Apocalypse: I'm the Landlady of the Refuge

After watching Zhan Yu leave, Ji Wanwan let out a long, heavy sigh.

When she turned around, she saw a resentful man staring at her with eager eyes.

Ji Wanwan: "..."

Why did she feel a sense of powerless as if she had been caught cheating?

She couldn’t help but laugh and cry, "Senior, I have something to tell you."

Xu Siming blinked like an aggrieved little wife, "Is it about Zhan Yu?"

Ji Wanwan: "..."

She was forced to laugh.

She rolled her eyes at Xu Siming, "Try being coy again and see what happens?"

In a second, he was subdued.

Xu Siming chuckled dryly, "Haha, what is it? You can tell me."

Ji Wanwan told Xu Siming everything she had just heard from Zhan Yu, "What do you think about this matter?"

When it came to serious matters, Xu Siming became as solemn as ever, "We still do not know how much of what Zhan Yu said is true and how much is false."

He paused, looking at Ji Wanwan, "Xiao Wan, since you’ve come to ask me, you must have a plan in mind already. Why not share your thoughts with me first?"

Ji Wanwan’s gaze became sharp, "Sneaking into the refuge at night!"

Xu Siming unexpectedly raised an eyebrow.

He knew Ji Wanwan would take action, but he didn’t expect her to be so decisive.

Sneaking into the refuge at night wasn’t impossible, just...

Xu Siming thought for a moment, "There are only two of us, isn’t that too risky?"

Ji Wanwan shook her head, "It’s not risky.

Given the situation in Jiang City, we should be considered T0 level in terms of combat power, encountering danger shouldn’t be a problem at least for self-preservation."

The previous bitter battles in Liancheng had left a strong impact on Xu Siming, to the extent that he had not yet adjusted and thus treated Redemption Shelter as if it were Baize Union.

He smiled wryly, "You’re right."

No sooner had he spoken, Ji Wanwan continued, "But what you said is also correct, complacency leads to defeat, and we must never underestimate our enemies at any time."

Xu Siming: "..."

Seeing the man’s deflated face, Ji Wanwan couldn’t help but laugh out loud.

She rested her chin on her hand, smiling as she asked, "Senior, tell me, what were you originally thinking?"

Xu Siming sighed helplessly and chuckled, "I was thinking pretty much the same as you, that to know the truth and secrets of this refuge, hearing from others isn’t enough, we need to see for ourselves."

He paused, then mysteriously leaned closer to Ji Wanwan and lowered his voice, "Just now, Liu Jian took me to tour the refuge, and I discovered something. Want to guess what it is?"

Ji Wanwan didn’t like guessing and refused very coldly, "No, speak directly."

Because her refusal was so blunt, Xu Siming choked, and the words he was about to blurt out were stifled back, nearly giving him a heart attack.

The innocent person blinked her eyes and considerately poured Xu Siming a glass of water, "Don’t rush, Senior. Take your time～"

Xu Siming was forced to laugh.

After catching his breath, Xu Siming helplessly continued, "I don’t know if it’s because my Superpower Level is higher, but I noticed something unusual about the orchard behind the hill right at first glance.

Ordinary orchards exude a sense of vitality and often emit a scent of fruit trees, but the orchard on the back mountain gave off a sense of death, and not only that, I faintly smelled the stench of corpses drifting from that direction.

I subtly asked Liu Jian about it, but he seemed not to notice anything wrong with the orchard and even gave me two fruits, claiming they were crisp and sweet, harvested from the back mountain orchard.

Xu Siming took out two fruits from his pocket, the fruits somewhat resembled small apples, but were slightly different.

If asked what the difference was, these fruits were a bit smaller than small apples, and their color was more bewitching compared to small apples.

Ji Wanwan stared at the fruits, "Did Liu Jian say what kind of fruits these are?"

Xu Siming, "Small apples, isn’t it obvious?"

Ji Wanwan, "... Damn, they really are small apples."

She took a small apple and felt it in her palm, "Did you eat any?"

Xu Siming shook his head, "Liu Jian only gave me these two."

Ji Wanwan’s eyes shifted as she handed the small apple in her palm to Xu Siming with a somewhat malicious smile, "Want to try?"

Xu Siming immediately shook his head like a rattle-drum, "I feel nauseous just thinking about that corpse stench, how could I stomach it."

"Hahaha..." Ji Wanwan withdrew her hand and placed both small apples into the System Space, "Just teasing you, I’ll keep these two small apples and study them when we get back to the base."

Xu Siming nodded slightly, "Alright, so what do we do now...?"

Ji Wanwan looked towards the orchard on the back mountain through the window, squinting her eyes, "Let’s wait till it gets darker, and then we’ll go up the mountain!"

...

The two of them rested briefly, and at midnight, when the night was darkest, Ji Wanwan retrieved two sets of dark clothes from the System Space and changed with Xu Siming. To be on the safe side, she also took two handguns and two hand grenades, giving one of each to Xu Siming.

Once everything was ready, Ji Wanwan took Xu Siming’s hand and teleported directly to the back mountain orchard. 𝐟𝗿𝐞𝚎𝚠𝐞𝚋𝕟𝐨𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝕔𝕠𝚖

Upon landing, Xu Siming immediately smelled that familiar stench of decay.

Unlike at the refuge, the stench of corpses was much stronger here on the mountain.

Ji Wanwan’s frown deepened, "It’s definitely the smell of corpses, I smell it too."

Moreover, Ji Wanwan felt the soil under her feet was unusually soft, almost immediately sinking into two mud pits as they landed.

She frowned in disgust, pulling her feet out of the pits, but in doing so, she also pulled out something unexpectedly.

Looking at the objects gleaming eerily white on the ground, Ji Wanwan squinted her eyes, "Tsk, these are bones, aren’t they?"

Xu Siming’s lips twitched, and reaching under Ji Wanwan’s armpit, he lifted her up and moved her aside, "Knowing they’re bones and you still stand there..."

Feeling suddenly weightless and a bit dazed, Ji Wanwan hissed, "Hey, how do you know there aren’t any bones where I’m standing now?"

Xu Siming, "...6"

To confirm her suspicion, Ji Wanwan used her space superpower to shallowly lift the layer of soil in front of them.

Seeing the sporadic bones buried in the soil, Ji Wanwan’s brow twitched.

Less than two months since the apocalypse outbreak, for a human body buried in the soil to decay into bones, it would usually take at least three to six months. Could it be that these bones existed before the apocalypse?

After a brief consideration, she turned her eyes to Xu Siming, "Senior, check the water molecules in this orchard to estimate how many bodies are buried underground."

Xu Siming nodded slightly, a pale blue energy ripple spreading out thinly.

Soon, Xu Siming’s eyes widened in horror.

Feeling the man’s aura suddenly become chaotic, Ji Wanwan hurriedly asked, "What’s wrong?"

Xu Siming incredulously looked down at his feet, his voice hoarse, "A mass grave..."