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

But now it's the apocalypse, so she doesn't need to worry about too much.

“My dad and your mom are from a blended family. You’re three months younger than me. To be precise, we’re not related by blood. We’re half-sisters. Right?” Lin Ling looked at Lin Min, who nodded in agreement.

Lin Ling sneered, "Go get a paternity test done with my dad. If you two aren't biologically related, then I'll accept you as my stepsister. But if you two are biologically related, then the three of you together, and I, an outsider, naturally won't be so shameless as to try and claim kinship."

The entire audience erupted in uproar! One bombshell after another is happening tonight, and this Captain Qinglong is really something! To distance himself from the situation, he openly exposed his family's dirty laundry in front of so many high-society figures from the base!

"I know this Lin family. Before the apocalypse, the Lin family was considered a second-rate wealthy family. Captain Lin's father is named Lin Jin, and I heard that Lin Jin's second wife is the wife of his friend!"

"Really? That's so exciting!"

"Those two Lin girls are half-sisters."

"I heard that Lin Jin built his fortune on the back of his first wife!"

"Oh dear, another example of a 'phoenix man' (a man from a poor background who achieves success in society). This just goes to show how important it is to marry someone of equal social standing!"

Lin Min listened to the murmurs of the crowd and wanted to defend herself, but hearing the malicious words spoken by the high-ranking officials in the banquet hall, she could no longer stay.

With bloodshot eyes, he left the banquet hall.

Qi Rui was at his wits' end looking at this situation. He had thought Lin Min would be a help, but now it seemed the Lin family might be a hot potato.

Qi Liuhai, however, had a different opinion. It's difficult for an honest official to settle family disputes. Whether the Lin family is a hot potato or not depends on whether Lin Jin has the ability to win over his youngest daughter.

"Daughter, do you want me to teach your scumbag father a lesson?" Tang Jingshan poured Lin Ling a glass of wine, his steady voice carrying a hint of domineering.

Lin Ling's initially low spirits were broken by these words. She glanced at the expressionless Zuo You, then gave Tang Jingshan a sweet smile, "Thank you, Uncle Tang. I can manage on my own."

Tang Jingshan emphasized in a voice only the two of them could hear: "You are Xiaoyou's partner, shouldn't you call me Dad? Your scumbag dad doesn't care about you, but I do. If Xiaoyou bullies you in the future, come and tell me, and I'll help you scold her!"

There was no way to fight him. Tang Jingshan looked at himself and realized he was only a fifth-tier water-type, and felt powerless to do so.

"Uncle Tang, Xiaoyou is my wife. I wouldn't dare change how I address her unless she agrees. External conflicts shouldn't be transferred to internal ones, don't you think?"

Tang Jingshan nodded, laughing heartily.

He discovered that Zuo You and Lin Ling's personalities were very complementary.

......

On the day the Eastern Base announced its independence via radio and renamed itself Azure Dragon City, Zuo You and the Azure Dragon Team were clearing out a high-level mutated beast in the neighboring city.

It has to be said that her month in Qinglong City was more comfortable than ever before.

Before we were at the N City base, there weren't any messy covetous people, nor were there any brainless individuals who insisted on defecting.

She only needs to live her own life, do some business, stay at the base, and occasionally go out to deal with the high-level zombies or mutated beasts reported from below.

Apart from Lin Jin coming to see Lin Ling once, which caused some trouble, nothing unpleasant happened again.

Lin Jin came to the neighborhood to find Lin Ling the day after the banquet, bringing Lin Min with him.

He tried to reason with her and appeal to her emotions, saying things like, "I only made a mistake that all men make. Your mother will always be the woman I love most, and you will always be my most beloved daughter."

He then shifted all the blame onto Guan Yue'e, saying, "Your Aunt Guan kept Xiaomin's birth a secret from me. I only found out that Xiaomin was my biological daughter after I married her."

Lin Min's face turned pale and then red, never expecting that her father was such a person.

Seeing that Lin Ling remained unmoved, Lin Jin brought up her mother again, "You know how much your mother and I love each other. Aren't you afraid of hurting your mother by abandoning your own father like this?"

