Apocalypse: I'm the Landlady of the Refuge

"Brother Kai!"

The worried voice that was too late to transmit echoed in the cabin.

Xu Siming gently patted Ji Wanwan’s shoulder, "Believe in Brother Kai, he is the strongest fighter in our base, nothing will happen to him."

Nevertheless, with the zombies’ howling coming from the walkie-talkie so close, how could Ji Wanwan not worry.

She lowered her eyes to the walkie-talkie, her grip unconsciously tightened: "If only that were true..."

...

Meanwhile, in Yujiang City’s richest villa area in Jiang City.

After cutting off the walkie-talkie, Zhou Kai kicked a zombie that was frantically lunging at him, sending it flying.

The zombie harshly crashed against the wall, making a dull sound. Clearly having broken a leg, it still stubbornly stood up and lunged at Zhou Kai again, howling.

The latter calmly picked up the rope, agilely circled behind the zombie, and quickly tied it up once more.

Having securely tied the zombie, he sat exhausted opposite it, tore a piece of cloth from the bedsheet, and wrapped it around his forearm, which was bleeding profusely from a cut by sharp glass while he had been tying the zombie.

Looking at the relentlessly screaming zombie in front of him, a bone-chilling coldness filled Zhou Kai’s eyes.

Although the zombie was securely tied to the chair, it still instinctively stretched its neck and howled at Zhou Kai.

Waves of putrid stench hit him, but Zhou Kai seemed not to notice.

After bandaging his arm, he coldly watched the zombie in front of him, overlaying the face of the fickle, hot-tempered man from his memories onto the unrecognizable face before him.

Suddenly, he smirked self-derisively, "Dad, I’ve come to fulfill the promise..."

His memories involuntarily slid back to eleven years ago when he was still in high school.

Living in the dorms, he received a call from the butler and suddenly learned of his mother and sister jumping off the building.

Hastily returning home, he saw only the cold bodies of his mother and sister.

That day, his aunt cried her eyes out, but the hint of triumph in the depths of her eyes didn’t escape his notice.

To cover up the scandal of his father cheating with his own sister-in-law and driving his wife to death, his mother’s death was suppressed by his father, who simply announced that she had died of a sudden illness.

Less than a year after his mother’s death, his father, citing the resemblance between his aunt and mother, and as a gesture to solidify bonds between the families, married his aunt.

His father thought he understood nothing, but he was not a fool; how could he possibly understand nothing.

Whether intentionally or not, the day his aunt entered the door was the first anniversary of his mother and sister’s death.

That day, he did not attend his father’s wedding but sat at his mother’s grave instead.

He knew that the deceased were gone, but he couldn’t bear to see his mother and sister leave silently, like a feather falling into water, failing even to ripple.

He said his father owed his mother an apology, but his father scolded him for being foolish and disrespectful.

From that point on, he made a promise to his mother to make that scum come to her and his sister’s grave to apologize personally.

After the wedding, he chose to study abroad, fleshing out his wings where his father couldn’t see.

Over the years, he had used his own ability to gradually nibble away his father’s assets, turning them into his own.

Outsiders simply regarded the Zhou family heir as capable, thinking Chairman Zhou had early handed over his industries to his son to manage.

Every time he saw his father harboring resentment but fearing his skills, smiling as he bore it, his heart felt immensely satisfied.

But no matter how much he did, his mother and sister would never come back.

Liancheng’s New Water Ecological Resort was his last project. When the project was approved and everything was set in stone, that was also when he planned to take his father to apologize to his mother.

But who would have known that the apocalypse would arrive on the very day the project was approved?

He found it almost laughable, even suspecting that it was fate’s cruel joke on him, mocking his ten years of efforts just when he was about to succeed, turning all his hard work into a mere joke.

But who was he? He was Zhou Kai, the man who never admitted defeat!

Even though the apocalypse had arrived and he had to start everything from scratch, what did that matter?

Thus, he had to become stronger, strong enough that he wouldn’t need to fear anything anymore and could rely solely on himself to live well in this apocalypse.

Fortunately, he achieved this.

Unbidden, his thoughts turned to Ji Wanwan, that seemingly always cool and indifferent girl who was kind-hearted and passionate.

It was she who had brought him hope in this apocalypse and gave him the chance to grow.

If Ji Wanwan hadn’t agreed to let him join the small squad initially, he wouldn’t have had the chance to come to Jiang City today to fulfill his promise.

"Roar!!!"

His thoughts slowly returned to reality, and the roaring in his ears became clear again.

Zhou Kai exhaled a murky breath and looked up at the night outside the window, muttering to himself as if talking to himself, "Mom, when dawn breaks, I will bring this sinner to see you..."

...

After a short rest, just as the sky was starting to lighten, Ji Wanwan and Xu Siming were woken up by noisy sounds.

Seeing that people had already started moving around in the refuge, Ji Wanwan rubbed her temples and sat up with a turn.

So early...

Having food and drink in the base, one didn’t feel it, but now it seemed, this was what the typical life of survivors should be.

Soon, as the sun rose, the refuge started serving food. To not stand out from the others, Ji Wanwan and Xu Siming also went to the food serving area to line up.

Arriving there, Ji Wanwan noticed that everyone in line seemed to be holding something like a meal ticket. She asked a friendly-looking woman beside her, "Sister, I just arrived last night and am not familiar with the rules here, may I ask what is everyone holding in their hands?"

The woman gave Ji Wanwan a surprised look, "Didn’t the person who brought you here tell you?"

She opened her palm, holding a colored paper with the number 2 printed on it, along with the words "Redemption Shelter."

"This is the currency within the refuge. Everything here has to be bought with money," the woman only allowed Ji Wanwan to glance at it before withdrawing her hand and clutching the paper tightly, "Without money, you can’t do anything."

No matter where, getting supplies always had a cost, Ji Wanwan naturally understood this.

She asked, "Then how can one obtain this currency?"

The woman started moving forward as the line moved, and while walking, she said, "There are many ways to earn it. Like me, I earn money by raising chickens. I get 5 dollars a day for 50 chickens. Oh, it’s my turn!"

When it was the woman’s turn, she quickly moved away from Ji Wanwan, "That, young lady, for specifics you can ask the person who brought you back yesterday. I’m busy now, so I’ll stop here."

The woman walked away briskly, and Ji Wanwan politely nodded, "Take care, sister."

Watching the woman walk away, Ji Wanwan pursed her lips.

It seemed impossible to just go with the flow.

Just as she was about to head back to the small mud house, she suddenly heard a familiar voice, "Miss Ji, Brother Xu, good morning..."