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Li Weilan paused for a moment and didn’t answer immediately. Instead, he patiently asked her, “What does Cheng think about it?”

Hey! Cub is asking me!

Shen Cheng usually played games and knew that the language bubbles were all fast-forwarded. She rarely paid attention to the details, but perhaps because every aspect of this game was so meticulous, she was focused when she looked at the text bubbles just now. She was also thinking while following the plot, “Well, if we only listen to what she said, then the committee is indeed despicable. But if we think from the perspective of other residents, what the committee did seems to make sense. The residential density is so high. If they condone and tolerate parents leaving their sick children at home while they are not there, and if something really happens, who can afford the responsibility? If the rules were established at the beginning, it seems that… requiring everyone to follow the rules is not wrong?”

Li Weilan nodded slightly.

In fact, from the perspective of a leader, the core of this matter is not about the committee expelling the children, but about which party violated the rules.

Order is the foundation of a small community.

Li Weilan stood from the perspective of a manager and did not fully believe what the woman said. He just calmly nodded his head, and the small character on the screen made a serious and solemn gesture. The slightly round face nodded seriously and said, “Let’s see. We must listen to what the others have to say.”

One-sided words cannot be fully trusted.

Suddenly, Shen Cheng asked a question, “What if this happened to you…”

“If you were that traffic officer, what would you do? Would you stay at home with your son who might get sick and be thrown out, or would you go out to patrol and ensure social order, but risking the chance of losing your son forever?”

Li Weilan understood her unfinished question.

He paused for a moment and said, “Master, if you are strong enough, then this question is not a question at all.”

If there is anything in this world that can truly make people feel safe, it’s only their own strength.

If that man had the strength of today’s mutant zombie a long time ago, would anyone dare to throw his son out of the apartment?

If that man himself is a member of the homeowners’ committee or even the leader, would such a tragedy occur?

If that man was weak-willed, even if he stayed with his son every step of the way, the homeowners’ committee could just throw him and his son out together!

Sometimes, if you can’t protect your loved ones, it’s just because…you’re not strong enough!

Li Weilan never wants to repeat the same mistakes again, so he sets a goal for himself: he wants to control his own fate. Even if it’s just a game to her, he will one day find a way between two worlds. If he can’t do it, there’s no need to lament the whims of fate, it’s just that Li Weilan is not strong enough!

The capriciousness of fate is just an excuse for weak self-deception.

Li Weilan’s eyes were firm and persistent. The normally gentle black eyes were rarely shining with a firm and persistent light, and Shen Cheng felt a little burnt somewhere in her heart. Yes, in the world of the game, cub is also living hard. She also has to work hard! At least she can’t lose to cub!

Only if everyone faces life actively and bravely, life will gradually improve, right?

In fact, she knew in her heart that since her parents passed away, she herself, lacking bonds in this world, was not brave or optimistic in the face of life.

Perhaps because no matter how well or poorly she did, it was meaningless. As long as she could get by in life, she lost her motivation. Shen Cheng had to admit that her attitude towards life was that of a salted fish.

Complaints about difficulties? Occasionally.

Displeasure with the people around her? Sometimes too.

Have you really made too much effort to improve your situation? It seems not.

Attitude determines the way things are done, and all of this is her own choice.

It’s like a ray of sunshine suddenly shining into a dark room. The corners of her mouth slightly curved with determination in her eyes: don’t be afraid anymore, you can’t be worse than a little cub, right?

In the game, the ability users have already searched this floor almost completely, and have found some usable household items in those homes that have not been completely destroyed by zombies.

The food in this building was already looted long ago – when the order hadn’t completely collapsed yet, there were obviously still many living people in this building.

The city soon lost water and electricity, but people still had to live. Judging from the appearance of many rooms in this apartment building, they had already been searched through. The food and other items were basically not rotten or spoiled, but they were mostly gone.

But for Noah base, other items were also a good supplement – whether it was wooden furniture mass-produced before the apocalypse, pure cotton four-piece sets, warm clothes, or unopened disposable toothbrushes and toothpaste, they were basically only replaced by rough substitutes on the wasteland. Being able to find them in the apartment building made the ability users very happy, even if it might take many trips back and forth to collect all the usable items.

For them, this was a pretty good harvest.

As the joy of the harvested items replaced the death of their companion downstairs, although grief still existed, the people who survived still had to strive to live.

While others were distributing the harvest, Shen Cheng asked cub to stand at the door of the woman’s house, carefully searching and examining the things inside through the door.

The woman had carefully locked and closed the door when she came in and went out. Although it was understandable that she was alert because she lived alone, since she was already going to leave with Noah’s group of survivors, was it necessary to seal the door tightly?

This raised Shen Cheng’s suspicion.

After all, everyone had left, and the things in the room were still empty. She brought a backpack, but the remaining items couldn’t be taken away. Was it necessary to close the room so tightly?

Who was she guarding against?

Li Weilan stood at the door, bowing his head slightly. The other passing teammates thought he was thinking about something and didn’t dare to disturb him. No one knew that he was actually listening quietly through the door to the faint sounds coming from inside the room. He imagined that if they were really just separated by a door, she would be checking inside while he kept watch at the door. Even if it was just a virtual scene in his mind, it made the corners of his mouth lift slightly.

At first glance, there was nothing special in the room. The Cheng light flickered on the screens, and it was hard to figure out where to start.

Shen Cheng’s camera wandered around the room, but she didn’t see anything unusual except for the men’s shoes sitting on the shoe rack by the door. Based on their size, they seemed to belong to a tall man.

Was the woman not living alone? Did she have a long-term roommate in the building?

Shen Cheng tapped on the pair of shoes lying quietly in the shoe rack, and the specific status displayed was “Shoes covered in dust.”

It seemed like no one had worn them in a long time.

The apocalypse had occurred over a year ago in this world, and it was more likely that these were the shoes of the male owner of the house.

But where was the owner of the shoes?

Shen Cheng carefully searched every nook and cranny of the house with this question in mind, and found more clues under the bottom of the closet, under the bed, and beneath the tatami mats in the small room.

She found men’s uniforms and underwear, as well as children’s clothing and shoes.

As she searched, a doubt suddenly arose in Shen Cheng’s mind: Could the story the woman had told be her own story?

In that case, could the child zombie be her own child, and the giant zombie traffic police officer be her former husband? If that’s the case, then isn’t she the victim? But the tone of the woman’s story just now didn’t mention her as the party involved at all. Is there something to hide? Unless… there is more to the story!

This thrilling speculation made Shen Cheng’s heart beat faster, feeling that something might happen.

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She switched the camera to the protagonist’s side. Li Weilan felt her arrival and looked up, asking, “Did you find anything?”

Shen Cheng told him about the clothes and shoes, and Li Weilan thought for a moment, his face slightly changed, and hurriedly went upstairs: “Let’s go quickly!”

Li Weilan rushed upstairs and just arrived at the staircase on the upper floor, only to see that the floor was already in chaos.

Three male residents, presumably the ones mentioned by the woman as living in rooms 304 and 309, were held down on the ground with their hands twisted, and the door was wide open with a puddle of blood next to it.

Seeing Li Weilan coming up, one of the survivors of the base held his injured arm and angrily pointed at one of the men holding a fire axe, saying, “Brother Li, we just knocked on the door to see if anyone was there, and they actually ambushed us!”

One of the men held down on the ground struggled and shouted, “Who asked you to come? We were living peacefully in our tower. Why did you come and disturb the peace? Get out of our tower!”

Hearing this, even Chen Feng was a little angry.

There were two high-level zombies guarding downstairs. If they hadn’t killed those two big monsters, these people would have been trapped and killed in the tower sooner or later.

They can’t produce anything in the tower. Sitting and eating away the mountain will eventually lead to starvation. Besides, Noah’s people only broke in after knocking and receiving no response. If they didn’t want to be disturbed, they could have just shouted, couldn’t they? They attacked and injured people, and now they still have the nerve to speak so arrogantly?

“Brother Li…” These people were so rude and unreasonable that Chen Feng now basically believed what Lin Yuqi had said downstairs. He had completely lost his favor towards the former managers in the tower, and made a “click” gesture on his neck with a frown, asking Li Weilan with his eyes if he should take action.

However, Li Weilan did not rush to kill anyone.

His sharp gaze swept over the crowd, but he did not see the woman with the bag from earlier. He first asked Chen Feng, “Where is Lin Yuqi?”

Chen Feng only realized that the woman had disappeared.

Yeah, where did Lin Yuqi go? How could she disappear in the blink of an eye?

The man kneeling on the ground, who was kicked down, heard their conversation and exclaimed in shock, “You saw Lin Yuqi?”

As if they shouldn’t have seen Lin Yuqi from his words.

Chen Feng felt that there was something strange in his words, and Li Weilan realized in an instant that his worst fears had come true when he noticed Lin Yuqi’s disappearance. He urgently said to all the other ability users around him, “Signal and retreat!”

Chen Feng didn’t understand what he meant.

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Sandy: but isn’t she just an ordinary without abilities? Even if she had abilities, could she really do so much damage tho?

The two stood in the corridor and talked quietly for a while, feeling warm and comfortable in each other’s hearts. Shen Cheng rubbed her hands and wanted to touch cub’s head, but then she saw a zombie coming from the other end of the corridor – probably one that was missed during cleaning.

Before she could do anything, Li Weilan had already noticed it. He threw a spatial rift, cutting the slow-moving zombie’s head open like slicing cheese, and it fell to the ground silently.

Li Weilan’s smile on his face slightly faded.

Damn it! He had just spoken to her for a few words, and these things had come to disturb them!

Even if it was just an ordinary zombie that had slipped through the net, the ambiguous atmosphere just now disappeared after he was interrupted!

Li Weilan was so angry that he wanted to beat the ground, while Shen Cheng on the screen saw his expression suddenly become serious, and a bunch of black tangled lines appeared on his head: obviously, he was angry.

What was he angry about? Was it because the zombies on this floor weren’t completely cleared?

But it shouldn’t be that bad.

Shen Cheng couldn’t figure it out, and was about to ask, but suddenly heard a “bang” sound from the closed door just now, probably the sound of furniture being pushed over at the door. Then there was a slight, crisp sound from inside the door, and the door was pulled open.

The woman who didn’t respond to the door just now quietly poked her head out, looked at Li Weilan, and whispered, “I’m sorry, I heard all of you were men just now, and I was afraid to open the door. Are you the team of ability users? Can you take me with you? I’m very familiar with the situation in this building, I know which houses still have survivors, which rooms have supplies, and I also know who are good and who are bad…”

Shen Cheng leaned on her chin slightly in front of the screen, and Li Weilan frowned slightly when he saw the dirty-faced young woman. Seeing that Chen Feng and the others had also come upstairs, he waved to Chen Feng and said, “There’s a survivor over here, you take her with you.”

Chen Feng is the most patient person in their base, especially towards the elderly, children, and women. Although this personality may seem a bit too empathetic to Li Weilan, it can be understood from his background.

Chen Feng nodded and walked over. The woman lowered her head and whispered, “Please wait a few minutes for me, I’ll grab my package.”

She went inside to get her things.

Chen Feng rubbed his chin and said to Li Weilan, “Brother Li, this girl looks quite attractive. Do you think she’s interested in you? I don’t think she wants me to take her.”

Shen Cheng was stunned by this joking remark: Interested?

What? Interested in my cub?

No, Mom doesn’t allow my cub to date!

My cub’s career hasn’t started yet!

How can we talk about family when the base hasn’t been established yet!

The base needs the next generation, and there are still many other men and women who voluntarily want to have children. Besides, there are already 10 suites for families, so my cub doesn’t need one.

Cub… well, before the main plot of the game is over, he will be with his mother alone!

While she was still in a daze, Li Weilan gave Chen Feng a cold look, meaning clearly: Shut up.

