Chapter 451: Apocalyptic Trading System (23)

Zhong Yuling came from a family of traditional Chinese medicine practitioners; her grandfathers and grandmothers were all legendary figures at the traditional Chinese medicine hospital, her father was a professor at the Traditional Chinese Medicine University, and her mother was the department head of the integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine clinic at Shiyi Yiyuan.

She herself was also quite outstanding—a counselor who had been retained by the Traditional Chinese Medicine University.

Although her appearance could not be called beautiful, due to her temperament, she gave people the charm of a classical beauty.

When the other party asked about their thoughts on each other, Jiang Hao not only concealed the fact that he already had a girlfriend, but his words and actions also gave the other party the illusion that he admired her and was willing to take things further with her.

Once a blind date clicked and both sets of parents were happy to see it happen, an engagement and marriage followed as a matter of course.

Thus, five months later, Luo Wen, who was still in her hometown accompanying her father through chemotherapy and fighting against his illness, received a breakup phone call from her boyfriend.

He said that he truly could not withstand the pressure from his elders to get married, and also said that no matter who he married, the one he loved in his heart would always be her.

Luo Wen was sobbing uncontrollably on the other end of the line.

She thought that it would be impossible for her to have a future with him in this lifetime.

This love without a future would forever be a regret.

Unexpectedly, ten years later, the apocalypse arrived.

Jiang Hao's parents both underwent Alienation and became Zombies, and while Jiang Hao was fleeing to a base with his wife and daughter, he ran into his first love unexpectedly.

By this time, Luo Wen was already a powerful Ability User who could decide the fate of ordinary people in a matter of minutes.

With a mere beckon of her finger, she made the ordinary person Jiang Hao crawl to her side like a pug.

"Wenwen, it's been many years, you're still so beautiful!"

Jiang Hao looked at her with deep affection.

Luo Wen gave a mocking laugh: "Is that so? I think your wife is quite pretty too."

"How could she compare to you!" Jiang Hao complained, "It's all my parents' fault; back then they used the debt of birth and upbringing to force me, otherwise how could I have possibly married her?"

"A-Hao..."

Zhong Yuling murmured.

She simply could not believe her ears.

Her husband, the father of her child, had abandoned her and their daughter in the face of danger to run toward a female Ability User who could save him, and that was one thing, but he actually said that marrying her back then was purely a last resort?

At this moment, Zhong Yuling's heart dropped to freezing point.

It was as if she were meeting this man for the first time.

At the other end of the tunnel, the conversation continued:

"Do you really not care if they live or die?"

"Your needs are more important to me."

"Ugh!"

Zhong Yuling could not suppress the nausea in her heart and vomited a mouthful of bile.

"Ah—"

A scream came from ahead.

"Zombies! So many zombies!"

"The end of the tunnel is full of zombies, we can't get through! We absolutely can't get through!"

"Run! Run back! If we don't run now, it'll be too late!"

Footsteps came one after another.

They formed quite an echo in the tunnel.

It drew the Zombies that had been wandering in place to swarm toward this end.

Everyone was fleeing for their lives in a frenzy.

Only Zhong Yuling could not move.

"Xiao Shi! Xiao Shi, wake up!"

Her daughter remained unconscious.

If it were just her, death would be death.

Having seen her husband's true colors, to be honest, she didn't feel there was any point in living anymore.

But there was still her daughter.

Her Xiao Shi was innocent, and she was only ten years old; she shouldn't perish at an age like the rising morning sun.

Thus, Zhong Yuling used all her strength to stand up while holding her daughter, and stumbled toward the tunnel entrance.

Even if she died, she had to send her daughter to a safe place.

However, it was as if Luo Wen were working against her; the Fireball she threw at the Zombies somehow veered toward Zhong Yuling's feet, disrupting the rhythm of her escape.

