Apocalypse: The Primordial Pearl Recognizes Its Master, Starting with Infinite Space

After Lin Chen and Li Ya returned to the villa, Li Ya immediately took out several heavy bags from her room and handed them to Lin Chen.

"Brother Lin, here's what I've gained today."

Li Ya reported: "Today, the thirteen cleanup teams collected nearly 100,000 first-order crystal cores and more than 500 second-order crystal cores. After deducting the reserved portion, the rest are all here."

Lin Chen looked at his haul, nodded in satisfaction, and carefully put it away.

The returns on investment in the early stages are getting bigger and bigger.

Unless there's a zombie siege, killing zombies one by one would be exhausting for him to reap such huge profits.

Now, all the ability users in Li Ya's team have reached the second tier, and some have even reached the third tier.

As for the extra crystal cores, they will spend them at the business center and return them to Lin Chen's hands.

After Li Ya finished her report, she turned around and prepared to leave.

The more than 2,500 new members joined today will keep her busy until late at night.

"Xiaoya," Lin Chen said, grabbing her wrist quickly, his voice full of complaint, "There are capable people in the team, can't you pick a couple to be assistants and share the workload?"

Then he chuckled and said, "Look, we haven't done 'that' for days. Look at your dad's attitude today, he's probably going crazy wanting to be a grandfather. We have to find some time to 'try' it out, right?"

Li Ya's ears instantly turned bright red, as if they had been burned.

She pulled her hand away from Lin Chen's: "I've already found assistants! Sister Qin Yi and Sister Li Shishi are helping me now! They need time to adjust too! You should go find Sister Yun and the others!"

He then ran upstairs without looking back.

"Hey! You'd better get away from here quickly!" Lin Chen shouted at her retreating figure.

"Okay!" Li Ya's voice came, tinged with laughter and a hint of panic, before quickly disappearing around the corner of the stairs.

Lin Chen smiled helplessly and wandered around the villa.

Su Yun guessed they were taking inventory of supplies... The huge villa seemed rather quiet for a moment.

He strolled along, and before he knew it, he had arrived at the underground shelter again.

As soon as we entered the entertainment plaza area of ​​the underground shelter, a burst of enthusiastic cheers and applause rang out.

"Wow! Sister Mei'er's figure, and that typhoon! No wonder she's a supermodel who's walked the runways of international fashion weeks!"

"Sister Feifei's monologue just now was absolutely amazing! Her eyes were so expressive! She truly deserves the title of rising star!"

"The girls from the art school are amazing! The choreography is so captivating!"

Lin Chen looked in the direction of the sound and saw that a simple small stage had been set up on one side of the square at some point.

On stage at this moment, Liu Feifei is performing with several new team members who joined today.

The new team members were all outstanding in temperament and tall in stature, clearly the models Jiang Yingxue had mentioned.

There were also a few students rescued from Yangcheng Art Academy, and Lin Chen vaguely remembered them.

They were engrossed in performing a skit, while two or three thousand team members sat around the stage, watching with great interest, bursting into laughter and cheers from time to time.

The internet in the outside world is rapidly collapsing, and once mainstream mobile entertainment has become an unattainable luxury.

However, here, people did not succumb to despair. Instead, they spontaneously created happiness, using the simplest and most sincere methods to combat the spiritual and psychological devastation brought about by the end times.

Lin Chen felt quite gratified as he watched this scene.

Under the endless pressure of survival, this collective laughter and resonance is undoubtedly a valuable lubricant for maintaining morale and preventing psychological collapse.

Everyone was so engrossed in the joy on stage that no one noticed Lin Chen's arrival.

His gaze swept across the crowd, and he soon spotted Liang Siqi's figure to the side and behind, with the twins Jiang Yingxue and Jiang Yingyue standing beside her.

The three of them were engrossed in watching, and Liang Siqi had a smile on her face, her eyes crinkling with delight, as if she had been infected by the plot.

Lin Chen quietly walked around her, a mischievous thought forming in his mind. Suddenly, he reached out from behind her and gently covered Liang Siqi's eyes with his hands.

"Ah!" Liang Siqi was startled, her body trembling instinctively.

However, before Lin Chen could even try to scare her with a high-pitched voice, a clear voice rang out from the side:

"Brother Lin! Why are you covering Sister Siqi's eyes?"

Jiang Yingyue blinked her bright, lively eyes and looked at Lin Chen with an innocent expression, as if she had just asked the simplest question.

That girl definitely did it on purpose!

Lin Chen's surprise plan instantly fell apart.

He released his grip in annoyance and slapped Jiang Yingyue's pert buttocks hard.

"Smack."

"Ouch!" Jiang Yingyue immediately put on her dramatic act, covering the spot where she had been slapped, her little mouth pouting, her eyes instantly welling up with tears, and she accused him in a wronged tone, "Brother Lin, you're so mean! You spanked my little bottom, it hurts!"

He looked just like a pitiful little thing who had been bullied by a thug.

Jiang Yingxue stood to the side, looking helplessly at her quirky younger sister.

Although the two sisters are twins, their personalities are quite different.

Jiang Yingxue is introverted, gentle, and considerate—a typical virtuous wife and loving mother.

Jiang Yingyue, on the other hand, is naturally lively and quirky.

It's hard to say which is better or worse; all Lin Chen can say is—I want them both.

Jiang Yingyue's affected performance immediately attracted the attention of the girls around her.

Everyone watched as Lin Chen "bullied" Jiang Yingyue, and then looked at Liang Siqi's slightly flushed cheeks, and covered their mouths and chuckled.

"Yingyue," Lin Chen said, exasperated, "your acting...did you get some private lessons from your sister Feifei?"

"No way!" Jiang Yingyue immediately dropped her aggrieved look, proudly tossing her chin. "I call it innate talent, self-taught!"

"Hahaha..." Her quick change of expression made everyone around her burst into laughter.

Liu Feifei, who had just finished her performance and was walking over, also heard this and joked with a smile, "Yingyue is really the life of the party and a great actress here."

Lin Chen was completely impressed by these girls.

"Do you have any other programs?" he asked, changing the subject.

He arrived late and hadn't watched any programs yet.

"We've finished all the preparations for today's performance," Liu Feifei shook her head. "And everyone's been busy all day and is tired, so it's about time we all went home to rest."

"A break?" Lin Chen's gaze shifted between Liu Feifei and Liang Siqi.

Suddenly, he said in a serious tone, "Feifei, Siqi, perfect timing. I have some important matters concerning the development and future plans of the shelter that I need to discuss with you two in detail."

He spoke seriously, but his hands didn't stop moving; without saying a word, he put his arm around both of their shoulders.

Amidst the increasingly loud and ambiguous laughter of the surrounding women, and with their ears turning bright red as if about to bleed, he half-heartedly led them away from the bustling square and headed straight upstairs towards the bedroom.

Lin Niuma finally made his own decisions today!