She's not dead!

She thought about how she had tricked Ning Rou into going to the mall, and then looked at her former friend standing right in front of her, a look of shock in her eyes.

When she couldn't find Ning Rou in the mall, she worried that Ning Rou might still be alive. However, Ning Rou was a weak and timid girl. Even if she wasn't bitten to death by a zombie at the very beginning of the apocalypse, it would be too difficult for her to escape from the crowded mall and safely return home. Song Xi hadn't even considered the possibility that Ning Rou was still alive; she was just disappointed that she didn't know where she had died, and even the keys to her spatial storage and the mall's warehouse were missing.

She was just a little disappointed. She had wanted to pry open the warehouse to take more supplies to the Ning family's villa, but she hadn't expected the warehouse to be so sturdy. Before she could pry it open, an even larger zombie horde broke out.

She fled the mall in a panic, intending to go to the Ning family villa. However, when she realized that she had neither a spatial ability nor any special powers, what was more important was not the Ning family villa's SUV and gasoline, but finding a powerful backer.

She rushed to rescue the Lightbringer, hoping to befriend him and make him her protector before he became too powerful.

Because among all high-level superhumans, the evaluation of the Lightbringers is the most extreme.

This legendary, shy, handsome young man could offer his life for someone he loved, yet could also kill with a smile when he hated someone. Song Xi, in her past life, was far from reaching the level of a "Lightbringer," and only knew from hearsay. She only knew that he was vengeful and personally killed her own father and his mistress and child. However, he was very good to his friends; anyone he acknowledged as a friend was protected fiercely by him.

Song Xi also knew that the Lightbringer had been abandoned by his father on a highway not far from here.

She rushed to save the person, but to her surprise, she arrived before the Lightbringer had said he would be saved, but the Lightbringer was nowhere to be found.

He has been taken away.

The immense fear nearly overwhelmed Song Xi. She had no superpowers, no spatial abilities, only a car she was driving randomly on the road, and some supplies she had collected along the way.

Her only stroke of luck was that she had already experienced an apocalypse once, so she was no longer afraid when faced with corpses crawling up from the ground, and could easily smash their heads. She collected quite a few crystal cores, but because she disliked the weak, she had no companions along the way, and hurried to the Rising Sun Base with her last hope.

This was her last hope for survival.

She felt that everything had gotten worse after she was reborn.

Although their previous life was also tough, Ning Rou's spatial ability ensured they had enough to eat and wear, and Nan Lan's fire-type abilities protected them, so Song Xi actually lived a very peaceful life.

But the hardships she endured throughout her life made Song Xi suffer greatly. As a lone woman, she was almost captured by several men on the road, a memory that still haunts her.

If she were caught, she would probably become one of those corpses in the wilderness by the highway, suffering torture and not even being able to save her life.

She made her way to the base with trepidation, finally encountering this group of survivors halfway there. These were the ordinary people she looked down upon, useless weaklings, but they were numerous, and those who wreaked havoc in the apocalypse always avoided provoking too many others. Therefore, she reluctantly joined them. However, this group of weaklings couldn't even withstand ordinary zombies; if it weren't for one of them being proficient in telecommunications and sending a distress signal, they would have been wiped out in minutes. But the woman Song Xi was supporting seemed to have some background.

She and her husband are from a wealthy family with ample savings. They even have the leisure to dress up and put on makeup, and their son is very handsome.

Song Xi carefully tried to please her and got some food from her so that she wouldn't go hungry.

At this moment, she was supporting this woman, and upon seeing Shen Wangshu, she couldn't help but tremble.

"What's wrong?" The woman was not young, but she had a good voice. She turned to ask Song Xi, whose face was ashen.

"It's nothing, I just ran into two friends." Song Xi's expression brightened as she finished speaking.

She didn't tell anyone about her scheme against Ning Rou. With Ning Rou's simple-mindedness, almost to the point of being foolish, she couldn't possibly imagine that she was plotting against her.

After all, who would have thought they could know about the apocalypse beforehand and then use it to kill their best friend? Ning Rou left the mall simply because she discovered the zombies, not because she saw through her. Thinking of this, Song Xi's expression calmed down. She was decisive, actually quite similar to Nan Lan's personality. Perhaps because Ning Rou was a gentle and simple person, she instinctively liked girls who were completely different from herself.

Song Xi was like this, and so was Nan Lan.

A look of mixed surprise and joy appeared on Song Xi's face. She pushed aside the survivors in front of her and rushed to the SUV, her eyes filled with glistening tears.

"Rou Rou!" she suddenly burst into tears.

"Song Xi!" Shen Wangshu simply leaned on Ah Xuan's shoulder without saying a word, but Nan Lan's expression suddenly changed. Her usually calm and composed expression instantly transformed into one of hatred.

If Song Xi's framing of Ning Rou to death was something she couldn't forgive, then the fact that Song Xi failed to inform Ning Rou's parents when the apocalypse came, almost causing them to die in the mouths of zombies, was what Nan Lan hated most.

She tossed and turned all night, wanting nothing more than to find Song Xi and tear her to pieces.

"Lanlan." Song Xi noticed that Nanlan's expression was off. In her previous life, Nanlan was a high-level ability user, respected and valued by others. However, she didn't care about Nanlan's hostility, and only looked at Shen Wangshu with eager and surprised eyes.

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