“Ah… it hurts…”
The girl lying on the bed had a pale little face. Her beautiful and delicate brows and eyes were tightly knitted together, and she was not sleeping peacefully.
Tang Tang was awakened by the pain.
The moment she woke up, the bone-deep pain disappeared again.
Tang Tang opened her eyes.
The exquisite furnishings of the room came into view.
This was a five-star hotel room.
Wasn’t she dead?
Could this be a dream?
Tang Tang looked at her perfectly intact arm.
Her clean, fair hand showed no trace of being gnawed by zombies.
Tang Tang picked up her phone in confusion.
“July 3rd, 10:00.”
There were still twelve hours before the apocalypse broke out!
Her lips parted in surprise as she pinched her own arm.
“Ouch.”
The snow-white skin instantly turned an alarming red, and tears welled up in her watery almond-shaped eyes.
This wasn’t a dream!
She had been reborn!
She had returned from the third month of the apocalypse!
Tang Tang clearly remembered that on the way back to the capital city, someone had pushed her out of the vehicle from behind.
At the time, her back had been facing everyone, so she had no idea who had attacked her.
The sound of zombies gnawing on her flesh still echoed in her ears.
Even now, the pain of being cut by a thousand knives still faintly lingered throughout her limbs.
When the zombies were devouring her body, an extremely strange piece of information suddenly appeared in Tang Tang’s mind.
According to that information, they were actually all characters in a book.
It was a male-oriented power fantasy novel set in the apocalypse.
While Pei Xianzhi was traveling by car with his friends, he encountered the zombie outbreak. He awakened dual-type supernatural abilities and unexpectedly obtained a space. Along the way, he collected supplies, upgraded his abilities, slapped arrogant passersby in the face, personally killed the Zombie King, and eventually strengthened his base and saved his fellow survivors.
As for why the male lead did not have a harem, the author’s explanation was:
Pei Xianzhi had a white moonlight he could never forget.
As fate would have it.
Tang Tang was that white moonlight.
That was why she was turned into cannon fodder in the third month after the apocalypse began.
The book had clearly spelled out her fate in black and white.
And now.
She had actually been reborn twelve hours before the apocalypse.
The previous night, they had driven to Haishi.
Perhaps because she was not accustomed to the local climate and environment, Tang Tang had fallen ill again.
So everyone had made their own arrangements for today’s schedule.
In her previous life, Pei Xianzhi had spent the entire day taking care of her at the hotel.
But why wasn’t she able to see him when she woke up?
The temperature would become extremely high after the apocalypse, and drinking water would become scarce.
When Tang Tang woke up, she felt extremely thirsty.
However, as soon as she got out of bed, her whole body became weak and powerless, and she fell straight onto the carpet.
“Huh?”
The previous second, Tang Tang was still sitting blankly on the carpet.
The next moment, she suddenly appeared on a vast, lush grassland.
Endless grass stretched all around her. Beside her flowed a continuous spring, along with a hot spring.
Looking at the boundless grassland around her, Tang Tang suddenly realized that this was the mustard-seed space mentioned in the book.
In her previous life, there had also been people who awakened space abilities.
However, space abilities had many restrictions and were nothing compared to the mustard-seed space.
The mustard-seed space had unlimited capacity and suspended time. Anything placed inside would remain completely unchanged.
If she remembered correctly, the hot spring could restore physical strength and cleanse and transform the body, while drinking the spring water could strengthen the body and cure illnesses.
If she drank a few more mouthfuls of the spirit spring water with her weak body, perhaps she could become healthy and strong.
At the very least, she would not get sick so easily.
If Pei Xianzhi had not taken such meticulous care of her in her previous life, with her terrible constitution, she might not have survived until the third month.
The author probably did not want her to interfere with Pei Xianzhi’s pursuit of his goals, so she had been turned into cannon fodder.
Her health had never been particularly good. After the apocalypse arrived, living conditions became harsh, so getting sick was a common occurrence.
At the beginning of the apocalypse, they occasionally failed to find enough food. Even though Pei Xianzhi was the one who consumed the most energy fighting, he still could not bear to let her go hungry.
She clearly could not help with anything, yet Pei Xianzhi still treated her so well.
Tang Tang lowered her beautiful eyes and walked to the spirit spring. She scooped up some of the spring water with her palms.
The sweet, refreshing spring water entered her throat, and the persistent pain in her limbs instantly eased.
