End of the World Cycle

The long-lost sunshine woke Xie Qin up. She dazedly glanced at the alarm clock and saw it was only 88:. She walked to the window and took a look at the water level. It had dropped by about centimeters, which was not too fast. Thinking that she had not visited the th floor yet, she took a walk through the designated safety passage after washing up.

She was still wearing a pair of cotton and linen slippers, a home dress, and walked up the stairs slowly with a steamed bun in one hand and a cup of milk in the other. She was curious before why there were no zombies in the building where they lived, but after going into the water yesterday, she found out that all the doors, windows and safety passages of the corridors below the 15th floor of this building were closed.

The zombies wanted to come up, but the low-level zombies could not open the door at all. This caused panic in other places and the Dongzhu Building ended in ignorance.

There are still three weeks until the awakening of superpowers. This period is the most dangerous time for humans. There is no food, no water, and there are zombies everywhere. This stage is when the mortality rate of humans is the highest.

Xie Qin was inexplicably looking forward to it. After all, only when people are at the end of their rope will they be willing to do anything for a bite of food. That would probably be the best time for him to conquer the building.

We slowly reached the 88th floor. The design of one apartment per elevator meant that this top-floor luxury house had an area of ​​more than 1200 square meters, excluding the public area, so it was at least square meters.

The door is a heavy titanium alloy double-leaf door, and one side is locked from the inside, making it a single-leaf door. After swiping the house card and entering the password, facial recognition is no longer required.

Xie Qin took a look at this advanced door lock, which was much better than the one exchanged by the system. He could ask Miao Zhe to modify the system so that it could continue to be used.

When you open the door, you will see not a common living room, but an extremely elegant sky garden. The flowers cultivated there are basically dead. It is estimated that they could not survive the half-year rainy season without sunlight. Further in is a swimming pool that is 50 meters long and 10 meters wide. Above the swimming pool is an electric skylight, half open and half blocked. It is a good choice whether you want to bask in the sun during the day or watch the stars at night.

Across the swimming pool is a large French window with two soft leather sofa massage chairs in front of it. Overlooking the entire main city without any obstruction, the scenery is comparable to a 5A-level scenic spot.

After passing through the rest area of ​​the swimming pool, we arrived at the living room. The living room was backed by double-sided corner windows, which provided excellent lighting. The wall-to-wall display screens were more luxurious than those in a movie theater. This was the first time that Xie Qin had truly witnessed the gap between the rich and the poor.

Across the living room is the dining room with a five-meter-long wide table, which can accommodate more than a dozen people for a meal. To the left of the dining table is a Western-style open kitchen, and to the right is a semi-open Chinese-style kitchen.

Go around the kitchen and walk into the corridor on the right to reach the bedroom area. There is a shared bathroom at the junction of the living room, dining room and bedroom area. For such a big house, there are only two bedrooms. Both are on the left. The bedroom alone is estimated to be 100 square meters.

The bed was two meters wide and three meters long, and the bedding was spotless and made of pure silk. Xie Qin raised his hand and touched it. The ones he sold for a few hundred yuan a set were indeed incomparable.

The entire bedroom is made of soundproof and heat-insulating one-way glass. You can overlook the whole view from inside, but you can't see inside from outside. Automatic blackout curtains are neatly placed on both sides. The floor-to-ceiling window area on the left is the bathroom. The half-bowl bathtub is directly in front of the window. Behind it are two closed transparent bathrooms. There is a toilet on each side.

Xie Qin couldn't help but twitch his lips. Was this for pooping together? Fortunately, after entering, there was a button on the wall, and the inside of the glass of the bathroom and toilet changed instantly, becoming frosted glass that made it impossible to see inside.

The other bedroom has the same layout, but the color scheme of the room is different.

The corridor on the left had three rooms. Xie Qin went in and took a look. They were not small, about 100 square meters each. Except for the innermost room which was a fitness room, the other two were all cloakrooms. They were filled with high-end custom-made men's clothes. The display cabinet in the middle was full of ties, watches, cufflinks, etc. There was also a wall of brand new sneakers that had never been worn.

The more Xie Qin looked at it, the poorer he felt. If it wasn't the end of the world, when would he be able to live in a house like this?

Back to the sky garden area, there is a spiral staircase that leads up. Xie Qin climbed up to another garden. Unlike the garden downstairs, the plants above are all soil-grown, mainly vines. Although they have all been soaked to death by rain, you can still see traces of their former beauty.

