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Seeing the small chickens running around on the screen, Shen Cheng’s heart was filled with joy, and she immediately thought of countless recipes that could be made with chicken: Kung Pao chicken, braised chicken, spicy chicken, boiled chicken with ginger and scallion, and of course, fried chicken!

Just by looking at these little chickens, she could imagine how much she could improve the living standards of the people in the base in the future!

These chickens running around everywhere were clearly not just chickens, but ingredients for countless dishes!

Shen Cheng signaled to the other ability users who had followed her, “Let’s go!” Fu Yanzhou, who was following behind her, was shocked: Is she really going to be so reckless?

Shen Cheng couldn’t find the mutated monsters on the breeding farm anywhere. She suspected that the mutated monster would only come out of its lair after they had caught the little chickens.

Since that was the case, wouldn’t they have to catch the little chickens before they could even fight the monster?

The ability users present received her instructions. Although some of them were still hesitant, most of them blindly believed in her after her previous performance and scattered to quietly follow behind the little chickens.

Although the adjectives used to describe the chickens on the screen were “little chickens”, in reality, these “little chickens” were not little at all! On the contrary, one person who had just approached was startled by the cunning look in the chickens’ green eyes.

When the little chickens noticed someone approaching, one of them, which was at most a little over half a month old with soft, pale yellow feathers, let out a “cluck cluck” and signaled the other little chickens to flap their wings and fly away together.

Its wings don’t look big, but when it flaps them, it creates a small gust of wind. The person who tried to grab it was blown away by the gust and fell to the ground. “Spit, spit, spit,” they coughed up dirt before realizing, “this chicken has wind-type abilities!”

Without him saying anything, Shen Cheng had already noticed.

No wonder the boss of this farm was sleeping somewhere in a corner. It turns out that most of its descendants are wind-type ability chickens!

Even the newly hatched chicks with their downy feathers still intact have a faint wind-type ability. The adult guard chickens that rushed out from the dark corners of the farm, cackling and clucking, are probably not something that just anyone can handle.

As she was pondering what skill to use, the little chick had already let out a loud “cackle.”

With that one call, a group of mother hens and roosters flew out of the farm one after another, paying no attention to the swarm of creatures as they charged towards Shen Cheng and her group!

Shen Cheng felt her phone vibrate.

She heard a loud “cackle,” which sounded like the battle cry of the chickens!

With that roar, led by a giant mother hen that charged out of the farm, the battle chickens fiercely charged towards the people with abilities.

Their beaks were like iron, their feet had sharp claws that shone in the light, and they all had wind-type ability bonuses. This group of flying creatures was towering over them, with a tremendous momentum and a stunning aura.

Many of the people with abilities present had never seen such a group of mutated beasts launching an attack, and some were intimidated and felt like retreating–mutated beasts are delicious, but is it worth risking their lives?

After that loud noise, Shen Cheng saw that many of her teammates had a new debuff above their heads: the pressure of intimidation. She waved her wand and cast a group-wide calm spell.

The ability users calmed down and realized that their previous thoughts were not quite right. Where did their cowardly thoughts come from? It’s not reasonable to be afraid of a group of chickens like this!

The ability users who usually trained in formation quickly formed a formation, with several ability users with complementary abilities forming a formation. Several people surrounded a few chickens and began to divide the formation.

This time, Shen Cheng did not transform into a bear.

Although bears are tough and sturdy, they are no match for the morale boost from being in the back line, providing healing.

Nursing is particularly useful in team battles. Shen Cheng provided healing and barkskin spells from the back, and if there were any chickens that couldn’t be defeated, she would throw a few plant products to entangle them. Soon, half of the chickens on the field were gone.

The other half were tied up by the ability users and thrown to the side.

Watching its descendants and cubs being killed off, the mutant chicken boss, who had originally planned to stay inside and not come out, let out an angry scream. The ability users outside heard a loud bang, and the roof of the breeding farm was suddenly lifted off!

A mutated chicken that was about three to four meters tall jumped onto the roof with one foot. If it weren’t for its weight causing the roof to collapse and almost falling down, its entrance would have been quite impressive.

Now…someone below actually laughed out loud with a “pu chi” sound.

What’s with being a little stupid and cute, not calculating the weight and stomping through the roof?

The chicken flapped its wings and made a “ge ge” sound, screaming with its mouth open and closed. But although it looked angry, almost no one in the field could understand what it was protesting.

Except for Shen Cheng, who had already learned the “animal communication” skill.

After listening for a while, she laughed out loud, “hahaha.”

“Stealing chickens and touching dogs, you humans who do these despicable things!…” The chicken ancestor was repeatedly brushing these words and Shen Cheng thought about how to teach this chicken how to curse properly.

They didn’t steal chickens, they were clearly robbing them openly.

Shen Cheng smiled, but she didn’t immediately use the “soothe animal” skill. As an “animal protection activist” and “friend of animals,” she knew the importance of respecting their autonomy. After she used the skill, the chicken that was jumping and cursing just a moment ago immediately calmed down.

It blinked its green bean eyes, looked around, and made a curious sound: “Who? Who? Come out? Who?”

After thinking for a while, Shen Cheng transformed into a bear and walked over. The chubby bear sat down on the ground and looked at the chicken, scratching its head.

“Is it you?” The chicken did not expect the troublemaker to be a bear, and it looked so fat and strong. Judging from its graceful posture and the way it swayed its big butt while walking, it was definitely pampered and had a much better life than the chicken!

The anger slowly dissipated, replaced by a sense of indignation.

What’s so great about bears? They don’t have beautiful feathers, they don’t lay eggs, and they can’t even fly!

Since these damn humans raised such useless creatures like bears, they shouldn’t kill chickens to get their eggs, right?

The green bean eyes of the chicken blinked twice and cunningly asked the big bear in front of it, “What do you usually eat?”

“???”

Shen Cheng didn’t understand its intention and just answered directly, “Rice, meat, and vegetables.”

“What?” The chicken suddenly became excited. “There’s meat, vegetables, and rice?”

Seeing that the bear didn’t look like it had been mistreated, the chicken pondered for a moment and shouted at the man in the middle of the team who looked the most like a captain with his arms crossed, “Hey, I’ll go with you guys, can you take care of my meals?”

Fu Yanzhou didn’t know why it suddenly picked him out.

But to him, its clucking was just a simple clucking.

He was hesitating, but the task in front of Shen Cheng was updated:

[The mutant chicken wants to make a deal with you: the base is responsible for its three meals a day, grooming, and cleaning the chicken coop. Half of its daily eggs can be used and raised by the base.

Agree or not: Y/N, the successful transaction requires the construction of one chicken coop and one hatching room.]

Shen Cheng was so excited!

At this moment, she had no mood to scold the chicken that couldn’t read people. After the task was completed, all the buildings in the base would be level 1, and the second-tier hydroponic room could provide food for 1000 people. By then, there would be surplus food, and there should be no problem with the mutant chicken’s three meals a day.

The only question left was: how many eggs did it lay each day?

And…those little chickens wouldn’t have intelligence like the big chicken, would they?

If they were intelligent, she wouldn’t be able to eat them.

The mutated chicken listened to the bear’s two questions and humanely stretched out its wings to scratch its head.

It wasn’t good at counting, but it had a general concept: “I can lay about half of the eggs here in a day. As for the eggs, half of them are bad eggs to begin with.”

Listening to the mutated chicken’s incoherent explanation, it took a while for Shen Cheng to understand its meaning.

All the chickens present were indeed its cub, but only the ones directly born from it had the wind-type ability. The next generation down became the most ordinary chickens, which often troubled it. As for the eggs, it could choose whether or not to inject some ability into them to make them hatchable. As for the ones it was willing to contribute, they were naturally the ones that couldn’t hatch and had no abilities.

As for what the chickens in the coop could eat, they were its grandchildren. That generation of chickens was generally very stupid, and the mutated chicken would accidentally step on and kill one or two of them.

As the big chicken spoke, it pointed its wing behind it at the breeding factory building and muttered, “You eat it, then you shit it out, and it makes the whole place full of chicken shit. Disgusting. But just now, I…”

Shen Cheng saw the collapsed roof and was speechless: who knows how many chickens in the factory had died?

**

After digging out the collapsed building and counting the number of live and dead chickens, the people on the base were as happy as if it was New Year’s Day.

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There were over four or five hundred chickens that were stepped on and killed by the mutated chicken, and almost every two people got one except for those that were frozen and did not participate in the “battle.”

The pots in the base were boiling for three whole days before all the chicken meat was eaten.

Even the children in the base had oil flowing from their mouths, and the delicious taste lingered on their lips for three whole days. Everyone missed the owner who had only appeared once in the base, and whether it was her transformation ability, her ability to communicate with animals, or her appearance itself, all had become legendary in the base.

Shen Cheng didn’t expect that her clone would only appear in the base for one day, but the base loyalty had already exceeded 90. Although most of it was probably due to the chicken feast, Shen Cheng was still happy to see the chicken coop, hatchery, and chicken processing factory built in just one day. “We have more food to eat now! In the future, the base will have fish, meat, and vegetables!” Regardless of how she thought about it, this was a big and gratifying step.

Of course, she had to share this happy news with her cub!

She decided to send the first batch of fried chicken in the base as a gift to her cub today!

It was not very convenient to only be able to send one package a day, but when she thought about her cub being able to eat the first meat produced by the base, Shen Cheng felt that playing this game for so long was worth it!

She was especially mischievous and sent a beautifully arranged chicken feast plate along with the package. Although she couldn’t eat it, she could take a photo of it and show it off. Her cub would definitely be envious!

Shen Cheng imagined that scene and couldn’t help but smirk a few times. She snapped a photo of herself making a “V” gesture at the table in the game, even though she didn’t eat any of the meat and gave it all to others.

After sending out today’s gift, Shen Cheng looked at the skyrocketing loyalty in the base and the busy little people eating, and finally had the time and energy to deal with the troublemakers in the base.

At first, Shen Cheng wanted to simply throw those people into the power plant to be used as hamsters, but she realized that it wasn’t a good idea. These people made her angry, but even until now, they still hadn’t turned into hostile monsters, which was quite strange.

This was why she had been putting off dealing with them before. In general, hostile personnel in the base would turn into hostile monsters directly, but the troublemakers she caught were still friendly and green.

Did the game have a bug or was there something she missed?

This was also the reason why she didn’t rush to deal with them in a simple and rude manner: if she couldn’t figure out why they were causing trouble in the base but not turning red, Shen Cheng had a feeling that this kind of thing might happen again in the future.

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Sandy: this is it with the mass updates for the day. Enjoy 😙

【During the battle…】

【Li Weilan killed the mutant giant cockroach. Slight injury. HP-30.】

【Li Weilan bandaged herself.】

【HP slowly recovers. Slight injury debuff disappears.】

【The main character sent you a photo. Would you like to view it? Y/N】

Shen Cheng went online and checked the main character’s status, which still showed that Li Weilan was “out.” She scrolled through the battle records and saw a long list of entries, making her worry about whether Li Weilan had been hungry, cold, or poor outside.

But if she could bandage herself, does that mean the medicine she sent over was useful?

Shen Cheng suddenly realized: no wonder Li Weilan’s mood changed to happy at that time. It turns out that the gift she sent just met his needs!

It was like given a pillow when you’re sleepy, the gift was just what cub needed!

As she thought, Shen Cheng clicked on the “photo”. To her surprise, the photo was not a cute Q version of cub, but a full-body portrait!

He faced the light of the garbage mountain and took a picture of his exceptionally bright handsome face. He even made a V gesture to the camera, full of spirit. There was not a hint of gloom in his smile, and his sharp eyes looked straight at the camera, as if he were looking at her.

Ah ah ah, cub is so handsome!

Shen Cheng couldn’t help but inhale a breath, and almost licked the screen. When she regained her sanity and thought back to the last time she chatted with the real version of cub on video, she regained her senses.

Shen Cheng snapped a screenshot, saved the picture, and carefully examined the background and details, only to discover that something was off: some background details were faintly visible in the garbage mountain. If she didn’t look closely, she might not have noticed. Mixed in with the garbage were pieces of human bones!

Bones that had been gnawed clean were casually thrown into the garbage mountain, and only a corner of the giant beetle behind him was visible. But just by looking at the sharp carapace and the densely packed compound eyes, Shen Cheng’s stomach churned with nausea. The “minor injury” that appeared on cub in the game was not visible in the photo, but a minor injury… doesn’t mean cub isn’t in danger!

No, mother can’t allow cub to go out and take risks and be bullied by small monsters!

Shen Cheng quickly switched to the base page: since she had tried before that “giving gifts” could send medicine and clothes to cub, then if the base had new weapons and equipment, could cub receive them too?

