When she opened her eyes again, Wen Jiuya had already woken up. She was lounging on the sofa, bored, playing on her phone. The windows and curtains had been closed as well.
She took out her own phone and checked the time—22:00. Oh my, it’s this late already. Xiao Jiu must be hungry.
“When did you wake up? Why didn’t you call me? I’ll cook for you. You must be hungry, right? I remember you said earlier you wanted cola chicken wings and roasted drumsticks. How about I also make winter melon soup and braised fish?”
“I didn’t wake up that much earlier than you. You were sleeping so soundly—I thought you might’ve been tired, so I couldn’t bear to wake you.”
“If it’s an afternoon meal, then this counts as a late-night snack now, right? Anything is fine. The blood moon disappeared, and things are very chaotic outside. But it seems like no sound can be heard in my room. Did you reinforce it with a superpower?”
The two of them walked to the window and slightly pulled open the curtains to look outside. Many zombies were wandering around. Without the suppression of the blood moon, the zombies seemed to have become the new rulers of the city.
“I used a spatial superpower to wrap this room up, forming an independent space. That’s why we can’t hear outside noise, and it also prevents sudden dangers we might not react to in time.”
“So it can be used like that.” Wen Jiuya nodded.
Wen Qiao walked to the door and tested the lights. Seeing that there was still electricity, she went straight to cook.
After 40 minutes, Wen Jiuya helped her bring the dishes to the table, and only then did they begin eating.
As they ate, they chatted.
“When will Xue Qi arrive?”
“We’re in G Province, and he’s in C Province. Now that the blood moon has disappeared, the apocalypse has truly erupted—it won’t be fast. I estimate the earliest would be three or four days, the latest about a week.”
“Do we have to stay here?”
“Not necessarily, but we must stay here to wait for him. Otherwise, if he can’t find us, things will become very troublesome.”
“We’ll wait for one week. If he doesn’t arrive, we’ll leave. This place isn’t safe—we need to find somewhere secure to stay,” Wen Qiao continued.
After finishing the last bite, Wen Jiuya served herself another bowl of winter melon soup and took a small sip. “What kind of place counts as safe?”
Wen Qiao put down her chopsticks. “A place where we can live peacefully.”
Wen Jiuya nodded. “My superpower mutated. Look—this is the effect after being exposed to the red moon.”
As she spoke, she stretched out her hand and activated her superpower. A small piece of ice appeared in her palm. “I can condense a large chunk and even change its shape, but it consumes a lot of mental energy and superpower. The original water form can still be used too, and it consumes less.”
Wen Qiao smiled. “I’m happy for you, Xiao Jiu. Congratulations on having dual attack superpowers.”
“Dual-type?”
“Of course. Ice-type is your second superpower. But water-type ability isn’t as weak as you think—it can both attack and defend. Don’t forget, water can carry a boat, but it can also overturn it. Don’t be influenced by novels.”
“I understand. I’ll study it carefully over the next few days.”
Wen Jiuya studied it carefully for three days, but was forced to stop because someone came looking for trouble.
Through the surveillance at the door, they saw a sharp-faced man leading a fat yellow-haired man to their door, followed by seven or eight other men.
“Big Brother, I’ve observed them. There are only two women inside. One of them lives here—she’s the type who rarely goes out. The other just arrived this afternoon. They must have plenty of food, and both women are quite pretty. Big Brother, you’ll definitely like them,” the sharp-faced man said respectfully.
The fat man patted his shoulder. “If it’s really like you said, I’ll give you great credit. After I make my selection, you can choose your share of food first.”
“Thank you, Big Brother.”
Wen Jiuya’s three days of effort had not been in vain. Her superpowers had risen to level two, and she had developed multiple attack methods.
She exchanged a glance with Wen Qiao, and the two of them smiled teasingly. It was a perfect chance to practice—after all, rusty hands could be dangerous in any situation.
Wen Jiuya gestured to her, indicating she would handle it alone and that Wen Qiao could just watch.
