"Aunt Xia, look! I got a level seven crystal core today!"
Wenwen, dressed in a blue tracksuit, jogged happily in from outside.
Her short, boyish hair fluttered as she ran, giving her a completely tomboyish look.
Xia Jie, who was sitting at her desk handling official business, looked up when she heard the sound, her eyes filled with tenderness.
The Wenwen of today is completely different from the shy, timid, and adorable little girl she used to be.
Xia Jie couldn't help but sigh to herself, "If Xin'er were here, she probably wouldn't even recognize her."
Thinking of Xin'er, Sister Xia lowered her eyes, a worried expression on her face.
It's been three years...
They tried to contact Xin'er through the restocking system, but received no response.
I wonder how Xin'er is doing now.
Wenwen held a fist-sized green crystal core in her hand and presented it to Sister Xia like a treasure.
"It's wood-based, Aunt Xia, it's perfect for you."
Sister Xia took it, and smiled indulgently.
"Then Aunt Xia won't stand on ceremony."
This wasn't the first time she'd accepted things from Wenwen. If she didn't accept them, Wenwen would get upset. After a few times, she stopped being polite to Wenwen.
However, after each time she received it, she would give it to Wenwen in exchange for a mental crystal core that Wenwen could use.
Sister Xia stored the crystal core into her spatial stone and said at the same time:
"You should be breaking through to level eight soon. The supermarket at the Beijing base acquired a level eight mental weapon a few days ago, and I've already exchanged it for you."
Wenwen sat down in the chair opposite Sister Xia's desk, rested her chin on her hands, and blinked her eyes affectionately.
"Aunt Xia~ You're so good to me~"
Sister Xia gave her a reproachful look.
"You're so sweet-talking, you know how to coax your Aunt Xia."
Then, turning to a more serious question:
"What's the situation outside the base today?"
"Still the same, going out in groups. There are no zombies around, so we can only go further. I'm lucky to be back so early today."
Although Wenwen has grown quite a bit taller and is only a nine-year-old child, the way she speaks at this moment makes her look very mature.
She wasn't surprised by what Sister Xia said, and nodded, saying:
"The polar day has just ended, and everyone is short of crystal cores."
It seems as if God is putting all his effort into eradicating humanity, with natural disasters coming one after another.
Not long after Xin'er left, acid rain began to fall, followed by floods, earthquakes, polar night, and polar day.
If it weren't for the supermarket left behind by Xin'er, where we could buy the necessary supplies, it would be questionable whether any humans could even survive now.
During natural disasters, everyone hides in the base. Once the disaster is over, they will go out in droves to fight zombies and earn crystal cores.
Most people with superpowers these days are at level five, and geniuses like Wenwen who are already at level seven are extremely rare.
Even the surviving zombies are at least level six, so humans have to team up to get the crystal cores.
As the two were chatting, Ranran burst in from outside, his excited shouts audible even before he arrived.
"Mom! We've heard from Auntie!"
Upon hearing this, Xia Jie and Wenwen exchanged a glance, their eyes filled with the same surprise.
He stood up abruptly, causing the chair beneath him to rattle loudly.
Before Ranran could even enter the house, the two eagerly rushed out to greet her. Wenwen grabbed Ranran's arm first.
"My sister replied?!"
Ranran is seven years old this year. Her originally fair skin has turned wheat-colored from sun exposure, and her hair is still naturally curly, fluffy and frizzy, like a broom head.
His eyes sparkled, and he nodded vigorously.
"Yes, Auntie left a message. She said she'll be back soon!"
Following closely behind Ranran was Tan Jingrui, who had seen the news when he went to the restocking station.
Compared to the younger Ranran, Sister Xia was more interested in hearing more specific information from Tan Jingrui and asked him directly.
"Did Xin'er say when she'll be back?"
"They didn't say anything specific, only that she was on her way back and everything was fine, and that we shouldn't worry."
Xia Jie and Wenwen listened to Tan Jingrui's words with their breath held, and only breathed a long sigh of relief after he said that everything was fine.
Then she became even more excited, as if she had been injected with adrenaline, and Wenwen jumped three feet high.
"Great! My sister is coming back! I knew she wouldn't abandon me!"
Ranran cheered along with him. Although he was young, he had never forgotten his aunt who had been so kind to him.
Suppressing her excitement, Sister Xia asked Tan Jingrui again.
"Do Carl and the others know about this?"
Tan Jingrui shook his head slightly.
"I just received the message and came to inform you first. I haven't had time to tell them yet."
"Send a message to them now, not just Carl, but also the two idiots."
Sister Xia remembered that the last time she saw Ersha, it showed off its spoils to them; the crystal cores were piled up like several small mountains.
Wenwen's mutated beast Xiaoqing can understand what they are saying. Wenwen relayed that Ersha and the others knew that Xin'er liked crystal cores, so they specially saved them for Xin'er and wouldn't let anyone else touch them.
We mustn't forget the news that Xin'er is coming back, otherwise she'll get angry with them, and she won't be able to handle that noisy bunch.
Tan Jingrui added, "We should also inform the base commander and the others."
Lu Zheng is now the supreme commander of the Chinese nation and has always taken good care of Quanyou Supermarket.
Although Lu Chen was busy doing business in various parts of the world, he kept in touch with them and kept track of Xin'er's news.
There were also Lu Jin'an, You Su, Leng Luo, and other friends from Xin'er's past, none of them were left out.
This chapter is not finished, please click the next page to continue reading!
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
