"Are you alright?" one of the guards asked the father and daughter with concern.

Zhao Xiaoxiu shook her head.

Zhao Gang didn't say anything, and carried her home.

As for the subdued ghost, he had no interest in it whatsoever.

He's nothing but the lowest of trash, so incompetent he can't even hide himself!

The hallway was bustling for quite a while.

The gossipy residents were determined to find out what had happened between the ghost and the crying woman.

The soundproofing in the hallway was very poor, and the noise from everyone talking was quite loud.

Zhao Xiaoxiu listened with great interest from her own doorway.

Zhao Gang handed her the water glass, saying, "Xiaoxiu, have some water."

Zhao Xiaoxiu took the water glass, drank it all in one gulp, returned the glass, and continued to listen attentively.

It turned out that the ghost was the woman's husband.

Two days ago, her husband took all the family's savings and bought an evolution potion.

Yesterday morning, I couldn't wait to take the evolution potion, and then fell into a deep sleep.

After a day and a night of coma and high fever, the person finally woke up this morning.

His two deaf and mute sons were the first to notice their father waking up and happily leaned against him.

Unexpectedly, her husband suddenly changed his behavior, pounced on her, and bit her mute youngest son.

The woman realized something was wrong when she heard her eldest son making "ah ah" sounds.

Having been tempered by the apocalypse, the woman, upon discovering that her husband's strange behavior resembled that of a ghost, immediately brandished the large machete in her home.

The husband was slashed in the back, and the pain made him abandon his two children and turn his attention to his wife.

It was at this moment that the woman's cries for help were heard.

Fortunately, the guards arrived in time, and the woman and child were rescued.

The youngest son was already dead. The building manager found two people and immediately sent the child's body to the incinerator.

The husband's head was cut off, but his body was still struggling. He had to be burned to die completely.

The base has a dedicated team responsible for dealing with ghosts and mutants.

These people arrived unusually quickly, not only dealing with the ghost swiftly but also sending the woman and her surviving son home and forming an investigation team to investigate the cause.

The warning tape on that door wasn't removed until two hours later.

People could vaguely hear people inside the room mentioning things like "fake medicine," "the arena is suspicious," "the company is investigating," and "we hope the victim's family will cooperate."

Fake medicine?

Are there fake evolution potions?

Zhao Xiaoxiu subconsciously glanced back at her father, who was tidying up his scavenging tools in the house—had he become like this because he ate a fake evolution potion?

But Zhao Xiaoxiu's intuition told her that this matter of a living father was not so simple.

That ghost just now didn't have the intelligence of her living father.

Suddenly, a commotion arose at the end of the corridor.

The fourth floor, the sixth floor, and the fifth floor manager on Zhao Xiaoxiu's side.

The three men each brought a group of people to the woman's house.

They announced that her residency status had been revoked and that she must immediately move out of the unfinished building.

The fourth-floor manager said, "We are all women. I know you are a woman who has just gone through such a big thing and are in a bad mood. It is not easy for you to take a child out to find a place to stay, but we have no choice. This is the result of everyone's vote."

Zhao Xiaoxiu and her living father made a rare eye contact.

What vote? How come she/he doesn't know about it?

The fifth-floor manager looked helpless. "The way your husband acted just now scared everyone."

The eldest son is deaf, but he can read lips.

The child tried his best to use sign language to tell the building manager and others that he and his mother had not drunk fake evolution potions and would not turn into ghosts.

But what's the use of that? They're just taking advantage of you two, a widow and her child.

The sixth-floor manager, who had been keeping a cold face, raised his hand when he saw that the woman was still not leaving. A group of people surrounded him with hostile looks.

The woman shielded her child and gritted her teeth, saying, "I'm leaving."

In less than half an hour, Zhao Xiaoxiu watched as five men and women moved into the room at the end of the corridor.

The building managers on the fourth and sixth floors kindly helped them carry their luggage into their rooms.

The fifth-floor manager was flattered and accepted the two cigarettes offered by the group, patting his chest and saying that he would be happy to help if needed in the future.

As the three building managers left, chatting and laughing, they gave Zhao Xiaoxiu, who was standing at the door, a kind smile.

Zhao Xiaoxiu shuddered, suddenly feeling a chill run down her back.

Without her father, wouldn't her fate be even worse than that of the mother and child?

She can also receive 30 vials of special health relief nutrition solution every month until she turns six.

That's a total of 1080!

There was a rustling sound inside the room.

Zhao Xiaoxiu looked back with lingering fear.

The old man had already come to the door with his scavenging basket on his back.

“Living father… no, dad…”

Zhao Xiaoxiu stretched out a soft little hand and took his fingers, saying, "Hungry, chubby."

She forced out her sweetest smile, her round eyes sparkling.

Seemingly recalling the delicious grilled tentacles, Zhao Xiaoxiu couldn't help but swallow hard, her mouth watering.

The tentacle that had just poked its head out from Zhao Gang's sleeve was so frightened by the human cub's words that it immediately withdrew.

Zhao Gang shook his head: "I can't eat meat."

The food from yesterday hasn't been fully absorbed yet; if they eat another meal, the cub's weak body can't handle it.

Zhao Xiaoxiu lowered her head: "Okay."

Looking at the disappointed cub, Zhao Gang was a little worried.

The cub is too thin and weak; He must raise her to be strong and powerful, the kind that can swallow a planet whole!

Zhao Gang, who was unwilling to entrust his obedient cub to any human.

He went back, filled another pot with clean filtered water, picked up the quacking rubber duck, and put the baby duck and the others in the basket.

Lock the door and take the child out.

This was Zhao Xiaoxiu's first time stepping outside the base's high-voltage power grid wall.

The once-glorious city is now abandoned amidst overgrown vegetation. From the exposed steel and concrete, electrical wires and glass, and the giant billboards lying rusted by the roadside, one can still glimpse the former glory of humankind.

These were all sights Zhao Xiaoxiu had never seen before, and she was overwhelmed by the sights.

But they didn't forget to worry about the tentacles of their living father that always wanted to crawl out.

Recently, the temperature dropped at noon, and no one went to the shade to rest. Scavengers could be seen everywhere searching through the ruins.

The presence of a child as young as Zhao Xiaoxiu in the city ruins was quite striking.

Since the arrival of the SHASI virus, the number of newborns has plummeted, especially in recent years. The total number of births in the five major bases of the entire C region has not exceeded one hundred.

Although the urban area near the base has been largely cleared, there is a 100-meter-wide isolation belt separating the forest area from the urban area, and there are no mutated plants or animals of level C or above.

However, the plants and rodents grow and reproduce very quickly, and they cannot be burned out or poisoned. Occasionally, they will still emerge from some dark corner.

So even the scavengers near the base live in constant fear.

In this situation, no one would take a child who is completely defenseless out.