The Xia family was currently experiencing a mix of joy and sorrow. The joy stemmed from several family members awakening their abilities, with Xia Qingyou's A+ Grade strength being particularly uplifting.
Next was Xia Beichen's A Grade.
Xia Junfeng's B Grade.
The remaining five were C Grade.
This level of strength gave them the capital to survive in the apocalypse. Those who successfully awakened were already eagerly testing their abilities outside, with continuous booming sounds.
The sorrow, naturally, was due to the death of 12 family members, whose appearances were tragic, and they were currently being buried.
Xia Qingyou returned to her bedroom alone. In her right palm, a crystal-clear small snowflake appeared. The snowflake was very beautiful, rotating continuously around her palm.
Crack!
Her right hand suddenly clenched, and the snowflake was crushed.
A cold glint flashed in Xia Qingyou's eyes.
"From today onwards, my destiny, Xia Qingyou's destiny, can only be controlled by myself. The Xia family's old tradition of favoring males over females needs to change!"
In Xia Beichen's bedroom, though the domineering CEO was quite disheartened by his older sister, he was still incredibly excited.
"Now I'm the second strongest in the family. Even if my sister doesn't agree, I'm bringing Xiao Zhu back.
Oh, right, I need to tell Xiao Zhu the good news. She must be worried about me!"
He dialed the number, and the phone rang for a long time, but no one answered.
"Look at me, Xiao Zhu must be asleep so late. I'll send her a message!"
...
At Jinghu Spring, through Lin Dong's efforts, Jiang Zhu's level reached 5. The ringing of her phone was drowned out by the noisy music, and she didn't hear it at all.
Or rather, even if she heard it, she couldn't do anything, because she was currently pushing to reach level 6.
In the bedroom, the feverish Chen Yunxi slowly woke up. What greeted her eyes was bright light and a clean, tidy bedroom.
"Where is this...?"
The girl struggled to climb out of bed, her mind recalling how she had been tied to the back of the RV, freezing to the point of near death, and she instantly shivered.
"Was I rescued?" Dragging her weak body out of bed, the sky outside was already faintly bright, signaling a new day.
The house was very large. Chen Yunxi walked for a long time without seeing a single person, but she was lucky enough to find cold medicine in the house, as well as hot soup in the kitchen.
After taking the medicine, she finally quietly made her way to the basement, guided by the music. She saw Lin Dong and the others engrossed in leveling up, and then she quietly retreated.
"A bunch of lowly sluts and perverted scoundrels. No, I have to find a way to escape!
"Strange, where's that big RV?""
Chen Yunxi was dumbfounded. Looking at the pure white, yet fatally threatening, snow outside, she shrank back inside and found the passage leading to the underground garage.
Gritting her teeth, Chen Yunxi walked in.
Lin Dong narrowed his eyes slightly, glanced sideways, and then ignored her.
This community is only so big, where else can you escape to?
Escaping the demon's den, Chen Yunxi started to run wildly, her heart pounding in her throat from nervousness.
Using a handheld night light, she ran aimlessly.
"Ah!!!"
Suddenly, she saw several corpses.
One was riddled with holes, one had its head blown off, a small male corpse had no arms, and blood flowed everywhere.
There was also a female corpse.
Chen Yunxi only glanced at it before immediately averting her gaze.
How many people had she been tormented by before her death?
Tragic!
It was truly too tragic!
When she was with Feng Yi, she was no longer afraid of corpses, but now that she was alone and the garage was pitch black, she was still very scared.
Bypassing the scene of the tragedy, Chen Yunxi discovered an upward staircase and bravely walked up.
At this moment, inside a house, a dozen men sat in a circle, looking distressed.
Jiang Xi, who had been taken advantage of by God's Servant for free, respectfully poured them hot tea and then retreated behind her godfather.
A balding man spoke to the "godfather" at the head of the table: "President Qian, this can't go on. These outsiders are arrogant and temperamental, and they even have guns. Our safety cannot be guaranteed at all. You run the biggest business and are definitely the smartest. Can you think of a solution?"
President Qian smiled bitterly: "What solution can I have? I don't even know who those people are, so I can't prescribe the right medicine!"
They were all famous and wealthy businessmen in society, respected and admired wherever they went.
But facing Lin Dong and his group, it was like a scholar encountering a soldier; there was no reasoning with them!
Although Lin Dong didn't intend to kill them, he had guns, and staying in the community was a ticking time bomb!
Therefore, Lin Dong must die.
A vice-director of a certain company, glancing at Jiang Xi, suddenly said: "Xiao Xi, you must be tired after helping us for so long. Why don't you go get some rest? Don't neglect your health just because you're young."
This meant there were things she shouldn't hear. Jiang Xi looked at her godfather, who nodded, and she then left.
"Director Zhou, do you have any brilliant ideas?"
Director Zhou clasped his hands and pondered for a moment before saying: "Everyone, I think we should reveal our trump cards, otherwise, even if we sit here until dark, we won't come up with any solutions."
"Uh... Director Zhou, I don't understand what you mean. What trump cards?"
Director Zhou smiled, then suddenly pulled out a pistol from his Arms and placed it on the table. The others' pupils immediately constricted.
He actually had a gun?
"Everyone here is smart, so I won't beat around the bush. We're all in business, and few of us have clean hands. For the safety of ourselves and our families, don't tell me none of you have this thing. If you all say you don't, then there's no need to hold this meeting!"
The others hadn't expected Director Zhou to be so direct, and their expressions were somewhat unnatural.
Dragon Country's gun control was extremely strict, and they dared not bring such things into the open.
President Qian laughed heartily: "Director Zhou sees things clearly. It's us old fools who were confused. Anyway, it's the apocalypse now, are we still afraid of safety officers coming to arrest us? Years ago, I got a pistol from abroad, and as for bullets... I still have 17 rounds."
With President Qian leading the way, the others finally revealed their trump cards.
"I have one too. It took a lot of effort to get this thing back then. A pistol, 9 rounds of ammunition."
"President Qian is right, safety officers? Damn, the safety officers are all serving as dogs for others, what are we afraid of? I have..."
"My old man used to be a hunter, and he still has an old hunting rifle, bullets..."
"I have one too..."
After tallying up, they discovered that their side actually had 10 guns of different models.
Someone excitedly said: "Then what are we afraid of? They only have 5 people, and we have 10 guns. It'll be easy to kill them!"
However, President Qian shook his head: "It's not that easy. Have you forgotten how we were brainwashed and controlled by that charlatan before?
This Lin Dong should also be an awakened one. He has superpowers. Relying solely on guns won't work."
Director Zhou nodded: "President Qian is right. Guns are just our trump card for turning the tables, but as for how to turn the tables, we still need to plan!"
Just then, the security door leading to the garage was knocked on.
Thump thump thump!
"Is anyone there? Help!"