Three people appeared in the small split screen in the upper left corner, with Lu Ben standing at the very front.

Lu Ben's attire was quite peculiar. While others wore padded jackets and trousers, wishing they could stay huddled in their blankets, Lu Ben wore a yellow down jacket with a broken sleeve. The down jacket looked extremely ill-fitting and was very tight on Lu Ben.

Judging from the appearance of this down jacket, it should be a mid-length women's down jacket, but it is now on Lu Ben's body. The down jacket covers the parts that should have been blurred.

The torn sleeve of the down jacket was still stained with dried blood. The dark red blood stained the white feathers inside the down jacket. There were very few feathers left at the torn sleeve, but there was a bulge on the back of Lu Ben's down jacket.

Lu Ben was wearing a pair of red jeans, a color he wore for his birth year. The jeans were tight, with ripped seams, and were quite short, only reaching his knees. His calves were bare, and the fine hairs on his calves didn't stand up. The tight jeans accentuated the lines of Lu Ben's legs, highlighting his defined muscles and explosive power; a kick from them would definitely hurt.

He was wearing a pair of green socks with holes in the big toes. The socks were also very short and tight, so short that they didn't even reach Lu Ben's ankles, and so tight that you could see the lines of the green socks being stretched open.

Lu Ben was wearing white flip-flops, which seemed quite normal compared to his previous attire.

His attire was strange, but strangely, his clothes were very clean. Apart from the bloodstains on the torn sleeve of his yellow down jacket, the ripped seams at the hem of his tight jeans, and the hole in his green socks, everything else on his clothes was excessively clean, without a single stain.

Lu Ben, who wasn't wearing a hat, had snowflakes all over his head. He carried an old-fashioned hunting rifle on his shoulder, his hand resting on the rifle, and his armpit hair, no longer covered by his sleeves, fluttered in the cold wind.

His exposed arms were covered in blue tattoos, and the hair on his arms didn't stand up.

Lu Ben attracted everyone's attention the moment he appeared; he was so striking that it was hard to know where to look.

Ye Zhi tilted her head and asked her question, "Isn't his arm cold? Isn't his big toe cold? Doesn't he have any clothes to wear?"

Grandpa Song didn't know how to answer Ye Zhi's question. If he said he was cold, he was dressed more thinly than everyone else. If he said he wasn't cold, the hair on his body was standing on end. If he said he had no clothes to wear, that was impossible, since the people next to him were wearing so many clothes that they looked like bears.

Before anyone could answer, Ye Zhi pressed one of the many buttons in front of her, "Uncle outside, are you cold?"

The machines in the control room picked up Ye Zhi's voice, and the surveillance cameras outside the villa transmitted it outwards.

Hundreds of surveillance cameras were playing Ye Zhi's voice, "Uncle outside, are you cold?"

Ye Zhi's voice was so loud that it caused a brief ringing in the ears of the people outside the door. The zombies fifty kilometers away, upon hearing Ye Zhi's voice, even headed towards the villa.

Outside the villa, Lu Ben and his henchmen were admiring the Ye family villa, marveling at it. "Layers of electrified barbed wire, a huge glass enclosure, they bought a lot of supplies months before the apocalypse... the owner of this villa..."

Before Lu Ben could finish speaking, he was startled by the sudden loud, childlike voice and jumped three feet high. He waved his arms and legs, and his left flip-flop was flung off. The flip-flop drew a perfect parabola in the air, with the toe pointing downwards, and stuck in the snow.

"Ah, my slippers!" Lu Ben cried out in pain, a flash of crimson in his eyes, his muscles tensing.

Zhang Dongliang, who was next to Lu Ben, was searching for the source of the sound when he heard Lu Ben's scream. He glanced at the loud Lu Ben, his lips parted slightly, but he didn't say anything in the end. He turned back to continue searching for the source of the sound.

Dressed entirely in black, Zhang Dongliang wore a large hat that completely covered him. A glint of light flashed in his eyes, hidden by the hat. This voice must be coming from inside the villa.

Zhang Dongliang silently picked up on what Lu Ben had just said: The owner of the villa had a premonition of the apocalypse? Was the owner of the villa a little child?

Zhang Dongliang quickly dismissed his earlier guess; the massive defensive works surrounding the villa were simply too much for a small child to handle.

Tang Qiang, standing next to Lu Ben and Zhang Dongliang, kept his head down, not daring to speak and try to make himself inconspicuous. He was doomed; the weirdo was angry!

Instead of hopping on one foot to get his slippers, Lu Ben took off his ripped sock on his left foot and then stepped barefoot onto the cold snow.

The icy touch of the snow struck his heart, and Lu Ben's tense muscles gradually relaxed.

He bent down to pick up the slippers, wiped the snow off them with his hands, and then gently placed them on the snow, his movements as tender as if he were treating a lover.

Then Lu Ben lifted his left foot, and there was no snow on the sole! There wasn't even a trace of melted snow!

He answered Ye Zhi while putting on his socks and shoes, his lips twitching as if he were frantically suppressing his emotions, "I'm not cold, little one, are you inside the villa?"

Ye Zhi observed Lu Ben's series of reactions through real-time monitoring and raised an eyebrow curiously, "Yes!"

This person is strange.

Lu Ben's voice came through, "Is the little one home alone?"

Ye Jingyu and the others' expressions immediately darkened. What was this man trying to do by asking such a question?

At this moment, System 001 issued a task: "Beep—Two tasks are now issued. The first task: Obtain Lu Ben's blood. If the task is completed, the reward is an ordinary RV."

"Second task: Gain Zhang Dongliang's loyalty. If the task is completed, the reward is one hundred ordinary thermal suits."

Ye Zhi scoffed coldly: "I won't do it!"

She didn't know who Lu Ben was or who Zhang Dongliang was, and she didn't want to do it. Moreover, most importantly, Ye Zhi felt that the rewards the system was offering this time were simply not attractive to her.

Compared to the reward for the first mission, it's like heaven and earth.

Ye Zhi deliberately opened her channel with System 001, allowing 001 to hear her thoughts: [Who do you think you are? You think you can get me to do missions with just an ordinary RV and a hundred ordinary thermal suits?]

【My family doesn't have a motorhome, and we don't have any clothes to wear?】

Ye Jingyu, Song Yuanqing, and Song Moshang were completely baffled by Ye Zhi's inexplicable thoughts. What was this about a motorhome and thermal underwear? What was this mission?

Who is Little Sweet Bean talking to?