Qingshui Farm.

In the room, Ji Ruxue was sitting cross-legged on the bed, eyes closed and concentrating, practicing cultivation techniques, absorbing the energy from the outside world, and continuously refining it, exuding a powerful aura all over her body.

The energy factors drifting in the room transformed into streams, flowing towards Ji Ruxue's body, like hundreds of rivers converging into the sea.

After continuously refining this energy, Ji Ruxue's aura was slowly rising at a speed visible to the naked eye, and soon she took a small step in the fourth stage.

Suddenly, Ji Ruxue's face changed, and she let out a painful muffled groan.

Her somewhat pale face suddenly had her eyes open wide, revealing a look of shock and anger.

The next moment, realizing what happened, Ji Ruxue's expression turned gloomy.

"It seems Li Ying and the others have been discovered."

Ji Ruxue already understood what had happened.

Although the Soul Contract Technique was useful for enslaving others and perfectly controlling their life and death,

it also had its drawbacks.

If someone bound by the soul contract were to die suddenly, the caster would also be affected.

For example, the deaths of Li Ying and the others were linked to her soul, causing violent tremors in it.

Right now, her head felt as if it were about to split open, aching intolerably.

Even now, a faint pain persisted in the depths of her mind.

However, Ji Ruxue was grateful that she had set a restriction in advance while using the Soul Contract Technique.

As long as the person bound by the soul contract showed signs of betrayal, the contract would activate automatically, killing the bound person to prevent future troubles.

So Ji Ruxue wasn't too worried about Li Ying and the others divulging too much information about her.

"It seems this time I can't hide it anymore; a storm is coming..."

Thinking that Li Ying and the others were exposed to the Survivor Base, a look of seriousness flashed in Ji Ruxue's eyes.

In reality, she never thought she could keep this matter hidden forever, thinking that concealing it for a month or two would be enough.

After a month or two, given her and her father's rate of development, their strength would surely be beyond fear of Jianghai Base City.

But she didn't expect the matter to be exposed so quickly.

"I really can't expect too much from those useless Li Ying and the others; they can't handle even the smallest things."

Ji Ruxue shook her head helplessly.

However, she was no longer interested in pondering how these few people had exposed themselves to the Human Base City.

Now, the most important matter was to consider how to handle the imminent crisis.

Since the Human Survivor Base had already noticed something, they would certainly send people to investigate and trace related clues.

Moreover, next time, it wouldn't just be a few weakly-powered invisibility evolvers.

By then, she would be facing a powerful evolutionary squad.

"Hmph, however many come, I'll kill however many!"

With that in mind, a murderous intent flashed in Ji Ruxue's eyes, and a deadly aura surged around her.

She held a deep disdain for the human evolutionary squads at this stage.

Despite her previous apprehension toward humanity, specifically instructing Li Ying and the others to cover up anomalies in the Jiangnan City District,

it was merely due to humanity's overall strength and size, which she couldn't contend with at the time.

But now both her father and she had advanced to the fourth stage, while humanity at this stage probably had very few even at the third evolutionary stage.

Relying on a small number of evolvers to act against her and her father was surely a pointless endeavor.

Thus, as long as the matter didn't spiral out of control, leading humanity to dispatch large forces to eliminate them, Ji Ruxue had absolute confidence.

Even if humanity did deploy large forces, she wouldn't be overly concerned.

Because, in this apocalypse, roads and railways were completely destroyed and blocked, greatly hampering large troop movements.

With precautions, their opponents wouldn't stand a chance against her and her father.

By the time they reached Jiangnan City District, her father and she would have already received the news and retreated quickly.

Thinking of this, a slight smile played on Ji Ruxue's lips.

Next, she planned to devote all her time and energy into enhancing her cultivation level.

Only by ensuring powerful strength could she protect her father's safety, preventing humanity from coveting him.

If she could reach the fifth stage before humanity's dispatched personnel arrived,

then she and her father could rest easy.

With fifth-stage cultivation, even facing the siege of human military forces, she would have confidence in handling it.

Thinking this, Ji Ruxue's eyes showed determination, and she sat firmly once more, beginning to practice cultivation techniques and absorb external energy again.

She had to seize every moment, not allowing any bit of slackness.

...

In the amusement park, by the slide.

Whoosh!

At this moment, Zhao Lin, covered in sweat, was hanging upside down from the slide, her feet hooked tightly, repeatedly doing sit-up exercises, curling her body upwards.

Each time she sat up, her body trembled uncontrollably, seemingly using all her strength, and when finished, she exhaled a long breath.

Time passed bit by bit.

Her face was flushed, tears streaming as Zhao Lin persevered, exerting great strength through her legs onto the slide, which creaked as if it might fall apart.

During this period, she was in the farm, not having to worry about her safety, living comfortably, eating and sleeping to her heart's content.

But because she was locked up here, she didn't have much activity daily, feeling like she might become useless.

However, she hadn't forgotten that it was still the apocalypse, and the farm was a completely different world from the outside.

She didn't know if one day she would be thrown out by the Corpse King, or if suddenly, the Corpse King might be merciful enough to release her.

If that happened, if she were all fat, how could she compete against those evolved zombies, when she couldn't even outrun others?

Thus, lying on the bed and looking at the slide overhead, she had a sudden inspiration and came up with an idea.

She immediately started using the slide in various ways to exercise her body, trying to maintain her condition this way.

"Whew! I'm exhausted..."

Using up the last of her energy, Zhao Lin's upper body bent upwards with difficulty, and upon completing the move, she breathed a long sigh of relief, feeling completely relaxed.

Afterwards, Zhao Lin reached out her hands to grip the iron pole by her feet, lowered her legs to the ground.

Wiping her face with her hand, Zhao Lin sat on the bed, her chest heaving as she panted heavily.

After a while, Zhao Lin's breathing finally steadied.

Watching in the direction of Little Qiqi's room, Zhao Lin frowned slightly, "Why does Little Qiqi always seem to stay in the room lately?"

"Also, that Corpse King fellow seems to be showing up less frequently."

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