Tang Tang’s eyes lit up.
The spirit spring really worked!
She scooped up more water and continued drinking until all the discomfort in her body completely disappeared.
Tang Tang stood up and looked around.
The hot spring was not far away, with mist swirling around it.
Tang Tang had no time to think about it. Her most important task now was to stockpile supplies.
She silently recited the words in her mind, and the next second, she returned to the hotel room.
Tang Tang stuffed her wallet and bank cards into her bag.
She left the hotel and took a taxi straight to the wholesale market.
“Hello?”
Tang Tang answered the phone.
A clear and pleasant male voice came through the receiver.
“Are you awake?”
Tang Tang responded softly.
There were many thoughts she had yet to sort out.
Who had pushed her?
Why had they pushed her?
She had not awakened any supernatural abilities in her previous life. She was always getting sick along the way and had little presence.
Logically speaking, she should not have been hated.
Moreover, all six people in that vehicle had been her university classmates.
Tang Tang had grown up together with Zhu Jiawen and Meng Xingyuan, and the three of them had come to Haishi together for a trip.
The other two girls were her roommates.
She had a good relationship with her roommates, while Zhu Jiawen’s roommates were not familiar with her.
Pei Xianzhi was even less likely to do it.
At the time, he had killed a high-level zombie and been seriously injured. Everyone had been frantically trying to bandage his wounds.
Besides, without Pei Xianzhi, she would never have survived until the third month.
“Are you still feeling uncomfortable?”
Pei Xianzhi’s voice was gentle.
The other end of the phone was noisy, yet his voice remained exceptionally clear.
Tang Tang pursed her lips slightly. “I still have a bit of a headache.”
She was not good at lying. Her face would turn red whenever she lied.
Fortunately, Pei Xianzhi could not see her.
Tang Tang covered her face and deliberately changed the subject.
“Where did you go? I didn’t see you when I woke up.”
“There is a business partner here in Haishi. We arranged to meet and discuss a project.”
Tang Tang unconsciously played with her hair. “Can you come back early tonight?”
She was worried that if the meeting went on too late, he might happen to encounter the zombie outbreak on his way back.
Pei Xianzhi chuckled. His laughter was low and soothing, making her feel slightly weak in the knees. He did not answer directly and instead asked her:
“What is it?”
“I… I want to have dinner with you.”
Tang Tang blinked her watery eyes. Just hearing his voice was enough to make her blush.
Pei Xianzhi had never been this charming before.
“Is that okay?”
Tang Tang continued asking.
In her previous life, she had slept groggily until the evening, and Pei Xianzhi had taken care of her the entire time without going out to discuss business.
Tang Tang was worried that her rebirth might cause a butterfly effect.
“Okay.”
Pei Xianzhi answered gently.
He had never refused any of her requests.
Especially not something as trivial as this.
Tang Tang hung up the phone and walked into the largest wholesale market in Haishi.
At first, collecting supplies did not go smoothly.
Those stall owners were accustomed to dealing with wholesalers.
Seeing that she was strikingly beautiful and dressed elegantly, they could tell at a glance that she was an individual customer.
Before Tang Tang could even ask, they told her they had no stock.
After being turned away several times, Tang Tang quickly became smarter.
She first rented a warehouse nearby. When she returned to the market, she would tell every shopkeeper that she wanted to buy wholesale as soon as she entered the store.
Only after hearing this did the shop owners reluctantly get up to receive her.
After visiting several shops, they discovered that Tang Tang was generous with her purchases, never haggled over prices, and was also familiar with the wholesale process.
They began asking what Tang Tang planned to buy next and recommending shops they knew to her.
“Boss, has anyone ordered these things? If not, I’ll take everything.”
“Little girl, do you know how many kilograms there are? You want all of it? Can you sell all that today?”
Tang Tang nodded. “It’s fine.”
Right now, money was not what she was worried about.
Her uncle was a high-ranking military official, and her mother had also left her a large inheritance.
If she could not spend the nine-digit balance in her account,
then eleven hours later, all of it would become meaningless numbers.
Besides, she did not need to worry about food going bad.
Seeing this, the cooked-food shop owner shook his head and picked up his pen to prepare the order.
He was not stupid.
He would never turn down a business deal that had come straight to his door.
However, young people these days really did not understand how the world worked. They knew nothing about daily necessities or the cost of living.