Pei Wenqing was attracted by the space and spiritual spring in Song Tiantian's hands, and also because Song Tiantian was different from those dirty women in the apocalypse. Of course he wouldn't let such a delicacy go. As for Yin Ke, he had always secretly loved Song Tiantian. After becoming a Zombie King, he always stayed by Song Tiantian's side to protect her.
The main villain of this world was Han Wu and the Han family.
The cause was that one day, Han Xiaojiao saw the jade pendant hanging around Song Tiantian's neck. She remembered it was the coming-of-age gift her brother gave her. So she wanted to get this jade pendant back.
She led the zombie horde to surround Song Tiantian's team. As a result, this group of men was too formidable and wiped out the zombie horde. Later she tried various methods, but none worked. Finally, she had no choice but to act herself and personally take back the jade pendant from Song Tiantian.
But the jade pendant had already bound itself to Song Tiantian. After she stole it, it disappeared again and was later found still on Song Tiantian.
So she kidnapped Song Tiantian, planning to have a good talk with her about how to return the jade pendant. The moment she kidnapped Song Tiantian, the men came chasing after. In this confrontation, Han Xiaojiao lost and escaped.
She didn't give up and constantly thought about getting the jade pendant back. The final outcome was that she was killed by Fang Cheng and the others.
Many people knew that Fang Cheng and his group were often attacked by a beautiful female zombie, and quite a few had seen Han Xiaojiao. Later, when they arrived at a new base, Han Wu immediately recognized that the jade pendant around Song Tiantian's neck was the one he gave his sister Han Xiaojiao. He questioned where she got it. She said she picked it up.
Actually, she didn't know that Han Xiaojiao attacked the team to get the jade pendant back.
Han Wu had great influence at the base. A team that had a grudge against Song Tiantian's group brought news and photos of Han Xiaojiao's death to show Han Wu. Han Wu recognized at a glance that this was his sister Han Xiaojiao, whom he'd been searching for so long.
At that moment, he became the main villain of this world, with a lifelong wish to kill these people.
Of course, he ultimately failed. The Han family was also destroyed. These men were the protagonists of this world. They eventually took over this world and became its rulers.
Song Tiantian remained their woman, a woman they kept hidden away—no one could covet her. After the apocalypse stabilized and the population decreased drastically, they became obsessed with having children. Especially seeing that the children Song Tiantian bore were fair and tender, they wouldn't let her go.
For the next twenty years, Song Tiantian was either pregnant, giving birth, or repeating the cycle.
The men became increasingly prominent and attractive. Suddenly one day, Song Tiantian felt all this was really meaningless. Even though the world was peaceful, she didn't seem to have gotten a peaceful life—as if she'd become a machine for bearing children. She'd clearly sacrificed so much. Without her spiritual spring and space, could these men have risen so high?
Why, after they'd gained so much, did they still only treat her like a little white rabbit, a dodder flower? They decided everything for her, never asking her opinion. Even if they brought her the world's best treasures, she couldn't like them.
She understood—from the very beginning, they never respected her even for one day. When they wanted her, they took her. When they wanted her to bear children, she bore them. They gave her no free time at all.
Finally, she made a decision—unbind the space and throw away the jade pendant.
When the men came to ask her for spring water, she said expressionlessly, "My ability has disappeared." Her face pale, looking particularly panicked—even the most innocent person, after experiencing vicissitudes, could act realistically. "What do I do? My ability is gone. There's no way to bring it out."
She observed the men's expressions—all changed color at once. They hurriedly asked what happened and took her for various examinations. Finally confirming the ability had truly disappeared, she saw their disappointment.
Without the spiritual spring's nourishment, she aged day by day, because she was just an ordinary person without abilities.
The men who originally claimed to love her deeply grew increasingly cold toward her. She couldn't see them more than a few times a month. They had no interest in her anymore. Especially when they came to see her, all they asked was: Has the ability appeared?