Lin Ling didn't want to watch his act, so she confronted him directly, "Guan Yue'e is your high school classmate. You two dated in high school, broke up in college, and stayed in touch afterward. Guan Yue'e knows Uncle Ma because you introduced them. And Uncle Ma almost drowned trying to save you!"

"You two set up a scheme. One of you wanted my grandfather's connections, and the other wanted the Ma family's assets. You were very clever. You accomplished both."

"If it weren't for my uncle being my mother's attending physician all along, I would have suspected that my mother's death was related to you!"

Lin Ling looked at Lin Jin as if he were a stranger. "I have no interest in judging your character, but I don't want anything to do with you. Whether you and your family of three are doing well or not is none of my concern or interest. You won't get anything out of me, so don't come looking for me."

"If you don't want to get involved with me, that's fine too! I want to live in Area A, and you'll also introduce Xiaomin to the city lord! After you do these two things, I can guarantee that I won't bother you again."

"roll!"

"Xiaoling, why are you doing this to yourself! You're now a high-ranking member of the base. If I sit at the entrance of the city lord's mansion every day, accusing you of neglecting your elderly father after you've risen to prominence, what do you think your colleagues will think of you?"

“Mr. Lin, you can try it! I love it when people who don’t know their place come to mess with my wife, because I’ll take care of them for her! That way, out of sight, out of mind.”

Zuo You leaned against the doorframe, glanced at Lin Jin casually, and added, "We're not even in the same league, how can we compete? Mr. Lin, I can't bear to see Lingling suffer. It's better to be strangers than enemies, isn't it?"

"This is the courtesy Lingling is giving you. If you don't want it, then I'll grant your wish." Her voice was still languid, but the aura she exuded sent chills down the spines of the father and daughter.

Lin Jin was about to speak when Lin Min stopped him.

They can act all they want with Lin Ling, after all, they are father and daughter by blood!

Seeing how much the deputy city lord cherished Lin Ling, they were completely helpless.

After weighing the pros and cons, Lin Jin temporarily abandoned the Lin Ling line.

He was afraid of angering his daughter, and that he would end up losing more than he gained.

Lin Ling also asked the community security guard to blacklist Lin Jin and his family of three.

Tang Jingshan even secretly added Lin Jin to the blacklist in Zone A.

Without Lin Jin's interference, Lin Ling's daily work consisted of training the Azure Dragon Team, while Zuo You's daily work consisted of running her own weapons business.

Three months passed relatively peacefully. On the 13th of the seventh month of the second year of the Last Calendar, three large bases in the north, south, and central regions simultaneously declared independence. The southern base was renamed Vermilion Bird City, the northern base was renamed Black Tortoise City, and the central base was renamed Qilin City.

With this, along with the earliest independent Western White Tiger City and Eastern Azure Dragon City, the Five-Party Alliance of the Eastern Continent of Blue Star was officially established.

Other small and medium-sized bases either chose to attach themselves to other entities or chose to operate independently.

"In recent months, there has been significant crustal movement and the surface area has expanded. According to tests, Earth is expanding rapidly, at least twice the size it was before the apocalypse."

“Currently, inconvenient transportation is a major obstacle between us and our subordinate bases. If we cannot solve this problem, it will be difficult for us to support those small and medium-sized bases.”

In the city lord's office, Zuo You directly pointed out some of the current difficulties.

With Zuo You in charge of Qinglong City, they can deploy more manpower to clear out the zombies. However, the outside world is devastated, buildings have collapsed, and transportation is inconvenient, making it time-consuming and laborious for everyone to clear out the zombies.

Qi Liuhai suggested, "Recruit a group of earth and metal elemental ability users to build roads. The Azure Dragon Team will be responsible for security, and the rest of the team will be responsible for building roads on the ruins to open up transportation between the bases in the eastern provinces."

Zuo You agreed, explaining that in her previous life, she had established transportation connections between the various bases three years after the apocalypse, and this was the idea she had originally intended to propose.

The aircraft is not unusable due to the presence of raptors in the air, but its safety has been greatly affected.

Without high-level combat personnel escorting the aircraft, the accident rate is extremely high if they encounter mutated birds.

Moreover, aircraft maintenance resources are precious, making them unsuitable for ordinary survivors to travel on.