Chapter 1 I Say, Bro, You've Actually...

Zhen Po hadn't expected that when he reunited with his older brother, he would be with two kids.

Taking a closer look, Zhen Po inexplicably found the two children familiar.

"Ah..."

Speaking of which, Zhen Hu himself hadn't expected it. His character in the game actually had social connections—a single father with a boy and a girl.

If he had known this beforehand, when using points to exchange for his character's starting conditions, he would have saved some points to exchange for a safe place.

He wouldn't be in this situation, having traveled for a whole day with the kids, who were now sound asleep in his arms, showing no signs of waking up.

Clearly, they were exhausted.

When he first entered the game, Zhen Hu knew that strength was the key. So, he exchanged all his points for abilities, and his initial location was randomly set in front of a kindergarten.

The body information told him that he had children in the kindergarten, so he rushed in without thinking and rescued the children who were already hiding.

Looking at the two small faces that were clearly unfamiliar but also strangely familiar, Zhen Hu didn't know why, but a feeling of sourness and swelling, a strange emotion, arose in his heart.

Especially when the two little ones opened their watery eyes and looked at him with worship, calling out "Daddy!" Zhen Hu felt his whole body filled with strength!

Zhen Po curiously glanced at the two large cloth bags in front of his brother. The two children were curled up inside, one on each side, sleeping soundly, his voice hadn't woken them.

"What are you standing there for? Get in the car quickly. I heard on the radio that there's a survivor base northeast of the city. Let's go there now."

Zhen Hu was currently riding a motorcycle. He hadn't expected to meet his younger brother at the gas station. While pleasantly surprised, he didn't forget to pay attention to the surrounding zombies. Taking advantage of the short distance the zombies had to cover to reach them, he immediately called for him to get on the bike.

Zhen Po didn't stand on ceremony and immediately got on the motorcycle behind Zhen Hu. Zhen Hu rode the motorcycle, leaving the zombies behind. Once they were sure they were temporarily safe, the Zhen brothers began to chat.

"By the way, bro, what kind of abilities do you have?"

"Speed and lightning."

"Damn, dual-type? You can even exchange for that?" Zhen Po was really jealous, so jealous he turned into a lemon.

"Yeah." Zhen Hu nodded, recalling when he first entered the battlefield last night and accidentally provoked a large swarm of insects. Because the corner he flew to was too remote, no one came to rescue him.

He killed about a dozen or twenty insects, but his mecha was severely damaged. He didn't have time to eat a meal and was ambushed and killed by other insects.

Although he was eliminated early, he had enough points.

"Little bro, what about you?"

Zhen Hu casually asked Zhen Po. A trace of embarrassment flashed across Zhen Po's face. He actually had quite a few points, but the ability he chose not only had a high point cost but also turned out to be quite useless in the early stages.

"Space-type."

"Oh? Sounds powerful."

"Only sounds like it..." Zhen Po sat behind his older brother, laughing awkwardly, then his expression turned extremely sad. "In the early stages, I'm just a mobile warehouse. Calling it a space-type ability is too generous, it's more like a humanoid space button."

Zhen Hu: "...?"

"I was at the gas station just now to scavenge the convenience store there, but I guess someone had already looted it. There were only a few bottles of milk and some bread left..."

Suddenly, Zhen Hu slammed on the brakes, and Zhen Po, caught off guard, slammed his head into his older brother's back.

"Ouch! What was that for?"

"Go back."

"Huh?"

"There were quite a few convenience stores along the way just now. Unlike the city, there aren't as many people or zombies here. Who knows what will happen at that survivor base later? Let's scavenge some supplies first!"

"Oh, right!"

...

"Waaah, big brothers and sisters, you're so kind! You're like my re-born parents!"

Lu Xiaoyao was crying like a waterfall at the moment, the weapon in her arms had been upgraded from a kitchen knife in the mall supermarket to a fire axe. After rushing out of the mall, it was all pedestrian streets outside. If she hadn't been taken in and hidden by other surviving NPCs along the way, she would have been dead long ago!

How could she have waited for the rescue team?

While expressing her gratitude, she took the compressed biscuit and a small bottle of water handed over by the base's rescue team wearing combat uniforms.

"Hey, hey, it's not that serious. This is what we should do. Besides, you should be thanking yourselves."

A female NPC who was distributing water and compressed biscuits to others nearby had a shy smile, and a flash of sadness flashed in her eyes.

"In this world, you still have to save yourself..."

In these days of search and rescue, most of the time when they arrived, many people had only one breath left and could not leave with them, or when they arrived, there was only a pile of minced meat and bones left; or scary zombie jump scares.

Being able to rescue a group of people like Lu Xiaoyao who were alive and kicking was also a shot in the arm for their rescuers.

"No, no, no, if it weren't for you, we would have been stuck in the cafe and wouldn't have lasted a few days..."

The other rescued people sitting on the ground also swallowed the water and biscuits, and their minds were slightly calmer and more awake, so they also thanked the rescuers one after another.

After expressing her gratitude, Lu Xiaoyao squatted directly on the ground, eating biscuits and drinking water, staring blankly, without any regard for her current image.

Her arm holding the water was still trembling involuntarily. Since she entered the game, she had either been killing zombies or on the road of running away to kill zombies.

Fortunately, she was kindly rescued by a group of NPCs who were also avoiding disaster, and hid in this cafe with a shipwreck theme.

Thank you boss for being willing to spend money. The decoration and construction of this cafe are worth the investment. The steel bars and iron plates on the outer wall gave this group of people enough security to survive until the arrival of the rescuers.

Among the dozen or so trapped people, Lu Xiaoyao finished her food, and her blank eyeballs finally moved, turning her head to look at another player who was also squatting in the corner, silently eating food and water.

I saw that the other party's face was full of arrogance, plus the sea urchin head that looked like a blown-up hair, he didn't look like a student no matter what.

So, how was this person recruited into the military academy without having to change his hairstyle?

Which school is so lenient?

She looked at the indifference and disdain in the other party's eyes as he looked at the surrounding NPCs, clearly dividing himself and the NPCs into different camps.

To this, Lu Xiaoyao just wanted to roll her eyes.

This guy really, what qualifications does he have to look down on NPCs?

But just as this thought arose, Lu Xiaoyao saw the hedgehog-headed man hand half of the biscuit in his hand to a little girl NPC who was blocked by his body.

"Eh?"

Lu Xiaoyao tilted her head and looked over there curiously, but before she could see clearly, she saw the other party immediately glare back, startling her.

"Tch..."

Feeling the other party's hostility, Lu Xiaoyao pouted her lips in a fit of pique and turned her gaze away, looking at the pile of broken corpses outside the store again.

She also heard the rescuers say that after everyone present had rested, they would transfer with them later, and if all went well, they would be able to return to the survivor base by tomorrow morning...