Chapter 452: Apocalypse Trading System (24)

After finishing the millet and red date porridge mouthful by mouthful, Jiang Xiaoshi still felt hungry.

But she was too embarrassed to say so.

Seeing her mother get up to put away the bowl, she wrung her hands, not knowing how to suppress this heart-gnawing, lung-tearing hunger.

Just then, she felt a warm current flow from her palms; as if a matchstick had been struck, a fireball rose up between her hands.

Jiang Xiaoshi widened her eyes in astonishment.

Worried that the fireball might fall onto the bed and start a fire, she subconsciously held her breath, staring at the fireball between her hands without blinking, while her feet carefully inched toward the edge of the bed.

During this time, the fireball kept growing larger.

Terrified, she kept her feet slowly moving and shouted "Mom," but kept every other part of her body frozen, not daring to move.

Zhong Yuling stood before the sink, struggling with whether or not to wash the bowl.

She had previously seen the kind person who saved her and her daughter turn on the faucet to wash their hands and collect water, but in the apocalypse, how precious was drinking water? Would it be too wasteful to use drinkable water to wash dishes?

In the end, she did not turn on the faucet, but instead took out the last remaining clean paper towel, wiped the bowl and spoon clean, and placed them on the counter beside the sink.

Just as she set the bowl down, she heard her daughter's exclamation and, thinking something had happened, turned around in a hurry.

Seeing the scene before her, she was both shocked and delighted: "Xiao Shi! You've awakened a Fire Ability?"

She paused, quickly thought of something, and her face turned pale: "Does this mean you were really scratched by a Zombie before? When did that happen? Why didn't Mom know?"

Jiang Xiaoshi was completely confused: "I wasn't scratched by a Zombie, and I don't know why my hands are sprouting fire. Mom, what do I do now? Will it fall and burn the bedsheets?"

"Oh my! Then hurry and move out, don't drop the fireball inside the vehicle! I'll go open the window, you throw it out to hit the Zombies! Don't waste it!"

Qin Tao, who was responsible for the steering wheel, heard the mother and daughter's conversation and looked back, startled by the fireball between Jiang Xiaoshi's hands:

"Oh my god! Little sister, did you really just awaken a Fire Ability? This fireball is almost as big as a basketball. That's too awesome! I once saw a Fire Ability user whose fireball was only the size of a cigarette butt when they first awakened."

Hearing this, Jiang Xiaoshi grinned happily; so she was this amazing?

"Mom, I'll protect you from now on!"

Zhong Yuling stared at the fireball between her hands, terrified it would fall and burn the things inside the vehicle: "Yes, yes, yes! You throw this fireball out first! Be careful! Don't hit any people! You have to aim at the Zombies, understand?"

"Understood!"

Jiang Xiaoshi replied solemnly, went to the window beside the sofa, locked eyes on a Zombie, and threw it with all her might.

The basketball-sized fireball seemed to have eyes, charging straight at the Zombie's face.

"Boom!"

After hitting, it burned fiercely, and several surrounding Zombies were also set ablaze, howling and screeching.

"Mom, I can make another fireball!"

Jiang Xiaoshi discovered that her Fire Ability had burned several Zombies to death, and ignoring her rumbling stomach, she happily continued to throw fireballs forward.

One fireball!

Two fireballs!

Three fireballs...

Every single one was as big as a basketball.

Every single one could hit a Zombie and then burn a whole patch of them.

Soon, all the Zombies in the Over-River Tunnel were buried in a sea of fire.

The Survivors had already escaped the tunnel entrance under the rescue of Xie Yang's family of three.

It was just a pity about those vehicles closer to the Zombies, as well as the supplies on them.

Jiang Hao, who had followed Luo Wen closely as she retreated to the tunnel entrance, withdrew his gaze with regret.

At this moment, he saw his daughter—that "money-losing" daughter who had been unconscious in her mother's arms just minutes ago—now leaning against the window of that uniquely styled Recreational Vehicle, wielding a basketball-sized fireball in her hands.

"!!!"

Jiang Hao was so shocked his eyeballs nearly popped out.

"Xiao Shi, you... when did you get an ability?"

If he had known his daughter also had a Fire Ability, why would he have abandoned the mother and daughter to curry favor with Luo Wen?

After the recent contact, even as slow as he was, he could feel that the current Luo Wen was no longer the Luo Wen from ten years ago.

She no longer had the adoration a woman has for a man; she clearly treated him like a dog to be ordered around at will.

If his daughter had no ability, he could still endure it, but now that his daughter had an ability...

"None of your business!"

Zhong Yuling pulled her daughter away from the window and spat toward her husband:

"Pah! From the moment you abandoned us, Xiao Shi has had nothing to do with you anymore. She is my daughter, Zhong Yuling's daughter alone, and from now on her name is Zhong Xiaoshi. Get far away from us! Otherwise, I'll have my daughter hit you with a fireball!"

"You!" Jiang Hao was so angry his face turned livid. "Zhong Yuling! You shrew! I used to think you were gentle and sweet, but look at you now—how are you any different from those shrews who curse in the streets!"

"That, too, is thanks to you!"

Zhong Yuling said coldly, then pulled the window glass shut and never looked at him again.

It was as if this man had already died in the Over-River Tunnel.

When the Zombies were mostly burned, Xie Yongcheng sent out waves of water pillars, directly extinguishing the fire, and before the crowd of Survivors could recover, he quickly brought his son and daughter down from the roof of the Recreational Vehicle.

"Xiao Qin, drive! We're going home!"

"Received!"

The Recreational Vehicle turned around and drove away from the tunnel entrance, speeding toward the South City District.

Jiang Hao opened his mouth, only to swallow a mouthful of exhaust fumes; he was so angry that a breath was stuck in his chest, unable to go up or down.

Luo Wen's expression was equally unpleasant.

She hadn't expected Jiang Hao's daughter to have awakened an ability, and it was the same Fire Ability as hers, and even larger and more fierce than her own fireballs.

She subconsciously reached out to touch her cheek, feeling as if she had been slapped by that mother and daughter.

"Wenwen..."

Jiang Hao snapped back to his senses, and seeing her expression, his heart skipped a beat; he hurriedly put on a fawning smile:

"Wenwen, are you angry? Actually, I was just trying to pry some information out of my daughter to see if it would be of any help to your ability. Who knew that brat wouldn't know what's good for her? Don't expect me to acknowledge her ever again."

Luo Wen let out a cold laugh and flicked her sleeves as she walked away.

Jiang Hao trotted after her: "Wenwen! Wenwen, wait for me! You're all I have now..."

The Recreational Vehicle headed west, driving all the way to the southwestern-most corner of the South City District.

Since the Second Safe Base was built on the easternmost side of the South City, once they passed the District Government located on the central axis of the South City, they could barely see any living people.

Zhong Yuling and her daughter looked at the increasingly sparse buildings outside the window, and they could not help but feel puzzled.

But they believed that the family who owned the vehicle were not bad people.

Bad people would not have stepped forward to save them at such a dangerous moment, nor would they have given them food and drink.

They thought this, but they still felt somewhat uneasy in their hearts.

"We're here!"

The Recreational Vehicle stopped at the entrance of a residential complex with a Chinese style.

Xie Yan stood up and stretched, got out of the vehicle to take care of two Zombies that had come at the sound, and only then pulled back the bolt to push open the metal gate that had been reinforced by his father.

After the Recreational Vehicle drove in, he closed the gate again.