End of the World Cycle

Xie Qin took out a box of bacon fried rice prepared by her mother, used the lid to take one third of it, and gave the rest to Liu Bo. Liu Bo took a look, then smiled foolishly at Xie Qin and said "Thank you" again.

After breakfast, Liu Bo fell asleep leaning against Xie Ran. The temperature in the underground mall was not very high, and because it had been flooded, the mud on the ground made the environment a little cold.

Xie Qin had slept very well the day before departure, and was not sleepy at the moment, so he thought he would be careful and search around to see if he could find something useful.

The underground mall is not big. Before the end of the world, it was full of clothes. After taking a look at Liu Bo's washed-out clothes, Xie Qin thought it would be nice to find two suitable men's suits.

Thinking of this, Xie Qin also stood up. She only moved around where she could see her brother and Liu Bo. She searched several shops and although they had clothes, they were all women's clothes. From a distance, she saw a few dark clothes piled on the ground in front of a shop on the corner. She looked carefully and saw that they seemed to be men's clothes. Xie Qin went there without hesitation.

When I got closer to Xie Qin, I could see clearly that it was a shop selling elderly clothing, but there were also men's clothing. Most of the clothes were scattered on the ground, and the piles on the ground were a bit worn. However, there were also many clothes hanging at the top that seemed to be unaffected.

After searching for a while, I finally found the hanger and took down all the intact clothes. I saw that the sizes were all relatively small. Uncle Liu Bo should be about 185cm tall, and the clothes hung out were generally 170cm tall. Thinking that they would not be very useful, I just put them aside.

Looking up, he found a door behind the store counter. This should be the warehouse. Xie Qin opened the door without hesitation.

After the door was opened, Xie Qin saw that there were indeed piles of clothes with pockets tied up inside. She was happy then, thinking that she should be able to find clothes that Liu Bo could wear among so many clothes.

Xie Qin took out the flashlight and went inside. When the quiet warehouse heard the sound of plastic bags rubbing against each other, Xie Qin felt something was wrong and ran away. Although he was only two or three steps away from the door, the thing was too fast and directly hooked Xie Qin's collar.

Seeing Xie Qin was about to be dragged in. Fortunately, he didn't throw away the stick he was using to get clothes, and he stabbed back without caring whether he hit her accurately or not.

Xie Qin must have been lucky, as the stab went straight into the monster's eye. Xie Qin breathed a sigh of relief and ran out of the warehouse.

Unexpectedly, the monster was even faster, almost hanging upside down from the ceiling and crawling out to block Xie Qin's way. When Xie Qin got outside, he could see clearly that it was a zombie. Unlike ordinary zombies, this zombie was extremely agile. It should be a mutated zombie.

The zombie was a middle-aged woman who must have been drowned during the flood and infected by the virus in the tide. Her body was shriveled like a mummy, but her teeth were very sharp.

Xie Qin had no choice but to scream. As soon as she made a sound, the zombies pounced towards her. A hideous face was getting closer and closer to her. Xie Qin was almost frightened to incontinence. She was unarmed and had no special powers. Her brother and Uncle Liu Bo were also far away from her. Even if they woke up, they would not be able to save her in time.

She couldn't just die like this. She didn't know where she got the strength from, but she grabbed the zombie's hair. The fang-filled mouth stopped in front of her neck. In a panic, she stuffed the flashlight in her hand into the zombie's mouth. She kicked her feet randomly, trying to kick the zombie away, but she had no strength at all.

She suddenly felt the zombies stopped moving, but her shoulders were clamped tightly by the zombies and she couldn't escape at all. She felt her brother's mental power. Her brother controlled the zombie. This zombie was at least level two, but her brother was obviously only a level one psychic. If he wasted so much mental power controlling the zombie, something bad would definitely happen.

But she couldn't do anything. Was this the end of her life? She finally had a chance to start over, and finally had the so-called golden finger. She and her mother and brother were not living a good life yet. Was she really going to die again?

The moment the zombie moved, she knew her brother couldn't hold on any longer. The big mouth moved straight towards her neck. With a loud bang, the gravity on her body disappeared. A strong hand pulled her up from the ground.

It was Liu Bo. He came quickly and snatched himself from the zombie's mouth. He saw two new people. The zombies pounced on him very quickly, and Liu Bo always protected himself behind him.

"Hit its head." Seeing Liu Bo kicking the zombie one after another, the zombie became more and more courageous. Xie Qin was afraid that Liu Bo didn't understand so she kept shouting this sentence.

Finally, Liu Bo seemed to understand. He raised his hand and smashed the zombie on the head. When he raised one hand, the right side of Xie Qin behind him was free.

