Chapter 1 Night Falls

Night fell.

Twenty hours had passed since the complete resurgence of the ancient civilization. In those twenty hours, the human defense line had suffered no less than five hundred attacks from the Followers. This high frequency of attacks and harassment left all the troops stationed on the human defense line exhausted and in a state of high tension.

If this continued, even if the ancient civilization didn't launch a large-scale war, the human defense line would collapse on its own due to the immense psychological pressure.

Li Tianran stood on the top floor of the Human Alliance headquarters, looking at the dark horizon in the distance. A turbulent undercurrent surged in his heart, but his expression remained unchanged.

He had already dispatched a large number of mecha warriors, but against the Star Followers, who possessed extreme mobility, the mecha warriors were slightly inferior. Moreover, because the Followers deliberately chose to fight within the defense line cities, this greatly constrained the firepower of the mecha warriors. Once they opened fire, the damage to the defense line cities would be immense.

In this situation, the defensive forces on the defense line felt very stifled, and they were hesitant and cautious when fighting.

Li Tianran was fully prepared for this situation. The best way to deal with small-scale harassment was, of course, to use the same methods as the enemy: using powerful and agile individual forces to hunt down and counterattack the enemy.

He had already instructed the Kuangxi Island Biological Laboratory to immediately carry out the second conversion of the Second Evolution Pioneers, with a total of eight hundred people!

Moreover, the armory had sent new news that Bai Jingyan had found something that could fuse with the Apostle of the Sea genes. If all went well, new individual combat equipment could be manufactured soon. He believed that it wouldn't be long before the ancient civilization's small-scale invasion tactics would become ineffective…

…

Inside the armory, Bai Jingyan and Damian opened the sealed box containing the plant. After taking the plant out and placing it on the laboratory table, the dilapidated plant seemed to sense the movement. Its damaged leaves trembled, trying to reach out and attack.

But soon, several steel thorns were nailed into its leaves and stems, pinning it firmly to the platform.

"See? This thing's appearance is almost eighty percent similar to the Apostle of the Sea… During the first test, the Apostle of the Sea's genes almost drained it, but it ultimately survived, devouring the Apostle of the Sea's genes and integrating them into its own body. This shows that, to some extent, this plant defeated the Apostle of the Sea. We need to find out the reason for this plant's victory, such as whether it contains some substance that can suppress powerful life genes, or whether it has some particularly powerful devouring and fusion ability…" Bai Jingyan pointed to the dilapidated plant and said softly, "If we can unlock its secrets, we can not only create more powerful individual weapons, but also allow human civilization to embark on another path at the level of life, a more powerful path of evolution!"

Damian wasn't very proficient in biotechnology, but he knew that this plant could help him solve the problem of manufacturing higher-level equipment, and that was enough!

"Let's begin!" Bai Jingyan put on his goggles. With a wave of his hand, a large number of devices were pushed to the front of the experiment table.

He took out a sharp scalpel and quickly began to dissect the plant in front of him.

Before returning, Bai Jingyan not only brought back this mutated plant, but also retrieved dozens of non-mutated plants of the same species from the unburned grassland. He extracted the juices from both and compared them, wanting to find the differences and further determine exactly where the special feature that could suppress the Apostle of the Sea genes was located.

Soon, after thousands of comparisons, two different sets of data clearly appeared in front of Bai Jingyan.