She remembered that the armory of the Level 2 base could also be upgraded.

Shen Cheng switched to the “Base” page. She had intended to switch to the Base view to do some construction and upgrading tasks, but unexpectedly, when she switched to the Base view, she saw a group of small figures gathered in the hall, apparently excitedly arguing about something, and Fu Yanzhou was surrounded by them, saying nothing.

Shen Cheng observed their actions.

Raising hands, clenching fists, shouting… were they protesting?

And shoving, pointing and poking… were they directed towards the girls in the base at the beginning?

Those excited protesters seemed to be mostly ability users, and the base personnel they were targeting were mostly non-ability users. Shen Cheng was only angry at the men’s actions: you have food and shelter because of me, and now that you don’t listen to me, you are causing trouble while my cub is not at home!

Shen Cheng was so angry she could explode.

[Task 1 of the Base Betrayers: Please find the true mastermind among the demonstrators. Complete the task for 100G]

The game almost seamlessly released a new series of tasks, and Shen Cheng took a deep breath, puffing up like a pufferfish as she observed the crowd.

Actually, if you look closely, the God’s-eye view can indeed reveal something wrong.

Although the crowd was chaotic, when Shen Cheng opened them one by one, she found that there were always people in the crowd who were stirring up trouble by inciting people with phrases like “The base is unfair to us ability users” and “The base leader looks down on us.”

It was a man’s voice!

The camera turned in the direction of the voice, following the sound. Despite the many ambient noises in the headphones, Shen Cheng could still vaguely hear the direction the sound was coming from. She slowly made her way towards it and finally found an inconspicuous middle-aged man in the crowd. He had an ordinary face, and even looked a bit simple-minded. He was slightly short, with thick lips, and looked like a small Q version character. But this person was actually causing trouble in the crowd!

What was even stranger was that even though he was causing trouble, Shen Cheng noticed that his friendliness level hadn’t changed. She noted down his name: Chai Yi.

She clicked on “Confirm Submission as Mastermind” and the system beeped, confirming the name and depositing 100G into her account. Obviously, she had found the right person.

The previous mission was updated once again:

[Base Betrayer Mission 2: Complete the first appearance and subdue the mastermind within 1 minute. Mission completed: 100G.]

“What does the first appearance mean?” Shen Cheng wondered.

Suddenly, she realized that this damn game was trying to force her to spend money!

After Fu Yanzhou’s avatar had completed the research on the primary ability-stimulating potion, Shen Cheng had not renewed the use of her avatar. Using the avatar required purchasing either a weekly or monthly card, which cost 30 yuan and 120 yuan, respectively. Basically, the weekly card for this game cost the same as the monthly card for other games.

The avatar could only follow them on “specific missions,” and if it was damaged or killed, she would have to spend money to repair it. It was basically a waste of money if she didn’t use it for missions. Shen Cheng had no intention of being online 24/7 to manage her “body,” so she did not choose to renew her weekly or monthly card.

Does it seem like the game company is unhappy with her non-paying behavior and is forcing her to spend money?

Alright, alright, I’ll buy!

Shen Cheng gritted her teeth and bought a weekly card. Her body suddenly appeared outside the Noah Base.

“Welcome, owner of the base: Cheng returns to the base.”

Just as the noisy atmosphere on the square reached its climax and Fu Yanzhou’s drooping eyes finally received the “confirmed the identity of the traitor” OK signal from Xi Bei, the flat-panel system in the base made a sound.

Chai Yi immediately knew something was wrong.

But once the bow is drawn, the arrow must be released. Even if it was the owner of the base, since they had come this far, they had already gathered all the dissatisfied ability users together, so they could only continue on this path to the end!

He gestured to the others to continue and took two steps back to consider continuing to hide.

The gate opened.

A woman holding a wand, wearing a floral crown, and shimmering with green all over her body walked in.

Her natural ability was so powerful that when she approached, the plant-based ability holder Xi Bei keenly felt that a power of life was constantly circulating in the base, making her tremble.

Then she heard the low exclamations of the people around her, “Look at her feet!”

Shen Cheng activated the “Nature Affinity” skill of the Druid, and she could see that with every step she took, small wildflowers and green grass sprouted from the ground, playfully touching her body like nature’s elves.

Her face was like a mist, and the scent of flowers permeated her body. However, no one could see her ethereal appearance shrouded in mist, nor could they see her lifeless eyes.

But no one doubted her power.

Chai Yi took a deep breath, feeling a very bad premonition.

He slowly started to run backwards. Who knew that Shen Cheng in front of the screen had already fixed her gaze on him. With a wave of her staff, Chai Yi immediately felt long tree roots sprouting from all over his body, entangling him and trying to bind him.

The people around him saw only the woman waving her wand, and countless tree roots wriggled like snakes. They didn’t dare to question her and quickly backed away, leaving a large circle around Chai Yi.

Chai Yi didn’t dare to fight back.

He didn’t expect this person to come straight at him. But he considered himself a discreet person and had no evidence. So he dodged and shouted, “The base is oppressing us ability users! The base leaders are bullying us!”

“…” Acting like a child?

Shen Cheng was stunned for a moment.

Her game had begun its countdown, showing that she only had one minute left.

Shen Cheng didn’t bother to argue with him and directly transformed into a bear, rushing forward and slapping him in the face.

With a ‘whoosh’, Chai Yi fell to the ground directly, his eyes filled with stars.

Shen Cheng watched as her own image sat down on the ground, humanely patting her own palm and couldn’t help but laugh.

She transformed back.

But this time, no one dared to think of her as a delicate fairy.

Looking at the woman who still seemed to exude a soft light and fairy aura, people quickly made way for her.

[The Traitor of the Base 2: Mission completed.]

[The Traitor of the Base 3: Do you think in the base, abilities are more important or ordinary people are more important? A. Abilities are important, B. Ordinary people are important. C. Equally important.]

Shen Cheng hesitated for a moment.

So far, all the tasks that required her to make a choice had subsequent effects, and sometimes a storyline choice would affect many tasks later on.

She already knew the nature of this game. If she chose A… she was sure Noah would eventually become like Tenglong.

Ordinary people would become captive slaves, inferior to others. But choosing B was not realistic in this world, so Shen Cheng thought for a moment and finally chose C.

[You chose C.]

The screen flickered, and a new mission requirement appeared:

[Promise to provide job opportunities for all residents of the base and complete this task within the next week. If the task is completed, the residents will never betray and all the main base buildings will be level 1.]

“！！” All buildings in the base are level 1? This is definitely a huge investment!

Shen Cheng’s eyes widened as she looked at the reward.

Do I even need to say it?

Of course, grind missions!

She glanced at her clone’s skills and didn’t want to waste any time. She checked the map and saw that there was a “chicken farm” in the base that required a lot of labor to operate, but it was currently inactive due to a lack of animals. With a chicken farm, they could build a canning factory and a meatpacking plant. She climbed up onto a platform and called out for people to follow her to clean up the “breeding farm” outside of H City.

According to the map, there were still mutant chickens alive there, supposedly ruling over that place.

The unrest in the base was resolved with just one glance from her. She said that everyone would have a suitable job and a place to live, and they would all eventually be able to return to the surface alive. These words were deeply engraved in Fu Yanzhou’s heart. Senior Brother once said that his goal was to end the apocalypse. He was indeed becoming stronger and stronger, but Fu Yanzhou felt that his humanity was gradually disappearing.

But why did he feel that this woman who could turn into a bear was so sincere when she spoke? It was as if every word she said hit his heart.

He seemed to be able to see the day when the apocalypse would end, and the world would return to how it was before.

That was once his hope too.

Xi Bei quietly ran up behind him and gently patted his shoulder, whispering, “Zhou Zhou, don’t space out!”

Fu Yanzhou has gradually become accustomed to her closeness. He no longer feels uncomfortable and shivers like before.

He turned his head and made a sound of “hmm,” habitually drooping his eyes.

Xi Bei breathed a sigh of relief in her heart.

They had agreed to take down this group of people who wanted to use Fu Yanzhou to cause trouble. Her brother had already prepared for it downstairs. But she didn’t expect the one who rarely appeared in the base to come in person and make such a promise.

What kind of trump card did she have?

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If she couldn’t do it, the base would become a big joke!

Xi Bei originally wanted to clean up those dissidents and kill one to warn a hundred. Then, others naturally wouldn’t dare to cause trouble.

But now, she felt a little uneasy because they had only dealt with the ringleader.

Fu Yanzhou’s bright eyes looked over, “Xi Bei, since we’re going to the chicken farm in the outskirts, let’s go together!”

**

The way Shen Cheng led the team was very different from Li Weilan’s.

Of course, this was because the game system had opened “cheats”.

She could see the enemy’s location in advance and even reminded everyone in the team where the opponent was hiding and from which direction they would attack.

In short, there was no such thing as a surprise attack on the way.

This type of leadership style caused everyone who went on this mission with her to mentally label this cute-sounding “Cheng” as “absolutely untouchable”, even if they didn’t say it out loud. Anyone who participated in the mission was sincerely pleased and had no reservations.

Of course, Shen Cheng was not aware of this. For her, it was just a matter of looking down at her phone screen and reporting it.

But why… did the team members’ eyes towards her become increasingly fervent? It was like they had seen some kind of savior. Shen Cheng was actually quite confused, but as she arrived at the chicken farm, she saw the entire grassy field on her screen filled with tender yellow chicks!

Wow!

It seems like this chicken ancestor is very good at reproducing!

This is simply, an endless supply of chickens!

This chicken is really amazing! Catch it and bring it back to breed more!

Shen Cheng’s eyes lit up as she looked at the screen, causing the mutant chicken that was laying eggs somewhere in the farm to shake.

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Li Weilan panted as he landed on the ground, facing a mutant giant cockroach with a severed head and body. The green slime was splattered everywhere, and his arm had some burning marks that still hurt.

This huge cockroach had evolved to have a huge jaw, densely packed teeth, and countless compound eyes compared to its pre-apocalyptic peers, and its slime seemed to be a toxic and corrosive liquid. The first time he encountered it, he suffered a major loss, and a spatial rift opened up, allowing the cockroach to escape with a broken leg, but the green slime “splashed” onto his arm and instantly burned a huge blister.

The cockroach’s vitality was terrifying. When it realized it might not be able to defeat the person in front of it, it even deliberately broke its own foot almost “zero distance” from Li Weilan. Fortunately, Li Weilan had been prepared for this move and kept a safe distance.

Its foot almost immediately grew back.

Li Weilan had been carefully observing its every move: after breaking its leg, the cockroach was protecting the broken side very carefully, and the color of the foot on its dark brown body was slightly lighter.

Li Weilan recalled his time in the research institute.

Although the healed wounds had been healed, after being treated with healing abilities, the body had to rest for a period of time before researchers could continue studying it. Otherwise, people with weaker physiques would not be able to endure it.

Healing ability can only treat surface wounds that are still bleeding, but it can’t heal internal organ damage or internal vitality!

This cockroach broke off its leg to use its corrosive bodily fluid to injure him, but its internal vitality couldn’t immediately recover.

Li Weilan immediately realized what was happening. In the midst of his attacks, he discreetly mixed in several attacks aimed at the cockroach’s side. As expected, the cockroach was particularly vigilant towards the spot where its leg had been severed.

Its body was covered with a smooth, hard shell that was slippery and almost impossible to attack, making it difficult to find a place to start.

But now, it had a vulnerability.

Li Weilan repeatedly attacked its weak spot until finally, the giant cockroach let out a sharp scream, and its severed leg did not immediately grow back.

It lost its balance with a snap and fell to the ground, and Li Weilan dealt a heavy blow. A spatial rift slashed between its head and body, and when the giant cockroach fell to the ground, large amounts of green blood spattered out. Li Weilan inevitably got some on himself.

He was unharmed, but the uncovered part of his arm was heavily scarred and burned. With the battle over, Li Weilan only now felt the sudden onset of pain. He looked down apathetically and took a deep breath, feeling a bit sorry as he saw that his clothes were riddled with holes and were no longer wearable.

This is the first set of clothes she gave him. The lollipop is still in his pocket, but the first battle he went through destroyed one of the pieces of clothing.

Li Weilan felt a sudden pain in his heart, but the pain in his arm was not as intense in comparison.

He took a deep breath and stood up.

The area where the giant cockroach was located was probably a former landfill site. It emitted a foul smell when it drilled in and out. Li Weilan looked closely and found some human remains that the cockroach had left behind in the garbage pile.

Li Weilan struggled to light a fire and watched the flames rise, illuminating the dark sky over the landfill site.

