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

On the large round table were various iced drinks: beer, pineapple beer, orange juice, cola, Sprite, coconut juice, and herbal tea.

"Wow, this is such a feast!"

"What a big day it is today, that you're eating such a lavish meal."

"Could it be that the boss is guessing that Xinyu will awaken?"

Lin Ling found it somewhat amusing. She wondered what their reaction would be if they knew that Xiaoyou's usual meals were prepared in this way.

But why are there so many cooked foods in Sister Xiaoyou's space?

Zuo You watched as everyone swallowed hard, then smiled and said, "Sit down and eat. What are you standing for? Do I have to invite you to sit down?"

After saying that, she picked up a large shrimp and ate it. It was just the right balance of sweet and salty, and tasted better than the ones sold outside.

No longer holding back, everyone chose their favorite drinks and started eating.

Their mouths were already watering from the enticing aromas on the table, and their stomachs were rumbling involuntarily.

The braised beef brisket, cooked to perfection in the sauce, is tender and bouncy, yet still offers a satisfying chewiness of the tendons and muscles, bringing pure bliss to your taste buds.

“Delicious, so delicious!”

Sun Feiyu felt an urge to burst into tears.

"If you like it, eat more." Zuo You used serving chopsticks to put several more pieces on his plate.

When everyone went out to find supplies, she forgot that Sun Feiyu was still a child, only 16 years old.

Without making a sound, she picked up two more large shrimp for Lin Ling.

Lin Ling's eyes and brows lit up with a smile, and as she ate the shrimp, her mouth puffed out like a nimble little rabbit.

Sun Zhibin looked at his grandson's happy face, his wrinkles crinkling up with laughter.

He Heze asked, "Boss, aren't you going to say a few words?"

"There's not much to say, everyone, eat and drink well."

Zuo You was having a great appetite, so why bother with rambling, pointless platitudes?

I thought this was before the apocalypse. Even when we're having a meal, the boss has to talk for half an hour before he's satisfied.

Sun Zhibin then raised his beer and said, "Let's have a drink together. This old man really, truly appreciates you young people..."

As he spoke, his eyes reddened, and he pressed a beer can against his forehead. After a long pause, he said with a choked voice, "Especially Xiaoyou, without you standing up and leading everyone, I don't know how many more people would have died in our community, and I don't know if I would have survived. Thank you all. God is merciless, but you are all good kids with true feelings."

Zuo You's eye twitched, utterly speechless.

What was supposed to be a nice meal turned into something like an awards ceremony.

Seeing Yu Shuqin pick up her drink and about to speak, he quickly waved his hand to interrupt her, saying helplessly, "I'm not a good person. I do these things for myself. Let's not get sentimental. Let's have a drink together, and then let's eat, okay?"

Everyone smiled at each other, raised their glasses and drank heartily, enjoying the meal in a harmonious atmosphere.

After Sun Feiyu awakened, he only had the appetite of four bowls of rice. But this time, he ate six bowls of rice and slumped in his chair, repeatedly saying, "I'm stuffed."

The entire table of food was devoured.

After the meal, Yu Shuqin sent Lin Ling, An Yingying, and Jiang Xinyu away, who were trying to clear the dishes.

There wasn't much she could help with; these kids had been busy all day, they didn't need her help washing the dishes.

Instead of leaving, everyone sat in the living room chatting.

Lin Ling led her team to the industrial park today, which has six factories. They thoroughly inspected all of them and had a very fruitful trip.

They brought back two reverse osmosis (RO) filters, tens of thousands of condoms, a truckload of tissues, thousands of sets of loungewear, a large pile of steel pipes, more than 300 portable water storage tanks, and dozens of tents and sleeping bags.

If the truck had been full, they could have brought back even more supplies.

The filter can process one ton of water per hour, and it also brought back two engineers, so there's no need to worry about subsequent operation or malfunctions.

The community currently uses about 10 tons of water per day. One water purifier can meet the needs of everyone, and we keep another one as a backup.

Some unexpected incidents also occurred. In addition to Jiang Xinyu's injury, two team members suffered heatstroke and fainted, and are still lying in the infirmary.

Today, the zombies have evolved to be even more numerous, and Lin Ling and her team had to put in a lot of effort to collect the crystal cores. Basically, they could find 4 crystal cores from 5 zombie heads.

The yield of crystal nuclei was also quite substantial, with over 500 first-order crystals and 2 first-order mutated crystals.

After learning that Jiang Xinyu was a wood-type support ability user and the function of her skills, Sun Feiyu asked Zuo You curiously, "Boss, how do you know so much?"

"Your brain is a good thing. You should use it more. These things are no different from online games, are they?" Zuo You said casually.

Actually, everyone is very curious about Zuo You; she knows a lot of information that others don't.

For example, the zombie crystal core is only the size of a peanut. How did she know about its existence?

For example, ordinary people can improve their physical fitness by adapting to extreme weather.

Not only that, but there are also 10 crystal cores that can awaken, which is obviously what Qi Yu is most concerned about.

He hesitated for a moment, but still asked about the awakening of the crystal core.

Zuo You said coldly, "This method can be copied, but the success rate is very low. You just saw it yourself; Xin Yu almost turned into a zombie. If you want to try this method, you have to be prepared to become a zombie."

Her cold words shattered the hope that had been burning in Qi Yu's heart, like a bucket of cold water being poured over his head. For a moment, you could hear a pin drop in the living room.

Of those present, apart from the two older elders, Sun Zhibin and Yu Shuqin, who were ordinary people, there was only Qi Yu.

No one can persuade someone of this kind of fatalistic attitude.

Zuo You felt that she had spoken too harshly, so she softened her tone and said, "Just because you haven't awakened yet doesn't mean you won't awaken in the future. Self-awakening also requires the right time and place."

Five years into the apocalypse, people are still awakening one after another, but there is no pattern to this awakening. No one knows when it will be their turn, or even if it will be their turn.

As I said before, Qi Yu needs to adjust to the sense of disappointment he feels.

In the apocalypse, some people take risks, consuming crystal cores in order to awaken their powers, even deliberately letting zombies scratch them before consuming the crystal cores, believing that this will increase the probability of awakening.

As a result, regardless of whether or not you are captured by a zombie, the probability of awakening by consuming a crystal core is no more than 10%.

In order to prevent some people from dying, the base made the data public and transparent.

Even so, there are still quite a few gamblers who want to win big with small bets; it's just that good advice is hard to persuade a damned devil.

The group chatted at He Heze's house until midnight before leaving.

Zuo You sat in the living room, cleaning Lin Ling's wounds and changing her bandages. She said mysteriously, "Sister You, I have a gift for you."

Zuo You's eye twitched; she had a bad feeling. Was she about to get a big shock?

Lin Ling poured out over a hundred sticks of chewing gum from her backpack, her face beaming with smiles. "How is it? Is it your favorite coffee flavor?"