She secretly glanced in the direction of the people who had saved her; they were all clean and tidy, and looked as good as celebrities.

Those people looked relaxed and at ease, either sitting and resting or playing and frolicking on the side.

They didn't look like they were escaping from the apocalypse at all; they looked more like a group of carefree children on a picnic.

Why can they live so easily and freely, while I encounter so many dirty, disgusting, and terrible things, suffering endless torment?

Why didn't they appear sooner to rescue her? Would she not have ended up in such a terrible state?

She was unwilling to accept it; she hated it so much...

A fleeting glint of jealousy and malice flashed in Zhang Xiaoqi's eyes. She quickly lowered her gaze to calm herself, and when she looked up again, her eyes met those of the pink-haired girl.

The girl was eating a European-style bread that looked very soft.

Perhaps she didn't like the filling in the European-style bread, because she only ate a few bites before handing it to the tall, muscular man next to her.

The tall, strong man was said to have supernatural powers of lightning, and he was the one who struck the village chief to death.

The man took the bread that the pink-haired girl had bitten, stuffed it into his mouth and ate it. After finishing, he affectionately rubbed the back of the girl's neck.

The girl didn't even turn her head, just stared at her, and then a European-style bread appeared out of thin air in her hand.

Spatial ability user!

Lin Xuan glanced at Zhang Xiaoqi, who was staring at her in a daze not far away, and slowly tore off the plastic bag of the small bread in her hand.

Huh? This color looks like poop. I don't want to eat it, give it to my brother!

Lin Xuan took out several snacks from her space and handed them to Xia Feng after only eating a few bites.

Xia Feng accepted all comers and happily scavenged leftovers.

Until Lin Xuan pulled out a vacuum-packed roasted chicken from her spatial storage...

Zhang Xiaoqi couldn't hold back any longer. For more than a month in the apocalypse, she didn't know what she ate to survive each day.

At first, there were several boxes of instant noodles, biscuits, and other fast food that my boyfriend had bought for late-night snacks, but suddenly his appetite increased and these things were quickly finished.

Fortunately, she still had rice, flour, oil, and zongzi gift boxes that were given out during the Dragon Boat Festival, which she usually didn't have time to eat because she was too busy with work.

After they finished eating some of the ready-to-eat food, they had to soak rice and flour in bottled water because the water, electricity, and gas were all cut off.

Later, the boyfriend went out to look for food a few more times, but he was unlucky. He not only brought nothing back, but he was also almost bitten to death by the monsters outside.

After she was brought to the village, she was fed pig swill every day and had to fight with a house full of women for food.

She only had a normal meal yesterday after she was rescued.

Vacuum-packed roast chicken—she even despised this greasy packaged food before the apocalypse.

But now she just stared blankly as the girl slowly tore open the packaging and took a small bite. As the girl chewed, Zhang Xiaoqi swallowed hard.

The girl who was looking at her suddenly smiled at her again, a blatant mockery, her eyes cold and malicious.

Zhang Xiaoqi was certain of the malice in the girl's smile; she was doing it on purpose, targeting her. Why?

I've never met this girl before, so why would they target someone in such a tragic situation?

Was it to highlight her own sense of superiority and make her jealous?

Zhang Xiaoqi immediately withdrew her gaze from Lin Xuan and turned her head to the side. No matter how hard she racked her brains, she couldn't imagine that the person opposite her was her sworn enemy from her past life.

Zhou Lerui saw Lin Xuan take out a roast chicken to eat and was about to go over and have a bite when she saw Lin Xuan smiling wickedly.

Something's wrong with her. Could she have been possessed by some evil spirit...?

Peng Ze and I squatted to one side, trembling, too scared to go over and ask for the roast chicken.

Snap!

Something suddenly hit Zhang Xiaoqi with a light but not heavy blow. Zhang Xiaoqi, who was thinking with her head down, sluggishly touched the back of her head.

Smack! Smack!

His shoulder and back were also hit.

Zhang Xiaoqi was sitting by a bush about waist-high when she turned around and saw heads with sharp black thorns sticking out of the bush.

Each head had a pair of blood-red eyes embedded in it.

Crackling, crackling...

A pile of acorns the size of eggs rained down on the crowd, plunging Zhang Xiaoqi into chaos before she could even react.

"Ah!! What is that?!"

The girls who were resting screamed and ran towards Zhou Xinran's team, clutching their heads.

Zhang Xiaoqi scrambled to her feet, trying to run to the side of those superhumans for protection.

She had only run two steps when she tripped over something and fell heavily to the ground. She quickly braced herself with her hands, but as soon as she straightened up, something pulled her ankle and she fell back down.

All the girls ran to Zhou Xinran's group, leaving her all alone, lying there on the ground.

After the monsters in the bushes finished throwing the acorns, one or two of them emerged from the bushes.

Its blood-red eyes bulge out, its long mouth is stretched wide, revealing two huge incisors, its erect ears have black, hard barbs on the tips, its body is covered with stiff, brown and black fur, and its broom-like tail stands upright behind it. It is the size of an adult cat.

This was Zhang Xiaoqi's first time being so close to a mutated beast, and she was so frightened that her heart was pounding.

She felt dizzy. Already weak, she had fallen twice while running away and was now completely unable to stand up.

"Help...help!" She was so frightened that she could only gasp for help. Her legs were paralyzed and she couldn't muster any strength. She could only crawl forward by gripping the ground with her hands.

"Holy crap! Holy crap! What the hell is this thing?"

Zhou Xinran immediately rushed over with a machete to protect the girls.

"It looks like a mutant squirrel. Look at its fluffy tail."

Zhou Lerui followed closely behind.

"Do you know how to use adjectives? Is this called fluffy? This is called... this is called..."

Zhou Xinran couldn't describe what this dirty, broom-like thing was called.

“That’s called sticking out your buttocks with spiky hair!” Peng Ze added from the side.

"Pfft! You're going to make me laugh to death, Peng Xiaozhe, where did you learn your dialect?"

As he spoke, the mutated squirrels rushed up to him, and Zhou Xinran's smile quickly vanished.

These mutated squirrels have powerful jumping ability and agile movements, making them even more difficult to deal with than novice zombies. You can easily get caught by their sharp, short front claws if you're not careful.

It can easily leave a blood splatter on your arm. Zhou Xinran, who was leading the charge, was caught off guard when a dog darted up and scratched a long wound on his arm.

Zhou Lerui was also scratched several times by the creatures that were running around everywhere. She screamed in pain and swung her baseball bat even more erratically.

In the blink of an eye, the people blocking the way were all injured.

Lin Xuan quickly stepped forward and used her invisible vines to create a net to protect Peng Ze, whose buttocks had been hooked and left a large, bloody gash. The child was completely bewildered, clutching his backside, and didn't even bother to pick up the pink little stick that had fallen to the side.

Quickly pull the child behind you to protect him. The vines swayed around him, sending several mutated squirrels flying.