The interface hovered, occupying her field of vision:
【Supernatural Item】: Infinite Phone System
【Bound to】: Wen Xi
【Level】: Lv.1 (Beginner)
【Daily Tasks】: Consume food delivery quota (0/1000); Shopping (0/3)
【Upgrade Mission】: None currently (Upgrade to unlock more tab permissions)
Wen Xi moved her mind, and the main interface slid to the right. The software was neatly categorized into five types, labeled in bold black text:
Basic Functions, Delivery & Shopping (Lv.1), Sterilization & Protection (Locked), Game Evolution (Locked), Uncategorized (Developing).
It was clear and organized, similar to a phone interface for the elderly.
Without time to study it further, Wen Xi impatiently opened the three giants of food delivery software.
All the shops were operating.
Except for the merchants’ profile pictures and addresses turning black, everything else looked no different from usual.
Just as Wen Xi was about to select items, a notification box popped up.
【Ding! Friendly reminder: Your spending limit is 1,000 yuan, which can be used for food delivery, shopping, and all other expenses. It resets at midnight daily. Completing daily tasks on time can increase your quota.】
1,000 yuan?
“Excluding rent, my monthly expenses are only eight hundred,” Wen Xi had hoped for a good life, but she hadn’t expected it to be this good. “I became a ‘rich god’ the moment the apocalypse arrived?”
Whatever!
It was a benefit she had exchanged for her own death, at the very least.
Wen Xi clicked into a fruit shop she hadn’t dared to buy from before. Without even selecting a combo, she threw durian, cherries, lychees, and more into her shopping cart and clicked purchase.
【Ding! Paid 732 yuan. Your order is being delivered… Delivered!】
A few seconds later, a white light flashed on the glass table in front of her, and the delivery bag appeared out of thin air!
Wen Xi hurried to stand up and open it, finding the fruit salad perfectly packaged.
The fruit inside was even fresher than what she usually bought, and even the skins had been peeled clean.
What kind of supreme VIP treatment was this!
Wen Xi was almost moved to tears of happiness. People who hadn’t experienced the apocalypse could never imagine just how important food was!
Ordinary people like them, who only awakened useless abilities, had no choice but to eat some sealed packaged snacks or the rations distributed by the authorities.
It felt like traveling back to the Great Famine.
“Damn it, why does this rain smell so bad? Could there be something wrong with it?!”
Wen Xi paused and looked toward the bedroom door.
The soundproofing in the rental was average, and the complaints of passing tenants in the corridor could be heard by Wen Xi.
“I knew industrial pollution was too severe these years; we’re finally getting our karma!”
“Didn’t you hear something in your own head saying it was the end of the world? Humans are probably really going to be finished. Let’s grab an umbrella and go out to buy some food.”
“Your current task is to uninstall the ‘Shizi’ novel app. Humans have lived for thousands of years, why would the world end just because of us? If you want to go, go yourself; I’m going back to take a shower!”
“Oh my god, the internet is blowing up!”
Wen Xi’s eyes flashed. Biting on a fork, she restarted her computer to connect to the network and logged into mainstream media.
The entry 【Apocalypse Warning】 had surged to the top headlines, and almost every post was exploding.
The comment sections were divided between those calling it a prank and those saying they were packing up to return to their hometowns. But more people were discussing the content of the mechanical voice, and anyone could see something was wrong with that foul-smelling rain!
Wen Xi searched directly for the keyword “supernatural item” and played the most liked video.
“Family, it’s real! I bound a supernatural item! Look, I can produce water!”
The young man in the video was filled with excitement, holding a water bottle in his hand: In his grasp, the empty cup was slowly filling from nothing, until it overflowed!
“I really gained an ability! My brother got one too! It’s not one person’s privilege! The apocalypse is really com—”
It stopped abruptly.
The video was “not found~”. Wen Xi tried to post a comment, but anything containing “supernatural ability” couldn’t be sent; it was obvious that the authorities had already started controlling the narrative.
Wen Xi turned to the ticketing software, but all flights and trains to other provinces had been suspended.
