Lin Lu suddenly laughed.
“Pfft…”
She couldn’t hold it in at first—let out a low chuckle, then the laughter grew louder and louder.
In the end, she was practically laughing so hard she bent over, tears almost coming out.
“Hahaha… hahahaha!”
Everyone was stunned, staring at her like she was insane.
What was so funny?
Had this woman gone mad?
Was she mentally breaking down from the pressure?
After a long while, Lin Lu finally stopped laughing.
She looked at everyone present, as if she wanted to engrave their shocked and stupid expressions into her memory.
“Alright.”
She curled her lips into a smile, bright and relaxed.
“I’ll go.”
“For your precious dress, for making you happy, I’ll go right now.”
Before anyone could react, Lin Lu decisively turned around, grabbed the car keys from the entry cabinet, and walked out the door.
The next second, the roar of an engine came from the courtyard.
It sounded like a beast growling—so powerful it made everyone’s hearts tremble.
Only then did they realize—she actually went?
A group of them exchanged looks, disbelief on their faces.
That easy?
A few days ago she was like a mad dog, biting anyone who provoked her. Why was she so obedient today?
Even Dai Ya felt uneasy, a vague sense of discomfort rising in her chest.
The others felt the same and subconsciously walked to the floor-to-ceiling windows in the living room.
At that moment, Lin Lu happened to be driving past the courtyard. She slowed down and rolled down the window.
Her breathtakingly beautiful face appeared.
She looked at the people inside the villa and said lightly,
“Then I’ll be going.”
Everyone was a bit confused by her tone.
Then, as if possessed, Pei Yanzhi suddenly called out:
“Lu Lu, come back early!”
He sighed inwardly.
He still loved Lu Lu, of course—but she had been too much lately.
Not only did she hit Yingying, she even extorted 40,000 yuan from his future mother-in-law’s family. Her temperament had become too sharp.
Yingying and the Wan family held information from their past life—they were important allies for his future rise in the apocalypse. He had to keep them satisfied.
So… he could only let Lin Lu suffer a little.
Besides…
He glanced down at his leg in a cast.
If not for preparing that proposal for her, he wouldn’t have gotten injured.
Let her get caught in the rain a bit, get frightened a bit—it would be fine.
When she came back crying, he would play the savior again and comfort her. By then, she would only become more dependent on him.
After all, Lin Lu was very useful—and deeply in love with him.
In the car, Lin Lu looked at his so-called affectionate “actor performance” and let out another soft laugh.
Her eyes were wild and mocking.
“Alright. I’ll wait.”
The window rose, cutting off everyone’s view.
She stepped on the accelerator hard. The black SUV roared away, leaving only exhaust in its wake.
Watching the car disappear, Wan Yingying and Dai Ya finally felt satisfied.
Good—now Lin Lu was really going to suffer.
Let’s see how she comes back crying and begging!
In their eyes, this trip would either kill her or strip her of a layer of skin.
As for them?
They would stay comfortably in the warm villa, drinking red wine, eating late-night snacks, and enjoying the sight of someone else struggling in the storm outside.
Wan Yingying proudly leaned on Pei Yanzhi’s shoulder.
Lin Lu, just go die!
This house—and Brother Yanzhi—I’ll take them all!
On the winding mountain road, a George Patton armored vehicle tore through the darkness like a black ghost.
Inside the car, Lin Lu was nothing like the broken woman they imagined.
Instead, one hand rested on the steering wheel, the other tapped lightly to the rhythm of the music. Her mood was incredibly good.
Cool night wind drifted in through the half-open window—refreshing and comfortable.
“So satisfying!”
(Satisfying!)
She couldn’t help but exclaim.
Inside her jade pendant space, everything she had collected was piled up neatly—food, drinks, clothes, supplies, medical equipment, an entire underground arsenal, and all the data. Even her grandmother’s photo—she hadn’t left a single thing behind.
That idiot Pei Yanzhi had spent millions, even tens of millions, building an apocalypse fortress—now it was nothing but an empty shell.
The inside had already been completely hollowed out by her.
“I really have to thank these reborn idiots,” Lin Lu said, glancing at the fading villa lights in the rearview mirror.
“If they hadn’t been reborn, I wouldn’t have known about the apocalypse ahead of time.”
“And I wouldn’t have gotten all these weapons and a whole villa of top-tier supplies for free.”
From this moment on, she never again had to pretend affection.
No more acting in love.
No more swallowing humiliation.
I’m done serving you!
The George Patton roared along the mountain road. As it passed a sharp curve, two blinding headlights suddenly shot toward it from the opposite direction.
It was another modified off-road vehicle, also heading uphill into the storm.
In the brief moment the two vehicles crossed paths, both were moving at high speed.
But Lin Lu still caught a clear glimpse of the driver on the other side through the headlights.
Gold-rimmed glasses. A refined, scum-like face.
It was actually Song Zimo.
Their eyes met through the windshield.
Lin Lu raised an eyebrow, not easing off the accelerator at all as she sped past.
Song Zimo also did not stop. The two vehicles were like parallel lines heading in opposite directions, brushing past each other in an instant.
Holding the steering wheel, Song Zimo looked through the rearview mirror at the black beast speeding down the mountain. Shock flashed across his eyes—then quickly turned into realization.
He wasn’t stupid.
At this hour, Lin Lu was driving down the mountain alone?
There was only one possibility: she had been driven out by Pei Yanzhi and Wan Yingying.
Or perhaps they deliberately made things difficult for her and sent her to run some errand.
Song Zimo picked up his phone and opened his chat with Lin Lu, but after a moment of hesitation, he turned the screen off again.
Through the rearview mirror, he watched the black vehicle disappear deeper into the night.
“Lu Lu… don’t blame me for being cruel.”
“Only when you’re out there, battered and broken, experiencing despair and cold…”
“Only then will you understand, when I reach out to you, who truly treats you best.”
He pressed the accelerator and continued toward the mountain villa.
Lin Lu couldn’t care less about what Song Zimo was thinking.
On the contrary, when she saw him also heading toward the villa at the top of the mountain, she burst out laughing.
“Hahaha! Song Zimo went too?”
“Perfect timing!”
Pei Yanzhi, Wan Yingying, the Wan family, and now even the scheming Song Zimo.
A group of reborn people, trapped in a villa with no supplies, facing an approaching tide of zombies…
“Hahaha!”
“I hope when you dogs start biting each other, you don’t hold back and finish each other off too quickly.”
Feeling great, Lin Lu completely put those trash people and matters behind her.
It’s time for her to live the good life.
After descending the mountain road, there were almost no cars left.
Lin Lu floored the accelerator, and the George Patton roared toward the edge of the city.
Half an hour later—
Just as she stepped inside and lowered the reinforced security gate—
“Rumble——!”
Torrential rain poured down, crashing violently onto the world.
June 19th, 00:00.
The zombie apocalypse officially begins.