The firelight illuminated his face, which showed no excitement despite his hard-won victory. His heroic face also showed a hint of fatigue.

Throughout his journey, he challenged himself, explored the boundaries of his abilities in battle, but Li Weilan suddenly realized that his desire for her was greater than the joy of his depleted abilities, physical exhaustion, and seemingly touching the indescribable boundary.

She hasn’t shown up so far.

He looked at his arm: this time, no one wrapped and medicated him.

This time, there was no gentle care from her.

Just as he rubbed his forehead wearily, a package suddenly fell from the sky, and a white pigeon flew from somewhere and “cuckooed” twice above his head, making a mocking, mother hen-like sound. It flapped its snow-white wings, then flew into the darkness in the distance.

Package?

The package in front of him didn’t look particularly large, but just looking at it made his heart start pounding.

Li Weilan reached out and opened it: inside lay a plain gray shirt and a box of well-sealed medicine.

The wrapping paper instantly turned into a mist and dissipated, leaving behind her gentle voice, its lingering notes drifting through the air: “Take good care of yourself, Lan Lan!”

Li Weilan’s lips twitched slightly, and although her voice was very soft, one could still discern her care – “You too.”

**

Shen Cheng looked at the newly produced “special medicine” and “comfortable sportswear” being manufactured in the base, and the first thing that came to her mind was to send the first finished product to cub who knows where.

If she wasn’t looking at the game chart, she would have thought she was playing Travel Frog.

Shen Cheng really couldn’t believe that after the previous plot ended, the main character’s profile only showed “Main character is out exploring”, and she couldn’t interact with or even say hello to him.

She said “Hello, Li Weilan” into the air a few times, but unfortunately, it really did turn into “talking to thin air,” with no response.

Cub packed his backpack and went out to explore, and as a mother, Shen Cheng was really worried!

Shen Cheng searched the internet to see how others raised their frog sons, and she took some notes: it seems that all she can do is prepare medicine, clothes, food, and a stable home for cub!

She hoped that when the cub returned home, the family would be thriving, stable, and making progress; what he would see was a stable base, not a mess that still needed his help to straighten out.

After the base had enough population, the control console was upgraded to a second-tier base.

The second-tier base had many more buildings available for purchase, such as entertainment facilities. However, the first thing Shen Cheng bought was a medicinal herb field.

After arranging manpower for the medicinal herb field, the base’s pharmaceutical factory could begin producing basic medicines.

The first-tier pharmaceutical factory could only produce “Universal Trauma Medicine,” which was mainly used for trauma.

It was not useful for colds, diarrhea, and other illnesses, but it was effective for some injuries caused by fighting or exploration.

Shen Cheng was worried about the cub’s safety while he was out “adventuring” and wanted to let him know that everything in the base was normal, so she used the “message delivery” function in the game to send a message, instead of leaving it in the space, in case he missed it.

“Ding Dong!” The game showed “Delivered,” and a line of text popped up: “Li Weilan is very happy.”

Wow, cub was easily satisfied!

Shen Cheng was surprised at how easily cub could be pleased!

She looked inside the base, and most of the injured little people were coming out of the medical cabin on their way to the pharmaceutical factory after treatment, and their wounds were completely healed. It was so much more comfortable to see them no longer in tatters.

She nodded satisfactorily.

**

“The medical cabin in the base…” Jin Hong hesitated to speak, and he secretly showed the man his wound, his face full of the word “conflicted”.

Chai Yi knew what he was talking about.

The healing effect like this was something they couldn’t even dare to imagine before the apocalypse!

And after the apocalypse, technology was supposed to be less advanced. But somehow, in this Noah’s base, everything seemed to have been turned upside down. Everything they saw with their naked eyes was simply like two different worlds compared to the outside.

“Big brother…” Jin Hong glanced at Chai Yi and saw hesitation on his face.

When they entered Noah, they did come prepared with the idea that they would not cause any trouble once they entered. But who could have thought that Noah’s treatment of ability users would be the way it is now?

No privileges, no value, and even assigning ability users to live in the same quarters as ordinary people. Even though Jin Hong and his big brother had the ability to build their own small survival base outside, they still didn’t receive special treatment from the leaders here.

No women to play with – the women in Noah’s base were also very important labor force. And these ability users even ate worse than some of the logistical personnel in the base. After entering, they immediately felt uncomfortable and gradually began to have ulterior motives.

But they still haven’t figured out the bottom of the Noah’s base. Whether it was Jin Hong or Chai Yi, they dare not act directly. They had been observing for these past few days, looking for any loopholes they could use.

“Is this medicine also from the laboratory?” Chai Yi suddenly thought of something and squinted his eyes to ask Jin Hong.

“Big brother, are you saying…” Jin Hong had been partnering with him in doing bad things for a long time, and now he fully understood what Chai Yi meant by asking this question. “We’re going to mess with the people in the laboratory?”

They haven’t been in the base for long, but they’ve already figured out the structure of the base.

Although the various departments are supposed to be parallel, since this base relies so much on technology, the research department should have been the center and brain of all resource mobilization, but the resources that the research department can mobilize seem to be not the most abundant in the entire base.

Judging others by oneself, both Jin Hong and Chai Yi were thinking about whether they should go and stir up this sensitive nerve.

They didn’t believe that anyone could be indifferent to fame, fortune, and power.

After all, for them, these three things plus women were the driving force behind their struggle.

Chai Yi narrowed his slender eyes and said, “Let’s get to know the situation first. After all, we’re not local to the base, and no matter what we want to do, it’s better to follow the will of the people.”

Jin Hong laughed.

The boss is always so eloquent.

He nodded vigorously and said, “Okay.”

**

Fu Yanzhou passed by a man in the corridor.

He suddenly muttered to himself, “Huh” – his spiritual ability told him that there seemed to be something extra in his pocket.

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Fu Yanzhou felt uncomfortable, he felt that the touched part was sticky and disgusting, making him nauseous.

He was going to call the person back, but he didn’t expect the person to run away so fast that his back disappeared behind the corridor in an instant.

Reaching into his pocket, Fu Yanzhou pulled out a folded paper that looked like dried tofu. He saw only a few words written on it: “The base treats you unfairly. We want to stand up for justice for you.”

“…???” Fu Yanzhou felt his mind filled with question marks.

He could understand each character separately, but why couldn’t he quite understand these two sentences when they were put together?

Justice? What is justice?

Unfair? Where did they see the unfairness?

Fu Yanzhou was at a loss. He suddenly recalled that in his previous research institute, there were also people whispering to him about “the mentor being biased towards senior brothers” and the like.

At that time, he didn’t understand either.

Biased? What is biased? Why are they saying this? Why don’t they go to the senior brother themselves?

Fu Yanzhou was now just as clueless. He stood in place, feeling restless and uneasy. It was at this moment that Xi Bei happened to pass by.

Seeing him standing alone in the corridor, Xi Bei smiled and lightly tapped Fu Yanzhou’s shoulder, saying, “Fu Yanzhou!”

Fu Yanzhou was startled.

When he saw that it was Xi Bei, he breathed a sigh of relief and nervously said, “It’s you.”

“Is it me?” This question was strange, and Xi Bei looked at his expression, puzzled, and asked, “What’s wrong?”

Fu Yanzhou hesitated for a moment and handed her the paper. He vaguely fidgeted with the ground and said, “…I don’t know who put it in my pocket.”

Upon seeing the paper, Xi Bei’s face changed.

These people were trying to roast her little Zhou Zhou on the fire!

But…

She hesitated for a moment, and the words she was about to say were swallowed back down. She just turned her head and asked, “What do you think?”

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Sandy: Hhmmph dumb cannon fodders waiting to die.

Noah base now has a relatively complete sweeping mechanism, and the psyches of the ability users to go out sweeping and exploring are very active.

However, when Shen Cheng carefully examined the base, she discovered a problem: there were injured and sick ability users in the base.

And, it’s not a small number.

This is really annoying.

In the wasteland, it is generally difficult for injured people to receive very fast treatment, and usually the ability users team of large bases will be equipped with healing-type ability users to avoid casualties caused by the healing-type ability not keeping up.

But Shen Cheng searched the entire base and couldn’t find any healing-type abilities.

She suddenly remembered the woman with the mutant beast that they encountered in the villa area before, and now Shen Cheng realized belatedly how scarce healing-type abilities were. She was so worried that she couldn’t help but grumble to cub.

If they had brought that person back as a healing tool, it would have been great! Even if they locked her up and let her treat people, it would still be a punishment, right? Letting her go was such a waste of her talent!

And now the worst part is, she is particularly worried that cub will go ‘challenge himself’ and seek a breakthrough. What if he gets injured or gets sick on the way? Although the special-effect medicine used to treat his arm before is omnipotent, it is expensive and not cost-effective. Moreover, it’s okay to have cub spend money alone, but if they have to spend money on all the injured and sick people in the base, her wallet won’t be able to handle it!

They still have to find a one-time solution.

Without a healing ability user, the “clinic” under the functional room is useless even if bought. But another building caught Shen Cheng’s eye and brightened it up: the pharmacy, which can only be purchased with a second-tier base upgrade, is perfect for Noah now.

【Pharmacy: Produces 10 doses of special medicine per day. Production requires a prerequisite condition: Chinese medicine field.】

But both the Chinese medicine field and the pharmacy require upgrading the main base first.

To upgrade from Tier 1 to Tier 2, there must be at least 400 ordinary people and 100 ability users in the base, as well as enough resources for 500 people to use: water, food, and electricity.

Currently, there aren’t enough people.

Shen Cheng used the money she saved before to buy the room and then pulled a bunch of people from the waiting area.

The population of the base quickly reached 500 people.

The original inhabitants of the base listened to the system’s announcement of new arrivals all day, almost numb to it.

In just one day, the base screened a bunch of new people. After this group moved in, the base became much more lively.

But others didn’t feel much, and Xi Bei walked around the base, feeling a little worried: as the population grew, things in the base began to get more complicated.

When there were fewer people, friction between individuals wasn’t so severe, but as soon as there were more people, especially in times of scarce resources, various problems would arise.

For example, one of the biggest problems in Noah now is the “distance” between ability users and non-ability users… Yes, the “distance” isn’t so clear.

Xi Bei and some of the core members in the base naturally know that there is a “power catalyst” in Noah Base.

This is the hope for ordinary people’s future, although it cannot be mass-produced at present and there is said to be a certain risk of death, but considering the probability of success, those who know the news are firmly united under the leadership of the base and cannot possibly have any dissident thoughts.

However, this is not the case for newcomers, especially those with abilities. After the initial novelty wears off and their awe of the base decreases, they begin to complain about why Noah’s level of attention to them as people with abilities is far less than that of other major bases in the end times.

For example, major bases like Tenglong treat people with abilities and non-abilities almost as if they are from different worlds. Even if a person with abilities kills a commoner on the street, they can still escape calmly and sometimes even get away with it “legally and reasonably.”

But this is not the case in Noah.

Noah’s regulations are very strict, so strict that they begin to doubt if they are still living in a peaceful era instead of the post-apocalyptic wasteland of survival of the fittest!

For people with abilities, this is undoubtedly uncomfortable.

Those who are used to being above the law naturally feel very dissatisfied with the loss of their privileges, and this dissatisfaction…Shen Cheng is worried that it will definitely have an outlet.

Although Li Weilan went to “train,” Shen Cheng still pays attention to the “satisfaction level” within the base.

In her view, the situation in the digitalized base is more intuitive and clear.

She also noticed that although this group of newcomers in the tent area all seem “friendly,” their satisfaction level decreases when they arrive at Noah.

She zoomed in on one of the small figures and curiously selected “camera follow.”

This is a male figure.

Beside his head, it says “metal-type ability”. It seems like he is an ability user.

Despite being an ability user, he can only choose to live in the most common dormitory since he has not contributed enough to the base. When he gets up from bed, he looks grumpy, and the word “lost” appears beside his head.

He sits on the edge of the bed for a while, feeling lost.

Then he realizes he is living next to a family. He looks over and sees the neighbor’s child crying softly. The word “annoyed” appears beside his head. He looks up at the ceiling, pounds the bed for a while, then the part of the bed he hit becomes thick metal. He seems surprised and quickly pulls back his hand. Looking around and seeing that no one noticed, he stands up.

As a metal-type ability user, his first thought after getting up is to find a job in the base. He tries the weapon room first.

However, there are already people working in the weapon room.

The weapon room in the base is currently only level one, and they can only produce a limited number of weapons. The male figure stands at the door and looks inside. He makes a disgusted expression and mutters “whatever”. He thinks there’s no challenge here, but he still walks over and asks if they need any help. He finds out they are already full.

