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When Leng Ran returned to her room, Xiao Leng Ran had already changed out of her dusty clothes and was wearing a fairly well-fitting tracksuit, which was probably prepared by the people at the shelter.

Despite her exhaustion, she forced herself to stay awake and wait for her to return.

He looked coldly at the little Leng Ran curled up on the ground: "Waiting for me?"

Xiao Lengran hugged her legs, her face pressed against her knees: "Yeah, if I had fallen asleep alone and been buried again... I wouldn't have been so lucky today."

Leng Ran patted her head: "If you run fast enough, you won't get buried."

Xiao Lengran nodded vigorously: "Yes, that's why I want to become stronger and become someone like Master!"

Leng Ran was very satisfied: As expected of me, I still have a lot of fighting spirit at a time like this!

“Alright. In a few days I’ll take you out for training to learn combat skills!” Leng Ran and Little Leng Ran sat facing each other. “But before that, I want to teach you something even more valuable—the rules of survival in the apocalypse.”

He coldly stopped smiling, his face becoming serious.

"Little Lengran, if you want to survive here, remember these three things."

"The first rule is to be wary of everything, even those close to you."

Xiao Lengran tilted her head slightly: "Including Master?"

Leng Ran immediately replied, "Yes, including me."

"Secondly, people who are too kind cannot survive."

Xiao Lengran nodded in agreement, a sentiment she deeply understood.

"Finally, a person must have a bottom line. If you lose your most precious humanity, you are no different from a zombie."

Xiao Lengran blinked: "Master, then, what is your bottom line?"

He chuckled coldly: "I will not bully the weak, nor will I betray my companions."

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Early the next morning.

She heard a rustling sound, and although it was very faint, she instinctively opened her eyes.

Little Lengran was already awake and getting out of bed, just as dawn was breaking.

"Up so early?" Leng Ran yawned; she wasn't fully awake yet.

"Yeah, I want to improve my physical fitness." Xiao Lengran looked very energetic. "It's a habit."

Leng Ran was taken aback. Indeed, before she met Wuming, she would run laps around the shelter every day to exercise, hoping to run faster when the zombies came and survive.

"Okay, eat something first before you go. I'll give you some basic training tonight." Leng Ran watched her leave, then glanced at the equipment bag out of the corner of his eye.

Although she learned a lot about the use of cold weapons during her training with the Illuminati, she only brought some light weapons this time for portability reasons. Since she was not very strong when she was young, daggers and the like might be just right.

Leng Ran suddenly remembered the black broadsword that Shen Junhan used when he was on the nameless planet, which looked incredibly imposing... If she taught little Leng Ran how to use a longsword now, would she become a master of heavy swords many years later?

Thinking about it this way, Leng Ran became more awake, so she decided not to sleep anymore, and went out after packing her important equipment and authority badge.

She hadn't gone far when she saw Ji Wenshan walking towards her alone.

“Unnamed Special Envoy, I’m here today to clarify the use of the authority badge with you.” Ji Wenshan said sternly, “Since you are also a military personnel, you should understand the importance of the authority badge.”

The so-called authority badge is actually a controller with a metal cover that can operate three devices within the vault: the door opening and closing mechanism, the resource storage facility, and the self-destruct mechanism.

The self-destruct device is used by the shelter director to choose to activate the self-destruct mechanism if a large number of residents are infected after the shelter has been breached by zombies, thus sacrificing themselves to take the zombie horde with them.

Although Vault 23 was ultimately destroyed by fire, she was unsure whether the self-destruct mechanism had been activated, but it was still more reliable to keep the Authority Badge in her own hands.

Leng Ran: "Perfect timing, I was just about to check out the resource library, let's go together."

Ji Wenshan was somewhat surprised, but he agreed nonetheless.

Xiang Tao never allows anyone to step into the supply warehouse. All the distribution of supplies is done by him alone, so much so that even now he doesn't know exactly what's in the supply warehouse.

Standing in front of the vast supply warehouse, Leng Ran used the operating device inside his authority badge to open the door.

Both of them wore expressions of shock.

The huge supply warehouse is almost completely empty!

"How could this be!" Ji Wenshan's face was filled with disbelief. He strode into the warehouse, inspected it, and took stock of the remaining supplies.

Leng Ran's heart sank slightly. He closed his eyes, and his mental network instantly expanded, covering the entire shelter before spreading outwards again. Even after reaching the limit of Leng Ran's mental network—a radius of thirty kilometers—he still couldn't find Xiang Tao.

The authorization badge is unique. Since she obtained the authorization badge last night, Xiang Tao can no longer open the door of the supply warehouse to transfer supplies.

These resources that vanished into thin air... must have been moved a long time ago!

Xiang Tao's own combat skills are not high, so is it because he has outsiders supporting him in making such a treasonous move?

After inspecting the situation, Ji Wenshan frowned: "This is not good... The weapons and equipment are fine, but the food and drinking water here, even with extreme conservation, will probably only last for a week."

"How could supplies that were just delivered half a month ago and were enough to last three months have all been used up?" Ji Wenshan clenched his fist. "I'm going to confront Xiang Tao!"

Not wanting to expose his spiritual power, Leng Ran simply followed behind Ji Wenshan and walked together toward Xiang Tao's residence.

After calling out a few times and receiving no response, Ji Wenshan broke down the door and entered.

As she expected, the room was empty.

He said in a cold, deep voice, "Has he contacted anyone outside? And besides the main entrance, does your shelter have any other way to reach the outside world?"

Ji Wenshan thought carefully for a moment, then spoke again: "Apart from the team that came to deliver supplies a few days ago, he shouldn't have seen any outsiders in public. As for the road leading to the outside world, there isn't one."

Leng Ran quickly said, "Being able to leave the shelter without using the authorization badge... there's likely a secret passage in this room. Let's search for it together!"

Having already locked onto a location with his mental power, Leng Ran pretended to inspect every corner of the room, and eventually inadvertently discovered the entrance to the secret passage under the bed.

Push the bed aside, then lift up a large, broken wooden plank that was pressing down on the ground, revealing several stone steps leading down into a dark depths.

"There really is a secret passage." Ji Wenshan looked at the dark cave entrance. "Wait for me. I'll go prepare some weapons and lighting equipment before I go down and explore."

"Alright." Leng Ran watched Ji Wenshan leave, then activated his mental vision and jumped into the secret passage.