Chen Feng shrugged his shoulders, but from his teasing expression, it was clear that he didn’t completely believe that he had no interest in women.

Li Weilan’s gaze slowly turned cold. Chen Feng realized that he was not pretending, but really was the rare leader on the wasteland who had no desire for women.

But this is also good. Chen Feng secretly breathed a sigh of relief: a leader of the base who has no interest in women also means that there will be much less trouble.

The woman who was organizing things inside came out with a large backpack on her back. She still kept her head low, and Chen Feng smiled at her and said, “Didn’t you say you knew the situation in this building? Tell us about it.”

The woman whispered, “I’m the only one left on this floor. All other family members have died. There are still two households alive upstairs, with room numbers 304 and 309, both of which are men.”

“By the way,” Chen Feng suddenly remembered the fight they had just had at the door and asked the woman, “What’s the matter with that pair of zombies downstairs? They look pitiful.”

The woman sighed and her eyes suddenly flashed with a deep hatred: “Do you want to know? Do you really want to know?”

Her gaze flickered, obviously still undecided. Chen Feng knew that there was still something going on here and said with a smile, “Go ahead and tell us. If there really is someone with a bad heart in this building, you don’t want to live with them in the same base in the future, do you?”

The woman’s nervousness trembled, and finally she made up her mind and said, “My name is Lin Yu Zhi, and I had just moved here when the apocalypse happened.”

Judging from her words, there were probably some troubles in this building. Chen Feng gave a subtle eye signal to Li Wei Lian, who nodded, indicating that he should continue listening. Recruitment for the base was not open to just anyone. If there were people with bad character in this building, they could not be allowed to bring harm to the base.

The woman’s voice was low and hoarse. “The pair you mentioned are a father and son. It’s quite pitiful. When the child caught a cold and got sick, people were saying that it was either a high fever or a sign of a virus outbreak. The building’s property management committee insisted on kicking him out, fearing that he would hurt others in the building.”

“A father and son? How could the father agree?” Chen Feng thought to himself, immediately deducing the possible outcome: this sounds like it’s going to lead to a conflict. And what is the property management committee? The pre-apocalypse property management committee was generally in charge of maintaining the cleanliness and orderliness of the corridors. How could they have the power of life and death now? At a time when the outside world was in such chaos, kicking a child out of the building would be tantamount to a death sentence for someone else!

“Of course, the father wouldn’t agree,” the woman sighed. “Whose child isn’t a treasure in their own family? How could a father bear to do that? The father is a traffic police officer who is usually out in the wind and sun and hardly ever at home. Before he left that day, he had a good talk with the property management committee, telling them that he had locked his child at home and wouldn’t let him run around, and then he added two more locks before he left.”

“… ” Chen Feng held his breath as he listened.

Perhaps because he had raised so many orphans, Chen Feng was particularly sympathetic to children. Hearing these cases of children, he felt even more distressed and uneasy.

Thinking of the final scene of the big zombie and the little zombie, Chen Feng’s heart felt heavy, and he felt even more regretful and sighed at the tragedy described by this woman.

“As soon as he left, the property management committee took an axe and chopped open their door,” the woman sighed heavily as she spoke.

Chen Feng asked, “So, no one tried to stop them?”

“How is it possible that no one stopped them?” the woman shook her head and said, “But the committee members were all a group of men back then, and there was no such thing as abilities. Who could have stopped them?”

Chen Feng frowned as he realized the flaw in the woman’s words.

To say that it was impossible to stop them was not true.

With such a tall building and hundreds of households, the committee members represented at most one-tenth of the population. Even if the rest of the people really tried to stop them, first, they would not be unable to do so, and second, the committee members would surely hesitate.

Perhaps more people would turn a blind eye to the matter.

This was also something that happened in many places when the apocalypse just began.

However, once the residents’ mentality was revealed, the committee’s power would begin to expand. And once people’s hearts were inflated, the following events would become more and more magical and unbelievable. As time passed and the external social order became more chaotic, the committee could do anything.

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“The committee forcibly dragged Xiao Feng out of bed and took him away. He was burning up and delirious at the time, and we all heard him muttering ‘Dad’ all the way…” The woman lowered her head. “Later, his father really came back. When he saw that his son was gone, he went crazy on the spot. He took a fire axe and went door-to-door to chop down the doors of the committee members. But those people were united, and he couldn’t beat them alone, so they beat him up instead… It was then that we all saw that Xiao Feng had turned.”

The woman shuddered. “When his father saw Xiao Feng like that, he didn’t even run away. He just stood there, crying and saying he was sorry to his son. We all heard the creaking sound. The next day, the two of them blocked the entrance.”

“… This is really a suffocating story,” Chen Feng trembled, realizing that he had held his breath for the events that had happened to the pair of zombie father and son.

He was indignant and said, “The committee is too much! Xiao Feng might have awakened his abilities when he had a fever! How could they just throw him out like that!”

A woman glanced at him with a smile that wasn’t really a smile and sneered, “Who knew at that time? The residential density in the building was high, and if the zombies really injured someone, one bite would lead to ten, and ten bites would lead to hundreds. The building would soon become a hell on earth, engulfed in a sea of zombies. At that time, everyone in the building was only concerned about whether they could survive. How many people would think about whether others had lost their homes and loved ones?”

“Then it seems like you didn’t do anything during that process either,” Chen Feng retorted immediately.

“Yeah,” the woman replied, lowering her head in silence. “How many of us who have survived until today can really say that we’re good people?”

Li Weilan glanced at them with a smile that wasn’t really a smile and put an end to the pointless conversation. “We don’t need to discuss that. Show us which members are on the residents’ committee first.”

There was a hint of joy in the woman’s eyes, and she nodded heavily. “Okay.”

Shen Cheng had listened to the story almost entirely.

At this moment, a line of text appeared on her phone screen:

[You have listened to Lin Yu’s statement. Please choose whether to believe Lin Yu’s testimony and expel the members of the residents’ committee. Y/N/Not making a choice for now.]

Shen Cheng was stunned. This task had an option called “Not making a choice.”

This was actually a common technique used in many simulation games.

Simulation games usually have high degrees of freedom and often have options like this that affect the subsequent storyline. However, this time it seemed more like a game of murder mystery or something – she had only heard one aspect of the testimony, and it was not enough. Far from enough.

Shen Cheng thought for a moment, didn’t immediately choose to believe or not, but clicked “Not making a choice” first, and then asked Li Weilan in a small voice, “Do you think what she said is true?”

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Sandy: I don’t believe her. Something smells fishy 🐠

Li Weilan moved quietly towards the back of the team with his space-type ability already at the third level. Except for Xi Bei, who also had a third-level wood-type ability, he was the only one in the team who could remain unscathed even if caught by a speed-type zombie.

As Li Weilan popped his head up slightly behind the team, the monkey-like small zombie seemed to immediately realize that he was a formidable opponent. It squeaked twice, jumped twice, and disappeared into the long grass around them.

The thick bushes provided perfect cover, and the small zombie could be seen darting and weaving through the grass with its head down and its movements completely hidden by the long grass. Only the rustling of the leaves and occasional noise of the grass being trampled could be heard, but its actions could not be clearly captured by the naked eye. All that could be sensed was that it was preparing to attack.

The back of the team was momentarily in a deadlock, while the front had already entered a state of intense combat. The giant zombie held a steel bar in its hand, which could kill or seriously injure anyone with just one swing of its arm due to its immense strength.

Xi Bei and Xi Nan employed a tactic of delay, attrition, and slow kiting in the front. Xi Bei planted numerous seeds on the ground, which slowly entangled the zombie’s footsteps, while Xi Nan’s water-type ability stimulated the growth of plants and simultaneously attacked the zombie with a powerful water jet, confusing its direction and hindering its attack.

Earth-type and metal-type ability users set up barriers one by one, slowing down the monster’s movements, while fire-type and lightning-type ability users threw fireballs from the back. During this process, Chen Feng suddenly realized that the water-type ability and lightning-type ability could complement each other.

Every time he threw an electric current over, if it was just a direct electric ball, sometimes the zombie could avoid it by turning its head. However, if it was well-coordinated with Xi Nan’s water-type ability, which could conduct electricity, the damage would be doubled!

Although he and Xi Nan were not in the same group, the two of them almost simultaneously discovered this point. Xi Nan gestured to him with his mouth, counted down from three to two to one, and with the zombie already charging at them and raising the steel bar in its hand, the two of them had an incredibly tacit moment and simultaneously released their skills.

Water electric light flickers – the target of the giant zombie was already big, it could dodge a spherical lightning ball, but it could never avoid the water electric ball that penetrates everywhere!

After this attack, it roared and emitted a slightly burnt smell.

In addition to the paralysis effect of electricity, the effect of this attack completely reached 1 to 3.

Chen Feng and Xi Nan were speechless and silently put the practice of cooperation mechanism on the agenda.

The giant zombie, after receiving this blow, immediately maxed out its anger value.

The zombie suddenly roared to the sky, and emitted waves of sound waves from its mouth spreading outwards. The small zombie that was still lurking on the periphery immediately stood up upon hearing this, and without hesitation ran towards it from the direction of the bushes, circling halfway around.

Li Weilan could clearly see that the target of the small zombie was to meet up with the giant zombie immediately!

He predicted the trajectory of the small zombie’s movement, and quickly raised his hand to perform a space cut in front of it. The small zombie was caught off guard, and half of its body stepped into the cut and fell down with a “clatter”, but it didn’t feel any pain. It just stepped back, looking puzzled at the exposed expression on its face.

The giant zombie suffered a big loss after just one confrontation, and couldn’t bear it anymore. It took big strides towards the small zombie, and its steel bar in hand extended over the location of the space cut. It scooped up the small zombie and put it on its shoulder. Although its speed was slightly slower, its tall and sturdy figure could keep up with the small zombie in a few steps. It was only then that it felt relieved.

Before Li Weilan could say anything, Fu Yanzhou, who had been standing next to them observing attentively but had been biting his lips due to his social anxiety, said to the other ability users around him in a pale face, “Attack the smaller one with all you have.”

He saw clearly that the small zombie was only agile in speed, but had no special defenses or strength. The giant zombie was protecting it with half of its hand all along, this was the bond between them, and also the weakest point to attack!

By attacking the small zombie that had just been cut off half of its body, the bigger one would be immediately tied up!

Although Fu Yanzhou spoke less, as a spiritual ability user and a genius scientist who had developed a large amount of high-tech in the base, his words were still very credible.

At this moment, with just one sentence from him, the spirits of the ability users were lifted. A barrage of skills bombarded the giant zombie, causing more wounds to appear on its body the more it tried to protect itself.

The smaller one, realizing that it was a burden, wanted to leave. It had just climbed down from the shoulder of the big zombie and was staring intently at the ability user who had been injured and grabbed. Then, in a gesture of mutual destruction, it charged towards the injured ability user. The people next to him were stunned!

The injured ability user had a grenade in his hand at some point. The man took a glance at Li Weilan and only managed to say, “Take care of my wife.” He saw that the big zombie had already swung a club at him as he threw the grenade, firmly pressing it onto the zombie’s body with his fire ability.

There was a loud bang and a large hole exploded in the belly of the giant zombie. A large amount of black pus flowed out, and black water dripped from the corners of its mouth, but it didn’t fall.

Its speed was visibly slower.

Shen Cheng saw that it had finally broken through the defense.

Originally, the ability users had some affectionate feelings towards the giant zombie that seemed to be licking its calf, thinking about the fact that these zombies were once humans. But the death of their companion and the spur of blood had aroused their anger. They not only attacked without reservation, but also threw precise, fierce and numerous attacks towards the skills of the smaller zombies. The giant zombie couldn’t look after both sides and had to use its own arms to resist several times. In the end, its movements became slower and slower, and the ability users’ skills became more and more accurate.

