Chapter 86: A Moment of Peace Interrupted

“Hehe, Brother, you really shouldn’t have come.”

“Why can’t I come?”

“You didn’t see it just now. The moment you came over to help me slice open zombie heads and search for crystal cores, those women’s faces immediately changed.

Their gazes, like they were looking at a pervert, all shifted from me to you.”

“Let them stare. It has nothing to do with me anyway.”

I smiled slightly, my eyes filled with doting affection as I looked at my sister. I didn’t care what impression I left on Wang Ming and those other women.

After all, my sister was the closest person to me now. Everyone else was merely a passerby on this journey.

Later, as I helped search for crystal cores, I noticed that all the wounds on the zombies’ heads were instant kills. A wave of profound relief washed over me.

An instant kill… This indicated that my sister’s attacks were ruthless and decisive. She could now hold her own.

In the future, even if I wasn’t by her side, I wouldn’t have to worry about her safety.

“This is truly pathetic. We killed over a dozen zombies, yet only found three crystal cores.”

“It’s good enough that we found any. Back then, I killed so many zombies and still only got a tiny amount.”

“I really wish we’d encounter another Corpse Ball! Brother could just burn it lightly, and we’d have tons of crystal cores!”

“Such things are rare encounters. Instead of thinking about that, why not consider what we’ll eat tonight?”

I reached out and lightly tapped my sister’s head, stopping her fantasy of encountering another Corpse Ball.

For me, dealing with a Corpse Ball was incredibly simple. But for anyone else, encountering one would undoubtedly be a death sentence.

My sister, having been tapped, pouted indignantly. She then covered her head with her hand and stuck her tongue out at me.

“I just went to the supermarket and found quite a lot of things inside. We can eat snacks and pastries… Tomorrow, before we leave, Brother, you must take all the items from the supermarket!”

“Yes, as my level has increased rapidly, my spatial storage has expanded… I now have a lot of empty space, enough to store many more things.”

I responded to my sister while sensing the size of my spatial dimension. When I saw that two-thirds of the storage area was still empty, I couldn’t help but purse my lips in slight exasperation.

Originally, before the zombie virus outbreak, I had filled my space to the brim with supplies. Yet now, so much empty space had appeared…

Ever since I leveled up due to the Mid-Grade Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasure, I had already checked the changes in my various abilities.

Besides activating the hidden ability of precognition and the ability enhancements brought by leveling up, my usable storage space had also mysteriously grown significantly.

This change, while surprising, also brought me joy.

After all, in these early stages of the apocalypse, there were still many unspoiled supplies I could gather. Later, in the mid to late stages of the apocalypse, such items would be impossible to find.

In the past few days, my sister and I had collected many items along the way while slaying zombies.

That was why my sister was now tirelessly reminding me to take everything from this supermarket as well.

When it came to collecting supplies, my sister was even more diligent than I was. It made me wonder if she had been a little hamster in her previous life, possessing a habit of hoarding things…

After my sister and I finished extracting the crystal cores from the zombie heads and tidied our clothes, we both walked into the supermarket.

Upon entering, Wang Ming and her group were already scattered throughout the supermarket, searching for what they needed. Most of them were opening bag after bag of packaged snacks.

However, when I saw them throw the half-eaten snack bags onto the floor, my brows furrowed in disapproval.

These women, having endured a period of hunger, now wanted to take a bite of everything they saw. I could understand that feeling, but they had opened so many bags of snacks that they wouldn’t be able to finish them all by tomorrow.

Such wasteful behavior was something I couldn’t bear to watch.

They had only been imprisoned by men for two or three days. If it were people struggling to survive in the harsh apocalypse, they would gratefully kneel and kowtow for even a mouthful of food.

Scarcity of resources made human survival a problem, rendering concerns about what to eat irrelevant.

All that mattered was staying alive.

Although watching these women’s wasteful actions made my heart ache for the food, I didn’t voice any objections.

Instead, I led my sister to the corner by the entrance counter. From my spatial storage, I retrieved two blankets, spreading one on the ground and keeping the other to cover ourselves.

Once the blanket was laid out, I urged my sister to sit down and rest.

It was getting late, and we had to get up early tomorrow to travel. Unlike me, my sister wasn’t accustomed to the rhythm of the apocalypse. After enduring the pressure of fighting zombies all day, a poor night’s sleep was absolutely unacceptable for her.

“Brother, you sit down too.”

“Mhm.”

Watching my sister pat the other side of the blanket, I smiled and nodded at her, then settled down directly onto the blanket.

After I sat down, my sister nestled her small head close to me, then leaned against my shoulder, her eyes somewhat vacant as she gazed at the night outside the glass doors opposite us.

“Brother, do you know? You’re so naggy now! Always like this and that every day… Be careful, you’ll age fast!”

“What? Do you dislike it?”

“Not really~ I just feel like everything now isn’t quite real, like I’m dreaming.”

As my sister spoke, a hint of sadness appeared on her face.

Seeing this, I reached out and wrapped my arm around her slender shoulders, pulling her body into my embrace.

Holding her fragile form at that moment, I also felt a sense of loneliness. It was as if everything was an inescapable nightmare, with only my sister and I relying on each other for survival.

“Brother, I hate this bloody world.”

“Mhm, I hate it too. But we have to survive in this world. Only by living can there be hope.”

“Don’t worry, I won’t die. Unless Brother dies first, then I’ll…”

“That’s enough talk, hurry and eat! Go to sleep after you finish eating, you’ll have more to endure tomorrow!”

Listening to the words coming from my sister’s mouth, I instinctively cut off the latter half of her sentence. I then retrieved a pre-stored sushi platter from my space and handed it to her.

When I interrupted her, she raised her eyebrows in slight displeasure. Nevertheless, she took the sushi platter and began eating the sushi with her chopsticks.

“Ah, Brother! You eat too.”

As I sat watching my sister eat, after she’d had a few pieces, the sushi held by her chopsticks suddenly extended towards me, reaching my mouth.

And my sister’s mischievously smiling face was drawing closer and closer to mine.

My sister was a woman, after all, and being this close made me feel a little flustered.

I awkwardly raised a hand to scratch my hair. Then, seeing my sister getting even closer, I didn’t care about anything else and simply opened my mouth to bite the sushi.

“Everyone inside, come out for your masters!”

Just as I swallowed the sushi, a group of people outside the supermarket suddenly shouted arrogantly, accompanied by vehicle horns and whistles. The supermarket’s glass doors shattered the next moment.