Chapter 856: Bound to the Birth System, Becoming a Winner in Life Chapter 857 Global Evolution (17)

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Main Character:

Shen Yao

Time continued to move forward, and the clothes on her body went from thin to thick. Calculating it this way, Shen Yao and the others had already been at the H Province Shelter for several months. Watching the survivors here increase in number, the shelter's area expand, and everything around them develop for the better, a sense of pride surged in their hearts.

Shen Chengyu and Shen Chengning went out. After following Shen Yao to learn how to quickly and efficiently gather surrounding supplies, they chose to leave Shen Yao and begin their own wonderful journeys.

At first, Shen Yao definitely wasn't very reassured. Although they agreed on the surface not to follow anymore, her secret observation and protection did not decrease at all; she even sent out the system along with them.

Later, seeing Shen Chengyu and Shen Chengning do better and better, Shen Yao gradually truly chose to let go, only letting the system occasionally pay attention for a moment, while most of the time she let Shen Chengyu and Shen Chengning freely unleash themselves.

Shen Chengyi successfully got recruited by the official side thanks to her exceptionally outstanding hands-on ability.

Plus, given the previous characteristics of the H Province Shelter, the family of four now enjoyed quite a bit of extra care. For example, the house they currently rented was not only rented to them at a price below market value, but was also a long-term cooperation. As long as Shen Chengyi didn't actively seek death, they could prioritize living here.

'Host, it's so lively outside.'

The system slithered back, bringing back a bellyful of gossip to share.

Shen Yao stood by the window. The balcony previously used to dry wheat ears had long been remodeled by her into a nap spot. A rocking chair was placed in the corner, a colorful plaid blanket was spread on the floor, and beside it was a low small counter holding several books brought from home.

Since she had already stockpiled enough autumn and winter supplies, Shen Yao's frequency of going out decreased a lot. After eating and drinking her fill every day, her favorite thing was to stay in the rocking chair on the balcony, close her eyes, and enjoy the warm sunlight falling on her body.

'What did you see again?'

Shen Yao sat sideways on the rocking chair in a relaxed posture, teasing the system with a playful tone that it couldn't stay idle. 'Last time it was the official shelter's foreign policy, the time before that it was those high levels' love-hate entanglements, the time before that,...'

Shen Yao spoke of the system's black history, thinking to herself that it was truly better not to mention it. Once she calculated it, she was shocked. So the system had done so many things?

System:...

'Host, I am innocent,' it protested wrongfully!

Swearing to the heavens, it really was just a bit gossipy and a bit curious, with no other bad intentions. But who could have thought that things would just happen to land in its hands?

The system truly had grievances it didn't know how to express. After all, it just loved gossip a bit; for other things, it could avoid them if possible. Who could have thought gossip would cause so much trouble? If it weren't for the Heavenly Dao of this world being busy ascending dimensions, causing all creatures to be busy evolving, the system would suspect it was being schemed against.

'Innocent? I certainly believe in your innocence. But system, just my believing is useless. The world doesn't revolve around just the two of them. Some things she doesn't say doesn't mean the system doesn't know. Given the current scale of the H Province Shelter, if these are truly schemes targeting the system, what the other party plots won't be small.'

System:...

Enough, the more she said the more eerie it got. The system simply shut itself down, and the chirping mechanical sounds disappeared from Shen Yao's ears.

Shen Yao:...

Really, this fragile? Completely unlike a system's style.

Raising her hand to touch her chin, Shen Yao opened her eyes. She was still covered with the blanket used for warmth because she was afraid of the cold. Shen Yao then turned to look out the window not far away.

The sunlight was bright, there weren't many thick clouds in the sky, and a few had drifted close, causing some shadows below the buildings.

'Tell me the gossip you heard first.' Changing the topic, Shen Yao was very curious what news the system, with its luck, had dug up this time.

After a few minutes, just as Shen Yao thought the system wouldn't speak again, the system opened its mouth. 'Tsk, what I heard is a notification that the official side is about to post.'

Inside it also concerns Huo Wenkai. It said that recently there are many people, and the residential area is a bit chaotic. To facilitate official management in the future, they want to register the people in the residential area again.

