The apocalypse begins with a dungeon game.

The bright yellow school bus drove along the road it had once traveled, thinking back to the route it had taken.

The streets ahead became increasingly familiar, and the weathered signboard of the Baijie Hotel gradually came into view.

This place also suffered from bombing and artillery fire, but fortunately the road conditions were still good, so we could continue driving.

Because he was in a good mood and not so worried, Zhou Ye drove back at more than twice the speed he used when he was about to take Yang Mo and the others.

"Honey! You're finally back." Huang Xiaoqi, who had been listless, sat at the doorway holding a kitchen knife, lost in thought.

The whole city is in chaos now, and most of the guests have left.

The once bustling restaurant is now deserted again.

The other neighbors were also sitting in front of their doors sighing.

Hearing Huang Xiaoqi's loud voice, Qian Shi poked his head out of the house and hurriedly walked to the door to look in this direction.

As soon as Xing Tiantian got out of the car, he gave Huang Xiaoqi a huge hug. The mother and son embraced each other, and although the scene looked a little disharmonious, it was inexplicably touching.

[Mom, you've lived up to your mission! You've successfully brought Dad home!]

Xing Tiantian proudly puffed out her strangely smooth chest.

It seemed to be waiting for Huang Xiaoqi's praise.

Li Can was somewhat surprised. She thought its first words upon returning would be words of mutual concern, but it turned out to be a boast.

How could someone as grown up as me be manipulated by a child? Actually, no. Although Xing Tiantian is a bit smarter, she has lived for several hundred years and is dozens of times older than Li Can.

However, due to the resistance to mental pollution, the overall level of intelligence remains that of normal children.

"Great! I'll have your Uncle Qian make you something delicious to help you recover. You've gotten so thin. I was thinking of saying that when you first came back, but you left too soon."

Xing Tiantian's physique is just a standard bizarre model. How can you tell if he's fat or thin? Could it be his soul? Li Can was a little puzzled.

"Honey, it's so good to see you and this girl back safe and sound." After comforting Xing Tiantian, Huang Xiaoqi stood up from her squatting position.

She glanced at Shen Yuan on the left, then at Li Can, and looked up to see Wang Defa's unfamiliar face behind her.

She had met Zhou Ye before and knew what he did.

"I was really scared to death at the time. I thought our family was going to be in big trouble. If you left, how would I live with my son?

She cried as she wiped the tears streaming down her face with an old, worn-out handkerchief that she had used for who knows how many years.

Li Can guessed that Huang Xiaoqi was probably already terrified, and the fact that she was mysteriously taken away when she went out was an unknown variable. Even a little bad news would completely shatter her already fragile nerves.

Just then, he started stirring up trouble again, using bombs to blow up every place that could be blown up. It could be said that the entire lower city was painstakingly plowed through by these players like oxen.

Huang Xiaoqi was repeatedly shocked; how could she not have an emotional breakdown?

Li Can watched as the heavy foundation on her face was washed away by tears, leaving two stark riverbeds.

He turned around and carried a whole box of cosmetics out of the school bus for her.

At this point, Li Can had almost completed all the role-playing requirements for the scroll.

Next, all you need to do is focus on figuring out how to get out of the city and leave this damn weird dungeon.

"Good heavens, so much! You're spending too much, honey. I'll transfer some of the money from my exit permit to you later." Huang Xiaoqi happily dragged the cardboard box with one hand and held Xing Tiantian's hand with the other as they walked into the house.

"Okay, whatever you say. These people from our family will be working together at the restaurant from now on. You can make the arrangements later."

Li Can followed them back, with Wang Defa and Zhou Ye close behind.

Shen Yuan was clinging to Li Lan's arm, looking quite attached to her.

Now Li Can is the backbone and leader of their small group, and most of his arrangements are temporary plans.

The current environment is not suitable for them to communicate openly, so they can only adapt to the situation one by one.

"Oh right, right, the city was bombed, so we have nowhere to work and earn money. That's why we thought of coming here to find some work." Wang Defa winked and thought for a long time before coming up with this explanation.

"Thank you for taking me in. I will do my best in the future." Li Lan's response was concise.

Zhou Ye looked back at the school bus, then at the car keys in his hand. He hadn't lost his job yet, so what could he do? Suddenly, a brilliant idea struck him. "Hey, I got expelled from school. Please take me in, boss."

Qian Shi stood at the door with a spatula in his hand, watching Li Can go out once, and then lead a large group of people one after another into the two merged restaurants.

The person's head suddenly looked even bigger.

"Huh? We're just a small, hole-in-the-wall restaurant. No matter how popular it is, we don't need this many staff. It's practically a large restaurant now..."

"Say something, Dazhuang! What are you thinking? You've hired so many new people, how are you going to split the profits? Let me make this clear first: I'm the head chef, and part-time assistant boss, you can't squeeze me dry!"

"I'm someone who can save up money for just one more day and then leave the city with my certificate. Don't cause me any trouble."

Qian Shi, with his large, obese belly, walked into the house and glanced around at everyone sitting in the dining chairs.

Their faces were full of worry.

Huang Xiaoqi, however, ignored everything and took the cosmetic box with Xing Tiantian to the backyard to experiment with the new products, not paying any attention to what Li Can had just said.

Qian Shi had just mentioned that he would leave the city immediately, which attracted everyone's attention, and they all stared at him intently.

He blushed slightly under her gaze, a suspicious blush appearing on his full cheeks.

"Dazhuang, what are you thinking...?"

"Don't worry, your share of the salary won't change at all; it'll just be deducted from my account," Li Can said dismissively, knowing this was completely useless.

For now, we just need to stabilize the money situation.

He's waiting for someone.

Once everyone is gathered, we can move on to the next wave of activities.

This will buy time for Yang Mo's side to launch an uprising.

Of course, the key point is also to protect our own people and not to shoot ourselves in the foot.

"That's good, that's good. But now that we have so many people, what kind of work should we assign them? Are there any people who can chop vegetables, with pretty good knife skills, who can come and help in the kitchen?"

Qian Shi has already gotten serious and started to get involved in the areas that everyone is responsible for designing.

But no one in the room cared what he was saying; they all followed Li Can's gaze and looked at the night outside the glass doors of the Baijie Hotel.

Several thin young men ran down the street from a distance.

Even from a distance that wasn't too far, you could still hear someone shouting:

"Uncle! I've come to you for help! The city's been bombed! I can't survive here, Uncle!"

These words were directed at Li Can.

Huang Xiaoqi returned from the backyard and looked at the young man at the door, who was out of breath from running, with a bewildered expression.

"Xing Dazhuang! When did you get so many relatives?"