End of the World Cycle

Zhang Mingfang was not a good cook, but she had cooked for more than ten years and there were a few dishes that Xie Qin liked. She hadn't been home for three days, so she must have been worried about her daughter. She always felt that Xie Qin was tired when she was away. She cooked a large table of dishes that her daughter usually ate more.

There was half a chicken stewed on the table, braised pork with potatoes, beef stir-fried with peppers, stir-fried lotus root cubes, stir-fried green vegetables, and a large plate of fruit. There were only three of us eating, and the key was that each dish was quite large.

"Mom, I'm afraid the refrigerator will be empty after making so many dishes?"

"No, Ranran and I don't eat much on a daily basis. If you weren't back, I would have been worried that these fresh vegetables would go bad and not taste good. So I cooked them all when you happened to be back."

Thinking of this, Xie Qin took out a few packing boxes from the space. Both of them had seen Xie Qin conjure things out of thin air, and they were shocked at first. Xie Qin explained that it was a magical power and didn't say much. A child and a woman who didn't even graduate from junior high school were always careless, and they believed whatever Xie Qin said.

After packing five lunch boxes, half of the food was left, and the three of them still hadn't finished eating. Zhang Mingfang was not a wasteful person, so she saved the chicken soup for cooking noodles the next morning and the vegetables for toppings.

After dinner, Xie Qin restocked the large refrigerator at home, then sat on the recliner in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, took out his mobile phone and started reading the news.

Although the power was out, the signal stations in the city did not seem to be completely broken. Especially in Xie Qin, who was in the city center, there was still a signal. The heavy rain was still falling, and many inland cities also suffered from floods and mudslides. Although the country evacuated in time, many disobedient people still died in the water.

The number of casualties and missing persons has reached over three million. Although this number looks shocking, it is a far cry from the hundreds of millions in the previous life.

In addition, with Xie Qin's reminder, the country has a special rescue team to salvage the bodies, and they are cremated in piles after being salvaged. The base number of zombie outbreaks in this life seems to be under control.

It is estimated that there will be more in their coastal areas by then. Xie Qin sometimes wondered if the zombie virus was controlled, would the world return to its former state? Then Xie Qin denied this idea. In addition to zombies, the mutated plants and animals caused by natural disasters in the future would also be a hurdle that humans would find difficult to overcome.

It seems that being with family makes one feel at ease. Xie Qin slept well that night. Zhang Mingfang did not disturb her on purpose, knowing that her daughter was going out again, this time for a week. She wanted to let her sleep a little longer. Xie Qin slept until almost eleven o'clock.

Even though it was almost noon when she woke up, Xie Qin still forced herself to drink a large glass of milk. She really wanted to grow up faster, so that she wouldn't be only 1.58 meters tall until she died in her previous life. But she also knew that the genes were there, and she was not greedy. She just wanted her to be over 1.6 meters tall.

After instructing her mother and brother not to go out and not to let anyone into their house, Xie Qin packed up and left. But before she reached her yacht, she heard several people talking, asking a property manager nearby to contact her mother.

The property management was also in a dilemma because the yacht belonged to the owner, and his professional ethics told him that he had no right to ask the owner to borrow the yacht.

When Xie Qin got closer, she saw that in addition to the property management, there were three people standing on the eighth floor where she parked her yacht. The water had already flooded to the eighth floor, and the four people standing on the eighth floor had their entire feet submerged.

When several people saw Xie Qin coming over, they recognized her as the little girl who got off the boat yesterday. They didn't care why such a young girl was driving a yacht alone, they only cared whether they could borrow the yacht.

"Little sister, I live on the 20th floor above yours. My mother is still trapped in Jintang District and I can't contact her. Can I borrow your yacht to go see her?"

"Yes, yes. My parents are also trapped somewhere else and cannot be contacted. They are in Sheshan District next to Jintang District."

"Little sister, can we pay you? Any amount is fine. Can we ask your mother to lend us the boat?"

Xie Qin didn't want to talk, but these people spoke one by one, and the latter one directly mentioned her mother. She knew that these people must have found out the number of people in her family and the situation. If she just left like this, there was no guarantee that these people would not find her mother.

So she took off the hood of her windbreaker, revealing her clean and white little face. The girl had a pair of round and bright eyes and some baby fat on her face. She spoke in a soft voice.

"But I... I... I still have to go out to look for my dad. My dad is missing." As Xie Qin spoke, tears welled up in her eyes, and it didn't sound like she was lying at all.

"Then little sister, can we go with you to look for it?"

