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

Night falls.

In room 3702, Lou Yunzheng was still sitting by the bed, staring at a small nightlight, motionless like a statue at the person on the bed who had a high fever.

When Lou Fengyue went to call him for dinner, she saw him sitting blankly on the edge of the bed, lost in thought, with no light in his eyes.

It's like a soul has been ripped out, leaving only an empty shell guarding this place.

"Brother, dinner's ready." Lou Fengyue subconsciously lowered her voice, afraid of disturbing something.

Lou Yunzheng turned his head and looked up at his sister. Her beautiful face, which could grace the cover of a magazine, was devoid of any life.

"Yueyue, what do you think... this world will become?"

Lou Fengyue paused for a moment, then pursed her lips. "I don't know."

In the game, the difficulty is calculated in levels. She progresses through each level and fights her way through each instance. After defeating the last wave of zombies, she can clear the game and go home.

But the real world is not a copy; the apocalypse will last longer and there will be more variables.

Six months in a game could be ten or twenty years in reality, or even... until humanity goes extinct.

She doesn't know, and won't think about, such distant and impractical questions.

Just being alive is enough.

Live one day at a time, and live as long as you can.

Humans are fragile beings, with mortal bodies that can get sick, injured, and die.

But humans are also powerful beings; as long as there is a glimmer of hope, they will not give up the chance to survive.

"Let's go back and eat first." She tugged at her brother's arm and pulled him up. "After you eat, take a shower and go to sleep. I'll keep watch tonight."

The door to room 3702 closed behind me, and the corridor was pitch black.

The steel door opened, and the aroma of food wafted out.

Pan Quan had already served the dishes: three dishes and a soup, including braised pork, garlic broccoli, scrambled eggs with tomatoes, and seaweed and egg drop soup.

"Let's eat." Lou Qingjian put down his phone and picked up his chopsticks.

Lou Yunzheng sat down, picked up his bowl, and mechanically ate two mouthfuls of rice.

Lou Fengyue ladled a bowl of soup for him and placed it beside him. "Drink some soup, don't choke."

Lou Yunzheng responded and lowered his head to drink the soup. The hot soup slid down his throat, warming his stomach a little, and he felt a bit more alive.

Pan Quan glanced at his son, his lips moved, but he didn't say anything in the end. He just pushed the braised pork towards him.

After dinner, Lou Yunzheng took a shower and changed into clean clothes.

After cleaning up the dishes, Lou Fengyue went to keep watch in the neighboring dormitory 3702.

In the master bedroom, Shen Xiaoshuang was still the same, lying on the bed, breathing rapidly, her hair at her temples soaked and sticking to her cheeks.

Lou Fengyue left the room, lay down on the sofa in the living room, covered herself with a thin blanket up to her waist, and took out her phone to check the new messages.

Lu Ban has arrived at the central government headquarters, where the police force is heavily deployed. The zombies near the office have been cleared out, and the location is safe.

However, the central government also maintains strict control over him, requiring him to hand over his mobile phone and limiting him to a fixed half-hour of use time each day.

It seems that the central government does not consider this to be the end of the world, but only regards the appearance of zombies as an epidemic caused by a special virus.

They are still using peacetime management methods to demand things of Lu Ban.

Going to the central government now would make you a production tool with "unlimited and extraordinary resources".

Only when they realize that the end of the world has come and the situation is beyond their control will they take the "Chosen Ones" seriously.

That's why they would treat these strong individuals who had fought for half a year and passed the trials of natural disasters as honored guests.

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The next morning, the sky began to brighten.

Lou Fengyue woke up and sat up. The moment she did, she thought of Shen Xiaoshuang in the master bedroom.

She pushed open the door. The person on the bed was calm. The strange blush on his face had faded, his breathing was steady, and there was no more sweat on his temples.

The fever has subsided, he's still alive, and hasn't mutated.

She reached out and placed her hand on Shen Xiaoshuang's forehead.

[Spatial ability detected. Copy immediately?]

Spatial abilities?

Did it really awaken her?

Lou Fengyue didn't think much of it and copied her superpower.

Although he has a space ring with unlimited storage, he has no need to use his spatial abilities.

But it can be used to make up the numbers!

[Congratulations, host, you have successfully replicated five different superpowers. You have obtained 5 Body Tempering Pills, 5 Holy Light Spring Waters, 5 Blood Clotting Ointments, and 1 Debit Card.]

Lou Fengyue's eyes lit up.

Debit card?

I searched high and low without finding it, but then it came to me without any effort!

[Debit Card: Used by the bound user, allowing the user to lend any of their special abilities to the bound user. Lent abilities can only be exchanged after thirty days, but can be retrieved at any time.]

[Note: Once used, this ability cannot be retrieved or its bound object changed. Borrowing it will temporarily forfeit the right to use this ability.]

Lou Fengyue carefully read the instructions several times and finally understood them.

This means that she can lend her special abilities to the same person countless times, but she can only lend one type of ability each time, and she has to wait a month before she can lend another one.

[The host's understanding is correct.]

Regardless, it's a good thing.

If I lend my brother the space ability that I just copied, we can split up when we go out to find supplies, and our efficiency will double!

Lou Fengyue ran home and went into the study to wake her sleeping brother.

"Brother, wake up! Your little Xiaoshuang's fever has gone down!"

She bent down and stood by the bed, shaking Lou Yunzheng's arm incessantly.

Lou Yunzheng opened his eyes groggily, and after hearing what she said, he immediately sat up.

"What did you say?" He grabbed his sister's arm. "Her fever broke? She didn't mutate?"

"No mutation, just spatial abilities," Lou Fengyue said.

"I'll go take a look." Lou Yunzheng rolled out of bed, slipped on his slippers, and rushed out.

Lou Fengyue watched his retreating figure and clicked her tongue twice.

Sigh, this love-struck brain is so strong, even zombies would shake their heads in disgust if fed to it.

She walked out of the study, and the door to the master bedroom clicked open.

Pan Quan, wearing a cardigan, peeked out sleepily.

"Yueyue, what happened?"

"Shen Xiaoshuang's fever has subsided, and she's even awakened her supernatural abilities," Lou Fengyue said calmly, picking up a slipper that had fallen into the living room. "My brother was so excited that he even lost his shoe."

Pan Quan stared at the slipper for a few seconds, sighed, shook her head, and turned back into her room.

It's so obviously unbearable to look at.