Apocalyptic Disasters: Carrying a bun and hoarding supplies

"How can you let them take me? Su Hu, I don't want to go!"

Xiang Mei was barely twenty-one; she was older than Bai Meiyue, but nonetheless, she was a young girl who had lucked out by bagging a contract in the company of one of her relatives who had looked out for her. Thus, she was still naive about many things. Even though she had experienced the end of the world, she had never been alone.

Someone had always been with her, but at that moment, she knew that she had been abandoned. Especially when she looked at the burly soldiers who were advancing on her, the large iron gates and the mansion that was hidden in between the thick lustre of the mutated forest.

Everything seemed so scary that her legs started to shake violently.

"Su Hu! I am scared… you… You promised me that you would not leave me alone. You promised me!"

She shook her head and sobbed hard as she watched Su Hu step away. She wished Su Hu would take her out of this place or at least show some courage and fight against these soldiers. Tears started to trickle down her face, and she felt really imbalanced and heartbroken when she saw the man standing there like a statue.

In her heart, she knew that if Su Hu left today, then her life would become worse than hell.

Su Hu, however, continued to step backwards. He could see that Xiang Mei was trembling from head to toe, and her entire body was shrivelled up as if she had lost weight in a matter of a few minutes. The entire situation was out of control. He really didn't expect these people to be such liars.

They came at them with such force that he had no choice but to retreat. Su Hu cursed himself for the miscalculation that he had made and turned around to run faster than a rabbit.

"Su Hu! Su Hu!" When Xiang Mei saw Su Hu run, she immediately chased after him. However, she only took a few steps when the soldiers behind her shot out and caught her. They put away their guns and stepped forward before catching Xiang Mei and dragging her back inside the mansion.

While the soldiers were laughing and leering, Xiang Mei shouted frantically, " Don't touch me! Where do you think you are taking me? I said let go of me right now. Help! Help me!" however, no matter how much she screamed no one cared about Xiang Mei as they all saw her being dragged by the soldiers. When Xiang Mei saw that no one was stepping forward to help her, her heart felt even more stifled.

Why was no one helping her out? Could they not see her crying for help? And Su Hu… he promised her the world; it was because of him that she came here. How could he leave her alone like this? What would happen to her now? What if these soldiers bullied her because she was a woman?

"SU HU!"

Naturally, Xiang Mei thought too much. Even though the soldiers found her tempting, they would never touch an ability user. Firstly, they were too rare and precious for the base, and their balls would be snapped off and scooped from the ground before being shoved down their throats if they touched an ability user.

Secondly, Xiang Mei was a wood-type ability user. At present, they were too hungry for real food to worry about solving their bodily needs. Thus, Xiang Mei was taken to the granary where she was asked to create fifty seedlings of rice patches to grow. When Xiang Mei looked at the rice paddies, her heart trembled.

Because she knew that by the time she would be done growing these rice paddies, she would go crazy!

On the other side, Bai Meiyue had no idea what happened to Xiang Mei, and even if she did, she would simply shrug and say that this was what Xiang Mei deserved for trusting the wrong person.

By the time morning rolled on, Bai Meiyue raised her arms and pulled them over her head. After an entire night of cultivation, she was finally able to unlock her skill. Namely: Hollow Cyro Shell.

This skill of hers allowed her to leave an ice clone behind, which exploded like a bomb, while she could escape by creating an icy mist. Though it would leave her weak and vulnerable to attacks, it would come in handy in many situations.

Bai Meiyue touched her swollen belly and walked out of the room. When she heard the intensive screaming, she frowned. The child wasn't born till now? She sighed and decided to take a look. She washed up in the bathing room, changed into a loose maternity dress and went downstairs.

Just as she reached the third floor, she heard one last cry of pain and following it was the sound of the baby crying.

When Bai Meiyue heard the sound of the baby, she heaved a sigh of relief. And she was not the only one, the rest of the people who were waiting for the child to be born also heaved a sigh of relief.

Yang Wei knelt down on the floor and thanked the heavens as well as the doctors three times by knocking his head against the floor.

Mo He and the rest of the team had smiles plastered on their lips as if they had never seen something like this before.

After a while, Mother Bai, who had been helping in the labour room, stepped forward. She was holding a small bundle of clean clothes in which lay a small, wrinkly baby who had been cleaned up before being carried out. When Yang Wei saw this, he rushed to Mother Bai and then took the baby in his arms from Mother Bai.

He took one look at the baby and burst into tears. "He looks just like his mother."