She felt nothing anymore, numbly waiting for death. Before dying, she saw the Zombie King Yin Ke. Yin Ke took her dying form and left.
A-Xin drove for half a day and arrived at a gas station.
She walked over to refuel but was stopped by a slightly chubby man. "If you want gas, you need to trade supplies."
"If you don't have supplies, you can trade with other things." The man's lustful eyes fell on A-Xin. Everyone understood what he meant.
Besides him, behind him were several more men, all with playful expressions. In their arms, they each held a woman. Although their hands wandered over those women, most of their attention was attracted to the tall A-Xin before them.
At this time, humans already knew the importance of supplies. Similarly, many weak women had no choice but to cling to men with much better physical condition than them, just to survive.
There was also a portion of women who were unwilling, but because they were really too weak, they had no right to resist at all.
In the apocalypse world, besides trading supplies for things, you could also use fists.
A-Xin drew out the long whip from her waist and casually flicked it. The man didn't expect her to act so suddenly. Unable to dodge in time, he was directly whipped away. His slightly chubby body heavily hit the ground, landing on his buttocks, kicking up a cloud of dust. The pain made him grimace.
The others occupying this gas station, seeing A-Xin's prowess, didn't dare approach. They only smiled obsequiously. "Miss can take as much gas as she wants. Please."
This woman was a tough one they couldn't afford to offend.
That slightly chubby man was helped up by others and sat to the side with his head down, not making a sound. Even though he hated A-Xin to death, he didn't dare raise his head to give warning looks or anything.
In this world, lives weren't worth much—they'd already experienced this in this short time. Powerful people could slaughter them at will, and they could easily crush weaker people.
Just because you got angry and glared at someone, you might get your neck snapped by a whip—how not worth it. Revenge is a dish best served cold. Who knew if one day the other might fall into his hands? When you haven't surpassed them, it's best to act like a grandson to preserve your life.
Watching A-Xin not only fill up the car but also use oil drums to store gas, they didn't say a word, letting her do as she pleased. Just now, she easily whipped away that man who weighed nearly 180 pounds five meters away. They couldn't afford to offend this woman.
In the car, Han Xiaojiao watched A-Xin's formidable display with particular joy. So she was this capable—this way she didn't need to worry about the other being bullied.
On this journey, she basically never got out of the car, afraid of being discovered and bringing trouble to A-Xin. Although A-Xin had said not to be afraid, to go wherever she wanted, that all trouble could be resolved—she still thought it better to avoid what could be avoided.
After A-Xin left, that group of people finally breathed a collective sigh of relief.
"That woman just now was so scary."
"One whip five meters away—could she be a martial arts master?"
C City was very far from here. Plus with the apocalypse's arrival, many roads were damaged. Driving there, preliminary calculations suggested over ten days. If they encountered zombie obstacles, who knew how long it would take?
With Han Xiaojiao present, zombies didn't dare approach to cause trouble. At most, some people seeing A-Xin—a lone woman driving an SUV—wanted to cause problems, but ultimately met the same fate of being whipped away.
Half a month into the apocalypse, humans began awakening abilities.
Han Xiaojiao watched those people emit electricity, fire, water, and create ice. Every day she stared at A-Xin, expecting her to also awaken abilities. With abilities, one could survive well in this world.
But A-Xin showed no signs of awakening. She couldn't help pulling at A-Xin, expressing her worry and asking if she felt like she was awakening abilities.
A-Xin sensed Han Xiaojiao was worried about her. "I don't need to awaken abilities."
Han Xiaojiao shook her head, indicating she must awaken abilities. Although the whip was formidable, those guys who could spray fire, emit water and create ice were more powerful. She'd watched many apocalypse scenarios—people would get increasingly powerful later.
A-Xin understood Han Xiaojiao's meaning and led her to an open area. "I can do these too." After speaking, a small flame appeared at her fingertips.
Han Xiaojiao shook her head, indicating what could this small flame do? Light cigarettes?
