Savior Loli? Gu Qijue is the culprit?

It was the third day of the apocalypse, 10 AM.

Lingjiang City, connected to Yunjiang, was only about a hundred kilometers away across the river.

The old turtle rode the wind and waves to the surface of the Lingjiang River, gazing at the dilapidated city in the distance.

He took off his turtle shell and continued his divination.

The emergence of the Star Absorbing Tree concerned the survival of this planet. Once the Star Blue Continent turned into a dead star, no living being could escape unscathed.

This divination was easy, and the old turtle did not spit blood.

He divined the result he wanted: to enter Lingjiang City as quickly as possible and find the one who could restrain the Star Absorbing Tree.

In Lingjiang City, swarms of Mutated Monsters roamed everywhere.

The old turtle had a clear goal and sped in one direction at a very high speed.

Don't let its appearance fool you; it was a Calamity-tier existence.

As it passed, even in the ocean or the great rivers, no Mutated Monster dared to attack it.

About half an hour later.

The old turtle appeared outside a residential complex where no monsters could be seen.

BOOM! BANG! SQUELCH--

It turned out that a powerful Super Martial Artist was clearing out monsters within the complex.

The Super Martial Artist was clad in silver Star Armor. Judging by her uneven but not tall physique, she should be a loli girl.

She wielded a Star Greatsword. Though small in stature, her strength was astonishingly great. With every sweep, no mutated creature could withstand it, all exploding into bloody mist.

Even more astonishing was that she was already a Six-star Super Martial Artist.

To achieve Six-star Super Martial in just three days was outrageously unbelievable.

The old turtle watched quietly from outside as she finished eliminating the monsters inside before flying in.

"Who?"

A delicate shout came from the loli.

She suddenly turned around, her eyes beneath the helmet, like a starry sky, fixed on the rapidly approaching... old turtle.

"Die!!"

Her entire family had died at the mouths of Mutated Monsters. Seeing a mutated creature dare to charge at her, she immediately rushed forward without a second word.

"Little girl, wait! I have no hostility towards you."

Although the old turtle was a turtle, its movements were very agile. It lightly dodged the sword strike that came with the loli's starlight and quickly said, "This planet is about to be destroyed. Only you can stop it."

"Nonsense!"

The loli in the Star Armor was fierce. Before her sword could strike the old turtle, the Star Greatsword in her hand erupted with even more terrifying starlight. She swept it fiercely, and a semicircular, powerful sword energy swept out with a BOOM.

"Such terrifying power..."

The old turtle was horrified. Facing such a wide-range attack, with no way to dodge, it directly retracted its body into its shell.

The terrifying sword energy swept over, and its entire shell was sent flying, crashing through a small building.

"My little ancestor! Stop attacking! A Main Star-Sucking Tree has grown in Yun City. If it's not dealt with, this planet will be depleted in just a few years. By then, no matter how strong you are, you'll die!"

The old turtle, feeling a death threat from the loli girl's power, roared urgently from inside its shell.

Hmm?

The loli girl, about to strike with her terrifying sword, stopped abruptly upon hearing its words and asked, "The giant tree in Yun City is called the Main Star-Sucking Tree?"

She had also watched the livestream an hour ago.

The old turtle poked its head out and quickly said, "Yes, yes! I'm good at divination. It seems only you can destroy that Main Star-Sucking Tree."

"Me?"

The loli girl pointed at herself hesitantly, "How can I be worthy? Shouldn't it be that Black Dragon Emperor?"

She had witnessed Gu Qijue's might.

"Black Dragon Emperor?"

The old turtle was startled, "You know him?"

The loli girl snorted, "The entire human race knows him now. Only monsters like you are temporarily unaware. He's so powerful that he can carve a bloody path through the endless monsters spawned by the Star Absorbing Tree you mentioned."

"But in my divination, the Black Dragon Emperor you mentioned is an anomaly, and also the culprit behind the destruction of this planet... My plan was to kill him too..."

The old turtle was a bit confused and said, "What does the Black Dragon Emperor look like? Can you show me?"

The loli girl glanced at it suspiciously, then dispersed her Super Martial Armor, took out her phone from her pocket, and played the recording of the livestream for the old turtle.

That Star Tree was too bizarre; she had to believe what the old turtle said.

"It's him..."

The old turtle looked at Gu Qijue, who was invincible and heroic in the video, and was suddenly terrified. "Although I don't know what's going on, I know from my divination that the appearance of the Star Absorbing Tree is inseparable from him. Only by killing him, and then using your power, can the Star Absorbing Tree be destroyed. Otherwise, it can't be destroyed at all, because... they are... one."

"How is that possible!"

The loli girl shook her head and said, "If they were one, why would the monsters on those trees attack him? Shouldn't they be protecting him?"

"Perhaps the Main Star-Sucking Tree's true consciousness hasn't awakened yet."

The old turtle said, "Listen to me, and you won't be wrong!"

The loli girl thought for a moment and said, "I'll trust you for now. Come back to the Imperial Shelter with me first, and we'll report this matter to our human higher-ups!"

"Indeed, we should have a talk with your human higher-ups. This matter is too significant."

The old turtle followed her as she left.

It absolutely believed its divination results, as it had consumed several thousand years of its lifespan to obtain them.

Meanwhile, Yun City.

Today in Yun City, small Star Absorbing Trees sprouted from the ground all over the city, growing groups of Star-Sucking Monsters.

Seventy to eighty percent of Yun City's original tens of millions of mutated creatures had been sucked dry by the main tree, turning into mummified corpses.

Therefore, the vast majority of creatures rampaging through Yun City now were Star-Sucking Monsters.

Wherever they went, they didn't even spare the mutated creatures, swarming and tearing them apart to devour them upon encounter.

The Yun City shelter covered an area of five million square meters, with walls two to three hundred meters high, sprawling like a colossal beast.

Outside the walls, Star-Sucking Monsters were gathered, all trying to climb over.

However, as soon as they came into contact with the electric boards exceeding 100,000 volts, these Fourth Order Star-Sucking Monsters dropped to the ground, dead.

Once the corpses piled up, the Imperial Army soldiers guarding the high walls would use incendiary bombs to ignite them.

Shelter, Combat Command Hall.

Gu Qijue, who had already washed up, was dressed in a sharp black suit and sat high on the main seat.

Beside the conference table.

The six ministers of the shelter – the Satellite Department, Arms Department, Bombing Department, Collection Department, Information Department, and Law Enforcement Department – sat opposite Vice General Ye Zhanguo.

Of course, Gu Qijue's confidants, Zhao Hu, Wu Jiao, Ji Shang, and White Fox, were also present.