CH 3

“Little girl? Why would you call your brother today? Haha.”

When her cousin, Xu Xiangyang’s voice came from the other side of the phone, Chu Qianxun couldn’t control herself, making circles of her eyes red for a moment.

Is it possible that being reborn in her young body, her tear glands have regressed back to their original state?

Chu Qianxun remembered that she hadn’t really shed tears for many years.

Of course, when it is difficult to survive, being a female and performing a drama while crying, wouldn’t work.

“Brother Xiangyang, I have something to say with you.” Chu Qianxun quickly controlled her emotions.

“Ei, ei, tell me, I’m listening.” Xu Xiangyang on the other end seems to talk casually, but in fact he was nervous.

In the background, there was a sound of cooking in the kitchen, and a middle-aged man was talking: “Who’s calling? Is Xunxun calling? Wife, Xunxun is on the phone.”

Then, there was a sound of colliding on tables and chairs, and the other side of the phone became unusually quiet.

Chu Qianxun could imagine that at this moment, her aunt and uncle squeezing in front of her cousin Xu Xiangyang’s phone, and the family of three waiting for her to speak.

More than a year ago, Chu Qianxun’s parents were both killed in a car accident.

Chu Qianxun, who had just entered university at the time, could hardly accept this dreadful news.

She naively vented her grief to her aunt’s family who was the only people who treated her really good.

Her aunt’s family economic conditions were not particularly good.

Her uncle and cousin have their own small aluminum alloy shop in the community, and their income wasn’t much. The shop also accepts some renovation work to subsidize the family.

Her aunt is just an ordinary housewife.

After her parents passed away, they left Chu Qianxun a house and four to five million cash.

Some ill-intentioned relatives often talk to Chu Qianxun’s ears, and Chu Qianxun therefore feels that the aunt’s all kinds of care for her are all for the purpose of stealing the little property left by her parents.

Although after the parents left, even when her aunt and uncle were busy, they still helped her take care of her parents’ funeral affairs. They also ran errands for her to handle the handover of house property rights, her inheritance, and other cumbersome procedures.

But her thoughts about them didn’t change. Always using a cold face towards these relatives who truly loves her.

Her aunt’s family attributed her bad attitude to the fact that she had not yet come out of the grief from losing her parents. They not only didn’t mind, but on the contrary treated her more with pity and care.

When the end came, the students in the dormitory were busy contacting their parents and relatives.

As an orphan, Chu Qianxun only received two calls.

“Xunxun, you, are you in chaos? Don’t be afraid, don’t be afraid, aunt and uncle will pick you up.”

“Xunxun, don’t run around stay at your school, brother will drive to Huacheng* to find you.”

This was the last time she heard her aunt and cousin talking.

In the messy years that followed, Chu Qianxun returned to Lu Island after several twists and turns, but never found them again.

This is, so far, also the biggest regret in her heart.

“Hey, Xunxun why aren’t you talking? Where are you now?” her cousin’s voice came from the other end of the phone.

Chu Qianxun came back from her memory. She raised her head, looked at the window full of potted plants in her aunt’s house upstairs, and replied softly, “Of course I am in the dormitory, cousin.”

She wanted to walk upstairs, go and meet them.

But she can’t do this, she can’t explain why she suddenly ran back from school.

At the same time, she still has a lot of work to do, and there is no extra time to delay.

Chu Qianxun looked down at her watch. It is 8:30 in the morning on March 18th.

There are four days left before the end.

“It’s like this cousin. One of my classmates has a villa in Lu Island and wants to install some aluminum alloy anti-theft doors and windows. I told him, I can ask you, my cousin to help.” Chu Qianxun began to execute her plan.

“Oh, Xunxun, you recommended me? Okay, what is the address? I will go and see with dad.”

The house was actually sold yesterday, and then she rented this villa.

The owner of the villa is abroad, and the right is entrusted to an agency. Chu Qianxun readily paid one month’s rent, deposit and intermediary fees. She signed a three-year lease. The only requirement is to allow her to renovate and strengthens the doors and windows.

After the doomsday broke out, because Lu Island was a separate island with small population, relatively few demons appeared there. The demons that haven’t evolve yet from outside the island in the early days could not cross the sea.

There was a large group of troops stationed near Lu Island, and that troops reacted quickly in suppressing the monsters on the island with powerful firepower.

