Chapter 145 – Earth’s Protective Layer

“Please, don’t kill me… ah!” After a scream, the surroundings around Su Lifeng became quiet.

He lowered his head and glanced at the corpses around him, feeling somewhat emotional. Under circumstances where they clearly knew that running too slowly meant death, these people had actually still dared to boldly fish in muddy waters and come to the storage room to seize the chance to move supplies.

As a result, they had run straight into him…

Su Lifeng had no good feelings toward these people. Seeing that they also looked ready to seek an opportunity to fight desperately, he simply did not even give them the chance. As for those who had already escaped, naturally he was too lazy to chase them.

Without realizing it, Su Lifeng felt that his mentality and personality seemed to have quietly changed a little. Of course, perhaps in terms of personality, it was only that the parts once hidden had been stirred awake.

When doomsday arrived, although he had been lost and terrified before, and had held in a surge of determination while swearing to survive, he had never truly thought deeply about what doomsday would bring to the survivors who lived on. The collapse of order, the World thrown into chaos…

Now he understood. This was a moment of wanton release. Everything was for survival. Beyond that, there was no need to pretend, nor any need to hide anything.

The storage room door had already been pried open by those few people just now. Su Lifeng walked in without obstruction, then froze for a moment.

Immediately afterward, he felt somewhat ashamed…

His previous plan for storing food had basically followed the standard of “enough to live and maintain stamina.” But looking at “Douzi-Ge’s” collection… aside from large amounts of chocolate and all kinds of snacks whose names he could not even identify, there was an entire shelf full of high-end liquor.

“Speaking of which, I’ve never touched alcohol…” Su Lifeng picked up a bottle of liquor that looked astonishingly expensive at a glance and thought inwardly.

Should he taste what it was like?

There were quite a few cars parked near the nightclub. Su Lifeng found one and loaded these supplies into it, then prepared to drive away.

But the moment he got into the car, he abruptly turned his head and stabbed the scalpel toward the empty back seat.

However… there was nothing there.

“Am I being too sensitive?” Su Lifeng stared suspiciously at that empty seat for a moment, then turned back.

Gouzi was not at Fengyue Nightclub, but the bloody handprint at the warehouse had definitely been left by him. After Su Lifeng hauled the supplies back, he left a message for Gouzi at the warehouse, then returned to the city. He had already moved through the urban district for a while, and had even deliberately driven onto some major roads. After feeling that the danger level was still within his control, he thought to observe the situation more carefully and search for Gouzi along the way.

Not long after he left the warehouse, a figure quietly emerged by the wall.

The figure’s face and form both had a blurry quality, as if the light around it were being distorted, making its original appearance impossible to see clearly. It turned its head and glanced in the direction Su Lifeng had left, then lightly exhaled. “I didn’t expect him to sense me even standing on the roof of his car… This person’s intuition is terrifyingly strong. Someone like this actually exists?”

It still did not know that Su Lifeng possessed Precognitive Ability. If it had carried killing intent just now, Su Lifeng would definitely have discovered it.

Then it walked over and opened the door. No one knew how its fingers had grown. It only inserted them slightly into the keyhole, and in the next moment, the lock automatically began to turn. With a click, it opened.

After going in, it picked up the note Su Lifeng had written. On it was only a very simple sentence, “If safe, contact me quickly,” along with an address.

Its gaze stopped on that address, and then it blinked.

“Next, I only need to understand a few more things about him…”

A moment later, when the note was placed back where it had been, this figure had already disappeared from the warehouse.

Inside the warehouse, it was as if no one had ever come. The door slowly closed automatically.

While searching through the city, Su Lifeng also walked onto the main streets and discovered that the situation truly was not optimistic.

No wonder the military could not control the situation and had now abandoned the city… Corpses could be seen on the road at any time, and many storefronts showed signs of being smashed and looted. Originally, many shop owners had still believed business could continue, at most a little bleakly, as in wartime. They had not expected the Xenospecies to give them no such chance at all.

Aside from people killed by Xenospecies, there were also many corpses left behind by ordinary people and Mutants. As long as one saw corpses that were not deeply decayed, or that had not become dried corpses, one basically knew they had been killed by humans. A normal person seeing this kind of situation would definitely feel nauseated and terrified. Although Su Lifeng was no stranger to corpses, seeing such a tragic state still made him sigh inwardly.

If he did not have Precognitive Ability, he would definitely have died in the Cruise Ship accident long ago. Even if he had luckily survived, with his identity as an ordinary student, he probably would have had an extremely hard time. Over a million people squeezed into one Quarantine Cordon, without freedom, everything depending on distribution, unable to see tomorrow. This kind of life would probably be impossible for most people to adapt to.

At that moment, Su Lifeng suddenly heard a rumbling roll of thunder from far away.

However, when he raised his head to look, the scene he saw immediately made his scalp go numb. A chill nearly shot straight from the soles of his feet to the top of his head.

In the distant clouds, an enormous Black Thread had appeared, faintly visible. Su Lifeng did not know that what he was seeing was a scene hundreds of li away, but even at such a remote distance, he still clearly felt the immensity of that Shadowy Figure.

An indifferent gaze came from far away, crossing the immense distance. The other party seemed to see him. But toward such a tiny creature, it seemed to have no intention of taking even one extra look.

Yet being glanced at by it made Su Lifeng feel cold all over.

The clouds churned. Very soon, it disappeared into the clouds again.

And when the clouds parted, Su Lifeng vaguely saw tendrils extending from its body.

In an instant, Su Lifeng thought of that female Wisdom Species whose energy transmission he had interrupted.

Could it be that Wisdom Species were only the keys to opening Spatial Gates, while this kind of enormous creature was the energy source that maintained the Spatial Gates?

From the current situation, it was very possible…

To continuously keep a Spatial Gate open, the energy required should be vast. Such an enormous creature would be perfectly suited to provide that kind of energy…

In other words, the Xenospecies had temporarily established a foothold…

On Earth…

At the same time, several million other people were also witnessing this scene…

“Rumble!”

Another muffled thunderclap sounded. Su Lifeng saw a flash of lightning. Perhaps that was Earth’s Protective Layer’s final wail…