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Chen Shanshan had already anticipated the appearance of a Tier 3 Aberrant King during the Trial Challenge.

Because Lin Feng had informed her before initiating the trans-tier evolution.

The trial in the mental world would use the most profound scene from her memories as the challenge content.

Moreover, the way to pass the trial was through a secondary awakening of her abilities, further unlocking their potential.

Lin Feng had verified this multiple times on himself and other evolutionaries.

Back in the third underground level of the ruins, Chen Shanshan, as Lin Feng's personal guard, witnessed the battle between Bai Ye, the leader of the Savior Army, and a Tier 3 Aberrant King.

The latter's strength certainly didn't reach the level of a Tier 3 King, not even one-tenth of its power. Aberration itself is a severe form of contamination, so it's impossible to maintain combat power at the same tier.

Tier 3 Aberrations were merely Zong Shiyue's toys.

They only contained a small portion of Tier 3 cells.

But even so, the strength of a Tier 3 Aberration could rival that of a mid-to-late Tier 2, and with its abnormal recovery ability, it could put up a fight against Bai Ye, who wasn't skilled in combat.

If it encountered a level 29 evolutionary with combat or destruction-type abilities, this kind of early-stage Tier 3 Aberration would be utterly helpless.

That's why they were no match for Tier 2 Corpse Wolves, and the train station became a bridgehead for contamination, lasting for over a thousand years.

But right now, Chen Shanshan only had level 19 strength. Even though she was proficient in close combat, there was still a significant gap in speed and power between her and the Aberrant King before her.

The only fortunate thing was that the titanium alloy spear she always carried with her had also entered the Trial Challenge. Her familiar weapon was still there.

As the construction of the mental world became more complete, Chen Shanshan's consciousness became clearer and clearer, gradually regaining her perception and control of her body.

At the same time, the Tier 3 Aberrant King, radiating a powerful aura before her, also became active from its previously motionless state.

She could feel its rapid breathing, filled with murderous intent and madness, as if it would pounce straight at her in the next second.

Chen Shanshan frowned tightly. After a brief pause, she had mentally prepared herself and was no longer as terrified as she was when she first awakened. She began to think about countermeasures.

Combined with the titanium alloy spear in her hand, it was enough to inflict heavy damage on the unprotected Aberration.

The neck was a good attack point, especially the posterior cervical vertebrae, which connected the Aberrant King's head and body. As long as she could stab it with one spear, she could gain the upper hand.

After devising an offensive strategy in just a few seconds, Chen Shanshan, as soon as she could move, decisively dashed towards the Aberration, which hadn't yet reacted, like a cannonball.

The latter's speed reached over 100 meters per second, while as a level 19 evolutionary, Chen Shanshan's limit speed was only close to 100 meters per second.

So, she couldn't escape.

She could only strike first!

But the faster Tier 3 Aberrant King still reacted after regaining its senses.

At this time, Chen Shanshan was less than five meters away from it, with the titanium spear in her hand pointing directly at the neck under its head.

Out of fear of death, the Aberrant King made an instinctive survival response, shaking its body and shifting its upper body within one-hundredth of a second.

The three-meter-tall body nimbly dodged to the side.

Chen Shanshan reacted in time, lifting her wrist and firmly locking the spearhead onto the target.

However, it still shifted a bit, and the spearhead ultimately pierced into the Aberration's right shoulder.

Its entire arm was instantly torn apart under the enormous impact, bone and all, and flung away.

And the Aberrant King used this to achieve survival by severing its arm.

Although the intense pain of the arm breaking shot straight into the brain's nerves, it still made the most correct and timely counterattack, waving its burly and powerful left claw and slamming it fiercely at the human in front of it.

It was just that because of its incomplete body, its stability was affected, and the power of this claw strike was reduced from the original dozens of tons to a dozen tons.

It only sent Chen Shanshan flying twenty or thirty meters away.

When she crashed through a nearby wall and fell into the ruins, her internal organs were almost ruptured, and she spat out blood with a painful and ferocious expression.

Four bloody wounds, twenty centimeters long and three or four centimeters wide, appeared on the armor that was hit by the claw, which was shocking.

But it was also because of the armor's protection that Chen Shanshan still had a chance to breathe.

Otherwise, just that claw strike would have torn her in half on the spot.

And the Tier 3 Aberration, which was also severely injured, did not rashly step forward to continue attacking and finish her off.

After losing a right arm, its sense of balance was affected due to the aberration itself, and it could not move quickly, making it easy to suffer a counterattack from the enemy.

So, it chose to repair its severed limb first, walking unsteadily towards its severed hand that had flown out.

And at the gash where the right arm was torn, the blood that was originally splashing out quickly solidified and scabbed over under the powerful recovery ability of the Tier 3 cells.

When the Aberration picked up its severed right arm and reattached it to its right arm, Chen Shanshan also endured the pain, awakened her body functions, left the collapsed house, and hid in a nearby building.

