Rice and Fawang, although greatly enhanced in intelligence, had not received nine years of compulsory education.

Their language skills weren't great. The Chinese language was profound, and they simply didn't understand the meaning of some words.

For example:

"Are you coming?" "I'm coming."

"Come on!" "Coming!"

"Have you come?" "Not yet!"

"Still not here?" "Here!"

"Coming again?" "Not coming, can't come."

Hehe.

Rice just found it funny and didn't understand the meaning, so when Chen Luo came, she said that.

Chen Luo: "..."

Rice said, "Tonight I'll sleep with you, and tomorrow I'll sleep with Mili."

Oh, you really are a scumbag cat, knowing how to spread the love evenly.

Without a word, Chen Luo started to pet Rice vigorously.

Rice was really lovable, beautiful, well-behaved, and with a sweet mouth.

Having just met today, Chen Luo already liked Rice very much. How much?

If Chen Luo had nothing left, only a small dried fish, he would probably not eat it himself, but feed it to Rice.

You eat dried fish, what do I eat??

Rice: "Don't touch my belly, it's so itchy."

Let me see if you're a boy or a girl, turns out you're a little girl cat.

After playing with Rice for a while, Chen Luo began to absorb the crystals, and Rice naturally got a share.

Rice, in my arms, let's cultivate together.

To Chen Luo's slight surprise, Rice could absorb eight crystals, slightly less than Fawang.

Tomorrow, he would ask Mili how many she could absorb.

After absorbing the crystals, Chen Luo felt that he would probably reach Level 4 in about six or seven days.

At that time, the lowest-level crystals would be useless to him.

At night, Rice slept next to Chen Luo's hand, curled up in a ball. If Chen Luo hadn't resisted with all his might, Rice would have insisted on sleeping pressed tightly against Chen Luo's stomach.

How could he possibly sleep like that?

The next day, Ma Yu was the first to get up. She had to be responsible for making breakfast.

Breakfast was homemade meat buns, tea eggs, and porridge, with shredded cucumber as a side dish.

Well, he couldn't ask for too much, after all, it was the apocalypse.

Chen Luo yawned and sat down at the dining table. Naturally, Ma Yu would clean up after the meal.

This feeling of having food brought to his mouth was really good.

Chen Luo asked, "Mili, how many crystals can you absorb?"

Mili said, "Nine. Is that a little too few?"

Fawang, eating a meat bun, thought, "It's a little too few, one less than a dog."

Chen Luo smiled. Being able to absorb nine at Level 1 was already top-notch.

After eating, naturally it was time to play, otherwise what else?

Chen Luo took out the storage battery and learning materials he had bought and connected Mili's house's electricity to the storage battery. The refrigerator, TV, and other things could be used.

Air conditioning was out of the question, Mili's air conditioner wasn't a silent one.

Su Dazhu was still watching his TV series, while Chen Luo took out a desktop computer and started playing 3A games on it.

In terms of experience, a desktop computer was ultimately better.

Seriously, the fun of many single-player games was no worse than online games.

And single-player games didn't need to be connected to the internet.

A large game could at least support Chen Luo for a month of leisure.

And Chen Luo could copy down all the games he could find on the market, with thousands of game discs.

Mili sometimes watched Chen Luo play, sometimes chatted with Ma Yu, and sometimes looked at her phone.

But she would occasionally look out the window, thinking about Mi Ling.

If her sister could return safely, she would have no other requests.

...

Mili was a senior high school student, and the college entrance exam was in early June. Mili didn't go to school and chose to stay at home to prepare for the exam in peace.

Mi Ling's university was local, but she still had a dormitory room because the school was too far from home, one in the east of the city and one in the west, requiring four or five hours of travel each day.

If there were few classes, she would choose to go home; if there were many, she could only stay at school.

When the apocalypse broke out, it was just after nine o'clock, right after a class ended. Mi Ling went to the restroom. If she had been in class, in a crowded area, her chances of survival would have been slim.

When the zombie outbreak occurred, Mi Ling panicked, but took advantage of the zombies' feeding frenzy to run out of the teaching building and hide in the school's small forest.

The entire university town, although in the suburbs, a certain distance from the city center, had five universities together, plus small vendors and nearby residential areas, so the number of zombies was not small at all.

In the small forest, Mi Ling happened to awaken her fire ability, but she felt no joy, only worried about the safety of Mili at home.

Had Mili turned into a zombie? Or had she encountered danger?

Mi Ling was extremely worried, wishing she could immediately grow a pair of wings and fly home.

It was worth mentioning Mi Ling's skills. Only she and her sister depended on each other. Two weak women, and so beautiful, would be too dangerous without any means of self-defense.

Mi Ling had worked hard and possessed a set of powerful anti-wolf techniques. Before the apocalypse, without abilities, Chen Luo would probably be strung up and beaten if he met Mi Ling.

Mi Ling told herself, she must not rush. It was better for her sister to be safe and sound than for her to rush home and lose her own life.

After spending two days, Mi Ling, with her anti-wolf techniques and abilities, finally found an opportunity to escape from the school.

Her target was home.

Going straight home from the school, passing through who knew how many bustling urban areas, was undoubtedly suicide. Mi Ling planned to go around the city, taking a large detour to get home.

This route was nearly three hundred kilometers.

When she left the school, Mi Ling encountered four classmates from the same school, three boys and one girl.

They naturally recognized the campus belle, Mi Ling.

Mi Ling's cold and stunning beauty and her figure that was enough to make people impulsive just thinking about it naturally attracted many suitors.

These four students all wanted to escape the zombie-filled school, and had no particular destination. Seeing that Mi Ling was going home, they naturally wanted to follow.

Mi Ling didn't refuse. More people meant more help. Mi Ling had no confidence that she could return home alone.

The anxiety along the way exceeded Mi Ling's imagination.

The car Mi Ling found was not Chen Luo's heavy truck. When she encountered cars blocking the road, she had to get out of the car and move them.

The roads outside the city were not wilderness, there were not many cars, but there were not few either.

Where there were cars, there were zombies.

Mi Ling was not the Spirit Flame Maiden of later times. Even if she advanced to Level 2 in a few days, she would not be able to deal with multiple zombies.

After dealing with them, she had to rest and recover her mana, otherwise she would not be able to use her abilities. Fight zombies with her bare hands?

The four classmates couldn't help much, and they had to share the food equally.

One boy and one girl had died, leaving only two boys named Zhang Zhen and Wang Xinwu.

Mi Ling also had to be wary of them from time to time, it was really tiring.

Without navigation, the three of them actually took the wrong road...

Along the way, Mi Ling lacked food and water, and was constantly thinking about Mili, so she was extremely haggard.

For the longest time, Mi Ling didn't eat anything for a whole day.

Mi Ling thought sadly, "I'm already living so hard, how can the weak Mili survive?"

Had she already starved to death at home, or had she been eaten by zombies while going out to find supplies?

Because of this, Mi Ling often had nightmares.

Mili said, "You're talking nonsense, I'm eating better than I did at home before the apocalypse."

Home was right in front of her, but there was still the most difficult part of the city to travel through.

Mi Ling prayed in her heart, "Mili, if you're still alive, hold on! Sister has saved a piece of chocolate especially for you."