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

Lou Fengyue lazily lifted her eyelids to look at Qin Qian, without saying a word, waiting for his next move.

Qin Qian took a deep breath and lowered his eyes. "I know you only want to protect yourself, but we know too little about apocalyptic disasters, so we have no choice but to resort to this tactic and build the safe zone here—"

Lou Fengyue raised her hand, interrupting him: "Where you build the safe zone is your business, I have no say in it. But the authorities shouldn't try to control me either. I'm living comfortably in my own home, I don't rely on the authorities for food, and I don't take orders from them."

Qin Qian was silent for a moment, then nodded knowingly. "But I still want to thank you. If you hadn't stopped the operation in time, my brothers probably wouldn't be back alive."

"No need to thank me." Lou Fengyue waved her hand dismissively and walked past him. "They are protecting this peaceful and prosperous world. If the end of the world comes, I can't just watch them go to their deaths."

The words that were about to come out lingered on his tongue before Qin Qian swallowed them back down.

He never expected to hear such a sentence from Lou Fengyue's mouth.

She clearly acted like she was unruly...

All gratitude seemed inadequate. Qin Qian gave Lou Fengyue a standard military salute as she walked away, watching her enter the A building unit.

Lou Fengyue carried the bag of crystal cores and walked up the stairs of Building A step by step, feeling exhausted as if a tide was washing over her.

I killed over four hundred zombies in one morning. Although they were all low-level idiots, the sheer number of them was exhausting.

Especially that electric ball just now, it consumed too much of my supernatural power.

The corridor on the 37th floor was very lively.

A small square table was set up in the middle, and Liu Wu, Chu Sinian, Chu Sihua, Lu An, and Lou Yunzheng sat around the table on small stools, chatting about something.

"Sister Loulan is back!" Lu An was the first to see Lou Fengyue and immediately stood up to greet her.

Liu Wu followed closely behind: "Wow, you're amazing, girl! We all saw it just now. You created a huge electric ball and killed a whole bunch of zombies in one hit!"

"We weren't the only ones who saw it. Just now, people from other floors came up, wanting to stay on the 37th floor, but we turned them away." Lou Yunzheng looked at his sister with doting eyes, his eyes full of pride.

Upon hearing this, Lou Fengyue sighed.

People are afraid of becoming famous, just like pigs are afraid of getting fat.

She took off her dark raincoat, crumpled it up, and threw it against the wall.

"The authorities have designated Cuiping as a safe zone, so no more zombies will be allowed into the community," she said.

"We all know!" Lu An said excitedly. "Just now, while I was guarding the entrance to the community, some special police officers came over and said that they had taken over this area, and everyone can go out without worry from now on."

Chu Sinian nodded, confirming Lu An's words, and added, "Moreover, if they want to form a team of superhumans to go out for clearing and rescue operations, they will give priority to arranging housing and supplies for superhumans."

"Have you registered?" Lou Fengyue asked.

"Yes." Lu An nodded, not thinking there was any problem. "We were downstairs at the time, and Captain Qin saw that we had superpowers and registered us on the spot."

Lou Fengyue nodded thoughtfully, and after a long while, she only uttered two words: "Pretty good."

Then she took her brother home for dinner.

The steel door opened and then closed.

Lu An stared at the closed door, then looked at Liu Wu and Chu Sinian.

"Why does it feel like... Sister Loulan isn't really in favor of forming a superpowered team?"

Chu Sinian pursed his lips, lowered his eyes slightly, and recalled that he had mentioned forming a team to Lou Fengyue before.

She flatly refused.

It's clear that she doesn't want to participate in either NGOs or official invitations.

She just wanted to stay behind that steel door and watch over her family.

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Braised pork ribs, garlic lettuce, scrambled eggs with tomatoes, and a pot of seaweed and egg drop soup.

Three dishes and a soup is considered top-notch in the apocalypse.

"You're back? Go wash your hands and eat." Pan Quan didn't even look up, her tone as natural as if nothing had happened.

Lou Qingjian poked his head out of the kitchen, holding a hand towel in his hand: "Yueyue, next time throw that big electric ball you just made further away, so it doesn't shatter our windows."

Lou Fengyue washed her hands, sat down at the dining table, picked up her bowl, and began to eat rice.

"Your dad just said that if he had this skill a few years earlier, he would have saved on electricity bills at home." Pan Quan shook his head with a smile.

Lou Yunzheng also sat down and ladled himself a bowl of soup.

Lou Fengyue chewed on a rib and mumbled, "Times make heroes, you know. If I had this skill a few years earlier, I might have been arrested and put into research."

"Come on, your electricity could cook a person alive, who would dare to study you?" Lou Qingjian sat down with a smile. "But seeing how capable you are, your mother and I don't have to worry about you being in danger outside."

The family sat around the dining table. The world outside the window had turned upside down, but inside the house, they could still maintain the last bit of the illusion of "normality".

After finishing her meal, Lou Fengyue poured the bag of crystal cores onto the coffee table, their pink glow standing out prominently in the dimly lit living room.

"Brother, these are all for you."

Lou Yunzheng frowned as he looked at the pile of crystal cores: "So many? Aren't you keeping some for yourself?"

"I don't need them," Lou Fengyue said, sitting cross-legged on the sofa. She picked up an apple and took a bite. "We killed over four hundred today, which should give us a total of sixty or seventy crystal cores. Take a few to Shen Xiaoshuang; she just awakened and her level is low, so she can't absorb too many."

Lou Yunzheng was taken aback when he realized that his sister would be willing to share with Shen Xiaoshuang. He then stopped refusing and sat down to begin absorbing the crystal core.

After absorbing more than seventy pills, he felt that the energy in his body was about to burst, and he dared not continue absorbing.

Lou Fengyue placed a hand on his wrist and felt his throbbing pulse. "Looks like you're still a little short. Go out and practice some more these next couple of days to improve your ability to control your powers."

"Okay." Lou Yunzheng put the remaining crystal cores back into the cloth bag, stood up, and said, "Then I'll go check on Xiaoshuang. She's been emotionally unstable these past few days and cries all the time."

Lou Fengyue took a bite of her apple and mumbled, "I used to go out shopping every day, or I'd stay home and watch dramas. Now I can't go out, and there are no dramas to watch, so I'm probably just getting bored to death."

Lou Yunzheng glanced at his sister and sighed, "We can't just abandon her, can we?"

"How long can you keep an eye on her?" Lou Fengyue retorted.

Lou Yunzheng pursed his lips, unable to respond.

Lou Fengyue continued, "The authorities have established the safe zone here, and they'll probably start counting and registering the survivors tomorrow. Shen Xiaoshuang has awakened her special ability, so the authorities will recruit her, have her do missions, and provide her with food and lodging."

Lou Fengyue had mentioned this when she brought Shen Xiaoshuang over.

Once the official safe zone is established, Shen Xiaoshuang will be sent there, and then they will go their separate ways.

However, Shen Xiaoshuang violated the family rules and was forced to live next door, but her food rations were always provided by Lou Fengyue's family, so it wasn't considered that she was being treated unfairly.

Now that the authorities have designated Cuiping Community as a safe zone, Shen Xiaoshuang will not have to be "sent away," but that doesn't mean she can continue to live next door and be supported by the Lou family.

What should we do? We still have to do it.