They blew up the bridge and controlled the situation in Lu Island. In the early period of doomsday, Lu Island became a paradise for survivors. But this also lead the destruction of Lu Island in the later period.

Chu Qianxun also returned to Lu Island in the early days of the doomsday. At that time, she and some survivors were arranged near a villa area.

She remembered that the security in this area was relatively good at the beginning of the doomsday, and the residents who had lived in it had not been driven out.

She intends to trick her cousin’s family into the villa’s community and stay where she rented.

At least at the moment when the doomsday broke out, she could let them stay in the reinforced room.

“Cousin, you should go there today. No. It’s better to go now.” Chu Qianxun didn’t give Xu Xiangyang time to think about it. “There is not much work. Just install aluminum alloy anti-theft on a few windows and reinforce them. Then install an anti-theft high-voltage wires on the gate and the fences of the yard. They paid 200,000 yuan and the only requirement is that the work should be fast and it’s finished in just four days.”

“Four days? Why is it so urgent? “

“Brother Xiangyang, in order for them to choose you, I swore in front of my classmates. You must go. I already collected all the deposit for you, and received one hundred thousand. I will send you a picture of the villa first to take a look.”

Xu Xiangyang still wants to talk but the phone over there has hung up.

Afterwards, his WeChat rang. It’s the photos Chu Qianxun sent.

It was a two-story single-family villa, surrounded by a high wall, and the entire villa added up to a dozen windows.

There was also an attached screenshot of Chu Qianxun’s SMS receiving a transfer of 100,000 yuan from someone, dated yesterday.

Xu Xiangyang showed his father Xu Maocai the photos on the phone, and the two discussed it.

Xu Maocai called Chu Qianxun: “Xunxun, I’m really happy that you care about your cousin and me. But earning money is less important, it’s your safety that I’m most worried about. It’s not that I don’t trust you, but the job requested by your classmate’s family is really strange.”

To this niece who is in rebellious period, Xu Maocai who’s the elder, still carefully considered his tone, “Look, this villa looks magnificent, but they wanted to install solid and sturdy anti-theft windows, which is not suitable on the decoration style of the villa. Moreover, the money they gave is a little high and the time is tight. Do their family have any problems?”

For this kind of question, Chu Qianxun thought about how to answer it earlier. She used her senior Fu Guoxu, who was wronged by her for 100,000 yuan yesterday, to the spot.

“Uncle, don’t worry. My classmate’s family is from a military background, and his grandfather is still the head of a certain military area. There is absolutely no problem with their family. Maybe the military leaders like this style of decoration?”

Xu Maocai felt relieved after listening. He has never been in contact with that kind of high-level leader. Maybe people really like this style.

With this order, even if he work more, he could earn 100,000 yuan, which is a lot of money.

What’s more, the deposit has already been received by his niece, and he doesn’t want to make the child unhappy.

“Alright, alright, uncle will go and have a look. I must make the windows of your classmate’s house sturdy.”

“My classmate and his parents are out of town. No one is taking care of the house, and there is nothing in it. Uncle, when you arrived at the community with cousin, show your ID card so you could get the key. My classmate has already mentioned your name.”

“Then we are going directly like this?”

Xu Maocai is a loyal and honest person, since he took the money. For such a big job, he also wants to start working earlier and make the job more beautiful.

“Yes. You and cousin should bring materials, cutting machines, and electric welding machines. It’s best to ask aunt to go there too because the place is remote and there is nothing to eat. The water and electricity in the villa are connected, you can let aunt to cook for you there. Oh right, the place is far away so you should also bring quilts and bed sheets, you can sleep there at night and don’t have to run back and forth.” Chu Qianxun looked at her watch again, “The only requirement is that you must hurry up. Before the 22nd, it must be completed.”

“Okay, then I will prepare some materials, and we will go in a while.”

Xu Maocai felt a little dazed. In his impression, this nephew was quite introverted. How did she suddenly become so precise and arranged everything without breathing?

“Uncle, remember, it must be as sturdy as possible.”

“Ei, Xun Xun, don’t worry, you won’t lose face in front of your classmates. What’s more, they paid so much money.”

“That’s right, uncle, after four days my classmate will settle the balance to me, should I transfer it to you? I’m busy with exams these days. I don’t want to line-up in the bank twice.”

Chu Qianxun didn’t really want to transfer money to her uncle’s family. At this time, the more money she has the better.