A-Xin controlled the flame to gradually grow larger, finally becoming a huge fireball. She threw it into the distance. Landing on the ground, it directly burned a large hole in the earth. Han Xiaojiao was stunned watching this.
She could control the size at will!
That powerful?
A clear spring-like water appeared at A-Xin's fingertips. Han Xiaojiao quickly ran over, extending her hand under the water to wash it properly. She indicated to A-Xin: You can actually emit water—can I take a bath every day?
"Of course." A-Xin's eyes held a smile—not mocking Han Xiaojiao's vanity, but indulgent.
Han Xiaojiao was somewhat happy. She made more sounds, asking A-Xin what else she could do—electricity, ice, wind... these? After A-Xin demonstrated the power of each one by one, Han Xiaojiao was relieved and no longer fixated on A-Xin awakening abilities.
She asked if this was an ability?
"This isn't an ability, but it's more powerful than abilities." A-Xin led Han Xiaojiao toward the car. Beside the car stood a person-tall orange cat with a pair of beautiful amber eyes staring at A-Xin in shock.
Its expression was very exaggerated. Standing on two legs by the car door, its two thick, cute paws were clawing at the door. It had originally seen a car parked here and wanted to find something to eat inside. Unexpectedly, it saw the scene just now and was so shocked it forgot to put its paws down.
It shouldn't have seen wrong—that human not only could emit fire, but also water, and had ice abilities... It rubbed its eyes. Those two humans were walking toward it. This wasn't a hallucination.
It turned to run, but suddenly an earth wall rose from the ground, blocking its path. When it tried to change direction, an earth wall would rise in that direction to block it. At this time, A-Xin brought Han Xiaojiao before it.
The big orange cat's heart trembled. This was probably capsizing in the gutter. The earth wall that suddenly appeared must have been done by these two humans.
It didn't want to die. Food was scarce in the apocalypse. With so much meat on its body, perhaps these two people hadn't eaten meat in a long time and would kill and eat it. And its beautiful fur might be made into clothing.
No, no, no, it didn't want to die.
"Meow..."
The big orange cat's round eyes bulged. It meowed and lay on the ground, remembering its life with its former human servant, making the same cute, begging gestures it used to make.
Rolling over, acting cute, exposing its snow-white belly. It even licked its paw—the sight was truly adorable. In the past, whenever it used this move, its human servant would definitely give it all the dried fish to eat and indulge it in everything.
It didn't believe that with such an adorable appearance, these two humans would kill it, would bear to slaughter and eat it.
When Han Xiaojiao saw the big orange cat, she was also stunned. She pulled A-Xin and quickly walked over, reaching out to touch and rub the big orange cat. She was particularly happy—she'd wanted to raise a big orange cat before.
The big orange cat reacted and meowed. With eyes half-closed, it looked very much like it was enjoying Han Xiaojiao's petting. Integrity and such—orange cats were the breed that least understood what integrity meant.
With food, someone to raise it, someone to scoop its litter—wasn't it just being petted and acting cute? That was its specialty.
Han Xiaojiao rubbed the big orange cat's head, then rubbed its soft belly. Finally stroking its fur and seeing it was somewhat dirty, she turned to indicate to A-Xin that she wanted to raise this big orange cat. Right now it was too dirty—she needed to bathe it.
Water appeared at A-Xin's fingertips and splashed the big orange cat in the face. The big orange cat didn't resist at all. It had been a long time since it had a comfortable bath.
To think, after mutating in the apocalypse and roaming for so many days, everyone it encountered could only run. It thought it could finally stand up. Who knew it would ultimately fall into human hands again and become a liquid cat that ate and waited for death.
After bathing, Han Xiaojiao pushed the big orange cat into the car and found food in the car to give it.
The big orange cat sat in the back row, holding the food in its paws. Its eyes brightened. Actually, it had been a long time since it ate such clean food.