“…” In other bases, metal-type ability users might be able to help reinforce walls or do construction, but all of Noah’s outer defenses are underground and don’t require that.

Since the weapon room is already full, the male figure loses the chance to work inside the base. He walks around the “sweeping team” locations, but he finds out that the teams are all full and not looking for level one members. Feeling lost, he does some hard labor and quietly returns to his dormitory.

Hmm, I just want to sleep as soon as I lay down.

He was awoken miserably by the noise from next door.

The little guy jumped up in anger and almost got into a fight with the boy next door who had woken him up. He probably realized that he was an adult with special abilities while the other was just a kid living in a base with strict rules. He hesitated for a long time but ultimately decided to let it go.

However, the little guy next to him still said a few things. Seeing himself standing alone, he sighed silently and looked down at his feet, feeling pathetic.

Even Shen Cheng felt a little pity for these ability users in the base who couldn’t find a fixed team and had no “fixed job”.

This little guy was just a representative of the batch of people who were not very satisfied with the base.

Metal ability users…

Shen Cheng looked at the building and smiled evilly.

On the research and development side, Fu Yanzhou’s “ability charging car prototype” progress bar was almost full. Building a superpower prototype car required a large amount of copper, and refined copper cost 10G per unit. However, raw copper ore only cost 1G! This was an extremely profitable deal.

Although refining required the purchase of a refining room, the purchase price of 100G was still worth it. A metal ability user could refine 10 units of copper ore a day, which was enough to buy a house after rounding up.

The little person quickly received a notice from the base:

[Message: You have been admitted to the “Ore Refining Room”. Please report for duty.]

With stable employment, the little person’s satisfaction visibly increased.

Besides the ability users, there were also some women with low satisfaction levels.

Looking at the situation, Shen Cheng began to worry. There were some women with particularly low satisfaction levels, and yet, they were still pretty!

Opening a brothel in the base was impossible. She would never allow such a sinful thing to appear in the Noah base. Even if she wanted to, the game manufacturer would not agree.

This kind of thing would definitely be harmonized.

Apart from the brothel, what else needed a large number of ordinary female workers?

Shen Cheng thought for a moment and added textile factories and taverns to her waiting list for purchase.

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The textile factory required a large number of female workers. After the reed planting was successful, the ability users would need to extract the fiber strands and then weave them into fabric.

At least 20 female workers were needed to start a textile factory, and it could accommodate up to 40 female workers working together.

But after she purchased the textile factory, the base’s “uniform” began to become popular among the base.

It became one of the “luxury goods” that ability users most liked to exchange for after a day of killing and cleaning.

Wearing the uniform not only represents a sense of belonging to the base, but also, only those who have worn it know that there is too much high-tech in the uniform!

When Fu Yanzhou received the seed for research, he felt that the fiber in the seed had been improved. The extracted fiber has similar advantages to the pre-apocalyptic Tian Silk, with both breathability and smoothness, and most importantly, it even fixed the problem of Tian Silk, possessing unmatched durability and wear resistance compared to other fabrics.

As a major contributor, he was naturally willing to exchange contribution points for things.

After trying it on, even he was stunned: Is this a uniform?

In some small bases, this could be issued as combat gear!

Some of the ability users wore it out and came back after crawling and rolling, only to find that their cotton underwear had ripped, but the outer layer of the uniform was still intact.

In addition, the “Noah” logo on the chest became even more vibrant.

This is not a product that consumes points, but a welfare given by the base, right?

And for the female workers in the textile factory, this welfare is equivalent to their monthly salary!

The female workers in the textile factory, who were once looked down upon, gradually found that they could stand tall and proud.

The textile factory has become one of the most popular workplaces in the base.

After a series of stable measures and purchases, the hearts of the people in the base gradually stabilized.

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Sandy: our FL is so smart 😍😍😍

【The probing mission 2 of the laboratory has been completed. Please inform the main character about this matter.】

Shen Cheng felt a sinking feeling in her heart: this matter was definitely related to cub!

She had previously suspected that the “senior brother” mentioned by the spy might be the person who had disagreed with Fu Yanzhou and had been ruthless towards cub in order to obtain results.

If missions 1 and 2 failed, it was obvious that the subsequent task line of the laboratory would be cut off. She remembered that when Fu Yanzhou wanted cub to cooperate with him in the experiment, he promised to help Li Weilan find the location of the laboratory. It seemed that this line should be pursued here.

Shen Cheng opened the main character page.

“I have something to tell you,” Shen Cheng said directly. “Fu Yanzhou’s ‘senior brother’ seems to be in the camp above our base.”

On the screen, cub froze like his whole body had been frozen, and his smile disappeared: the people from the laboratory had come to the base? What did they want to do?

Did they discover something?

Li Weilan’s heartbeat accelerated.

On the phone screen, although cub tried to remain calm, three exclamation marks instantly appeared above his head, indicating that he was clearly not calm.”

When cub’s clear gaze forcibly looked at her calmly, it almost made Shen Cheng’s heart break.

“Hey, cub, don’t worry! Mother can handle it!” Shen Cheng hurriedly explained, “It’s nothing, they came because of the low pollution level of the vegetables. But they ran into Fu Yanzhou on the way, and he managed to fool them without arousing any suspicion.”

Hearing her anxious tone of explanation, Li Weilan breathed a sigh of relief instead.

He felt a bit embarrassed inwardly: he thought he had concealed his thoughts quite well, but in front of her, it seemed like he was completely transparent, and she could see everything clearly.

In front of her, it seemed like he didn’t have any secrets at all.

However, since she said that Fu Yanzhou had “fooled” them, then there shouldn’t be any problem. When he wasn’t looking, she had already helped the base resolve a huge crisis.

But after this incident, there seemed to be an invisible thread and hidden worry: could it be that something had attracted the lab to track down Noah so quickly?

Noah’s current strength was not enough to contend with the lab and the several major bases they controlled. Li Weilan felt somewhat guilty: if it weren’t for her, Noah might have fallen into a crisis this time.

Li Weilan asked, “Cheng Cheng, is he alone?”

Shen Cheng didn’t want to lie to him.

She answered seriously, “No, he’s not alone.”

“Can we kill him without any harm?” Li Weilan asked.

Shen Cheng looked at the store.

The “artifacts” in the store worth tens of thousands of yuan, such as nuclear bombs, could guarantee the destruction of the opponent with just one hit.

But unfortunately, she couldn’t afford it. She couldn’t even afford to borrow money to spend on it.

She honestly replied, feeling a bit helpless, “No, I’m sorry.” It’s because I’m too poor.

“Don’t say that, Cheng Cheng,” Li Weilan stood up and anxiously looked towards the screen. His heart ached when she said that, almost extinguishing his urge to fight. He knew that if he fought desperately, she wouldn’t sit idly by – and when that happens, her own life rhythm will definitely be disrupted. She cares about him, and isn’t he the same! He couldn’t bear to let her spend her hard-earned money on his life. “We still have a lot of time to take it slow.”

Wait until Noah becomes powerful enough, wait until Noah can kill them all without any harm…

On this side, Li Weilan made up his mind, and Shen Cheng’s mission was updated in real time:

[Fu Yanzhou seems to have something to say. Please listen to Li Weilan’s conversation with him and wait for further mission instructions.]

**

As soon as the man left, Fu Yanzhou quickly released Xi Bei’s hand.

A faint redness flashed across his pale cheeks. Xi Bei looked at him curiously and giggled, “Fu Yanzhou, since you said it was for me, shouldn’t you be responsible for my reputation?”

Fu Yanzhou quickly stepped back.

His gaze flickered, but he dared not look at Xi Bei. He only looked at the dark cake in her hand and said in a trembling voice, “I’m…I’m sorry?”

“Fu Yanzhou,” Xi Bei’s eyes spun around. She had noticed before that Fu Yanzhou was actually in a position of neither high nor low in the base. He had merits, but when it came to reliable relationships, closeness, and position, he might not even be as good as her silly brother. “Who was that person just now? And what’s the matter with what he said?”

Fu Yanzhou’s lips trembled slightly.

He didn’t speak immediately. His psychic ability had already sensed the approach of another powerful ability user outside the door–it should be Li Weilan.

Fu Yanzhou pushed Xi Bei away.

He straightened his body and carefully moved away from Xi Bei. Just as he had done all this, he heard the door being pushed open from the outside.

Li Weilan walked in.

He felt that the atmosphere in the room was not right. Although there was still a bit of distance between the two, Li Weilan keenly sensed the silent ambiguous atmosphere between them.

Xi Bei saw him come in and knew he had business to attend to. She winked at Fu Yanzhou and turned to look at Li Weilan, nodding obediently and saying, “Brother Li, I’m leaving first.”

As soon as she left, Fu Yanzhou’s expression returned to his usual coldness. He pressed his nose bridge and when he looked up again, his expression was calm, appearing normal again. “Someone came to the lab just now.”

“I already know,” Li Weilan calmly spoke and nodded. He found a chair and sat down, his scrutinizing gaze passing over Fu Yanzhou’s face, “They found us very quickly.”

Fu Yanzhou was stunned for a moment and instinctively explained, “It’s not me…” His quick response implied that he might have been the one who leaked information.

“I believe you,” Li Weilan interrupted him and nodded, “If it was you, they wouldn’t have left so easily.” His words did not doubt Fu Yanzhou’s intention. He misunderstood.

If Fu Yanzhou leaked the information, then they already have evidence of Noah Base’s black technology, and they wouldn’t need to send spies.

The fact that the person contacted Fu Yanzhou instead showed that he had no ill intentions, at least not at the moment.

Fu Yanzhou hesitated for a moment and then continued with his previous train of thought, “Although I left the laboratory, I know their style. This time, even though I managed to send them away, it will only delay them for a while. My senior brother is very meticulous, and they will come back sooner or later. It won’t be easy to send them away then.”

Li Weilan gave him a deep look. What Fu Yanzhou said was similar to what he was thinking.

There are many things in Noah that are hidden from the public eye. This incident was only a limited exposure, and they could use Fu Yanzhou’s research ability as a pretext to cover it up. But sooner or later, it will be exposed to the world.

Moreover, if Noah wants to grow and expand, they cannot avoid hiring people and expanding their reputation. In the future, they will inevitably face the research institute.

He didn’t ask how long this “delay” could last, but only asked one question, “How can abilities be advanced?”

Fu Yanzhou hesitated for a moment and gave a very direct answer, “Combat.”

He closed his eyes and tentatively contacted Li Weilan’s body with his mental power. He could feel the tight defense around him, and there was no leakage of his breath. “You are now at the peak of Tier 3, right?” Fu Yanzhou confirmed.

“Yes,” Li Weilan replied, unsurprised.

His ability stabilized at the third-order peak after coming out of the mutant wolf pack, but since then he has made no progress.

The upgrade from first to second order happened when he was killing zombies in his early days and suddenly leveled up.

The upgrade from second to third order was done in the laboratory.

For him, these two upgrades were not experiences that could be referenced.

“My senior brother is already at the fifth order,” Fu Yanzhou suddenly said.

Li Weilan’s pupils contracted.

“The method he used to upgrade was extremely cruel,” Fu Yanzhou said, “He made countless modifications to himself. He almost did all the experiments you guys did on himself.”

Li Weilan’s face changed.

It’s terrifying when one person is ruthless towards others, but it’s even more terrifying when they’re ruthless towards themselves.

Those experiments were incredibly painful. Li Weilan couldn’t imagine anyone willing to try them on themselves one by one.

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“My senior brother didn’t have any abilities at first, but he cut out the ability core of others,” Fu Yanzhou’s gaze gradually dimmed, “Since then, we have had disagreements. But my senior brother told me that humans are too weak in the face of nature, and everything we do is to explore a new path to save the remaining humans from extinction.”

Nonsense!

This was what Li Weilan and Shen Cheng, who was staring at the screen, thought.

Even if the starting point was truly for the sake of humanity, those who used this insane and ruthless method were either warmongers or lunatics.

“I can’t stop my senior brother, but the fact that he reached the fifth order at least shows that his method of upgrading is correct,” Fu Yanzhou fell silent for a moment, “Fight, consume, replenish abilities, and you can advance quickly. But… what about Noah if you choose that path?”

Observing up to this point, Shen Cheng completely understood why the game was called “spectator”.

She smiled happily and said to Li Weilan, “Noah is mine! You go out and fight, I will defend the base!” This cooperation is very nice!

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Li Weilan and she both thought of this at the same time, his mouth slightly hooked up, his smile was sincere and sweet – that was the confidence she gave him: “Since your master uses this advanced method, then you must have suitable targets, right? You tell me, we’ll take them on one by one.”