"But my father was lost in the Lunan District, which is too far from where you are going. We are not on the same route."

"Lunan District? Wasn't Lunan District flooded?" Lunan District is a villa area. There are only two or three scattered residential areas that are high-rise buildings, and they are all demolished houses. Those who can live in Mingzhu Building are not poor. The girl's father must live in a villa complex, and may have been washed away by the water long ago.

"Little sister, don't you know that the entire southern part of the road is flooded? Your father must be gone."

"You're talking nonsense! You're talking nonsense. I want to go find my dad!" Xie Qin cried and pushed away a man in front of her, jumping onto the yacht like a little monkey.

By the time these people realized what was happening, Xie Qin had already left on the yacht. Only a few men were left standing behind, shouting, "Little sister! Come back! Come back!"

Several people thought they were the ones who scared the child away and regretted it so much. How could they have the face to look for Zhang Mingfang? Xie Qin's acting skills had improved a lot. It was really interesting that she used her appearance to confuse people for the first time.

At this time, Xie Qin couldn't help but think of Zhou Lili. She taught her how to hide herself and how to use her appearance to make others confused. But in her previous life, she never took acting as a weak role seriously. Excessive exposure and carelessness led to irreversible consequences.

She sometimes thought that if Zhou Lili had such powerful abilities as her, and she was so smart, she would definitely be able to thrive in this doomsday.

The yacht drove all the way to the port. Just like the previous few days, they changed the submarine and went into the water to collect the container. Everything was going smoothly. In the afternoon of the second day, Xie Qin clearly felt a huge wave coming. Before the danger came, Xie Qin's mental power sensed the surge of the undercurrent.

Without any hesitation, he returned to the submarine. The yacht drove all the way to the port. Xie Qin sat in the submarine as usual and went underwater. The submarine stopped by the port ground. Xie Qin came out of the air tank wearing diving equipment. With the illumination of the submarine light, everything around him became much clearer. In the distance, he could see scattered fish swimming.

The fish looked very strange, somewhat like an anglerfish, but with four legs, sharp teeth, and a rotten body. As she got closer, the fish swam past her as if they couldn't see her. When she got closer, she could see clearly that the stomachs of the rotten fish were moving. There seemed to be another creature inside.

Xie Qin suddenly realized that this might be the source of the zombie virus, the zombie fish. As soon as he thought of it, Xie Qin dug out a large plastic bag from the space and carefully put one in it.

Countless pharmacological experiments are conducted to study the cause of the disease. It’s not that no one studied the zombie virus in the previous life, but that this kind of fish lives in the deep sea three thousand meters deep. After the flood receded, they disappeared without a trace, and no one could find them at all.

We know that the virus is caused by these fish, and we found it in a book in Country C. Three hundred years ago, several of these fish appeared on the beach of Country C, and zombies appeared after biting people. Fortunately, the incident happened in a small fishing village, and the infected people were burned clean before the virus spread.

The country probably also wants to reduce the scope of the zombie outbreak and then clean it up. But Xie Qin couldn't understand why they didn't evacuate everyone, but instead left behind residents who were more than 50 meters from the coastline.

Although this group of people is not large, there are skyscrapers in every city center, plus high-rise buildings over 20 stories high in each district. Although these people are widely distributed, they should add up to hundreds of thousands.

These people were not forced to stay, but many of them were unwilling to leave the home they had worked so hard to build, so they chose to stay. Wait! ! Xie Qin seemed to have thought of something!

There are still people living in the center of every city and in the cities along the coastline of the country. When you think about the Internet that has not been disconnected until now, it seems that no one will return to the south during the dry season in this lifetime. Those who stayed on the coastline were all left behind to clean up the eyes of the zombies.

Yes, the country needs eyes. As long as there is an Internet connection, these people will definitely find a way to contact for rescue. As long as they can contact the center of the zombie outbreak, all the situations can be known to them in the northwest.

Just use the best method to eliminate the zombies. As for whether these people would be rescued, Xie Qin thought that they were most likely abandoned.

After all, one more person in the zombie zone means more danger. In order to eliminate the risk of zombies, I'm afraid no one will come to rescue them.

Xie Qin laughed in her heart, but she also felt that the country was doing the right thing. At least this was the best solution in the short term. But if the water didn't move south, would the inland water be enough to feed more than one billion people?

Shaking her head, Xie Qin smiled. These were not her concerns anymore. She returned to the submarine and found a plastic storage box to keep the fish in. Then she continued to collect the containers.

