You say the cataclysm only comes after you've cleared the entire dungeon?

Building A, Cuiping Residential Area.

Luo Zeyan and Lou Fengyue walked up the stairs one after the other.

The afterglow of the setting sun streamed through the window and onto the steps, leaving golden footprints with each step.

"Are you really planning to go find Chen Fengming's mother?" Lou Fengyue asked calmly.

Luo Zeyan glanced at her, a slight smile playing on his lips. "You asked where his mother is, doesn't that mean you're planning to go look for her?"

Lou Fengyue couldn't deny it. She had taken Chen Fengming's water-based superpower. If she could help him bring his mother back, she wouldn't owe him a favor.

"Wasn't Qin Qian's mission for your team to find supplies?"

"Wherever we look, we might as well stop by Chen Fengming's house on the way; it won't delay anything."

Lou Fengyue lowered her head, staring at her slightly torn sneakers. "Whatever."

Noticing her low spirits, Luo Zeyan tilted his head to look into her eyes: "Do you want to come with me?"

Lou Fengyue shook her head: "I'm not going."

She will eventually take her family away from Linjiang, and the fewer entanglements she has with social relationships, the better.

Upon reaching the 37th floor, Lou Fengyue paused briefly at the entrance to the emergency exit.

He took out a bag full of crystal cores from his spatial storage and handed it over.

"Yours."

Luo Zeyan took it and weighed it in his palm.

All the crystal cores he and Li Yichen collected today are here, and there might even be more.

Aren't you going to take it?

"It's not needed."

She only kept ten F-grade pills to pay for the family's water bill; the rest were all inside.

Lou Yunzheng is already at Rank C, so low-level crystal cores are not very useful to him. It would be better to let Luo Zeyan give them to Zhou Hao and Zhou Xuan.

"Okay, thank you." Luo Zeyan accepted it without refusing.

Lou Fengyue went home, but Lou Yunzheng hadn't returned yet.

The authorities summoned all designers and engineers with architectural expertise to discuss the construction plan for the new district. The discussion lasted all afternoon, and the meeting was still ongoing.

The construction of this new safe zone is probably the biggest challenge that everyone has encountered in their careers.

After all, the building's exterior walls must be sturdy enough to withstand hordes of zombies and beasts, and the internal layout must be reasonable so that people can evacuate quickly in case of danger.

They had to dig up mountains to build air-raid shelters and dig secret tunnels to escape.

Qin Qian also wanted to bring water and electricity to the new district.

Meeting so many conditions at the same time cannot be accomplished with just a few tons of steel bars and cement.

Besides, even steel bars and cement are hard to find these days.

Lou Fengyue took a shower and lay down on the sofa.

The soft fabric sofa instantly relieved all fatigue; I really didn't want to take out the wooden sofa I brought back from my hometown.

Her butt will cry foul!

[Congratulations, host! You have successfully replicated fifteen different superpowers! You have obtained 10 Body Tempering Pills, 10 Holy Light Spring Waters, and 5 Blood Clotting Pastes.]

[Congratulations, host, for collecting all seven elemental abilities (metal, wood, water, fire, earth, wind, and thunder). You have received a special reward—3 debit cards.]

As soon as the system's voice came out, Lou Fengyue almost jumped up from the sofa.

Debit card?

Three!

The dog system is getting more and more generous!

With a debit card and Dragon Soul Pills in hand, and ample logistical support, I'm no longer worried about taking my parents out.

When dinner was served, Lou Yunzheng finally returned.

His face showed obvious signs of fatigue, and he held a rolled-up drawing in his hand, indicating that he had been "relyed" on by Qin Qian.

"Brother, wash your hands and eat." Lou Fengyue ran over, took the blueprints from her brother's hand, and unfolded them to take a look.

Good heavens, the architectural drawings are full of dense lines.

I don't understand, sorry.

Seeing his younger sister obediently roll up the blueprints with a resentful look on her face, Lou Yunzheng chuckled and ruffled her hair. "So there are things our Yueyue isn't good at?"

"Hmph!" Lou Fengyue put her hands on her hips, striking a spoiled pose. "Everyone has their own expertise; I'm not going to compete with you for my livelihood!"

"Yes, yes, yes." Lou Yunzheng chuckled, pinching his sister's sparse cheeks. "It's too tiring to fight for a job, you might as well eat a few more bowls of rice."

"You're right." Lou Fengyue slapped his hand away, turned and ran into the kitchen. "Go wash your hands, dinner's ready!"

For dinner, I cooked four dishes and a soup: braised pork ribs, black pepper beef steak, braised pork with potatoes, stir-fried bok choy, and a seaweed and egg drop soup.