This isn't as simple as before. The information to be registered includes most personal privacy, and they even plan to give demerit punishments to those who don't cooperate, saying, saying it's to warn others by punishing one.

Shen Yao:...

'System, be honest. Who proposed these suggestions?'

It could be said they are of no use at all. Aren't they afraid of provoking the survivors' rebellious psychology and making the residential area even more chaotic?

You have to know there are especially many buildings in the residential area. Those living here are not only survivors who came from all directions, but also military family members, official personnel, and ability users. Even if they are distributed on different floors, they will still run into each other when going out daily.

Some words are right: good news doesn't travel far, bad news spreads a thousand miles.

Although this policy can curb the chaos in the residential area to a certain extent, in the long run, the harm outweighs the benefit. Originally, after fleeing, they were already sensitive. Now exposing even more personal privacy, their sense of security will only get lower. Surrounded by this sense of crisis, people easily become an inflated balloon, and with a bang, directly explode.

The system hehe laughed. 'Of course it was proposed by certain big smart people. They chattered away, making it very lively. Actually, they can't participate in it at all.' They just thought they could make decisions.

'By the way, Host, Huo Wenkai has his hand in this.'

The system was very familiar with Huo Wenkai. Who made this person related to the Host? Although this relationship wasn't very satisfactory to either party.

The system's mechanical sound obviously carried a slightly strange taste, looking cheap and tacky, like a bystander hiding to the side watching the fun.

In fact, the system could indeed stay out of it. After all, it had no physical body, and currently the only one who could communicate with it was Shen Yao, this one bound Host.

In other words, even if Shen Yao really had an accident, the system would just find a new person. For this it would need to pay a huge price, but it could survive. Mechanical life is terrifyingly tenacious.

'Huo Wenkai, he wants quite a lot of things.' For such a long time, Huo Wenkai had fully utilized those skills from his time in the entertainment industry, climbing up step by step. Although he is currently still in a marginal position, Huo Wenkai is a person with deep scheming. For his goal, he will never stop until he gets what he wants. Causing so many things now, he probably wants to use this opportunity to defect to certain people, right?

'If there's a chance, observe more. Huo Wenkai can't leave the shelter range for now.' Also, after it gets cold, the official search work will end. Huo Wenkai doesn't want to lose his usefulness, otherwise he will be marginalized. While he can still blow pillow wind, he's stirring up things to show his presence and expressing himself more outside, looking for a way out.

Tsk tsk tsk

Shen Yao still hoped Huo Wenkai would go smoothly, so their points wouldn't decrease. She didn't want to spit out the things already in her pocket.

Bickering with the system was just Shen Yao's leisure chat. Shen Yao spent most of her time active inside the shelter.

Lying on the balcony covered with a blanket and sleeping for a while, Shen Yao took advantage of the nice weather outside and simply got up to go to the new supermarket downstairs to buy some daily food.

The autumn and winter clothes originally sold were all sold out. The supermarket staff said they didn't know when they would restock. Because there are more and more buildings inside the shelter, several supermarkets have already opened. If you really want some warm supplies, you can go to the big supermarket in front to try your luck. That place is right next to the army, and everything will be supplied there first. Unlike the supermarket in the residential area, which is not large and mostly sells daily staple foods and other common items. Although popular, they won't be scrambled for by everyone.

Shen Yao thanked the staff for the answer after hearing this. She already had enough warm supplies in her hand. Considering Shen Chengyi and her sisters might go out for missions or gather supplies when it's freezing cold, some warm items that can be used at any time, including warming patches, hot water bottles, hats, gloves, scarves, etc., can be prepared more.

Since there weren't any here, Shen Yao simply spent two points to borrow a bicycle that could be ridden and used at any time, heading to the supermarket next to the army to try her luck.

How to put it, Shen Yao's luck was indeed good. When she arrived, the supermarket just happened to restock. Although there were quite a few people inside and outside the supermarket, because this supermarket had a large area and full variety, the quantity restocked each time was very large. Shen Yao successfully bought these warm underwear and panties that felt flawless to the touch.

Wasn't this like going to a garment processing factory? Although clothes have size requirements, not every size is available. But Shen Yao and the others are all standard height, and they can wear normal sizes.

