Ning Yu had already made up her mind.
She planned to use the large number of survivors here to complete system tasks related to people and gain attribute points.
By joining their exploration team, she could use them to help kill mutant zombies, completing tasks to earn points and items from the mall.
Could there be anything better than this?
Ning Yu understood Shen Yiyue's thoughts perfectly:
Although she really wanted to stay, she felt awkward expressing her true feelings because Ning Yu needed her as an assistant.
After all, if Ning Yu knew she wanted to stay, she might reconsider.
She was afraid of causing trouble for Ning Yu, being a fool who always suppressed her own feelings.
"Yu, you don't need to consider me too much, after all, we made a promise..."
Shen Yiyue rubbed her cheek that had just been pinched, clearly misunderstanding that Ning Yu was staying for her sake.
"Hey, have you always been this narcissistic?"
Ning Yu glanced at Shen Yiyue with a mischievous look, giving her a sidelong glance.
"I'm staying for my own sake, stop being so full of yourself."
Shen Yiyue stared at Ning Yu, at a loss for words. She still didn't believe it, as Ning Yu hadn't given any specific reason.
Of course, Ning Yu couldn't possibly tell her the real reason.
Having said this much, she didn't say anything more, just readily agreed:
"Okay!"
If they could stay here, that would be the best outcome.
"Wait, doesn't this mean we can cuddle happily with Yu every day! Yay!!!"
After just a few seconds, she immediately switched to playful mode, trying to hug the little tsundere beside her.
Ning Yu gave her a flick on the forehead without hesitation:
"Can't you control yourself? Your sister's looking at you differently now."
Shen Yiyue's outstretched hands froze as she suddenly realized:
They were no longer alone together.
Over there, Shen Qianqian had stopped eating her snacks and was looking at her sister with a complicated expression:
To think her sister would try to do strange things to Sister Ning Yu, she never imagined her sister was this kind of person....
"No, Qianqian, you've got it wrong...."
Shen Yiyue suddenly felt things weren't good and needed to explain things properly to her sister.
Shen Qianqian turned her head away, pretending nothing happened:
"Mmm.... these chips are really tasty...."
The meaning was clear: you two carry on, I'm just a kid who doesn't understand these things, I didn't see anything, I don't know anything.
Great, now there was no way to explain this.
Seeing her sister's reaction, Shen Yiyue was on the verge of tears.
Evening came.
Ning Yu had just finished her shower and came out of the bathroom.
"Knock knock knock"
There was a knock at the door, and Shen Yiyue went to open it.
Ji Mengyao was standing outside with some food in her hands, apparently brought for Ning Yu and the others:
"I've checked, and there's no information about them in the database."
She brought news about Shen Yiyue's parents, meaning they hadn't arrived at the 'Ark'.
"Mm, I understand, thank you!"
Shen Yiyue hadn't really held much hope, but still felt a slight disappointment.
But at least she had found her sister, which was a blessing in their misfortune.
"Don't be discouraged, they might show up any day! We're constantly broadcasting radio signals!"
Ji Mengyao seemed to say this often, probably having met many people like Shen Yiyue whose relatives' fates were unknown.
She picked up the bag of food in her hand and passed it to Shen Yiyue:
"Here are some bread, drinks, and canned food for you all!"
"Eh? Aren't we supposed to use exchange tickets for these later?"
Shen Yiyue was confused, since their three days' worth of exchange tickets were still in the room.
"Hehe, these are from me personally, just take them!"
She smiled cheerfully, appearing unconcerned, so Shen Yiyue stopped being polite and accepted them.
"Thank you."
"If there's nothing else, I'll be going! Tomorrow when quarantine ends, I'll show you around!"
Ji Mengyao seemed to have other matters to attend to and left like a whirlwind.
Ning Yu watched all this from the living room without saying anything.
Ji Mengyao really seemed to want some female teammates, showing particular concern for the two of them.
But she couldn't be bothered to worry about it. Having someone willing to provide food and information about the base, especially an insider, saved them a lot of trouble.
"Yu, does she want us to help her with something?"
After closing the door, Shen Yiyue shared her doubts with Ning Yu.
"She wants us to join the exploration team, um... to go out and kill zombies and search for supplies."
Ning Yu sat at the dining table in the living room, drying her wet hair with a towel.
She also took out a pork floss bread from the bag Ji Mengyao had just brought.
Suddenly she noticed there were several boxes of strawberry milk in the bag, and the silver-haired little girl's eyes lit up.
She didn't hesitate to take out the strawberry milk, insert the straw, and started sipping it with relish.
Her eyes curved into a smile: it was a long-missed taste.
"So... should we join?"
Shen Yiyue continued with her question.
"I plan to join, as for you... it's up to you."
Ning Yu answered casually while focusing on her strawberry milk.
"I want to go too! Wherever Yu goes, I'll go!"
Shen Yiyue answered without hesitation.
Ning Yu glanced at this clingy person and said seriously:
"Think it through carefully, this isn't just going out to play, you have a sister to take care of now."
Before Shen Yiyue could speak, Shen Qianqian chimed in:
"Sister, you should go, I can take care of myself!"
Shen Yiyue looked at her sister in surprise, only to see the little one looking quite proud, her face clearly saying:
You should thank me for helping you out.
She gave her sister a 'I'll deal with you later' look, then turned back to Ning Yu:
"If I can't fight alongside Yu, training alone would be too slow for growth. As long as Yu doesn't mind having me, please let me come along!"
Seeing Shen Yiyue's determined expression, Ning Yu stopped refusing:
"Alright."