The portions are small, but the dishes are plentiful, and they are delicious and visually appealing.

In a post-apocalyptic world where even plain porridge and pickled vegetables are considered precious, their family's meals could be described as a state banquet.

After the meal, Lou Qingjian went to wash the dishes so that the two children could rest for a while.

Lou Fengyue sat cross-legged on the sofa, opened the system panel, and checked how many Body Tempering Pills, Holy Light Spring Water, and Blood Clotting Ointment she had.

I took out some Body Tempering Pills beforehand and gave one to my parents every day. There are still 56 unclaimed pills in the system, all from completing basic tasks and today's rewards.

Including those that have already been taken out and placed in the space, there are a total of 123.

Needless to say, the Holy Light Spring water is undrinkable by ordinary people. She and her brother alone have accumulated more than 500 bottles of it.

The hemostatic ointment was the most dangerous. Apart from giving it to Lu An and Zhou Hao, and giving three boxes to Zhou Xuan, it was untouched. A total of 310 boxes were accumulated.

There's no way around it, they're just too strong; there's practically no chance of getting injured.

Moreover, having acquired the healing ability, there's even less need for the blood-clotting ointment.

Lou Fengyue never dreamed that the life-saving medicine she had risked her life to obtain during the natural disaster trial would now become an unsaleable product!

I saved up every penny to treasure it, only to find out it's worthless!

Lou Qingjian washed the dishes and cut a plate of watermelon.

I saw my daughter sitting cross-legged on the sofa, her gaze fixed on a point in the void, looking as if she were in a daze.

"Yueyue, why are you spacing out again? Are you tired?" Lou Qingjian placed the fruit plate on the coffee table, picked up the largest piece, and handed it to her.

Lou Fengyue smiled and took the watermelon, took a bite, and said indistinctly, "I wasn't spacing out, the system rewarded me with something new again."

She pulled out two gold cards, each about the size of a coin, which Lou Yunzheng recognized at a glance.

"A debit card? You got a new one again?"

"Yeah, I guess the system also felt that I had copied too many superpowers and couldn't use them all, so it gave me three this time."

The two elderly people stared blankly at the two small cards.

"What's the use of this thing?"

"I can give you my superpowers." Lou Fengyue said with a grin, picking up a card and sticking it on her father's forehead.

The debit card disappeared instantly, now linked to Lou Qingjian.

The system panel popped up, displaying the debit card's binding information.

Lou Fengyue thought for a moment, "I'll give my wood-type ability to Dad, so it can help your vegetables and flowers grow."

She operated the panel for a moment, and Lou Qingjian suddenly felt a magical energy flow into his body from his forehead, as if all his muscles and bones had been strengthened.

"Then I'll give the water-based ability to Mom, so you won't have to carry buckets of water up from home to water the flowers and vegetables anymore," Lou Fengyue said, sticking another debit card on her mother's forehead.

The two elders were not very skilled at manipulating their supernatural abilities, and their level was not very high, but it was more than enough for them to grow flowers and vegetables.

"Oh, right."

Lou Fengyue then pulled out the rotten wooden stick and the golden rod from her spatial storage and placed them on the table.

"These two sticks are a bit ugly, but they're the weapons I used in the Calamity Trial. Fighting zombies is as easy as playing whack-a-mole. You can use them for self-defense. If you encounter a zombie crawling in from outside while you're out for a walk, just hit it. Even if you don't hit its head, you can still break its bones."

Lou Qingjian examined the golden baseball bat for a moment, then tried to pick it up, only to find he couldn't. "Yueyue, this bat is too heavy."

Lou Fengyue was taken aback, then scratched her head helplessly, "I forgot, this stick is pure gold, it is indeed quite heavy."

"Pure gold?" Pan Quan's eyes lit up. "How much is this worth!"

"Mom, gold and silver are the least valuable things in the apocalypse." Lou Fengyue calmly put the golden rod back into her space. Since the two elders couldn't wield it, it was useless to give it to them.

To avoid straining your back.

"I was just saying," Pan Quan said with a smile, waving his hand. "Gold is nowhere near as valuable as my vegetable garden!"

"Indeed," Lou Yunzheng agreed, giving a thumbs up. "Mom, the vegetables you grow are more valuable than Yueyue's pure gold baseball bat!"

"Of course!" Pan Quan put his hands on his hips and proudly tilted his head back.

The whole family burst into laughter.

The atmosphere was just right when the system popped up and caused trouble again.

[Host, the heavy rain phase has been detected and will end in 30 days.]

The next phase will be extremely hot.

[The exact time of arrival is unknown; please prepare accordingly.]