The basement was quite large, with several rooms besides the living area of a few dozen square meters they had seen upon entering.
"Mom, Dad, are you both alright?"
"We received the notification immediately and quickly brought down food, hiding in here. We're fine. It's you, we couldn't reach you by phone, and we were worried sick. If your elder brother hadn't said he was going to pick you up, we would have gone looking for you."
"Elder brother went to look for me?" Shen Chongyan became agitated, instinctively stepping forward, ignoring the injury on his leg. He winced in pain.
Zhu Huan quickly supported him. "Are you alright?"
"Xiao Yan, how did... what happened to your leg?"
"It's nothing, I was just pressed by something. Mom, hurry and tell big brother not to go any further. That area is too close to S City, some buildings have collapsed. If the nuclear explosion triggers an earthquake, it'll be too dangerous."
"And there's radiation."
Upon hearing this, Shen's mother rushed to call Shen Chongyan's elder brother.
Shen's father looked at his leg, worried. "Is your injury serious? You two sit down, I'll get the first-aid kit."
"Okay."
Shen's mother made several calls, but no one answered. She grew more anxious. Just as she was about to give up, the call finally connected.
"Xiao Qian, your brother is back. You come back quickly too, don't go to the company. It's very dangerous there now."
The person on the other end said something, and Shen's mother seemed to relax. "Then you come back first. We have enough food at home. Just stay home and hide for a while."
She hung up the phone quickly and walked over. Zhu Huan was already tending to the wound on Chongyan's leg. A large area of his leg was a bloody mess, the wound not shallow, and looked shocking.
"This!" Shen's mother's eyes were full of heartache. "How did you get this? Xiao Yan, does it hurt?"
"It was poked by the car's gear shift," Zhu Huan was about to say when she saw Shen Chongyan repeatedly signaling her. She stopped and calmly tended to his wound.
"How could this..." Shen's mother reached out as if to touch it but feared causing him pain, so she could only look on with distress.
No wonder he hadn't answered his phone earlier; he was injured himself.
"Xiao Yan, you..." She hesitated, then wiped away a tear and changed the subject. "I haven't asked you yet, who is this young lady?"
Shen Chongyan was also quite clueless about this question.
However, Shen's father looked at Zhu Huan's serious face and tentatively asked, "You are... the little girl adopted by the Jin family."
The Jin family.
Jin Wen Ye, the male protagonist.
Zhu Huan nodded expressionlessly.
"Then, you and Xiao Yan, how did you meet?"
He had seen this little girl twice when he visited the Jin family. She didn't seem like a quiet one and had caused quite a few jokes before. It was the Jin family's old master who always protected her.
His youngest son had been studying overseas and managing overseas business. He had only returned recently after hearing about the unstable situation abroad. He shouldn't have had much interaction with this little girl.
Shen Chongyan looked at the person carefully treating his wound and remembered her saying "I'll only save you" when she rescued him. He said, almost subconsciously, "We knew each other before. She's the one who saved me today and brought me out."
Shen's father was a little skeptical, but Shen's mother didn't think much of it. She quickly thanked Zhu Huan. "Miss Jin, thank you so much for saving my son, really, thank you so much! We couldn't reach him and thought something had happened to him. Thank you, thank you!"
After bandaging the wound, Zhu Huan stood up. "Auntie, you're welcome. Ah Yan and I are friends. Friends should help each other; it's only natural."
Shen Chongyan: "..." Ah Yan?
Even so, they weren't that close, were they?
However, he surprisingly didn't feel like refuting it.
Seeing his son implicitly acknowledging their relationship, Shen's father became even more curious about the truth. Although he hadn't interacted much with this little girl, judging by public opinion, she wasn't a good person.
However, his son had said she was his savior, so he naturally couldn't say much.
Shen's mother wiped away her tears and thought of her other son returning soon. She tried to calm herself and smiled. "Yes, friends are like that. Miss Jin, please have a seat, eat something. I'll go prepare dinner."
Her words made Zhu Huan feel genuinely hungry.
According to the plot, the original host should have gone to a bar and gotten drunk all night, only being sent home by someone arranged by the Jin family's old master near dawn. She had a terrible hangover and then encountered a nuclear explosion. If she hadn't come, the original host probably wouldn't have survived much longer.
Getting back to business, the original host had been drinking all night and hadn't eaten for almost a whole day, no wonder she felt hungry.
"Okay."
Shen's father sat with them in the living room for a while. Shen Chongyan was very tired, and now that he was relaxed, he felt drowsy.
Zhu Huan, feeling quite at home, pulled a blanket over him and then stared at him intently.
Shen's father really didn't know what to say. He glanced at the kitchen and stood up. "Miss Jin, you sit. I'll go help with the cooking. If you're tired, rest for a while."
"Okay."
Shen's father went to the kitchen. Zhu Huan watched for a while before looking away.
There were no protagonists who had time-traveled or been reborn in this world. Apart from a slightly melodramatic storyline, everything else was normal.
This should be a period of time in the main world.
Thinking of what 007 had said earlier – if it wasn't stopped, this world would completely perish within ten years – she quickly called the system.
"Ask the main system if it can help. Let it take over the network and communication of this world and help humanity."
007 asked, and soon the main system took over for him: 【Many worlds are facing such problems now. I have dispatched all systems to stabilize the main world as much as possible. I may not have time here. I can give Number Seven higher authority to take over.】
"Okay."
Reduced to this state, the heavenly dao of this world was long gone. If not stopped, the male and female protagonists would soon be finished too, and then it would truly be beyond saving.
Compared to the main network, other systems could only use what they knew and couldn't make independent deductions. Their authority was also much lower, which was why Zhu Huan wanted to find the main network. Su Dan Novel Network.
She hadn't expected the three thousand worlds to be in such chaos.
After the main network granted authority, 007 took several hours to upgrade. By then, it was completely dark. They had eaten dinner and were sitting in the living room, waiting for people to return.
【Host, I'm done.】
"Connect to all networks and systems currently existing in this world and save as many people as possible."
【Okay.】
A few minutes later, the phones on the coffee table belonging to Shen's father and mother suddenly lit up.
Shen's mother quickly picked hers up. She had expected it to be her son, but instead, a robot with a stiff expression appeared on the screen.
【Hello everyone around the world, I am an intelligent system from the future. Due to temporal distortions, a disaster has affected your world. According to calculations, if no effective measures are taken, this world will become a barren planet within ten years, and all life will cease to exist. From now on, please follow my instructions to protect yourselves and the human seed.】