Chapter 8: Come On, Beg Me to Hurt You (2)
After staying alone in the room for a while, he found himself feeling somewhat bored, which was rare for him.
Although he had experienced the apocalypse, he had never suffered. There was a not-small supermarket on the underground floor of his residential complex. As soon as the apocalypse came, he went downstairs and moved a lot of food up. He stayed at home for a week, and before the surroundings completely descended into chaos, Zhuang Mingxu arrived.
In the days that followed, Zhuang Mingxu arranged everything perfectly. He had never worried about anything, which led to him not knowing what he should do at this moment.
The upcoming apocalypse would begin with a strange global earthquake.
This once made everyone think that the Earth was cleansing itself. Later, research by the Academy of Sciences found that the culprit behind the earthquake was an invisible substance that fell to Earth, bringing with it zombie energy and causing biological zombification.
The top of the food chain was the first to be infected, followed by the rapid appearance of zombie animals. Just as people suspected that zombie plants and insects would also appear one after another, a global snowstorm with anti-zombie energy descended, causing some zombies to disappear and preventing the zombification of insects and plants.
At the same time, it neutralized the originally more violent zombie energy, and the newly emerged energy was more suitable for the evolution of organisms. This largely opened a new era of coexistence between humans and mutated creatures.
In Lu Weiyi’s memory, although they didn’t lack food and clothing, the quality of life had indeed declined significantly.
The major earthquake and the spread of the zombie virus were only a few days apart. At first, people thought they could scavenge food in the city ruins, but the irregular temperature accelerated the spoilage of food. The country’s food reserves deteriorated quickly. Ordinary plants successively failed to adapt to death, and only powerful ability users could obtain mutated plants and animals. This alone starved many ordinary humans to death.
Moreover, the changing climate, with alternating high and low temperatures, caused countless deaths from heatstroke, frostbite, and illness. Almost every day, the safe bases would uniformly cremate the bodies, and people gradually became numb from the initial cries and rejections.
At that time, Zhuang Mingxu’s ability was very strong, and the team he led was notoriously difficult to mess with in the base. Whether it was initially going out to find supplies or later killing mutated animals, they completed their tasks exceptionally well, which also ensured that Lu Weiyi didn’t suffer even the slightest hardship.
But it was just not suffering; after all, there were only so many things to eat, so naturally, there was no such thing as delicious. Thinking of all those indescribable foods, Lu Weiyi immediately felt like he had something to do.
Without even waiting until the afternoon, he went out and rented a small truck. Under the guise of donating to an orphanage, he bought dozens of portions from everything from star-rated hotels to night market street stalls and quietly loaded them into his space.
Once he had something to do, he forgot about Ji Jin until Ji Jin called to say he had arrived in Wutong City and asked where he wanted to meet. Only then did he realize it was already afternoon.
Time was short, and each restaurant needed time to prepare food. It sounded like a lot, but in fact, he hadn’t gone to many places, not even enough for half a month’s worth.
Lu Weiyi set the meeting place at a not-small shopping mall, planning to browse around while he was at it.
Thinking Ji Jin wouldn’t be there so soon, he stopped by a supermarket. This led to Ji Jin seeing his aloof older brother, who always ignored everyone with a cold indifference, directing people to load several carts of things onto a small truck as soon as he got out of the car. Upon closer inspection, they were all instant noodles, ham sausages, eight-treasure porridge, and other instant foods. He even saw several boxes of self-heating hot pots.
What surprised him even more was that after loading everything, that person directly opened the car door and pulled out the keys.
Clearly, it was his car.
The person who always had bodyguards, drivers, and millions-worth of cars as standard was now driving a small truck worth tens of thousands?
Ji Jin took a deep breath in shock and smiled friendly at the person walking towards him, his words laced with sarcasm, “Is your sugar daddy going bankrupt?”
Hmmm. Thanks for the translation.