The dazzling skills, like fireworks, were smashing one after another on this pair of zombies.

Twenty minutes later, the larger one finally fell.

As it fell, the smaller one refused to leave and was ultimately pressed to death beside the larger one.

Li Weilan watched as the smaller one’s ears and nostrils twitched and moved, and Thunder in his hand fell. The chest of the smaller zombie exploded, and it finally stopped moving.

On the ground lay a stinky slime and debris, and the team’s ability users finally felt exhausted after their abilities had been drained. Li Weilan sighed and looked at the motionless bodies of the two zombies on the ground, saying to the remaining people, “After the mission is over, burn them.”

He bypassed the corpses of the two zombies lying quietly on the ground and walked into the dark door, saying, “There should still be some survivors in the building. Before you check each room, call out first. If someone doesn’t want to come out, don’t force them and leave them for now.” He didn’t want to disturb the remaining survivors’ peaceful lives, as they might be wary of them. Li Weilan planned to clean up the tower and collect some abandoned resources.

“Okay,” the others in the team responded.

The hallway was dark, but they could see some survivors on some floors with the help of Shen Cheng.

Li Weilan and his team searched floor by floor, cleaning as they went. Fortunately, there were no more monsters like the giant zombie at the entrance of the first floor, and the zombies they encountered were mostly first or zero level, giving the team members a chance to practice their cooperation.

At each level, Li Weilan knocked on the doors and waited for a response before breaking in. Some rooms still seemed to be occupied, and the knocking produced some noise, but if no one answered, Li Weilan and his team understood and did not force their way in.

Shen Cheng’s help allowed them to see the conditions inside the rooms: the conditions of those who chose to stay put were not good. The building had been without water for a long time, and the unbroken rooms were also covered in stains and broken things. Various containers were placed on the balcony, obviously used for storing water on rainy days. The things in the rooms were all prefixed with “dirty,” indicating that the people living there were unable to clean up.

The woman in the room was emaciated, but when she heard Li Weilan and his team knocking at the door, her eyes were extremely alert, and her whole body trembled behind the door, using furniture to keep it closed on each level.

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Shen Cheng whispered to Li Weilan in a low voice, “There are people inside but they don’t want to come out.”

Li Weilan understood and said, “Let’s go.” The other people in the group curiously looked at the closed door and shook their heads.

Shen Cheng felt heavy-hearted. She could understand why the woman inside chose to stay, after all, she knew nothing about the intentions or morality of the people outside the door. But… being closed off like this for over a year, what about food and supplies? Humans are social animals, wouldn’t this isolation cause psychological problems? How could anyone choose to remain isolated forever?

This incident made her think of cub. Cub now leads a team, but does he really enjoy this life? Does he really trust them?

Could it be that building a base and forming an ability team isn’t what cub truly wants?

Shen Cheng began to reflect on herself, wondering if she had respected cub’s wishes.

“Li Weilan,” Shen Cheng whispered his name, “Could a solitary life be more suitable for you than living in the base?”

Li Weilan paused and gestured for the other ability users to go ahead without him. With only Shen Cheng left, his expression softened.

He already knew that she lived in a safe and stable era, sometimes even felt grateful that she saw the world through a beautified and filtered lens.

Why did she suddenly ask this question?

Li Weilan thought carefully and guessed roughly. He asked softly, “Are you worried that I don’t like the people and things at the base?”

“Yeah.” Her voice carried a slight disappointment and a bit of worry. I followed the game’s tasks step by step, but thinking about it carefully, does Cub really like it? Is Cub just going along with it?

“I do like it.” He smiled slightly, but didn’t say the real reason he liked it.

It’s not because he likes living with so many people.

It’s because he holds a vague fantasy, hoping that one day, when he opens his eyes, she will be by his side.

But she lives in a world of stability, so he doesn’t want her to open her eyes one day and see this broken and sinister world.

Li Weilan hopes Shen Cheng will live in warmth and support.

Shen Cheng couldn’t help but laugh when she heard it. Her cub’s voice showed no reluctance at all, and when he said this, a small dimple appeared at the corner of his mouth, as if he had thought of something sweet and happy.

Since cub said so, mother believed it too!

She added seriously, “If I make a decision that you are not satisfied with, tell me, and I will try not to do it.” It’s just giving up two tasks at most.

Li Weilan laughed again, “Okay.” But at the same time, he added in his heart that this moment would probably never happen.

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Sandy: I wondered if Shen Cheng could have helped in some way to fight off this giant zombie so that poor ability user didn’t have to die 😔

The area near the high-rise tower looks empty.

The trees along the road are very tall and dense. They were originally planted by humans for viewing, but they seem to be growing better than humans themselves.

The streets were covered with overgrown weeds, and they had to walk lightly to avoid making noise. The ground was not only muddy but also covered with decaying yellow leaves, and occasionally small animals would scurry out of the bushes.

From several hundred meters away, everyone could see the appearance of the tall tower.

On top of the tower, a dark red sign with the letters ‘SOS’ was written, but it had already lost its bright red color due to the wind and rain, becoming dull and lifeless. It was unclear whether the person who wrote these three letters was still alive or not, but the sign was already tilted halfway, and half of it seemed to have been broken off. The first ‘S’ was missing half of it, looking dejected and obviously the person who wrote it had lost faith.

The ability user who informed them of the situation of the tower was an ice-type ability user. He couldn’t help but sigh softly, saying, “At the beginning, the order wasn’t completely chaotic. When they called for help, we all thought that the government or some violent agency would come to rescue them, but later we found out that the world was completely chaotic. No one had time for anyone else…”

Li Weilan remained silent.

He didn’t feel any emotion but rather waved his hand alertly, instructing the ability users in the team to spread out and survey the surroundings, clearing some lone zombies that happened to be on the path. Only then did he let the earth-type ability users clean up the debris and steel bars blocking the first floor’s door.

The noise at the bottom of the first floor alarmed the zombies on the upper floors.

Gradually, the zombies that had been wandering on various floors seemed to suddenly wake up and rushed towards the entrance of the first floor. Some of them were so dability userate to get to the front that they made “heh heh” noises, drool dripping from their mouths, their arms stretching out in front of them.

The number of zombies in the corridors on the upper floors gradually decreased.

In a household on the upper floors, the man looked out through the door, alert until he saw that the zombies that had been lingering at his door and refusing to leave was suddenly gone. He became excited and went to pull the dried skeleton on the bed, saying, “Baby, we can leave… we can finally leave…”

Naturally, the skeleton didn’t respond to him.

Only the sound of the wind passed through its hollow eyes, emitting a wailing sound like crying.

The man knelt down on one knee and cried softly.

The newly recruited ability users in the base have basically filled the gaps in various fields. Two earth-type ability users in the team stepped forward and pressed their hands on what was originally a door. With a series of “swish” sounds, the tightly packed sand and stones began to tremble.

One of them frowned slightly and turned to Li Weilan, saying, “Brother Li, there are still steel bars inside. We need a metal-type ability user to help.”

Li Weilan nodded to the metal-type ability user in the team.

Six hands pressed together on the sand and stones, and the largest piece of sand and stones, together with the internal steel bars, slowly pulled out. The top of the structure soon began to tremble, as if the tower was about to collapse.

The metal-type and earth-type ability users hesitated for a moment and almost looked up at the sky together, their faces showing a little fear: could this huge collapsing pillar actually be the load-bearing wall of the first floor of the tower? The entire tower was shaking when they pulled it out. Would it collapse as soon as they pulled it out?

Fortunately, Sun Yifei was also present. He tried his best to expand the area of ​​his ability and exerted a little force.

“I’ve checked the situation inside – no, this is not a load-bearing pillar in the tower,” he said firmly. “I’m a student of architecture, and I know the structure. This pillar can be removed without the tower collapsing. Don’t worry.”

The other two people looked at the unstable top of the tower with a sense of panic – they didn’t know if what Sun Yifei said was true or not. If the tower really collapsed, wouldn’t they all be trapped and die here?

Shen Cheng remained calm on the surface, but on her phone, she typed out three exclamation marks in surprise.

“Wait, let me take a look!” She lightly patted Li Weilan’s back, indicating him not to rush. She opened the camera and took a look, and suddenly she was shocked: the pillar was indeed not a load-bearing one, but inside it was a huge zombie, with half of its face rotten and eroded away, holding a metal stick and banging hard against the internal wall!

The zombie was so huge that it was nearly two meters tall. It might have been a giant before mutation, or a mutated power-type ability user. The building was shaking because of its repeated banging against the steel bars inside the pillar!

Removing this huge pillar would not make the tower collapse, but once they did, the three people at the entrance would immediately face such a huge zombie. Were they ready for that?

Obviously, these three people were not prepared.

Sun Yifei had confidence in his knowledge of structural engineering and believed that the building would not collapse. The other two had no knowledge of it. Despite feeling the vibration of the floor, Sun Yifei only had a slight suspicion, but who could have expected a huge zombie banging on the inside of the wall? Even the other two, one an earth-type ability user and the other a metal-type ability user, only thought about holding up the building or finding a way to escape in case of a collapse. Who could have expected that the zombie inside would immediately attack them with its giant stick once the pillar was removed?

The situation is not good!

Upon seeing the danger, Shen Cheng quickly became afraid of unnecessary casualties within the team. Seeing the steel bars moving outwards, she quickly gestured with her hand and pulled the three men outwards with force.

At the moment the steel bars flew outwards, a sudden surge of force pushed the three men, who didn’t even have time to make a sound, and they felt as if they were thrown several meters away from their original location when they landed.

Before they could figure out what was going on, there was a loud “bang,” and the cement floor, which was originally solid, cracked open, sending sand and dust flying. Suddenly, a huge mutated zombie, several times larger than an average person, appeared in front of them.

“Be careful!” Li Weilan’s warning voice rang in everyone’s ears.

At that moment, a solid piece of furniture fell from one of the upper floors and landed heavily on the mutant zombie’s head as it took a step forward from inside. It was only blocked by its arm, and the wooden board shattered with just one punch.

The furniture falling from a height caused the zombie to sway left and right, seemingly suffering some minor injuries, and its movements became slightly sluggish.

Li Weilan looked up and saw a small hand reaching out from a window on one of the upper floors. He immediately deduced that the furniture’s falling was not an accident and that there was a survivor upstairs who had helped them a little.

Whether or not this person needed to be thanked was another matter, but they took a risk in throwing the furniture down. Li Weilan quickly estimated the floor they were on: from the position of the open window, it should be the 10th floor.

The zombie hesitated for a moment, its first move was not very smooth, but at this moment, the earth-type ability users who had all regained their senses were helped by the people above and together raised a huge protective earth wall.

Before they could even breathe a sigh of relief, they heard a loud bang. The zombie slammed its head hard, and its head went straight through the earth wall!

Half of its face stretched out from the earth wall, and it showed a sinister and indifferent smile towards the survivors in front of it, which was extremely terrifying.

It was as if some kind of emotion… at least the emotions of hunger and desire still existed in this body.

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Before its smug smile disappeared, a huge fireball came smashing towards it. Yan Hongyu had already prepared her ability, and now she saw that the zombie’s half body was trapped in the earth wall and unable to move. She immediately used her powerful attack, and with a loud boom, the zombie and the earth wall shook.

Is it dead?

The survivors present more or less knew that it wouldn’t be that simple, but they still held a glimmer of hope.

Shen Cheng could see clearly through the screen that the blood bar of the giant monster was originally long, and at least three-quarters of it was still left. This fireball attack only added a ‘rage’ state next to its head, indicating that it was annoyed by the disturbance!

More importantly, behind it, there was still a vaguely visible enemy monster, gradually becoming clearer on the screen!

“There’s another one!” Shen Cheng whispered anxiously to Li Weilan, clenching her fist nervously, “Be careful!”

