End of the World Cycle

After more than five months of torrential rain, the survivors in these cities have long lost their order. Especially after the Internet was cut off, they could not hear news from the country, could not get help, and could not contact anyone. Everyone exposed their most fundamental evil just because they wanted to stay alive.

Xie Qin completed five side quests on this trip and got some random things, but he didn't look at them carefully and was in a hurry to go home. He said he would go home before 6:30, but it was already 6 o'clock.

After thinking about it, I decided not to change the kayak and drove the yacht directly back to the community.

The water level has risen by nearly 50 meters. The rain has become lighter. From now on, it will be light rain until the end of the rainy season, and the water level will not rise any more.

The sound of the yacht caused a stir again. Xie Qin didn't care and went upstairs without even taking out the key. The yachts purchased by the system all have their own defense systems. Not to mention that the yacht was driven away by others, it would be impossible for others to open the cockpit door.

Just as Xie Qin got home, took a shower and changed her clothes, Liang Pengfei arrived.

The reason was not for anything else but to borrow the yacht. After getting along for a while, Xie Qin knew that Liang Pengfei was a straightforward person. He said whatever he wanted to say and did whatever he wanted to do without any tricks.

"Disciple! Let me lend you my yacht for a while. When the rain stops, I will buy you a new one." Liang Pengfei is rich, a national treasure-level athlete, and has never lacked advertising business. His assets are at least over 100 million. He also truly treats Xie Qin as his disciple, so he is definitely willing to give her a yacht worth millions.

Besides, he couldn't bear to see his wife coughing and wheezing, so he decided to go out and look for the medicine.

"No borrowing!"

Unexpectedly, Xie Qin refused as soon as he opened his mouth.

"You...you..." Liang Pengfei couldn't think of a word to say to Xie Qin for a long time. He knew that the yacht belonged to Xie Qin and she could borrow it if she wanted to, and not if she didn't want to.

As a result, I saw Xie Qin throwing a bag to me from the shoe cabinet at the door with a sly smile on his face.

"This? What is this?"

"Of course it's what you want! You are my only master. It's so dangerous out there, and you don't have professional diving equipment. I'm afraid you'll die out there while looking for medicine. So, this time when I went out, I found some medicine that Master's wife wanted."

"You? Going out to look for medicine alone?"

"Of course not. I was looking for vegetables and supplies, and I brought some medicine."

"It's so dangerous outside. Next time you go out, take me with you. Master can protect you. You are a mean person. People's minds are hard to predict. Not to mention outside, there are already people in our building who have bad intentions."

"What happened?"

"There was only a mother and her son living at 26-1. The child was only six years old. A family in need of food forced their way in and asked them to borrow food. Later, the property management team went there, found the people, and returned some of the food, but the family that received the food did not seem to let it go. Although it was just a small incident, it is hard to guarantee that other people will not have the same idea. If they don't wait for rescue, this group of people will definitely be in chaos."

"Okay, I understand. Let's go out together next time. By the way, I found a mountain and brought back a lot of cabbage. You can take some back to eat as well."

"This, this is not easy to take. I've already taken your medicine. We still have food to eat, don't take it."

"Here, if you really feel embarrassed, quickly teach me all your special skills."

"Okay, I will definitely teach you well. It will also be a guarantee for you. Otherwise, you and your family can live with me. My house is big, so it will be convenient for you to train. I can also protect you if there is any danger."

"No, I'm fine here. Don't worry, Master. My mother is not stupid. There will be no problem as long as the door is not opened." Xie Qin smiled and knocked on the door of her house.

"That's right. I'll go back then. What's going on with your yacht?"

"I drove out last time and it ran out of gas, so I parked outside. Later I found gas and drove back." Xie Qin casually gave a reason, and Liang Pengfei didn't say anything else. He returned to the 55th floor.

It was getting dark, and Xie Qin knew that many people were watching her yacht, but they didn't come because it was dark. Maybe it was because the dry season was getting closer and the temperature had risen a little, from 23 or degrees in the past few days to degrees. Xie Qin's fire ability made her feel a little hot.

As Xie Qin was talking, a pot of chrysanthemum tea was in her hands after a while.

"You have internal heat, drink some tea. Order whatever you want and mom will make it for you."

Xie Qin looked at the tea in her hand and laughed. Her mother, who had just graduated from junior high school, now loved reading books about beauty, health, and cooking. It had only been a short time since she had become an expert.

"Bobo Chicken!" Xie Qin flipped through the Sichuan cuisine book and stopped at the page about Bobo Chicken. The cold pot skewers, full of red oil soaked with various ingredients, looked fresh, fragrant and spicy, and instantly made her appetite.

