"Let them do it." Shi Yin said casually, "Write down all their addresses, and I will visit them in person a month later."

[Okay, two renovation companies have appeared so far.] Ye Yuansong silently lit a candle for these people wasting their rebirth slots. [Then we'll send someone to monitor them now.]

“Tell them to try not to gather in one place, to spread out a bit,” Shi Yin added. “We can be more tolerant of their stockpiling.”

"You mean to make them a temporary base?" Ye Yuansong understood immediately.

"Hmph, having benefited from the world's prosperity, of course they want to get paid to do things." Shi Yin sneered: "Keep an eye on them, and once they've got everything in place, we'll take control of them."

[Wouldn't this be too harsh? It might provoke a rebellious backlash from some people.]

"Either get out, or die." Shi Yin's concise words left Ye Yuansong speechless for a few seconds.

[Also, there's someone who's been acting strangely, which you should have expected.] Ye Yuansong added, [It's a woman who touched something in the supermarket, and then that thing suddenly disappeared. She's currently being held at the police station.]

"...At the supermarket?" Shi Yin's eyelids twitched.

"Yes..." Ye Yuansong was also helpless about the fact that some people were treating him like a fool. "Besides, she also bought a whole batch of seafood from the market, and it had to be live. Should we search her house...?"

Seafood? All of it has to be alive?

This person most likely possesses a space, and not the weak growth ability of someone who has just acquired a space, but a more advanced spiritual object.

Since everyone has to live, there are two possibilities.

The first type is a space that can store living things.

The second type is where time stands still.

Either way, it proves that this thing is extraordinary.

“No need for now. Take her away and share your knowledge and experiences about the apocalypse with her. Learn about the apocalypse and her experiences from her.” Shi Yin thought for a moment, “Let her cooperate with us. We can ask her if she agrees.”

"Can she disagree?" Ye Yuansong blurted out in a moment of inspiration.

Shi Yin: "No."

Ye Yuansong [...]

He really asked unnecessary questions.

“Let her take the seafood back. Just pay for it and put the supermarket items back. Don’t disrupt ordinary people’s normal shopping,” Shi Yin said. “Let’s see if she is truly willing to cooperate with us. If not, then forget it.”

If it's not genuine, should we let her go?

“Fang, if she’s unwilling to cooperate with the country, then follow her down to the second. I’ll go see her again when the apocalypse comes,” Shi Yin said.

Should I go see her, or go to retrieve her things?

Moreover, surely no one would refuse to cooperate with a country?

Shi Yin once mentioned the term "battle group," and Ye Yuansong speculated that the apocalypse would likely cause chaos, at which point heroes would inevitably form factions, leading to a fragmentation of power among various warlords.

However, with the nation making advance preparations, it can be said that Yanlong Kingdom is about to become one of the largest "battle groups" in the apocalypse. It's good to have a powerful backer, and no one should be unaware of this principle.

Ye Yuansong didn't say anything, but told his confidant to go and appease the people first, and he would arrive shortly after. He only hung up the phone after he had done all that.

Shi Yin knew about spatial items; those that could preserve freshness and store living things were considered high-level spaces, and only certain items could possess them.

The most basic space is just a large, growing storage room. Although it can hold a lot of things, it will expire over time, making it essentially a human-shaped truck.

After the apocalypse, some people can awaken spatial abilities, but they are always a step behind in terms of object space, unless they reach a very high level.

Shi Yin put away her phone and continued walking forward, unknowingly reaching the end of the road.

"Um, well... what did you just say?" Guan Nianshan silently asserted his presence from behind: "You just said, after the apocalypse?"

"Hmm," Shi Yin responded faintly.

Guan Nianshan: "...Well, although you're very capable, you should spend less time on your phone and more time reading books."

Shi Yin: "..."

Why doesn't she beat this guy up first?

Upon reaching the last staircase, Shi Yin went straight down. The basement wasn't large, and she could hear the sound of cars starting up coming from the adjacent underground parking garage.

It looks like a parking space will soon become available.

Shi Yin raised her hand, and golden light condensed in her palm, forming a dazzling golden vortex. With a wave of her hand, the vortex transformed into countless points of light, scattering throughout every corner of the basement.

Guan Nianshan's eyes widened, and his brain completely shut down.

Wow! What kind of special effects are so dazzling?

Guan Nianshan stiffly turned his head, looking at the countless crystal butterflies in the space that fluttered their wings like little elves, hovering in the darkness and illuminating this space. He just wanted to slap himself twice to wake himself up from his dream.

There must be something wrong with how he opened it today, right?

He knew he couldn't stay up late every day!

See, she's hallucinating...

Sure enough, it was from playing on my phone.