After four days, all the money will become waste paper. But now she still needs to collect money to buy for supplies by unscrupulous means.

Fortunately, her uncle trusted her very much.

Her aunt on the otherside quickly grabbed the phone: “Xunxun, your exam is important. Don’t go to the bank and waste time in queuing. It’s okay to transfer the money to your uncle anytime. We still have materials in your uncle’s store.”

Chu Qianxun pursed her mouth, she looked at the window of her aunt’s house for a moment, and ruthlessly hung up the phone.

Standing in the shadows at the corner of the community, she soon saw her uncle and cousin come downstairs and enter their shop, busy carrying long strips of aluminum alloy to the small pickup truck at home.

Chu Qianxun watched for a while, resisted the desire to step forward, and left the community.

Now, she’s still unable to protect her aunt’s family, and it doesn’t make any sense to stay here.

After being reborn, she brought back neither abilities nor any golden fingers.

The only advantage is the memory left in her mind.

Before the apocalypse, demon seeds descended from the sky, and the human being implanted with the demon seed may become a ‘demon’ or a ‘saint’.

To evolve into a saint with supernatural powers, Chu Qianxun didn’t have any shortcuts.

Only in the face-to-face battles with demons, can they obtain the demon seed and become the first group of humans to break through.

She knew that her aptitude was not very good, but ten years of doomsday life taught her that escaping can only make herself weaker.

Last time she fled hurriedly from Flower City to Lu Island, stumbling. Everything that would happen along the way is her opportunity now.

Chu Qianxun is in long-established noodle restaurant, eating a large bowl of Shacha** noodles.

She ate a slice of spicy and fragrant seafood noodles with an atmosphere of bitterness and enmity.

In four days, the taste of this bite will become a memory that’s hard to come by.

The grandmother in charge couldn’t help tapping the pot with an iron spoon and said: “Shui zha mou (beauty), sip slowly, you can add noodles if you don’t have enough food. I won’t charge you for adding noodles.”

Chu Qianxun lifted her face stuffed cheeks: “Ad..add another one.”

The plane back to Flower City is at 12 noon.

Chu Qianxun arrived at the airport early, she checked her watch, and there was still an hour left.

She entered the gym at the airport and started a set of fitness exercise.

‘The physique of this body is really too bad. I would start panting after running a few steps. If I do a few more set of stretching and squats, my hands and feet muscles start to be overwhelmed.’

‘But no matter how unbearable it is, it is better than dying on the way to escape.’

After Chu Qianxun was reborn, she would always do a set physical exercises when she has time.

She wants her body that lacks exercise, adapt as soon as possible, for her big escape four days later.

When the plane arrived in Flower City, Chu Qianxun who had just got off the plane, received a call from his cousin.

“Xunxun, we have arrived at the villa, and the property manager gave me the key. It is indeed a bit far from home. My dad called mom and ask her to come and help. We intend to do the same as you said, food and lodging are solved here. I already looked at the scope of the project and we should be able to do it in time.”

“Okay, just live there in peace. After you finish your work, you can take photos to show me. If my classmate has no comments, you can continue. Oh right, there might be a lot of express delivery to the villa these days. Cousin, you can help receiving it and put it in the basement after.”

hu Qianxun, who was sitting in the taxi, explained one another and kept purchasing on her mobile phone.

Rice, instant noodles, biscuits, generators…

She didn’t even read the details that much. If the quantity is within her scope, she desperately purchased all the necessities of life, and the address of the villa was filled.

Walking on the road again, if she can successfully become a saint on the road, she’ll return to Lu Island.

Then she can arrange her future life with her aunt’s family, avoid those dangerous people and things, and live a better life.

If she dies on the road, these supplies can also support her aunt’s family hiding in the villa for a period of time. It can be regarded as a way for her to return favors.

Chu Qianxun glanced at her watch.

3:00 pm on the 18th.

She walked into a private loan center.

Everything is still in her plan.

There are still four days left before the end.

Translator’s Note:

Huacheng* – Hua (Flower) cheng (City). I just thought the name doesn’t fit so I didn’t change it. hahaha

Shacha** noodles – fresh, spicy, salty, and lil’ bit sweet. Ingredients can be shrimp, fish balls, squid, large intestine, chicken gizzards, duck hearts, pork liver, fried tofu, or lean pork.