Chapter 519 - 513: Ambush

Xie Ning gave him a slight nod, instantly throwing up several Space Barriers to envelop the entire group.

Then, she grabbed the rattling chain and quickly slid down.

Xiao Huzi, Ji Xiuming, had a curious look on his face as he reached out a finger and poked the air in front of him.

He was surprised to find his finger seemingly enveloped by a thin film of water, met with a gentle, pushing resistance.

’How magical!’

’To be in this sealed spatial compartment, yet have no trouble breathing at all?’

’Truly worthy of a high-level Superpower User. She can dazzle everyone with a casually used ability.’

Ji Xiuming raised a hand to comfort a few restless, mutated children. "It’s okay, it’s okay. Your powerful big sister will be back soon. We’ll just wait a bit."

The underground warehouse was quite deep.

It took Xie Ning some time to slide all the way down.

The moment she landed, a bone-chilling cold washed over her.

It seemed Chen Zhaowei and his people had turned this underground warehouse into a freezer.

After walking a short way down the earthen corridor, Xie Ning, with her sharp senses, suddenly heard a low whining sound.

Xie Ning raised an eyebrow. It sounded very much like an animal whining a warning to an intruder on its territory.

’I can’t believe Chen Zhaowei is raising mutated animals down here as watchdogs.’

The thought had barely crossed her mind when three large, mutated animals charged out of the dim earthen corridor ahead, baring their teeth and staring her down with faintly glowing green eyes.

They were mutated wild wolves, and by the looks of them, their mutation Level was not low.

Before they could pounce and surround her, Xie Ning made the first move.

The golden hammer in her hand came crashing down.

The first wolf to pounce let out a whimper and collapsed, the sound of a loud CRACK echoing from its large head.

Xie Ning fluidly raised the silver case in her left hand, blocking another pouncing mutated wolf.

She had metalized the exterior of the silver case, making it incredibly sturdy and as impenetrable as a fortress wall.

The mutated wolf’s claws raked against it several times, but they couldn’t breach her defense.

At the same time, the third wolf lunged at her face.

This mutated wolf was exceptionally ferocious, its combat prowess in a completely different league from the first two.

As it pounced, it looked ready to tear a chunk of flesh from Xie Ning’s face with a single bite.

Unfortunately for it, its bite met what felt like a steel plate, and its fangs instantly shattered.

Xie Ning sneered, glancing at the wolf. Using the silver case as a shield, she smashed it against the wolf’s head twice. CLANG! CLANG!

Then, putting force into her kicks, she struck out twice. Her black leather boots, now coated in a layer of metal, tore open the belly of the highly combative wolf.

The wolf let out a pained cry, collapsing to the ground with a whimpering roar.

It probably never expected this human to be so fierce; it curled up on the ground, not daring to move again.

Xie Ning’s ears twitched as she heard more than a dozen barks in the distance.

Packs of mutated wild dogs, large and small, shot out from the depths of the earthen corridor, charging viciously toward Xie Ning.

’That repulsive Chen Zhaowei is as cautious and meticulous as I thought.’

’This warehouse is already deep underground and probably has human guards, yet he was still careful enough to raise so many mutated animals to patrol the outskirts.’

The hammer in Xie Ning’s hand suddenly expanded, blazing with golden light.

A silver shield in her left hand, a uniquely fearsome hammer in her right.

Protected by the strong defense of her Defense Cloak, she charged single-handedly into the pack of wild dogs, her hammer rising and falling in a frenzy of brutal smashes.

The wild dogs fell, torn apart, their whimpers and groans unending.

Once she had finished off all the mutated animals, Xie Ning reached out her hand and, with a pulling motion, caused several blood-stained Crystal Cores to leap into the air.

Xie Ning casually summoned a splash of clean, fresh water and washed them thoroughly.

Her speed at purifying and extracting Crystal Core Energy was now incredibly fast.

In what was practically the blink of an eye, faint wisps of mist began to drift up from the Crystal Cores.

Then, they rapidly condensed into a white, smoke-like Energy Ball.

She stored this type of Crystal Core Energy, extracted from mutated plants and animals, in a separate Energy Metal Box to differentiate it from the Zombie Crystal Core Energy Bodies she had collected before.

Now, her villa’s terrace was home to numerous round metal boxes, large and small, each containing a different type of Energy Ball.

Among them, Energy Balls for the rarer mutated attributes, like the Ice Element, Healing System, and Spiritual System, were smaller.

As for the more common superpowers, she had condensed all the Energy Balls—like those for the Water Element, Wind System, Wood Element, and Earth System—into the round metal boxes.

Don’t be fooled by their small size; their actual energy content was immense.

That was why the members of their Starfire Team had always leveled up far faster than any other team.

They were never short of the energy required to level up.

Xie Ning, on the other hand, intentionally controlled her family’s leveling speed.

She wanted to prevent them from leveling up so fast that their physical bodies couldn’t keep pace with the energy requirements; in that case, the losses would outweigh the gains.

In truth, Energy Balls were the fastest way to replenish one’s energy.

They could instantly restore 80 to 90 percent of a person’s depleted energy.

If one used a corresponding Energy Ball that matched their superpower’s attribute, it was possible to achieve a 100% replenishment.

But because these Energy Balls were so beneficial for leveling up, Xie Ning usually conserved them.

Besides, now that they had something as ridiculously overpowered as the Replenishing Well Water, there was even less need to use her precious Energy Balls.

Weaving past the animal carcasses on the ground, Xie Ning continued toward the end of the dim corridor.

She found a heavy metal door on both the left and right sides of the earthen corridor.

To Xie Ning, these doors were basically nonexistent.

Without hesitation, Xie Ning opened the door on the left, and a blast of cold air immediately hit her.

The extreme cold made even a Superpower User like her slightly uncomfortable.

She paused at the entrance to acclimate, then stepped inside, discovering that the large underground icehouse was at least half empty.

The right side, however, was still neatly stacked with countless boxes and freezers of various sizes.

The freezers held many finished medicines, while the boxes were full of consumables—a truly dazzling array.

Xie Ning first scanned the area several times with her spiritual power. Finding nothing out of the ordinary, she casually opened a box to inspect its contents.

It was filled with top-tier medicinal ingredients that required low-temperature storage.

Xie Ning scanned everything again, meticulously probing every nook and cranny with her spiritual power.

After a ten-minute inspection, having confirmed there were no hidden mutated creatures or other threats, she finally relaxed and swept everything into her personal Space.

Her personal Space now had an area approaching 3,000 square meters, making it quite spacious.