Apocalypse: I rescued the big boss with millions of supplies

Chapter 59 Zombie Animals Appear

"Shi Qing, do you think such a space exists?" Bai Zhi looked at Shi Qing and asked curiously. Shi Qing had the heritage of the merfolk and must know a lot. With the apocalypse already happening, she was very curious whether there really was a portable space in the world that could be used for planting and had spiritual springs, as described in novels.

"You're talking about a small world similar to a Sumeru mustard seed, right?" Shi Qing said. "In my inherited memories, there was once a merman who obtained a Sumeru ring, which was an island space. You could grow things on the island, and you could even raise seafood in the seawater inside."

For the merfolk, it is a very convenient breeding ground.

"There really is such a space!" Even someone as aloof as Bai Zhi couldn't help but feel a little envious upon hearing that such a space truly existed.

“Each Sumeru Mustard Seed is different. The Sumeru Mustard Seed you mentioned that can be planted and has a spiritual spring may actually exist,” Shi Qing replied. “However, Sumeru Mustard Seeds are extremely rare, especially in lower-level worlds. It seems that they appear more frequently in higher-level worlds like the Immortal Realm.”

Long Yangyang had learned more about this from Xiao Fei. The space of a Sumeru Mustard Seed is generally not upgradable. The Sumeru Mustard Seed that can be upgraded in novels is extremely rare. At least in Xiao Fei's long life, she had only seen two.

A powerful individual with a spiritual root can extract fragments of space from a shattered world to create a personal space. However, such fragmented spaces have incomplete rules and cannot be upgraded.

"Don't even think about personal space, we don't have any. Didn't we collect a lot of mutated seeds on the way? When we bought the villas in the Xiyue Mountain Villa area, they gave us two acres of land as a bonus, which is just enough to plant. We won't starve to death," Long Yangyang said.

Mutant plants that can survive high temperatures are heat-resistant. Although they do not possess superpowers, they all contain a faint energy that is of great benefit to both those with superpowers and ordinary people.

The only problem was that there were only one or two plants. The mutated cornfield that Long Yangyang and her group encountered at the beginning was definitely an exception.

If Feng Teng and his group were smart enough to take away the mutated corn they left behind before the rainstorm, they probably wouldn't have to worry about food for a while.

"There's land?" Bai Zhi thought for a moment. Nowadays, upscale residential communities focus on health and wellness, so it's quite possible that a piece of farmland has been reserved within the community. As for whether the homeowner wants to reflect their lifestyle by growing their own land or whether the property management will arrange it, that's up to them.

"Yangyang, now that it's the apocalypse, Xiyue Manor has been designated as a base. Even if your villa is preserved, will your farmland still be able to stay?"

"Uh, I don't know." Long Yangyang hadn't really thought about this question. She remembered that the book said that in the Xiyue Villa area, any villa with an owner would belong to the original owner as long as the owner arrived at the base within a month.

Regardless of whether the original homeowner arrives at the Qingdu base a month later, the land will be under the base's jurisdiction. The ownership of the farmland within the community was not mentioned.

The upscale residential areas near Xiyue Villa will be reserved for three months, which is why Long Yangyang is in a hurry to get to the Qingdu base.

Even though Long Yangyang's family is all in the Qingdu Base and the Long family has considerable influence, the Qingdu Base is not a place where the Long family can have absolute power. Who knows if they will have their villas reclaimed by someone with ulterior motives if they return too late?

The continuous torrential rain had even driven away the zombies. If it weren't for the ever-rising floodwaters outside the window, Long Yangyang would have felt as if she had returned to the peaceful life before the apocalypse.

"The meat of mutated animals tastes better after the apocalypse than before, and most importantly, it contains energy and keeps you full." Bai Zhi discovered that after becoming a superhuman, everyone's appetite increased exponentially, and her appetite is now five times what it used to be.

With rain these past few days and no worries about zombies or mutated plants and animals, the people trapped in the hotel did nothing but play cards and prepare meals.

When everyone was eating, after Long Yangyang took out the mutated animal meat, everyone ate significantly less than when they ate regular food (except for Shi Qing).

They also conducted a separate experiment, and found that if Qiu Ling, a child who was already a level three superhuman, ate only the food from before the apocalypse, her appetite was twice that of an adult man.

"Fortunately, we killed a lot of mutated chickens and mutated pigs at the resort before. If we had discovered this situation earlier, we could have kept some chicks and piglets."

This discovery was something Long Yangyang didn't see in the novel; it's estimated to be the self-perfection of the Heavenly Dao within the book's world.

After making this discovery, Long Yangyang would put together the ingredients she collected before the apocalypse and the ingredients she obtained after the apocalypse when preparing food.

The prepared food will be placed in different locations in the space, depending on the type of food.

“None of us know how to raise chickens or pigs. Besides, our car can’t fit the piglets you’re talking about,” Long Yangyang complained. Even the piglets from the mutated pigs are about the same size as adult pigs from before the apocalypse, so a regular car can’t fit them.

"There were also quite a few eggs collected along with the mutant chickens. They're all in my space. Once we settle down at the Qingdu base, we'll see if there are any fertilized eggs inside."

Long Yangyang planned not to eat any of the mutated chicken eggs she collected in her space before arriving at the base, but to use them to hatch chicks.

On the sixth day after the rainstorm began, Long Yangyang woke up naturally after a good night's sleep. Suddenly, she felt a slight shaking in the hotel. When she changed her clothes and came out of the room, she found everyone sitting upright, looking serious and discussing something.

Have you found any problems?

"Awake?" Fu Muyu's expression softened noticeably when he saw that Long Yangyang was awake. "Shi Qing discovered something underwater attacking the hotel, but he couldn't get rid of it."

After everyone explained, Long Yangyang learned that ever since the sea level rose and the city was flooded by heavy rain, their hotel had been harassed by swimming aquatic creatures from time to time, but Shi Qing had driven them away, and they had been able to spend five days in peace.

Early this morning, Shi Qing also sensed something attacking the hotel from underwater. After chasing it away, he discovered that the usually obedient underwater creature was ignoring his orders.

“It’s strange,” Shi Qing said. She didn’t sense any of her kind. How could any creature in the water ignore the merman’s orders? “There’s something underwater, but I don’t know what it is. And even though it’s moving, I feel like it’s a corpse.”

Upon hearing this, something suddenly came to Long Yangyang's mind. "Shi Qing, can you catch it? I have a guess that needs to be verified."

“Okay.” Shi Qing nodded, spread his five fingers, and a ten-meter-thick column of water appeared outside the window. Above the water column, a huge, eight-meter-long, dark gray creature floated.

“This is…” Bai Zhi looked at the strange creature outside the window. Its dark gray body was covered with bite marks, with a bite missing here and a piece missing there.

The flesh at the breach was completely rotten, covered with white growths, and the four-meter-long tail was reduced to bones. "A crocodile? Why are its eyes red?"

Qiu Ling stared straight into the crocodile's lifeless eyes, gazing at its pupils that glowed red and were particularly striking on a rainy day, and murmured, "Zombie Crocodile, Level 1 Water Element."