Reborn One Week Before the Apocalypse

Chapter 308: Chapter 298: Time’s Up

But this altitude was too low; she was now completely within the giant’s attack range.

Another giant saw the woman taking its prey and about to fly off again. No longer bothering to clutch the back of its neck, it reached out and swatted her right out of the air.

Tang Mo’s spiritual power was nearly depleted. In her effort to catch Bo Niou, she had no way to dodge and was swatted straight down.

As she fell, Tang Mo clutched Bo Niou tightly, trying to minimize the damage it would take.

Tang Mo slammed heavily onto the ground. The impact jolted her chest, and the last bit of her strength vanished. She lay there, unable to even crawl.

But Bo Niou got up.

Trembling all over, it struggled to its feet once more and walked toward the steel giant.

It wasn’t walking toward the steel giant, but toward Xiao Fei.

Xiao Fei’s throat was too hoarse to make a sound. All he could do was silently watch Bo Niou’s silhouette, tears streaming down his face.

Bo Niou could barely stay on its feet, but it kept moving forward.

Everyone watching the screen stared at the scene, their eyes flicking to the timer at the top.

’There’s only one minute left! They can make it! They can all survive!’

But it seemed that protagonist-level luck only ever happened in the movies.

The distance between the steel giant and Bo Niou was just too short. No miracle occurred. In the final ten seconds of the countdown, the steel giant kicked Bo Niou away with all its might. What streaked across the sky was not just Bo Niou’s small form, but also a spray of its blood.

3...

2...

1...

Finally, just as everyone had been praying for, the time reached eight o’clock.

The entire world seemed to suddenly freeze.

The wind stopped blowing. It seemed even the angle and warmth of the sunlight on one’s skin ceased to change.

The two remaining steel giants froze in place. The one that had kicked Bo Niou was stopped mid-motion, its foot still raised, turning it into a terrifying statue.

Tang Mo watched helplessly as Bo Niou slammed heavily onto the ground for the last time, blood gushing from its mouth.

’Did we... fail after all...?’

Tang Mo knew exactly what that final blow meant for Bo Niou. It was fatal.

If she could just heal it now, Bo Niou might have had a sliver of a chance. But it was impossible. She was completely out of spiritual power, and even if she weren’t, she couldn’t even crawl over to it.

Everything in this world seemed to have come to a standstill.

But not everything. Some things were changing silently, blooming secretly.

The flower bud on Mumu opened. Before Hu Bin’s very eyes, a massive, seven-colored flower began to bloom, bit by bit, creating a stark contrast with the frozen world around it.

The seven-colored light, already visible within the bud, grew ever more brilliant as the petals unfurled, spreading out into the air.

The flower bloomed completely. Each petal was a different color, but they all shared one trait: they radiated light. The light didn’t diminish; it flowed out ceaselessly, filling the entire room. It spilled out the door, revealing itself to the whole world.

The seven-colored light from Mumu washed over the mountains and fields, spreading steadily toward the city center and into every corner of the world.

Wherever the seven-colored halo passed, the bloodstains on the ground were washed away, leaving no trace, as if they had never existed. In their place, green shoots sprouted—the unique color of Life.

”We succeeded. We really succeeded.”

Seeing the once-barren, blood-soaked wilderness now covered in green sprouts, Hu Bin stared blankly, scarcely able to believe his eyes.

They really had succeeded.

Thanks to the choice made by the majority, the rules of Rule Day had been successfully modified.

More forms of life besides humans began to appear in the world. Outside the glass house, a vibrant, lively landscape began to emerge.

The world’s new rules finally allowed humans and other forms of Life to coexist in harmony.

As Hu Bin stood there in a daze, Mumu began to grow at an incredible speed, getting taller and thicker by the second.

It quickly shattered its flowerpot. Mumu’s roots emerged, burrowing deep into the earth below.

The ever-growing trunk soon burst through the roof of the house. But that wasn’t all. Mumu continued to grow at an unbelievable rate.

Three meters, five meters, ten meters...

Hu Bin tilted his head back, watching Mumu grow from a small seedling into something so immense he had to crane his neck just to see its top.

The seven-colored light continued to emanate from its crown, drifting down the mountainside and into every corner of the city.

As Mumu continued its relentless growth, Bo Niou, lying on the ground, slowly closed its eyes, its last trace of Life Force fading away.

It was too tired. It just couldn’t hold on any longer.

Xiao Fei’s gaze never left Bo Niou for a second. He watched as its body slowly dissolved into countless motes of white light. They merged with the seven-colored radiance in the sky, scattering to every corner of the world.

In the end, he had still failed to protect the most important thing in the world to him.

He had tried so hard, but the outcome was still impossible to accept.

Xiao Fei closed his eyes, but the tears flowed unabated, trickling into his mouth. It was the taste of bitter grief.

Everyone watching the screens was shocked into silence by the flowing, seven-colored light. Since arriving in this world, none of them had ever witnessed what a change in its fundamental rules looked like.

Having followed the rules so obediently for so long, they had even forgotten that they possessed the power to make a decision that could change the entire world.

Tang Mo lay on the ground, sensing the seven-colored light that now filled the air. Deep within her sea of consciousness, something began to resonate powerfully.

It was the Life Energy Pearl.

Tang Mo could now clearly feel the potent Life Force within the seven-colored light—the powerful Life Force of countless plants and animals.

The Life Energy Pearl in her sea of consciousness, which she had never managed to integrate, was responding to this seven-colored light. Something felt as if it was about to burst forth.

Tang Mo didn’t suppress the restless pearl in her sea of consciousness. Instead, she focused on sensing the seven-colored light, relaxing every part of her body and allowing it to bathe in the radiance.

She completely surrendered to the baptism of Life Force, offering no resistance.

BOOM! A familiar, tremendous roar echoed within Tang Mo’s sea of consciousness.

The colossal sound didn’t frighten Tang Mo. On the contrary, it brought her a wave of joyous surprise. She knew what that sound was.

It was the sound of the Life Energy Pearl in her sea of consciousness finally integrating.

Like a dam bursting, the pearl in her sea of consciousness completely shattered. In that instant, an infinite amount of Life Force erupted within her sea of consciousness, surging in every direction.