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

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

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

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

Shen Cheng opened the main character page.

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

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

Did they discover something?

Li Weilan’s heartbeat accelerated.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Shen Cheng didn’t want to lie to him.

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

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

Shen Cheng looked at the store.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

**

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

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

Fu Yanzhou quickly stepped back.

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

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

Fu Yanzhou’s lips trembled slightly.

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

Fu Yanzhou pushed Xi Bei away.

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

Li Weilan walked in.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Yes,” Li Weilan replied, unsurprised.

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

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

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

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

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

Li Weilan’s pupils contracted.

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

Li Weilan’s face changed.

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

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

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

Nonsense!

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

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

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

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

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

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

The game popped up a new prompt:

[Desolate Map: Updated.]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

**

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

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

If he wanted power, Fu Yanzhou would retreat.

If he wanted the laboratory, Fu Yanzhou would leave.

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

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

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

There was no need to push him into a corner.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

【You have triggered: Laboratory Probe Mission Chain 1.

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

Spy No. 1?

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

Did people from the laboratory follow them to the base?

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

Shen Cheng suspected that this game was fooling her.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Spy No.1 walked into Noah with the crowd.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

He really knows Fu Yanzhou!

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

The task was quickly updated:

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

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

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

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

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

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

Fu Yanzhou’s face instantly turned pale.

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

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

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

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

[Failed Cake Embryo]

Is it a cake?

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

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

**

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

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

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

It was the first time she had felt her presence!

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

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

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

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

In other words, they must be old acquaintances!

Was it appropriate for her to enter?

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

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

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

Xi Bei was dumbfounded.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Shen Cheng’s heart trembled.

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

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

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

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

Li Weilan keenly felt something was off.

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

Did something happen?

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

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

Roughly speaking, cub said that he missed me!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

He let out a small sigh of relief.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

**

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

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

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

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

Fu Yanzhou picked up the plant seeds on the table.

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

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

Li Weilan told him not to ask too much…

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

Fu Yanzhou was not an ambitious person.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

But it was different in Noah.

These seeds…

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

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

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

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

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

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

That made sense.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

If she’s in love…

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

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

He had very few options.

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

“Do you want to know the truth? Y/N”

Li Weilan heard his heartbeat pounding like a drum.

Only he and Cheng had access to the control room.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The screen flashed.

A smiley face appeared on it.

Then, a new line of text appeared:

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

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

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

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

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

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

And this kind of access is unlocked step by step.

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

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

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

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

[Access denied]

A new word popped up on the screen.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Why could he operate the base construction?

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

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

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

Li Weilan felt his heart skip a beat.

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

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

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

Li Weilan immediately thought of his own space.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Fu Yanzhou…

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

Yes, that’s what she promised.

His mood slowly calmed down.

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

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

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

No response at all.

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

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

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

He could only wait for her to come online.

***

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

She had to admit, she felt ashamed.

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

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

But that wasn’t it!

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

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

Hmm…

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

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

Just thinking about that possibility made Shen Cheng feel suffocated.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Lin Yuqi’s tears fell drop by drop.

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

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

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

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

When Li Weilan heard this, his eyes narrowed.

Indeed, he felt something unusual on that zombie pair.

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

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

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

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

What Lin Yuqi said now…

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

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

The mission prompt appeared again on the Shen Cheng phone.

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

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

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

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

After some contemplation, Shen Cheng chose option B.

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

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

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

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

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

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

“???” Cub, can you explain?

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

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

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

“Yeah.” Shen Cheng nodded.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

**

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

So embarrassing!

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

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

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

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

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

This couldn’t possibly be her cub!

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

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

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

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

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

What other reward could she give you!

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

She felt like he was about to say something vulgar.

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

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

Shen Cheng felt like she had become dirty.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Can’t hold on for too long!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Li Weilan didn’t mock him.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Lou Kai remained silent.

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

No, impossible.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Everyone around them was stunned.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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