Apocalypse: I'm the Landlady of the Refuge

Zhou Kai was highly efficient, and it didn’t take long for Ji Wanwan to wait; he had found all the information on the little girl’s family.

By the time Ji Wanwan returned to the central building, Zhou Kai had already placed all the documents on her desk.

Ji Wanwan casually glanced at them.

The family hadn’t been in the base for long, just 52 days in total, having come from the old base as original inhabitants.

According to the documents, their daily life was quite monotonous.

Work → Home → Shopping for supplies

Their routine was the same every day, never changing.

It was for this reason that their file was very brief, essentially lacking any useful information to offer.

Ji Wanwan also took a careful look at the information on Li Zihan.

Li Zihan, 6 years old, was healthy upon entering the base, and recent blood tests were normal. 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝙬𝙚𝓫𝒏𝓸𝓿𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝙤𝓶

Because of her young age, Li Zihan did not participate in any labor, and was raised by her family.

Li Zihan spent most of her time at home, and aside from today, the only time she had gone out was half a month ago for her brother’s birthday, when the whole family went to a children’s amusement park.

Ji Wanwan closed the file.

Seeing her serious expression, Zhou Kai expressed concern, "Is there a problem with this family?"

Ji Wanwan briefly explained that she had traced the residual energy to the alley and discovered the incident involving Wang Youde and Li Zihan.

Zhou Kai nodded slightly, "Such quick action is indeed unusual; your suspicion is unfounded."

After a brief pause, he raised his hand to take the documents and examined them closely, "Is there anything else you need me to do?"

Ji Wanwan pursed her lips, pondering, "Help me keep an eye on Wang Youde."

Zhou Kai nodded, "Okay, what about Li Zihan?"

Ji Wanwan, exhausted, slumped into her chair, "I’ve installed surveillance on Li Zihan; don’t worry about her."

Zhou Kai, "Okay... hmm?"

From the time Ji Wanwan had called him to now, less than an hour had passed, and she had already managed to install the surveillance?

That was incredibly fast!

Zhou Kai couldn’t help but give a thumbs up, "Quite swift!"

No wonder she could be a lord!

Ji Wanwan, annoyed and frazzled, was amused by his comment and couldn’t help but smile slightly.

There was nothing complicated about it; she just had the System insert a tiny surveillance camera into the eye of a teddy bear, allowing the System to monitor the dynamics of Li Zihan’s family for her at all times, and to immediately alert her if anything abnormal was detected.

Ji Wanwan did not go into details about the surveillance with Zhou Kai.

Thinking of the chaos when she had left, she asked, "What about Haozi? How is the situation with the bodies being handled?"

Zhou Kai had been stationed in the central building the entire time and was quite familiar with the situation, "The bodies are in the laboratory; Old Xu is studying them. Haozi escorted the injured survivors to the hospital and should be on his way back by now.

Your parents are comforting the families of the victims.

The Guard Team and the patrol teams are searching throughout the city for traces of suspects.

Ji Xing, Ming Jing, and Wen Yuheng are stabilizing the emotions of the other survivors in the base."

Ji Wanwan, resting with her eyes closed, suddenly opened her eyes and smiled with relief, "Not bad, now everyone can manage on their own without my instructions when a problem arises; it seems everyone has grown."

Zhou Kai curved his lips, "Strong troops come from a strong leader."

This flattery hit right on Ji Wanwan’s soft spot, "It’s always Brother Kai, always so pleasant to listen to—"

...

Over the past couple of weeks, no new disappearances occurred within the base, but there had been no breakthrough in the secret surveillance of Wang Youde and Li Zihan.

It seemed that Wang Youde and Li Zihan’s appearance in the alley that day was truly coincidental.

However, Ji Wanwan couldn’t figure out how they had managed to be in the alley in such a short amount of time.

Thus, the base gradually returned to calm, and the matter became a topic of conversation over meals, but the tense atmosphere had noticeably eased.

Unbeknownst to them, deep autumn had arrived, and everyone had started wearing thick cotton clothes.

It seemed that this year’s autumn was particularly cold, as the first snow had fallen even before the start of winter.

Mrs. Ji stood in front of the window, watching the snowflakes falling like goose feathers outside, and couldn’t help but sigh, "It’s good that two clothing factories were established; they managed to produce all the cotton clothes for the survivors in the base before winter. Otherwise, with such heavy snow, many people would be freezing and unable to sleep..."

Mr. Ji handed Mrs. Ji a warm cup of red date water, "Yes, it was fortunate that the lady was prudent, insisting on setting up two clothing factories; otherwise, we wouldn’t have had such fast production."

At the mention of ’lady’, Mrs. Ji blushed and chastised Mr. Ji with annoyance, "Speak properly! You’re making me conspicuous!"

Mr. Ji chuckled sheepishly, pleased despite being scolded.

Ji Xing and Ji Wanwan, who were also in the room, couldn’t help but smile indulgently.

Ji Wanwan inevitably looked out the window as well.

The snow had come so early today.

Yet it was still autumn, and it was already this cold—wouldn’t winter turn people into ice sculptures?

It seemed that the weather in her previous life wasn’t this severe...

...

The heavy snow had fallen all night and when Ji Wanwan woke up the next day, she was blinded by a dazzling white light and took a while to adjust.

Noticing the anomaly outside, Ji Wanwan quickly got up and walked to the window, pulling back the curtain. She was momentarily stunned by the snow-covered world outside.

The snow must have been half a meter deep, right?

Ji Wanwan opened the window, and in an instant, the bone-chilling cold wind poured into the room, turning her exposed skin red instantly.

Driven by instinct, Ji Wanwan immediately closed the window.

Caught off guard, her fingertips, which were holding the window handle, had turned black from frostbite.

The frostbitten skin contacted the warmth inside the house, causing an intense itching that made it unbearable not to scratch.

Ji Wanwan’s brow furrowed, and she immediately used Equivalence Healing to repair the frostbitten skin.

Such extreme weather had caught the base off guard, and it was likely that many unprepared survivors would suffer.

Ji Wanwan immediately took out the walkie-talkie, ready to convene an emergency disaster relief meeting.

But as soon as she took out the walkie-talkie, Wu Xun’s anxious and frightened voice came through, "Leader! Zombies tracks found in Sector F, Class 3 residence!"

The next second, several voices came through the walkie-talkie simultaneously: "What?!"

"How could there be zombies?!"

"Exact location!"

"I’m coming right now!"

"..."

Ji Wanwan tightened her grip on the walkie-talkie, "How many zombies? Has anyone been injured?"

Wu Xun, somewhat panicked and not expecting to have hit the public channel, fell silent for a moment before choosing to continue responding on the public channel, "Sector F, Residence 26, Class 3, four individuals inside, all mutated. Because the door to the residence was locked from the inside, the zombies inside have not caused any injuries."

Having received the detailed address, the core members of the base, led by Ji Wanwan, rushed to the scene.

Only upon leaving the warm estate did everyone realize just how bad the conditions outside were. Fortunately, as superpower awakeners, their physical constitutions were much higher than ordinary people, enabling them to withstand the severe cold...