“They react fast.”
Wen Xi sighed.
The speed of disaster coordination was extraordinary. If cutting off signals directly wouldn’t have caused mass panic, they would probably have already started shutting down the internet to control public opinion and suppress panic.
“Buzz! Ring-ring!”
The phone screen flickered. Wen Xi opened WeChat and saw an incoming video call.
Contact: 【Fu Ruoyao】
“In such a hurry to stir up trouble?”
Wen Xi cautiously scanned her surroundings, confirming there was nothing that would expose her abilities, before transferring the call to her computer.
A luxurious villa appeared on the screen, along with Fu Ruoyao’s family of three sitting on a soft sofa.
Almost as soon as it connected, Fu Ruoyao’s eyes scanned Wen Xi up, down, left, and right.
Wen Xi narrowed her eyes slightly: “Do you have a hemorrhoid on your eye, making you look around in pain?”
“…”
Fu Ruoyao immediately restrained herself, even becoming more submissive because Wen Xi was not someone to mess with. She smiled and said, “Sister Wen Xi, Mom and Dad are both worried about you. They told me to call you. Have you had dinner?”
“Why are your parents worried about me? I have the phone number for the anti-trafficking office.”
Wen Xi sneered, parrying the attack: “Or are you showing off that you have parents, discriminating against the tens of millions of orphans in the country, myself included? Speak!”
Fu Ruoyao was choked up: “…”
Was she really taking the moral high ground like that? That was too politically correct!
“Born to a mother but raised by none—how are you talking? Are you cursing your own father to die?” Fu Zhishan snatched the phone and scolded, “Did you not awaken a supernatural item? If you did, send it over to me immediately!”
“You know about supernatural items?”
Wen Xi felt a fluctuation in her heart. In her previous life, these three had never activated any supernatural items, except for her stepsister killing her to take her item. “What, did one of you three activate one?”
“Nonsense, Yaoyao is—”
“Oh, Zhishan, why are you doing this? Why are you angry with a child?”
The stepmother immediately interrupted, speaking gently:
“Wen Xi, we are doing this for your own good. It’s not safe for a girl like you to hold onto a supernatural item. Don’t you trust your father to keep it safe for you? We wouldn’t possibly embezzle it; don’t be so sensitive.”
Wen Xi also smiled, even more gently than her: “He can even eat your shit, which shows he’s just a piece of garbage with no standards. His character can’t even borrow a power bank, yet he has the nerve to criticize me?”
“How dare you speak to your elders like that!”
The stepmother immediately flipped, pointing and accusing her in a rage: “You little mongrel, you really don’t know what’s good for you! We originally had food in the house for half a month and wanted to send some to you. You really were a waste of our love!”
“You love me that much?” Wen Xi countered, “Our two houses aren’t that far apart. Send it all over now.”
Fu Zhishan was even angrier: “Send it all over? You’re clearly trying to get us killed!”
“Birth isn’t a kindness; support is. You aren’t even willing to give me your lives, so what are you talking about regarding gratitude?” Wen Xi clicked her tongue. “You win at Chinese family dynamics.”
“You, you—”
Crash!!
Lightning slashed across the sky outside the window, black rain washing over the window, with some seeping in through the gaps!
“Your rotten house can’t hold up anymore, can it?”
Fu Zhishan immediately understood the situation and laughed triumphantly: “I’ve heard that black rain is poisonous. Once you die, I’ll go and take that supernatural item immediately! Of course, if you kneel and beg me now, I might consider letting you come to my house…”
Wen Xi hung up directly. She had fished out the information she wanted from the call and blocked them without hesitation.
She looked at the window.
Wen Xi frowned, and the next second, the screen popped up.
【Ding! Upgrade mission detected! Please check it immediately!】
What timely rain! Much more reliable than her biological father!
Wen Xi immediately clicked to view it.
【Current Upgrade Mission: Strengthen your room to block the invasion of black rain】
【Funds: 50,000 yuan (Valid for two hours)】