One box of strawberry milk was finished.
She instinctively reached for another box, feeling unsatisfied and wanting more.
But just as she reached out, she thought better of it and pretended nothing happened.
Shen Yiyue, happy that Ning Yu had agreed, came over to eat with her.
After taking some bread, she carefully avoided the strawberry milk and took out a box of cocoa drink instead, ready to eat.
Ning Yu noticed and asked curiously:
"Why aren't you drinking the strawberry milk?"
As if protesting how anyone could pass up something as delicious as strawberry milk.
Shen Yiyue realized she'd been caught and said while chewing her bread:
"Yu, you don't think I haven't noticed you like strawberry milk, do you?"
"I figured it out at the supermarket, where you'd drunk all the strawberry milk."
"These are all for you, silly Yu."
She wore a triumphant expression, as if she'd successfully exposed Ning Yu's secret.
close your eyes and open them again, only to find yourself transmigrated into the role of a villainous male supporting character. Readers familiar with urban wish-fulfillment novels know that it is only through the relentless antics of the villainous male supporting character that the plot between the male and female leads can progress. As the villainous male supporting character, Long Aotian not only has to bully the female lead, harass the second female lead, and flirt with the third female lead, but he also has to go all out to antagonize the male lead. In the end, when his body is discovered, he is still clutching half a moldy fried dough stick in his hand. Fully aware of the plot, Long Aotian is determined to change his fate, starting with the female lead! In the beginning, the female lead lacks confidence: "Big brother, I hope I didn't scare you?" In the middle, the female lead treads carefully: "Brother Long, please don't hit me, okay?" Later on, the female lead becomes coquettishly clingy: "Aotian, it's time to pay the 'public grain' tonight." Long Aotian's legs go weak, and he feels like crying: "I taught you to be thick-skinned, not shameless!"
e vast world of cultivation, where he becomes the master of the Heavenly Ruins Sacred Hall, a dying old man with barely a tenth of his former cultivation remaining. He is immediately confronted with a deadly crisis: his subordinates have rebelled, and his protectors are forcing him to abdicate. At the critical moment, the system descends from the heavens: [Ding! The host has been detected facing a life-or-death crisis. The system is now officially activated!] [As a gift, you have received the Supreme Beginner’s Pack and awakened the ultimate cheat: ten thousand years of pure cultivation essence every second!] Yin Tianjue: “Wait… ten thousand years of cultivation every second? That’s six hundred thousand years a minute, and in one day… I can’t even calculate it. Either way, I’m already invincible!” You’re a peerless prodigy rarely seen in ten thousand years? Sorry, I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. You’re an undying ancestor who has guarded a sacred land for countless ages? Sorry, I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. You’re the strongest chosen one, blessed with heaven-defying destiny? Sorry, I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. From this day forth, I have only one thing to say: “I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. Now, how exactly are you supposed to deal with that?”
e bizarre and supernatural had descended. The previous emperor was a thoroughgoing tyrant; no longer satisfied with human women, he had set his sights on a stunningly beautiful supernatural entity. He met his end in his bedchamber, drained of all his vital essence. As the legitimate eldest son and crown prince, Wang Hao was thus hastily enthroned, becoming the young emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty. No sooner had he awakened the "Imperial Sign-In Intelligence System" than he was assassinated by a Son of Destiny—a classic villain's opening. The Great Zhou, ravaged by the former emperor's excesses, was in national decline. The great families within its borders harbored their own treacherous schemes, martial sects began to defy the imperial court's decrees, and border armies, their pay and provisions in arrears, grumbled incessantly against the central government. Fortunately, the central capital was still held secure by the half-million Imperial Guards and fifty thousand Imperial Forest Army who obeyed the court's orders, along with the royal family's hidden reserves of power, barely managing to suppress the realm. As the Great Zhou's finances worsened and supernatural activities grew ever more frequent, the court sat atop a volcano. Ambitious plotters everywhere dreamed of overthrowing the dynasty, and even some reclusive ancient powers emerged, attempting to sway the tides of the world. At the first grand court assembly, the civil and military officials nearly came to blows, fighting tooth and nail over the allocation of fifty million taels of silver from the summer tax revenues. The spectacle opened Wang Hao's eyes—the Great Zhou's bureaucracy was not only corrupt but also martially proficient, a cabinet of all-rounders. Some officials even had the audacity to suggest the emperor release funds from the imperial privy purse to address the emergency. Wang Hao suddenly felt weary. Let it all burn.
s the Eldest Princess, renowned for her cold and aloof detachment, became the most docile of lambs, obeying his every command without question. But when the final move was played on the chessboard, as Gu Chenghan seized everything and ascended on the verge of apotheosis, that very Princess suddenly embraced him from behind, her tone carrying a dependence never heard before: "Wait... you haven't yet... commanded me to love you forever." Gu Chenghan froze abruptly. She... hadn't been hypnotized?! ... [The Eldest Princess's Diary] [When my soul was extracted, becoming the sole spectator outside my own shell] [At first, there was overwhelming fury, until I saw] [How he used my sword to effortlessly shatter my inescapable doom] [How he wielded my authority to eradicate fatal conspiracies I had never even detected] [Like a deity, he rescued me from the deep mire I was trapped in] [If not for those annoying vixens, he and I would be a match made in heaven] [I think I am ill, gravely ill] [My deity should belong to me alone] ... "Hypnosis? Oh, it succeeded, my dear Master." "Only this time, it's my turn to hypnotize you."
