As Li Moxiao ate, she suddenly said, "I keep feeling like you've hidden all the good food away. Was that steak smell I caught yesterday from you?"
"It wasn't me, I didn't, don't make things up."
Shen Jin hurriedly waved his hands. If Li Moxiao found out that he had been eating steak in the private kitchen while making her eat plain rice...
The harmonious atmosphere he had worked so hard to build would instantly turn into an asura field.
"Oh."
Li Moxiao did not care much about it, concluding that her craving for food had caused an olfactory hallucination.
However, after the apocalypse, Li Moxiao had always been able to find food. It had been the same at the Gathering Place—no matter where people hid their food, she could find it.
She had a strange intuition that let her sense where food was.
And yesterday, she had escaped from the Gathering Place because she discovered that there was not much food left in the supermarket for her to find.
So, following her intuition, she had come to this villa.
After eating and drinking his fill, Shen Jin returned to the tunnel and decided to continue along yesterday's route.
After checking the map, Shen Jin confirmed this trip's destination:
Seahorse Security Supplies Store.
It was a comprehensive security supply store catering to both civilians and police.
There should be something there that interested him.
As a low-voltage engineer who loved tinkering with electricity and automation projects, Shen Jin had an above-average fondness for certain hardware and equipment.
Speaking of hardware, Shen Jin recalled the roomful of 3060Ti graphics cards he had owned the day before the apocalypse.
Back then, he had thought they were treasures that smelled of mining profits. Now, they were warehouse-clogging junk.
Why didn't Shen Jin use the 3060Tis to assemble a computer?
Damn it! He had bought himself a 3090 long ago. That was the computer currently managing all those surveillance monitors.
And it really was something—its computing power was incredible! It could process footage from dozens of cameras without even lagging.
As he walked through the tunnel, Shen Jin felt that he was expanding farther and farther outward, and his escape routes were taking longer and longer.
His laziness was about to act up.
"How about building some tracks?"
Soon, Shen Jin rejected the idea. It was not that he lacked iron—last time, he had hauled back an entire warehouse of finished iron blocks, so he could afford to splurge a little.
It was just that the abilities brought by the Minecraft system could not allow the things he built to violate common sense. It was not like the game, where he could lay down tracks, sit in a minecart, and ride back and forth.
There was no power!
If he could not solve the power source problem, Shen Jin would have to sit in the cart like an idiot and push himself back and forth with his hands.
There was not even a guide telling him how to solve the power issue for a rail cart.
Right!
"Why not find a foldable electric scooter outside and bring it over? I remember delivery drivers used to ride those things all over the streets."
Shen Jin's Blockify Ability had its limitations. His item storage could only hold objects measuring 1m by 1m, which made it impossible to move many large items.
Although Shen Jin could use Blockify Ability to smash large objects into blocks, then what?
He could not put them back together!
It took Shen Jin half an hour to reach yesterday's location. He glanced at the signboard marked "Wanyu Company Reception Desk."
Shen Jin picked an angle and began digging forward.
Obtained Dirt ×3 Obtained Stone ×5
At this moment, morning sunlight shone into the third floor of Wanyu Group.
Three months after the Zombies descended, factories had stopped operating, cars had stopped running, and humanity's pollution of the Earth had been put on pause.
The city's air had instantly become fresher.
The most obvious change was that there were more days when sunlight could be seen. The gray, hazy skies unique to winter in the city had completely disappeared this year.
It felt like a nearsighted person suddenly putting on glasses.
Everything looked brand-new!
The young man who had marveled yesterday at married woman Qi Tong's flirtatious words in broad daylight was named Zhao Mingkai, an utterly ordinary employee of this company.
He had joined the company at the same time as Shen Jin, but he was not as capable as Shen Jin and had gradually been left behind.
Moreover, because he was too blunt, his colleagues did not like him, making him a dispensable member of the company.
But unlike Shen Jin, he could keep drawing a decent salary here until the company shut down.
After becoming trapped in the third-floor dormitory area, he had developed a habit of getting up early every day to see who had come out of the other rooms.
Oh, he lived alone.
No one liked sharing a room with someone who could make things awkward within a few sentences.
Seeing different men and women emerge from the rooms than yesterday, Zhao Mingkai shook his head.
╮(﹀_﹀)╭
Why did no one invite me into their room for the night?
At that moment, the door to the room across from him opened, and Balding Director Wang and another manager walked out.
A young woman remained in the room, dressed seductively, her brows and eyes brimming with the glow of spring.
Zhao Mingkai knew her. Li Jie was a saleswoman for Wanyu Group, and supposedly, even before the apocalypse, she had been involved with several managers and directors.
Zhao Mingkai wrote down a few keywords in his notebook:
A threesome, twice in one night, thoroughly enjoying it.
When he looked up, he found Li Jie already standing before him, carrying a peculiar fragrance.
"Mingkai, what are you writing down? I see you peeking into my room every day. Do you have something in mind? Haha~"
Li Jie smiled and poked Zhao Mingkai's forehead with her finger.
As far as looks went, Zhao Mingkai was not bad either. If he were not so blunt, the young women in the company would probably be happy to befriend him.
Li Jie also thought this young man was rather handsome, and she had not sampled him yet.
That would be different from servicing those old men. She would enjoy herself more.
Zhao Mingkai took a deep breath, knowing that the opportunity he had been waiting for might finally have arrived.
"Why do all of you like smooth-talking men? Why does no one want an honest man like me?"
Li Jie giggled, and her two white rabbit hair clips trembled.
"Because you don't understand romance."
Zhao Mingkai's face filled with question marks. "How am I not romantic?"
Li Jie licked her lips, finding this honest boy rather cute.
"Come to my room tonight, and I'll tell you." Then, with a coquettish laugh, she turned to return to her room, leaving Zhao Mingkai with a seductive view of her back.
Zhao Mingkai grabbed her arm. "No, explain it to me first."
Li Jie's face filled with astonishment.
Rubbing the handprint on his left cheek, Zhao Mingkai continued sitting by the door and writing in his little notebook.
Sister Hong from the next room was also an attractive married woman. Judging by her figure, no one would have guessed that she was already the mother of two children.
It had to be said that real estate companies had rather strict requirements for their employees' appearance.
"Aiya, I wore my lips out yesterday just trying to get a bite to eat."
Zhao Mingkai asked, "What did you say to him?"
Sister Hong replied, "I didn't say anything at all!"
Zhao Mingkai: (°ー°〃)
Zhao Mingkai always felt completely out of place in this world.
Then he looked toward his fellow sufferer, the security guard uncle Lu Qiang. Only with Lu Qiang could he speak a few more words. The two of them both had extensive experience being disliked, so they got along well.
And most importantly, Lu Qiang did not mind that he did not understand romance.
"Huh? Why did Lu Qiang go into Director Shang's room?"
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