The zombie seemed to be able to think, and its white eyeballs seemed to be staring at Xie Qin, and it quickly moved to the right side where Liu Bo's protection was no longer there. The fool reacted slowly, but he also understood that the zombie was going to bite Xie Qin, and when he reached out again, he just sealed the zombie's mouth with his hand.

Although Liu Bo's hands were already big, the zombie's mouth was even bigger, and the strong bite force directly bit off Liu Bo's little finger.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!"

Xie Qin knew how painful it was just by hearing the sound. Liu Bo's remaining four fingers directly crushed the zombie's face. The zombie fell to the ground, and Liu Bo stepped directly on the zombie's head, crushing it with all his strength.

Xie Qin pinched Liu Bo's radial and ulnar arteries tightly. Liu Bo was in so much pain that he broke out in a cold sweat. He wanted to find the little finger that was bitten off, but when he looked down, he saw that the finger connecting the zombie's head was crushed. A round, yellow crystal core the size of a thumb was mixed in the brain. Liu Bo endured the pain and picked it up and handed it to Xie Qin.

In an instant, Xie Qin couldn't stop crying. She just wanted to go home, go home.

Xie Qin took off the strap of her backpack and tied it around her wound. It was so dangerous, but she didn't even bring the most basic things to treat the wound. She was so stupid and foolish. Arrogant and self-righteous could all be used to describe her. She couldn't protect anyone, she could only hurt people, just like in her previous life. She killed her brother and mother who wanted to save her.

This life is still like this. Why is she so useless!

Liu Bo stopped bleeding, and his brother was unconscious due to excessive mental exhaustion. The sun was blazing, and she didn't dare to stop for a moment. She had to go back. There were only a few survivors in this county. In addition, she and Liu Bo were covered in blood, so it was impossible for anyone to open the door for them.

Because we had walked this way once, the roadblocks on the way here were cleared, so the way back was very smooth. Fortunately, there was a carport, and my brother and Liu Bo could lie in the back to block the sun.

Xie Qin carried the clothes she had picked up from the underground mall on her head and walked home without stopping for a moment. It took her only two hours to get home. Seeing her daughter and Liu Bo covered in blood, Zhang Mingfang was terrified. It took her a while to calm down and carry her son inside.

Xie Qin supported Liu Bo and followed. Fortunately, she had read many books and watched many videos on emergency bandaging. She took out the medicine box and quickly treated Liu Bo's wound.

Today, Liu Bo risked his life to save him completely out of his own consciousness. His brother's mental power was controlling the zombies, so it was Uncle Liu Bo's own idea to risk his own life to stand in front of him.

"Thank you." Xie Qin looked at Liu Bo and said sincerely. If she had used Liu Bo in the past, she would have used him for mutual benefit. After today, perhaps there would be an uncle Liu Bo in her future plans.

Liu Bo smiled foolishly and said the longest sentence he had ever said.

"Protect Qinqin. Protect Ranran."

Xie Qin was stunned and didn't know what to say. In the end, she just smiled in thanks. After this incident, she regarded this simple-minded person as her own family.

Xie Qin turned down the air conditioner in Liu Bo's room and went out, and happened to meet Liu Bo's mother who came to bring frozen pears to him.

"Mom, Uncle Liu Bo wants to eat something lighter these days."

"Okay, I know all this. You go and rest. I see that Ranran's breathing is quite normal and he is sleeping soundly. This should be what you said about mental exhaustion. He should sleep for a long time."

"I still want to guard it, it's all my fault..." Xie Qin's eyes turned red as she spoke.

Zhang Mingfang put down what she was holding and hugged her daughter. Her daughter was just a child.

"If I had been more careful, if I had been better prepared, my brother wouldn't have been like this, and Uncle Liu Bo wouldn't have lost his fingers saving me." Xie Qin burst into tears in her mother's arms.

Liu Bo rushed out when he heard the voice, and smiled again when he saw Zhang Mingfang and Xie Qin in front of the door. He turned his head and saw a plate of frozen pears on the ground, and looked at Zhang Mingfang happily and spoke.

"Protect Qinqin, protect Ranran."

Zhang Mingfang nodded, and Liu Bo happily took the frozen pear and went back to the room.

Xie Qin fell silent and looked up at her mother.

"Did you teach him that?"

"Yes, I don't know if he can understand. Since the first day I brought him food, I would say this every time I brought him something. Every time. At that time, I thought that at least he was a strong adult man. If he really encountered a life-threatening situation, he would definitely be stronger than us, an orphan and a widow."

"He understood. Just three hours ago, he risked his life to protect me."

Xie Qin went to her brother's room. The bed was very big, and sometimes she, her mother and her brother slept together. Because the bed was so big, her brother, who was so small at the moment, was lying on it with a pale face, which made people feel even more guilty.

