The apocalypse is coming, but thankfully I have a harem of paper dolls.

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Archina forced a smile, her voice weak but still carrying a hint of teasing:

"My little master... is actually more caring than I imagined..."

Luo Jiajun sighed helplessly: "At a time like this, don't try to be brave."

Achina didn't respond further; she simply closed her eyes again, trying to fall asleep.

But whenever her consciousness was about to fade, the burning pain inside her body would suddenly intensify, like an invisible fire igniting from deep within her blood vessels, making her whole body feel hot. Her fingertips unconsciously gripped the edge of the seat, leaving several shallow marks on the leather surface from her nails.

Seeing her in pain, Luo Jiajun could only hold her hand and gently comfort her:

"It's alright, you get some rest, I'm here..."

Upon hearing this, Achina's breathing gradually calmed down, but her body was still trembling slightly.

After a long, long time.

Maybe one hour? Or two hours?

Luo Jiajun didn't know either.

He hadn't slept all night. Now, Achina was still struggling to fall asleep due to the pain, while Luo Jiajun was barely able to stay awake, his eyelids twitching as if he were about to close and fall into a deep sleep at any moment.

It was at this time, when Luo Jiajun was feeling deeply troubled, that things began.

"Thump—! Thump—! Thump—! Thump—!"

On the main road outside the parking lot, heavy footsteps, like those of giants, echoed.

Luo Jiajun, who was feeling drowsy, suddenly snapped awake and opened his eyes wide.

The heavy footsteps sounded like they were getting closer and closer to the parking lot!

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As Luo Jiajun was jolted awake from his half-asleep state, he felt a large, cool hand gently stroking his hair, the movement as tender as if soothing a frightened cub.

"You told me to rest, but you couldn't hold on any longer?" Achina's hoarse voice, accompanied by warm breath, brushed past my ear.

Luo Jiajun, nestled in the woman's arms, looked up and met Achina's bright eyes. He noticed that Achina's complexion had improved considerably, and her condition seemed to be recovering.

“Achina…”

Luo Jiajun called her name and whispered, "Are you feeling better?"

"Hmm." The woman nodded slightly, her soft hand stroking from Luo Jiajun's head to his face. "Perhaps I really am poisoned, but it seems that the toxins are not enough to kill me."

As a human mutant infected with a biochemical virus, she already possessed extremely high viral resistance. A normal person might have died from the poison of the bristly dead leaves long ago, but for her, the poison of the bristly dead leaves seemed to only cause her temporary pain before being eliminated by her immune system.

However, from Achina's softer and lower voice, Luo Jiajun could still sense her weakness. After all, her condition had only just begun to improve, and it would probably take some time before she returned to her peak form.

"Dang——! Dong——!"

At that moment, the heavy footsteps outside, like those of a giant walking, continued to echo.

"What's going on outside?" Luo Jiajun frowned, climbed to the car window to observe, and his eyes widened in surprise at what he saw.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

The heavy footsteps, like the beating of drums, made the earth tremble; it was indeed a walking "giant"!

A mutated cactus that grew legs and arms, reaching a height of four meters, surpassing Archina, and with a body width twice that of Archina!

"Holy cactus beast?!" Luo Jiajun was stunned.

The mutated cactus walking across the street looked remarkably like the Cactusmon from Digimon. The only difference was that this mutated cactus's hands were more realistic, with ten thick, long fingers, unlike the Cactusmon in Digimon, whose hands were a pair of red gauntlets.

In addition, Luo Jiajun also saw a string of striking purple characters on the head of the mutated cactus.

[High-Value Target: The Needle Piercing Giant]

What is this? A high-value target?

Seeing the skull icon at the beginning of the information bar on the mutated cactus, Luo Jiajun quickly opened the game map. Since there were only six or seven high-value targets scattered throughout the entire county on the map, Luo Jiajun had already roughly memorized the location of each high-value target.

At this moment, Luo Jiajun looked at the map and found that the nearest skull icon on the map had indeed changed position compared to before—it had moved to his face!

"Damn! I was careless! Although the game is synchronized with reality, that doesn't mean the monsters are just a string of game data! They are real living beings! They can move! They're not the rigid AI that stays in a specific area in the game! 'Mei has thought of Mei, I sing of Mei, I'm empty Mei, I haven't thought of Mei...'"

With this in mind, Luo Jiajun silently closed the game interface that only he could see, and looked at the "Needle Giant" through the car window again, thinking that judging from the direction the boss was moving, it was at least not coming for him and Achina.

But Luo Jiajun had only just had this thought in mind...

suddenly!

The mutated cactus on the road stopped and, for no apparent reason, turned towards the parking lot!

"?" Luo Jiajun was stunned.

Archina instinctively held her breath and whispered to Luo Jiajun, "Something's not right. I have a feeling that thing is watching us."

