Chapter 1 The Disaster Descends

Unlike Chen Hao’s worries, when the dark clouds completely enveloped the earth, countries around the world realized that the mutation had truly arrived at this moment.

Countless exploration teams in the collapsed areas had their hearts in their throats.

Because during the last mutation, when the dark clouds poured down like a waterfall, countless mutated beasts and beast kings appeared in the sea, causing immeasurable losses to the human naval fleets at the time.

And this time, no one knew what kind of terror would be born in the sinkholes they had entered.

However, the terrifying plate collision did not occur, nor did an earthquake. Even the volcanoes in Dongying that had already cracked did not erupt wildly, but instead fell silent at this moment, with no more movement.

Such an abnormal phenomenon left everyone a little dazed.

After thirty minutes of thought, the heads of state finally determined that their previous judgment might have been wrong.

The sudden collapse of the earth, and the appearance of countless sinkholes, would not bring devastating disasters to the earth's plates.

A large number of drones were scattered in the sinkholes, and the exploration teams were also moving forward cautiously.

A certain state in the European Union.

A fully armed military exploration team finally set foot at the bottom of a sinkhole. They turned on their lighting equipment and looked around.

The sinkhole was extremely quiet.

After a long exploration of three hours, when their oxygen cylinders were about to run out, they finally determined that this was just an ordinary crustal collapse pit. No terrifying and huge creatures were born from the sinkhole. There was nothing here, not even stones...

Suddenly, an explorer seemed to notice something. He reached out his hand, wearing thick protective gloves, and grabbed a handful of soil from the bottom of the sinkhole. With the light of the searchlight, he saw that the sand in his palm was no longer granular, but had turned into a powder-like substance after the paper had been burned.

The heads of state were waiting for the exploration team's report. The first message came from the European Union exploration team, followed by the Yanhuang and Russian exploration teams, all of which ended their investigations.

In the Yanhuang capital, the military负责人 stood in front of the real-time monitoring screen, with his hands behind his back.

Someone came over from behind with a file bag, his voice trembling: "General, the exploration teams from various places have sent back the news. No abnormal creatures, objects, or radiation sources were found in the sinkholes!"

The general raised his eyebrows.

"But we found that the locations of these sinkholes are all in our recorded mining areas!"

Hearing this, the general's heart skipped a beat, and then he turned his head sharply to look at the other party, and said in a trembling voice: "Don't tell me that there is a problem with the minerals!"

The reporter looked at the general and gritted his teeth: "After our comparison and investigation, we found that all the minerals in all the mining areas have disappeared! Those ores containing rich minerals have become a gray substance that cannot be extracted!"

"The volume of these gray substances is smaller than the original ore, and the supporting force is insufficient, so cavities are formed underground!"

"The formation of these sinkholes is because the deep-buried minerals under the ground disappeared... The crustal plane lost its supporting force, so there was a large-scale collapse!"

"This was sent from our mining area which is currently under exploitation. The person in charge of the mining area said that all the minerals and stones in all the mines have turned into this thing."

The reporter opened the file bag and took out a bag of gray objects in a transparent sealed bag. Some of these objects were powdery, some were lumpy, but if you pinched them gently, they would be completely shattered.

The color of this thing was like the cyan-gray color after wood or paper was burned. The general looked at this thing and felt a burst of dizziness in his brain.

He was silent for a long time and asked, "Send this thing to the research institute and ask them what substances are contained in it, and whether it is possible that it is a new resource..."

"General, the research institute's report has already been sent. This thing contains almost no minerals and trace elements." The reporter said with a straight face: "Do you know distilled water? Another name for it is "pure water", which does not contain any impurities! And this thing is actually equivalent to "pure soil", and it does not contain any minerals!"

No minerals, unusable in any engineering or manufacturing, no value...

The general looked at the "pure soil" in front of him, and even with the mind he had developed after years of war, he couldn't help but feel a burst of fear and despair at this time.

If mankind loses the minerals buried deep under the earth, can it still remain undefeated in the war with the beast kings?

This mutation did not create terrible creatures, but it gave birth to a desperate situation more terrifying than any creature.

This may be the turning point for human civilization to move towards its end...

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The conclusion that minerals had disappeared quickly spread around the world. Twelve hours later, almost the entire world learned what the specific disaster brought about by this world mutation was.

If the previous two world mutations brought pain and helplessness to mankind, then this mutation brought despair so strong it was almost tangible.

This time, the impact of the mutation on strong countries was even greater than on weak countries, because weak countries themselves had little hope for development and continued survival, while strong countries were different. They had previously stood at the top of the world in the disaster, but this time, they truly realized that they were in the same situation as weak countries.

After the minerals disappeared, it meant that the existing technological level and weapons of the powerful countries could not continue to develop, and even maintaining them would be impossible, and they would regress.

On the other hand, the survival of the beast kings, mankind's great enemy, was not affected in any way.

As this trend continued, it would not be long before the situation of humans and beast kings would be reversed.

Fortunately, although all undeveloped minerals around the world have disappeared, the mined and stored ores have not been affected, which means that humans can maintain for a period of time relying on reserves, but this time will not be too long, at most three months!

After three months, the reserve minerals will disappear, a large number of technological products will not be able to be used, and human civilization will begin to regress!

No one is willing to sit still and wait for death.

Countries all over the world began to hold emergency meetings.

At the Yanhuang capital conference, after intense discussions, a direction was finally reached.

The mineral reserves in the Yanhuang territory are enough to support for one hundred days. Within these one hundred days, all resources will be tilted and invested in the project of evolutionary research, trying to create an army of human evolutionaries that can compete with the beast kings within three months.

The loss of minerals is irreversible. If technology is destined to be unable to continue to develop, then it seems that humans can only take another path.

The path of evolution.

The meeting ended.

A military region commander stood in front of the hall, looking at the distant sky and sighed softly.

Although this plan is good, the Yanhuang Federation's research on evolutionaries is not very in-depth, because a past accident in Nancheng caused the upper echelons to suspend research on evolutionaries for a long time. It was during that time that the European Union and Russia surpassed the Yanhuang Federation in the research of evolutionaries.

At this moment, not only are gene potions scarce in the Yanhuang Federation, but also neutralizing agents are also very scarce...

It is very, very difficult to create an army that can compete with the beast kings in one hundred days.

The commander looked at the distant gray sky, worried about the future of the country.

But in fact, on the path of evolution, the Yanhuang Federation originally had a chance to stand at the top of the world and leave all countries far behind.

Because they once had a citizen named Chen Hao.

But from the Nancheng cult case to the Xijiang Military Region, Chen Hao was pushed away step by step by his hometown, and eventually could no longer continue on this path.

From a national perspective, the choice of the Xijiang Chief at the time was not wrong, but things in the world are so ironic.

The Xijiang Chief chose to sacrifice Yuan Wen for the stability and future of the country, but it was precisely his approach that made the Yanhuang Federation completely lose the opportunity to stand at the top of the world on the road of evolution.

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That evening, all the emergency meetings of all countries were over, and the conclusions and directions they reached were surprisingly consistent.

Using the remaining resource reserves of mankind, they can still exert strong pressure on the beast kings for three months. Within three months, developing an army of human evolutionaries is humanity's last hope.

To this end, all the great powers have issued recruitment information to the world, frantically recruiting biologists and people who have researched evolutionaries, offering them extremely generous, even luxurious, treatment!

Chen Hao, who had just returned to the farm all the way, saw a series of recruitment news released by the world's great powers before he had time to rest.

He took out a few lv4 fruits from the storage space and stared at them intently for a long time.