The smell of gunpowder mixed with the stench of blood, painting an extremely tragic picture.

Li Tianran stood on the turret, watching the mutated beasts explode beneath him. He glanced at the calculation video on his mobile device, and the furrow between his brows slowly relaxed.

"Roar!"

"Boom!"

Dust flew everywhere, and flesh and blood splattered.

One mutated beast after another fell.

Finally, the continuous gunfire ceased.

Li Tianran looked at the mountain of corpses and sea of blood before him, his eyelids twitching slightly. His gaze rested on the calculation video.

"This war will end in 2 minutes and 39 seconds. The mutated beasts will reach a distance of 685 meters from the farm. The farm will lose 600-800 bullets..."

Li Tianran glanced at his watch.

From the moment Xiao Hei released the mutated beast horde to the end of the battle, 2 minutes and 41 seconds had passed.

According to the system's feedback, the closest mutated beast reached a distance of 683 meters from the farm.

The overall error was less than one percent!

Seeing this, Li Tianran took a deep breath. He turned and extended his hand to Qin Yiming: "Congratulations, you are qualified to be one of my subordinates."

"From today onwards, you will be responsible for the farm's border defense construction!"

...

A towering laser tower stood erect. Unlike ordinary turrets, the laser tower wasn't particularly large. From the outside, it looked like a tall street lamp.

Some lightning-like energy swirled around the top, emitting a faint glow.

"So you really possess this kind of weapon." Qin Yiming looked at the unremarkable laser tower, his eyes filled with fervor. "I always thought that the laser tower you spoke of was just a signal tower that could emit a huge electric current, but I never imagined it was a real laser weapon."

"This is a high-tech device that only the military can possess. Moreover, ordinary laser weapons are only used to interfere with optical equipment such as night vision devices, infrared or laser rangefinders, but this laser tower actually possesses the power to melt and penetrate 900mm of steel plate."

"Fast firing rate, wide range, strong lethality, this is definitely a science fiction-level weapon!"

Li Tianran and Qin Yiming stood beneath the newly built laser tower, and a row of data appeared in Li Tianran's eyes.

"Laser Tower

Non-movable defensive structure

Defensive Strength: 18

Main Weapon: Laser Cannon

Effective Range: 1800 meters

Firing Rate: 8000/minute

Lethality: 100"

This laser tower cost Li Tianran 2 million points, and adding a heavy machine gun group and a howitzer, the three heavy weapons combined turned the originally somewhat wealthy Li Tianran into a poor man once again.

He had worked so hard to save up so many points, and now they were gone again.

But at the same time, Li Tianran looked at the newly armed farm, and the sense of security in his heart became extremely strong.

A farm like this now had the strength to directly resist the beast tide.

"Is this considered science fiction-level?" Li Tianran chuckled.

A mere laser tower was enough to shock Qin Yiming like this. If he were to see giant mechs, oxygen annihilation cannons, and other large-scale weapons in the future, it would probably make his eyes pop out, right?

"Boss, your image in my eyes is becoming more and more mysterious." Qin Yiming looked at Li Tianran and sincerely sighed.

...

At the same time.

In a border city of the ancient Indian Federation, adjacent to the Yanhuang Federation border.

Death and despair shrouded this land.

The streets were littered with corpses, and a large number of civilians had frozen or starved to death.

Those who survived lined up in front of a building in the city center, their faces filled with numbness and uncertainty about the future.

This was a city abandoned by the upper echelons of ancient India.

The government army had long since withdrawn from this place.

Bandits and hunger had turned this place into hell.

But in this hell, there was still a glimmer of hope.

They heard that a biological company from Yanhuang was recruiting living people for drug experiments in the city center, and as long as they signed up, they would receive food and water.

Drug experiments had certain risks, but if they could successfully endure it, the company would give them everything they wanted!

Such tempting conditions made countless civilians who were already on the verge of death flock to it.

They had no other choice.

Doing drug experiments had a high chance of death! But without food and water, they would die one hundred percent!

Of course, some people had tried to rob the biological company's food, but it quickly led to a massacre by some unknown warlords.

After that incident, no one dared to do such a thing again.

"Hurry, hurry, hurry! You bastards, move faster!"

In front of the huge warehouse that the biological company was using as a temporary laboratory, some dark-skinned mercenaries brutally drove the civilians, making them quicken their pace into the warehouse. Any slight delay would result in punches and kicks.

"You must remember who gave you the opportunity to continue living! Your worthless lives are not worth a penny. If you don't participate in drug experiments, you will probably die of hunger and cold tomorrow!"

The mercenary officer yelled, pulling at his throat.

A refined Yanhuang man sat next to the officer, frowning uncomfortably, and put on a thick mask, as if the smell of these lowly civilians would disgust him.

"Mr. Bai... is the progress of the experiment going smoothly?" The officer stood beside the man and asked softly.

"Very unsuccessful." The man said muffledly, his tone filled with dissatisfaction: "The gene drug experiments used by the head office have not yet been successful, but they sent me to this ghost place to use radiation toxins to create evolutionaries... The probability is too low, I'm afraid it's less than one in ten thousand!"

"Hehe, anyway, no one cares about the lives of these lowly people." The officer grinned and then said mysteriously: "Moreover, many places are now using this method to create superhumans. Compared with gene drugs, the cost of this method is much lower!"

What is the value of a human life?

No one can answer.

In some poor and backward countries such as ancient India and South Africa, the lives of civilians are not even worth as much as pigs and dogs. They are regarded as cheap experimental consumables by warlords and the upper echelons, using human lives to accumulate the minute, high-quality mutation probability in radiation toxins.

And some extremely developed countries, such as the European Union, strictly protect the citizens of their own countries, and then... regard the civilians of some backward countries as cheap experimental consumables.

The emergence of superhumans has aroused the interest of many people.

Although, based on the current situation, not many major powers have invested huge resources in this project, what is happening in this city of ancient India is not uncommon in today's world.

The reason is simple.

Here, human lives are much cheaper than gene drugs.

"Pick a few hundred people today, change the toxin injections to ordinary glucose, then give them food and water, let them go out alive and help us promote... Otherwise, this almost 100% mortality rate is too scary. If it continues for two days, no one will voluntarily come to do the so-called drug experiments." The man ordered expressionlessly.

The officer nodded.

At this moment, a shrill scream came from the warehouse, followed by the sound of gunfire, and the scream stopped abruptly.

The crowd outside was in chaos.

"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid! This is our soldier executing a thief who tried to steal our food!" The man smiled and said to the civilians in line in ancient Indian.

Then, the man's face quickly darkened. He pulled the officer aside and lowered his voice, saying, "Tell your men, if the experimental subject produces a malignant mutation, don't shoot, use a knife to solve it! Don't scare our... consumables!"