As if to confirm Archina's guess, the mutated cactus took heavy steps and crashed through the parking lot entrance barrier, getting closer and closer to the large SUV where Luo Jiajun and Archina were.

No! Dude?

Luo Jiajun was completely dumbfounded. He couldn't understand how the needle giant had discovered him and Achina. Did these mutated plants possess some kind of sense unknown to humans? Surely, his gaze couldn't have been detected? This was just too mystical!

"Little master, you stay in the car, I'll deal with that thing." Seeing that the mutated cactus was getting closer and closer, Archina said as she got out of the car.

Luo Jiajun grabbed her hand and said, "Are you sure there's nothing wrong with your body?"

The woman smiled and said to Luo Jiajun, "Don't worry, I've recovered. You just stay in the car."

She vowed never to let the young man see her vulnerable side again. Although she knew she hadn't fully recovered, this was a perfect opportunity to demonstrate her strength and prove that her previous vulnerability was purely accidental!

Before the mutated cactus arrived, Archina got out of the car, extended her right hand into a black claw, and approached the mutated cactus to launch an attack.

The moment they met, she swung her sharp claws at the mutated cactus's trunk, but only managed to make a few non-fatal cuts with a sizzling sound, from which juice oozed.

The mutated cactus, with its empty, eyeless eyeholes, stared down at Archina. It seemed to feel no pain, and then punched Archina in the face.

Faced with a fist the size of a mutated cactus cooking pot, Archina had no choice but to retract her right claw and brace her hands together to withstand the punch.

In a flash, a sharp pain rose in her palm—the dense thorns on the cactus fist pierced her hand.

Dark red blood droplets flowed backwards along the inch-long sharp thorns, meandering into eerie patterns on the rough surface of the cactus.

"Get... away from me!" The woman gritted her teeth, letting out a beast-like growl. Ignoring the excruciating pain of her hand being pierced, her ten fingers gripped the other's wrist like iron clamps. With an explosive twist of her waist and hips, she spun around and flung the mutated cactus aside.

"boom!"

Like a boulder thrown by a catapult, the heavy and massive body of the mutated cactus crushed a parked van, accompanied by a cloud of dust, and the car alarm sounded in the parking lot.

The deformed plants in the nearby buildings were disturbed; even the giant vines that usually preferred quietness and clung to the building surfaces began to wriggle slightly, as if their sleep had been disturbed.

Even with such a commotion, no other mutated plants dared to venture into the parking lot. The presence of the "Needle Giant" seemed to intimidate the other mutated plants—perhaps this was the boss's nobility.

……

"Huff...huff..." Archina gasped for breath. She wasn't at her peak to begin with, and she had just used all her strength to shake off the needle giant, who was even taller than her. This was the first time in all the years since she mutated that she had been in such a dangerous situation.

The boss-level spiked giant, of course, wouldn't be defeated by Archina's single throw. It quickly climbed up from the flattened van, then picked up a small car beside it, raised it high above its head, and slammed the car down at Archina.

Archina quickly dodged to the side. But before she could even stand up again, the Spiked Giant was already upon her, kicking her hard in the stomach and sending her flying, crushing the barbed wire fence surrounding the parking lot.

This battle was devoid of any skill; it was purely a brutal clash of size and strength. The three-meter-tall pale female body and the enormous plant behemoth were like two out-of-control heavy trucks colliding, nothing but brutality and reckless rampage.

The bad news is that Achina, who was in poor condition, had difficulty getting up after being knocked down.

Just as the needle-like giant was about to charge through the concrete and finish off Archina, its thuds echoing across the ground...

At this moment on the flank—

"Fuck!"

Luo Jiajun, who had gotten off the vehicle at some point, raised his hand and released a beam of electricity, which struck the Needle Giant at the wound that Achina had just slashed open with her claws and was still oozing fluid.

"Zzzzz~!" Wisps of electricity flickered and danced near the wounds of the Needle Giant, which were oozing fluid, causing it to freeze for a moment.

At the point where the barbed wire had collapsed, Archina got up, pulled up a lamppost from the roadside outside the parking lot, rushed towards the halted giant cactus, and swung the lamppost, smashing it hard on the damned cactus's head with a "bang!"

After being struck by Achina, the giant's head cracked and he collapsed to the ground with a thud.

Seeing this, Achina also lost her spirit, the lamppost in her hand fell to the ground, and she hunched over, panting heavily.

Luo Jiajun walked towards Achina, when suddenly a thought struck him: 'Wait a minute! Wasn't it supposed to reward summoning points for defeating high-value targets? Why isn't there any notification?'

With this thought in mind, Luo Jiajun looked at the fallen needle giant. The next second, he saw that this damned mutated cactus actually sprang up from the ground at a speed completely disproportionate to its size!

"Thump thump thump thump..." Heavy and rapid footsteps, like those of a speeding chariot, rose up.

