Chapter Forty-One: The Outsider

Actually, Mu Qingyu originally wanted to say more than just that. She also wanted to discuss having Aunt Mei help with cooking in exchange for her providing supplies and labor. She also wanted to take the opportunity to test Xiao Mo to see if there was any possibility of cooperating to eliminate those people.

But when she arrived and saw the fear in Aunt Mei's eyes, she gave up the idea. She decided to make do with cooking for now, since there were self-heating meals in both the storage room and her own space.

There are also sealed packaged ready-made foods that can be eaten after heating up, and they're quite delicious. I'll take out the restaurant food I bought from the store later when I have the chance.

The problem is that group of people. How can she eliminate them all by herself? It's obviously unrealistic for her to wipe them all out with her current strength. If she tries to take them down one by one, she can only kill two at most. But after two of them die, they will definitely not sit idly by and will surely launch a fierce counterattack. How should she deal with that?

Mu Qingyu returned from Building 4 with a heavy heart. Mu Qingrong was busy using his supernatural ability to turn the two boxes of steel bars into spikes, and then using his supernatural ability to embed the spikes into the high wall. So he didn't notice Mu Qingyu's worries.

Each of the steel bars that Mu Qingrong took out was more than a meter long. Mu Qingrong used her supernatural ability to combine them into a barbed fence.

It's not just sharp at the tip, it's covered in thorns. The tiny thorns on the steel bars are like sharp scales, each one gleaming coldly.

"This defense is quite creative. How did you come up with it?" Mu Qingyu didn't dare touch the fence, which had been fused together but not yet installed. If someone unaware of its purpose grabbed it, their hand would surely be a bloody mess.

"Read apocalyptic novels. Many of the ideas and creativity in them are both interesting and practical." Mu Qingrong originally wanted to show off, but generating this two-meter-long fence almost exhausted most of his superpowers in one go, so he could only say it while wiping his sweat.

"Then keep up the good work." Mu Qingyu smiled and gave her younger brother a thumbs-up. "Don't be afraid of running out of your abilities. You can replenish them with food and time. The more you use your abilities, the more skilled you will become, and you will gradually grow stronger."

There's one more thing Mu Qingyu didn't mention: the crystal core inside a zombie's brain can replenish the abilities of a superhuman. It's like a charger.

However, the zombies currently in the early stages are only at the basic level, and basic zombies do not have crystal cores in their brains. Crystal cores only grow in the brains of level one zombies and above. Therefore, it is meaningless to talk to Mu Qingrong about crystal cores now, and it would be difficult to explain how she knows.

"Sister, we're running out of steel bars. Do you have any more in your treasure chest?" Mu Qingrong continued to use her supernatural abilities to modify the steel bars, asking Mu Qingyu without turning her head.

"Yes. I'll go get it." Mu Qingyu said as she went back to the second floor and carried out four large boxes of steel bars from the "room" in one go.

That box of steel bars was so heavy that even two adult men would have trouble lifting it. Mu Qingyu's main strength was that of superhuman strength!

After throwing the steel bar to Mu Qingrong, Mu Qingyu went back inside to prepare food.

Today's breakfast was supposed to be simple, nutritious, and healthy—mainly simple.

However, since they didn't need to go out today, and Mu Qingrong had already used up a lot of her special abilities on defensive buildings, Mu Qingyu still planned to do something good.

First, she started steaming the rice, something Mu Qingyu did with ease.

There were already seven or eight bags of pre-cooked meals in the refrigerator. Mu Qingyu took out a bag of sour soup beef, a bag of sweet and sour pork ribs, and a bag of mushroom soup. Without opening them, she threw them directly into her spatial storage, and then replaced them with the same ready-made dishes from her space.

The ordinary mushroom soup was replaced with a porcini mushroom and shredded pork soup. Given Mu Qingrong's culinary idiocy, she probably wouldn't have noticed that this soup was not the same as the other one.

After that, Mu Qingyu went up to the sunroom on the third floor and began to plant some seeds one by one in the flower bed that had been prepared in advance.

By the time Mu Qingyu finished planting, the food downstairs was almost ready. She then pretended to reheat the vegetables that had been replaced, and called Mu Qingrong upstairs for dinner.

"Qingqing, did you see that? That boy next door, he—he also has superpowers, he can put those metals back together!" In Building 2, the long-haired, beautiful older sister excitedly grabbed her younger sister's shoulder after witnessing what happened in the courtyard of Building 3.

"And that girl, about your age, she carried four boxes of steel bars all by herself! She's just like you, all young!" It's the excitement of finding a kindred spirit.

Qingqing understood her sister's thoughts. Ever since they survived the extreme cold and woke up, her body had undergone a significant change. Her strength had increased dramatically, and her agility had become much greater.

That's why she was able to escape from the city with her sister on a motorcycle! Of course, at first, they weren't hiding from those man-eating monsters, but from certain people.

Only after escaping did they discover that there were so many monsters outside, and the world seemed to have fallen into chaos. As they fled, they took advantage of the chaos to gather some supplies along the way.

When I got to this area, I found that there were fewer man-eating monsters here than in other places, so I decided to find a house to stay in.

Qingqing chose Building 2 because Buildings 3 and 4 looked very sturdy, meaning that at least one side of their apartment would be particularly safe. If there were any serious danger, they could perhaps ask the owners of the neighboring apartments for permission to take refuge.

But what they didn't expect was that a group of thugs came to their place on the second day after they moved in.

Because of the rather unreserved decoration of buildings three and four, the criminals did not notice that someone also lived in building two. If my sister had been discovered by those people, the consequences would have been unimaginable!

What they didn't expect was that the girl next door would actually kill someone! And she did it so decisively and cleanly.

Then, the girl acted as if nothing had happened and began reinforcing the house with her younger brother.

From the moment the skinny boy collapsed, Qingqing felt a deep respect for Mu Qingyu. She too wanted to be strong; she wanted to become indifferent to honor and disgrace, even ruthless! Only then could she protect her sister!

"Qingqing, did you see that? They're just like you. You're not an outcast, you won't be captured and experimented on." This was actually a lingering worry in her heart. Although she was very happy that her younger sister had become so powerful, she was also afraid that her sister's abilities would eventually become her death warrant.

Now that's good, there are other people in this world just like my sister, so she's not the only one who's different!