Chapter 431: Apocalypse Trading System (3)

The original body was a high school sophomore with average grades, but a wide range of hobbies.

Unfortunately, she had been sickly since childhood; the slightest exertion would cause her tonsils to swell and lead to fever, so sports were out of the question, and she could only watch the dancing and aerobics she loved from the sidelines.

In the end, she found that only e-books were truly suitable for her.

Fortunately, her parents were open-minded and didn't restrict what she read, as long as she didn't tire herself out.

Gradually, she read through every book that interested her on various e-book platforms, including but not limited to science fiction.

After hearing her mother's description and witnessing with her own eyes the bloody scene of an elderly person exercising in the small plaza downstairs having their neck bitten through by a cleaner who had undergone Alienation into a Zombie, she suddenly widened her eyes: Isn't this a Zombie?

"Mom! Zombies have appeared, which means the apocalypse is here! Did our family hoard any supplies?"

Yu Baozhi: "..."

What supplies would there be a need to hoard? There was a supermarket, a vegetable shop, and a fruit shop right downstairs.

She was accustomed to going downstairs to buy groceries every morning, eating the day's food that same day, and rarely kept anything for the next day.

She also rarely bought frozen food.

In her view, food frozen for such a long time was like a corpse—it certainly wasn't fresh, so what nutrition could it possibly have?

Even the dumplings and sweet rice balls eaten during the New Year were wrapped and made fresh.

If she wrapped too many to finish and put them in the freezer, they would never stay there for more than ten days.

Moreover, her daughter couldn't eat cold things, and after her son started living at school, the refrigerator became almost ornamental, lacking the drinks and desserts he used to buy.

The only things sufficient to eat for more than half a month were Rice and flour.

But with the power and gas cut off, there was no way to light a fire anyway.

"Mom, did our family really not hoard anything at all?"

Seeing her daughter's dejected look, Yu Baozhi hurriedly comforted her: "It's not like we didn't hoard anything; we did hoard a few gold bars."

"..."

There were many other families as unlucky as Xie Yongcheng's, such as his three brothers and six or seven cousins.

Having lived in the village for so long, they were used to eating either what was picked from the fields that day or what was bought at the market that morning.

In their view, as long as there was grain at home, there was no need to panic. As for vegetables, they would buy at most two meals' worth.

Unlike city people, who went to the supermarket once a week but bought a week's worth of supplies at once.

Among the Xie Family brothers, not a single household had the habit of hoarding goods.

Before the apocalypse, it really didn't matter if the family had hoarded grain; after all, the delivery and takeout industries were so developed that one wouldn't starve.

But with the apocalypse here, coupled with the power and gas outages, not a single household could last more than two days.

Furthermore, the Relocation Residential District had many tenants, and quite a few were group-rental units where ten or twenty people lived in a single household.

Seeing that half of the residential buildings had collapsed and that more and more monsters—which had undergone Alienation, lost their reason, and only knew how to mechanically devour the flesh and blood of the living—were wandering the complex, the brothers discussed and decided to flee the complex to seek a way to survive outside.

It was hard to say whether their luck was good or bad.

On their escape route, they used the "Zombie avoidance method" the original body had read about in novels—throwing alarm clocks to divert the Zombies' attention—and they actually managed to dodge one disaster after another.

But the number of alarm clocks, tomato timers, and other timers they brought from home was ultimately limited.

And some had volumes too low to be very effective.

Fortunately, they found this Foreign Trade Building.

It was just that the food in the building was too scarce, so they had to take turns in groups to find supplies at the Complex across the road.

The original body had accidentally bumped into a Zombie wandering out from a blind corner while out looking for supplies; although she dodged it in time, her upper arm skin was still scratched by its nails.

But at the time, she was in a hurry to save her life and didn't notice this small scratch.

When she went to the bathroom to wash up after dinner, she felt a sharp pain in her right upper arm, and upon looking in the mirror, she discovered a bloody scratch.

At this moment, she felt her body temperature rise and her eyes gradually fill with bloodshot veins, realizing she had been infected by a Zombie and was likely about to undergo Alienation.

Panicked and afraid, she hurried back to the room where she and her mother were resting, drove her mother out, locked the door from the inside, and curled up in a corner to wait for the Alienation to arrive.

That was how the scene at the beginning came to be.

Just as her cousins said, she indeed failed to survive the Alienation, but at the moment of brain death, Xie Yang took over the body.

Xie Yang received and sorted out the original body's memories, which indirectly sorted out the situation of the rest of the Xie Family.

Those who fled the complex together were basically all from the same village; they were all of the same Xie bloodline.

Besides Xie Yongcheng's three brothers, there were cousins, nephews, and distant relatives.

It was fortunate that the demolition compensation provided several apartments, so even if they had divided the family or the sons had married, they still lived in the same complex.

After gathering together through many hardships, they found that for every family whose building hadn't collapsed, except for Xie Yongcheng and his son, and the older generation who were caught and underwent Alienation while exercising or buying groceries early in the morning, the middle-aged, young, and children were all still alive and intact because they were still sleeping at home.

During the escape, only Xie Yongqiang's wife was dragged down by her obese body and became Zombie fodder.

Among the surviving Xie Family members, the eldest, Xie Laoda, was the oldest and had the most authority.

He himself spoke with a tone of dictatorial arrogance, and now he was even more overbearing.

His two sons, Xie Cong and Xie Kang, also inherited his dictatorial and domineering nature.

The second brother, Xie Yonghua, was an honest and steady man, but his wife and Xie Laoda's wife were cousins, and the two families were as close as one.

His son, Xie Ming, and daughter, Xie Yun, had followed behind the eldest brother's two children since they were young. Even now that they were grown, they still followed Xie Cong and Xie Kang's lead.

The third brother was Xie Yongcheng, and his younger brother was the fourth, Xie Yongqiang.

Besides coveting his third sister-in-law, Xie Yongqiang was also known in the village as a lazy bum.

If it weren't for the good luck of the demolition, his family would have been the poorest in the entire village.

However, his two sons were quite promising:

The eldest son, Xie Chang, might not have had good grades and went to a vocational high school after the middle school entrance exam, but he had a talent for business. After the family received the demolition compensation, he had the capital and partnered with others to open an auto repair company, which was already doing quite well before the apocalypse arrived.

The younger son, Xie Sheng, was still in his third year of junior high, and his grades were said to be very good, with the potential to get into a key high school.

Not to mention the other cousins of the Xie Family, even these four direct brothers and their descendants have vastly different personalities and characters.

This is probably what the older generation often calls "one kind of rice feeds a hundred kinds of people."

【Host, it is fortunate that you acted quickly and retrieved the Sub-system before it could bind with Xie Ming.】

Hearing this, Xie Yang carefully recalled which one among that group of people was Xie Ming.

Main System: 【The one who said if you were an Ability User, he would perform eating shit on the spot.】

"..."

With such cultivation, he is actually the great Air of Fortune of this plane?

Xie Yang could not help but wonder by what standards these systems evaluate an Air of Fortune?

Is it by looking at who looks more roguish? Or by looking at who speaks more vulgarly?

It surely wouldn't be by who loves to keep "eating shit" on their lips, would it?

Main System: 【...】

Damn it! The Host has caught another chance to be sarcastic toward them.