Chapter 1 Please Live in This Desperate World!

[Please use points to select and exchange for an identity... Sorry, the system has automatically assigned you - Esper.]

[Please use points to select your ability... Sorry, the system has automatically assigned you - Food Auxiliary Ability~]

[Please use points to select your starting location... Sorry, the system has automatically assigned you the starting location - Inner City of the Human Survivor Base, Esper Cafeteria.]

Just as Mingmei entered the game, facing a series of starting conditions for the game character that should have been exchanged with the points won in the previous game round, she was forcibly assigned.

"Guigui, I need an explanation."

Mingmei saw that there were nearly 30 game points above her character at the moment. How could she be forcibly assigned?

She had just seen several options she liked!

[It should be Mr. Yan Hui who considered that you would not be able to play an NPC selling boxed lunches during the Eight Schools period, so he specially designed an option for you to sell boxed lunches.]

Mingmei: "..."

In the end, she would be selling boxed lunches for the rest of her life, right?

Mingmei was silent for a moment, then smiled helplessly and asked, "So, the setting I was assigned is actually very good, right? And the score is very high. Ordinary people are not worthy of these, right?"

[That's right, these conditions are quite excellent~]

At least it was much better than some people who had no points at all and were given settings randomly by the system, Guigui thought.

--[Please try your best to survive in this desperate world (time limit: 1 year)~ If possible, please also try to protect your home~]

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"Wuwawawawa! I'll get you! I'll f*cking get you! Julian, I won't let you go even if I become a zombie!"

Lu Xiaoyao was crying with snot and tears all over her face, waving two kitchen knives she held in her hands, hacking at the zombies lunging at her!

Lu Xiaoyao could now declare that, apart from the Zerg, zombies were the thing she hated most in her life!

In this copy game, "Dawn of the Apocalypse," Lu Xiaoyao only discovered after entering the game that the difficulty level of the opening was directly linked to the points she had earned in the previous game!

Then, she looked at her points—only 2 points!

She wanted every setting, but she didn't have enough points!

It was all Julian's fault for letting her show off boxed lunches qaq!!

She trusted him so much qvq!

After scraping together for a long time, Lu Xiaoyao finally exchanged it for the identity of an Esper. As for what ability to choose, because she didn't have many points, the ability was randomly drawn by the system.

As expected, because it was given for free, it wasn't anything great—strength amplification.

As for the initial location, it was also hard to describe—a large shopping mall in the city center.

Hehe hehe!

Lu Xiaoyao really felt that she was doomed this time, and while frantically hacking zombies, she silently raised a middle finger in her heart!

"Achoo!"

Rubbing his itchy nose, Julian, who had selected a fire-type ability and landed near a 4S store in the suburbs, had a sudden emptiness in his heart after occupying an off-road vehicle.

For some inexplicable reason, he suddenly thought of Lu Xiaoyao.

"What can that guy choose with only 2 points?" Julian stepped on the accelerator and sped towards the survivor base set in the game, "If it were me, I would directly choose to be born in the survivor base with 2 points, at least that's the best in the early stage... She should be able to survive, right?"

If Lu Xiaoyao chose other aspects that led to her death in the early stage, Julian felt that his conscience would still be a little uneasy.

In the end, the point exchange at the beginning of the game really surprised him.

……

"Lu Xiaoyao is so unlucky this time?"

Because Lu Xiaoyao didn't start a live broadcast, Mingmei could only inquire about the news through Guigui. When she heard that Lu Xiaoyao's initial location was 50 kilometers away from their base in the city center, Mingmei subconsciously lit a candle for Lu Xiaoyao.

"With her martial arts..." Mingmei thought again and again, just as she was about to say something negative, she heard Guigui say [After she exchanged her points for Esper potential this time, the system randomly assigned her a strength-type ability. It shouldn't be as bad as you think~]

"Ah... I hope so..."

No longer worrying about Lu Xiaoyao's current situation, Mingmei stared at the big pot in front of her and fell into deep thought.

[Host, what's wrong?]

"My ability is to make the food I make have the effect of speeding up the recovery rate of injuries suffered in battle with zombies by 30%, but I can only make ten servings a day at the beginning, and then the amount I can make every day will increase as the ability level increases?"

Listening to Mingmei's uncertain tone, Guigui was even more puzzled [Isn't that a good thing?]

"But I'm not very good at cooking... Wouldn't that expose me?"

Remembering that the boxed lunches she sold before were all produced by the system, but in this game, she would make these boxed lunches herself. Wouldn't this, wouldn't this ruin her own brand?!

"And why was I arranged to cook in the Esper Cafeteria? Besides making those boxed lunches with buff, do I also have to make the dishes to fill my stomach?"

Mingmei didn't want to revolve around the stove all day long.

Thinking this way, she didn't even wait for the system to answer her before she went to the small leader of the cafeteria to bring up the matter, but the other party didn't mean to exploit her, and explained the reason in a good voice—a shortage of people.

Because most of the survivors, including the NPC survivors, had not arrived yet, it was really difficult to find someone who was good at cooking.

"Now a part of the manpower in the base is sent out to search for survivors, and a part is guarding this newly established base to maintain order and prevent the impact of the zombie tide. There is a shortage of Espers, a shortage of ordinary people, and the Esper Cafeteria is not required to be delicious for the time being, as long as it is edible."

Since the other party had said so, Mingmei couldn't refute anything, so in order to make her buffed boxed lunches as delicious as possible, Mingmei chose the simplest mashed potato and ham rice balls.

She made each box with two fist-sized rice balls, and finally sprinkled a little black sesame seeds for embellishment, which was barely acceptable.

But what she didn't expect was that these special effect boxed lunches she made would be taken away by the higher-ups for unified distribution.

At least this was the case when Mingmei could only make ten servings a day.

After that, she cooperated with other NPCs to make a large pot of stew that wouldn't kill anyone, and acted as a cafeteria aunt to receive the Espers who had just returned from the battle outside the city.

Mu Chen was among them.

When he stood in front of Mingmei covered in blood, Mingmei was shocked.

"Are you injured?"

While Mingmei gave him a bowl of stew, she carefully looked at Mu Chen up and down.

"Not injured, I'll tell you later."

Because of the queue, Mu Chen had to leave in a hurry after speaking.

Mingmei quickly handed the only buffed boxed lunch that she had tried so hard to keep to him. At the same time, Mu Chen also stretched out his hand, and while taking the boxed lunch, his big hand covered the back of Mingmei's hand.

It wasn't a flirtatious caress, but a tight cover on the back of Mingmei's hand, like comfort and reluctance, he blinked at her, his mouth opening and closing without making a sound.

Mingmei could vaguely recognize the words "Wait for me" based on the movement of his lips, and then he left with Mingmei's boxed lunch.

The days of the Espers who were just in the base were not easy.

After that, every Esper who came to the cafeteria to eat had a bloody smell, and even because the weather outside was hot, the people who came later were mixed with sweat and putrid smells besides the bloody smell.

For a time, the smell in the restaurant was particularly disgusting, and in the end, Mingmei felt that her sense of taste was about to fail.

These days were really suffocating, but at this time, it was only the first day they were trying to survive in this world...