Xie Qin carefully sat on the bed and touched her brother's face with heartache. Xie Qin was shocked. Xie Ran's face was burning hot, and it was obvious that he had a fever.

He hurriedly touched Xie Ran's forehead and just as he felt the heat, a white mental force passed through his palm and was sucked out of his body.

In an instant, Xie Qin's entire senses were magnified. She could feel her brother's heartbeat, his faint breathing, and even Uncle Liu Bo's heartbeat and breathing in the next room. She seemed to have gained mental power. And this mental power came from her brother.

Xie Qin didn't have time to investigate further, so she called her mother and fed her brother some antipyretic medicine. After her brother's fever subsided, Xie Qin left the room in confusion.

After knocking on Liu Bo's door, the door opened and Xie Qin walked in quickly. She wanted to verify something.

Xie Qin waved at Liu Bo, signaling him to squat down. After Liu Bo squatted down, Xie Qin's hand touched Liu Bo's forehead. Because of the little mental power he had just gained, when Xie Qin's hand touched Liu Bo's forehead, he could clearly feel the yellow mist lingering in Liu Bo's mind.

She couldn't control herself. The power seemed to actively penetrate into her body, along her palm, and then into her brain.

Seeing that Liu Bo's consciousness was a little scattered, Xie Qin immediately withdrew his hand. It seemed that he had absorbed too much, and Liu Bo became a little tired, but he didn't seem to be in any trouble.

When he bent two steel bars as thick as thumbs with his bare hands, Xie Qin finally realized what his special power was.

This kind of superpower did not appear in that book. It seemed like a new ability that allowed one to absorb other people's superpowers for one's own use. At this point, Xie Qin couldn't help but wonder what she would be like if she could drain the power of a superpower user. How many kinds of superpowers could she absorb? Would the superpowers continue to exist after being absorbed? She had no idea about these questions.

She wanted to verify that if everything went as she wished, her special abilities would become unique in this world.

As long as I become special in this world, I can get rid of mediocrity and no longer live like dust in this world.

The corpse crystals were soaked in clean water for two days and two nights for a total of 48 hours. There were eight first-level crystals and one second-level crystal. When the corpse crystals were taken out, they turned into something like jelly and had no smell.

Xie Qin didn't dare to take risks with anyone, so she swallowed a first-level corpse crystal while enduring the nausea. Time passed by, and there was no change in her body, just like eating a tasteless jelly. A whole day passed. She still had no reaction, and she thought the corpse crystal had no effect on her.

Then Xie Qin let Liu Bo eat a first-level corpse crystal. Although he had spiritual power, only a little bit, he was close and could still clearly feel the changes in Liu Bo. The originally light yellow crystal core became darker, and Liu Bo's complexion became ruddy, and even his skin seemed to have improved.

After observing for two hours and seeing that Liu Bo was fine, he fed his younger brother one too. The younger brother, who was originally dazed, became clear-headed after eating the corpse crystal, and he sat up by himself with his hands on the bed.

"How about it?"

"I feel very comfortable. My mental strength seems to have been fully restored."

Seeing that her brother was doing well, Xie Qin was extremely happy. Although the corpse crystals were useless to her, they were very useful to her brother and Uncle Liu Bo. As long as they had enough corpse crystals and could become stronger before anyone discovered the secret, they would be ahead of everyone else.

Now, among those who have awakened superpowers, except for the original male and female protagonists and the main characters, almost all others are first-level, and second-level superpowers like Uncle Liu Bo are rare.

Therefore, it is their best chance to start hunting zombies now.

People started hunting zombies on a large scale to obtain corpse crystals after the cold wave, and by then they still had about eleven months left.

As long as either my younger brother or Uncle Liu Bo reaches the third level during this period, they can seek shelter in the First Base as supernatural talents and their families after the cold wave ends.

With the protection of the base, we will be able to survive all natural disasters after the cold wave safely.

Xie Qin gave all the remaining five first-level corpse crystals to Liu Bo to eat. He gave one second-level corpse crystal to his younger brother. Although Liu Bo could not see any major changes, he could clearly feel that he was stronger and seemed to have become smarter.

The younger brother's mental power was already excellent, but because of this second-level corpse crystal, after sleeping for a day and a night, his mental power jumped to the second level. After the younger brother awakened to the second level, Xie Qin realized that Uncle Liu Bo's IQ was now equivalent to that of a five-year-old child.

This is undoubtedly good news for them, which means that the advancement of superpowers can make Uncle Liu Bo return to normal. Maybe one day, Uncle Liu Bo can break through the limit of superpowers and reach the fifth level, and then he can become a normal person.