Rebirth in the Apocalypse: My Ex-Girlfriend's Guide to Winning Me Over

Zuo You's eye twitched; she felt a little guilty.

I fell asleep so suddenly that I didn't even have time to put any supplies at home.

I've let my three little darlings go hungry.

"I'll satisfy whatever you want to eat tonight."

As she spoke, she looked at the sunrise outside the window, stretched, and said, "Tell me about what has happened these past few days."

Three days ago, after Zuo You fell asleep, the family ran out of food and metal to make weapons.

Food was relatively easy to obtain; they had some crystal cores that they could exchange for some food with the base.

The problem is with the metal.

The weapons we traded with Tang Haoran and his group are missing five knives, but we're out of metal in the area.

We can't exactly let An Yingying melt down a perfectly good car to make weapons.

The two were also worried that if they didn't deliver the goods on time, it would cause more trouble.

After all, he didn't get along very well with Tang Haoran and the others.

After confirming several times, Zuo You was simply asleep.

Lin Ling and An Yingying braved the freezing weather to borrow a small truck from He Heze, went out to find scrap cars, smelted metal, and made weapons.

He Heze and his team's truck came from Xizi Bay.

The tires were not anti-skid tires, and snow chains were not installed.

I crashed three times just driving from my residence to the base gate because the road was too slippery!

After overcoming numerous difficulties, the two arrived outside the base.

The outside was quiet and picturesque. The temperature was so low that even the second-tier zombies were frozen solid, and the third-tier zombies moved much more slowly. This delighted Lin Ling.

Is there any time more convenient than this for collecting crystal cores?

One person melted the metal, while the other killed zombies to obtain the crystal cores; the harvest was quite good.

Not long after, both of them felt as if their blood had frozen solid.

It was snowing heavily outside, and we couldn't withstand it at all.

It's worth noting that in previous years, the lowest winter temperature in N City was only around -3 or -4 degrees Celsius.

Whenever the temperature is about to drop below zero, the authorities will issue an orange alert for low temperatures.

It's extremely cold now, with outdoor temperatures below minus fifty degrees Celsius, it's practically unbearable.

In the end, only the metal from five vehicles was melted down, and they were hurriedly loaded onto the trucks and returned to the base.

As a result, both of them suffered from frostbite in multiple places after they returned, and in the end, they had to rely on Erdan to keep them alive.

For the next two days, Lin Ling and An Yingying didn't dare to go out again, except to clear the snow from the doorway and the rooftop.

Yesterday, the solar panels also ran out of power.

Now that's bad, we can't even turn on the heater.

Lin Ling and An Yingying could only huddle together, shivering under the covers.

Finally, Lin Ling couldn't take it anymore, so she went across the street and borrowed some charcoal, two iron basins for warmth, and some drinking water.

"Sister Xiaoyou, we're in so much trouble, it makes me want to cry!"

Lin Ling's eyes gradually reddened, and she became more and more aggrieved as she spoke.

Erdan agreed with a "woof" sound.

What has she been eating these past few days? Rice with rice weevils in it, and no other vegetables!

Lin Ling is such a cheapskate; she said she wanted to save crystal cores, but she only exchanged a dozen kilograms of old rice!

After hearing what had happened in the past few days, Zuo You felt both sorry for her and amused. "It's my fault. I didn't expect to enter a deep hibernation state."

She glanced around the room and asked, "Where's Yingying?"

"I'm warming myself in bed."

Lin Ling's face flushed, and she felt a little embarrassed.

A few days ago, she tried to use her superpower to generate heat within her body, but the first time she did it, she accidentally burned her clothes.

The clothes I'm wearing now belong to An Yingying.

Since An Yingying had no clothes, she had no choice but to hide under the covers.

Zuo You poked her head speechlessly, "Is the deal with Tang Haoran completed?"

“It was finished yesterday, and we’ve used most of the crystal cores.” Lin Ling hugged Zuo You tightly, refusing to let go. She deliberately drew circles in Zuo You’s palm with her other hand. Seeing that Zuo You didn’t react, she pouted and continued to talk about the past few days with a wronged expression. “Professor Li brought his daughter and her family to our house to apologize to you and Erdan.”

"And then?" Zuo You's palms were a little itchy from being tickled, so she gently wrapped her hand around it, not letting her move around.

