"But even so, what of it? Once I kill you, Taoyuan Base will still become mine!" Wen Yitong laughed arrogantly.
"No, it won't. Leader Wen has made me realize one thing: sometimes, even doing good deeds requires the ability to protect oneself. After all, not everyone is as grateful as Sui Sui and the others. Many more will be like Leader Wen, disloyal and ungrateful!" Lin Yan's smile was very gentle. She was provoking Wen Yitong. After all, this was when Wen Yitong was most proud, and the angrier she became, the more flaws she would reveal. Wen Yitong could not discern Lin Yan's ability level, but seeing the respect the group behind Lin Yan showed her, she knew Lin Yan was definitely not simple. Lin Yan waited for Wen Yitong's ability to fully upgrade, and then defeated her at her most arrogant moment. "Why? What level are you?" Wen Yitong looked at Lin Yan in disbelief. "My ability level? I'm not entirely sure myself. Perhaps level nine or ten. Since you know I'm the developer of the ability awakening serum, how could I lack the crystal cores needed for upgrades?" Lin Yan stood before Wen Yitong now, looking down at her from a superior position. This was the first time Wen Yitong had been looked down upon by someone else. "The winner takes all. Kill me or skin me, I have no complaints!" Wen Yitong turned her head away, unwilling to look at Lin Yan's face. Lin Yan had always been the object of jealousy! "Don't worry, I won't kill you!" Lin Yan chuckled. "Am I not the saint you said I was? How could I be so cruel as to kill someone!" "Lin Yan, you are truly hypocritical!" "But it is precisely because of my hypocrisy that you get to keep your life, isn't it? Thank my saintliness and my hypocrisy." Lin Yan took out two serums from her system backpack and poured them into Wen Yitong's mouth. Wen Yitong wanted to dodge, but Lin Yan had already sealed her acupoints, rendering her immobile. "Don't worry, it's not poison. Leader Wen has always been proud of her abilities, hasn't she? I wonder if you can still be so arrogant without your abilities?" After pouring the two serums into Wen Yitong's mouth, Lin Yan pressed an acupoint below her throat, and she involuntarily swallowed the medicine. "What exactly is this?" "My new medicine, something that can make abilities disappear! Isn't it interesting? I can give ordinary people abilities, and of course, I can also make ability users lose theirs. Leader Wen, enjoy this apocalypse!" Lin Yan stood up, dusted off her hands, and smiled even more happily as she looked at Wen Yitong's resentful gaze. She waved another serum in front of Wen Yitong's nose. Within seconds, Wen Yitong passed out. "Sister, was that acupoint pressing just now? That's amazing! Teach me, teach me!" A young man rushed over, saying excitedly to Lin Yan. "We'll talk about it later!" Lin Yan replied casually. "Sister, what should we do with this woman?" Sui Sui also ran over to ask. "Don't worry about her. When she wakes up, if she wants to leave this city, most of her abilities will be depleted. This place isn't far from Longteng Base. She should be able to make it there!" When she discovered her ability level was constantly dropping, she definitely wouldn't choose to return to her original base. As for Longteng Base, even if Lin Yan hadn't said anything, they all knew its situation. "Let her enjoy the treatment of an ordinary person too!" Sui Sui said maliciously. However, she still left a small gift for Wen Yitong. By the time Lin Yan and her group returned to the base, the city cleanup was nearing completion, and they were preparing to build fortifications. Although the surrounding zombies had been mostly cleared, they still felt more at ease with such defenses. After Lin Yan and her group returned, they were quickly assigned other tasks. Of course, no one assigned tasks to Lin Yan. Each of these young people was paired with a space ability user and would travel to various bases to deliver the ability awakening serums. Lin Yan, on the other hand, began to refine the ability-nullifying serum in the base. The young people were fast. Before long, there were almost no ordinary people left in all the bases. Not only that, but they also brought some martial arts techniques. With the firsthand accounts of these sword-wielding youths, everyone became extremely interested in martial arts, and they began practicing martial arts while improving their abilities. Becoming a nation of ability users was only the first step. Once everyone's abilities awakened, they would inevitably need to upgrade them, which meant hunting zombies for crystal cores. Since no one would be infected by the zombie virus and become a zombie anymore, the eradication of zombies was within sight. During this time, Lin Yan also researched many other serums, such as those that accelerated recovery and improved innate talent. These serums were sold through Taoyuan Base, bringing back more crystal cores. Crystal cores were piled high in Lin Yan's laboratory, but she didn't put them all into her system backpack. She was currently researching whether the energy from these crystal cores, in addition to upgrading abilities, could have other uses, such as generating electricity or manufacturing weapons. After all, the people of Taoyuan Base lacked nothing. Production and life in the entire Taoyuan Base were already very similar to before the apocalypse. If there was any difference, it might be the application of abilities and martial arts in daily life. In the eighth year of the apocalypse, high-level zombies with a certain degree of intelligence evolved. In the same year, led by these high-level zombies, the zombies began attacking human bases. In the ninth year of the apocalypse, human bases began to unite to clear out all zombies. In the tenth year of the apocalypse, humanity completely defeated the zombies, announcing the death of the last zombie. In the twelfth year of the apocalypse, the first mutated plant was domesticated and became an aid to ability users. In the fourteenth year of the apocalypse, mutated animals invaded, and in the same year, the invasion failed. In the fifteenth year of the apocalypse, all production and life resumed, and humanity entered the era of ability users. In the eighteenth year of the apocalypse, Lin Yan, a scientific researcher at the former Taoyuan Base, now Taoyuan City, submitted a serum that could turn ability users into ordinary people, used to restrain ability users. In the same year, Lin Yan uploaded all the martial arts techniques she knew. Humanity began to enter a world where martial arts and abilities were combined. Lin Yan not only submitted these but also her entire hoard of crystal cores. The nation built on this ruin, although not populous, developed rapidly. After all, it was the first nation to end the apocalypse, making people in other countries yearn for it. Lin Yan's contributions to this apocalypse were, at her request, not reported during her lifetime. When Lin Yan left this world, the national television station spent ten full days praising Lin Yan's achievements, letting everyone know what she had done for this apocalypse!