Chapter 10
by LhaoziChapter 10: Get Your Hands on Qin Xi
The system had finally upgraded again just before the apocalypse!
Qin Xi didn’t even have time to look closely at the upgrade rewards.
She first checked inside the spatial dimension to examine the changes after the upgrade.
Upgrading from Level 2 to Level 3 made the grassland, pond, wooden cottage, and other scenery inside the space look significantly more refined and upscale.
The 100 element points of flora, fauna, and mineral ores collected this time had also appeared inside the system space simultaneously.
Most importantly, the space had finally expanded!
[Level 3 Green Grassland: Area 800 sq meters, storage height 50 meters. Living entities cannot enter. Pending upgrade!]
The spatial area had increased from 300 square meters to 800 square meters.
It was more than enough to store all the goods they had purchased so far!
Qin Xi first told Qin Song about her spatial expansion.
Immediately after, she began storing the goods.
The large storage shelves Qin Song bought were six-tier industrial racks, measuring 18 meters high in total, 15 meters long, and 1 meter deep.
The assembly technicians had built four sets today, which Qin Xi absorbed into her spatial dimension.
Then, batch by batch, she began storing the supplies from the warehouse into her space, placing them neatly onto the shelves along the way.
Most of these supplies hadn’t been unboxed yet, making them easy to store.
Fresh seafood, grain and oil supplies, clothing, and daily necessities.
By the time the final fifty tons of coal were absorbed into the space, the warehouse returned to an empty state once again.
Looking at the vacant warehouse, Qin Xi felt a bit unaccustomed to it for a moment.
Exhaling a long breath, she sat down by the edge of the bed.
Seeing this, Qin Song opened a bottle of yogurt and handed it to her.
Qin Xi took a sip; her body felt physically fatigued, but her spirits were high and exhilarated.
Suddenly remembering an important matter, she looked over at Qin Song:
“Big Brother, did you go look for Zhao Yuhao today?”
Qin Song’s hand paused as he picked up a water bottle.
Seeing his reaction, Qin Xi’s heart skipped a beat with a bad premonition.
Sure enough, Qin Song’s deep voice sounded:
“I suspect Zhao Yuhao has been reborn!”
Having a suspicion turn into reality was hardly good news.
“Are you sure?”
Qin Xi questioned Qin Song’s hesitant wording.
Qin Song opened his mineral water, took a sip, and then looked at Qin Xi:
“Nine times out of ten. He took time off from his company—yet in our past life, at this exact time, he was supposed to be working overnight overtime at the office!”
“And what’s more,” Qin Song sneered, “he borrowed a ton of money from his colleagues yesterday—nearly 400,000 yuan. That never happened in our past life.”
Qin Xi fell silent.
If that was the case, it was practically guaranteed.
Qin Xi suddenly thought of Chen Liang.
In their past life during casual chats, everyone had mentioned where they roughly used to live.
She asked with some worry:
“Do you think Zhao Yuhao will go look for Chen Liang and the others?”
Qin Song remained silent for a few seconds before answering in a heavy tone:
“Chen Liang is the only person besides us who lives in the same city as him, so it’s not impossible. However, if Chen Liang hasn’t been reborn, he won’t necessarily believe the words of a stranger.”
Qin Xi furrowed her brows as she listened.
Having spent several years in the apocalypse as teammates who were together from the very beginning, she knew a thing or two about Chen Liang and Zhao Yuhao.
With Zhao Yuhao’s silver tongue, even if Chen Liang didn’t know him, it was very likely Chen Liang would be persuaded by him.
However, a flash of inspiration suddenly struck her mind!
“Big Brother!” Qin Xi’s eyes shone with excitement as she looked at Qin Song. “This could actually be an opportunity! Instead of us going out to search for them, wouldn’t it save us much more trouble if he came right to our door on his own?”
Qin Song was stunned upon hearing this!
As he looked at Qin Xi, still mulling it over, the girl beside him continued:
“These past two days, you haven’t been at the company like you were in our past life. Zhao Yuhao will definitely be on guard and even more anxious to find Chen Liang. But he doesn’t know the exact residential community Chen Liang lives in. In that case, why don’t we give him Chen Liang’s exact address and let him take the initiative to step right into our domain?”
Qin Xi wasn’t afraid of whatever scheme Zhao Yuhao might pull against her and Qin Song.