After walking around, Xie Qin felt that this place was very suitable for her family to live in, and it was also more suitable as her starting base. Especially the large soil cultivation area on the top floor would be very convenient for cultivating mutant plants in the future.

They only needed to renovate a bedroom downstairs so that their family of three could live well. After a quick look, she saw that there was no display cabinet in the middle of the cloakroom where the sneakers were placed. Xie Qin emptied the room in one breath and threw everything into the space. After cleaning up, the room was a square room of 100 square meters.

【Xiaobao, search for furniture and supplies. 】

[Hello, host, you have been redirected to the furniture mall. You can search for what you need on your own. We also have house decoration services that can provide you with the best solutions. ]

【For this minimalist bedroom set, go for a beige color theme. Add a jacuzzi. 】

[Okay, Master. A total of 130,000 points.]

[So expensive? ? ! ]

[The main item is worth the money, with a lifetime warranty~ and a full bedroom cleaning every three days, which is also lifetime~]

【All right. 】

As Xie Qin confirmed the payment, the space around him began to change. The wallpaper on the wall began to disappear and turned into a lighter beige color. A square bathroom with separate wet and dry areas appeared against the wall on the right. A large, soft and comfortable tatami bed appeared in the middle of the room. There was a lazy sofa and a dressing table in front of the window.

There are some small decorations on the wall, but there are too few things. The point price is a bit unfair. I can't return it, so I can only use it. I just think that if I need furniture in the future, I'd better do it myself. Although it's soaked in water, I should be able to use it after taking it out and drying it in the dry season.

They also gave me a cleaning system, which was not a big loss. After finishing my bedroom, I threw all of Shen Songqi's personal belongings into a small corner of the space. After making sure it was clean, I planned to move in.

After moving in the next two days, I will go to pick up Xu Kai and his family. She still has too few employees. Liang Pengfei and Lan Yining have not officially joined her, so she has to find an opportunity.

Her base is about to be officially established.

Xie Qin moved into the new house in two days. Zhang Mingfang and Xie Ran were both nervous when they arrived at the new house. After Xie Qin explained it again and again, they finally accepted the fact that the mansion belonged to them. They happily walked around the house several times.

Zhang Mingfang has made a lot of progress in the past six months. She reads books every day to improve her character. She seems to have been reborn. She has mastered cooking, health care, and beauty skills.

Xie Ran, on the other hand, became very interested in architecture because he had played with Lego so many times. Although he was young, he was able to build models by himself after looking at the learning materials prepared by his sister.

It has to be said that Xie Ran does have some talent. In addition, because he is paralyzed and uses a wheelchair, he can sit still and is more patient than other children, which makes Xie Qin look at him with new eyes. He is thinking about finding a professional architect to teach him, as the construction of his own base will definitely require an architect.

While I was thinking about these things, Miao Zhe brought in the information of the survivors in the entire building with his laptop. Among them was Lu Qihang, a well-known domestic architect who lived on the 56th floor. There were also Dong Siyuan and Zhang Lu, a couple who were researchers at the Dongyue Biological Research Institute on the 38th floor. Zhu Xuedan, the main researcher of the drug research and development team on the 59th floor... There were too many.

Xie Qin looked through it carefully. Most of the people living here are high-end talents in society, which is helpful for the construction of his base. This made Xie Qin feel that he had made the right choice to live here.

At this moment, she only wanted the flood to recede soon and the zombies to break out, so that these people would yearn for a safe place and become dependent on powerful people. Only then would she have a chance to conquer this group of people who would be useful to her.

"Boss, I have marked all the empty houses. These are the remaining ones. There are still 198 households in the entire building. I have archived the empty room numbers on the 16th floor. You can check them out for yourself. They are in this folder."

"I'll mark about ten households in a while. Go there and tell them that your boss values ​​talent and doesn't want them to die, so I'll send some fresh food, ten kilograms per household. There will be eleven households in total. My mother has already packed them in the kitchen. I'm going out in a while. After I'm done with my business, you can go home and rest. Don't tell me my identity for now."

"Okay. I understand, boss." After saying that, Miao Zhe stood up and prepared to go to the kitchen. He then took a closer look at the boss's new house. He had seen the world and was not surprised by the mansion. He just felt that such a house was worthy of the boss's status.

