Rebirth before Apocalypse: My Whole Family are Bigshots!

Chapter 188: Chapter 188: Gulp Gulp Gulp

Behind it was a cabinet divided into ten compartments, with five-thirds of their surfaces sealed with glass.

Inside each compartment, there were black and chubby ant queens with red ant kings.

Some ant queens still had wings, being ”princesses.”

Beside some ant queens lay a pile of white eggs.

The largest ant queen was as big as a football, with its black belly churning with black blood.

In each ant queen’s exclusive compartment, there was some black rotten meat and some clean food.

The ant queens only seemed interested in the rotten meat, their chubby bodies motionless, mouths quickly chewing the rotting flesh.

Besides these, there was also a camera emitting a red light.

Bai Xiqin raised her hand, grasped at the air, and the camera was instantly destroyed.

”Why are there so many?”

Bai Yifan’s scalp tingled.

An egg-producing ant queen was terrifying enough, let alone ten of them!

The red mutant worker ant’s antennae shook violently, as if preparing to attack Bai Xiqin.

Bai Xiqin’s control power tightly suppressed it.

”Only one worker ant?”

Leng Yebai’s eyes scanned the entire room, finding no other mutant ants.

In an ant colony, worker ants and soldier ants should be plentiful.

Logically, there shouldn’t be so few.

”The others haven’t hatched yet.” Bai Xiqin remembered the mutated ant eggs underground, ”Those eggs should be the first batch of mutant ants that haven’t yet hatched and were discovered by us.”

Bai Xiqin’s gaze fell on the mutated red worker ant.

From its mouthparts, black liquid dripped slowly.

A mutant worker ant, as fast as the wind, could create a maze of ant nests beneath an entire city.

It was truly astonishing.

Even if it started building before the ant queen laid eggs, it hadn’t taken even two months.

If the ant colony hatched, it would be disastrous for the area.

Before the ant colony hatched, this lone mutant worker ant was responsible for guarding the ant queens.

Bai Xiqin squinted her eyes, glancing at the window’s position.

A slight gap in the pasted newspaper and a missing corner of the glass were just enough for a red ant to escape.

Perhaps the person cultivating the ant queens hadn’t considered that such a small hole could bring a calamity upon the city.

Perhaps that person knew... and allowed the mutant red ants to escape.

”Roar――”

Suddenly, the sounds of zombies’ roars came from outside.

”Woo~ Woo~”

Their location was right next to the safe base, and they could even hear the base’s alarm.

”Sister, what should we do?”

Bai Yifan looked at Bai Xiqin.

From the box at Bai Xiqin’s waist, icy steel needles flew straight into the compartments, piercing the ant queens and the lone worker ant on the ground.

The steel needles pierced their brains, and black blood splattered.

Bai Xiqin came to the front of the compartments, carefully observing the ant queens inside.

The ant queens’ bellies were unlike others, not white and plump, but black with black blood inside them.

Besides that, Bai Xiqin also saw some powder in the compartments.

This powder was a pale cyan color.

The cyan powder emitted a burnt smell.

Bai Xiqin reached out a finger to touch some, her body slightly tensing.

She was very familiar with this.

In the underground lab, she was fed some at regular intervals.

It could forcibly develop a person’s superpower, with strong side effects, greatly shortening the user’s lifespan.

This powder required a Fourth Rank crystal core to be vacuum compressed into powder using a gentle method, ensuring the energy inside did not dissipate, then mixed with a synthetic drug.

In the lab, it was a very precious drug.

”Sister, sister? Are you okay?” Bai Yifan waved a hand in front of Bai Xiqin, ”Let’s get out of here quickly! It’s getting chaotic outside!”

”Oh, okay.”

Bai Xiqin reached out into the void, and ten crystal cores from the ant queens’ brains flew out.

Each emitted a faint glow, being Fifth Rank crystal cores.

Bai Xiqin directly collected the crystal cores into her space.

”Wow――Sister, why didn’t that person bring more people to guard these crystal cores?” Bai Yifan’s eyes lit up.

These crystal cores contained immense power, priceless assets in the apocalypse.

From a distance, he could feel that these crystal cores were different from others.

”Afraid of uneven distribution.” Bai Xiqin said.

”But it was too easy for us to get the crystal cores! Surely they have a backup plan.” Bai Yifan rubbed his chin.

How could ten Fifth Rank crystal cores be acquired so effortlessly!

”You’re right, see that thing?” Bai Xiqin pointed to a glass bottle placed on the cabinet.

The glass bottle was completely emerald, with faint liquid visible inside.

Bai Yifan took a deep breath, smelling a faint fragrance aside from the rotting smell.

This fragrance was very light, barely detectable without a strong sniff.

”This room is filled with poisonous, volatile gas. In a sealed space like this, the gas permeates every inch of the air, and anyone who trespasses won’t get out, becoming food cut up by the worker ant.”

Bai Xiqin pointed to the already dead lone worker ant.

It was a mutant worker ant, very fast, capable of unexpectedly leaving a wound on a human.

Once turned into a zombie, it becomes reserve food for the ant queens.

”Poisonous?” Bai Yifan quickly covered his nose, ”Can we still get out in time?”

”Too late.” Bai Xiqin calmly took out three bottles of water from her space, filled with Spiritual Spring Water, ”Spiritual Spring Water can detoxify, otherwise we’d have been on the ground when we were on the first floor.”

The Bai Family’s consumption came mostly from the space, and this level of toxicity was not a problem.

This poison was chemically synthesized, very special, effective only on superpower users.

Since Bai Xiqin’s rebirth, it was the first time she smelled such a scent.

She had been looking for the antidote but never knew the exact components.

But she got her answer on the first floor.

Superpower users usually become paralyzed and lose their abilities upon smelling this scent.

Yet none of the three of them were affected in the slightest.

A difference from her previous life could only be the Spiritual Spring Water from the space.

It seems to be the work of the experimental lab here.

The apocalypse had just begun for a few months, and their people had eagerly started their research.

”Roar――”

The zombie’s roar continued, and the superpower users outside had begun fighting the zombies.

”Gulp Gulp Gulp――”

Bai Yifan was furiously drinking the Spiritual Spring Water, unable to speak, hurriedly pointing outside.

Timid people cherish life the most.

Bai Xiqin took out a can of gasoline from the space, pouring it on the floor, then took out a lighter.

”Gulp Gulp Gulp—hold on, gulp gulp, let’s run first.”

Bai Yifan gulped down water like a bull, striding towards the stairs.

”Roar——”

At the entrance on the first floor, zombies were roaring hoarsely, afraid the people upstairs wouldn’t hear them.

After a few steps, Leng Yebai grabbed him.

”Out the window!”

Leng Yebai’s cold voice sounded, then he grasped the back of Bai Yifan’s neck, carrying him toward the window.

”Oh, gulp gulp——”

Bai Yifan was carried like a cat by Leng Yebai and didn’t forget to drink his water.