Li Weilan could hear everything clearly.

“There’s one more!” Although he couldn’t see the monster, he would never doubt a word she said.

As soon as Li Weilan spoke, a teammate at the back of the team suddenly cried out in pain. Fortunately, he heard Li Weilan’s reminder in time and avoided the fatal blow, but the person next to him cried out in alarm, and when he reached out to touch him, he saw blood all over his hand – the skin on his neck had been torn.

The injured person’s face was pale.

The thing that scratched him hit him with one blow, then gave a triumphant “hehe” and landed with a hunched body, looking like a small monkey with lightning-fast movements and a creepy look in its two black, empty eye sockets.

“Damn thing!” The man knew he had been given a death sentence.

There is no serum or cure for the zombie virus.

Even ability users can only resist zombie viruses below their own level of ability. For example, a third-level ability user can generally resist infections from third-level and below zombies, and second-level ability users can resist second-level zombies, so generally the higher the level of ability, the higher the safety. Even auxiliary abilities are the same.

But at this moment, he already felt his mind becoming sluggish, and his whole body was vaguely feverish. This experience… this little monkey-like zombie must be a third-level!

Shen Cheng could see clearly, and she said to Li Weilan in a low voice, “That’s a third-level speed zombie!”

Both of these zombies are third-level, and the big one, a power-type zombie, can be kited, but the speed-type zombie must be held back by a high-level ability user, otherwise low-level ability users in the team will be infected in large numbers, and the casualties will be heavy.

Li Weilan quickly weighed the options and turned to Xi Nan and Xi Bei beside him, saying, “You guys command the team to kite that one, I’ll be at the back.”

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On the second day of playing games, when Shen Cheng logged into the base, she noticed that there were already many survivors there. However, she also noticed that the current happiness level of the base was not as high as before.

This was normal, as problems tended to increase in places with more people. Most of the previous survivors in the base were those who had finally found a glimmer of hope after enduring various difficult situations. However, this new batch of people was different. Although they were also wanderers, they did not have the same sense of belonging to the base as the previous survivors.

With less sense of belonging, there was a corresponding need for better support. This support was not just about providing a safe shelter to avoid their homelessness, but also about providing various aspects of basic living facilities. With a settled mind, the base could only retain more people with abilities and form a virtuous cycle by upgrading its current infrastructure and conditions.

Shen Cheng checked the four dimensions of the residents’ perception of the base:

Clothing: No uniforms. Most residents still wear their own clothes.

Food: Tasty, but with a limited variety of ingredients.

Housing conditions: Dormitory-style living, poor. Lack of privacy and no family concept.

Travel conditions: None.

All four areas needed improvement! There was still a long way to go.

Shen Cheng noticed that the lowest satisfaction level was with the housing conditions. Due to the player-friendly environment of the game and the fact that many of the new ability users she recruited had families, the demand for single rooms in the base had become increasingly urgent.

In the early days, the base only had dormitory-style living, which brought many problems. Shen Cheng could see from the scene in one of the rooms that there were people arguing.

Qi Hang didn’t expect living in a communal bunk would cause so much trouble.

As a chef, he received an extra portion of meat due to the base’s appreciation of his exceptional taste buds. However, Qi Hang himself couldn’t bear to eat too much, so he secretly brought it back home, planning to share it with his wife and father who only had basic rations.

But who knew that the smell of the fish meat would be noticed by a child living next door. The child cried loudly and begged Qi Hang for some. The child’s mother, a woman in her forties, immediately began to pester Qi Hang, threatening to report him for hoarding food, which was a serious offense in the post-apocalyptic world.

Qi Hang was afraid that the base would punish him unfairly, and he cherished his stable life and the base’s appreciation of his abilities. So, he tried to calm the situation by giving the child half of the fish meat. Although it pained him, he thought stability was more important than anything else.

However, Qi Hang’s wife did not share the same opinion. She thought they hadn’t done anything wrong. Although the adults in the base received an extra portion of meat, many people were starving to death on the wasteland. She didn’t tolerate the child’s unreasonable behavior, and she argued with the child’s mother.

As the two women pushed and shoved each other, Qi Hang was about to step in and separate them when he heard a mechanical voice from the central control center of the base: “Qi Hang, please come to the main control center.”

The middle-aged woman chuckled with delight upon hearing the news, pointing and poking at Qi Hang’s wife, who was almost in tears with anger, and sneered, “Looks like the truth is out! Maybe your whole family will be kicked out.”

Qi Hang was annoyed and pulled his wife, who was already crying, and gave a cold glance at the middle-aged woman before heading to the control center.

His father had just come back from a walk and saw the couple with a serious and weeping expression. He only found out about the incident during his absence and sighed, “It’s not always a misfortune, and misfortunes can’t be avoided. I don’t think the base leader is the kind of person who doesn’t distinguish right from wrong. You should go and listen first and see what they say. As long as we’re still together, it’s enough.”

Qi Hang’s heart calmed down.

He took his wife to the control center, but when he stood in front of the console, he found that there were other ability users who had been called here, along with those who had been assigned work and positions in the base, as well as those with their families.

It seemed that they were not the only ones, and judging by the situation, it might even be a good thing.

Soon, they were told that a batch of upgraded family suites had been built in the base, with a double bed, a living room, and a children’s bed if necessary. However, the family suites could only be paid for with base points, and the base had now opened up missions for clearing the wasteland. As long as they went on a mission once a week or had a stable income in the base, they could afford the family suite’s expenses and their daily needs.

Qi Hang’s ability was not combat-related, but he was naturally excited to hear about the family suite. He was initially worried that he wouldn’t have enough points, but after checking, he found that his position’s points were barely enough!

Qi Hang’s wife tugged at his sleeve. As an ordinary person, she seemed a little worried, “Honey, maybe we should forget it. It’s not easy to earn a few points, and judging by the situation, we might need to use more points in the future. Let’s save some points. I can endure it.”

Qi Hang looked at his wife’s haggard and exhausted face, and remembered their argument in the room earlier today. He gritted his teeth and shook his head, then raised his hand and shouted, “I want one!”

“Swish,” all eyes turned to him.

Standing on the platform, Li Weilan smiled.

His gaze fell on Qi Hang and his wife beside him, and his smile carried some blessings. He checked Qi Hang’s points and confirmed that the score of this ability user was enough. “Congratulations. This is the key to Room 01. Note that points will be deducted directly from your account at the beginning of each week. If you don’t have enough points, please remember to clear out your personal belongings early.”

“Thank you,” Qi Hang said, and took the card with the number “01” from the stage carefully.

One family became the first to taste the crab. Other ability users who were already married or wished to be in a quiet place also became active.

They each exchanged their points for keys with Li Weilan, and soon, the initial ten family suites were all allocated.

Shen Cheng looked at her phone screen and saw a surge in residents’ satisfaction and loyalty to the base. She breathed a sigh of relief. These ten family suites cost around 600G, which was accumulated from the grains sold in Li Weilan’s space for about ten days. In this way, she had no more gold coins without completing new missions or spending money.

Making money was really not easy.

As she was dozing off, a new task suddenly popped up in the game:

[The residents’ loyalty has reached the requirements. Please help the protagonist complete the first collective sweep: the abandoned high-rise apartment building. After the first sweep is completed, the base will activate the option to automatically complete the sweep mission three times a day, only going to unlocked scene maps, and will bring back supplies and item fragments for the base. The first daily sweep will earn 50G.]

Sweeping is 50G, and grain cultivation requires 30 fields, each of which produces 2G per day. It can ensure a stable income of 110G per day, which can be considered a stable source of gold coins. The sooner you start, the better.

Shen Cheng opened the map and found a nearby sweeping point. The name on it was “Abandoned City High-rise Apartment”.

Shen Cheng looked at the appearance of the building on the map and noticed that it had started to peel and fade in just one year. The outer walls were covered with ivy. She silently suspected that this place could be a meat grinder.

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If it was once inhabited by people, there might still be a large number of zombies wandering in the rooms or corridors.

The corridors in the apartment building were narrow, and once they were blocked in the front and back, it would be very dangerous.

If the other zombies on the street were also attracted over, then…

She couldn’t help but tremble slightly, worried about the safety of her cub.

But on the phone screen, her cub had already set off with a team of people.

The base is currently out of oil. According to Fu Yanzhou, one of the projects researched by the research institute before he left was to use the electricity of lightning-type ability users to charge electric vehicles. However, the stability of the battery is still a problem that has not been completely solved.

Because of this problem and the unresolved issue with the vehicles, Li Weilan and his team temporarily cannot leave the Noah base too far. But there are ruins of H City about an hour’s walk away from them. This was once a large city with a population of several million, but now it is just a pile of rubble.

When the apocalypse first came, the people in H City quickly evacuated to the central city of S City, which was not too far away from them, and most of them entered the base near S City. But those who did not evacuate, especially in the university town of H City, were said to still be guerrilla fighting with the large number of zombies in the city, surviving in a way like groundhogs.

But there are still many resources that can be collected in the city.

This is Li Weilan’s first time taking the newly recruited ability users out to scavenge, but they don’t plan to go deep into S city. Instead, they plan to gather resources in a standalone high-rise building outside the city.

This high-rise building is actually quite unique.

When it was built, it was originally planned to be one of the landscape towers for the new city. However, when the residents moved in and the surrounding facilities were not yet built, the end of the world came unexpectedly.

Because its garage was on the lowest floor, but the entire first floor collapsed due to the fighting, the garage was sealed off by the falling stones, and the first floor was also sealed off.

Among the ability users recruited by the Noah Base this time, there was one who had lived in this tower before. He said that there might still be some survivors hiding in their own rooms in the tower, but they would eventually run out of supplies. He had heard that someone had recently jumped off the tower.

To scavenge this tower, they first need to find a way up.

Since the first floor has collapsed, an earth-type ability user needs to clear a layer of debris before they can go inside. However, if they don’t have a stable team, it’s easy to attract the attention of nearby zombies while the earth-type ability user clears the debris, resulting in an attack by zombies or mutated beasts.

Perhaps because they are worried that there is nothing good left in the tower, and the cost and reward are not proportional, this tower is currently still in a sealed state, waiting for the arrival of the ability users from the Noah Base.

Li Weilan chose it because he felt that the difficulty and situation were just right for their first scavenging trip to hone their team cooperation and make some preparations for future zombie attacks.

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It’s terrible!

Video chat is ruining me!

How can I keep my status as mother with this in my head!

Although she really wanted to see him as “cub,” seeing his message and his face, she suddenly felt so embarrassed!

If “cub” called her “Master” with that face…

Shen Cheng’s face turned red at the thought of “cub” calling her “Master.” She couldn’t think any further and patted herself before calming down. The instant noodles on the table were already cooked, so she opened the lid and started eating, keeping the game screen in front of her and watching the little people in the base gather for a meeting.

Since the auction incident, Tenglong Base had been constantly updating. Li Weilan remembered it very clearly. They had noticed the zombie tide heading towards Tenglong Base on their way there.

However, the Tenglong Base is not a small base either. It has been able to stand in the apocalypse for so long because it has its own set of defense systems and security measures that keep it from falling. This time, its downfall may not only be because of the change of power within Tenglong. According to Li Weilan’s speculation, there should be other reasons.

For a long time, humans were able to withstand the attacks of millions of zombies because the zombies were only blindly attacking humans. But in the past year, not only humans but also zombies have shown clear signs of evolution. They have become faster, more agile, and seem to have begun to use simple tools.

Therefore, the fall of Tenglong Base is likely to sound an alarm for all other bases, as it is the only major base to have fallen in the past month. Of course, as fellow humans, they hope that this will be the last.