"Then, on your behalf and Erdan's behalf, we accepted the apology. Professor Li has it tough too; he's a very upright researcher, but he has a family of troublesome descendants. When he came over, his lips were purple! I couldn't hold a grudge."

"Yes, send some clothes to Yingying."

Zuo You gave Lin Ling a few sets of clothes, but did not comment on Li Derun's matter.

Actually, Li Derun didn't need to apologize, because she treated what happened that night as a transaction.

But Li Derun came and showed her respect.

Looking at the heavy snow outside the window, Zuo You made up her mind that she should have a chat with Professor Li in a few days.

Thinking of this, she got up and washed up.

To fit in, Zuo You wore a down jacket set over her short-sleeved shirt.

She has more than 2000 of these outfits in her online space, all of which she acquired from clothing factories.

After washing up, she went up to the third floor and put the solar panel back into her storage space.

There are more than a dozen battery packs in Zuoyou's space, but she doesn't plan to use them.

However, in such cold weather, solar charging is not only slow, but it also affects the lifespan of the battery.

She went to the basement, took out a gasoline generator and instruction manual from the space, and fiddled with it for more than an hour until she finally learned how to wire it and successfully connected the power.

Gasoline generators are quieter than diesel generators.

The wind and snow outside are already quite loud, so putting the generator in the basement means we don't have to worry about people hearing it.

When they returned to the living room, the two people and the dog were staring longingly at Zuo You.

She couldn't help but laugh.

To be honest, this strange, quirky sense of humor inexplicably made Zuo You quite happy.

Upon entering the kitchen, various ingredients were taken out from the space and filled the kitchen.

He took out several large bags of hand warmers while giving instructions to the group.

"The electricity is working, but don't turn on the air conditioner. Get used to the temperature as soon as possible. We don't know how long this extreme cold will last."

"Zuo You, can we have something hot to eat first? I'm starving."

As soon as Lin Ling finished speaking, An Yingying and Erdan nodded in agreement.

Zuo You gave Lin Ling a strange look. She was acting strangely today, not calling her "sister" but addressing her by her own name.

Without thinking much about it, Zuo You felt incredibly hungry the moment Lin Ling mentioned food.

He took out ten large meat buns, four potstickers, and four bowls of bean noodle crumbs from his spatial storage and placed them on the dining table.

"Come and eat first, I'll get more if you need it, so it won't get cold."

It's not very elegant for three people and a dog to eat together; they're all wolfing down their food.

Zuo You glanced at An Yingying and found that she was just engrossed in eating.

They didn't seem to find anything strange about what Zuo You took out.

An Yingying knew that Zuo You had a spatial ability earlier than He Heze and the others.

Because Zuoyou would occasionally give her some fruit to eat.

Zuo You thought she would ask her about the space.

Who would have thought that this little girl didn't ask a single question from beginning to end.

Even when she brought out some bizarre hot food, An Yingying didn't ask any questions out of curiosity.

After thinking about it, she explained her own space to An Yingying.

The explanation was the same as the one given to Lin Ling.

In the space where I awakened before the end times, I happened to see someone posting about the end times online.

Just in case, she prepared some food in the space.

An Yingying reacted indifferently; in her eyes, these things were not important.

As long as Zuo You treats her as one of her own, that's enough.

"Sister Xiaoyou, could you give me some more metal later? I still need to make weapons for my old comrades on the other side."

The topic suddenly changed a bit too quickly, and Zuo You was stunned for a moment before nodding in agreement.

Lin Ling then told her about the current situation at the base.

After the extreme cold began, the base issued a task to clear the snow.

An awakened person earns two points for working for two hours.

It's not that the treatment is good; it's that awakened individuals will suffer from frostbite if they stay outside for more than two hours.

To avoid this situation, the base can only issue missions that last for two hours.

They worked in eight shifts, 16 hours a day, to clean the main roads in the base.

At the base, one point can be used to buy a multigrain steamed bun.

All awakened ones, shoveling snow for two hours a day can only earn you two steamed buns, which is far from enough to fill your stomach.

They either eat the stored food or exchange crystal cores for food. Life is not easy for awakened people, let alone ordinary people. They rely entirely on the base's relief porridge to survive, and the casualty rate is extremely high.