She bought eight sets in one breath (maximum limit), two sets per person with enough to change and wash. Shen Yao also took several boxes of warming patches, four hot water bottles, and a crate of alcohol blocks and lighters.

The points spent were provided by Huo Wenkai out of friendship. Both sides maintained a tacit understanding of not being familiar with each other, meeting once a month and not saying much.

Now Shen Yao's household card still had several thousand points. Even if she didn't save much, she could spend for a period of time.

Hanging the bought items on both sides of the bicycle, Shen Yao stabilized her body's center of gravity and sent the things back to her residence.

Repeating this back and forth, Shen Yao made several trips until she had run through every supermarket inside the shelter, and the bicycle beneath her was also returned to its original owner.

Shen Chengyu and Shen Chengning came running out from the distance, hopping and jumping, each carrying a black backpack on their backs and holding supplies piled full in their hands.

"Mom"

"Mom"

Shen Chengyu and Shen Chengning waved their hands; their harvest today was not bad — not only did they collect many evolution crystals, they also rummaged out usable items for themselves from ruins that had not completely collapsed.

"Here, all of this was found by me and Chengning — not only in the backpacks, but in the space too," Shen Chengyu spoke the latter words with particular care.

The space is a secret belonging to their family; it is impossible to confess to anyone outside the family — even when Shen Chengyu and Shen Chengning go out, they avoid using it if they can, and even if they do use it they must first check the surroundings and repeatedly confirm safety before putting things into the space.

Before, wasn't there talk of evolution potions? After several months of development, official shelters saw the appearance of ability users who could release various powers — some could summon wind and rain, some could spit water and breathe fire; the residential area being this chaotic is also partly due to ability users. The officials cannot absorb all ability users; some ability users drifting outside the officials form their own small groups, then rely on those groups to recruit new members and act as local despots.

Shen Chengyi is currently one of the ability users, and she even possesses an especially formidable lightning-type ability — with a raise of her hand she can unleash purple lightning that can electrocute a person to death without consequence; however, ability users require massive amounts of evolution crystals and potions from the start, and officials can only provide a small portion — the rest they must supply privately themselves.

"Eldest Sister said that among official ability users no space ability has appeared yet; we cannot expose our own situation."

After Shen Chengyu finished speaking, she nodded very affirmatively, then raised her hand to hook her arm through Shen Yao's elbow, indicating that the two of them had accumulated quite a few evolution crystals — could they also exchange for evolution potions and take them themselves?

"What do you plan? Currently official ability users are the most numerous, and they also have a complete system for advancement." If they don't join the officials, later wanting anything will require extra expenditure of large amounts of points and evolution crystals — similar to those civilian ability users; acting as local despots may be satisfying, but if officials want to clean them up it is also easy as flipping a hand.

Shen Chengyi joined the officials first, then became an ability user; Shen Chengyu and Shen Chengning are young and currently count as free people, but the evolution potions they need are also prepared just about enough. Regarding this, Shen Yao had long been prepared, and asking now is also to reconfirm once more.

Shen Chengyu turned her head to look at Shen Chengning; during this period they had indeed thought about this problem.

Regardless of the consideration, joining the officials is definitely the most reliable.

It's just that officials have mandatory missions; after they enter they won't necessarily be able to act together with Shen Chengyi — if separated, they themselves don't have much confidence.

During these days of going out to train, Shen Chengyu and Shen Chengning have had the idea of wanting to exercise themselves.

The three walked back to their residence treading the sunset.

As the room door was shut, Shen Yao took out six tubes of beautifully colored evolution potions from the space — brilliant as the Silver River, the specks of starlight within being evolution crystals not yet fully melted.

"Three tubes each, have you decided?"

Normal people all need three tubes of evolution potion to have a chance of awakening; if it fails once, the amount of evolution potion needed next time will multiply.

Evolution potion is not cheap — don't look at only six tubes, but for this they paid many points and things, and even Shen Chengyi had to help.

"Your eldest sister hasn't returned yet; I hope before she comes back you can truly decide."

Whether joining the officials or remaining free-spirited, they must have their own ideas — in such an End of Days, drifting with the tide is not advisable.