Natural Disaster Strikes: I Stockpiled Billions and Carved My Way Through the Apocalypse

Hogg kicked Wu Qinglan away: "Since this is a child from your Wu Family Village, she should naturally be returned to her rightful owner. Wu Qinglan, our marriage is off!"

"No, you can't do this to me! We've already had a wedding! We're husband and wife, I don't agree to a divorce!" Wu Qinglan said, her voice filled with anguish. "I already know I was wrong, what more do you want? Are you really trying to drive me to my death? These past few days, I've flattered and served you so carefully, I've done my part! I just gave birth and you want to divorce me? Are you even human?"

"I've been tolerating you for the past few days, letting you act up and act recklessly, thinking you can control me just because you've had a baby. Not only did you ask me for supplies, but you also wanted to support your family. That was only because you had just given birth, your emotions were unstable, and you were at risk of severe bleeding. Now that you've recovered almost completely, stop clinging to this place." Hogg said coldly, "The temperature outside has returned to normal, so you don't need to worry about you and the baby freezing to death outside. Consider the things I gave you before as compensation for your time with me; I won't take them back."

"Don't talk to me about conscience. I, Hogg, have never had a conscience. If this child were mine, I would tolerate any outrageous behavior from you, for the sake of the child. But this child isn't mine, so why should I be cuckolded? I, Hogg, am not the kind of person who would swallow my pride!"

Wu Qinglan retorted, "Now that we've come this far, I'd like to ask you something else: the hospital doesn't even exist anymore, so how do you know the child isn't yours?"

Hogg laughed angrily: "Still trying to deny it at this point? Wu Qinglan, you don't think that the supplies President Wei brought back were just for food, drink, and basic necessities, do you? Let me tell you, we've got a copy of every type of medical equipment and instrument in the world. President Wei's entire fortune of hundreds of billions was sold off to buy these instruments. Making a paternity test is a piece of cake!"

Wu Qinglan's pupils suddenly contracted.

She could hardly believe what she was hearing.

What's wrong with Wei Lie's brain?

With so much money, why not buy food instead of a bunch of useless instruments?

No wonder the people from Wujia Village tried several times to come and inquire about where Wei Lie hid his supplies, but they always came up empty-handed!

It turns out he didn't buy that much grain at all; he bought all of it as machinery!

Wu Qinglan looked at him with disappointment and frustration.

If she were Wei Lie, she would definitely buy a lot of grain and then use it to exchange for anything she wanted.

Wu Qinglan had no idea that in the apocalypse, it would be impossible to collect those machines anymore.

Many precision instruments have strict protection standards; even a slight bump could destroy them.

This is the difference in thinking and cognition.

Wu Qinglan and her child were driven back to the mountaintop of Wujia Village by Hogg.

Anyway, Wu Family Village now occupies a whole hilltop, so there's no fear of her not having a place to stay.

Now that the temperature is gradually rising, postpartum care and raising children are indeed not as difficult as during severe cold and natural disasters.

To show his determination to break up, Hogg not only returned all of Wu Qinglan's belongings to her, but also gave her four cans of milk powder as a breakup fee.

The villagers of Wujia Village, like mute people swallowing bitter herbs, had no choice but to bite the bullet and bring Wu Qinglan and her child back.

Fortunately, Wujia Village is currently suffering heavy losses and needs young children to replenish its future fighting force. Wujia Village has always had the tradition of marrying girls to outsiders, and Wu Qinglan's daughter might be of great use in the future. Therefore, the village chief decided to take in the mother and daughter.

The farce in Wujia Village has come to a temporary end.

Because soon everyone was too busy to care about anything else.

The plague is coming.

Duan Qi was the first person to discover the plague.

Duan Qi and his men are building a protective net on the neighboring hilltop.

Suddenly, someone saw a huge object floating in the distance and, unable to resist their curiosity, rowed over to take a look.

He turned around and immediately began vomiting violently: "Yue~"

Duan Qi quickly led his men over, and after just one glance, they all turned around and vomited in unison.

They'd seen dead people before, but never anything this disgusting.

The corpse was deformed all over, not in the way one would imagine a giant, but rather with broken limbs, a bulging head, and facial features transformed into the habitat of a dense swarm of small animals crawling around.

Her limbs were slender, but her belly was bulging.

Even through its thin, transparent belly, you can see countless worms bulging and being gestated inside.

The most terrifying thing was that a vine was growing on the back of the corpse.

The vines were an eerie deep red, as if they were not plants but animals, taking root in the back of the corpse and drawing nutrients.

The entire corpse reeked of a foul stench, an extremely foul stench.

After Duan Qi finished vomiting, he quickly called his men back and resolutely refused to approach them again.

Upon returning to the mountaintop, everyone frantically disinfected themselves, fearing they might bring back germs from outside.

They all have families to support, and none of them would dare to take the risk.

Duan Qi took three showers, changed her clothes, and rushed to report to Wei Lie without even drying her hair.

"Is everything you said true?" Upon hearing this, Wei Lie immediately stood up nervously. "How many bodies did you find in total?"

“It’s absolutely true, there’s only one,” Duan Qi replied. “We dare not get close, but I’m worried that the body will eventually drift here. Mr. Wei, what do you think we should do?”

"Go back and rest first, let me think about it." Wei Lie waved his hand, signaling Duan Qi to leave: "Don't tell anyone about this yet."

Duan Qi nodded: "I understand."

After Duan Qi left, Wei Lie hurriedly went to find Mu Jiuyue.

He was at a loss in this situation.

Now only Mu Jiuyue, who possesses the ability to see the future, knows what's going on.

As expected, Mu Jiuyue frowned as soon as Wei Lie said that: "So it's already here? I thought it would only appear after the acid rain."

Upon hearing this, Wei Lie realized that Mu Jiuyue indeed knew, and immediately asked, "What happened?"

"After the acid rain, the entire world's biodiversity underwent a massive reshuffle. Survival of the fittest prevailed, and those who couldn't were eliminated. All the surviving plants and animals mutated. Insects, mammals, birds, and plants alike embarked on a bloody path of evolution. Humans became their nourishment. Almost none of the humans they captured escaped; they all became their breeding grounds, used to raise the next generation," Mu Jiuyue said. "So, when encountering such creatures, the solution is a long-range, high-powered attack."

"As long as we can kill them, that's fine." Wei Lie finally breathed a sigh of relief: "I thought we couldn't defeat them."

Mu Jiuyue was amused: "Didn't you say it yourself? In the face of absolute firepower, any carbon-based life form is a paper tiger. No matter how terrifying the mutated animal or plant is, it is still a carbon-based life form."

“You’re right. Carbon-based life forms are those based on carbon. All known life on Earth is carbon-based, including plants, animals, and fungi. With so many weapons, we should be able to protect ourselves.” Wei Lie asked, “Since plants and animals have already begun to evolve, doesn’t that mean acid rain is just around the corner?”