The main character entered the meeting room and calmed down a bit. Curious, she clicked on the icon for “Tenglong Base” and was surprised to find a row of hidden small characters above the base image:

[Accepting refugees from Tenglong Base unlocks the ‘Fall of Tenglong Base’ cutscene. Prerequisites not met.]

Shen Cheng furrowed her brows slightly. She didn’t know how detailed this so-called “cutscene” was and how much benefit it would bring to the upcoming zombie siege and Noah Base in a month. As for the evacuees, if it was suitable for Noah’s own development, Li Weilan and his team would accept them, right?

The conference room inside the base has been closed with the sign “In a meeting” on the door. It wasn’t until Shen Cheng finished her instant noodles that the meeting was over. The game then updated with a task prompt:

[Long-term task for this month: Please help Noah Base complete the preliminary preparations for the zombie siege.

Recruiting (ability users): 0/200

Food preparation: 200 people’s rations * 90

Uniforms: 0/200

Weapons (sets): 0/200]

“!!!” This task seems a bit too demanding.

Shen Cheng took another look and found out that in the short time they had the meeting, the little ones in the base had actually created a super-complete point exchange system. This system not only regulated the behavior of all ability users and ordinary people, but also established a very detailed standard for how to exchange benefits, food, and weapons in the base.

With this system in place, the subsequent operation of the base can be stably maintained.

Shen Cheng thought for a moment and clicked on the satisfaction sections for “Food” and “Clothing” of the little people in the base. She found that their satisfaction with these two items was relatively low.

Although it was already good that all the little people said they could eat their fill, the food in the base is currently relatively simple. It seems that it is necessary to increase the variety of food in the base, improve the taste, and make clothes.

There were a lot of little people in the tent area above the base that were still marked as “To be determined”. Shen Cheng tried to drag a yellow-green little person, but found that she had to drag the whole family at once.

This game is actually quite interesting. Shen Cheng clicked on each little person and found that each one has their own background story. If you only drag one person into the base, they may struggle and cry towards their family members, completely unlike other games that set all characters as single.

Shen Cheng is a soft-hearted person. Basically, if she sees that the whole family is coming together and the friendly level of one or two people towards the base is similar, she will choose to allow the family to enter at once. This operation can turn those, who brought their families, from yellow to green, especially those who brought their whole family.

But at the same time, Shen Cheng also discovered a sigh-inducing fact: even so, there were very few elderly and children waiting in the base, and most of the elderly and children who could reach here had an ability user relative. The rest…may not survive.

Among the elderly, almost no one has developed an ability. The end of the world is not only a disaster for civilization, but also for families.

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Qi Hang nervously and excitedly stood with his wife and elderly father at the steel gate of the Noah Base, and he didn’t expect them to be the first to be let into the Noah Base.

In his bag was a large kitchen knife, and behind him, the handcart carried all their remaining belongings.

The kitchen knife had already begun to dull from chopping zombies on the way, but it was the only mark he left before the end of the world. Qi Hang was not willing to throw it away, so it was still in his bag.

As soon as the gate opened, a white mist rushed towards him, and the sound of “sizzle” kept ringing in his ears. Qi Hang’s heart tightened: What’s going on? Ambush? Anesthesia? Explosion?

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Could this base actually be a robber base where people kill and steal things?

He was just about to resist, when he heard a mechanical voice in his ear: “Disinfection complete. Identity check complete. Clear. You may enter.”

Then there was a “drip”, and the inner door opened.

Qi Hang finally breathed a sigh of relief and felt that his wife’s hand was also icy. He squeezed her hand and stepped into the interior of the base.

As soon as he entered the base, he opened his mouth wide: he had originally prepared himself to enter a dark and damp underground world, but the interior of this base was clean and tidy, with only a cold metallic atmosphere, and no feeling of darkness that he had in basements before the end of the world. The lights inside the base were bright, and the people coming and going all had a hopeful light that only existed before the end of the world. Qi Hang had not even seen this kind of hope in some of the larger bases he had visited.

“You guys are new here, right?” greeted a young man, who looked at Qi Hang’s family and said, “The base only has a large dormitory for now, but can we arrange you in one room?”

As he quickly arranged accommodations and food, he asked, “Do you have any special skills?”

“…,” Qi Hang hesitated for a moment, unsure if the other person would laugh at what he was about to say, but he still spoke up, “I have a mutated sense of taste. Before the apocalypse, I was a chef.”

This ability was completely ignored in most large bases, and some people even mocked him for having such a useless ability. However, the words fell into the young man’s ears and he instantly became excited, “A chef?” he exclaimed, “Come with me!”

The young man brought Qi Hang to the base’s kitchen, where he saw kitchen utensils, spices, fresh black fish, and rice noodles. Qi Hang widened his eyes and took a deep breath. He couldn’t help but swallow his saliva as he walked up to the cutting board in shock. He noticed some leftover dishes from lunch, picked them up, sniffed them lightly, and couldn’t help but furrow his brow, “This is what you guys ate before?” The cooking was terrible, the seasoning didn’t penetrate the ingredients, and the knife skills were subpar. What a waste of good ingredients that the base could or could not have seen after the apocalypse!

The young man nodded like a chick pecking rice, “Why don’t you try making dinner first? Our base chefs have high contribution points…”

When Qi Hang heard the word “contribution points,” he immediately nodded.

On that day, everyone in the base had a meal made by the head chef, and the base’s population slowly began to increase.

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Shen Cheng logged off the game and thought back to the video call with her cub. She felt like something wasn’t quite right.

Oh, right!

She remembered what was wrong!

Her cub’s face was so handsome that if it was played by a real person, he could be a celebrity!

Every expression was so real, every emotion vividly portrayed. He looked so real, but if he was a real person, how could he not be famous? How could he have never been mentioned before?

This just didn’t make any sense!

And then there were the other people she had met at the base. Even though Fu Yanzhou was introverted, he was still a handsome guy. Xi Bei was a sweet little girl, while Yan Hongyu was an icy cold beauty. With the current technology in the world, it’s still impossible to create so many people with such different styles and such lifelike details, right? Or could it be that this game, like Detroit: Become Human, used real people for motion capture and then imported them into the game? Even the voice acting was designed in advance by AI using trigger words?

Making such a game… wouldn’t the game company go bankrupt?

Shen Cheng couldn’t help but feel scared when she thought about it. She opened Baidu and started searching for the game called “The Last Survivor.” She remembered finding a lot of reviews about the game the last time she searched, and this time, she added “real-life role-playing” to her search. She found some videos of game company actors introducing themselves, and in one of the videos, she saw a screenshot of a person who looked almost identical to Li Weilan sitting on stage with a microphone.

Ah, so it really was played by a real person!

Shen Cheng finally breathed a sigh of relief and gently lowered her shoulders. It was only then that she realized that her heart had been beating abnormally fast since she opened the webpage.

What a silly idea.

That kind of thing is impossible. If he was a real person, then their interactions would become a more advanced version of a life-simulation game, right? If she thought about it carefully, the game’s worldview would collapse.

This is how it should be…

Shen Cheng didn’t realize that, in addition to feeling relieved, there was also a faint sense of disappointment in her heart, although she didn’t know what exactly she was disappointed about.

She closed the webpage and let out a sigh: “Okay, just focus on raising the cub. Don’t pay attention to the real-life role-playing actor.”

The most important thing was just her cub in the game.

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Sandy: Damn manipulative game. They even created fake search results and stuff

Shen Cheng propped her chin with her hands, lost in thought for a moment.

After about half a minute, she finally made up her mind. But before clicking “Agree”, Shen Cheng first adjusted her hair and pulled down her nightgown collar a bit. She wasn’t wearing a bra, but it didn’t matter since the other side wouldn’t be able to see it anyway. Plus, realistically, the phone screen could only show her face and upper chest.

Shen Cheng rubbed her face shyly, trying to snap out of it. “Hey, idiot, wake up! Why do you feel so shy as if you’re meeting someone online?”

It’s not like it’s a real video call! He’s just an AI, and one that you raised at that. How can you show such a feminine side to your cub?

If it were a real face-to-face meeting with her cub, she should be assertive and show her maternal side!

As Shen Cheng thought about this, she suddenly felt a bit more strength in her hand, which she had just wanted to pull back in fear.

She was afraid that this “video call” had a time limit, so she quickly adjusted her clothes and finally clicked “yes”.

Li Weilan’s eyes widened in that moment.

She clicked “yes”!

He suppressed his excitement and smiled slightly at the camera. “Cheng Cheng, good evening.”

It was already night on her side, and the room was dimly lit. On her desk was a box of instant noodles with a Kindle on top, probably waiting for the noodles to cook.

Life was so simple, with bare walls and a room that didn’t look like a girl’s. The more Li Weilan looked at it, the more heartbroken he felt. He thought for a moment… both he and the base were like blood-sucking parasites clinging to her.

She should use her money to buy herself some good food and clothes. At her age, young girls should be happy talking about cosmetics and buying new clothes, shouldn’t they?

She shouldn’t be accompanied by game characters…

While despising his own desire to keep her from leaving, Li Weilan couldn’t help but feel heartbroken for her.

His mentality was so contradictory, but in Shen Cheng’s eyes, the person on the other side of the video was a handsome, manly mature man with every feature that hit her G-spot. His gaze was focused on her face, as if she were the most precious treasure in the world. He was dressed in a simple uniform that was clean and tidy, but the lines of his muscular body were flowing and complete, revealing broad shoulders, a narrow waist, and long legs.

Her face turned red, and even though she was looking at a game character, she couldn’t help but feel that… how could something similar to a real person be so real? With today’s technology, can simulations be so accurate? Her breath caught in her throat, and she didn’t even dare to look up at his expression, so she missed the surprise and amusement that flashed through his eyes. “Ah… it seems that his drawing style is not childish today.”

Li Weilan looked at his own uniform, slightly adjusting his posture, trying to make his waist more upright and his back straighter. However, seeing her somewhat stiff gaze and the faint blush on her cheeks, Li Weilan felt a growing sense of joy in his heart: She’s satisfied, that’s great!

It took Shen Cheng a while to control her pounding heart, but she still couldn’t look directly into his deep and charming eyes. She only whispered, “Good evening, Li Weilan.” Oh no! This game is too much, even if he wants to seduce me to keep playing, he doesn’t need to suddenly turn from a cartoon into a real person!

He’s really handsome, but… she doesn’t even dare to look him in the eye! Why does she feel like there are stars in his eyes?

Even the corners of his mouth, which vaguely revealed a small dimple, seemed to be holding back a smile that could make one’s heart race.

Li Weilan could hear the difference in her tone from usual.

He sensed her shyness, and suddenly felt much better: after all, she had realized that he was also a mature man, even if only in the game, which was better than her always treating him like a child, right?

If she continued to treat him like a child, he would eventually leave, because a child could not always be with her.

As for what he wanted to become to her… Li Weilan had not yet thought it through.

Maybe… an online friend from a different world?

That was probably the best ending he could think of right now.

Li Weilan smiled and steered the conversation towards the base: “Everyone in the base is very grateful to you.”

“Ah…” Shen Cheng always felt breathless when she looked at his face. His earnest gaze, like a blazing fire, followed her closely, and could easily make her face blush. Fortunately, he let her off and switched the topic to the base. She was like someone who had just drunk alcohol, a little dazed, and was only brought back to reality by his words. She smiled shyly, “I didn’t do anything.”

“No, you gave them a future,” Li Weilan said softly. “Without you, many people would have already given up. In this world, ordinary people live too difficultly.”

“Mmm.” Shen Cheng empathized with this, and nodded, “We have to work hard. There are still so many wanderers in the wasteland,” she thought of the people still being screened by the base and trying to get in, “If we can be the hope for the future, Noah might become something someday.”

Li Weilan chuckled softly. She’s so gentle.

That is something he never thought about.