That bath just now was quite comfortable. Since its human servant abandoned it, it hadn't been this comfortable in a long time.
Skillfully opening the snack package, it ate with relish. It glanced at Han Xiaojiao who was looking back at it. Mm, this zombie was not bad—from now on she would be its new human servant.
Just now, it had already seen that Han Xiaojiao was a zombie.
Being able to eat and wait for death, not doing anything, just basking in the sun and acting cute—why would it want to go outside and work hard?
After running around for over half a month, it had lost quite a bit of weight.
"Do you like it?" A-Xin asked.
Han Xiaojiao nodded and asked if she could raise it. She glanced at the big orange cat's chubby body—several packages of food were gone in moments. Food was hard to come by in the apocalypse. She was somewhat hesitant.
"If you like it, raise it. We can afford it."
The big orange cat pricked up its ears to listen. So it was this human who made the decisions. Remembering the scene it just saw and the feeling of being unable to resist before this human, it wasn't surprised. This human had actually awakened so many abilities, all so powerful—one fireball burned a hole in the ground.
Following such a powerful human servant, its fortune had arrived. Only a stupid cat would resist.
For an orange cat, integrity, face, dignity—where were they as comfortable as being raised by humans? Not having to do anything, just acting cute to live well—only stupid cats would go out to catch mice.
Han Xiaojiao was very happy. After thinking for a long time, she expressed to A-Xin that she'd come up with a name for the big orange cat.
A-Xin said to the big orange cat, "From now on, you'll be called Big Circle."
The big orange cat's paws paused: Why call it Big Circle? This name wasn't sophisticated at all. How could it match such a noble meow like itself? What Big Circle—even Small Circle would sound better.
But given there was a powerful human present, it only meowed once and sat in back licking its paws. Han Xiaojiao would pet it from time to time, and it didn't resist at all.
Go ahead and pet, pet all you want. From now on, she was its human servant—this was the human servant's right.
A-Xin felt that since raising Big Circle, Han Xiaojiao was much happier.
Big Circle was a particularly shameless cat. Although its own strength was decent, it still preferred to eat well and be lazy. It often followed by Han Xiaojiao's side, rubbing against her with its fat, soft body.
Although Han Xiaojiao couldn't make big smiles or excessive joyful expressions, you could feel her happiness from her movements. Later, she would occasionally sit in the back seat, leaning against Big Circle's soft body. Big Circle didn't resist at all—as long as Han Xiaojiao gave it food, it was a very qualified, entertaining big orange fatty.
After another week, A-Xin drove into another city. This city was devastated—streets chaotic, buildings dilapidated, with some deep pits from being smashed. Besides these, what this city had most were zombies.
With Han Xiaojiao's presence, even if the entire city was full of zombies, they didn't dare approach them.
When zombies smelled the scent of living people and prepared to approach, they would be fiercely glared at by Han Xiaojiao and directly scared into falling to the ground. Because of their stiff bodies, they struggled for a long time before getting up.
The big orange cat was somewhat surprised. It knew the new human servant was a zombie with human consciousness, but hadn't expected she could also scare away zombies. It seemed its human servant wasn't just a simple zombie.
Because this city had too many zombies, basically no one dared enter. Those afraid of death would go around from other places. Unless it was a team with powerful abilities, they would venture inside to collect supplies.
Han Xiaojiao rubbed Big Circle's head, indicating she was going to the supermarket to get food for Big Circle. Big Circle could understand Han Xiaojiao's meaning and liked this zombie human servant more and more. It cheerfully followed by Han Xiaojiao's side. One person, one zombie, one meow—they just walked brazenly into the zombie-filled supermarket.
"They actually went in?"
"It seems those zombies aren't attacking them."
"Fang Cheng, should we follow them in?" Gu Dongling was somewhat impatient. "That supermarket and mall have been occupied by zombies with no one coming. We don't have many supplies left. I think following them in should be fine."
