The Gale Apostle was severely injured, but as a second-stage evolved creature, it possessed an incredibly powerful self-healing ability. As long as its life core wasn't damaged, it could recover to its peak condition in just one night.

"The next Age of Destruction will arrive in 5 days and 21 hours!"

Li Tianran opened the system interface, the blood-red text at the top glaring at him.

With less than six days left, the ancient civilizations were about to fully awaken.

He had no time to waste. He had to expand his power as quickly as possible. If he could build the Gonggong Battleship before the ancient civilizations revived, the chances of human civilization winning would be much greater.

…

Pain!

Excruciating pain!

It felt as if his entire body was being torn apart, his wounds soaking in magma!

His scattered consciousness slowly gathered, and fragmented images gradually coalesced.

The Gale Apostle suddenly opened its eyes, the intense pain throughout its body reminding it that it was still alive!

"Beep beep beep…"

"Brainwave activity detected. Target has awakened!"

In the observation room, a cold electronic voice sounded.

Its brain raced, recalling everything that had happened before it lost consciousness.

Finally, its memory settled on the sudden appearance of the Twilight Apostle and the pillar of fire that shot into the sky!

"Twilight! You bastard…" The Gale Apostle clenched its fists, veins popping on its forehead, its eyes turning bloodshot with rage.

Even now, it couldn't be sure whether the Twilight Apostle's sudden attack was a genuine attempt to kill it, or simply to make the act look more convincing!

That part wasn't in their original plan at all!

Moreover, at the moment it was engulfed by the pillar of fire, the Gale Apostle had genuinely felt the intense threat of death, as if the Grim Reaper was standing right in front of it, beckoning it!

It raised its hand and saw that new muscles had grown on its arm, while charred skin lay scattered on either side of the observation platform.

Moving its body slightly, it felt a sharp stinging sensation inside.

Many of the alloy fragments mixed in with the pillar of fire had not yet been removed and remained inside its body.

It silently sat up, feeling the positions of the core fragments lodged inside.

It raised its head, pierced its chest with its fingertip, and forced two fingers into the bloody hole until they were buried to the root, finally plucking out a prism-shaped alloy fragment and casually tossing it aside.

Then, it used the same method to dig out all the alloy fragments from its body.

The two lodged tightest in the area of its spinal life core. The Gale Apostle used its claws to completely tear open its back, exposing its spine, before finally extracting the fragments from the flesh and bone.

After doing all this, the entire observation room was awash in blood.

The Gale Apostle raised its head and saw a group of human observers staring intently at it through the glass window of the observation room, one of them speaking into a walkie-talkie.

The Gale Apostle frowned.

The way those humans looked at it was devoid of awe or fear!

It was more like they were looking at an animal caged in a zoo!

The Gale Apostle felt a surge of anger. It wanted to kill those humans, but before it could raise its hand, the expressionless face of Li Tianran suddenly flashed into its mind.

That's right…

This wasn't the Tower of Babel, but Howling Wind Island (Kuangxi Island).

And it was no longer the infinitely glorious Apostle of the past, but a… stray dog who had lost its home!

The murderous aura between the Gale Apostle's eyebrows gradually dissipated, but it remained extremely cold. It looked at the humans outside the observation window and asked in a deep voice, "Where is Li Tianran? I want to see him!"

"Please follow me." The observation room door opened, and a human male wearing a Pioneer battle suit walked in.

The Gale Apostle noticed that this human male didn't show the same fear and unease that the evolved warriors of the 550 base had shown when facing it. The pressure that a second-stage evolved creature exerted on a first-stage evolved creature seemed to be greatly diminished in this man.

It looked at him very seriously, and then discovered some clues.

"You, are unlocking the second-stage gene lock… Your life strength is much stronger than that of ordinary first-stage gene-locked creatures, but it doesn't reach the level of a second-stage gene warrior!" A very strange expression appeared on the Gale Apostle's face, as if it was somewhat astonished.

After losing the Miracle architecture, the only advantage it had over Li Tianran was its physical strength as a second-stage evolved creature, but now it seemed that the warriors under Li Tianran's command were also undergoing second-stage evolution. Perhaps it wouldn't be long before its advantage completely disappeared in front of Li Tianran!

"Please follow me." The male Pioneer didn't answer the Gale Apostle's question, but repeated it again.

The Gale Apostle followed the Pioneer out of the observation room.

Stepping out of the observation room, the Gale Apostle saw the whole picture of Howling Wind Island for the first time.

"Boundary Tower, Pillbox, anti-detection chameleon cloaking foundation…" The Gale Apostle's eyes swept over, discovering a large number of products that far exceeded human civilization's technology, most of which were at the same level as the Miracle architecture's configuration.

There were even some products that the Miracle architecture didn't possess!

"Where did these things come from? How many years has human civilization been around? How could it have developed so quickly?" The Gale Apostle roared in its heart. Judging from these devices alone, the level of civilization on Howling Wind Island had definitely reached level 0.9 or above.

But since the revival of the ancient civilizations, after reading the history of human civilization, it knew that half a year ago, the level of civilization of the entire human world was only around 0.7.

How could it have developed so quickly in just a few months?

Even the former Apostle civilization took three hundred years to reach level 0.9 from level 0.7.

The Gale Apostle continued to move forward.

Suddenly, it saw some familiar figures.

They were the followers of the Earth Apostle.

At this time, they were walking side by side with some humans wearing Pioneer battle suits, chatting softly, and seemed to have a very harmonious relationship!

The Gale Apostle's heart wavered again.

It knew that something was wrong with the Earth Apostle and that he was temporarily living on Howling Wind Island, but it didn't know that even the followers under the Earth Apostle's command were getting along so harmoniously with the members of Howling Wind Island.

Could it be that the Triangular Tower was really going to join hands with Howling Wind Island?

A force with a rapidly developing civilization.

A force with close ties to the most powerful race on Blue Star.

Such a Howling Wind Island, even if the ancient civilizations were to fully revive in the future, would probably be difficult to suppress!

The Gale Apostle was caught in a dilemma.

Should it continue to lurk in Howling Wind Island as a "sleeper agent" according to its original plan, or should it really choose to cooperate with Howling Wind Island and become Li Tianran's ally?