Huo Lingling at full power unleashed astonishing combat prowess, capable of breaking seven seconds in the hundred-meter dash, effortlessly lifting objects weighing two thousand jin, punching through human bodies with ease, easily pressing human heads into chest cavities, her seemingly fair and tender skin able to block bullets fired from handguns, her physique immune to small amounts of zombie virus.

As long as wounds didn't reach the bone, they could heal within one or two hours without even leaving scars, her body extremely flexible and capable of movements ordinary people couldn't achieve, such as folding her upper and lower body together, shrinking herself into a ball, creating an effect similar to the bone-shrinking skill seen in television dramas.

Although the three small Huo Linglings weren't as combat-capable as the large Huo Lingling, they were still quite formidable, far surpassing ordinary people, their smaller size making evasion easier, each capable of easily defeating ten unarmed adult men.

Working together, wielding Tang Swords and wearing bulletproof vests, they had killed a mutated zombie possessing two supernatural characteristics, obtaining the high intelligence characteristic and extremely rare endurance characteristic for Li Xuan.

As for how Li Xuan knew Huo Lingling could press a person's head into their chest?

Of course, Huo Lingling had done it before!

Once, Huo Lingling took some useless supernatural characteristics to trade with a certain base. The base leader, seeing Huo Lingling clean and beautiful, developed lustful thoughts and made an ugly demand, only to have Huo Lingling slap his head into his own chest with one blow, turning him into a headless rider.

The others at the base grew furious and attacked Huo Lingling, only to be completely slaughtered by her in the end.

An ordinary base, with overall strength similar to Black Bear Base, lacking heavy firepower, simply couldn't stop Huo Lingling.

Huo Lingling alone could slaughter her way through a small base!

Yun Xiuzhi already possessed characteristics of: adaptation, physique, speed, intangibility, and vision, one each.

Altogether five supernatural characteristics, with intangibility being a high-grade supernatural characteristic.

She was responsible for scouting mutated zombies and observing enemy traces, having almost never engaged in combat.

Yun Xiuzhi was quite content with this arrangement and had never envied Huo Lingling.

Her own courage wasn't as great as Huo Lingling's, and she didn't enjoy fighting either.

Li Xuan had once asked Yun Xiuzhi if she wanted to absorb some characteristics to enhance her combat power. Although a pigeon's individual attributes were quite poor, and absorbing supernatural characteristics would only make her combat power slightly stronger than large raptors like golden eagles, making it difficult to reach true supernatural levels.

In many bases, pigeon transformers weren't valued and couldn't possibly obtain supernatural characteristics. In their view, pigeons absorbing precious supernatural characteristics was just a waste.

But Yun Xiuzhi was his teammate, one of his own people, and he was willing to "waste" them.

They were just supernatural characteristics—couldn't they just capture a few more mutated zombies to get more?

Without Yun Xiuzhi, he wouldn't have been able to find so many mutated zombies so quickly, nor obtain so many supernatural characteristics. Yun Xiuzhi's scouting played a major role, and he wasn't a heartless, ungrateful person who would treat Yun Xiuzhi poorly.

Yun Xiuzhi refused without even thinking, suggesting that Li Xuan cultivate Huo Lingling instead. Huo Lingling was in human form and could accomplish many things once strong. The key point was that Huo Lingling's personality was suited to being a combatant.

"After the sun sets, will it connect to another extreme weather?" Yun Xiuzhi asked.

"Mm." Li Xuan nodded.

Yun Xiuzhi complained, "I knew it would be like this. First heavy rain, then scorching sun—what's next? Darkness or blizzard?"

"Together." Li Xuan said grimly.

"Darkness and blizzard together? The outside environment is getting even worse. Are we still going out to hunt mutated zombies?" Yun Xiuzhi said.

Li Xuan crossed his hands, his voice low and deep, "We've almost wiped out all the mutated zombies in North River and nearby cities. Going out to find mutated zombies won't yield many. The blizzard will cause temperatures to plummet, and mutated zombies from the sea might come ashore. I'm thinking of going to the seaside to wait for them to come to us."

"Are zombies afraid of cold too?" Yun Xiuzhi asked in surprise.

"Zombies aren't afraid, but with the sudden temperature drop, the sea surface might even freeze. Mutated zombies have intelligence—they have two choices: come ashore before freezing, or dive into deeper waters." Li Xuan explained.

Huo Lingling raised her hand, "I get it! There are more terrifying mutated zombies in the deep sea! The mutated zombies in shallow waters don't dare go deeper, so they can only choose to come ashore!"

"Smart!" Li Xuan praised without stint.

Hehe~

Huo Lingling giggled and moved closer to Li Xuan, while the three smaller versions of Huo Lingling played around him. Even though all four Huo Linglings shared one consciousness, equivalent to multitasking with four focuses, their personality expressions differed.

Li Xuan's eyes flickered as he said gravely, "I have another plan. If we can complete it, we won't need to guard the seaside—we could directly go to Kunlun Mountain and wait for the great celestial changes."

"What plan?"

"After the great celestial changes, humans, animals, and plants all have a certain probability of mutating and evolving. Unlike evolution through supernatural characteristics, mutation evolution is extremely fast, shortening the lengthy evolutionary process by millions of times. Weak animals undergoing mutation evolution can possess powerful strength in a short time, plants transforming from completely harmless to bloodthirsty demonic flora that devour living beings.

Humans can also awaken various superpowers, like ice, flame, lightning, steel body, etc. Of course, some people, animals, and plants might not undergo mutation evolution.

My target is an incredibly powerful mutated animal in the future called the Earth Dragon. In the future, over a hundred powerful superhumans in Xia Country joined forces but still couldn't suppress the Earth Dragon!"

Huo Lingling and Yun Xiuzhi had long known that Li Xuan possessed memories of the future. They both thought Li Xuan was someone who had traveled back from the future, and that his awakened superpower was most likely time-related, like time reversal or reincarnation.

They had also heard Li Xuan speak about the great celestial changes before. Li Xuan sometimes referred to the great celestial changes as the second version of the apocalypse and had some understanding of them.

"Is the Earth Dragon the strongest mutated animal after the great celestial changes?" Yun Xiuzhi asked.

"It's the strongest I've heard of, but whether it's truly the strongest isn't certain." Li Xuan said.

Yun Xiuzhi understood Li Xuan's meaning—he wanted to fuse with the Earth Dragon.

No matter how strong the future Earth Dragon might be, right now it was far weaker than Li Xuan, and might not even be a match for Huo Lingling.

Capture the Earth Dragon, wait for the great celestial changes. When the Earth Dragon mutates and evolves, before its strength reaches absurd levels, Li Xuan would suppress it first, fuse with the Earth Dragon, seize its genes, allowing his Giant Beast form to undergo an unprecedented transformation, becoming a new Earth Dragon!

No! Even stronger than the original Earth Dragon!

Because the Giant Beast itself possessed many supernatural characteristics and would definitely surpass the Earth Dragon!