What's wrong with being a little arrogant in the apocalypse just to support my wife?

Chen Mingzhang sensed that Zheng Lin's emotions were a bit off. He recalled Lu Yize's previous reaction and took the opportunity to use his special ability ring to ask Zheng Lin about it.

Lu Yize didn't hide anything from him and simply explained that Zheng Lin's spiritual body at this moment came from another time and space, but it was very weak. He was already dead, and he would completely dissipate after the real Zheng Lin absorbed the remaining spiritual power.

Upon seeing these words, Chen Mingzhang frowned and turned to look at Zheng Lin, who was crying in Zheng Mu's arms just like when he was a child. Dead? Zheng Lin... why did he die?

Zheng Mu stayed with Zheng Lin until he fell asleep. She didn't think too much about it, assuming that Zheng Lin was really in a lot of pain from being hit. She reached out and touched Zheng Lin's head where he had been hit, and it did seem a little red and swollen.

At this moment, Chen Mingzhang secretly used his superpower. His current superpower level is at the early stage of the ninth rank. As long as he wants to know, he can learn a lot of things without being detected by Zheng Lin.

For example, he saw the tragic state of the world eighteen years after the apocalypse, and he also saw Zheng Lin's desperate resistance after exhausting all his efforts to reach the seventh rank, which was impossible for him to advance due to the lack of black crystals.

Inside the ward, Chen Mingzhang silently withdrew his supernatural power, followed by a soft sigh.

Because of his heart-wrenching cry yesterday, Zheng Lin regained a lot of his composure and gradually learned a lot about the base from his brother Mingzhang. Mingzhang would always tell him what he wanted to know, which coincidentally made him nervous that Mingzhang might have discovered something.

He tested the waters and, finding that his brother Mingzhang and his sister didn't react in any other way, he breathed a sigh of relief.

On the day of his discharge, Chen Si and Chang Jiamu came to ask Zheng Lin to go to Morse's place to play. Although he was a little reluctant, Zheng Lin was still pulled away by them.

When he walked out of the hospital, he was dumbfounded by everything around him. Because of the distance, the group chose to take the subway. When it came time to use their superpowers to pay, Zheng Lin was at a loss.

Fortunately, Chen Si, who was in front of him, demonstrated how to pay with his superpower. He entered his superpower with some uncertainty, and the result showed that the payment was successful, just like Chen Si's. He breathed a sigh of relief and followed them onto the subway.

On the subway, he saw scenes almost identical to those before the apocalypse. However, he was much younger then; before the apocalypse, he was just a primary school student who liked to secretly play games. Now, looking back, it all seems like hundreds of years ago.

But now, watching others play with their superpower rings, much like when they used to play with their phones, and seeing the subway speeding by—which they heard was powered by superpowers—he felt a surge of relief and a lump in his throat as he looked at the bustling traffic when they arrived at their station.

Zheng Lin found everything exciting and interesting. When he arrived at Morse's house, Morse was in the garage fiddling with his newly purchased starship, which he had bought at a high price, and had Chen Ping install a navigation system for him.

Morse is a narcissist; he even installed a screen in his garage so he could watch his performance in the Superpower Competition to pass the time when he was bored while assembling the starship.

Everyone else was already tired of watching, and even Morse himself wasn't very interested. On the contrary, Zheng Lin, who was seeing all of this for the first time, stood in front of the screen, watching them reach the main star that he had never been to in his life, watching them defeat those high and mighty alien races, and then watching their victory in overthrowing the Federation.

Morse emerged from the starship, looking somewhat bewildered as he asked Chen Ping, "What's wrong with this kid today? Why is he so excited?"

Chen Ping didn't actually understand it either. Since he didn't understand it, he didn't answer or think about it, and continued fiddling with the things in his hands.

Morse wasn't annoyed by the lack of response, knowing that was just his temper. Seeing that it was almost lunchtime, Morse simply ordered some food. When the delivery arrived, Chen Si didn't even need to call him; he had already run out to get it.

When Chen Si returned and saw Zheng Lin still repeatedly watching the victory clip, he urged him while biting into his barbecue, "Zheng Lin, aren't you going to eat?"

Smelling the aroma, Zheng Lin turned around and realized that several hours had passed. Looking at the familiar yet slightly unusual food, he immediately said, "Eat!"

Chen Si thought that was more like it; Zheng Lin seemed to have returned to normal.

While they were enjoying their meal, Chen Si suddenly turned to Chen Ping and demanded money, pointing confidently in the direction of South Street, "Today is Mid-Autumn Festival! All four streets are celebrating! I want to go eat! I want to eat my fill!"

"All you care about is food," Morse said with a laugh as he ate a skewer.

Chen Ping fiddled with his ability ring and sent Chen Si a sum of money, enough for her to eat and drink her fill that night. Chen Si was happy to receive the money and cheerfully turned to her two underlings, saying generously, "It's my treat tonight!"

Zheng Lin looked out at the blazing sun and was surprised to find that it was already Mid-Autumn Festival. He had just seen this on his ability ring because the nuclear source was not yet stable. Once it was stable, the seasons would gradually return to normal.

The Mid-Autumn Festival was lively, and almost everyone in the base came out of their homes. This was the first festival they had celebrated since the apocalypse. Although they had experienced the apocalypse and many had been separated from their families, at least those who stayed were still alive.