The surprise attack and strong attack failed. Next, the chances of killing the opponent were almost zero.

But Chen Shanshan would not sit still and wait for death.

What she had to do now was to hide herself as much as possible, delay time, find the Aberrant King's weakness, and accumulate combat experience for her second life after resurrection.

Besides her own skills, the only thing she could rely on was the auxiliary ability awakened in her body.

It was just that it was useless in the ruins at the time, after all, the Aberrations had long adapted to the dark environment and did not rely on vision for activity and hunting.

After evolving to level 19, Chen Shanshan's blinding ability had also improved a lot. At this moment, it could take effect within a hundred meters, and the coverage area was no longer just the eyes, but could envelop the target's entire head.

This also meant that it could shield four of the target's five senses, including sight, hearing, smell, and the less important taste.

Except for the sense of touch, which could not be shielded, Chen Shanshan had already been able to deprive the target of all perception of the outside world.

But the above effects were for normal human evolutionaries. At this moment, what she was facing was an Aberration without a fixed appearance.

Chen Shanshan tried her best to calm herself down, not making the slightest sound, while secretly using her perception ability to lock onto the monster's figure in the darkness.

The Tier 3 Aberration sniffed in the air. In the perennial dim environment, its vision had degenerated greatly. Even its eyeballs were completely white, only able to distinguish changes in light, making it difficult to see the shape of external objects clearly.

Correspondingly, its other sensory organs, such as hearing, smell, and touch, had been greatly strengthened.

Although the trial world constructed at this moment did not have too many poisonous substances and mucus, unlike the real third underground level of the ruins, which provided many chemical pheromones to enhance the Aberrant King's perception…

But the fresh bloodstains all over the ground could guide it to the approximate location of the target.

So, in just a few seconds, the Aberration, which had recovered most of its strength, found the location where Chen Shanshan was hiding.

After detecting it, the latter secretly used the blinding shielding effect of her ability.

Chen Shanshan's eyes went black, and a surge of energy surged out of her body. Immediately afterwards, the space where the Aberration's head was located was shrouded in a black mist.

The black mist did not exist in reality, as if it overflowed from the surrounding space.

And it had no fixed shape, just like dripping ink into a glass of clear water, spreading arbitrarily.

But the impact it brought was unexpectedly good.

The Aberration, whose head was shielded by the black energy, immediately froze in place, and then, as if it had lost its sense of direction, stretched out its arms and groped around.

Seeing this, Chen Shanshan's face lit up with joy.

She hadn't been evolved to the late Stage One for long, only a few hours.

The experiment with her ability was just a casual release by Ding Yi in the car, without any detailed investigation.

And releasing her ability consumes a lot of energy.

It's a dual drain on physical and mental strength; maintaining it for a few dozen seconds can lead to a noticeable decline in condition.

Timely replenishment with food of the same level is needed to restore the overdrawn state.

So Chen Shanshan hadn't had time to conduct any practical combat drills, only knowing that the shielding effect she released could cover a space the size of a basketball.

Compared to the size of a ping-pong ball when she first evolved, it had increased dozens of times.

But what Chen Shanshan didn't expect was that the shielding effect of her ability had also improved significantly.

Had she known, she would have used her ability from the start, perhaps gaining the advantage of a second strike.

Chen Shanshan was contemplating a renewed attack after her revival, but just then, the head of the mutated creature, which had been enveloped in black energy, suddenly churned.

Immediately afterward, cracks appeared in the chest and arms of the mutated King.

From them grew pairs of eyeballs, mouths with protruding tongues, and organs such as nostrils and ears.

The shielded senses of sight, hearing, and smell were regenerated in other parts of the mutated creature's body in just a dozen seconds, and were even enhanced.

Chen Shanshan frowned deeply; high-level mutated creatures were indeed difficult to deal with; although they were just flesh and blood, their strength lay in their flesh and blood.

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Their control over their body's cells was unparalleled, allowing them to recklessly evolve and replicate different tissue cells, forming mutated organs everywhere.

As its senses returned, the skin on the mutated creature's chest twisted, gradually forming a blurred human face, which let out a painful howl before turning to look at the corner of the room where Chen Shanshan was hiding.

The next second, it transformed into a beast, dropping to all fours and pouncing fiercely, tearing its target to shreds with its thick arms and sharp claws, despite its body being pierced by the titanium spear.

When she woke up again, Chen Shanshan took a deep breath.

The scene and feeling of her previous tragic death were still vivid, the pain stimulating her brain nerves, and fear accompanied by trembling swept through her body.

Fortunately, she had used the titanium spear at the end, risking mutual destruction with the mutated King, to extract its head and spine, destroying its regenerative ability.

Thus, the monster was once again reassembled before her.