All he wanted was revenge, and at first, the most he wanted was to die with his enemies, destroy all the research institutes and Dawn light , and destroy those things that harmed people.

However, when she spoke those words, when she spoke those seemingly childish dreams, he never thought that he would not follow her wishes.

If she wanted, he also hoped that he could become a person like her one day.

“We are already hoping now.” Li Weilan’s deep eyes followed her face closely, carefully choosing his words. Every time he spoke, he reminded himself that he was just an “AI” and should not say anything inappropriate or do anything that might scare her. “Shall I show you around the base?”

Shen Cheng nodded involuntarily.

Li Weilan took her for a walk around the base, and Shen Cheng saw all the base members who had previously been just paper figures to her.

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Yan Hongyu was a cool and elegant lady, Xi Bei was a soft little girl, Xi Nan was basically a standard sister control, a small follower running back and forth with his younger sister. Fu Yanzhou was extremely social phobic and basically liked to stay in the lab and not come out. Through the white walls, one could see his handsome but pale profile. Su Yun, who had just evolved, was a pretty woman, but there seemed to be something hidden in her gentle and watery eyes. And there was Quan Quan, sleeping under the fish pond, with water ripples vibrating back and forth, but the little fish swimming happily by its side.

No matter who it was, their attitude towards Li Weilan was respectful and admiring. Li Weilan took her for a walk and sighed lightly, “This base is yours. It will always be yours. We’ll wait for the day you come back.” Even if that day never comes.

“… ” Shen Cheng felt as if her heart had been pinched by someone, a bit of twisting and soreness.

“Shen Cheng, ” Li Weilan looked at her and suddenly smiled slightly, “we are going to be okay. You need to take care of yourself first, okay?”

“… ” Shen Cheng hesitated for a moment, “I have been taking good care of myself.”

“Your face looks very pale.”

You seem very tired.

If it weren’t for my selfishness, I would even tell you not to play games anymore.

Li Weilan held back these words in his heart and carefully said to her, “Please take care of yourself, okay? We don’t need to develop so quickly…”

Before he could finish, an alarm bell rang in the base with a “didi didi” sound. Shen Cheng looked at his phone, and although it was originally a serious matter, she couldn’t help but burst out laughing: official backlash is the most deadly!

He wanted her to spend less money, take good care of herself, and she understood!

She understood his meaning and would really spend less money from now on!

But when it’s time to spend, she still needs to spend! But she will really take care of her life first…this is the gentle reminder from him.

[The Tenglong Base has been destroyed.]

[The next wave of zombies will arrive in one month. Countdown begins now. Please prepare the Noah Base.]

Not only did this message appear on Shen Cheng’s phone, but the main control room of the Noah Base also played this announcement and countdown simultaneously. Even other base members who had no idea where this information and mechanism came from heard this broadcast almost at the same time from their respective positions.

The base suddenly exploded.

Li Weilan heard the noise outside and had to interrupt the plan to continue chatting with her. But fortunately, the message that he really wanted to convey, which was to prioritize taking care of herself, had already been conveyed.

He wanted to say something else, but the signal suddenly fluctuated and the screen in front of him suddenly flashed. After the blue light screen shook for a while, it suddenly disappeared.

Li Weilan opened his mouth.

“This is good, no need to say goodbye to her.”

Goodbyes between two worlds may be permanent every time they happen.

He would rather not say it, so that he can keep a thought.

The appearance and disappearance of the screen were both sudden. Li Weilan did not think it was a prank or something that could be done by the technology on their planet, so he was no longer as panicked as he was at the beginning. He just softly said, “Looking forward to meeting you again.”

This message turned into a bubble appearing on Shen Cheng’s phone screen. But this time, even though “cub” had returned to being a small paper person, Shen Cheng still remembered his heroic and lean figure from the video chat, and could not see him as “cub” anymore!

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Sandy: Long chapter eiii

The poison ability is also considered a very rare type of ability.

However, the woman named Su Yun who was confirmed to have awakened the poison ability was not very happy. First, she tested her own ability: the newly awakened ability was very weak, unlike those who were among the first to awaken their abilities after the meteorite impact, such as Li Weilan, who generally had at least second or third level abilities. Su Yun, whose ability was triggered by a drug, had a relatively weak ability and could barely demonstrate even first level ability during her first test.

So, what can a first level poison ability do?

It can probably just cause mild diarrhea or slight stomach pain in someone’s food.

After the initial excitement of awakening her ability faded, Su Yun became somewhat gloomy.

There are not many ability users in the base. Xi Bei happened to pass by and saw her sitting on the experimental bed, lost in thought. She lightly knocked on the door and walked over to ask her with a smile, “Congratulations, Sister Su, on awakening your ability.”

Su Yun smiled, but Xi Bei could see that there was still a hint of worry behind her smile.

Xi Bei was astute and immediately guessed the possible reason.

She calmly talked about her own experience with Xi Nan when they were bullied and how she was “pursued” and almost caused an ability outbreak. Seeing the look of emotion on Su Yun’s face, Xi Bei whispered, “Sister Su, my ability is just planting flowers and vegetables. It’s nothing special. Your ability is much more useful than mine. I envy you.”

“What’s the use of it…” Su Yun sighed, “If I awakened a plant or healing ability, it would be more useful for the base. Poison ability… Am I supposed to throw poison at the zombies outside?”

“Of course, it’s useless against zombies,” Xi Bei smiled, “But what about humans? Our base is not peaceful. With your ability being developed by a drug, our base will become a target. Just think about it, when that time comes, you can easily take down a large group of people. Isn’t that impressive?”

Su Yun was shocked and looked at the face of the young girl in front of her, who was sweet and smiled. She had a more thoughtful expression.

At first, she thought about the poison-type ability and believed it wouldn’t contribute much to the base, nor would it be useful for fighting mutants and zombies.

But she was not entirely correct. In this wasteland, the most poisonous thing is human nature!

She had always wanted to be a knife for the base, a dagger that would pierce the heart of the enemy and a hidden assassin who guarded from the shadows!

Then… isn’t this ability the most suitable for her?

Su Yun’s face showed a faint understanding, and Xi Bei quietly smiled. When Fu Yanzhou sneaked in, he saw someone wanting to escape, and Xi Bei winked at him and mouthed, “You owe me one.”

**

When Shen Cheng joined the game, a new mission popped up:

[The residents of the base seem to have new wishes. Please check and fulfill their desires to increase their loyalty! Current progress: 0/5. Reward: 200G upon completion.]

Shen Cheng saw many exclamation marks above the heads of the little characters walking around the base.

She first clicked on Su Yun, who was still sitting in Fu Yanzhou’s lab. At that time, the little character was looking at her palm, and her wish appeared next to her:

[I want to control my own destiny. Please help me improve my ability. Current base training facilities: 0.]

Su Yun wanted to train her ability!

Shen Cheng thought this was entirely logical: her newly awakened ability was only first-tier, and compared to Li Weilan, who was already at level 4 and had even advanced once, her ability was indeed weak. Girls didn’t want to rely on others for protection, but to become stronger themselves. Such a desire was very positive!

She looked through the base facilities and found a building called “Ability Simulation Training Grounds,” but it was a bit expensive at 200G. After impulsively spending a lot of money last time, Shen Cheng hesitated and didn’t immediately buy the training grounds. Instead, she chose to continue looking at other characters.

There were other girls in the base, and their wishes were basically “to awaken their ability abilities.” And basically… every girl who didn’t have ability abilities had made this choice!

Shen Cheng’s heart felt heavy: She hadn’t forgotten that the primary ability awakening potion had a 10% mortality rate, which meant that out of ten girls who tried to take the risk, one would die!

Fu Yanzhou had only made 20 bottles of the potion, and Shen Cheng had looked at the synthesis materials in the system and found that two of them, “High-Grade Strange Beast Blood” and “Life and Death Flower,” were relatively scarce. Although “High-Grade Strange Beast Blood” might be obtained by extracting blood from a high-grade strange beast like the octopus, “Life and Death Flower” was located in an extremely dangerous area on the map, which obviously couldn’t be conquered by them for the time being.

In other words, this batch of potions might be the last one before they went to gather raw materials.

Shen Cheng checked the physical fitness, psychological conditions, and loyalty of those girls and finally selected the five best candidates and sent them to the laboratory. After informing them of the danger again, the little people drank the “Primary Ability Potion.” It was unknown if it was because of their physical fitness, but none of the girls in this batch died, and two of them successfully activated abilities, gaining fire and strength abilities respectively.

After fulfilling their wishes to awaken their ability abilities, Shen Cheng clicked “Complete Mission” and used the 200G to buy an “Ability Simulation Training Ground,” which she placed in the base.

Watching the little people run in one by one and come out covered in sweat, Shen Cheng inexplicably felt satisfied and moved in her heart: It felt so good to be able to exchange her efforts for a better future!

The base has introduced an extremely high-tech “Ability Simulation Training Ground,” and Li Weilan naturally went to try it out.

The equipment in the Ability Simulation Training Ground is very simple: something similar to VR before the end of the world, but once you put it on, you can immediately enter a simulated area full of zombies.

In this area, Ability users will be stripped of their abilities and can only rely on their bare hands and the lowest level of ability to fight against the zombies that are all around.

The first wave of zombie monsters are also first-tier, but there are only three of them. However, by the second tier, there are nine of them, and then it increases to 21. Li Weilan only made it to the third level, but when he took off the helmet, he was surprised to find that the Ability he used in the virtual space seemed to also be consumed in reality, not just running out of it, but he also felt that the upper limit of his Ability had been slightly exceeded. More importantly, he had cut so many zombies in the mission space without the help of props and weapons. It was obvious that both the accuracy and proficiency of his space cutting ability had greatly improved.

Li Weilan immediately realized what was going on: by training like this, his Ability could be further upgraded!

No wonder the several newly awakened Abilities users who had trained before all had smiles on their faces!

If Li Weilan didn’t know that this might just be a game for her, he would have been ecstatic too.

But now, a faint haze has enveloped his joy.

Looking at the small person on the screen with sweat on his forehead and lost in thought, Shen Cheng was about to reach out and pinch his small face to say something when he suddenly heard the soft voice of cub, “You’re here!”

“Good evening!” Shen Cheng greeted him with a smile.

“How was your day today?” Cub suddenly changed his opening.

Oh, could it be that because the mission in the base has progressed, the relationship between cub and me has changed too?

Shen Cheng happily thought to herself and said to Li Weilan with a smile, “Thanks to you, my life has improved recently.” It was true that her life had improved. Her roommate was afraid of her like a tiger, and setting up a stall outside had increased her income. At least, if she continued at this pace, she would have no problem moving to a better place or having more money on hand.

“Really?” Cub murmured, his face showing a hint of sadness. “But one day, you will leave me, won’t you?”

“What?” Why was cub so worried again?

Before Shen Cheng could say anything, a barrage suddenly popped up in the game:

[Li Weilan wants to have a video call with you: accept or decline? Y/N]

“What?” Shen Cheng widened her eyes in this instant. A video call? A video call?

She hastily looked at herself and the small boxes piled up in the room and exclaimed, diving into her pillow.

Although…although she knew that cub was probably just a paper cutout, he could see her messy room, even if it was just virtual ‘seeing’. Thinking about his possible reaction, she felt so embarrassed!

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What Shen Cheng didn’t know was that while she was hesitating whether to say yes or no, a huge screen appeared in front of Li Weilan. It also showed this line of words:

[Cheng is considering whether to have a video call with you], and below it, he could see the soft, white, tender little girl biting her lips, rolling up her nightdress at the base of her thigh, her fingers scratching the blanket unnaturally, and a faint blush appeared on her face. Perhaps she was hesitating!

Li Weilan trembled all over, his eyes widened, but he didn’t dare to make a sound, afraid that if he breathed too hard, the transparent screen from who knows where would disappear the next second.

