: Crimson Roots in the DarkDing Junyi’s voice crackled through the intercom, and the moment she sensed that Seven and the others were actually listening instead of brushing her off, she did not waste time playing the usual bureaucratic games. She went straight into explanation mode like someone who had repeated the same report a hundred times but still could not get the world to take it seriously.“We strongly suspect,” Ding Junyi said, her tone sharp and cold like a scalpel, “that these plants are directly linked to the biological mutations triggered since Apocalypse Day. The invasion of unknown objects, the distortion waves, all of it. Based on our current tests, the Spirit Swinging Value of this Blood Calamity Disaster Plant is above one hundred, and that value aligns inversely with the standard baseline of a Level C nocturnal creature.”Seven’s eyes narrowed slightly as he listened, his gaze drifting toward the grotesque mass of red plant ma

C103: Neon UnderworldPat. Pat.Boots struck the platform in a slow rhythm, the kind of sound that didn’t echo like normal footsteps, but instead got swallowed by the dead air as if the Underground City itself was hungry enough to eat noise.Seven moved first, because he always moved first, and because in a place like this you never let someone else be the one to step into the unknown before you do, especially not when the lights above flickered like dying insects and the shadows between the pillars looked deep enough to hide a whole city’s worth of mistakes.Behind him, Building and KIKI clicked on the tactical flashlights mounted under their rifles, and the three beams of white light stabbed into the dark like knives, cutting across unfinished concrete, steel scaffolding, and half-installed fluorescent fixtures that buzzed faintly as if still trying to pretend the world had not ended.The platform stretched forward in a straight li

C105: Blood Under GlassThe isolation door shuddered open with a metallic hiss that sliced through the sterile silence of the laboratory hall, and Seven’s first reaction was not relief or caution, but calculation, because the moment a door opens in a place like this, it is never just a door, it is either a threshold to safety or a feeding mouth for whatever is waiting on the other side.The air that rushed out was cold and controlled, filtered too well, almost unnatural, like the building itself was trying to pretend the outside world did not exist, and Seven stepped through the opening with KIKI at his side, anti toxic mask still strapped tight, boots hitting polished flooring that looked too clean to belong in an apocalypse. Behind them came the sound of pursuit, distant but violent, a chorus of scraping, snarling, and broken screams echoing through the corridors outside, until KIKI lifted her hand and a ripple of invisible force detonated outward with a dul

Chapter 107: Authorization ProtocolThe terminal let out a cold mechanical beep, slicing through the tense silence inside the underground lab as KIKI’s fingers hovered for a fraction too long before finally confirming the final input, and the moment she pressed down, the screen flickered once as if the entire system hesitated to accept reality itself before locking in the decision.A second later.[Beep, authorization complete.]The sound echoed like a sealed door clicking open in a place nobody was supposed to enter.KIKI exhaled sharply, almost too satisfied, and immediately leaned in with a grin that didn’t belong in a place this tense, lifting the mobile terminal like she had just stolen control of something far bigger than a simple login system.“Got it,” she said lightly, almost teasing, as if she hadn’t just rewired access to an entire underground authority layer.Across from her, Zhao Yan, Xu Wen, and Han Qiming