed characteristic!

A trace of surprise appeared in the Prehistoric Colossus's eyes. It had thought the mutated zombie possessed a speed characteristic, especially since the mutated zombie had just demonstrated extraordinary speed, dodging its attack in an instant and climbing onto its body.

The mutated zombie's true Supernatural Characteristic was: Burst!

Stimulating the body, releasing all limitations, erupting with power beyond normal levels. The cost was varying degrees of damage throughout the body, making it impossible to maintain for extended periods.

A life-saving skill!

Li Xuan felt delighted in his heart. Even something as powerful as the Prehistoric Colossus wasn't invincible. Human firearms possessed terrifying destructive power, not as weak as portrayed in anime or superhero movies. Even the current Prehistoric Colossus could be eliminated by humans with a single intercontinental missile.

It would take until the second version update, when supernatural abilities emerged and global mutations occurred, for human firearms to gradually lose their dominant position.

After obtaining the Burst skill, the Prehistoric Colossus could handle many human firearms, greatly improving its survivability.

Roar!

The Giant Beast roared, sweeping through thousands, crushing zombies, and toppling walls.

The twin sisters watching from the high-rise building gasped in amazement. They had long heard about the power of the Prehistoric Colossus—a force that could easily crush Scar Tiger. If not for this, Scar Tiger wouldn't have been so obedient in front of Li Xuan.

Seeing once is better than hearing a hundred times. When they truly witnessed the violence of the Prehistoric Colossus, they still felt incredibly astonished, marveling that the gap between people was truly larger than that between humans and pigs.

"No wonder he has the confidence to take us away from the Black Bear Survivor Base!" Xia Bingxue said.

"Ordinary zombies are like ants before him. Only someone like this can traverse through the dangerous apocalyptic cities."

The Prehistoric Colossus ran and soon arrived before the high-rise building, grabbing the twin sisters with one hand before returning to the Black Bear Survivor Base.

Zombies chased from behind, but the Giant Beast's tail swung left and right, sweeping zombies against the walls on both sides of the road, splattering flesh and shattering bones.

Xia Bingxue's face turned pale. She feared the Prehistoric Colossus might accidentally use too much force and crush them to death.

"Boss, will you take us away from the Black Bear Survivor Base?"

Xia Xuebing looked at her sister and shook her head, signaling not to ask the Giant Beast at this time.

Xia Bingxue pretended not to see it, looking at the Prehistoric Colossus with hopeful eyes.

Hearing this, Li Xuan slightly lowered his head. His enormous pupils reflected the figures of the two sisters as his massive mouth opened, releasing steaming hot air that washed over both of them.

"As everyone knows, I'm a man of my word. Since I promised you back then, I will take you away. But not now, and not necessarily to W City's survivor base," Li Xuan said.

"Can you take us to the Official Survivor Base?" Xia Bingxue asked expectantly.

"Sure."

Xia Bingxue couldn't conceal her joy. Being able to go to the Official Survivor Base was good enough—whether it was W City or not didn't matter. With the apocalypse here, who would still harbor nostalgia for their hometown?

Being able to go to a safe survivor base was more important than anything!

The Official Survivor Base must be better than unofficial ones. Not to mention treatment aspects, at least the Official Survivor Base would treat them as people, while most unofficial bases treated beautiful women as commodities to be manipulated at will.

Moreover, W City's Official Survivor Base was under great pressure. After City G's survivor base was breached by the Zombie Horde, many survivors felt that the neighboring W City survivor base was dangerous and could be overrun by zombie hordes at any time. Going to a survivor base in another location might be better.

Black Bear Survivor Base

The Bald Soldier was boasting to the newcomer beside him about how he had happily conversed with the Prehistoric Colossus transformer.

"Kid, learn from me well. Don't be like my previous partner who couldn't read the situation, insisted on checking the Giant Beast transformer's backpack, made outrageous demands by extorting half of their food. Now look what happened—dead without a complete corpse," the Bald Soldier said.

The new soldier nodded. "Big brother, do you think we have a chance to possess such powerful strength?"

The Bald Soldier smiled and shook his head. "Us? Even Boss Scar Tiger is far from comparable to the Giant Beast. If we can match Boss Scar Tiger in the future, that would be quite impressive already."

The new soldier felt disappointed. "Let the darkness descend one more time! I want transformation abilities too. If the darkness descends again, I want to eat the genes of megalodon, brachiosaurus, and mammoth to combine into a super monster!"

"What kind of messy gene combination is that? If you ask me, the turritopsis dohrnii genes are the best—directly achieving the immortality that countless emperors dreamed of!" the Bald Soldier said.

"Turritopsis dohrnii immortality doesn't mean the main body is immortal. I don't want to be a jellyfish forever. Who knows when I might get infected by zombies? Immortality doesn't mean you can't die."

"You kid think quite thoroughly."

"Hehe, I've figured it out. Stats are everything. Big is good, good is big. Only when you're big enough can you be strong enough!"

The Bald Soldier was about to speak when he suddenly saw a familiar figure. His body trembled slightly, and he immediately ran forward. "Boss! You're back! Are you tired? Let me help you carry that."

Li Xuan casually handed his backpack to the Bald Soldier, instructing him to deliver it to his room.

The backpack was full of food that he had collected along the way back.

Seeing the Bald Soldier's fawning manner, the new soldier immediately realized that Li Xuan was the Prehistoric Colossus transformer. Excitedly, he stepped forward, also wanting to help Li Xuan carry goods.

Li Xuan took an extra glance at the new soldier, then silently withdrew his gaze.

Xia Xuebing, sharp-eyed, noticed this scene. Following behind Li Xuan, she whispered, "Boss, does he have something special about him?"

Li Xuan glanced at Xia Xuebing. "Your observation skills are quite good. He's someone with decent potential."

Decent potential

Xia Xuebing repeated this phrase in her mind, pondering what potential the new soldier possessed.

He definitely wasn't a powerful transformer, because all the powerful transformers in the base were members of the Exploration Team, serving as the backbone of the base, and wouldn't come to the gate.

Potential in other aspects? Specifically what?

Xia Xuebing didn't press further, sensing that Li Xuan wouldn't answer.

Li Xuan walked at the front, his mind flashing back to intelligence he had acquired a few days ago.

[Rising Supernova: During the second version update, Black Bear Survivor Base's Green Little Grass awakened a B-grade supernatural ability—Superhuman Body—defeated Scar Tiger, and became the new Base Leader.

Later, during an exploration mission, he discovered a glowing forest, met wood spirits, achieved spiritual communion with them, gained the ability to command wood spirits in battle. The wood spirits also had the ability to accelerate plant growth, solving the Black Tiger Survivor Base's food shortage problems. They even sold food to other survivor bases, greatly boosting Green Little Grass's reputation and attracting many survivors to join.

During the mid-version period, Green Little Grass was betrayed by a woman close to him. The wood spirit sacrificed itself to save Green Little Grass. After escaping from the survivor base, Green Little Grass encountered an SS-grade calamity—Gene Chimera Ants. His body was devoured by the Gene Chimera Ants, becoming nourishment for the strongest Ant King.]

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