Chapter 890

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Protagonist:

Shen Yao

No one knew what Shen Chengyi was doing, but until the snow melted, Shen Chengyi did not leave the shelter.

Shen Yao did not interfere with Shen Chengyi's affairs either; the other person could take responsibility for their own actions, so Shen Yao would no longer treat Shen Chengyi as a child who needed her arrangements. There were so many people inside and outside the shelter, and Shen Chengyi should have some private space.

Shen Chengyu and Shen Chengning did not investigate their eldest sister's comings and goings too deeply. Although they occasionally longed for their eldest sister's ability guidance, what they understood more clearly was that what their eldest sister did was very important, and they could not affect their eldest sister's actions.

"You two are quite self-aware," perhaps the apocalypse really tempered people. Before the apocalypse, Shen Chengyu and Shen Chengning relied more on Shen Chengyi, needing Shen Chengyi to accompany them whenever they went out. But after just over a year of the apocalypse, Shen Chengyu and Shen Chengning's psychology matured rapidly.

Not only did they grow in combat instinct and strength from the sports school, but there were also various analyses and considerations. Many daily trivial matters no longer bothered Shen Yao unless they were troubles that could not be solved.

"Mom, we two are not children anymore," although they were indeed not old in age, psychological age did not represent physiological age. Shen Chengyu puffed out her chest and raised her head, indicating that they two could already share the pressure for the family and were no longer people who dragged others down.

Shen Yao smiled and raised her eyebrows. Before she could say anything, she saw Shen Chengyu and Shen Chengning suddenly stiffen and start dancing.

The two smiled with unnatural expressions, moving their arms and legs up and down. Finally, they stopped this strange behavior only after coordinating their wood-type ability and water-type ability.

"Not bad, there is progress," the controlled time was a bit shorter than before.

Shen Chengyu and Shen Chengning:...

The two sisters had tearful eyes and really did not know what to say. Their birth mother's behavior of testing them from time to time did improve their response ability, but their birth mother's mental ability was truly powerful. They two could not guard against it, basically falling for it every time without any means of counterattack.

From being completely controlled from the beginning unless their birth mother chose to let go, to now being able to actively break free themselves, but they could still be easily connected. Shen Chengyu and Shen Chengning looked at Shen Yao with crying faces, dejectedly expressing their many shortcomings. Starting tomorrow, no, starting today, they would go to the Ability User Center to continue practicing.

Shen Yao propped her chin, "Just right, I also need to go to the Ability User Center once." They could keep each other company. During the period, if bored, she could also spar with her two daughters. Shen Chengyi did not need Shen Yao's help to train, but Shen Chengyu and Shen Chengning were still very much in need of it.

After standing up and tidying her clothes, and not forgetting to take the trash in the room out to throw away, Shen Yao contacted Shen Chengyi via her phone when leaving, confirming that this child would not return until evening. She simply locked the room door and left no other means.

Shen Chengyu stamped her foot, "These days, the temperature outside has risen somewhat, and the residential area is a bit unstable again." Some petty thefts appeared again. Although the official had arranged people to handle it, facing so many loopholes, the official still seemed powerless.

Shen Chengning nodded with lingering fear, thinking that when they returned two days ago, they were blocked in the corridor by someone demanding benefits. If it were not for their high combat strength, directly beating the person into submission, their points on their bodies might not be safe.

"Every household has no surplus grain," the appearance of petty thefts was inevitable.

After all, no one wanted to die; if one could live, one definitely wanted to live on.

The shelter's situation could not be said to be bad, but it was not very good either. Because of the migration after the holiday, the resource supply inside the shelter adopted rationing. Everyone had a certain portion. These things could only guarantee not starving to death, but wanting to rely on these to eat well and be full was completely impossible.

Moreover, there were many ordinary people without ability inside the shelter. They had neither stable work nor ability user family members. Usually, they just did odd jobs to earn some money to support themselves and not starve to death. Now the temperature was not suitable for going out to work, and some families had already run out of grain.

The apartment building where their family lived was in decent condition, which also made them a fat sheep in the eyes of others. As long as one could sneak in, they would scoop some benefits back.

Hearing this, Shen Chengyu and Shen Chengning continued to sigh. They two were not people with overflowing sympathy, but seeing people who could not eat enough or wear warm clothes, they would still be moved and distressed by the other's situation.