"Archina!" Luo Jiajun roared, rushing towards Archina, who was too exhausted to react in time, and tackled her to the side before the needle giant could charge.

"Boom!" The spiked giant, having missed its target, crashed to the ground after traveling seven or eight meters. It seemed that the severe head injury that Archina had inflicted on it had a significant impact on its condition.

On Luo Jiajun's side, with Achina, who had been tackled to the ground, cushioning his fall, he himself was not injured. At this moment, his face was still pressed between Achina's two trembling snow-white breasts. When he tackled Achina to the ground and his face hit her chest, he even felt a swaying sensation as if he had hit an air cushion and was bounced back!

However, this was a matter of life and death. Luo Jiajun, who was pressing down on Archina, had no time to think. He braced himself on the ground with his hands on either side of Archina's waist and said to Archina, "The situation is critical. Use whatever trump cards you have!"

He was about to get up.

At this moment, Luo Jiajun was thinking that either he would become the Terminator or Achina would become the dragon form. Either way, they could easily defeat the Spiked Giant. As long as they won, the summoning points they gained would be enough for Luo Jiajun to summon another teammate immediately, and then this would be a huge profit.

However, before Luo Jiajun could fully get off Achina,

"Whoosh whoosh!"

Several steel needles suddenly flew rapidly through the air, piercing through Luo Jiajun's torso from behind without any resistance.

Luo Jiajun froze, turning his head to look at the spot where the needle giant had fallen. He saw that although the mutated cactus in the groove was lying on the ground, it had raised a fist and was pointing it at him. The needles on its knuckles were gone, indicating that Luo Jiajun's body had been pierced by the needles fired by the needle giant.

“Little, little guy, you…?” Achina, who was still being ridden by Luo Jiajun, saw the several bloody holes on Luo Jiajun’s torso. Her eyes widened and her lips trembled slightly.

Luo Jiajun turned around and looked at the woman beneath him, blood flowing from her mouth.

At this moment, a strange feeling enveloped Luo Jiajun—although his body was rapidly becoming weak, there was a terrifying power deep within his heart, blood, and bone marrow, as if it were brewing and about to erupt.

【Bio-Terminator】: You can briefly transform into a bio-zombie called the Terminator, gaining terrifying vitality, virus resistance, the ability to manipulate electricity, and the ability to command subordinate bio-zombies, among other abilities. The transformation lasts for 30 minutes, during which you can actively de-transform. The cooldown time is 24 hours. Furthermore, when this ability is not on cooldown, you will automatically transform into the Bio-Terminator upon receiving fatal damage.

Luo Jiajun remembered his transformation ability, "Bio-Terminator".

Key point: When this ability is not on cooldown, he will automatically transform into a bio-terminator when he suffers fatal damage!

Revive! Resurrect! A!

Having figured everything out, Luo Jiajun couldn't help but give Achina a bright smile, even though he was bleeding from his body and lips and looked like he was about to die.

"no no……"

She remembered that Luo Jiajun had told her in the car earlier, "I can protect you too!"

She remembered that it was Luo Jiajun who had just risked his life to save her.

Then look at Luo Jiajun, whose life is clearly coming to an end, yet he is still smiling at her.

...The woman panicked.

She didn't even know what to say; her lips and eyes just kept trembling.

"Hey, hehe... I said... I can... I can..."

boom!

Before he could finish speaking, Luo Jiajun collapsed into the woman's arms, his head resting on her soft breasts. The blood flowing from his body and mouth stained the woman's white silk dress.

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Achina's pupils suddenly contracted.

Luo Jiajun's body slumped limply into the woman's arms, his warm blood soaking through her white dress, clinging stickily to her skin. His breathing was so weak it was almost imperceptible; each labored gasp seemed to be squeezed from deep within his chest, tinged with fine blood.

"No...no..." Archina's voice trembled as her large hands held Luo Jiajun's head tightly, her fingertips stained with sticky blood.

Heavy footsteps echoed from a distance. The Spiked Giant staggered to its feet, dark green sap seeping from the cracks on its head and the claw wounds on its torso. Its empty eye sockets stared intently at the two figures, and the concrete floor groaned under its weight.

Achina's throat tightened, and her heart felt as if it were being gripped by an invisible hand.

Luo Jiajun, lying in her arms, was deathly pale, with blood constantly flowing from his mouth. Although his eyes were vacant, his eyelids were still trembling slightly, and he still had a faint breath and heartbeat, so he did not seem to be dead yet.

"Hold on... little one..." The woman gritted her teeth, her gray knuckles turning blue from the effort.

Not far away, the Spiked Giant, having risen again, began to stride forward and accelerate its sprint.

Hearing the heavy footsteps of the Needle Giant charging again, the already exhausted Archina only had time to lift Luo Jiajun up, completely enveloping him with her tall frame and protecting him with her back.