"I'm so hungry... Mom... I'm so hungry..." The monster suddenly trembled twice, and the tiles beneath her made a fragile creaking sound with her movements.

Squeak.

Squeak.

The monster's body moved violently, and the sound of tiles colliding and squeezing on the floor was particularly loud and jarring in the silence.

"Sweetie, let's be patient, okay?"

Qin Xiaoyue coaxed the monster in the bathtub with a smile on her face, but she only dared to coax it carefully from a few steps away from the bathtub.

Hu Qiang sat on a small stool in the corner, his head buried in his knees, rubbing his bald head impatiently with both hands.

After Hu Tingting kept asking for food for the nth time, Hu Qiang finally snapped.

He grabbed the mop from the corner of the room and slapped Hu Tingting twice. "All you ever do is eat! You've turned yourself into a pig and you still keep eating! Look at the state you've become!"

"All you do is ask for food, you're driving us crazy!"

Hu Tingting remained silent after being hit twice. Her already limp and deformed features suddenly stared at Hu Qiang with a strange look. "Dad, do you hate me?"

"You already disliked me, and now that your little brother is about to be born, you'll dislike me even more, right?"

Hu Qiang paused for a moment, the mop he was holding above his head stopped, and finally lowered his hand impatiently, ignoring Hu Tingting's resentful gaze.

"The man and woman haven't slept, and they haven't eaten or drunk anything. They're a bit difficult to deal with."

With his back to Hu Tingting, Hu Qiang, looking exhausted, discussed with Qin Xiaoyue, "How about we find an excuse to send them away? These two are difficult to deal with."

Qin Xiaoyue seemed reluctant to give up the hard-won prize, saying somewhat unwillingly, "But then there won't be many more opportunities to deceive people..."

Seeing that Hu Qiang's expression was not good, she finally went along with Hu Qiang's idea, "Then go and get rid of them now. Leave those three fat pigs behind, and you can clean them up and put them in the refrigerator later."

After listening to the couple's conversation, Lu Sheng quietly returned to her room.

"Those two have a child who has mutated into a monster. The couple has been feeding her survivors they've tricked." Back in the room, Lu Sheng lowered her voice so that only the two of them could hear her.

Lu Sheng then released Zhuangzhuang from the spatial dimension. "What are the indexes of the two people outside?"

Lu Sheng couldn't sense any energy fluctuations from Hu Qiang and Qin Xiaoyue in her mental domain, so she needed Zhuangzhuang to assess their abilities.

Zhuangzhuang, with its fluffy tail tucked under its rear, trotted to the door. After a few seconds, it raised its big head with a blank look on its face. "These two are about the same size as ordinary people. They don't seem to have any fighting ability."

They have no combat ability, yet they've managed to continuously prey on survivors for two years in the apocalypse. These two are something else.

Time passed slowly, and Lu Sheng and Xu Yi each leaned against the wall, pretending to doze off. After a while, slow footsteps finally came from outside.

Knock knock knock.

Hu Qiang's voice came from outside the door.

"Little brother, little sister, the other three little brothers seem to be sleepy for a while. What do you two say? Do you want to wait a bit or go ahead?"

Lu Sheng opened the door and was greeted by Hu Qiang's slightly swollen face.

As he spoke, he peeked into the doorway and saw that Lu Sheng and Xu Yi were sitting relaxed, their faces clearly showing relief.

"We thought about it and decided that we should wait for them to leave together; it's safer with more people," Lu Sheng replied with a smile, deliberately emphasizing the word "safety."

Hu Qiang was clearly surprised that Lu Sheng would deviate from the script, and it took him several seconds to force a smile before he said, "Well... that's fine too."

He turned around hesitantly, as if he had struggled with his inner thoughts.

Just as Hu Qiang was about to turn and leave, Qin Xiaoyue's voice suddenly came from behind him.

"It's fate that we met in this apocalyptic world. Why don't we take a picture to remember this moment?"

Qin Xiaoyue came over with a smile, holding a pink Polaroid camera, her pregnant belly blocking the doorway. "I stocked up on a lot of photo paper before the apocalypse during Singles' Day, but I didn't expect to run out of time to use it so soon. It's rare to meet a living person, so let's take a picture together to commemorate M City's return to normalcy."

After saying that, without waiting for Lu Sheng and Xu Yi to reply, he raised his Polaroid camera and pointed it at the two of them.

The instant Qin Xiaoyue pressed the shutter, a gas bullet struck her arm precisely.

Snap!

Qin Xiaoyue's hand trembled, and the camera tilted slightly, capturing Hu Qiang standing next to her.

She was hit by Lu Sheng, staggered twice and almost fell. Her Polaroid camera also slipped from her hand and rolled away, landing right at Lu Sheng's feet.

Lu Sheng picked up the Polaroid camera, and a still-warm photographic sheet popped out of the film ejector.

She blew on the photographic paper, and Hu Qiang's terrified face gradually appeared on it.

Not far from Lu Sheng, Hu Qiang still had that fearful expression on his face, his body frozen in place.

Zhuangzhuang ran over curiously and touched Hu Qiang's leg with his paw, but he was like a statue and didn't react at all!

"Meow! This guy's hard!!!" Zhuangzhuang's two amber-like pupils narrowed into a straight line in surprise.

"So the real thing is a Polaroid camera." Lu Sheng moved his fingers, and the electric python immediately bound Qin Xiaoyue tightly to the ground.

She had just seen a photo album in the living room and flipped through it casually. It was full of Polaroid photos, but the main subjects were all different kinds of passersby, with no photos of Qin Xiaoyue and Hu Qiang at all.

Polaroid film wasn't cheap; before the apocalypse, it cost about four or five yuan per sheet. Generally, few people would waste so much film to photograph passersby.

So when Qin Xiaoyue took out the Polaroid camera, she immediately became alert.

She just didn't expect that the types of superpower awakenings these days would be so outrageous, there are even awakened Polaroid cameras!

She wouldn't be surprised if she woke up to a rice cooker or electric frying pan next time!

"Give me the camera right now!" Qin Xiaoyue yelled at Lu Sheng, clutching her stomach in pain.

Lu Sheng waved the Polaroid camera in his hand, "Does being photographed by you mean you'll be petrified?"

After saying that, Lu Sheng slightly moved his fingers and crushed the pink Polaroid camera into powder.

The moment the camera was destroyed, Hu Qiang snapped out of his daze and rushed over to help Qin Xiaoyue up.

Suddenly, a heavy thud came from the other side of the living room.

Bang.

Bang.

Bang.

"I'm so hungry..."

A heavy thud came from the bathroom.

Qin Xiaoyue and Hu Qiang looked up in horror, "She...she's coming out!"

The couple immediately got up from the floor and rushed to the bathroom.

Qin Xiaoyue was the fastest; as soon as she opened the bathroom door, a blob of red, viscous substance sprayed all over her body.

“Ting…”

Before she could finish speaking, a monster that emerged from the crack in the door bit off her head.