The game popped up a new prompt:

[Desolate Map: Updated.]

[Main Character’s Wish: Closed Door Mode. The main character is about to backpack and travel in closed door mode. In this mode, you can view battle records, send items and voice messages. Turn off instant messaging and turn off pay-to-win mode. Agree or not? Y/N]

Shen Cheng was stunned, “You want to go into closed-door cultivation?”

Li Weilan was only thinking in his mind, “I want to train myself well, I don’t want her to worry about me or spend money on me.” But from her tone, it seemed like it would show up as “closed-door cultivation” on her end?

If he closed the door, he would think of her. But he wanted to become stronger and break through the level restrictions with his own power. There was no reason why that person could do it, but he couldn’t.

Longing for love but short on courage, what Li Weilan wants is to be with her day and night. But perhaps this means a temporary separation for now.

He closed his eyes and heard himself say hoarsely, “I want to become stronger on my own.”

Shen Cheng was stunned for a moment. She finally realized what it feels like to raise a child who wants to leave the nest.

Wuwuwu, it hurts so much. My cub said he wants to go into closed-door cultivation!

However, as long as baby wants to do it, mom will always support you!

Shen Cheng closed his eyes and clicked on “Agree to enter seclusion mode.”

**

On the other side, the senior brother was surprised when he heard the news of Fu Yanzhou’s presence in the Noah Base.

Fu Yanzhou was soft-hearted, but in the end, although the two had different opinions and did not cooperate, they did not have any major conflicts.

If he wanted power, Fu Yanzhou would retreat.

If he wanted the laboratory, Fu Yanzhou would leave.

To put it nicely, he had social anxiety, to put it bluntly, he was weak.

A weak person can be shaken in his determination and suppressed in his will, and then used at will. So he wasn’t worried that Fu Yanzhou would become a threat to him.

But Fu Yanzhou’s ability was obvious to all, and such a person…

There was no need to push him into a corner.

“Since it’s my junior brother’s masterpiece,” he paused, “let’s forget it. Let’s look for other clues.”

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The first batch of vegetables grown with anomalous energy in the hydroponic room of the base was distributed to the ability users who went with Li Weilan to sweep the wasteland.

The family of the deceased ability user received extra compensation points and three years of food rationing.

Due to the man’s selfless sacrifice before his death, the base gave extra compensation points. When his wife received the vegetables, her hands were trembling slightly.

The woman distributing the vegetables looked at her with pity in her eyes. The breadwinner of the family had passed away, and his wife was still pregnant. Even with three years of food rationing, the future would still be difficult for them.

She kindly whispered to the woman, “Only the teams that go out to sweep the wasteland every day can exchange the base’s credit points for vegetables. The amount is not much. I heard that the pollution produced within our base is very low and popular. You can try to go to the black market and exchange some dry food to store. There will be a lot of expenses when the child is born.”

Of course, the black market referred to the underground black market. Ability users had started to trade privately in the tent area above the Noah base, mainly exchanging personal daily necessities with other bases’ trading caravans and some individual traders. Although Noah was currently safe and food was abundant, it was still newly established, and the categories were relatively scarce. Some personal items such as perfumes, cigarettes, and alcohol could only be bought in the trading area above. Of course, vegetables and fruits were also long-term popular trading goods, but no one could exchange them before.

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The woman took her supplies and went to the black market.

After selling the vegetables in her hand, she exchanged a few necessary items for daily life such as dried meat and salt and returned to the base.

After she left, the man with glasses who had traded with her placed the vegetables he had received from her under the scanner in the tent area. When he saw the reading, he quickly went to find their leader and said, “Boss, look at this pollution level!”

The colorful vegetables that were neither deformed nor discolored, yet contaminated, were already striking enough. And when smelled, they were surprisingly crispy and full of moisture, just like before the end of the world, making one’s mouth water. They followed the clues left by the octopus and finally made a big discovery. Although this 3% still had some gap from the value they suspected, it was the smallest value they had ever seen!

The tall man glanced at the pollution meter in his hand and saw a reading of 3.

Compared to other pollution levels that were hundreds of times higher, this pollution level… was indeed eye-catching.

But even if it was close to zero, it was not zero after all.

Could someone turn something that was originally pollution-free into contaminated?

From this reading, the suspicion of the Noah Base was not too great.

But what worried him the most now was that the Noah Base did not know how to screen their applicants, and their people had not been able to infiltrate it yet.

If they could not infiltrate it, they would have to fight hard.

“Send someone to try again and explore the bottom of this base. I still can’t let go,” the man pushed his gold-rimmed glasses on his nose and gave a cold order.

When playing a game, a new mission popped up for Shen Cheng:

【You have triggered: Laboratory Probe Mission Chain 1.

Please discreetly place Spy No. 1 in the laboratory and dispel the other party’s suspicions. Mission failure will trigger: Laboratory Attack. Mission success will trigger subsequent probe plot.】

Spy No. 1?

The laboratory… Shen Cheng was shocked, suspecting that this laboratory mission was related to the laboratory where Li Weilan and Quan Quan had stayed before.

Did people from the laboratory follow them to the base?

Just by looking at this mission, it was clear that this group of people had not yet entered the base. Shen Cheng moved the camera to the waiting area above and saw a bunch of humanoid monsters with yellow health bars. Based on the health bars and “???” above their heads, they were definitely tougher enemies than the large zombie father and son encountered during the previous sweep!

Shen Cheng suspected that this game was fooling her.

First, she had to place the spy in the base and dispel their suspicions… but wasn’t the base full of vulnerabilities?

Quan Quan was a problem, Li Weilan was a problem, and the black technology was still a problem!

If they placed the spy inside but failed to cover their tracks, the base would undoubtedly suffer heavy casualties.

In this case, wouldn’t it be better to just leave the spy outside and fight them directly?

But looking at this, it’s a series of tasks, and Shen Cheng suspects that the follow-up of this task chain is related to the revenge of the hatchling. She gritted her teeth and tried to hide both the hatchling and the octopus monster, but found that the game displayed “Task not yet started, please put in spy No.1”.

“…” It seems like a race against time to grab this task.

Shen Cheng dragged a bunch of little people with “friendly” relationships into Noah, and in the middle, “conveniently” put in the little person with “Spy No.1” written on its head.

Spy No.1 walked into Noah with the crowd.

On the phone screen, as soon as this little person entered Noah, its eyes widened, looking left and right, even wanting to touch the walls and floor of the base, regardless of any perspective, it was not much different from the wasteland wanderer who had opened his mouth wide for the first time next to it. Even more shocked, it looked like it had never seen the world before!

If it weren’t for the name “Spy No.1” on its head, Shen Cheng might even think that this person didn’t look like a spy from their actions and demeanor!

But this game is really convenient, everyone else has a full name, and the cannon fodder is just Spy No.1.

What she didn’t know was that the person was really shocked.

From the first step of approaching Noah, even if he was an outsider, as an experimental subject, he knew very clearly the technological content and difficulty involved in building such an underground steel fortress!

He even touched every pillar and every brick of this sky-defying structure with near-worshipful reverence.

“Please follow the footsteps of the spy and complete the base inspection.”

On the phone screen, a switch perspective option appeared. With a light touch, the screen changed to the view of spy number one.

This was the first time that Shen Cheng had ever entered the perspective of a game character to view Noah Base.

The spy walked forward, seemingly dazed and even swaying the camera as if he was drunk.

After a while, the camera suddenly stopped at the sign for the laboratory.

Fu Yanzhou pushed open the door of the laboratory, looking exhausted. The spy saw his face and froze.

Shen Cheng thought for a moment, then switched away from the spy’s point of view. She quickly entered Fu Yanzhou’s laboratory and discovered that there was only one completed ability charging board model on the experimental table. She hid it and replaced all the experimental supplies on the table with the trash she had picked up while collecting reed seeds, such as polluted apple seeds and unhealthy cucumber seedlings.

After finishing all of this, Shen Cheng opened the laboratory door a crack. As expected, after a while, the spy looked left and right and sneaked into the room.

He had no idea that someone was watching his every move carefully on their phone!

Spy number one carefully examined each petri dish and plant seed, using a device to scan them one by one. He found that the pollution levels varied but were mostly between 10 and 50.

He breathed a sigh of relief and a speech bubble appeared above his head: “Why is Fu Yanzhou here!”

He really knows Fu Yanzhou!

When Spy No.1 wandered around the room and strolled around the base after his morale was boosted, he returned to the wasteland with a worried look on his face.

The task was quickly updated:

[Probe Mission 1 in the laboratory has ended. Triggered: Probe Mission 2 in the laboratory:

Please observe Spy No. 1 and Fu Yanzhou’s conversation, coordinate personnel, help Fu Yanzhou answer questions and dispel doubts. Failure triggers Laboratory Attack. Completion triggers Laboratory Series Mission 3.]

Just as she received this follow-up probe mission, Spy No. 1 had already walked into the base again.

Fu Yanzhou was thinking with his head down at the time, suddenly felt someone approaching, was startled, raised his head and saw someone he vaguely recognized, but couldn’t remember the name for a while, and frowned.

“You are…” He hesitated for a moment and couldn’t remember, then shook his head. “Outsiders are not welcome in the laboratory. You should leave.”

“Professor Fu has a bad memory,” Spy No.1 smirked. “It seems you don’t remember me. Do you still remember your senior brother?”

Fu Yanzhou’s face instantly turned pale.

His eyes seemed to see some nightmare, staring wide, fingers clasping the wall to support his body, unable to speak.

Shen Cheng could tell from his body language that he was extremely nervous—because she had also experienced this extreme sense of insecurity when someone invaded her social safety zone. In this state of unease, she couldn’t speak and her mind went blank.

It seems that the person referred to as “senior brother” in his words is nothing but a nightmare for Fu Yanzhou!

Shen Cheng carefully looked at what Fu Yanzhou was busy with. She clicked on the small object in Fu Yanzhou’s hand and enlarged it a bit. The game displayed a line of small characters:

[Failed Cake Embryo]

Is it a cake?

Shen Cheng couldn’t help but laugh, but she immediately understood what was going on – Fu Yanzhou wasn’t doing research, he was making a cake!

Previously, Xi Bei had just told him about her birthday, and it seemed that this cake was what he was going to make for her.

**

Xi Bei was focused on inputting plant-type abilities in her room when suddenly, she felt a soft force push her back.

“!!!” She looked around but couldn’t find anyone!

But Xi Bei quickly realized that the person pushing her was probably the actual owner of the base that her brother and the others had been talking about, the mysterious woman who was like a dragon that couldn’t be seen!

It was the first time she had felt her presence!

Xi Bei was a little excited. She followed the mysterious force and soon appeared in front of a slightly open laboratory door.

What did that woman want her to do in the laboratory?

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Xi Bei curiously pushed the door open a little, and the scene before her eyes made her anger rise.

Instead of rushing in to defend the young man, Fu Yanzhou, she observed for a moment. His movements showed more resistance, disgust, and unease, but not much fear.

In other words, they must be old acquaintances!

Was it appropriate for her to enter?

Unlike the spy with their back to the door, Fu Yanzhou had already noticed the door’s movement.

He quickly realized what was happening, but his change in expression immediately aroused the spy’s suspicion.

Spy #1 turned around and saw a girl at the door, and just as they were about to pounce, they heard Fu Yanzhou’s voice: “Didn’t you ask me why I was in Noah?” He paused and then exclaimed, “She’s the reason.”

Xi Bei was dumbfounded.

Fu Yanzhou stuffed a dark lump into her hand – God knows, he didn’t actually say or do anything, whether it was the action or the words, all controlled by her like a puppet master.

The spy couldn’t see it, but Xi Bei clearly saw that his mouth didn’t move, yet the voice…it was Fu Yanzhou’s!

Shen Cheng frantically typed this sentence on the page and stuffed the cake into Xi Bei’s hand. Seeing the shocked expressions of Fu Yanzhou and the spy, she secretly revealed a little auntie smile.

Xi Bei understood quickly. She took a glance at the spy’s unfamiliar face, smiled in extreme cooperation, and hugged Fu Yanzhou’s shoulder, covering up his shocked expression. “Thank you, Zhou Zhou! You’re so good to me. My ability is going to upgrade again!”

Spy #1 looked at the green glow in her hand and felt the surging power of her ability, which was about to reach level 3. Finally, he relaxed a little.

Since Noah had Fu Yanzhou, and he suddenly had a crush who was also a plant ability user, then…it seemed reasonable and logical.

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After three days of inner turmoil, Shen Cheng knew deep down that she was deceiving herself, but her calmness had not led her to a conclusion.