Following Zhang Mingfang to the kitchen, they moved all eleven plastic bags to the long table in the entrance garden, and then Miao Zhe began to distribute them carefully according to the house numbers.

Xie Qin changed her clothes and went out. The water level had dropped to the 14th floor. It had dropped by about three meters in three days. It would only drop faster if the temperature rose further.

Xie Qin tied a raft to the back of the yacht and headed towards Xu Kai's neighborhood at a slow speed. On the way, Xie Qin could feel that there were more zombies, and they were moving faster than the previous two days.

Xie Qin's boat shuttled through the city, and people kept calling for help. Xie Qin ignored them, and gradually the voices disappeared because of the roars of the zombies.

After arriving at the community, the first floor that was exposed above the water was covered with water marks, and the corridor was also filled with mud and dark green algae with small creatures crawling on it.

Xie Qin parked the boat and entered the corridor. He was surprised to find no zombies, or living zombies. As he walked, he found that these newly eliminated zombies were killed by a few crossbow arrows or chopped to the head. He frowned and was a little worried.

You know, humans who haven't become superpowers are very easy to be infected by the zombie virus, even a slight scratch can get you infected, and coming out to kill zombies at this time is undoubtedly risking your life. She was really afraid that Xu Kai would lose his life in an impulsive way.

With a nervous mood, he finally knocked on the door of Xu Kai's house. After listening to Xu Kai's explanation, he did not kill the zombies outside, but the residents upstairs from him, who was also an honest man. They had some interactions before, and later his father made a crossbow and gave it to them.

Two days ago, the male owner of the family went out alone to find food, and then he went out of the corridor to kill zombies. Xie Qin also sighed that he was brave. The three of them had packed their luggage long ago, and they moved it up and down three or four times. Xie Qin was waiting by the yacht downstairs. A raft slowly floated over not far away.

When Xie Qin got closer, he could see clearly that there was a man on the raft, who was wrapped in many thick layers of plastic bags and had leather gloves on his hands, like a mummy. There was some food in a plastic bag at his feet, some sealed small breads. From the bag, he knew that the bread was from a bakery in the mall not far ahead.

Xie Qin remembered which bakery it was. It was on the third floor of the mall. It seemed that this man had gone into the water in this outfit. When Xie Qin was looking at him, the man had already arrived at where she was. When he saw Xie Qin, his eyes lit up. He hesitated for a long time before getting off the boat. He stood ten steps lower than Xie Qin and hesitated for two minutes before speaking to her.

"Boss, are you still hiring?"

"Huh? Who told you I'm hiring?"

"I'm sorry, I overheard you guys talking upstairs the last few times you came over, and I know you're Kai's boss, bringing them food."

"Oh? You have very sharp ears. Did you kill all the zombies in the corridor?"

"When you came that day, you lured all the zombies from the entire building down, and I plucked up the courage to peek. I wanted to go out and find something to eat, so I chopped off their heads like you did."

"Then how do you know that we can't be scratched by these zombies?" Xie Qin glanced meaningfully at the thick plastic bag on the man's body.

"I often go out to look for food. I was the first to discover these zombies. I was scared at that time, so I hid back home. After observing for a day, I saw someone in the building opposite being captured. After returning home, he turned into a zombie within a few minutes and bit everyone in the house. That's when I knew it."

Xie Qin smiled faintly and looked at this man. He was smart, cautious, and knew his limits. He was just a little too shrewd and not the type to work hard and be patient.

But then I thought, my base will continue to expand, and I will need some smart people.

"What did you do before?"

"I opened my own shop to sell mobile phones. I... I can drive, I... I can do anything."

"Didn't you see that the rain has stopped? Maybe you can find a better job." Xie Qin still said indifferently.

"No, this world seems to have broken down..." The man said as he looked at the city outside the window in a vain look.

"Then how can you be sure that I will let you live?"

"You are strong! That's enough."

"What's your name?"

"Yang Yuan."

"Yang Yuan, your profession can't help me, but I'll give you a chance. If you can bring your family to Dongzhu Building within three days, I'll give your whole family a chance to live."

"Thank you!! Thank you, boss! I will definitely come to see you. Thank you!"

Xie Qin didn't say anything else. Instead, he took out a gun and a box of bullets from the pocket of his jacket and threw them to Yang Yuan. He then took out a sticky note and wrote a handwritten tutorial for Yang Yuan.

"Thank you! Thank you, boss! I will definitely come to see you!"