After leaving the space, Bai Yang deliberately checked the time on her phone. Only five minutes had passed.
Time flowed differently inside the space and outside of it, and this discovery made Bai Yang even happier.
She had examined the soil inside the space and found it extremely fertile. It was perfectly suitable for growing crops, which meant that even if there were no more vegetables or fruits after the apocalypse began, she could still rely on the space to become self-sufficient.
With one of her biggest worries resolved, Bai Yang went to the bathroom and took a hot shower. There were still several hours before nightfall, and she soon lay down on the bed and fell into a peaceful sleep.
Fu Le quickly learned that Bai Yang had taken leave to return home. Although he found it somewhat strange, he did not ask any further questions.
“Bai Heyu, why did that little girl suddenly take leave? And for an entire month, too.”
Bai Heyu did not answer Fu Le’s question. Instead, he brought up another matter.
“Someone has secretly resumed the research project that was previously banned.”
“Have those researchers gone insane? Didn’t they say that the virus was far too contagious and that research on it was prohibited?”
Fu Le frowned deeply.
The Fu family had been involved in business for generations, so Fu Le had no influence over state affairs and did not know much about the research Bai Heyu had mentioned. He only knew that it involved a virus.
Bai Heyu removed his glasses, revealing a pair of unusually sharp phoenix eyes. He rubbed his brow and said, “Once I finish dealing with things here, I’m going home for a while. You should go back as well and tell your family to make more preparations.”
“I’ll go back tomorrow.”
Fu Le had never doubted Bai Heyu’s decisions.
He knew a little about Bai Heyu’s work in his earlier years. Bai Heyu had served in the military and had also worked for higher authorities, yet he had never appeared in the media. Fu Le did not know why Bai Heyu had entered the business world over the past two years.
In any case, following Bai Heyu’s advice could never be wrong.
When Bai Yang woke up, she discovered that the lights outside had already come on.
Compared with the apocalypse, the world now truly felt so peaceful that it made her whole body relax.
Bai Yang changed into another outfit, tucked all her hair beneath a hat, put on a mask, and left the hotel.
H City was a strange place. The more prosperous an area was, the more chaotic its public security seemed to be compared with other places.
Bai Yang arrived at an internet café in an extremely secluded location and entered with her head lowered. The moment she stepped inside, she could feel all kinds of gazes falling on her.
Ignoring the attention around her, Bai Yang calmly walked to a corner and sat down.
She had heard of this internet café in her previous life.
It was privately owned by the leader of H City’s local underworld, and very few people came here.
As for why Bai Yang had chosen this particular internet café, the reason was simple.
It was the only internet café in H City that did not require identification.
Bai Yang only wanted to survive the apocalypse peacefully, and she did not want anyone to know her identity.
On the computer, Bai Yang found the website for underground boxing matches and logged into an account she had not used in more than a year.
The account had practically gathered dust.
Bai Yang’s father had served in the military before retiring due to a leg injury.
When Bai Yang was younger, she had been rebellious and refused to submit to anyone. After learning that her father had once been a soldier, she had also wanted to join the military.
Her father had refused.
Bai Yang had been going through her rebellious phase at the time, so she ended up participating in underground boxing matches instead.
She had nearly been sent to the hospital after being beaten badly during her very first match.
Bai Yang had not dared to go home. After recovering from her injuries, she went back for another match.
Unexpectedly, she became addicted to fighting.
At the time, Bai Yang was still in middle school and lived close to home.
Sometimes, she returned home with injuries. When her mother saw them and asked what had happened, Bai Yang lied and said that she had accidentally fallen.
Her mother apparently could not believe that the daughter she had raised from childhood would lie to her, so she foolishly believed Bai Yang’s excuses.
Of course, there were also times when Bai Yang had the misfortune of returning home injured and running into her father.
As expected of someone who had served in the military, he immediately recognized that Bai Yang’s injuries had been caused by fighting rather than falling.
Bai Yang had no choice but to explain that she had encountered a group of delinquent girls who tried to rob her while she was walking home from school. Since she refused to give them any money, she had gotten into a fight with them, which was how she had been injured.
