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

Lou Fengyue's words stunned everyone present.

No one expected that she would actually tear off the mask and lay everything out on the table.

Shen Xiaoshuang was momentarily dazed, then turned to look at Lou Yunzheng.

Lou Yunzheng didn't speak up for her, which clearly meant he also thought the rules set by Lou Fengyue were reasonable.

She stood there, clutching her phone in her pocket, hesitating for a long time before finally handing it over.

Lou Fengyue took it, pressed the power button, but there was no response; it was dead and frozen.

She glanced at Shen Xiaoshuang. "Where's the tablet?"

"In the duffel bag."

Lou Yunzheng opened the bag, took it out, and handed it to his sister along with the charger.

Lou Fengyue took it and then stepped aside to allow Shen Xiaoshuang to enter.

The moment Shen Xiaoshuang stepped into the house, she was so astonished by the sight before her that she couldn't close her mouth.

A single, expansive glass window, with a windowsill wide enough to be used as a single bed.

A movie was playing on TV, not yet finished, and two glasses of chilled orange juice, still glistening with condensation, sat on the coffee table in the living room.

The lights were bright, illuminating the spacious living room, which was clean and tidy everywhere.

This place seemed completely isolated from the world, maintaining the peaceful and serene atmosphere that existed before the storm. It was hard for anyone to imagine that the outside world was already teeming with zombies.

There is electricity, water, and food.

This isn't a refuge trip, it's a vacation!

"Go take a shower first," Lou Yunzheng handed her his bag and pointed to the public bathroom. "There's hot water inside, you'll feel more comfortable after a shower."

"Okay, thank you, baby." Shen Xiaoshuang smiled sweetly, her eyes filled with happiness.

Pan Quan frowned slightly and suddenly reminded her, "The water supply at home is limited, so you can't shower for more than fifteen minutes."

Shen Xiaoshuang's face immediately changed, and she almost screamed, "Fifteen minutes?! Not even enough to wash my hair!"

"Then shave your head." Lou Fengyue said coldly, her eyes devoid of any emotion, looking a thousand times more terrifying than a zombie.

Shen Xiaoshuang glanced at Lou Yunzheng with a wronged expression, but then heard him say, "It's good to cut it shorter, it's more convenient."

"No!" Shen Xiaoshuang immediately covered her long hair, grabbed her luggage bag, and hurried to the bathroom. "Fifteen minutes is fine!"

Shen Xiaoshuang's retreating figure as she rushed into the bathroom carried a hint of defiance, and Lou Fengyue didn't give her another glance.

She turned and walked to the kitchen, took out several boxes of self-heating rice and canned meat from the storage space, and placed them on the counter.

Pan Quan followed her over and asked in a low voice, "Yueyue, should we lower the standard of food at home recently?"

Previously, we ate four dishes and a soup or three dishes and a soup every day, with fresh meat and vegetables at every meal.

Since we can't let Shen Xiaoshuang discover the existence of the space, we also can't let her realize that there's a constant supply of fresh food in the house.

"Okay." Lou Fengyue took out two boxes of instant noodles and a box of self-heating rice and put them in the cupboard. "Mom, from now on, we'll cook instant noodles or eat self-heating rice. Please bear with us for a while. The authorities will designate a safe zone after the floodwaters recede, and she won't be staying there for long."

Pan Quan sighed deeply, looking at her daughter who was covered in dirt. There was no disgust in her eyes, only heartache.

"We're not wronged. In this world, it's good enough to have enough to eat. It's you who's been wronged, risking your life to go out and find supplies, only to come home and not even get a decent meal."

"Mom, I'm used to it." Lou Fengyue smiled easily, seemingly not taking this little thing to heart at all.

She was suddenly pulled into the disaster game without any preparation, and the torrential rain came unexpectedly.

She was trapped in an old, dilapidated house. After searching the entire house, she only found a few slices of expired toast, which she used to survive the torrential rain.

Moreover, on the third day of the torrential rain, she developed a high fever. With no water and no medicine, she thought she was about to die. She endured it for three days, eventually killing the virus in her body and awakening her metal-type superpower.

After the rain stopped, she needed to find food and also kill zombies to complete the system's tasks.

At the time, all she had was a rotten wooden stick, so she took that stick and began to wander, searching for food and fighting monsters along the way.

I've eaten moldy bread and drunk murky rainwater.

Later, even the moldy bread disappeared, and she could only survive on the body-tempering pills she earned from killing zombies.

I've long forgotten what food tastes like.

Lou Fengyue didn't tell Pan Quan any of these things.

She was the darling of her family since she was a child. If her mother knew that her beloved daughter had suffered so much in the past six months, she would probably faint from heartache.

"I'll just cook a few packs of instant noodles and put in a can of meat tonight." Lou Fengyue put the frozen meat from the refrigerator into her spatial storage, leaving only two frozen steaks. She also put away most of the fruit. "I'm going to take a shower first. Don't bother with anything, I'll cook after I shower."

"Let me cook. You've had a long and tiring day." Pan Quan felt sorry for her daughter who was shouldering the burden of the family and just wanted to do what she could.

"Mom, apart from being a little frightened and not eating well these past few days, Shen Xiaoshuang hasn't suffered much. You saw her temper just now; she didn't restrain herself at all."

Lou Fengyue said earnestly.

"Today we need to set some rules for her. If I cook, she won't dare complain. She has to eat whatever I cook. And from now on, don't hold grudges against her. If anything is bothering you, let me talk to her. Getting angry will only harm your health."

Pan Quan pursed her lips, looking at her daughter with a complicated expression, and finally nodded firmly.

Lou Fengyue went to take a shower in the master bedroom's bathroom.

She first filled a bucket with water, washed her hair, then soaked her blood-stained clothes in the bucket, and then stood under the bathroom heater and quickly took a shower.

Fifteen minutes, saving both time and water.

However, the sudden increase in water consumption by an additional person in the household made her realize that she needed to find a water-based ability user as soon as possible.

"System, have you completed today's tasks?"

[Basic Mission: Kill 12 or 10 zombies or mutated beasts (Completed)]

[Rated SSS grade. Congratulations, host, you have obtained 2 Body Tempering Pills and 1 Holy Light Spring Water.]

[Random Quest: Help Liu Wu and Chu Sinian obtain food - Completed]

[Rating: Grade A. Congratulations, host! You have received 2 Body Tempering Pills and 2 Holy Light Spring Waters.]

[Congratulations, host, you have received a special reward: a Grade B item—a rotten wooden stick.]

Lou Fengyue stared at the pictures of the reward items that popped up on the system panel, and couldn't help but narrow her eyes in disgust.

Being stingy is one thing.

But please explain why that rotten stick she picked up casually in the game ended up in the rewards!

And it even became a B-grade item!