Apocalypse: I'm the Landlady of the Refuge

In just a minute, Ji Wanwan continuously teleported several times to arrive at Xia Li’s location.

At that time, Xia Li and some members of the Guard Team were blocking the area, conducting a thorough search.

Seeing Ji Wanwan appear, the members of the Guard Team stopped what they were working on to greet her, "Greetings, Lord."

Ji Wanwan waved her hand, indicating they should continue with their duties, and then quickly walked toward Xia Li, "What happened?"

At that moment, Xia Li had just crushed a hollow piece of ground with a punch.

Seeing only a bundle of discarded wiring inside, Xia Li frowned in disappointment, looking up at Ji Wanwan, "We responded to a call from the alarm, but by the time we arrived, there was no one here.

We initially thought it was a mistake or that the person involved had already left on their own. Adhering to our principle of leaving no stone unturned, the personnel at the headquarters immediately checked the surveillance."

Xia Li paused, then looked up at the streetlight above, "According to the surveillance, the person was right here, and disappeared into thin air after pressing the alarm, which is quite unusual, so I called you to come have a look yourself."

"Disappeared into thin air?" Ji Wanwan twirled her fingertip and also looked up at the streetlight, following Xia Li’s gaze.

Beyond the streetlight, she surveyed her surroundings.

This was a dead end with underdeveloped buildings all around, a place which generally survivors wouldn’t wander into without good reason.

She pondered for a moment, "I understand, Ah Li, you continue the search with the Guard Team. I’m going to check the surveillance at the headquarters. Call me immediately on the radio if anything happens."

Xia Li nodded, "Go ahead, I’m here, there won’t be any problems."

Shortly after, Ji Wanwan arrived at the headquarters.

By then, some members of the Guard Team had already prepared the surveillance footage.

According to the surveillance, the missing person had left for work and gone shopping for supplies as usual this morning, with no deviation from their regular lifestyle and no sight of any suspicious individuals. The only odd behavior was that today after work, this person took a detour to that dead end.

Ji Wanwan pointed to the monitor, looking at the person next to her, "Bring everyone who had interactions with him today to the headquarters, and also pull up the surveillance of his past half month, and do it quickly."

The best rescue time for a missing person is 24 hours, and time was running out.

While waiting, other core members who had heard the news also hurried to the headquarters, and Xia Li, who had found nothing at the dead end, also arrived.

With everyone present, Ji Wanwan briefly assigned tasks.

Xia Li and the Lion Squad, as leaders of the border Guard Team and the city patrol team, were responsible for searching for the person throughout the entire base.

Zhou Kai, Xu Siming, Ji Xing, and Ming Jing were tasked with interrogating related individuals.

Qi Hao, Wang Youde, and Wen Yuheng were responsible for reviewing the surveillance, while Mr. Ji and Mrs. Ji were tasked with comforting the family members.

Meanwhile, Ji Wanwan herself went back to the dead end where the person had disappeared.

On her return, the sky had already darkened.

Streetlights flickered with an intermittently bright and dim light, the wind entering the alley hit the wall at the end, helplessly turned back, and made a chilling howling sound in the alley.

Ji Wanwan walked to the end of the alley and touched the wall there.

On the other side of the wall was a residential area that was now under construction and normally not open.

Ji Wanwan teleported there in an instant.

The residential area still retained the chaos of the apocalypse’s outbreak. Though there were no corpses everywhere, the remnants of bloodshed clearly illustrated the brutality of the situation at that time.

Ji Wanwan used Water Energy borrowed from Xu Siming to sense over a wide area.

The entire area had no living bodies or corpses present.

The person had truly disappeared...

How could this be possible?

Unless...

Ji Wanwan’s pupils shuddered.

Space superpower!!

Baize!!

Could it be that Baize wasn’t dead but had infiltrated her base?!

Thinking of this, Ji Wanwan felt a chill down her spine: "System, can you detect if there are any residual energy fluctuations here?"

After sensing for a while, the System responded: "I’m sorry, Host, apart from the Water Element energy you just used, I did not detect the presence of any other energy."

This side came up empty, and coincidentally, the team at the central building who were checking the surveillance and questioning related personnel also reported no findings. Now, only news from Xia Li and the Lion Squad was left.

Towards the latter part of the night, the people conducting a carpet search returned to the central building, also empty-handed. 𝑓𝘳𝘦𝑒𝑤𝑒𝘣𝘯ℴ𝘷𝘦𝓁.𝑐𝑜𝑚

With this, the leads were completely cut off.

Having no other choice, Ji Wanwan could only treat the matter as an unsolved case and proceeded to compensate the families of the missing persons according to the victim compensation clause.

Not many people were aware of this issue, and it did not cause much of a disturbance within the base.

Everyone thought that this was the end of the matter, but nobody expected that this was just the beginning.

A few days after that person went missing, the missing individual suddenly appeared in a secluded flowerbed within a city leisure square, in the form of a mummified corpse.

The body was discovered by an early-rising elder lady who was exercising.

From afar, the elder lady saw something in the flowerbed and thought it was trash someone had thrown there. Driven by curiosity, she walked over and was terrified half to death, crying and running back home.

Since she ran and shouted all the way, she alarmed many people. By the time Ji Wanwan and others received the news and rushed over, the place was already swarmed with onlookers.

Despite Wang Youde’s efforts to control the scene as the first one to arrive, he could not curb the excited chattering among the spectators.

Members of the Guard Team immediately dispersed the crowd and moved the body out of the flowerbed.

The body had been drained to a skeletal state, with its eyes wide open in terror, still exhibiting its last expression of horror.

The instant the body was moved, the surrounding crowd let out a wave of panicked screams, retreating further backwards.

Seeing this scene, Ji Wanwan looked solemnly on.

What could have drained a person like this?

Zombies consume human flesh and blood, yet this body was intact, not typical of a zombie attack.

Ji Wanwan crouched down and gently nudged the person’s head, discovering two dark bite marks on his neck.

The absurd thought that had briefly flitted through her mind now took a concrete form.

Zombies!

How could that be?

Accompanied by her action, many others noticed the bite marks on the body’s neck, and whispers spread through the crowd.

To prevent the situation from escalating and causing more panic,

Ji Wanwan stood up and gave Wu Xun a look. Understanding her, he immediately stepped forward to wrap the body in a white cloth, lifted it, and placed it into the hearse.

Mr. Ji spoke to soothe the crowd, promising that the base would find the perpetrator and urged everyone not to panic. Xia Li, with a stern face, dispersed the onlookers, telling them to mind their own business.

With one playing the good cop and the other the bad cop, the crowd quickly dispersed, and soon, the square was empty.

Though the people had left, rumors had already begun to spread uncontrollably within the base.

The base was filled with unease, and just when one wave settled, another arose...