Back to three months before the apocalypse

Gold Coast, Australia.

Bai Yaoyao abruptly sat up in her lounge chair, staring blankly at the long-legged blonde beauties in bikinis and the muscular men showing off their physiques on the beach. It took her a long time to grasp what had happened. Had she been reborn?

The battle against the Spatial Emperor-Class Zombie kept replaying in her mind. All ten members of her squad had died at its hands.

Only because Fat Brother and the others had held it back with their lives had she gotten a chance to strike with everything she had. Watching the zombie slice away Fat Brother's more than two hundred pounds of flesh piece by piece, Bai Yaoyao had unleashed all her strength, staking her life on taking the Spatial Zombies down with her.

Before she died, the Emperor-Rank Spatial Zombie's crystal core had fallen right in front of her. She had used every last ounce of strength, but her fingertips had barely touched it before she croaked.

She picked up the phone on the lounge chair and checked it. She had actually been reborn three months before the apocalypse!

In her previous life, Bai Yaoyao had not only survived ten years in the apocalypse, but had also founded the Dark Night Squad with a few brothers she could trust to watch her back. Together, they had killed countless zombies and mutant beasts.

Almost everyone had expected the apocalypse to come, but no one had imagined it would arrive so quickly.

It had started with a virus from overseas. Huaguo had worked hard to contain it for ten years, but in the end, it had still spread.

Without any warning whatsoever, rain had fallen across the entire world at once. No rainbow had appeared afterward. Instead, roughly sixty percent of humanity had turned into zombies, losing all awareness and becoming unable to control their urge to attack humans.

With mutant animals continually appearing as well, humanity's struggle to survive had grown increasingly perilous. Still, capable people had emerged among them. Before Bai Yaoyao died, humanity had already produced level-nine ability users.

Bai Yaoyao had been one of them, and the ability she had awakened was spatial. At first, it could only store supplies and was practically useless. Relying on her exceptional fighting skills, she had taken zombies head-on and finally raised her ability to level three.

Only then had she discovered that her spatial ability could do more than store things. It also allowed her to use skills such as Spatial Blade, Spatial Cut, throwing, and Teleportation.

Paired with Bai Yaoyao's fighting skills, it had been a perfect match, propelling her straight to sixth place among Huaguo's ten strongest fighters.

But she still had been no match for an Emperor-Class Zombie.

The Huaguo Capital Base had issued an announcement: if they could obtain ten crystal cores from different types of Emperor-Class Zombies, they could develop a zombie vaccine and end the apocalypse for good.

But as humans grew stronger, so did the zombies. They even developed intelligence. After three years, it had become difficult to find a lone zombie.

Without teamwork, it was hard for a single person to defeat a group of zombies. The zombies had also learned to launch deliberate, planned attacks on human bases.

Obtaining crystal cores from ten different types of Emperor-Class Zombies had been far too difficult. As for the most powerful one, the Time Zombie, killing it was out of the question-everyone who had seen it had died. Even its existence had only been inferred from corpses that had aged.

Bai Yaoyao silently closed her eyes and clenched her fists. As she thought of the brothers she had lost one after another in her previous life, excitement gradually welled up inside her. They were all still alive!

This was the true meaning of her rebirth. This time, I'll lead you all through the apocalypse!

Bai Yaoyao glanced at the calm sea, then quickly returned to her seaside villa. After so many years as an assassin, she had amassed a "modest" fortune. Accustomed to a life of fighting and killing, she occasionally gave herself a vacation and enjoyed a few quiet days.

Bai Yaoyao felt she had so much to do. First, she needed to settle her mind, recall the important dates and events from those ten years of the apocalypse, and write them down.

Out of habit, she took a pen and paper from her space. She had only written one word when she realized something. Holy shit, the apocalypse hasn't even started. How do I already have my ability?

She hurriedly examined it and discovered that her spatial ability was not only still there, but had even leveled up!

When she first awakened her spatial ability in her previous life, the space had only been the size of a twenty-square-meter bedroom. Only after reaching level nine had it grown to the size of a soccer field.

Now...

She could not find its boundaries at all!

It seemed to be as large as she needed it to be.

Strangely, a house had appeared inside the space. Bai Yaoyao wanted to know what was inside, but the moment the thought crossed her mind, a wave of dizziness swept over her, and she appeared inside the house.

Bai Yaoyao was stunned. Her spatial ability had undergone an incredible mutation-even people could enter it! In her previous life, her space had been completely unable to hold living things. If she could enter it herself, did that mean other living creatures could enter too?

Unfortunately, she had no small animals handy to test it on.

Bai Yaoyao looked around the house. The main room contained nothing but a bed. There were two other rooms beside it, a kitchen and a bathroom, both furnished with only the bare necessities.

The greatest surprise lay outside the house: soil! She could grow crops! No matter how many supplies she stockpiled, they would eventually run out. A renewable source was the only way to secure her livelihood.

Bai Yaoyao suddenly thought of the Emperor-Rank Spatial Zombie's crystal core and guessed that it was what had caused her spatial ability to mutate.

But why had she been reborn?

Unable to figure it out, she simply stopped thinking about it. There was far too much she needed to do, and she could not afford to waste even a moment!

She took out her phone and called Fat Brother.

"Yaoyao, what's up?"

The instant Bai Yaoyao heard Fat Brother's voice, tears streamed down her face. Before he died, Fat Brother had still been shouting for her to run.

But she had chosen to risk everything.

"Fat Brother, where are you?"

"I'm eating lobster. The lobster here is so good!" Fat Brother's guileless voice came through the phone.

"Come over. I'll send you my location."

"Sure thing! I'll bring you some lobster to try. It's really good!" With that, he hung up, packed a large portion of lobster to go, and hurriedly drove to Bai Yaoyao's place.

Fat Brother's real name was Chen Xiaopang, and he was a year older than Bai Yaoyao. Their master had taken them both in on the same day, taught them their skills, and given them a way to earn a living.

Their organization had gradually grown, but their old master had not held on long enough to see it through. Before passing away, he had entrusted the organization to Bai Yaoyao.

By now, they had earned enough money to live on, and she wanted everyone to leave the business behind for good. Bai Yaoyao wanted nothing else-only for them all to be safe, find husbands or wives, and live ordinary lives.

After all, their childhoods had been far too bitter...

Bai Yaoyao's personality stood in stark contrast to her appearance. She had fair skin, big, fluttering eyes like a Barbie doll's, a small, delicate nose, and a sweet smile with two little dimples.

Her harmless appearance had helped her complete countless S-rank missions. Many of her targets had refused to believe, even as they died, that the pretty, silver-tongued young woman before them ranked first among assassins.