However, even if she didn’t find a way out of the tangle, as soon as the deadline passed, she eagerly opened her phone. Her fingers seemed to have a mind of their own as they quickly tapped on the game icon. Her heart was racing with excitement and the feeling of waiting was so agonizing that she didn’t even want to wait for a second.

As the game loaded quickly and she saw the familiar screen, Shen Cheng felt a vague sense of relief deep within her.

During the 72 hours that she hadn’t played the game, a hidden worry in her heart was whether anything had happened to cub or the base. In addition, the mission to fend off the zombie siege in a month’s time was urgent, and Shen Cheng knew that logging off at this time was a somewhat irresponsible act towards cub.

The first thing Shen Cheng did after opening the game was not to say hello to Li Weilan, as she usually did, but to deceive herself by opening the “base” page to check that everything seemed to be running smoothly and that no unexpected events had occurred. Only then did she slightly relax.

After hesitating for a moment, Shen Cheng opened the main character page.

In a rare scene, cub was sitting in the field of his space, looking at the field in front of him, which was gradually turning from green to golden. He rested his chin on his hand, lost in thought, and she didn’t know what he was thinking about.

Perhaps sensing her arrival, cub looked towards her direction, with a soft expression. Although Shen Cheng saw a deep and meaningful depth in his clear eyes, he greeted her, “Good evening, Cheng.”

The expression seemed to be able to penetrate the screen and understand every bit of her anxiety and entanglement in the past three days.

Shen Cheng’s heart trembled.

In the moment when she met cub’s eyes, she knew that all the emotional control in the past three days was about deceiving herself.

She thought of him, cared for him, and even more than anyone else in her own world.

However, what could she do? He was just…a paper man who didn’t exist in reality, whom she couldn’t touch or be with.

Shen Cheng’s gaze trembled, and her voice involuntarily became more emotional as she spoke: “Good evening, Li Weilan.”

Li Weilan keenly felt something was off.

Her voice wasn’t steady, unlike the usual one that carried a full of vitality and sunshine, but as if it had a shade of gloom. Her voice was trembling, but she tried to cover it up.

Did something happen?

Li Weilan thought for a moment and didn’t ask directly. Instead, he said, “Cheng, we all missed you during the past three days when you were gone.”

He seemed to pause slightly when he said “we,” and his words were so vague that it seemed like he was about to swallow the word “we.”

Roughly speaking, cub said that he missed me!

Shen Cheng’s face turned slightly red and she couldn’t help but express her true thoughts: “I miss you…all too.”

After a moment of contemplation, she decided to be honest and added, “But of course, the person I miss the most is you.”

Every moment, she was thinking of him, wondering why she kept dreaming of him. Basically, she missed him.

Li Weilan was surprised and speechless for a moment, not expecting such a sweet response from her.

Although he tried to hide his own feelings, she didn’t seem to care about the weight of her words, causing a huge ripple in his heart.

But it made sense. Her type of missing was probably different from his.

“Cheng Cheng, were you busy these past three days?” Li Weilan asked her.

“Very busy!” Shen Cheng replied firmly, not willing to admit that she didn’t go online due to inner conflict. There was no hesitation or guilt in her tone, “Work is really busy!”

“…,” Li Weilan sensed that her answer was just an excuse and he wanted to ask about her job and if there were any problems. However, since she sounded so confident, he guessed that nothing was wrong after all.

He let out a small sigh of relief.

“Let’s observe a little longer,” he said to himself.

He stood up from the field and dusted off his pants and pointed to the warehouse next to them. “All the harvest from these three days is in the warehouse. The base has now established a very efficient scavenging mechanism, and the spoils of scavenging belong to the members of each team. Some of it is contributed to the base, but there are too few items that can be exchanged for credit points at the moment. We need to increase the types of items that can be exchanged.”

As he spoke, Shen Cheng was selling the harvest in the warehouse. They had harvested 180 portions of rice in the thirty plots of land over the past three days. Sixty portions were used as seeds for replanting, so the current harvest was a total of 240G. In addition, the base had earned 150G per day from scavenging, so the base had stored 390G during the few days she was away. She listened to the sound of gold coins being added to her account and to what he was saying.

She instantly understood what Li Weilan meant: they needed to introduce “entertainment” and “luxury goods” to the base!

Shen Cheng thought about it for a moment. She hadn’t figured out what to buy yet, but Li Weilan had already given her a suggestion: “Vegetables and fruits are currently the first choice. The base now has a great chef. If we can increase the variety of food in the base, we should be able to greatly improve the satisfaction of the residents.”

Shen Cheng opened the profile of the base’s population and was surprised to find that Li Weilan was right.

The result of the lack of vegetables and fruits was that many people in the base suffered from constipation and fever. Even if they managed to find some pre-apocalyptic vitamin pills, living underground without sunlight already made them prone to vitamin D deficiency, and coupled with the lack of intake of animal organs and the like, most of the people in the base had some nutritional imbalance problems.

In fact, compared to those people in the wasteland who are satisfied with just having a meal, the lives of the people in the base are much better, and they do not complain. However, looking at the debuffs above their heads, Shen Cheng felt that life in the apocalypse was too difficult.

She spent 80G to buy bean seeds and another 100G to buy cabbage seeds. These two types of vegetables are relatively easy to grow and produce a lot of yield, making them a suitable choice. Bean sprouts can be made into stir-fried bean sprouts, braised bean sprouts, while cabbage can be made into pickled cabbage, braised cabbage, and can also be paired with noodles and other types of pasta, providing a variety of options to prevent getting tired of eating the same thing.

**

When Li Weilan entered the research room, Fu Yanzhou was busy with his research on the ability charging car – this research has been going on for a while and is currently stuck on the stability of the battery.

The reasons for several previous research failures were due to the unstable voltage of the ability charging which directly caused the battery to explode, or the poor stability of this type of car on bumpy external roads. Fu Yanzhou has been stuck in the energy application of this car for some time, and he has not found a breakthrough. At this time, he looked haggard, with a scruffy beard, and a sallow complexion.

Seeing Li Weilan, Fu Yanzhou’s voice was also hoarse: “What’s the matter?”

“Seeds.” Li Weilan put down what she was holding. She explained briefly, “Don’t ask me where these seeds come from, just put your name on them. Don’t ask any more questions.”

Fu Yanzhou picked up the plant seeds on the table.

He found an instrument and tested it, and his expression changed.

Li Weilan stood with his arms crossed, watching him manipulate the instrument. He repeated, “Don’t ask too much,” only after Fu Yanzhou tested and saw a shocking 0% pollution level from the seeds in his hand. Even before the apocalypse, this value would have caused a sensation and attracted the attention of the wealthy. If taken outside, Noah would become an instant paradise that everyone would flock to. Even if taken to their laboratory, the source of the seeds would still be repeatedly questioned.

Li Weilan told him not to ask too much…

Fu Yanzhou’s hand trembled nervously, and his inner turmoil lasted for a long time before he slowly asked, “But if that’s the case… what about the people at the base?” Although he was socially anxious, he was not socially foolish. He knew that once all these achievements became his, there would be consequences, and the result would be that some people in the base would be very, very grateful to him. And this kind of adoration would be a challenge to the management of the base.

Fu Yanzhou was not an ambitious person.

Putting aside his guilt towards Li Weilan, he had no intention of seizing power.

So he keenly felt the risks behind the seeds and bluntly asked about them.

Li Weilan looked at him with a flicker in his eyes but did not explain his arrangements. Instead, he asked straightforwardly, “Can you do it?”

Fu Yanzhou hesitated for a long time while looking at Li Weilan’s determined gaze before nodding.

After Li Weilan left, Fu Yanzhou took the seeds and went to find Xi Bei.

Xi Bei slowly inputted her plant-type ability into the seeds in front of her. When she felt the abundant and active vitality, Xi Bei let out a comfortable moan. She felt like she finally touched a certain obstacle in her ability.

She knew that this was a sign that her ability was about to advance.

Her ability was already at the second stage and was about to advance to the third stage. In the base, she produced a large number of seeds and planted a lot of breadfruit trees. Every day, she used up her ability and slowly recovered it. There was no doubt that this was extremely beneficial for her ability.

The main reason why Xi Bei’s ability could not advance in the past was that the plants she produced contained violent energy. After producing them, she often had to spend a lot of time waiting for her body to reject these violent abilities. If the rest time was not enough, it would cause a riot and damage to her ability, eventually leading to an ability outbreak.

But it was different in Noah.

These seeds…

Xi Bei looked at Fu Yanzhou with a shocked and doubtful expression in her eyes. Fu Yanzhou couldn’t face her gaze that was once admiration but now turned into a playful look. He even lowered his head slightly, pursed his lips, and remained silent. His face was faintly red: he felt guilty under her gaze.

Xi Bei smiled, and her voice was crisp as she said, “Fu Yanzhou, did you do something wrong? You can’t even look at me?”

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Fu Yanzhou muttered in a low voice, “I’m just here to deliver the seeds. I’m done now. I have to go and be busy.”

Xi Bei’s eyes flickered, and she clapped her hands and smiled, “Fu Yanzhou, you know you’re really bad at lying!”

Fu Yanzhou raised his head in confusion, looking lost and bewildered. Obviously, he had no idea how she had figured it out.

“Isn’t it the seed you purified?” Xi Bei asked with a smirk, seeing Fu Yanzhou’s blank expression. It suddenly dawned on her.

That made sense.

An uncontaminated good breed was just as astonishing as the Noah Base.

Since the technology existed in the base, it was impossible to keep it a secret forever. However, now that it was public, could Fu Yanzhou, who was afraid of social interactions, withstand others’ repeated questioning? It was probably impossible for him to keep the secret.

Xi Bei poured a small amount of slightly contaminated water from her bottle into the cultivation solution in the hydroponic room – it was just a small amount of water, not from the base’s supply, but from her own bottle. This way, although the contamination level was not high, it wasn’t completely nonexistent, which made it seem more believable. She turned around and saw Fu Yanzhou’s suddenly enlightened expression. Xi Bei smiled and said, “Now it’s seamless!” It was nine parts true and one part false. If anyone found out, there would be less trouble. A small amount of contamination would not have a significant impact on the people who consumed the food in the base, and it would naturally be eliminated after a while.

Fu Yanzhou scratched his head in confusion, whispered a thank you, and prepared to leave, but Xi Bei suddenly grabbed his sleeve and looked at him with her big sparkling eyes. “Fu Yanzhou, I helped you cover up such a big loophole, how are you going to thank me?”

“… ” Fu Yanzhou stepped back two steps, and her sudden approach almost tore his sleeves.

Xi Bei wasn’t discouraged, looking at him as he was about to run out the door, and said with a slight smile, “My birthday is coming up in a few days. You have to give me a little gift!”

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Sandy: been so busy lately and forgot to update. But a dear reader reminded me in a comment, so here it is – a new update 🥰🥰😘😘🥰

I don’t know how to adjust my mindset to face cub, especially when I think about how the game will have “video calls” at certain specific times.

On one hand, Shen Cheng doesn’t want to waste the opportunity and just hang up on cub, but on the other hand, she doesn’t know how to face cub who she dreamed about and seemed to have fantasized about. She hasn’t logged into the game for three days in a row.

Li Weilan didn’t know that this had happened to her, nor did he know about her complex and unbalanced mindset. He just realized that this was the first time she hadn’t come to see him for so long since their first five days without contact.

He realized that his world was a game, and of course, her real-life was more important than the game. So his concern became: could something have happened in her life that made her too busy to even play the game?

For him, her daily visit was the best scenario, but no matter what, he wished for her happiness and well-being in her life.

He remembered clearly that she lived in a rental house and appeared to be single. From her appearance, she looked to be in her early twenties. If a girl her age hasn’t been on the game for so many days, could it be… that she’s in love?

If she’s in love…

Li Weilan didn’t dare to think about this possibility too deeply.

But a sense of helplessness gradually overwhelmed him as time passed by. Whether it’s voice chat or video, or even the game that allowed them to connect, everything was beyond his control.

He had very few options.

Li Weilan knew that the more he thought about it, the more his mentality would become unbalanced. He walked to the control room, intending to check the current status of the rooms and personnel in the base. However, he suddenly saw a line of small characters on the console screen:

“Do you want to know the truth? Y/N”

Li Weilan heard his heartbeat pounding like a drum.

Only he and Cheng had access to the control room.

This obviously wasn’t her doing, and it was even less likely that anyone else would be fooling around with him in this matter.

Li Weilan stared at this line of text, his gaze fixed for a long time.

He hesitated for a long time. At this moment, what he was thinking about was not the truth, but… If he clicked “YES”, would it have any harm to her?

