The person who helped her up was Song Shiyu.
He was the male lead’s cousin, an orthopedic surgeon who was twenty six years old this year.
As soon as he finished speaking, two bursts of laughter came from nearby.
Wen Chu felt a faint sense that she was being laughed at.
But she was not angry.
A whole room full of cannon fodder male supporting characters. She felt an inexplicable sense of familiarity.
Just like her, they were all destined to die early.
Not a single one of them would survive the first six months of the apocalypse.
Several of them had grown up together in the same military compound.
If one wanted to call them childhood sweethearts, then the male lead was certainly not the only one.
The other two men had also stood up and walked over.
Fan Jingshen frowned, his voice deep. “Wen Chu, did you hurt yourself when you fell?”
Wen Chu looked at his solemn face. With his gold rimmed glasses, he had an unmistakable aloof and restrained air. She shook her head absently.
Before she could speak, the man walking at the back curled his lips and came over.
“I wanted to go in and call you guys out to have some fun just now. I had no idea what the three of you were doing in there. You stayed inside for so long without coming out.”
He Beichuan was wearing a floral shirt, with charming peach blossom eyes and the appearance of a complete playboy.
Wen Chu’s eyes widened.
No way?
Could these people really not hear anything from inside?
The whole place had practically been shaking. She suspected that the bed was almost about to collapse.
But when she saw the completely genuine expressions on their faces, she believed it.
They really had not heard anything.
This really was a novel world.
Apart from the male and female leads, everyone else was blind and deaf, automatically ignoring anything abnormal.
Her cousin saw her standing there in a daze without saying anything and reached out to push the door open.
“Don’t…”
Wen Chu had not even finished saying the word when the door was pushed open.
The scene inside was revealed clearly to everyone.
Under the dark purple lights, everyone was an adult, so there was no way to pretend they had seen nothing.
As for the two people on the bed, their eyes contained only each other.
They had not even noticed that someone had opened the door.
Her cousin immediately slammed the door shut.
He turned to look at Wen Chu, his expression becoming somewhat cautious.
“Well… don’t be sad. There are plenty of men in the world besides my cousin.”
Wen Chu tugged at the corners of her lips without saying anything.
Beichuan immediately added, “Little sister, three legged toads are hard to find, but two legged men are everywhere. What kind do you like? Brother Beichuan will introduce someone to you.”
Wen Chu still said nothing.
Everyone assumed that she was simply too heartbroken to speak.
Everyone knew how much Wen Chu liked Song Xingci.
From childhood onward, she had been like a little tail following behind Song Xingci. Her eyes and heart had always been filled with him.
Especially after she became an adult last year, she had become even more bold about expressing her feelings.
She had clung to him so tightly and loved him so deeply that everyone in their circle knew about it.
Wen Chu lowered her head and put on an expression of utter heartbreak.
“I want to rest for a while.”
Her voice was soft, carrying a slight tremble that made the three men feel uncomfortable.
Her cousin immediately said, “There is another room in this suite. You can make do with it for now.”
After a pause, he added, “I just saw online that things outside are not very peaceful. Quite a few people have become agitated and violent. It would be better for you to stay with us.”
Wen Chu shook her head, her voice even softer.
“It is too close to Xingci gege… I do not want to stay here.”
The girl was beautiful to begin with. She had striking features and exquisite bone structure, and calling her breathtakingly beautiful would not have been an exaggeration.
At this moment, her eyelashes were lowered, seemingly still carrying a trace of moisture, and she looked utterly heartbroken.
The three men were all at a loss.
Especially since this beautiful girl was someone they had watched grow up.
For a moment, none of them knew what to say.
They all looked at the tightly closed door at the same time, their eyes filled with resentment.
It was all Song Xingci’s fault.
Even if he had been impatient, he should not have done that right in front of their little sister.
How could he not realize how much that would hurt her?
In the end, her cousin was the one who stepped forward.
“I will take you upstairs. There is a private lounge there that belongs to me.”
He owned a share in this entertainment club, and when it opened, he had reserved a private lounge for himself.
He reached out and gently patted the top of Wen Chu’s head, just as he had when they were children.
“Come on, Wen Chu.”
Wen Chu silently nodded.
Her cousin added, “Do not be sad. I will teach him a proper lesson later and get you some justice.”
Wen Chu nodded, but she knew very well what that lesson would amount to.
How could he possibly teach the male lead a lesson?
Song Xingci was about to awaken his lightning ability.
As for her cousin, he would remain an ordinary person without any supernatural ability until the day he died, and he would eventually be bitten to death by zombies.
The two of them went upstairs. Song Shiyu escorted her into the room and carefully instructed her.
“Get some good sleep first. Call me if anything happens. My phone will stay on.”
Wen Chu replied, “Okay.”
Song Shiyu turned and left, his footsteps gradually fading into the distance.
Wen Chu pressed herself against the peephole and stared motionlessly at the hallway.
Only after confirming that he had truly left did she let out a long breath and turn around to search through the original owner’s bag.
