The apocalypse begins with a dungeon game.

"Uncle?" Several people from the First Base inside the room repeated in unison.

They had all gotten to know each other before or during the setup of the explosives, so it was quite unexpected that they would meet again in this way.

Li Can secretly used the vulture puppet to send them messages; no one knew about the things he arranged in private.

And so this dramatic scene unfolded.

"Uncle, my mother passed away early. If the three of us brothers hadn't been desperate, we wouldn't have come back to disturb your family."

The young man leading the group was wearing a black windbreaker, and his baby fat hadn't disappeared yet, making him look quite young.

Upon seeing Huang Xiaoqi emerge with the little ghost, he immediately turned and rushed towards her.

"This must be my aunt, right? Come on, everyone, greet her!" He waved his hand and shouted to the two people behind him.

"Hello, Auntie!" came the respectful, tearful auntie.

Huang Xiaoqi's expression immediately changed, and the suspicion and anger she had just felt vanished. She used one hand to tuck the stray hairs behind her ear.

"Oh dear, I've never met you before, even when Dazhuang and I got married. I feel a little embarrassed calling you 'Auntie'."

"Alright then, since you're here, your aunt can't let you come for nothing, can she? Come on in, it's not safe outside."

Huang Xiaoqi looked the three young men up and down. Apart from the eldest nephew who was speaking first, who was a bit more outgoing, he looked like a healthy and good young man.

There are two left.

They were all tall and thin, as if they had squeezed all the nutrients into their height and hadn't grown horizontally at all. They were the kind of people who could be blown away by a gust of wind. They were about the same size as the men brought by the Qian family.

It's quite heartbreaking to see.

The last one wasn't as well-developed as the first two. He had a baby face, leaning towards a boyish look, with wispy hair falling between his eyebrows. He always stared at people with those big, watery eyes.

It gives off a rather harmless feeling.

That's right, no matter how Huang Xiaoqi looked at them or studied them, these three children didn't look like a family at all, and they didn't look like Li Can at all.

They don't even resemble each other.

It's like your entire body only occupies one gender.

This is too suspicious.

Although Huang Xiaoqi wasn't a bad person, she wasn't stupid either. After inviting her three nephews, who looked very different, into the house, she asked them:

"How come I've never heard your uncle mention before that you have an older or younger sister? You kids are all so unique; none of you look alike..."

If it weren't for the fact that these people didn't look like Li Can, she would have suspected that they were his illegitimate children.

This family, pieced together from various sources, is surreal.

Li Can tried to smooth things over, explaining that he simply wanted to use the lull after the first wave of explosions to bring his people within his sphere of influence and make them appear legitimate.

Although the methods were simple, crude, and even full of loopholes.

But none of that matters, as long as we can fool them for the time being.

The real challenge lies in the struggle to come; we need to continue creating opportunities for Yang Mo to stall in Shangcheng.

Currently, I must place all available personnel around me.

Originally, it might have been out of caution to guard against Yang Mo's organization of people from Zhongshang City, but since they started cooperating, the things they did became increasingly audacious and reckless, so it didn't really matter anymore.

Right now, all we need to do is keep the local indigenous people at bay.

"Ah...this is my sister's child. We've lost contact for so many years because of some misunderstandings, and we've never spoken to each other again, which is why you don't remember him. As for the child not looking like him..."

Li Can rested her chin on her hand, her gaze sweeping over the people around her.

His younger sister, Li Lan, sat in a chair with her hands in her pockets, watching to see how he would continue weaving this story.

The brother and sister looked at each other, almost unable to hold back their laughter, and barely managed to suppress it.

"Isn't this her third marriage? All the children are her own, but the biological fathers aren't the same person..." Li Can said, watching Huang Xiaoqi's reaction.

He was at his wit's end. Ever since he transmigrated and started doing quests in dungeons, his ability to lie and bluff had grown inexplicably.

He has developed the ability to speak to people in a human language and to ghosts in a ghost language.

Huang Xiaoqi opened her mouth, but was choked by his words.

She's already in such a terrible state, what else could she possibly ask?

"Oh, so that's how it is. My dear children, you've really suffered. My sister-in-law is also so pitiful. How could she have met such a bad man and now she's met such a tragic end."

"How could you, as the older brother, do this? You know your sister and family aren't doing well, and you know there are misunderstandings between you, so why don't you resolve them sooner? If you can't bring yourself to say it, then let me do it."

"What's most important in this world? It's for the whole family to live well and have each other to rely on. Only then can we go further. What's the point of living alone?"

Huang Xiaoqi's sudden lecturing left the young people stunned, as they hadn't rehearsed and were improvising their own performance.

Unexpectedly, it worked out perfectly with the "peach blossom" motif.

Li Lan, the real sister, felt a touch of emotion as she listened to Huang Xiaoqi, the fake sister-in-law, and her chest inexplicably warmed.

Although they all knew that the people in the dungeon game were fake, non-existent NPCs, there were many moments when they intersected, and they always seemed so vivid that it gave people a false sense of reality.

It was as if they were living people.

A living person existing in another time and space.

They're just on different dimensions.

Li Can had the same feeling, as he gained a deeper understanding of each instance.

As players, they cannot avoid starting to have any illusions about such an absolutely real world.

In fact, during the previous [Mental Hospital Mystery] instance, he had a vague feeling that such a riot had really happened there, and it wasn't entirely fictional.

However, due to limited technology and resources, neither the people on Earth ten years ago nor Li Can, who traveled to Earth ten years later, can truly determine anything.

"Sigh, but that's all in the past now..." Li Can sighed in the end.

Huang Xiaoqi ignored him and walked up to her three nephews, tugging at their sleeves and asking, "I still don't know your names. Tell your auntie quickly. If you're staying at Baijie Hotel, you should get to know these people who came to apply for jobs today."

Huang Xiaoqi looked around the hotel lobby; there wasn't a single strange customer in the room at that moment.

But it was packed with people.

Including Qian Shi and his colleagues, as well as his family of three, that makes six people.

Not to mention Shen Yuan, whom they had just taken in, as well as Li Lan, Wang Defa, Zhou Ye, and the others who followed him.

Now three more nephews have arrived... a total of twelve people, plus a little weirdo... how lively!

"Auntie, we all take Mom's surname, so just call me Xing Dong."

"Okay, okay."

"My name is Xing west."

"Okay." Up to this point, Huang Xiaoqi still hadn't realized something was wrong.

"Xing Nan".

"You don't have a younger brother named Xing Bei, do you...?"

What a ridiculous day! Huang Xiaoqi is getting more and more confused, feeling like her brain isn't working properly lately.