This time, Chen Shanshan didn't hesitate; at the moment both were revived, she directly used her ability to lock onto the target, then swung the titanium spear and charged.

The pain and fear of death gave Chen Shanshan an extreme sense of security and motivation as she killed the target.

The exhilaration of predicting in advance and nipping the threat in the bud accelerated her hand movements; the sharp titanium spear shattered its head with a single thrust before the mutated King could react.

She completely severed the entire head from the neck!

And to prevent the mutated creature from continuing to regenerate, Chen Shanshan began to further dissect the fallen headless giant after retracting the titanium spear.

Before the human face that had appeared on its chest could fully take shape, she split it from top to bottom into left and right halves, then swung and lifted the spear, severing its limbs as well.

Finally, she crushed the evolutionary cells rich in the nervous system that controlled the entire body on both sides of the spine.

Without the deployment of Stage Three cells, the mutated King naturally had no chance of revival.

After completing this cross-level sneak assassination, Chen Shanshan was covered in sweat, her condition more than half depleted.

The main reason was the full release of her ability, coupled with the tense state of explosive power, which was almost the limit of what she could do at the nineteenth level of evolution.

As the mutated King died, the black energy that had enveloped its head suddenly dissipated uncontrollably, forming a black door.

Chen Shanshan walked to the door, feeling the same energy behind it as the ability within her.

At this moment, a strange emotion surged into her heart.

A sense of doubt arose spontaneously.

Because Chen Shanshan found that her ability didn't seem to have changed much; being able to kill a Stage Three mutated monster was entirely due to her own observation and combat experience.

Amidst her doubts, Chen Shanshan turned her head to look at the trial space, which was gradually collapsing due to the end of the challenge.

The girl hesitated for a moment, and finally stepped into the black door.

At the same time, inside the Wolf Armor battle car in the real world, Lin Feng instinctively sensed a trace of strangeness and potential danger, his nerves tensing as he entered a combat state, while adjusting the power armor to the highest performance combat mode.

The next moment, the girl lying on the seat-bed suddenly opened her eyes.

Those eyes were as black as ink, and a strong aura was immediately released, plunging the entire Rock Horse battle car into darkness, as if everything had ceased to exist.

Lin Feng, who was enveloped within, instantly lost all sensation of the outside world.

Including the various auxiliary instruments on the power armor.

Infrared cameras, night vision goggles, dynamic capture, etc., were all in a state of complete system crash.

Lin Feng frowned, his whole body tense.

This was much more dangerous than the situation described by Father Su An; besides thinking with his brain, he had lost all perception of the outside world.

Just like a vegetable... …

Just then, a figure suddenly appeared.

An image condensed out of the endless darkness.

Zong Shiyue's image was like a ghost, appearing in a semi-transparent state before Lin Feng's eyes.

This was also the only thing he could see.

"Do you feel like you've fallen into an abyss, entering an endless hell?"

Zong Shiyue's words drifted through Lin Feng's mind like the sound of wind, sometimes near, sometimes far.

Lin Feng nodded silently, while inwardly asking:

"There seems to be something wrong with Chen Shanshan's ability; it's much more powerful than the original shielding; I don't even have any perception now, only my brain can still function... …"

Zong Shiyue smiled and continued:

"This isn't a shielding ability, and depriving the senses is just an external manifestation."

"The energy she releases can form a dark domain; within it, all visible matter will be sealed, naturally including the flesh and blood organs that form perception, and material instruments."

Lin Feng was stunned inwardly:

"Dark domain? What's the story behind it?"

"Is it like the gun ability, already famous in the Old Earth era?"

Zong Shiyue nodded:

"Not quite famous, but it's a rising star among energy-based abilities."

"Around the last few years, many refugees who hadn't obtained the quota to enter the shelters were migrating north."

"Because a batch of planetary engines were still under construction in the polar regions, there were also a batch of supporting underground shelters."

"Among these refugees, a Stage Three early-stage existence was born, mastering an energy ability called Dark Domain, his whole body wrapped in a layer of dark energy."

"Rumor has it that after he appeared, the whole world would be shrouded in darkness, as if night had fallen."

"I only met him once; in the beginning, with his early-stage strength, he could face three mid-stage Kings simultaneously and not be at a disadvantage, so he gained control of a large shelter."

"If you've paid attention to the distribution of power I've introduced, you should remember that in the distant north, above sixty degrees north latitude, there exists a mysterious ancient country called the Eternal Night Empire... …"

Lin Feng quickly reacted, his tone surprised:

"Are you saying that the Eternal Night Empire was built single-handedly by this Stage Three King who mastered the Dark Domain ability?"

Zong Shiyue nodded, then made another shocking statement:

"Based on my intelligence gathering and speculation from the fragmented descriptions of the Eternal Night Empire, this Night Emperor, who still lives to this day, is likely to be in this era... …"

"A still-conscious god!"

"That is, an existence above Stage Three!"