Bai Yang still remembered how guilty she had felt when she saw the suspicious look in her father’s eyes.
After that, Bai Yang became more careful.
Whenever she fought, she either avoided getting injured entirely or made sure to avoid injuries in places that would be easy to notice, especially her face.
Thanks to her father, her fighting skills improved by more than just a little.
This continued until the second semester of her second year of high school. No matter how creatively she tried to hide it, her father eventually discovered the truth.
After that, Bai Yang never participated in underground boxing again.
It was not because she did not want to.
She was simply afraid of her father’s threat.
Don’t ask.
If you ask, it was because of the sentence her father had used to threaten her.
“If you dare go fight underground boxing again, let’s see whether I tell your mother.”
That threat had worked perfectly.
After boxing for nearly six years, Bai Yang had initially never thought she could earn much money from it.
However, as her number of victories increased, the prize money she received for each win also grew.
Bai Yang secretly opened a separate account and deposited all her winnings into it.
Sometimes, the arena would also open betting pools, and Bai Yang would place bets on herself as well.
This continued until her father discovered everything during her second year of high school.
“Whoa!”
When Bai Yang saw the string of numbers in her account, even she was completely shocked.
“Ones, tens, hundreds, thousands, ten thousand, hundred thousand, million…”
Then she saw the number nine at the front.
Forgive her for being so inexperienced, but across both her previous and current lives, she had never seen so much money before.
The three-bedroom apartment her family lived in had only cost 980,000.
With this money, she could buy seven or eight apartments just like her family’s home.
“Nine million, eight hundred seventy-eight thousand, nine hundred? I never thought underground boxing could make this much money!”
Bai Yang could not help laughing at herself.
If she had known she was this rich, she would not have spent every month carefully stretching the one thousand yuan her parents gave her for living expenses.
Bai Yang transferred the money from the account to her phone.
Now that she had this money in hand, Bai Yang finally felt completely relieved.
She had a space, and she could even grow crops inside it. Once she bought seeds, she could plant them directly.
That alone would save her a great deal of money.
Bai Yang stood up and left the internet café.
The people around her did not pay much attention to her departure.
After walking outside, Bai Yang stretched lazily and rubbed her stomach, which was growling with hunger.
She had followed the map on her phone to reach the internet café.
Bai Yang had always had a good memory, and she remembered that there was a snack street behind the internet café, separated only by a narrow alley.
Bai Yang walked around to the back of the building and looked at the wall, which was more than two meters high.
Thinking about the snack street on the other side of the alley, she hesitated for only a moment before stepping back two paces and sprinting forward.
With a quick leap, she climbed over the wall.
After landing quietly, Bai Yang suddenly regretted her decision.
The map showed that the alley was very short, but in reality, it was dark and much longer than she had expected.
Looking at the pitch-black alley where she could barely see her own hand in front of her face, Bai Yang swallowed nervously.
She would never admit that she was afraid of the dark.
At the same time, she silently mocked herself.
She had already experienced the apocalypse, yet she was still afraid of the dark. If anyone heard about it, they would laugh themselves to death.
The alley was completely silent except for the sound of Bai Yang’s footsteps.
After walking for a while, Bai Yang suddenly heard heavy, rapid breathing.
Before she could react, a pair of burning hot hands grabbed and restrained her.
“Damn!”
The moment she felt the man’s scorching body against hers, Bai Yang’s heart skipped a beat.
She hurriedly tried to break free, but those hands were like iron shackles, holding her so tightly that she could not move at all.
Before Bai Yang could think any further, she felt something cool and soft brush against the corner of her lips.
“Qingqing.”
The alley was so dark that Bai Yang could only vaguely sense that the man was more than a head taller than her.
When she heard his slightly deep yet magnetic voice, she froze for a moment.
The man’s tongue then forced its way past her lips and pried open her teeth.
Bai Yang was forced to endure it.
She suddenly felt a chill on her shoulders as her clothes were stripped away.
Before long, the only sounds left in the pitch-black alley were the man’s rapid breathing and Bai Yang’s soft cries.