What he saw…was Cheng, right?

Yes! It’s Cheng, isn’t it!

Originally, she lived in the same world as him!

But… her life is so difficult!

Li Weilan’s gaze swept over her cramped room and the boxes piled up inside with a heart full of pity. He felt a heavy weight on his chest just from breathing: for someone who was so kind to everyone, what kind of life did she lead on a daily basis!

But even so, her attitude towards life remained optimistic and positive. In such an environment, flowers still bloomed in her heart.

Even towards the paper people in her heart, she treated them with patience and tenderness, rather than with disdain and self-determination.

Li Weilan greedily reached out to lightly touch her cheek, which still had small hairs, but when he just raised his hand and saw her stunned expression, he immediately realized something and put his hand back: no, he couldn’t let her realize he was a real person.

Otherwise, she would definitely be scared away.

It’s true. If it wasn’t for the fact that even a fantasy world like the Apocalypse has come to reality, he might not be able to accept the possibility that his world is just a game.

Don’t scare her.

Li Weilan tried his best to appear calm, only slightly tilting his head and looking at the screen with hopeful eyes. But deep down, he silently prayed to all the gods and buddhas, hoping that whichever deity was in charge of this matter would kindly let her agree.

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Sandy: he can see her now. Yessssss Lanlan, my poor cub, if Chengcheng is too busy, you can come to this translator too hehehe

Cub hasn’t paid attention to her for two days.

Shen Cheng was simply unable to eat or sleep well. Cub was like he was possessed, completely out of his mind.

She knew it wasn’t right, but her cub, whom she had spent money to raise, was angry and giving her the silent treatment. It was only natural for her to worry!

That day, when she told him she was his “mother,” he immediately threw a tantrum.

Shen Cheng knew it was wrong the moment the words slipped out of her mouth. After all, the command she usually used to activate them in the game was “Hello, Li Weilan”. She guessed that this requirement was probably because the AI might become violent when it heard other names. But now, she accidentally called him “cub,” and now everything was wrong.

It’s all my fault for being too quick with my mouth!

She had been observing him carefully for two days, and strangely, cub had not shown any anger or unhappiness. He was just cold and unresponsive, playing by himself. If she had to say something, it was like he had turned into a plastic pet. On the surface, he was all smiles, but deep down, it was like there was a volcano waiting to erupt.

Even when he looked at her, Shen Cheng felt like she was being questioned and observed.

But she didn’t know how to explain it.

How could she explain why she called herself “mother”?

The first time she said “mother,” he didn’t ask much about it. The second time she said “mother,” she made up an excuse to get around it. But this time, she called him “cub” and then called herself “mother.” How could she make this sound right? It’s impossible to come up with a logical explanation for this!

Shen Cheng was extremely sad.

She was quick to speak, and now she was caught up in an explanation that couldn’t be made clear. She caused this problem herself, and now she had to deal with it herself. She had angered her cub, and she could only comfort him herself.

Actually, Li Weilan didn’t want to make things difficult for her.

He wasn’t as emotional as he appeared to be.

Her calling him “cub” and referring to herself as “mother” had already given Li Weilan a clue about their relationship.

With the information he had previously received and this new address, he already knew how she saw him: probably as a cartoonish, cute, and soft creature. No wonder she always wanted to rub his own head, which is not normal towards a person who was somewhat an oppressive adult male. She obviously thought of him as a soft, little animal!

And the reason was not that she was a giant monster. In the eyes of a giant monster, he would only be a different kind of creature, and how could he mistake her for his mother?

It was more likely that he was living in a two-dimensional world for her!

Not in the same dimension, not in the same world, and even unable to see the reality here.

Li Weilan’s mind was in chaos, and he couldn’t face her at all.

Especially since he knew in his heart that his dependence on her was more like a bond and a budding concern.

But what could he do?

Not in the same world, how could he cross this chasm?

Even as a giant monster, one that could swallow a city or even a whole landmass in one gulp, it was still possible to touch and feel things, but to her, he was more distant than the distance between heaven and earth.

Li Weilan spent three whole days sorting out his emotions.

Shen Cheng couldn’t help but poke his face carefully: “Yin yin yin, Li Weilan, don’t be angry, I promise not to call you ‘cub ‘ again, okay?”

(Note: yin yin yin is crying sound).

When she poked him, Li Weilan was actually calm.

But from her tone, Li Weilan felt her concern. He was moved, but on the surface, he calmly asked, “What about the experiment? Do you still plan to be the test subject?”

Of course, the experiment had to be done.

Shen Cheng was a bit hesitant and reluctant to tell the truth: it was just a projection clone she bought through recharging, not her real self. Without any feeling, it was like creating a paper doll out of thin air for Fu Yanzhou to experiment on. And since completing the mission would benefit the base, what was the problem? Shen Cheng didn’t quite understand.

Her hesitation was actually the answer.

Li Weilan sighed, “Me asking Fu Yanzhou to stay was already the biggest challenge to my bottom line. But if you expect me to keep conceding, to the point where I allow him to experiment on a part of your body that you don’t care about, then you don’t understand me at all.”

“… ” Shen Cheng could only remain silent.

“I have a fantasy,” his voice was gentle, as if any more weight would shatter this dream, “that one day you will open your eyes in this body, smile at me, and say ‘good morning’ face to face. That’s my biggest dream right now.”

His gaze turned sharply towards her direction, as if he could see the operator sitting behind the screen. “Even though I know it’s just a dream, I can’t bear to see your body broken and shattered in front of me, and this dream being torn apart. Promise me, don’t shatter it, okay?”

Even with a cartoonish appearance, his expression still made it difficult for anyone to refuse.

For some reason, Shen Cheng sensed a strong sense of plea in his tone, as if in his heart, at least at this moment, he was focused and unwavering.

Although the mission probably couldn’t be completed anymore, since this was what he wished for, and he had already said so much…

Alright then.

She obediently, a bit regretfully, agreed: “Okay.”

Li Weilan smiled slightly and reached out to touch the screen on his end. For some reason, Shen Cheng felt as though his gaze was piercing through the barrier of the screen and focusing on her face. “Thank you, Cheng.”

It seemed like offering her body was not an option anymore. Previously, Shen Cheng had only briefly extended the usage time of her body, but the most frustrating thing was that the extension had to be purchased with RMB through a weekly card and couldn’t be substituted with gold coins. Since the body was not needed for the task at hand, she decided not to spend any more money on it for now.

There were too many places in the base that required money, between spending on the body and spending on infrastructure, mother really couldn’t keep up.

As the two seemed to have come to an agreement, a thin, weak voice suddenly came from the side, sounding timid: “What does ‘broken and shattered’ mean? What do you guys think my experiment is about?”

“???” Li Weilan turned around, and Shen Cheng changed her point of view.

Both of them looked over to the corner, where they saw a figure crouched on the ground. Fu Yanzhou bravely stood up–he had felt that something was off that day and had originally wanted to clarify something, but his social anxiety made it difficult to figure out what to say. It wasn’t until he heard Li Weilan’s conversation with Shen Cheng this time that he realized he had been completely deceived, so he gathered his courage to come out and explain: “My experiment doesn’t require fragmentation. I’m just testing the system and route of ability operation, and all I have to do is use up the energy every day…”

“???!!!” Li Weilan and Shen Cheng were both shocked.

Okay, social anxiety Fu, you’ve killed someone with your deception!

When they heard the word “scientist” and thought about previous experiments, both of them imagined scenes of crazy scientists in white coats cutting up strong men and weak women. Who knew that he was talking about this?

What’s there to argue about? If Shen Cheng is needed, she can just work a little harder and use up more blue energy!

It’s so simple!

“……” Li Weilan was silent for a while, then looked at Fu Yanzhou wordlessly and said, “Do you know that you almost died?”

“???” Fu Yanzhou’s face showed obvious confusion.

He immediately thought of something and stammered, “I won’t reveal your bedroom secrets, I promise! I have no interest in other people’s private sexual preferences! Whether you call each other mother and son or something else is your personal preference, I promise not to discriminate, spread, or object!” He was full of survival instincts! Full of survival instincts!

“…” Fu Yanzhou, you’re dead!

**

Shen Cheng handed her projection over to Fu Yanzhou for research.

She could check the progress of the research at any time, and Fu Yanzhou’s research progress was completely open to her. So even though Li Weilan was initially not at ease and basically squatting in Fu Yanzhou’s laboratory, she gradually saw that Fu Yanzhou was not doing anything strange to her ‘body’. He was indeed just examining her use of the energy circuit and other things, so she put her mind at ease.

Every day when Shen Cheng logged on, she could see that the progress of the experiment was moving forward. After about twenty days, the progress bar of the “Primary Energy Stimulant” in Fu Yanzhou’s hands finally reached full.

The first person in the base to drink the unstable solvent that was still in Fu Yanzhou’s mouth as an “experimental product” was one of the women rescued by Yan Hongyu and the others.

On the way to escape, her husband became an ability user, and soon after he left her because she didn’t have any abilities and would only hold him back.

What she had hoped for the most before was to eventually become an ability user herself, and to give that man who had cheated on her a slap in the face and tell him how foolish he was. But she had heard that if you didn’t stimulate your energy within two months after the meteorite fell, it would be impossible to do so in this lifetime.

She had long given up on that dream.

The woman’s fingers trembled slightly as she looked at the bottle that was said to be “unstable,” which was not a finished product solvent. “You don’t have to drink it,” Li Weilan reiterated, “Fu Yanzhou said that the reagent may still be adjusted for proportion and efficacy. Waiting for a while will be more secure.”

The woman said “thank you” but asked, “What is the likelihood of triggering an ability?”

Fu Yanzhou had been silent with his head down all along, and now he said, “The probability of successful stimulation is 35%, the probability of death is 10%, and the probability of no effect is 55%. Further adjustments are possible, but it will take at least several months. This is already the best state that the remaining materials I have on hand can achieve.”

The woman nodded. She didn’t hesitate anymore, tilted her neck and drank all the light blue liquid in the bottle without leaving a drop.

“Why wait,” tears gradually appeared in the woman’s eyes, “thank you for the base. Even if the medicine is unstable, if there is a 1% chance of triggering, I would be willing to take the risk of death to try it before. Moreover, now there is a 35% chance of success.”

The drug began to clash in her body, and the painful feeling twisted and convulsed her facial muscles little by little. The woman groaned softly, but still tried to smile, with her gaze slightly blurred.

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“Terrible!” Fu Yanzhou connected a large number of wires to her body and manipulated the instrument. His face looked a little ugly. “We can’t let her lose consciousness! Once she passes out, the probability of death will soar to 40%…”

Chen Feng, who had been watching silently by the side, spoke up at this moment. “Let me bring Xiao Ai over.” The woman liked children the most, and among the children, she liked Xiao Ai the most.

Maybe letting Xiao Ai call her name could stimulate her will to survive.

Xiao Ai quickly came over.

The soft and gentle girl saw the woman lying on the experimental bed in a half-comatose state, her face flushed red, and she anxiously grabbed Chen Feng’s hand, “Big sister! Big sister, what’s wrong with you!”

She still remembered the scars all over her sister’s body.

The child’s slightly frightened cries reached the woman’s ears.

She moved slightly, and the weight that seemed to be pressing on her body immediately dissipated. The woman struggled to open her eyes and vaguely saw the little child crying by the bed.

“She’s awake…” Fu Yanzhou nodded slightly. “The values are starting to stabilize.”

The woman felt a rush of air flowing through her body, like it was trying to find a way out but couldn’t.

That rush of air was completely unrestrained, like it had gone crazy, wildly rushing around, causing her whole body to sweat profusely, and her skin to turn red as if it had been boiled.

Her eyes gradually turned red, and after a few more minutes, threads of blood began to seep out of her facial features.