The golden crystal butterfly, like dazzling fireworks, was a miracle in the cramped basement. Shi Yin looked ahead and met the eyes of a pair of people in the iron cage.

It was a large, rusty iron cage, and something wrapped in rags was curled up inside. If you didn't look closely, you might mistake it for a kitten.

But her bright almond-shaped eyes and disheveled hair revealed that she was clearly a little girl, lying on the ground, trembling.

Shi Yin gave Guan Nianshan a cool look, which made Guan Nianshan's hair stand on end.

"Hiss, don't look at me like that. I never kidnap children with parents. They're all orphans!" Guan Nianshan tried to lessen his crime: "And they were all important people who had offended me. Even if I hadn't kidnapped them, they would have just disappeared in a few days."

"You're quite proud of yourself?" Shi Yin narrowed her eyes slightly.

Guan Nianshan: "...No..."

He wasn't arrogant; where was he arrogant?

No, she's just a girl in her early twenties. What's she so timid about? He's seven or eight years older than her!

Moreover, Guan Nianshan's father died early, and he became the head of the family early as well. He single-handedly supported the Guan family for nearly ten years, and his experience and methods were extremely sophisticated. Guan Nianshan couldn't understand why he was so frightened by a woman time and time again today.

“These children are actually informants too.” Guan Nianshan’s voice grew weaker and weaker: “After she was bought, I would get the evidence and then submit it…”

“I know,” Shi Yin interrupted Guan Nianshan.

She had no interest in causing trouble for Guan Nianshan in the first place.

"Come with me." Shi Yin walked to the cage and squatted down.

The little girl looked at Shi Yin timidly, then shrank back into the corner in fear.

Guan Nianshan: "...Well, she ran away from the orphanage when she was three years old, so it's not certain that anyone taught her to speak."

"No...come closer..." The little girl shrank into the corner of the cage, her big, watery eyes filled with fear.

Guan Nianshan: "..."

You're really good at this??

Why didn't you answer when I asked you before? You should have told me earlier that I would take you home.

“I can grant your wish.” Shi Yin looked directly into the little girl’s eyes: “Follow me, and you can have anything.”

"Are you a god?" The little girl swallowed hard, staring nervously at Shi Yin. "Could you not take me home?"

“You’ve already lost the right to go home by following me. Make a wish.” Shi Yin’s hand passed through the iron cage.

It was as if, in an instant, the pale fingers exceeded the temperature of the magma, and wherever they touched, the iron cage melted inch by inch, forcibly melting a large hole in it.

"I want to be able to eat my fill every day." The girl's eyes were full of longing: "I hope I will never feel hungry and that I can have lots and lots of food that I can never finish eating."

“Okay.” Shi Yin held out her hand to the girl: “What do you want me to call you?”

“I don’t know…” The girl lowered her eyelashes, her eyes dimming: “My mother said I shouldn’t have come into this world, she never gave me a name.”

She didn't know what her name was.

Everyone calls her "Hey".

"Think of one." Shi Yin pulled Chang Ning to stand up.

The little girl was too thin; her arms and legs were frighteningly thin, like twigs that seemed ready to break at any moment.

The moment Shi Yin pulled her up, the little girl was so weak that her legs buckled and she stumbled, falling uncontrollably to the ground. Startled, she instinctively closed her eyes.

The expected pain did not come; instead, the little girl felt herself suddenly lifted into the air and fall into someone's arms.

It wasn't warm, but it had a reassuring feel, like a meadow after a spring rain. She had smelled it when she slept on the grass—the scent of earth and grass mixed with the fragrance of flower petals.

The little girl's eyes instantly welled up with tears; no one had ever hugged her before.

"What's your name, sister?" The little girl stared wide-eyed at Shi Yin intently.

"Shiyin." Shiyin answered truthfully.

"Can I take my sister's surname?" the little girl asked timidly.

"October is the time when the end times will come," Shi Yin said. "Ten sounds the same as my surname, so I'll call myself Xiao Shi."

"I'm here!" Xiao Shi buried his head in Shi Yin's shoulder, surprisingly happy.

"Take her back and raise her until she's recovered to half the level of an ordinary person, then bring her back to me." Shi Yin handed Xiao Shi to Guan Nianshan: "Don't let her die."

Guan Nianshan: "Huh? Me?"

Shi Yin's orders to him came out so easily, how did it suddenly become his business?

Wasn't he just a bystander?

“When the natural disaster struck, the first place Xiao Shi saved was the area where your family lived.” As she spoke, Shi Yin walked back up the stairs: “Next, it’s our turn.”

"Guan Nianshan, I want you to work for me and become my direct confidant."