The situation Shen Yao mentioned had no solution, because the shelter could only really do so. Once it opened its belly to support everyone, it would not even wait until after the holiday migration; the shelter would be eaten into disintegration.

The three mother and daughter walked down the stairs, wrapped in thick cotton-padded clothes, walking cautiously toward the Ability User Center located in the distance.

During the period, a small episode occurred. That was when they were going down the stairs, they happened to meet someone hiding in the stairwell, obviously not a resident of their floor.

These people wore tattered clothes, basically showing no color at all. Their faces and exposed skin were covered with traces of frostbite. Their eyes had no vitality at all until they saw Shen Yao and the other two, then slowly became lively.

To be honest, these people were not opponents of Shen Yao and the other two at all. They did not need to go all out. Simply displaying their abilities would make these people afraid and leave.

But what use was that? People who could not survive would fight to the death. Even if they could not hurt themselves, they could still disgust them for two days.

Shen Yao and the other two would not conflict with these people, and these people would not do anything to Shen Yao and the other two either. They deeply knew they could not fight at all. So they tacitly watched Shen Yao and the other two leave the corridor and disappear from the position in front of the building.

"Mom, can they survive?" There was still some time before the snow melted. Before the shelter migrated, it was impossible to provide work and grain on a large scale.

Shen Chengning could not bear it in her heart, but she herself was a clay Bodhisattva crossing the river, unable to protect herself, and even more lacked the ability to help so many ordinary people.

When the apocalypse came, everyone faced a survival crisis. Ability users were just easier to survive than ordinary people, not representing that ability users stood at the top of the food chain.

"Don't know, depends on the official's plan," Shen Yao said with a sullen face. After all, it still depended on the official's thoughts. There were too many people, and the official found it hard to make this decision.

Shen Chengyu shook her head, "No matter what, we must first improve our strength." Only strength could ensure safety. Outside was full of crises, inside lacked clothes and grain. She had long known that any place would not be a utopia. Shen Chengning could only do one thing now: constantly improve herself.

Stopping the idle chatter, the three quickened their steps and arrived at the Ability User Center.

There were not many ability users here. Some seemed to have given up on improving, and some, for some reason, could not come over.

The three skillfully opened a training room. Shen Yao did not see Chen Xuanxuan on the second floor this time.

"Oh, Sister Xuanxuan, something happened at home. It will take a period of time before she can come back."

The girl replacing Chen Xuanxuan's work was familiar with Chen Xuanxuan. When Shen Yao asked, this person did not hide it, but there was more indignation and sighing in her words. Obviously, the matter of the Chen Family was not easy to explain clearly.

Shen Yao did not continue to ask. She knew Chen Xuanxuan's family situation. To make Chen Xuanxuan give up the iron rice bowl job on the second floor and rest for a period of time, there should be a relative who did something very serious.

"It is said, it is said that she accidentally injured someone," Shen Chengyu tilted her little head and spoke out the content she had heard.

"Accidentally injured someone?" Shen Yao turned her head, thinking of the people she met when going downstairs, and nodded with a look of sudden understanding.

The Chen Family and their family lived in the same building. Chen Xuanxuan was the ability user of her family. Basically, the whole family's grain ration had to be provided by Chen Xuanxuan.

Previously, it was mentioned that Chen Xuanxuan herself had no ambition or enterprising spirit, was unwilling to improve her ability, and only wanted to stay on the second floor to eat and wait for death.

The family members were not reconciled. Instead, they used Chen Xuanxuan's salary to cultivate the other children in the family, hoping to produce another ability user so that their family's life would be better.

However, unfortunately, no matter how the Chen Family tossed and tried, they could not cultivate another ability user. The Chen Family could only continue to rely on Chen Xuanxuan.

Raising her hand and making a shushing gesture at the corner of her lips, Shen Yao, Shen Chengyu, and Shen Chengning walked into the training room. Next was their three people's training time.

Whatever Chen Family, whatever Chen Xuanxuan, even those people downstairs, could not affect their training plan.

Boom boom boom

The originally flat training room appeared with various potholes of different depths. These were the evidence of them digging out when releasing their abilities, intentionally or unintentionally.

Compensation was definitely not needed, but their special points existing at the Ability User Center would have corresponding deductions. This was the cost of repairing the training room. Although every time it made them feel a little bit heartache.

