"bite!"

The elevator doors opened on the twentieth floor.

"roar!"

A strong stench of decay hit me.

Gu Shaoyan froze, instinctively tightening his grip on the kitchen knife.

However, before he could act, a silver steel clothes pole struck first, hitting the zombie squarely between the eyebrows...

"Whoosh!"

The clothes pole pierced the zombie's head, and with a "thud," a crystal-clear bead fell to the ground.

What is that?

"Is it a crystal core?"

Gu Shaoyan was startled and answered his own question.

Qin Wan glanced at him indifferently, "Probably."

"I was originally going to attack the zombie's throat, but after thinking about the post-apocalyptic novels and movies I've been reading, I changed my target."

After hearing Qin Wan's explanation, Gu Shaoyan looked at her with starry eyes.

Their eyes met, and Qin Wan's gaze flickered as she looked at the undisguised admiration in Gu Shaoyan's eyes.

"You little piece of trash."

The system wanted to play dead, but it didn't have the guts.

"Can you detect Gu Shaoyan's level of affection?" Qin Wan asked.

I'll give it a try.

The system finally became intelligent for a moment. After a brief moment of confusion, its gaze toward Gu Shaoyan immediately turned ardent.

It knew that since the host would ask such a question, it proved that Gu Shaoyan in front of it was the reincarnation of the God in this plane.

[System is currently performing a check...]

[Host, please wait a moment...]

Qin Wan had little confidence in the system's worrisome business capabilities.

Therefore, after confirming that it was going to do its job properly, Qin Wan threw herself back into the "difficult challenge" of the elevator going down.

"bite."

"bite."

...

Before the apocalypse, if all went well, you could reach the elevator on the first floor lobby in less than a minute.

Due to the apocalypse, Qin Wan and Gu Shaoyan were forced to stop on almost every floor...

Even though Qin Wan's tablet lured away most of the zombies, there were still quite a few zombies remaining in the corridors on each floor.

Fortunately, Qin Wan was wielding a clothes-holding pole, and was incredibly brave. As soon as the zombies appeared at the elevator entrance, she would remove their crystal cores and knock them to the ground.

At first, Gu Shaoyan was on high alert, looking as if he were facing a formidable enemy.

But soon, as one zombie after another fell to the ground, and seeing Qin Wan's calm and composed demeanor, he seemed to be infected as well, and gradually calmed down.

"Have you practiced martial arts before?" Gu Shaoyan asked Qin Wan.

Qin Wan shook her head. "No."

"No??" Gu Shaoyan was stunned, his face full of disbelief. "Then how come you're so skilled?"

"Is it impressive? I don't think so," Qin Wan said calmly.

"..." Gu Shaoyan's lips twitched. "Are you being modest or just being Versailles?"

Qin Wan frowned, looking at him with a puzzled expression. "Didn't I tell you?"

"What?" Gu Shaoyan was taken aback.

"After my superpowers were awakened, all my physical attributes improved significantly, including my strength and sense of touch."

"With improved eyesight, increased strength, and the added benefit of my superpowers, as long as I'm not afraid, killing a zombie with a single blow is a piece of cake."

"And didn't you notice? You said I was good at fighting, but in fact I just simply grabbed the clothes pole and poked the zombie in the forehead. That's all I did."

"If just poking someone is enough to be considered skilled, then I have nothing to say."

Gu Shaoyan: "..." That makes so much sense, I can't even refute it.

Gu Shaoyan was depressed.

So, as the elevator descended, Gu Shaoyan kept staring at Qin Wan's actions of poking the zombie's forehead with the clothes pole.

stamp!

Another poke!

Keep tapping!

Tap, tap, tap!

Poke it, and a zombie falls to the ground, unable to get up.

With a tap, a transparent crystal core fell to the ground.

With a tap, the smile in her eyes deepens.

With a tap, the elevator they were riding in could be closed smoothly and continue descending.

Gu Shaoyan: "..." His feelings were complicated.

The two arrived at the lobby on the first floor half an hour later.

Qin Wan wearily put down the clothes rack and rubbed her wrists. "So tired..."

Gu Shaoyan: "..." To be honest, he wanted to experience this kind of exhaustion.

"Let's go quickly. I'll drive after you get in the car, and you can get some rest," Gu Shaoyan suggested.

"Mm." Qin Wan picked up the clothes pole again and, accompanied by Gu Shaoyan, walked out of the apartment building without any hindrance.

The tablet lured away countless zombies, but some were still left alone. Some were trapped in cars, some crawled on the ground with missing legs, and some tilted their heads with missing hands as they approached Qin Wan and Gu Shaoyan...

"stamp!"

Qin Wan's actions and Gu Shaoyan's voice were synchronized...

With a "bang," the zombie fell to the ground, and Qin Wan looked at Gu Shaoyan with a deep gaze.

Gu Shaoyan stared with his big, innocent eyes.

"Get in the car." Qin Wan's lips twitched, but she ultimately said nothing.

Seeing this, Gu Shaoyan secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

He really didn't mean it.

The main reason was that her movements when poking the zombies were so swift and skillful that they left a deep impression on him, causing him to reflexively utter the word "poking" whenever he saw a zombie.

After getting into the car, Qin Wan was finally able to rest, while Gu Shaoyan finally had something to do. He drove quickly, dodging the pursuing zombies and the corpses scattered all over the ground.

"Where are we going now?" Gu Shaoyan asked.

"Let's go to the nearby Guomao Supermarket first," Qin Wan said.

Gu Shaoyan stared wide-eyed at Qin Wan in disbelief, blurting out, "Are you crazy?"

Do you know what the Guomao Supermarket represents?

"Humans!"

"When the apocalypse broke out, it was a weekend, and places like the Guomao shopping mall were packed with people."

"Before the apocalypse, the Guomao shopping mall was packed with people. After the apocalypse, it's like zombies swarming together!"

Even if you feel hopeless about the end of the world and are contemplating suicide, you can choose a more tactful and comfortable way.

"Is it really worth putting yourself through so much pain and suffering?"

Qin Wan: "..."

Gu Shaoyan muttered to himself for a long time, but seeing that Qin Wan didn't react for a long time, he finally realized what was going on and looked at Qin Wan in confusion.

"Finished?" Qin Wan raised an eyebrow.

Gu Shaoyan asked instinctively, "...Did I succeed?"

Qin Wan shook her head. "No, if you're scared, I can go by myself."

"..." Gu Shaoyan was still unwilling to give up, "It's better to live a wretched life than to die a good death, listen to my advice..."

"Were you sleeping when the apocalypse broke out?" Qin Wan suddenly asked.

Gu Shaoyan blinked, and after a second of serious thought, he nodded in response.

"The apocalypse broke out in the early morning."

Gu Shaoyan was stunned.

In the early morning...

"Even in the early hours of the morning, there's an underground food court in the Guomao shopping mall that's open 24 hours a day, and a whole street of bars..."

Gu Shaoyan was still unwilling to give up and wanted to try again.

Besides not wanting to die himself, he also didn't want Qin Wan to go and die.

Although his acquaintance with Qin Wan was brief, in this chaotic apocalypse, Qin Wan was his only hope.