If she found out that his world and he were more than just a game, would she be scared, afraid, or want to quit the game and be controlled and hurt by it?

If his momentary curiosity brought her deep harm, then he would rather not have this truth.

But on the other hand… Is it really good to be kept in the dark?

Li Weilan hesitated for a long time, and finally hesitantly extended his finger towards “YES”.

The screen flashed.

A smiley face appeared on it.

Then, a new line of text appeared:

【If you make Noah the number one base, you will be granted access to the truth. If the mission fails, the link will be broken. Please note that this mission has no S/L.】

“…” Li Weilan looked at the S/L and felt it was extremely mocking.

This was their life, how could there be save and load?

But this message also indirectly indicated the direction of his efforts, as if a ray of light suddenly appeared in the darkness.

Li Weilan repeatedly looked at the four words “access” and “link” and carefully pondered their meaning.

Access… if knowing the truth is the highest access, then could their video, audio, and images be considered access?

And this kind of access is unlocked step by step.

Link… since it is a link, it means there is a channel between worlds. But this word seems to contain a strong sense of unease, making Li Weilan feel fearful even just thinking about it.

Shen Cheng world is peaceful and stable now, but what if the things happening in this world eventually happen in her world too?

With this in mind, Li Weilan’s mind was filled with worries and doubts.

He stepped forward and asked resolutely, “What will happen to her if the link is broken?”

[Access denied]

A new word popped up on the screen.

“Very good, it seems they can also hear me,” he thought for a moment and asked a different question, “What permissions do I have?”

“The host has the following permissions: Noah Base operation permissions. Base construction rights: available,” a new line of text appeared on the screen.

Next, the main screen flickered and jumped to the operational map of the Noah Base.

If Li Weilan could see Shen Cheng’s phone, he would be shocked to find that the map on the screen was exactly the same as the one on Shen Cheng’s phone!

Both could see all the rooms in the base and the rooms that could be upgraded and added.

The only thing missing on his end was the option to spend real money.

Li Weilan saw the number of rooms and gold coins on the screen – the amount of gold coins was pitifully small. He thought about it for a moment and finally figured out what was going on. His lips curved into a faint smile – she had finally been obedient lately and hadn’t spent any real money.

That’s good, as long as she takes care of herself, it’s enough.

Li Weilan wanted to ask the “unknown person” on the main screen more questions, but he found that all the words and conversations he had just seen, felt like a dream – there was no trace or button.

But Li Weilan knew clearly that all of this was not an illusion.

Why could he operate the base construction?

He quickly realized why: it was set up by her.

It was because Cheng had given him permission at the beginning that he was able to manage the construction of the base.

So, Cheng and he now shared the same space. If one day the permission was upgraded, would he be able to go to her space or would she be able to enter his space?

Li Weilan felt his heart skip a beat.

He pursed his dry lips and looked at the screen seriously. Unlike playing games with Shen Cheng, when Li Weilan saw the upgrades of the base construction and layout, he was very clear about what was most important for the base at the moment.

He didn’t have most of the functions on Shen Cheng’s phone. But when he saw the layout of the base, he immediately understood the limiting conditions for the base’s upgrade and further development: resources.

The housing satisfaction was currently the highest, but the variety of food was too small, and the most lacking was seeds to grow food on a large scale.

Li Weilan immediately thought of his own space.

If he used the rice seeds in his own space for planting, would they be able to grow in the base?

Currently, most of the plants in the world have mutated, which means that even with the help of plant-type ability users, the base is unable to grow a variety of plants. Therefore, the only edible vegetable in the base is the breadfruit tree, which is already present in the hydroponic room.

Looking at the current situation of the base, the hydroponic room is currently at Level 1, and can only grow Level 1 plants, which correspond to the ordinary rice in his space.

If the hydroponic room is upgraded to Level 2, vegetables can be grown, which correspond to seeds priced between 4G and 10G in his space. However, purchasing seeds requires coins…

Immediately, Li Weilan understood how to play this snowball game: plant rice, sell rice, earn coins, buy new seeds, keep half of the seeds for continued planting to earn more money, and only leave a small portion of seeds to grow in the base before selling them…

Once this snowball is rolling, his space can serve as a perpetual motion machine, providing the base with a continuous supply of high-quality seeds and quickly enabling large-scale cultivation of new plants and development of new ingredients.

However, there is one unique loophole in this chain structure that needs to be filled by a person: Fu Yanzhou.

He needs Fu Yanzhou to take on all the “results,” so that people in the base will not consider the rationality of the process too much.

Fu Yanzhou…

Li Weilan looked at the ripe and red apples and oranges hanging on the branches in his space, picked one gently, and expressionlessly peeled a yellow-orange. He took a light bite, and the sweet juice slowly flowed into his throat, like Cheng whispering in his ear, “I will always be with you.”

Yes, that’s what she promised.

His mood slowly calmed down.

He harvested all the grains in his space, but when it was time to sell them, Li Weilan realized that things weren’t that simple?

He had seen Cheng sell her harvest, and the grains disappeared instantly.

But he tried and tested in the warehouse, and found…

No response at all.

“…” Li Weilan sighed silently at the warehouse full of grains.

He knew it now: Shen Cheng only gave him control over the base, but not the buying and selling of grains or the use of coins!

Therefore, for him, he could only harvest seeds, and all operations that required the use of coins could not be performed.

He could only wait for her to come online.

***

It took Shen Cheng three whole days before she logged into the game again.

She had to admit, she felt ashamed.

It was one thing to daydream about others, like male celebrities or characters from stories she liked. Those were common subjects for daydreams.

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But to daydream about herself as a game character, and especially about wearing clothes that made him happy, that was something she had never done before. She never thought she had any impure thoughts about him, but after having that kind of dream, and dreaming about those embarrassing poses and actions, she couldn’t help but wonder if she actually wanted him to be a domineering CEO type who said things like “woman, you have caught my attention” to her.

But that wasn’t it!

She felt that her feelings towards him were just like those of a doting mother, hoping that he was well-fed, well-clothed, and free from suffering. Could it be that…

She suddenly realized something. Was it when she went out with him to sweep monsters, that the idea of him being able to fall in love made her heart beat faster?

Hmm…

Shen Cheng analyzed her feelings for a moment and couldn’t help but sigh. Even if it was just a game, after such a long time spent with him, she couldn’t bear the thought of watching him get married, have children, or even do things like setting up a harem after he reached the pinnacle of his life, like in some emperor-themed games. She just couldn’t do it.

If he actually did something like that, she might even quit the game.

Just thinking about that possibility made Shen Cheng feel suffocated.

She also felt that her attitude towards cub seemed to have changed a bit.

Originally, she may not have been aware of it, but this dream completely shattered her self-deception.

Even dreaming about him, if she denied having any messy thoughts about cub, then she was just deceiving herself!

But being infatuated with a game character whom she had only seen his face, it was doomed to be fruitless…

She could even imagine herself being heartbroken one day in the future, so Shen Cheng angrily thought: It’s all because the actor is too handsome!

She couldn’t bear to uninstall the game, but she was also indecisive about playing it. So for the next three days, Shen Cheng continued to deceive herself by not playing the game. However, every time she saw the game’s interface on her screen during those three days, she felt extremely tormented internally.

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Sandy: it’s not because the actor is too handsome, it’s because cub is just too cute ahhhhhh

The corners of Shen Cheng’s mouth curved, even she didn’t notice it. Lin Yuqi, who still had some looks in the eyes of others, was just a flat character in her eyes. Leaving aside this woman’s performance and stirring elements, Shen Cheng quickly drew a conclusion from her behavior, “Where did the bomb come from if she’s really a weak woman? Also… you have no grievances or enmity with her, but she bombed the house and even harmed you. She doesn’t even have a little bit of guilt. She’s not weak, not at all!”

“Cheng is so smart,” Li Weilan said softly, and a small dimple appeared at the corner of his mouth.

Although games always blow rainbow farts at players and sometimes praise them with words like “you are the most adorable girl in the world,” but… when the words came from the cub’s mouth, mother’s heart really felt soft and tender!

Shen Cheng felt like she was about to be blown away by the praise.

Li Weilan turned to the crowd and said, “Lin Yuqi, you hate us, don’t you?”

At this, Lin Yuqi was stunned. She turned to the handsome and upright man dressed in black, the leader of the group, and was about to continue her performance, but when she met his chilly gaze, she knew she was caught.

These types of men are the most difficult to deal with. They are just like her deceased husband, obstinate and unyielding, unable to listen to others.

But at that time…she was really doing it for the good of her husband.

When their child had a fever, her husband insisted on keeping him at home. How could she handle the child alone? She watched as the child weakly thrashed about in bed, his face red from the fever, veins bulging on his tender white face. She was afraid just to look at him, let alone take care of him or get close to him!

As a result, her husband went crazy when he came back and found the child was gone. He only left her with a warning before he left, and she was left without any protection.

That damn bastard had made enemies with a group of people in the property management before he died. He was dead and gone, but all the ill will in the building was poured onto her like a bucket of dirty water.

She couldn’t leave and couldn’t escape, what could she do?

He never thought of her, so why did he make a lifetime promise to her back then? Just because of the child’s death, he hated her so much that she felt like dying every day afterwards, and it was all his fault!

Lin Yuqi’s tears fell drop by drop.

She gritted her teeth and said through tears, “You all deserve to die!”

Lin Yuqi’s voice was both mournful and crazy, “My damn husband deserves to die, all these damn men should have been cut into pieces long ago. They killed my husband and son when they interfered, they deserve to die too!”

“Are you crazy?” Chen Feng took a step back, looking at Lin Yuqi’s face with an uncomprehending expression. Was this woman sick? Since the moment humans turned into zombies, they were no longer living humans. They killed zombies because it was the father and son zombie pair who attacked humans first! What does it mean to kill her husband and son? It was she who threw her potentially gifted son out and caused her husband’s death. How could she blame them?

“You don’t understand,” Lin Yuqi’s eyes were cold, “My husband recognized me and never attacked me! Otherwise, how could I live on the first floor! It was you…it was you who killed him and my son!”

When Li Weilan heard this, his eyes narrowed.

Indeed, he felt something unusual on that zombie pair.

The protection of the little zombie by the big zombie itself is a humanized reflection.

There is only a competitive relationship between zombies, and their common desire is the craving for human brain, bone marrow, and flesh. However, in a critical moment, the little zombie heard the call and wanted to return to the big one. The big zombie turned back to protect the small one, and this action was indeed extraordinary.

But the situation at that time did not allow them to consider this.

No matter how strange the zombies are, research must be based on the safety of team members!

What Lin Yuqi said now…

“They still recognize me!” Lin Yuqi emphasized again, raising her head and coldly saying, “But you killed them, you deserve to die!”

Her eyes were tearful, but her gaze was extremely resentful, causing the other several ability users beside her to step back, not daring to meet her cold eyes.

The mission prompt appeared again on the Shen Cheng phone.

【Now, you have obtained all the clues of Lin Yuqi’s event. Please make a choice:

A. Let her go and execute the personnel of the Property Management Department

B. Execute her and let the personnel of the Property Management Department go

C. Throw them all into the ruins and let them fend for themselves】

After some contemplation, Shen Cheng chose option B.

In fact, nothing else mattered, the key was that Lin Yuzhi’s actions almost caused the death of all the ability users in their team.

If they just let her go like that, it wouldn’t be convincing enough.

As for the members of the property management committee, Li Weilan asked them one by one about what they had done, and in the end, left them in the already ruined apartment.

There were slight sounds of zombies nearby, their fate would be left up to chance.

On the way back, Shen Cheng couldn’t help but ask Li Weilan – she was also terrified by Lin Yuqi’s repeated claims of “they still recognize me”: “Are zombies gaining consciousness?”

“It’s evolution,” Li Weilan said, “the zombies are evolving.”

“???” Cub, can you explain?

Shen Cheng noticed that they didn’t kill many zombies on the wasteland, and there were particularly few high-level zombies. Most of the time, the biggest threat to apocalypse survivors came from mutant beasts and other survivors, unless they were surrounded by a large number of zombies.

So Shen Cheng was a little intimidated by Lin Yuqi’s words. Although she chose to kill one to warn a hundred, she still had doubts in her heart and felt that there was something wrong with the whole thing.

Li Weilan asked her, “Do you remember when she blocked the door?”

“Yeah.” Shen Cheng nodded.

“If those two zombies still recognize her, what is she afraid of?”

“Ah!” Shen Cheng exclaimed suddenly and immediately understood the hidden meaning behind Li Weilan’s words.

If those zombies really recognized her, she could easily bring the two zombies to sweep through the whole building and leave only their family “loving each other”. But the fact that the two zombies did not kill her did not necessarily mean that they really remembered “her”.

