Reborn One Week Before the Apocalypse

Chapter 92: Chapter 84: The Base Ball

”What’s that smell...”

As he held her, Qin Ling suddenly caught a fragrant scent.

”I’m eating soup dumplings.” Tang Mo pointed to the half-eaten basket of soup dumplings on the table.

”Get me a basket.”

Tang Mo was speechless. She silently took out two more baskets of dumplings from her Space, along with a serving of Qin Ling’s favorite shrimp congee.

”Go on, eat. I can’t tell if you came here to worry about me or to freeload.”

The two of them sat down together and began to wolf down their breakfast.

After they finished breakfast, Tang Mo tried to push Qin Ling out the door.

But nothing she said worked. Qin Ling rarely got a chance to see Tang Mo, so there was no way he would leave so easily.

Clinging to Tang Mo’s arm like a shameless mutt, Qin Ling even plopped himself down on her bed.

”I should really take a picture of you right now and show it to all your fangirls...”

Tang Mo just kept rolling her eyes. She was truly at a loss for words with Qin Ling.

KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK

Suddenly, there was a knock at the door.

”Momo, are you in there? Uncle is here to see you.”

Before they knew it, it was noon. Wen Jianshu still felt uneasy. Even though Tang Mo had told him she was safe, he wanted to see her with his own eyes to be truly relieved.

”Coming! Uncle, just a moment!”

Hearing the knock, the hair on Tang Mo’s entire body stood on end.

She glanced back at Qin Ling, who was lying sprawled on the bed without a care in the world, and her anger flared up. She grabbed his clothes and dragged him to the window.

”Jump!” Tang Mo ordered.

Qin Ling looked back at her with pleading eyes.

”Or... I could just say hello to Uncle when you open the door?”

He and Wen Jianshu were of equal rank, and he might even hold more power. He always addressed Wen Jianshu by his full name.

But for Tang Mo’s sake, he was already trying to get used to the address ”Uncle Wen.”

”Three, two...”

Unmoved, Tang Mo started her deadly countdown.

Qin Ling heaved a long sigh, his mournful gaze accusing Tang Mo of being heartless. He put on his mask, leaped off the balcony, and disappeared in just a few steps.

”Uncle Wen, why are you back? Aren’t you eating out for lunch?”

As she straightened the bed and opened the door, Tang Mo was suddenly struck by the strange feeling of being a teenager caught by her parents.

”I was still worried about you, so I came to see how you were doing.”

Wen Jianshu already saw Tang Mo as his own family. Seeing her standing there safe and sound, he was finally able to relax.

”You didn’t raise your attribute value with Crystal Cores?”

If she had forcibly raised her attribute value with Crystal Cores, Tang Mo shouldn’t even be able to stand right now.

”I found a Space Treasure in the jungle yesterday. It contained a huge amount of attribute values. After I consumed it, my Space expanded quite a bit.”

This was the answer Tang Mo had already prepared.

A moment ago, after seeing she was okay, Qin Ling had been too busy eating to ask her about it.

’Perhaps they didn’t need to ask such questions. As long as they could see with their own eyes that the other was okay, that was enough.’

”So it was a Space Treasure. No wonder your body didn’t suffer any backlash. What a relief.”

The spatial attribute is different from all other attributes. Because it increases the area of the Space and not the body’s functions, it doesn’t have a backlash effect on the body.

Tang Mo hadn’t just pulled this answer out of thin air. After yesterday’s battle and absorbing so many Crystal Cores, her Space had indeed expanded by several dozen square meters.

Besides, Space Treasures were rare to begin with. Even if an increase of over 500 attribute points was a bit of an exaggeration, no one could get to the bottom of something that had already been consumed.

Of course, there was another important reason she could fabricate such a story: the way the Alliance had designed the ID Watch’s functions.

To protect the survivors’ privacy, the ID Watch only uploaded the total attribute value to the Alliance center. The specific values for each attribute were private information that only the individual could see.

This undoubtedly provided Tang Mo with a huge protective cover.

Tang Mo nodded, feigning the look of a well-behaved and sensible child.

”But Uncle Wen, my rank has risen so quickly, I’m a little worried it will cause a lot of trouble. Um, do you think it would be possible to announce in the news that I’m a Space Ability User and that my rank increased because I consumed a Space Treasure?”

This was another one of Tang Mo’s concerns. Her biggest worry was that being high on the ranking list would make everyone wary of her.

That really wouldn’t be conducive to her getting around.

’Her life’s motto was to keep a low profile—to play the pig to eat the tiger.’

”Your concerns aren’t unfounded. As it happens, those people are also curious about your situation. Leave this to me, don’t you worry!”

If her rank had risen so quickly because she consumed a rare Space Treasure, then most people would just be envious of her luck, with far less covetousness and vigilance.

After all, while a Space Ability User was an indispensable part of any team, their combat power was very weak. People generally placed Space Ability Users in a protected position.

Soon, the headline ”Incredible Luck! Space Ability User Jumps from 100th to 15th Place After Acquiring Rare Space Treasure” hit the front page of the Alliance Daily.

All of Huaxia now knew that the person named Tang Mo was a Space Ability User.

At the Qin Family estate, Qin Ling leaned back in his office chair, reading the news. The originally iceberg-like expression on his face slowly melted away.

”How cute.”

’A Space Ability User?’

’A Space Treasure worth 500 attribute points?’

’Only Tang Mo could come up with something like that.’

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On the first Sunday of spring, the Alliance high command decided to host a grand ball at S Base.

S Base was now home to nearly all the wealth and power in Huaxia. More than half of the superpower users on the ranking list had settled in S Base.

The ball was being held to breathe some life back into the gloomy apocalypse with the arrival of spring, and also to facilitate networking.

Many families that lacked strength but were involved in the Crystal Core trade also hoped to use this opportunity to recruit powerful superpower users.

Of course, many also saw it as a venue for arranging marriages.

S Base was safe enough—so safe that people had the spare energy to develop their own factions, setting down roots and growing.

The qualifications for attending this ball were very strict. Apart from all individuals on the ranking list, who could enter simply by providing their name and identity...

...all other attendees had to come via family-allocated slots. The number of slots allocated was determined by a property assessment; wealthier families naturally received more.

”Mom, I really don’t want to go.”

Tang Mo held Lin Yi’s hand, making a last-ditch effort to get out of it.

”No, you have to. I’m about to give birth, so I can’t go. You go with your Uncle Wen. Besides, you’re at the age to get married, and also...”

”I’ll go! I’ll go!”

Sensing that Lin Yi’s topic was about to veer off in another direction, Tang Mo immediately threw up her hands in surrender.

’Anyway, Mom is due this month. As soon as I see the baby, I’m leaving S Base to start a new journey. For these last few days, I might as well indulge her one last time.’