What she feared was the possibility of those two running away!
She stared intently at Qin Song. This time, Qin Song quickly gave her a firm response:
“I understand.”
A few minutes later, the black Land Rover slowly drove out through the factory gates.
The night was deep, and streetlights shone brightly over roads that were nearly devoid of pedestrians.
Qin Xi flipped through today’s news on her phone.
Incidents of people biting people around the world were increasing daily, and many cities had already issued prevention warnings for an unidentified virus.
The world was still maintaining an optimistic attitude toward this somewhat unusual “epidemic.”
After reading for a while, she turned off her phone and pulled her consciousness into the system space.
She hadn’t looked closely at the internal changes in her space during the system upgrade earlier.
Now was a good time to inspect them:
[Level 3 Pond: Area 20 sq meters. Pond water is drinkable, restores 10 points of mental strength per drink, effect granted once per day. Pending upgrade!]
[Level 3 Wooden Cottage: Can be deployed in reality to block zombies from entering; blocks Level 2 and below supernatural abilities. Usage limit: 30 minutes. Pending upgrade!]
[Level 3 Sky: Added light rain, no special effects. Pending upgrade!]
[Level 3 Standard Arable Land +1: Total 2 mu [1] currently, awaiting sowing.]
[Level 3 Ore Mountain: Ore reserve 50 tons, awaiting mining.]
[Level 3 Hill: Elevation 50 meters, radius 30 meters, awaiting tree planting.]
[Upgraded storage: 100 points of basic Natural Elements added to system space. No special effects, viewable.]
[Current Upgrade Task: Add 1,000 points of Natural Elements (elements can be repeated up to 30 times), sow 1 mu of corn, mine 3 tons of iron ore, kill 30 zombies. Time limit: 5 days!]
[Random Tasks unlocked: Awaiting trigger!]
Scrolling down through the rows of new notification prompts, Qin Xi was pleasantly surprised to discover that drinking the pond water inside the system could actually restore mental strength!
This was an absolute unexpected delight!
If that was the case… Qin Xi looked down at the words “no special effects” marked after the line about the sky weather.
Did this mean that the weather in the system would also produce special effects like the pond water in the future?
Besides that, yesterday’s coal mine had transformed directly into an Ore Mountain.
It was a mountain structure slightly taller than the hill.
Different ore types were marked across various locations on the mountain structure:
Coal ore, gold ore, silver ore, jade ore, diamond ore, and so forth.
Seeing this, Qin Xi became even more certain that this system was clearly creating a mini world!
Next, she looked toward the wooden cottage.
The flower clusters in front of the cottage door had grown far more abundant.
Along the edges of the pond, the various flowers Qin Xi had absorbed were also planted.
Beside the pond stood two silk trees and a willow tree.
Behind the house were two jujube trees and a cherry tree.
Several colorful parrots and zebra finches chattered away in the trees, while a rabbit dashed past the front door and vanished in a flash.
Looking at it, Qin Xi felt that although the space looked a bit crowded with more flora and fauna added, it didn’t lose its aesthetic beauty.
This system clearly had its own set of aesthetics!
At 12:03 AM late at night, the Land Rover slowly came to a stop below an apartment building in Red Maple Community.
The brother and sister stepped out of the car and headed upstairs.
The stairwell was pitch black.
Their intentionally light footsteps failed to trigger the sensor lights overhead.
The awakening of supernatural abilities significantly heightened one’s five senses.
The two came to a stop outside an old-fashioned security door and easily overheard the conversation taking place inside:
“So you added her on WeChat—did you talk to her?”
“No. We just added each other, and we aren’t that familiar. What is there to say?”
“Are you stupid? She’s a girl taking the initiative to add a guy’s WeChat—she definitely likes you! Those two siblings have their parents’ compensation payout in hand; I heard it was over 4 million yuan in total back then! Qin Song can earn money on his own now, and he dotes on Qin Xi. Plus, they own that apartment upstairs. If you treat Qin Xi a bit better, Qin Song won’t hold back on giving her a generous dowry when the time comes!”
“If you manage to get your hands on Qin Xi, doing anything at Qin Song’s company back then would be way better than working for someone else!”
Footnotes
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Mu (畝 – mǔ): A traditional Chinese unit of land area equivalent to approximately 666.67 square meters (roughly 0.165 acres).
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