Lin Ye's phone buzzed with its seventh emergency alert as the sky burned.
*"All citizens must evacuate to underground shelters immediately! Repeat—this is not a drill—"*
The city hall broadcast cut off abruptly. A cerulean streak tore through the clouds like a divine pen splitting the heavens. Supermarket shelves collapsed in the tremors, and a soda can rolled to his feet, its aluminum surface suddenly etched with dense binary code.
"What the hell—" He crouched just as the floor-to-ceiling windows exploded.
Screams drowned in the sonic boom. Three meters away, a man in a suit was *melting*—gray veins bulging beneath his skin, eyeballs dangling like overcooked poached eggs. The meteor fragment lodged in his chest was reconstructing flesh into metallic-black carapace.
**[Host Contacted X-0922 Sample]**
**[Material Analysis Talent Activated (F-Tier)]**
A azure interface flickered across Lin Ye's retina. Data streams hovered above every mutant:
**[Primary Bloodfiend · Modification Progress: 17%]**
*Weakness: Energy Node at Cervical Spine*
*Evolution Potential: ★☆☆☆☆*
"Get down!"
A bullet severed the腥风 at his nape. He turned and collided with amber eyes. The woman in a bloodstained tactical vest tossed him a combat knife. As the blade nicked his palm, Lin Ye suddenly deciphered the nanobot command set flowing inside the steel.
**[Warning! Unauthorized Genetic Compilation Detected]**
**[Forcing Hidden Protocol Activation—]**
Agony shot up his spine. By the time the woman—*Su Jiuli*, her nametag read—dragged him into a storage room, Lin Ye's right eye had become a torrent of cerulean data. Every item on the shelves glowed with editable code:
**[Mineral Water] → Convertible to [Acid Bomb]**
*(Requires H2O Molecular Rewrite)*
**[Broom Handle] → Upgradeable to [High-Frequency Particle Blade]**
*(Requires Energy Matrix Embedding)*
"What's your Talent tier?" Su Jiuli chained the door shut as screams drew closer.
"F-Tier." Lin Ye wiped his nosebleed, gripping the suddenly scalding knife. Engraved on the hilt: *Project Ark – Sample No.13*.
Her gaze sharpened. "Impossible. F-Tier Talents can't perceive nano-weapons—"
An explosion drowned her words. Through the cracks, Lin Ye witnessed thirty Bloodfiends fuse into a five-story flesh spire crowned with twelve compound eyes, each pupil reflecting a blood moon.
**[Global Evolution System Activated]**
**[First Survival Challenge: Survive the 'Mother Nest' for 1 Hour]**
A crimson countdown seared into every survivor's vision. Only Lin Ye saw the aberrant prompt:
**[Administrator Privilege Detected]**
**[Override Challenge Rules? (Remaining Attempts: 1)]**
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