Xie Qin had been at the port for six days in a row, and the water level had risen by more than 30 meters. This depth was already somewhat uncomfortable in the water. So Xie Qin moved faster and had collected all the containers by noon on the sixth day.

[Beep beep beep~ 10 tons of construction tools detected, starting a side quest (collect 10 hot weapons and cold weapons). The quest rewards % increase in sensitivity. tons of industrial raw materials detected, starting a side quest (collect kilograms of medicine). The quest rewards % increase in the health of the base residents. Detected... 】The system beeped a series of side quests, and Xie Qin probably knew what they were.

Industrial raw materials are the most abundant here, followed by clothing, easily preserved food, cosmetics, furniture, and home appliances. No matter what the mission is, Xie Qin will always sweep the city's supplies.

With one day left, Xie Qin went to the car dealership. She regretted not going there earlier. Now all the cars were flooded, and she didn't know if they would work after being repaired.

I first went to the familiar RV base, where I bought a car in my previous life. I also knew roughly where the car I wanted was. The RV market was not very big, and there were not many cars in stock. The entire two floors of the market were submerged in water. Fortunately, I had a map on my phone and the yacht was fast, so I arrived at the destination quickly.

The car collection went smoothly, but we encountered a lot of corpse fish and corpses. The strange thing was that even though the corpses were eaten clean of their internal organs by the corpse fish, they did not float to the surface of the water, but lay at the bottom of the water as if they had gravity.

About 130 RVs were collected, including two heavy-duty off-road RVs worth tens of millions of yuan. This type of vehicle is extremely waterproof, so it should be no problem for it to be soaked in water for such a long time.

After collecting the car, he returned to the yacht and planned to find a gas station. The sound of the yacht was quite loud in the rain. Xie Qin had checked before arriving here and found no one around. But just as he was about to leave, he saw a floating board made of several wooden boards, with two people lying on it, swimming towards him with two boards in their hands.

Seeing Xie Qin's yacht and Xie Qin standing at the driving position, he instantly became excited. He rushed towards Xie Qin without hesitation. Xie Qin wanted to leave directly, but he hesitated when he saw the work clothes on the two people.

Tuniu Auto Repair. This is the name of a large auto repair shop. It seems that these two men should be mechanics. When she thought about the many flooded cars in her space, she would definitely need mechanics. She would need all kinds of people in her base in the future. It would be better to stay and see the temperament of these two people. If she doesn't hate them, she can get to know them earlier and help them. Then they will have another reason to follow her wholeheartedly.

The two men panted and swam to Xie Qin's yacht. Xie Qin put on a raincoat and walked onto the deck. It was raining heavily, and it was hard to see what the two men looked like. Just as Xie Qin was about to ask, the two men couldn't wait to speak.

"Kind people, please save us." The two men said while patting Xie Qin's boat.

Xie Qin took two steps forward and frowned. Even though it was raining, Xie Qin could still smell the odor of the two people. The smell of a rotting corpse. The dark blue work clothes were stained with blood. There was a large bag on the wooden board, and next to the bag was a fruit knife about 30 centimeters long.

There is a smell of corpse in the bag. Xie Qin narrowed his eyes and asked.

"Are there any others among you?"

When the two heard the clear female voice, they looked at each other, as if relieved, and then answered.

"Yes! Yes! It's on the top floor of Tuniu Auto Repair Center not far ahead. The water has already flooded in. There are children and elderly people there. It's so pitiful. We have been trapped for half a month. It's so pitiful. Please save us! We are here to find someone to save them. I'll take you there."

Xie Qin couldn't help but sneer in his heart. He closed his eyes and spread his mental power in the direction pointed by the two people. There were indeed people, the breath of two living people.

"Okay, take me there."

"We are rowing too slowly on this plank. Let us go to your yacht and show you the way."

"Okay."

Looking at the ladder thrown by Xie Qin, the two couldn't hide the smiles on their faces and climbed up impatiently. As they got closer, the smell became stronger and stronger.

The city has only been flooded for half a month, and these people have already started eating each other. They really can't help themselves. They know how to take a wooden boat to seek rescue, but they don't know how to go out to find food? Idiots.

After both men were hanging on the ladder, the original wooden boat floated away with the current. A dagger appeared in Xie Qin's hand. With a single slash, the ladder broke and the two men fell directly into the water.

"Ah! Help! Help!" Seeing the two people struggling in the water for a few times and then sinking,

Xie Qin returned to the yacht cockpit without looking back and headed towards Tuniu Auto Repair Center.