Shen Chengyu and Shen Chengning leaned against each other, panting. They two were a bit tired. They had trained several times without stopping. The abilities on their bodies were squeezed dry and then recovered. The soreness and swelling of the muscles seemed not to have disappeared, still affecting their spirit and body.

This situation had repeatedly appeared in their bodies since they started training. Shen Chengyu and Shen Chengning were very familiar with it. They two ignored this feeling and simply took out crystal cores to use for recovery.

As the crystal cores were constantly absorbed, Shen Chengyu and Shen Chengning's condition got better and better, until they two could successfully climb up from the ground.

Beside them, Shen Yao was still releasing her ability. White ability flattened all the positions around her. Not only that, these white abilities could also affect the surrounding walls, invading the silver-white metal.

Shen Chengyu and Shen Chengning whispered to each other, both marveling that their birth mother's ability had improved once again; the fact that they had broken free of her control tonight must have been because their birth mother didn't hold it against them and was just playing around.

The more they thought about it, the more their hearts ached — their own abilities still weren't improving fast enough!

"Don't be discouraged, we'll keep working hard." Their birth mother and Big Sister were geniuses among geniuses; they were merely geniuses — the gap was too large to comprehend.

Shen Chengyu:...

Third Brother's words... better left unsaid; he really doesn't know how to talk!

Shen Chengning indicated she was only speaking the truth; there was absolutely nothing wrong with what she said.

The sisters exchanged a few glances, then obediently buried their heads in training.

Mm.

Since you've rested well and have time to spout nonsense there, you might as well put all your energy into training — improving your abilities can't go wrong.

A day passed, and the three returned home.

Shen Chengyi was already sitting on the sofa resting, having changed into home clothes; she turned her head and saw Shen Yao and the other two enter, saying, "The Official side has already set the migration time; they will issue advance notification when the time comes."

However, this notification period isn't long — it basically just gives certain people a chance to riot.

Shen Chengyi relayed the Official's words; the reason was still that the new migration address couldn't accommodate this many people — whether for stability or survival, the shelter needed to streamline its population.

"Wouldn't that be too ruthless?" Back when they were saving people the Official side exerted tremendous effort; now they abandon them just like that — one can imagine how terrible the atmosphere inside the shelter is.

"The shelter doesn't have that many supplies." Although they had collected quite a lot before, the military and ability users also need the Official side to cultivate them; if the Official side hadn't consistently refused to abandon ordinary people, the shelter would have had to purge a batch of people before winter even arrived.

"When all is said and done, it's still not being strong enough." Too weak — not just them, but everyone in the shelter.

Shen Yao smiled and interrupted the three sisters' conversation; the content that followed wasn't something that could be spoken of, and moreover everyone standing at different angles would have a different sense of immersion.

"No need to blame anyone harshly." Everyone isn't simply black-and-white bad people; by the Official side's own reasoning, they chose this so the vast majority could survive, while those abandoned are simply of a different mindset — there's no right or wrong, only each side's standpoint.

Dinner was food from the space; Shen Yao wasn't willing to cook, and the others didn't have that talent. Fortunately, when not busy normally Shen Yao liked to make a few things; what couldn't be eaten was all stored in the space for preservation.

Brought out now, the steaming hot dishes were just as fresh as if they had just come out of the wok.

As usual, they washed up first, then sat down to eat. Shen Chengyu and Shen Chengning hated that they couldn't eat every good thing on the table into their bellies; physical exertion and ability drain left them without a sense of security — only when everything recovered to peak condition could they have a moment of relaxation.

Shen Yao ate very slowly, one mouthful of rice, one mouthful of dish; seeing the speed at which the food on the table diminished, she would additionally take out other food from the space to supplement.

These foods all contained large amounts of energy; the meats used were all mutant creatures brought back from outside. The four quickly finished dinner. Shen Yao raised her head and sent the tableware on the dining table to the kitchen, then used her mental ability to control the items for a simple wash.

Her movements were very practiced — clearly this was something she did often. Shen Chengyi and the other two weren't surprised either; mental ability is initially rather chicken-rib, but once raised it becomes even more useful than other abilities.

The Official side is currently stepping up production of evolution potions; they plan to cultivate more ability users before the migration. When it comes down to it, the changes brought by the end of days make it hard for ordinary people to adapt; to survive, one still needs to become an ability user.

Shen Chengyi has been running to places recently that have contact with the Official side and the military; from what she occasionally mentions, it's highly probable it's related to evolution.