Life goes on. Presumably because it was their first time celebrating the festival, the alien beasts and sea creatures were especially excited. Chen Si, who was also an alien plant, was also excited. They almost became the main consumers during this festival.

Lu Yize doesn't like crowds, but since it was such a rare lively occasion, he still took Jiang Yue for a stroll nearby and bought a lot of snacks that Jiang Yue liked to eat.

Lu Yize looked up at the night sky. Presumably because of the apocalypse and the fact that industry had basically stopped, the stars in the sky began to twinkle again. The streets under the starry sky were dotted with rows of dim yellow lights, vying with the starry sky for brilliance.

The bustling streets were filled with laughter and noise until a loud bang instantly drew everyone's attention.

Huge, almost all-encompassing supernatural fireworks exploded, displaying purple lightning-based supernatural abilities, blue ice and water-based supernatural abilities, and orange-red fire-based supernatural abilities...

The dazzling superpowers bloomed in the air before falling and dissipating, like a shooting star sent to everyone in the base.

The further you go, the more you see a mix of different superpowers, so beautiful and dazzling that it's like a painting pieced together from the superpowers of everyone in the base—no, to be precise, these are their superpowers! They're the bus fares they pay to travel to and from the base every day!

That was a massive amount of supernatural power. Lu Yize used his own supernatural power to replace the power that supplied the basic power required for other supernatural abilities, and then wove these combined supernatural abilities into today's grand feast.

Let's all have a good holiday together.

As Zheng Lin watched the spectacular fireworks display, he swayed. Zheng Mu, who was standing behind him, supported him and patted his shoulder, letting him lean on her shoulder like when they were children.

Zheng Lin knew he was already dead, and his older brother and sister were also long gone. Now he wanted to return his older brother and sister from this world to Zheng Lin in this world.

But he still lingered on all the beautiful things he saw on his deathbed.

Just before his consciousness faded, he felt a pair of hands touching his head, and heard his sister's familiar voice in his ear, "Ah Lin, you've done very well, sleep peacefully."

Zheng Lin reached out with difficulty and touched a handful of tears. He had a lot to say, but in the end, all that was left were two words of dependence.

"Sister...brother-in-law..."

With tears streaming down her face, Zheng Mu looked up at Chen Mingzhang with a smile and said, "I told you he wasn't stupid."

Just like her, he wasn't stupid, so she could tell which brother it was. Even if he hadn't told him, he could guess his relationship with Chen Mingzhang.

Chen Mingzhang stepped forward and put his arm around Zheng Mu. The next moment, Zheng Lin, who had been leaning on Zheng Mu's shoulder, stood up as if he had just come back to his senses and exclaimed in confusion, "Damn it, why are snot and tears streaming down my face?"

I've only ever heard of urinary incontinence, could it be snot too? But he quickly forgot about himself because he noticed his sister was also crying. He immediately looked at his sister with concern and at his brother Mingzhang with anger.

Chen Mingzhang shrugged innocently. It really wasn't him who made him cry. Zheng Mu smiled and rubbed his head, saying that she was just touched.

Zheng Lin was skeptical, but soon Chen Si and the others came and dragged him away. As Zheng Lin was being pulled away, he turned his head to look at the two people snuggling together behind him, turned his head and smiled to himself, said "sweet" and ran away.

Looking at Zheng Lin, who remained carefree, Zheng Mu felt that this was fine too. They looked up together, watching the ever-burning fireworks and the bustling crowd, enjoying the peaceful and ordinary happiness.

Lu Yize noticed that the spiritual entity had left, and surprisingly, it was kind enough not to leave Zheng Lin with any memories of the pre-apocalyptic world, allowing him to continue being a naive child. This surprised him somewhat.

After all, Lu Yize thought that Zheng Lin, who had lived in the apocalypse for eighteen years, would have malicious intentions and want to make Zheng Lin suffer in this life. However, he did not expect that Zheng Lin was kind-hearted and would take all the suffering with him and let it dissipate.

Zhang Wenjing, who had just emerged from the laboratory with suppressed excitement, handed something to Jiang Yue and repeatedly emphasized that it would definitely be useful.

Without delay, she continued to distribute her highly effective fertility potion to other couples like a generous benefactor. Many people in the base wanted to have children, so they readily accepted the offer.

Jiang Yue was a little confused when she brought it back. She didn't really know whether she wanted it or not, but everyone kept talking about the child, so she took it.

Lu Yize glanced at the pink bottle of medicine in her hand and raised an eyebrow.

That night, Jiang Yue drank a pink potion that Lu Yize had removed some of its functions from, leaving only its aphrodisiac effect. It was indeed quite effective, making her unusually proactive. Lu Yize found it quite interesting and asked Zhang Wenjing for a few more bottles the next day.

A month later, all the other couples who had tried successfully conceived, but Lu Yize and Jiang Yue, who had tried the most diligently, still hadn't gotten pregnant.

This made Zhang Wenjing doubt herself, and she kept muttering that it was impossible.

In the end, they could only attribute the problem to the fact that Lu Yize and Jiang Yue's superpower levels were too high, making it difficult to conceive.

Only when he bit Jiang Yue's neck, leaving scratch marks on her back as she held him close, and listened to her voice, did Lu Yize, whose possessiveness was almost overflowing from his eyes, realize the real reason why Jiang Yue couldn't get pregnant.

Sorry, child, you don't exist.

Jiang Yue can only be mine.