Chapter 216 I am reborn.
It was an ordinary day. The silence of the night receded like the tide, and the birds' cheerful calls in the treetops and sky opened the noisy symphony of the day.
The cleaner's broom swept the ground, wheels rolled over the road, and the crowd gradually became denser.
In the alley, the breakfast shop opened the steamer, and clouds of white mist wrapped in the warm fragrance of cooked food filled the air.
The fried dough sticks sizzle in the pan and come out golden and crispy, tempting people who get up early to go to work.
"Good morning."
"morning."
“Ding Di——”
So noisy...
The morning light shone through the curtains onto Shu Lan's eyelids. She frowned slightly, a hint of impatience showing on her young face. Her eyelashes trembled, and she opened her eyes with displeasure.
Who is making so much noise on the radio? She is going to curse!
Shu Lan was stunned when the old-fashioned floral curtains were reflected in her eyes.
Huh? Dreaming?
She reached out to touch the curtain, and her fingertips clearly felt the soft textile fabric stained with the warmth of the sun.
There was also her breathing, heartbeat, the fragrance of her own hair at the tip of her nose, and the sound of footsteps walking up and down the stairs.
It's all so real...
Shu Lan's eyes suddenly widened, and she sat up and called out in panic, "Baby!"
This wasn't a dream! This was real! What did Shu Maomao do after her death?
She jumped down and looked everywhere in the room, but she didn't see the second figure in her memory.
Instead, the layout of the room became more and more familiar. Shu Lan remembered that this was the room that Li Yanli had rented at a low price from her grandmother's friend.
Finally, Shu Lan stood in front of the mirror on the sink and saw a young face with messy black hair, wearing pajamas and no wrinkles. She curled her lips and burst into tears.
This is not right, she is obviously old and dying.
Was it a reboot? Or was it a reward for completing a mission? Is her baby still there? Where did Shu Maomao go?
If the rewards return to this time, does it mean...
At this moment, a ringtone rang in the bedroom. Shu Lan stumbled back to the bedroom like a drowning person grabbing a life-saving straw, found the mobile phone under the pillow, wiped away her tears, and then she could see the three big words "remarks" on it.
——"It's a big pear."
He also survived.
Shu Lan cried even harder. She couldn't wait to answer the call, but she choked as she opened her mouth: "Li Yanli..."
Li Yanli's voice sounded breathless, as if she had just run out from somewhere: "I'm here, Shu Lan, it's me, where are you? Don't go out, I'll come find you. Listen to me, today, there's a virus that will..."
"I know about the virus, I remember it, I remember it all. But my son is gone, he's not here..."
Li Yanli paused. He didn't expect Shu Lan to remember everything. He had experienced once the feeling of retaining memories but having everything and everyone changed. He understood how devastated Shu Lan was now.
"Don't hang up, Shu Lan."
Calls kept coming in: from coaches, teammates, parents. Li Yanli's reckless request for leave during the closed training camp was a serious violation of discipline and would be punished.
Li Yanli hung up all the calls. He couldn't care less.
In Shu Lan's eyes, Shu Maomao is even more important to her than herself.
He was afraid that she couldn't bear it.
"Since we both remember it, it means it wasn't just a dream between you and me. It all happened."
There are too many accidents in public transportation, and it might stop at any time. Li Yanli rented a car and drove there himself.
"No matter which timeline you're on, today is the day the virus appeared. After I woke up, I didn't hear any news related to the virus. Everything on the street was normal. My clairaudience hasn't awakened, and I still have normal hearing. So, did you manage to survive until the end of the eternal night?"
Shu Lan followed his train of thought, hurriedly wiping away her tears and catching her breath. "Yes, I fell asleep after the sun came out, and I woke up now."
"What was Maomao doing when the sun came out?"
"He was beside me, quiet. I called him, but he didn't say anything."
Li Yan left and got on the highway, flooring the accelerator. "So you succeeded? Is it possible that this is the reward for success? We all go back to before the apocalypse, when there were no viruses, no superpowers, and no meteorites."
“…”
Shu Lan fell silent, and Li Yanli guessed that she must be speechless.
She loses her voice when she cries too hard.
Before the end of the world, there were no viruses, no meteorites, no people with special abilities, and no boy named Shu Maomao.
Shu Maomao was not yet born in this timeline, but his mother already had all the memories of living with him for decades.
Li Yanli couldn't say: It's okay, Shu Lan, we are still alive and we can have another child.
They all knew that it was another child, not Shu Maomao.
It takes at least three hours to drive from the closed training city to Shu Lan's rental house at the fastest speed.
During these three hours, nearly one million people across the country had similar dreams.
Some humans in the dream possessed some strange superpowers, but they were still no match for the zombies. Instead, they were driven by the zombies to a place called District Nine.
District 9 is not safe either. There is a woman named Qin Xiaoshuang and a little boy named Maomao who will forcibly take away everyone's superpowers.
Isn't it a very evil thing to try to steal super powers in the end times?
But it was this evil mother and son who saved them, fed them, clothed them, and took them to build an underground base. They lived all the way until the day when the sun came back to the earth, and then disappeared silently.
What's even more strange is that after they woke up, they only remembered the names of the mother and son, but could not remember what they looked like.
End of the world!
Oh my, isn't this a coincidence? Reborn! Just on the day the apocalypse begins.
This time they must be fully prepared to face the impending disaster.
An inexplicable stockpiling frenzy has swept across the country, with supermarkets cleared out of foods with long expiration dates.
Some people even posted online, claiming that meat products contained viruses and that eating them would turn people into zombies. They were then blocked and their posts deleted.
Someone live-broadcasted a call for awakened people with special abilities, but ended up attracting a bunch of onlookers who were watching the show with great interest.
Some people rushed back to their loved ones without stopping, bursting into tears on the spot, leaving their loved ones confused.
Three hours later, when the whole country was in chaos and confusion, a car stopped in front of an old building. A young figure rushed up the stairs like a whirlwind and stood in front of the old wooden door that was familiar in his memory.
It was originally a red-painted door, but the paint had almost fallen off. There were couplets on both sides that had been posted for who knows how many years, but the bright colors had been obscured by dust.
Facing this door again, some unpleasant memories flooded into Li Yanli's heart. His Adam's apple rolled, and he raised his hand to knock, but the door opened by itself.
Shu Lan was standing behind the door, still in her pajamas, her hair still messy, as if she had just woken up.
Her eyes were swollen like walnuts, red and full of blood. She had no idea what she had figured out during those three hours. She stared at him with a determined expression and said viciously, "I don't care. Come in and have a baby!"
Li Yanli: "..."
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