When a zombie dies, it dies. However, if you think about it carefully, this “humanization” evolution is a very bad trend. Zombies have “use”, “tricks”, “ideas” … coupled with a huge number of them, the difficulty of human survival is increasing little by little!

If zombies continue to evolve in the current trend, the zombie siege a month later will be even harder than previously thought.

Shen Cheng’s mind couldn’t help but think for the millionth time: Cub is really smart…

Thinking of this, the real face of cub she had seen appeared in her mind, and she suddenly felt embarrassed calling him Cub!

If cub was too handsome, there would be a sense of distance. Shen Cheng looked at the cute cub on the screen and felt that it was good the way it was now.

The Q-version Li Weilan would obviously be more intimate. At least, when poking his cheeks and patting his head, she wouldn’t feel like she was flirting with a mature man.

Shen Cheng watched as Li Weilan and the others set off on their way back to the base, and then went offline to prepare for sleep.

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Shen Cheng woke up abruptly from her dream, not knowing how much time had passed. There was still a hint of shock in Shen Cheng’s eyes as she looked at the sky that had yet to light up. She rubbed her slightly swollen forehead with a hint of frustration.

So embarrassing!

In her dream, she was touching a man with Cub’s face and forcing him to call her master.

At first, he looked at her in confusion, but then he actually called her master, his face wet with sweat.

She felt weak in the knees and leaned against the wall.

After calling her master, the man didn’t stop there. He seemed to wake up and raised his eyebrows, smiling as he asked her, “What reward does my master want to give me?”

His eyebrows and eyes were overflowing with a wickedness that couldn’t be seen on his Q version face. Watching him, Shen Cheng felt her throat tighten and couldn’t say anything.

This couldn’t possibly be her cub!

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Only his mouth was clever, his behavior was not at all clever!

He sells himself as obedient with his mouth, but in behavior, he doesn’t treat me as his master at all!

But she didn’t have the strength to push him away, so she weakly glared at him and said in a low voice, “What reward do you want? I’ve already given you the money!”

She didn’t think she said anything wrong: isn’t all the small amount of money used to raise this wild man!

Hmph, she could tolerate spending all the money on raising a wild man, but he actually asked for a reward?

What other reward could she give you!

Who knows, the man approached her and got closer and closer. His handsome face became clearer and his low voice said in her ear, “I don’t want money.”

She felt like he was about to say something vulgar.

Shen Cheng shrank back in fear, and the next thing she knew, she woke up, startled.

When she realized what kind of dream she had just had, she felt disgusted with herself.

Shen Cheng felt like she had become dirty.

She really didn’t have any inappropriate thoughts about cub, so why did she have this kind of dream? Could it be because spring has arrived or because the actor who plays cub is just too compatible with her preference for male appearances, combined with cub’s unintentional teasing of her sometimes?

But no matter what, it’s really embarrassing to fantasize about a game character in her dream, especially a character that she never had such thoughts about before.

But it’s not cub’s fault, nor is it mother’s fault. It’s the game’s fault for unexpectedly showing her 3D images. Normally, as long as everything is in Q-version three-head proportions, she thinks that this kind of tragedy could never happen!

Now what should she do to adjust her mindset to face cub tomorrow?

She hugged her blanket heavily and let out a deep sigh.

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Sandy: lol how innocent our FL is. Even her “wet” dream is so damn dry 🤣🤣🤣

As soon as Li Weilan gave the command to quickly leave the building, Chen Feng didn’t even understand its meaning yet, but people from other bases had already begun to execute it.

Before Li Weilan’s words had even finished, there was a loud “bang” as a huge fireball burst out of a window above them, sparks flying and the ground shaking violently. After a violent shaking, the floor began to tilt and crack, making creaking noises as if it couldn’t bear the weight anymore. This building was about to collapse!

Almost at the moment of hearing the explosion, Sun Yifei already knew what had happened. His face turned pale and he murmured a few words: “It’s too late. We are all going to be buried here…”

As soon as the building collapsed, everything was turned upside down, and with the structure already unstable, the explosion caused the main beam to break, and they were all going to die here!

In the midst of the fear of being shrouded by the shadow of death, the building suddenly stopped in mid-air in a way that was completely contrary to physics, which was terrifying! The woman’s voice, which had been laughing sinisterly and cursing before, abruptly stopped, replaced by the creaking of the main beam. However, the entire building seemed to be suspended by a mysterious force in silence! Everyone’s gaze was fixed on the ground outside the angled window and the setting sun, and then, without anyone giving any commands or shouting, they all scattered towards the exit, worried that they might not be fast enough to escape.

They thought that the hovering of the building was a miracle!

Li Weilan heard her soft voice, tinged with some sadness and hesitation, ringing in her ear: “There’s still a survivor on the 10th floor. Save him and run quickly. I… I can’t hold on for too long. The explosion point is on the 4th floor, and Lin Yuqi is still on the 4th floor.”

Can’t hold on for too long!

Li Weilan’s heart sank: did she have to spend money again?

He didn’t want her to spend too much money anymore.

Li Weilan’s heart was in a hurry, he ran straight up the stairs without any pause, and kicked open the scorching-hot door on the fourth floor, which was still spewing flames outward. He pulled the crazy woman towards Chen Feng and said to him in anger, “Keep an eye on her! If she gets lost again, you’ll be the one to answer for it. You guys go down first, go!”

“Brother Li…” Chen Feng felt guilty in his heart. Just now, because of his pity and contempt for this woman, he didn’t pay attention to her, and almost caused a big accident with just one mistake. Fortunately, the collapse of this building inexplicably stopped, but no matter what, it was all his negligence!

Li Weilan didn’t have time to look at him and hurriedly ran to the tenth floor. Halfway there, he met a man running down from the tenth floor, followed by several second-order zombies.

The man was holding a doll covered in clothes in his arms. When he saw Li Weilan, he didn’t have time to say hello and the two of them quickly ran out.

Shen Cheng’s sweat gently dripped down from her forehead.

On the screen, her fingertips began to feel slightly sticky, as she maintained the grip on the joystick. This caused a slight tingling sensation in her fingers.

If she loosened her grip, the force holding up the high-rise would instantly disappear. It would look like the building had collapsed halfway, burying everyone still inside, including her cub.

So she couldn’t let go. She even felt a slight tremble in her finger muscles. Focused on the screen, she was afraid that if she accidentally moved her fingers even slightly, what she would see next would be the little people buried in the soil.

Shen Cheng stared at the screen tightly until she saw Cub and the man on the 10th floor run out, leaving the building from another direction of collapse. Only then did she relax and release her fingers slightly.

But the moment she let go, Li Weilan heard a long sigh and then a loud boom. The high-rise that had just seemed to be suspended in mid-air collapsed like a line of dominoes being knocked over.

The man who ran out with Li Weilan looked at him strangely and then looked at the tall building, making a speechless “Ah” sound. Li Weilan heard him muttering to himself, “What kind of god did we worship? It’s too effective.”

Li Weilan didn’t mock him.

His gaze drifted to the sky, knowing clearly that the one standing by his side was not a god, but a woman who was guarding him gently on the other side of the screen, in another world.

“Shen Cheng…” Shen Cheng heard his low and hoarse voice, and was about to ask him what was wrong, but cub seemed to be just savoring and repeating her name, as if the name was spinning around on his tongue, “Shen Cheng…”

“I’m here. I’ve been here all along.” Shen Cheng gently shook her wrist, which was sore and aching, and said with a smile, not mentioning how her hands felt like they had been through a century during those few minutes of persistence. There was no need to show off, as the act of gaming had saved so many lives in the game!

There were a lot of people gathered on the flat ground in front of the building.

Lin Yuqi, who was dragged out, was there, as were the few people from the property management office on the second floor, and the person who had helped them block the zombies before they reached the 10th floor. All three parties were present, and it was time to confront each other.

Li Weilan calmly asked Lin Yuqi, “The building has already been destroyed. If you want revenge, there is only one way, tell the truth.” Lin Yuqi’s expression was like that of a madwoman. Compared to the previous calm and polite person, she was a completely different person now. Her face no longer had the calmness and composure of before, only the obsession that was like a crazed tiger and the pain that burned like fire, both consuming herself and others.

Upon hearing Li Weilan’s words, her eyes flickered slightly and tears immediately streamed down her face. “They killed my husband and son first. What’s wrong with me seeking revenge for myself? Why should you save these insane people? Are you also unable to distinguish right from wrong?”

As soon as the woman’s heartbreaking cry sounded, Chen Feng’s face showed some sympathy.

Most of the ability users had no expression on their faces. Apparently, most people had no such kindness to offer to this woman who almost caused them all to die if it weren’t for “God’s” intervention.

To sympathize with someone who almost caused you to die, it takes such an open mind to do it.

A man from the property management department on the ground suddenly raised his head upon hearing this, looking incredulously at Lin Yuqi.

He roared, “How dare you say it was us who killed them? Clearly, it was you, you femme fatale…”

Lin Yuqi’s eyes shot out flames of anger, hoarsely saying: “If it weren’t for you forcibly taking Xiao Feng away, how could his father have abandoned me and died so early! If it weren’t for you… if it weren’t for you… how could our family have been ruined! Now you still have the face to say that I… am reversing black and white!” She spoke, turned angrily towards the man who was quietly holding the child in his arms on the side, “Lou Kai, you are the only survivor in our building, you say! Are the property management people really the ones causing harm!”

Lou Kai remained silent.

His gaze, for some reason, made Lin Yuqi a little uneasy. Her heart pounded as if… something had already slipped out of her control.

No, impossible.

She dared to speak and act boldly because she knew that whether she succeeded or failed, she had sufficient reasons to escape.

Lou Kai also had a grudge against the property management, he wouldn’t…

However, Lou Kai just remained silent, then suddenly lifted the clothing covering the head of the child in his arms with a “swish”.

The other people standing beside him took two steps back, their eyes showing some surprise: no one expected that the child Lou Kai was holding was actually a skeleton with only bones left!

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Staring into the empty eye sockets, the man holding the skeleton turned to look at Lin Yuqi. “My little brother died. The day you were hiding, he died on his way to find you. Don’t you have nightmares, Lin Yuqi?”

Lin Yuqi looked at the small skeleton in his hand, her eyes widening in horror. She had dared to ask Lou Kai because she was confident in her certainty. But the child had died?

This was the first time she felt everything was out of control, like losing all her energy and slipping slowly to the ground.

Lou Kai’s expression was indifferent. His younger brother and Lin Yuqi’s son Xiao Feng were best friends. When Lin Yuqi was finally reduced to her current state, his brother, who had always been empathetic, not only took his best friend’s mother in for a night when the group of people from the property management office were searching for her, but also took the risk of delivering food and water to her after she went into hiding.

But she had changed location without telling Lou Kai’s brother, and that day he went to deliver supplies as usual, only to be tackled by a zombie. When Lou Kai returned home, all he saw was his younger brother’s small skeleton, which had been gnawed to nothing.

“Xiao Feng was taken away by the property management office, that’s true,” Lou Kai said slowly. “But it was his mother who reported that there was a person with a fever at home and asked the property management office to take her away.”

Everyone around them was stunned.

Although it is known that after the apocalypse, spouses turn against each other and even resort to cannibalism, but based on their previous understanding, the social order had not completely collapsed when Xiao Feng had a fever.

At that early stage, did this mother really decide to abandon her child just because of a fever?

Several burly men from the property management also spoke up one after another, “We didn’t want to be the bad guys either. Her husband was a policeman, although a traffic policeman, he was still a public servant. We didn’t want to offend him if we could avoid it. But then this woman said… that if her son turned into one of those monsters and bit her, she would immediately open the door and let him out to wreak havoc on our entire building, so we had to take decisive action.”

“Yes, her husband went crazy when he couldn’t find his son. She had promised to calm him down, so we thought it was an unfortunate incident!”

At this moment, Lin Yuqi suddenly chuckled, and with a rustle, she tore open her clothes, revealing her thin and pale skin.

But everyone present could see clearly that her snow-white skin was covered with blue and purple bruises, handprints, whip marks, and other miscellaneous bruises.

Adults know what kind of violence leaves these kinds of marks.

Lin Yuqi hoarsely said, “Can you believe these beasts? They are all men who have been bullying a weak woman like me…”

Seeing some people in the team starting to waver, Shen Cheng quietly said to Li Weilan, “I think what she said is a bit fake.”

Li Weilan’s lips curled up a bit, knowingly asked, “Why do you say that, Cheng?”

She always felt that his voice contained a bit of indulgence. What a obedient cub!

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