"Mm, then let's go in." Fang Cheng calculated, then saw those zombies had indeed moved away from the supermarket, seeming very afraid of those two women. "There are only two of them. They definitely can't take all the supplies inside. After they take theirs, we'll take ours."
Just based on their ability to scare away zombies, they definitely weren't easy to deal with.
This was the apocalypse now—no one followed rules. If you slightly offended powerful people, you'd either die or be injured.
"Tiantian, stay by my side. Be careful not to get separated." Fang Cheng said to the pretty woman beside him. Song Tiantian quickly nodded. She didn't have abilities, but to survive, she told this team's people that she'd awakened a space ability.
If someone had absolutely no abilities, in the apocalypse they'd be no different from trash, completely without status.
As for the space, it actually wasn't her ability either. When she escaped at the beginning, passing by the neighboring dorm room, she picked up a jade pendant and accidentally opened the space.
Inside was a spiritual spring. For her own safety, she only revealed the space and didn't contribute the spiritual spring. But currently, she only told them this space was only half a bed's size and couldn't hold much. This was also the backup she left for herself.
Fang Cheng took good care of her, but it might not be unrelated to her having a space.
Unless absolutely necessary, she wouldn't expose the spiritual spring, to avoid bringing danger to herself. She was very clear that weak humans had a hard time surviving in the apocalypse. The reason she chose this team was also because these people seemed decent for now.
"Tiantian should walk in the middle." Gu Dongling suggested, immediately walking to Song Tiantian's other side. His manner was somewhat flamboyant and domineering. He lowered his head and told Song Tiantian, "Don't worry, I'll protect you."
Song Tiantian didn't have much feeling toward Gu Dongling. She only felt this man's personality was rather domineering. She moved farther away, getting closer to Fang Cheng's position. Then she saw Gu Dongling's expression change. Subconsciously, she moved toward Fang Cheng's side again.
"Dongling, don't scare Tiantian." At this time, Lei Zhe caught up, walking behind Song Tiantian. He showed her an honest smile. Song Tiantian's earlier fear was all healed by this smile.
Being protected by three men going in, Song Tiantian didn't feel honored. Rather, her heart had a creepy feeling. The main reason came from Gu Dongling—the way he looked at her was really too invasive. The women traveling with them would occasionally show her jealous looks. If possible, she didn't want any of this.
In this short apocalypse, she'd seen too much. Afraid the next moment she'd die, unable to control her own fate, only able to be manipulated by others.
The only good thing was she had a space. No matter what situation she faced, relying on this to preserve her life was no problem. Her weak personal strength was her heartache.
Han Xiaojiao immediately sensed people had followed in. Seeing that group slowly following, she didn't pay attention. After just one glance, she continued leading Big Circle into the supermarket to find food.
"You can take whatever you want."
Han Xiaojiao looked at A-Xin once, indicating she could take everything?
A-Xin nodded definitely. "Mm."
Han Xiaojiao was happy. First going to the food shelves, she pointed at things she wanted to take, then stared blankly at A-Xin. A-Xin waved her hand and all the items above disappeared.
Han Xiaojiao was surprised. Was this a space ability?
No matter what ability it was, being able to store things was a good ability. She pulled A-Xin around storing particularly many things. Big Circle was no exception. With its fat body, it quickly dashed to the cat food cans and dried fish section. After confirming the route, it turned and came back to fawn over Han Xiaojiao. Han Xiaojiao understood its meaning and pulled A-Xin to store the cat food cans and dried fish.
Big Circle watched as its food was all stored away, contentedly rubbing against Han Xiaojiao. It made Han Xiaojiao laugh.
Next, Han Xiaojiao pulled A-Xin to the cosmetics section and swept all the cosmetics clean. Looking at the dazzling array of cosmetics, she was particularly happy.
Above the supermarket was a shopping mall. She brought A-Xin to the women's clothing section, pointing at pretty dresses and clothes, having A-Xin collect them all.