A golden pillar of energy erupted. The zombie Mother Nest’s tentacles dissolved the moment they touched it.

The Mother Nest could create more tentacles whenever it wanted, so it didn’t care about losing a few. But now every single tentacle was gone. Even with all its resources, the zombie Mother Nest couldn’t shrug off a blow like that.

Its internal organs shuddered as it let out a wail of agony.

Then the pillar of energy struck its body.

The shield that had displayed such overwhelming power before flickered a few times, then shattered. Even its massive body couldn’t withstand the pillar’s assault. The blazing light cleaved it clean in two.

It all happened in the blink of an eye.

The system’s voice popped up right on cue.

[Side Quest: Assist Player 5487 in killing the zombie Mother Nest. Reward: 3,000 points]

But Fang Chang wasn’t paying attention to it. She stared at the zombie Mother Nest, split in two on the ground and no longer able to move, utterly stunned. The way she looked at Li Zirong changed, too.

Li Zirong sighed, and the weapon space behind her closed. She brought Fang Chang rapidly down to the ground and warned her, “Put the Mother Nest’s corpse in your inventory and take it back to the lab. And protect me. No peeking!”

“Huh?”

Fang Chang was baffled. For starters, how was she supposed to fit a zombie Mother Nest that big into her inventory? And as for Li Zirong, why would someone that powerful need protecting? And what was with that last bit about not peeking?

“Senior, you…”

She was about to ask what was going on when dazzling golden light rippled over Li Zirong’s body. Her lovely figure rapidly shrank, and her shape began to change. Before long, that familiar little face appeared, and the inexplicable sense of distance vanished.

Fang Chang watched her eyes grow unfocused. Trembling, Li Zirong pulled a blanket from her inventory, but before she could wrap it around herself, her eyes rolled back and she fainted.

Fang Chang finally understood what Li Zirong had meant earlier—especially that last warning not to peek. So the Valkyrie form was her NSFW ultimate move! It had a time limit, and afterward she’d shrink, pass out, and end up with her clothes blown off.

Mm! She was tiny now, and completely naked.

No wonder she kept a blanket in her inventory.

Fang Chang reacted in a flash and caught her before she hit the ground. Feeling the touch of her skin against her hands, Fang Chang couldn’t help letting out a couple of lecherous chuckles.

“Oh my, I never thought I’d get to be naked with a girl one day. This feels really nice.”

Pretending she was just wrapping Li Zirong in the blanket, Fang Chang shamelessly took advantage of her, touching her little hands and patting her belly and all that. But before she’d had her fill, she remembered her own situation, and her excitement vanished.

“I almost forgot. I’m a woman now, too—and I think I feel even better than she does…”

As she spoke, she scooped Li Zirong up in a bridal carry, wrapped up like a worm, and rested her own heavy breasts against her. Feeling Li Zirong’s delicate but not overly soft body, Fang Chang found herself thinking of Li Zirong’s mechanical form.

The face was the same, and so were the breasts. Only the size was different.

Mechanical Li Zirong stood two meters tall, and Fang Chang had always felt a little intimidated standing beside her. But blown-clothes Li Zirong was only one and a half meters tall!

“Could this be what she really looks like?”

Fang Chang thought there was a very good chance. Lots of petite girls wished they were taller, and Li Zirong might be powerful, but she surely wasn’t immune to that desire.

So had she used enhancement to make herself taller in a roundabout way?

Was the core of that absurdly tall mechanical lady really only one and a half meters tall?

Thinking of how Li Zirong usually put on airs as a senior, Fang Chang found it inexplicably cute.

“Hehehe. Never mind, I’d better put the zombie Mother Nest’s body in my inventory first!”

Fang Chang held Li Zirong in one arm and went over to the zombie Mother Nest’s enormous corpse. The Doomsday Valkyrie’s attack carried a lethal property, so even a huge creature like a zombie couldn’t survive it.

But how was she supposed to fit a corpse as big as a hill into her inventory?

Even split in two, it was still 120 meters long!

Fang Chang cautiously placed a hand on one half of the corpse, then opened her inventory. Even her quick reflexes caught only a flash—the half of the Mother Nest’s corpse was already gone.

“That’s terrifying!”

Fang Chang couldn’t help exclaiming. Then she went over to the other half and did the same, putting it in her inventory too.

At last, Fang Chang’s empty inventory had something in it.

A Corpse-Bloom, the left half of the zombie Mother Nest’s corpse, and the right half of the zombie Mother Nest’s corpse.

Having completed Li Zirong’s task, Fang Chang looked around the Void Space bubble. Its spatial nodes were extremely stable. Even with the zombie Mother Nest dead, the bubble showed no sign of collapsing. It was probably because the Mother Nest had spent years maintaining it.

“I can’t just sit here and wait, either. Once I’ve recovered a little energy, I’ll open a door and get out, like before!”

While she waited, Fang Chang began experimenting with her other powers.

She slowly learned to control the powers she wasn’t familiar with.

As she experimented, she kept improving, and time flew by.

Four hours passed in the blink of an eye.

Li Zirong still hadn’t woken up. She slept on peacefully.

“Open the spatial bubble!”

Fang Chang drew on the zombie Mother Nest mutant’s bioenergy and corroded a hole through the Void Space bubble. She entered it, and her information was integrated once. Then she followed the hole to the layer adjoining reality and pushed through the barrier, returning to the real world.

This was the same ruin where the zombie Mother Nest had been. A huge crater now marked its center. Fang Chang looked around, and her scalp went numb.

Zombies had gathered everywhere, packed tight. There were ordinary zombies, evolved zombies, and even zombies that had once been other kinds of animals!

Small-giant types, Licker types, bat-winged zombies, giant zombie birds with wingspans of more than ten meters, packs of zombie dogs, zombie cats crouched on the ground…

Every hair on Fang Chang’s body stood on end.

The ground was crawling with them, and the sky was blocked off. How was she supposed to escape?