Xiao Ai looked at her face, which had twisted but still recognizable, turn into a bloody mess, and cried out, “Waah!” while grabbing Chen Feng’s hand, “Brother, brother, save big sister, her face is covered in blood…”

The crying kept the woman’s mind clear for the last moment.

Suddenly, a “achoo” sound came from the woman’s nose, and a deep black liquid sprayed out, stinking and unpleasant. As soon as the blood flowed out, she immediately felt relaxed.

She vaguely felt that there was something more in her chest.

Fu Yanzhou saw that she had regained consciousness, tested her with an instrument, and nodded with some excitement: “Congratulations, you have awakened the poison ability.”

“Poison ability?” the woman asked weakly.

“Yes, as long as you want, everything you touch in the future will become poisonous,” Fu Yanzhou said flatly. Although his tone was calm, anyone could hear that he was extremely excited at the moment.

Yes, there was finally a hope for the ordinary people in the base.

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Sandy: are the abilities reflected on a person’s own mental state? Like the woman’s motivation was to faceslap her ex-husband and probably thought about using poison to kill him or something 🧐

Cub didn’t respond immediately.

The dark room was not lit, with only faint light coming in from the corridor outside, creating a dark and blurry silhouette.

He remained silent in the dark for a long time, and it was only after a while that his hoarse voice was heard: “No need.”

After saying this, cub seemed to gradually recover.

He repeated, “There’s no need for that. Fu Yanzhou’s ability is very useful for the base… um…”

His mouth was gently covered, with the touch as gentle as the wind, leaving a lingering warmth.

Shen Cheng fingertips pressed against his lips through the screen. In the darkness, she couldn’t see the faint blush on his face, but she earnestly told him, “What matters is not the base, but you.”

What matters is your happiness, your ability to live like a human.

The base exists for you, it’s built for you, and mother even spent money on it for you.

Cub lowered his head.

He coughed lightly, and his voice seemed to finally have a bit of vitality: “We won’t expel him, but I won’t cooperate with his experiment, is that okay?”

Meeting his flickering eyes, Shen Cheng almost wanted to agree without hesitation.

At this moment, a new task prompt appeared on the screen:

[Do you want the protagonist to cooperate with the experiment? Y/N Please note: the experiment result is extremely important for the base.]

Without hesitation, Shen Cheng clicked “N”. This was a rubbish game with a crappy plot. Did they really need to include such an option? Was cub important to the base? She played this game not to become a dragon among men in the apocalypse, nor to dominate the world. She only hoped that, at least in the game, cub could live happily.

The scene after choosing “Y” is something that Shen Cheng cannot even bear to think about. Whenever she imagines the possibility of her little cub being bound to the experimental table again, a feeling of resentment fills her chest: not only towards the people who have hurt him before, but also towards the game planner.

But she immediately becomes fearful: she chose “NO,” but what if there are many, many players who choose “YES” for the sake of their bases? How much harm will her cub have to endure?

Li Weilan let out a long sigh of relief.

Yes, what importance do those other people have?

Isn’t it enough that it’s only her?

Shen Cheng was just thinking about how to express her concern for him, but her cub had already stood up from the bed.

He turned on the light, with no hint of sadness or anger on his face. Instead, there was complete calmness. However, in his eyes, which were looking into the void, there seemed to be a particularly fervent light: “I think we need to talk to Fu Yanzhou again. There are still many doubts in what he said.”

Shen Cheng hesitated.

Li Weilan went back to the next room.

Fu Yanzhou was still standing in the corner of the room, with his back against the wall. His toes lightly tapped the ground as he hung his head, expressionless.

When he saw Li Weilan come in, he raised his face slightly, seeming to squeeze out a faint smile with some effort: “Have you figured it out?”

There was a loud bang.

Before Fu Yanzhou could finish his sentence, he was pushed to the ground by a huge force. He felt an irresistible force on his head and groaned before being pinned to the ground. After struggling for a few times, he failed to get up. Fu Yanzhou sat on the ground with an expressionless face, looking at the dust, dirt, and grime on his white clothes with disgust.

Li Weilan watched the scene and slightly curved his lips. In this smile, there was finally no shadow. Yes, why be angry? When he hadn’t had the chance to be angry, someone had already been angry for him, someone had taken action for him with true feelings. Wasn’t that enough?

“Watch your words,” Li Weilan smiled lightly and pointed his finger at the void, saying to Fu Yanzhou, “After all, she is on my side.”

Fu Yanzhou felt an unknown force on his head and suddenly realized that he seemed to know nothing about the reality of this world.

A rare hint of confusion floated in his eyes, and he nodded somewhat dazedly.

“You said that experiment was proposed by you…” Li Weilan asked the first question, “but why have I never seen you or heard of you?” He had been to four laboratories and had stayed in each laboratory for about three months during each repeated torture. He remembered the face of every enemy clearly in the darkness, and those faces became clearer and clearer, and every name was shocking. But not him.

Li Weilan knew clearly that Fu Yanzhou was not among them.

“Because I was exiled for opposing their experimental plan from the beginning of the experiment,” Fu Yanzhou said. “I did propose to monitor and test the first contactees of the meteorite, because the reactions on your bodies are the initial form of abilities. Especially you, I suspect that you are the first person to obtain abilities, and the spatial ability is particularly special. So the abilities on your body may be the reason for the emergence of other abilities. But…” He frowned slightly, “they hoped that you could upgrade your abilities as soon as possible, and their testing method was through pain. However, I believe that evolution is not just through pain and the brink of death.”

Although he was pressed to the ground, his gaze was still calm and cold, just like he didn’t care about his safety and life and death: “I found you by following that tree. That tree was one of our test subjects, and it had a tracker on it that would record some reaction data and footage.” Looking at Li Weilan’s slightly anxious expression for a moment, Fu Yanzhou shook his head lightly, “I have destroyed the data on the tree. Don’t worry, they won’t find you.”

Fu Yanzhou rarely spoke so much. His social anxiety made him reluctant to reveal too much even if he sat on the ground with his back against the wall. In fact, Fu Yanzhou rarely thought about whether he should feel guilty towards his former experimental subjects. However, looking at him standing in front of him alive and with a completely different look from before, he suddenly remembered his previous proposal: it was he who had the laboratory place them all under supervision and provided the initial direction for the experiment. Although it was ultimately those people who stole his experimental plan, he was the first to propose the idea.

Li Weilan breathed a sigh of relief.

Looking at Fu Yanzhou sitting on the ground, he said coldly, “I won’t cooperate with your research.”

“Okay, that’s your choice.” Fu Yanzhou didn’t try to persuade him, he just sighed slightly disappointed. Although he was a research maniac, he knew very well that today’s Li Weilan was not the same as Li Weilan who had just obtained his abilities.

[Congratulations to the player for triggering the follow-up task of Fu Yanzhou’s research. Please provide enough research materials for Fu Yanzhou without using Li Weilan as a test subject. Upon completion of the research, you will receive: Ability Excitation Room (Primary), which will open up a skill excitation room for ordinary people.]

Shen Cheng frowned slightly.

The task was triggered, but she hadn’t decided whether to do it or not.

The Ability Excitation Room sounded great, but… can Fu Yanzhou’s responsibility in this matter just be overlooked?

Regardless, he caused such a miserable situation for the experimental subjects!

Even if he now says that he was not involved in the bloody experiment from beginning to end, he did not strongly oppose it either!

Can he escape from any responsibility?

Li Weilan sensed her dissatisfaction.

“Tell me,” he looked into Fu Yanzhou’s eyes and said each word slowly, “what is the name of the person who started this plan?”

“Chi Ning.” Fu Yanzhou lowered his eyelids. “His name is Chi Ning.”

He wasn’t lying. Li Weilan had heard this name vaguely and painfully before. At that time, he even wondered why this gentle name had a pair of hands stained with blood behind it.

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Some experimental subjects had been drained of all their blood. On him, they drew blood, healed, drew again, and healed again. But the healing depended on overusing the body’s potential. During the bleeding process, Li Weilan gradually went from pain to numbness. Later, it seemed that he could feel a pair of slender eyes watching him behind the two-sided mirror, looking at his painful appearance.

Hatred took root and sprouted in his heart, but his ability upgraded in pain. Li Weilan even thought, why, even though he was mentally suffering, his ability did not die out, but instead had a greater space.

He wished his ability was a combat one.

If so, he would bury everyone in this research institute.

“Chi Ning…” Li Weilan chewed on this name twice and nodded.

Fu Yanzhou suddenly said softly, “Your spatial ability has upgraded, right? What I need is a high-level ability user as a research subject to study the cause and way of the body’s ability activation and upgrade. If you can cooperate with my research, and once my research produces results, I will take you back to the research institute. I still have the authority of the research institute, and I have connections there. As long as my research produces results, I can die without any regrets. If you still have hatred and anger towards me at that time, I can find a place to die on my own, and you don’t have to do it yourself.”

Li Weilan’s pupils contracted.

At this moment, her voice rang in his ear: “You don’t need to cooperate with him, I have a way.”

Shen Cheng didn’t understand why the game prompted her to “provide enough experimental props for Fu Yanzhou” at first, but when she heard their conversation saying “abilities are triggered from Li Weilan,” “the more powerful the ability, the more research value it has,” she knew the hidden meaning of the game: hey, you have to spend money!

She guessed what this task was for, but she wasn’t sure yet. She ordered Li Weilan to go outside.

Li Weilan was pushed out by her.

Shen Cheng silently took out the projection body, which she previously used to appear in front of Li Weilan, and slowly placed it in front of Fu Yanzhou. Fu Yanzhou was stunned for a moment, before he could say anything, he heard a “bang” from the door. The door, which had been closed properly, was suddenly pushed open. Li Weilan looked at the woman who had her eyes closed and was pale, he felt trembling all over.

He took two steps forward and knelt in front of the projection body. He looked at the void with a trembling voice: “Are you going to rip out my heart?”

He guessed her possible choice, but he was not at ease at all.

How could this be possible!

Li Weilan almost instantly drew out Thunder and held it to Fu Yanzhou’s neck, who still had a puzzled look on his face. He sneered, “If you choose to do that, I would rather shed blood today.”

??? Cub? That’s just a projection! Mother won’t feel any pain or anything!

Shen Cheng didn’t dare to provoke him. She looked at him holding the blade with lightning flashing on it, knowing he was not joking. She hurriedly stopped him: “That’s not my real body! I don’t feel anything! Besides, I don’t even know if it works…” She only guessed that the skills of this body were also very powerful, and the price of using this projection could be calculated by “week,” and the weekly price was not too expensive. She had previously thought that the game was preparing to let her control another character, but now it seemed that this projection was designed by the game for Fu Yanzhou to research.

However, she didn’t dare to say this to cub.

“Don’t lie to me!” Li Weilan said excitedly, not believing her at all.

Even if it wasn’t her body, there would still be a cost to creating it.

He already knew that her condition was not good. How could he let her pay the price for him?

Even if Fu Yan Zhou’s research was for the public, what did it have to do with them? Why should she pay the price for him?

She and them weren’t even from the same world!

“Cub,” Shen Cheng spoke with a heavy heart, exceptionally painful. She didn’t even notice that she was using an endearing term or that Li Weilan’s expression had almost cracked for a moment. “How could your mother lie to you!” Your mother will always be your mother. Why would a mother lie to her own cub?

Li Weilan froze.

Fu Yanzhou, who had been able to hear their conversation since the clone appeared, also froze. He sneakily glanced at Li Weilan and felt like he had heard something he shouldn’t have. This time, he might really be in danger of being silenced.

Oh no, what should I do if I heard my boss and his girlfriend using the endearing terms “mother” and “cub” for each other?

Urgent, online waiting!

Will playing dead work?

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Fu Yanzhou: What kind of sick game this couple playing? What mother and cub? Freaky!!!!