"Okay, there are some things that are not in the refrigerator. Take some out."

"What do you want?"

"Half a pound of chicken feet, lettuce, black fungus, tripe, fresh beef, chicken gizzards, beef tendons, and some lettuce..." Zhang Mingfang said a bunch of words while looking at the book.

"By the way, do you have these things?"

"Yes. I was thinking about having hot pot or something, and I bought all these things."

"That's fine."

It was almost nine o'clock when the family had dinner. They turned on a bright floor lamp on the balcony, put a large pot of Bobo chicken on the small table, and lemonade with ice cubes that had not melted. There were many dishes but no rice. The three of them sat on the cushions, listening to the sound of rain outside the window and eating delicious food. It was a rare feeling of tranquility.

Xie Qin found it funny that the end of the world that everyone feared had become an opportunity for people like her who had nowhere else to go to climb out of the bottom of society. Having lived twice, she unexpectedly had the golden finger of foresight. The future was no longer the future she knew, but the unknown future made her look forward to tomorrow more and more.

It was already 11 o'clock when my mother dragged me to do skin care. Only when I lay in bed did I have time to slowly study the rewards of the system side quests.

[Small fort. How do you use this sniper wooden warehouse? ]

[Master, search the sniper rifle model directly in the system, and the tutorial will appear. This is a special silenced sniper rifle with two types of bullets. Ordinary bullets are used to kill people, and tranquilizer bullets are used to arrest people. The range of the two bullets is exactly the same, and the decibel of the gunshot will not exceed 100. ]

[Huh? Why are you so stingy? Why do you only give me a knife for this weapon side quest? ]

[Master! Don't underestimate this knife, it can cut through iron like mud. In the world of immortal cultivation, this is at least an ancient weapon. Moreover, this knife is not too long, only 70 centimeters, so it is not conspicuous when carried on the body. If you don't believe me, try using it to chop zombies, it is very useful.]

[Okay.] Xie Qin thought about how she swung her axe so hard in her past life to collect crystal cores that it started smoking.

When I think of Axe, I think of Uncle Liu Bo. I don't know how they are doing. When I was just reborn, I bought a lot of supplies and medicines online with the first money I got and sent them to Butterfly Mountain. I was relieved only after confirming that they received them. I don't think their family will be so unlucky in this life.

[Master, have you found the location of our base? ]

【Not in a hurry. 】

[Master, hurry up! Without a base, the small fortress will upgrade too slowly. And you don’t continue with the main quest. When will we be able to finish building the apocalyptic fortress?]

[Don't worry, it's not time yet. One third of the inland is flooded now, so it's hard to find a base. Besides, people haven't realized the end of the world yet, so it's hard to recruit many useful cattle and horses at this time... No... It's residents.]

[Okay~ But there are still a few side quests to do, and the rewards are quite a lot. The rewards for these side quests cannot be bought with points, master, don't forget them. ]

[Let me see what else there is... Collect 50 kilograms of gold? What kind of task is this? And collect one ton of jade? Collect 100 carats of diamonds. Why are these three tasks... so weird?]

[No, these things are the raw materials for the system to produce items. They are all useful. There is a high probability that you will collect these things in the future side quests, so if you have time, you can collect more of them, just in case~]

Xie Qin looked carefully again and found that there were seven side quests. In addition to the three tasks of collecting gold, jade and diamonds, the rest were cultivation tasks, which were to cultivate ten kilograms of strawberries, ten kilograms of lettuce, and ten kilograms of romaine lettuce.

[For this cultivation task, can I just use the finished product in the space? ]

[No, after you choose to accept the task, the system will give you special seeds and you have to cultivate them yourself.]

[Can I let my mother plant it? ]

[Yes, as long as it can grow, you can complete the task. It doesn't matter who plants it. If the seeds are bad, you can give up the task and take it again, and you will get new seeds.]

【Understood. 】

The next day, Xie Qin planned to go out and visit a nearby mall to see if he could find some gold, jade, or something. After changing clothes and going downstairs, he saw a few people sneaking around his yacht. There were some tools at their feet, such as knives, axes, wrenches, etc. It seemed that they had been here for a while.

Xie Qin resisted the urge to laugh and slowly walked behind the few people.

"This can't be pried open. It's voice-activated."

Several people were startled and turned around to see Xie Qin. When they saw that the person coming was the little girl driving the yacht, their faces calmed down instantly. The woman next to them even approached Xie Qin kindly.

"Little sister, can you lend us your boat? It's not for free, we'll give you money. Or we can exchange it for anything you need."