【Host, if we hadn't retrieved the Sub-system in time, Xie Ming would have appeared soon to save Zhong Yuling and her daughter.】

Xie Yang, who was still rushing toward the tunnel in the Recreational Vehicle, watched this scene through the "Little Bee" and raised an eyebrow: Xie Ming is that righteous?

【Not really, he took a fancy to Zhong Yuling. However, Zhong Yuling was unwilling to become a member of his harem, but Xie Ming used her daughter as a threat to force her to submit.】

Xie Yang was so angry she laughed.

So this good-for-nothing cousin of the original body was actually a stud?

Could this plane be derived from some stallion-protagonist novel?

【It gets worse! A few years later, Zhong Yuling's daughter, Jiang Xiaoshi, was also taken advantage of by him while he was drunk at his thirtieth birthday party. Afterward, fearing Jiang Xiaoshi would make a scene, he used Zhong Yuling as a threat. To protect each other, both mother and daughter were forced to become members of Xie Ming's harem.】

"Fuck!"

Xie Yang couldn't help but curse.

"Yang Yang?" Xie Yan, sitting opposite her, was startled and pointed at his own nose innocently, "Are you scolding me? But I haven't done anything!"

"..."

As the Recreational Vehicle drove into the tunnel entrance, Xie Yang performed a swallow-like somersault, leaped from the window onto the roof of the Recreational Vehicle, and fired a Lightning Spear from a distance at the Zombies lunging toward Zhong Yuling and her daughter.

"Boom!"

The tall, middle-aged Zombie was instantly electrocuted into a charred lump.

Xie Yan also climbed onto the roof of the Recreational Vehicle, and in the gap between fighting side-by-side with his dad, he did not forget to ask the question weighing on his mind: "Dad, what is wrong with my sister? She looks so angry, but I don't think I provoked her, right?"

Xie Yongcheng, while busy using a long blade manifested from metal to harvest Zombie heads, took a moment to answer his son: "How would I know? Why don't you think about it some more?"

"..."

Xie Yang finished off the few Zombies around Zhong Yuling, leaped down from the Recreational Vehicle, and came to her side.

"Thank you! Thank you!" Zhong Yuling kept thanking Xie Yang.

Xie Yang waved her hand: "What happened?"

"My daughter fainted. But don't misunderstand, she isn't injured." Zhong Yuling explained hurriedly, "She just hasn't eaten enough and has low blood sugar."

"Then come with me to the vehicle; I have sugar water there."

Without waiting for Zhong Yuling to say anything, Xie Yang took Jiang Xiaoshi from her arms and walked toward the Recreational Vehicle first.

Taking advantage of the fact that Zhong Yuling had not caught up yet, Xie Yang quickly purchased a "Fireball Technique Advanced Version," freed up a hand to pretend to check Jiang Xiaoshi's forehead for a fever, and slapped the card onto her forehead.

"Mom?"

Jiang Xiaoshi woke up and discovered she was lying on a strange little bed, with her mother accompanying her by her side with a haggard expression.

"Xiao Shi, you're awake? That's great!"

Seeing her daughter wake up, the heart that Zhong Yuling had been holding up for so long finally settled.

Wiping the corners of her eyes, she helped her daughter sit up against the headboard, picked up the millet and red date porridge from the small table nearby, scooped a spoonful, blew on it, and fed it to her daughter's mouth, explaining softly as she did so:

"You fainted from low blood sugar. A kind person saved us, carried you onto her Recreational Vehicle, fed you sugar water, and even gave us two bowls of porridge. Mom has already finished hers; this bowl is yours. Come, Mom will feed you."

"Mom, I'll drink it myself."

Jiang Xiaoshi wanted to take the bowl, but saw Zhong Yuling shake her head: "You just woke up, your body must still be weak. Don't knock over the bowl and dirty the bed; let Mom feed you."

Jiang Xiaoshi obediently didn't say anything else.

She was really so hungry.

Otherwise, she wouldn't have fainted.

Although she had drunk a bowl of sugar water while unconscious, she was still so hungry she felt like she could swallow a cow.