Wen Qiao leaned against the wall facing the door, arms crossed, watching her step by step.
Just as the fat man waved for his men to smash the door, Wen Jiuya took the initiative to open it and smiled at them.
“Brothers, would you like to come in and sit for a while?” she said sweetly.
The men burst into laughter.
“Hahaha, at least you know what’s good for you. Don’t worry, Big Brother will take good care of—” Before the fat man could finish speaking, an ice arrow pierced through his head, and he fell to the ground.
“Big Brother!” The others were shocked. Three of them were ability users and immediately retaliated—one earth-type, one wood-type, and one fire-type.
Wen Jiuya remained completely calm. As they launched their superpower attacks, she raised an ice wall in front of her to block them, then used her water-type ability to wrap around their heads.
Unable to breathe, the men’s faces turned red as they wildly released their superpowers, but all were stopped by her ice ability.
She froze the wood-type user’s vines, extinguished the fire-type user’s flames, and suppressed the earth-type user’s spikes. Level two versus level one—it was completely one-sided.
After the three of them died, the remaining men tried to flee, but Wen Jiuya’s ice arrows pierced through their heads one by one.
“Baby Qiao Qiao, how about it? The results of these past few days?” she said, her brows full of pride.
Wen Qiao smiled. “Very impressive.” She used her wind ability to throw their corpses out the window.
“You don’t think I’m cruel, do you? Killing them all like that.”
“Of course not. Xiao Jiu only killed those pests.”
Wen Jiuya smiled even more happily. “That’s right—I’m contributing to a better future for humanity.”
The two burst into laughter.
After this incident, before Xue Qi arrived, the survivors in the residential community would no longer dare to target them. Even if they did, they would have to think carefully about whether they could win.
“Why did you use so much ice energy to freeze the walls just now?”
“On one hand, I didn’t want them to damage our home—we still need to live here for a while. On the other hand, it was to consume superpower. Every time you completely exhaust it, it grows stronger.”
“Let’s go out tomorrow. I want to train more.”
“Alright.”
After closing the door, Wen Qiao casually handed Wen Jiuya a few crystal cores. Three were from the ability users just now, and two transparent ones were from earlier days.
Wen Qiao knew what they were, but was still surprised she gave them all to her. “I can’t use these three ability users’ cores.”
“I know. I’m giving them to you as money.”
“Then I’ll gladly accept. Thank you for the rich lady’s generosity! Hahaha!” Wen Jiuya cleaned them with her superpower and put them into her pocket.
“I’m so hungry, babe. Can we have luosifen today?”
“Of course! It’s been a long time since we had it.”
The two laughed and headed into the kitchen. Wen Qiao took out 【Chef Lady】 and put it on.
【Chef Lady】 was an exquisite light-blue uniform dress, with a blue apron trimmed in white lace at the front, a small blue cloth chef’s hat on her head, and blue leather shoes.
Superpower: maximum cooking skill.
Apron superpower: maximum freshness of ingredients.
Chef hat superpower: blocks oil fumes.
Shoes superpower: cooking speed +10.
Thus, Wen Jiuya watched as she instantly changed into the light-blue Chef Lady uniform, then began taking out ingredient after ingredient for making luosifen from that not-so-large apron.
“I have to say, your superpower is just too amazing—it’s basically like a cheat.”
Even though she had seen it many times, she still couldn’t help being amazed.
While cooking, Wen Qiao replied, “Then you should get used to it.”
“Alright, alright. Who told me I spoil you? Hahaha.”
In the kitchen, Wen Jiuya’s role was to keep her company, chat, and occasionally hand her things.
At first, Wen Qiao hadn’t allowed her to stay in the kitchen, thinking the oil fumes were too heavy. But Wen Jiuya felt she was too lonely cooking alone and insisted on coming, forming this habit—even after the apocalypse.
As long as they were together, whenever Wen Qiao cooked, Wen Jiuya would definitely be there in the kitchen with her.