"Okay. One kilogram of gold or jade for every ten kilometers." Xie Qin still smiled cutely. This sentence made these people stunned. Although these people were not poor, no one would store kilograms of gold at home. You know, gold fighters buy by grams. One gram of gold is nearly 500 yuan. One kilogram is more than 200,000 yuan.

It's easy to guess that the little girl is going to ask for a big profit.

"Little sister, you are young and don't know the prices. We won't say much because you are ignorant. Here, take this gold bracelet. We will lend us this yacht for one day. We will return it to you when we come back at night." As she said that, the other fatter woman took off a gold bracelet from her hand and stuffed it into Xie Qin's hand.

It was like a forced sale. The bracelet was not small, about 50 grams. Before Xie Qin could react, the two men had already stood on the deck of Xie Qin's yacht. They were waiting for Xie Qin to open the door.

"Let me drive. I guess none of you know how to drive a boat. I'll take you wherever you want to go."

When those people heard Xie Qin say that, they thought she agreed. Several people boarded the boat together. Xie Qin counted five people in total. All of them were men. There were two women who didn't follow.

The five people's common destination was a warehouse supermarket 13 kilometers away. Each of them had an empty backpack, probably because they were going out to find food.

The yacht was not big, with only a cockpit and a small bedroom at the back. Both places were Xie Qin's private places, so naturally she didn't want anyone to enter. Fortunately, there was an awning at the rear of the yacht, so it was not raining at the moment. Xie Qin didn't open the door, but looked at the seats at the back. Several people knew where to go. He didn't say much.

The yacht drove very fast and arrived at the destination of several people. The warehouse supermarket only had three floors and had been flooded long ago. Now the situation was that they had to dive about 35 meters to get to the supermarket to find food. Obviously, without professional diving tools, it was impossible to go down.

Several grown men were in a dilemma.

He looked around blankly. Only the community opposite the supermarket had a floor exposed above the water. Xie Qin also saw it and sent the person over directly.

Several people got off the boat without hesitation and hid in the house. Although it was a little flooded and the water was up to their ankles, it was large enough for them to move around and stay.

After the last person got off the boat, Xie Qin turned around and left. Several people were so scared that they leaned against the window and shouted frantically. Xie Qin, who was still reversing the boat, just smiled and raised his hand to make a goodbye gesture.

The boat shuttled through the city, visiting all the comprehensive shopping malls and jewelry stores that could be found on the map. The harvest was not great, after all, the rain did not come suddenly, and these were all valuable items. Basically, they were all moved away. After working all day, I only found 7 or 8 kilograms of gold and 10 kilograms of jade, and even fewer diamonds. There were a dozen or so rings scattered here and there, none of which were big, and they only weighed 7 or 8 carats.

It was already dark when we arrived at the building. Before we even walked in, we saw that the windows on the 15th floor of the building were brightly lit, and there were seven or eight people waiting, all women and elderly people around 60 years old.

Everyone looked excited when they saw Xie Qin's boat coming. But when they saw Xie Qin getting off the boat alone and saw the empty deck, several people gathered around him and started clamoring.

In just a second, everything fell silent again, and Xie Qin raised the wooden cannon in his hand and pressed it against the head of the leading woman.

"He's fine. He's at a supermarket ten kilometers away. The price is still the same, one pound of gold for ten kilometers. If you can afford it, I'll pick it up. If you can't, it's none of my business."

"You... I... I gave you a bracelet. Didn't you agree? Why did you leave you outside?" The fat woman at the side said tremblingly.

"Which ear did you hear me agree?" For a moment, everyone who saw the coldness in Xie Qin's eyes was a little frightened. How could such a young girl be so scary?

Xie Qin felt that these people were not bad people, at most they were greedy and timid. That was why they did not intend to kill the men they took out.

"Little girl, you see, we are all trapped here and cannot get out. We can't gather so much gold in a short time. Can we write you an IOU? Wait until the rain is over, and we will give it to you when we have gathered the money?" An old man who looked to be in his fifties spoke, seemingly discussing something, but Xie Qin knew that once people come back, their faces will always change.

"It doesn't have to be gold, diamonds or jade are also fine. One pound of gold, one carat of diamonds, five pounds of jade are all counted as ten kilometers. You just need to deliver it according to their distance. It's 23 kilometers round trip. If you do business with us for the first time, we will give you a discount and count it as twenty kilometers."

After Xie Qin finished speaking, he put down his gun and walked around the people in front of him to go home. Just after taking a few steps, a few unwilling people caught up with him. Xie Qin didn't even turn his head and shot directly at the feet of an old woman walking in front.

The smell of gunpowder in the air frightened the old woman so much that her legs went limp. She felt as if if she took another step forward, the person lying there would definitely be her own corpse.

In an instant, these people realized that this little girl would really kill someone. . . . .