Sunglasses, a phone, cosmetics, a power bank, and a mask.
There was also an empty package.
She picked it up and looked at it, her pupils shrinking slightly.
Bull aphrodisiac.
It had been a small package containing one hundred milliliters, and it was already empty.
The corners of Wen Chu’s mouth twitched.
Original Wen Chu, you really did not die unjustly.
No wonder the male lead had not even had time to change rooms before pulling the female lead into bed to make love.
With that much medicine, if they had not acted soon, their blood vessels probably would have burst.
She efficiently put on her sunglasses and mask, then quietly opened the door.
The hallway was silent.
This entire floor was made up of private lounges belonging to the entertainment club.
It was two thirty in the morning. The people in the lounges were either already asleep or had long since left and gone home.
Besides, the author loved her precious male and female leads dearly.
In order to make it convenient for Song Xingci and Shen Chuman to collect supplies in the morning, the author had directly cut off the surveillance cameras throughout the entire building.
Do not ask why.
The answer was simply an electrical failure.
Wen Chu curled her lips.
That certainly made things easier for her.
She did not take the elevator. Instead, she turned and walked into the stairwell.
The elevator would make noise when it stopped, and she did not want other people or zombies to discover her.
The lounge was on the thirty ninth floor.
Wen Chu walked downward for several minutes before she began to pant.
After walking for several more minutes, her legs started to weaken.
By the time she reached the floors in the twenties, she felt as if her entire body was about to fall apart.
The original owner’s body probably never exercised at all.
The stairwell was stuffy and hot.
On an August night, the air was as sticky as syrup that had melted into one solid mass. Sweat trickled down Wen Chu’s back, and her clothes clung dimly to her body.
Fortunately, she remembered halfway down to drink some Spirit Spring Water. Otherwise, she really might have collapsed from exhaustion.
Sorry.
She had only just obtained her cheat ability, so she was still getting used to it.
She pushed open the door to the stairwell on the basement level, and the view before her suddenly opened up.
Box Niu Fresh Supermarket.
The huge sign gave off a soft glow in the night.
Wen Chu stood at the entrance, grinning broadly with two rows of white teeth showing.
She did not choose to break the lock.
Forcing the door open would attract too much attention. She did not want to leave behind any trace that could allow someone to track her.
She closed her eyes and mobilized the mental power within her body.
She controlled a long, thin ribbon from the flower shop next door and made it float out. Like a nimble snake, it slipped through the crack beneath the supermarket door.
The ribbon lightly touched a bag of potato chips on a shelf.
The bag of potato chips disappeared.
The ribbon touched the bottled water beside it.
A bottle of water disappeared.
And so it continued, one bag, one bottle, one item at a time. Like an ant carrying food home, she slowly moved the supplies into her space.
At first, her movements were very slow. The ribbon was difficult to control and kept twisting and turning awkwardly, like a child who had just learned to walk.
After collecting only three or four small items, she would have to stop and catch her breath, while fine beads of sweat covered her forehead.
But gradually, she found the trick.
Controlling one ribbon became controlling two.
The two ribbons worked from both sides, doubling her efficiency.
Then came three, four, and five.
Each ribbon was like an extension of her fingers, moving with incredible agility.
What surprised her even more was that the ribbons, which at first could only collect one small item at a time, gradually became capable of wrapping up piles of supplies all at once.
Entire rows of drinks, entire freezers filled with desserts, bags of rice, all of them seemed to be swept up by an invisible giant hand before disappearing from their original locations.
In the end, each of her ten fingers could control one ribbon.
Ten ribbons darted and danced through the supermarket like ten tireless hands, clearing entire sections of goods from the shelves.
The Box Niu Fresh Supermarket covered more than ten thousand square meters, yet Wen Chu only needed one hour to move everything into her space.
She stood where she was, her heart pounding as she stared at the completely empty shelves before her. She could hardly believe it.
What delighted her even more was another discovery.
Collecting supplies could actually train her supernatural ability.
She could clearly feel that she was no longer at the initial stage of level one, which was where she had been when she first awakened.
She had reached the middle stage of level one.
She had simply trained her supernatural ability, then drunk Spirit Spring Water whenever her mental power became exhausted.
She had not needed to kill zombies or absorb crystal cores. Just like that, she had naturally leveled up.
Wen Chu leaned against the wall and breathed heavily. Suddenly, a thought flashed through her mind.
This novel was written from the perspective of the female lead, Shen Chuman.
The author had never written about the male lead recognizing the ring space as its master.
However…
The male lead’s cultivation speed had been astonishing. In just two short years, he had become a level five supernatural ability user, far ahead of everyone else.
When she had read the novel before, she had assumed that this was simply the male lead’s special protagonist advantage.
But now that she thought about it…
Spirit Spring Water.
The male lead’s supernatural ability had advanced so quickly, and the Spirit Spring Water in the space was certainly related to it.
Yet the female lead did not know that the male lead possessed Spirit Spring Water.
Now that was interesting.