Reborn One Week Before the Apocalypse

Chapter 320: Chapter 310: Lin Yu and Xiao Tao

It wasn’t that there weren’t people trying to cheat the system; Tang Mo just hadn’t seen them.

Right at the beginning, the guards had caught someone breaking the rules. The man was dressed respectably but had tried to get in by just tossing down two Crystal Coins. After the guards discovered the Space Ring on his hand, he started weeping profusely, but by then it was too late.

His wife and daughter were denied entry along with him. Only then did the man realize the gravity of the situation, but his desperate crying with his family outside the Protective Shield was pointless.

Seeing the man outside, a sobbing mess, served as a stark warning to everyone. With such a cautionary tale before them, no one dared to try and fool the guards again. Besides, everyone was frozen to the point of numbness. They no longer cared about worldly possessions; they just wanted to get warm as quickly as possible.

At first, Tang Mo hadn’t actually intended to take a full one-third. She just wanted to symbolically charge an admission fee and was prepared to turn a blind eye to those who tried to skimp a little.

But by a strange twist of fate, she, who had only wanted to do a good deed, ended up making an absolute fortune.

Tang Mo looked at the five full Space Rings in her hand, not knowing whether to laugh or cry.

’Am I some kind of unscrupulous merchant, profiteering from a national disaster? That wasn’t my intention at all! This is so unfair.’

Tang Mo’s team currently consisted of only Xiao Tao and Lin Yu. Their villa was right next to Qin Ling’s team’s.

Tang Mo knew Xiao Tao and Lin Yu too well to be worried about them.

The line outside Tang Mo’s protective shield grew longer and more winding, and Tang Mo felt increasingly helpless.

’My protective shield is getting bigger and bigger. It’s not going to end up covering the entire S Base, is it...’

Although expanding the protective shield to cover the entire S Base wouldn’t be a particularly difficult task for the current Tang Mo.

But that would be far too conspicuous and would go completely against her original intentions. Tang Mo had no desire to do something like that.

Besides, it wouldn’t necessarily be a good thing for humanity. It would let everyone retreat into a comfort zone, return to their old way of life, and lower their guard against the current Hell Era.

Tang Mo wasn’t their mother or father; she couldn’t stand guard here like a rock for the rest of her life.

A little help earns you gratitude, but too much breeds resentment.

If the day came when Tang Mo no longer wanted to maintain this Protective Shield, wouldn’t she become a villain in everyone’s eyes?

Tang Mo had a clear understanding of human nature. So, after the shielded area could accommodate a few hundred people—divided into three zones by the natural fissures in the ground—she stopped expanding it and just maintained its current size.

Just then, Lin Yu and Xiao Tao, carrying Xianxian, also spotted the eye-catching golden shield of spiritual power. When they saw the people collecting ”tickets” at the front of the line, looks of understanding dawned on their faces.

Those were their boss’s parents. It was self-evident who was behind all this.

’Yep, this is just like their boss.’

Qin Ling and his team had originally set out with Lin Yu and Xiao Tao, but they split into two groups after leaving.

Qin Ling took his people back to the Qin Family estate to handle some matters, while Lin Yu and Xiao Tao made a beeline for the Wen Family’s home.

They knew the ID Watches had lost their signal, so Tang Mo probably couldn’t contact her family. Her mother and brother were still here, so she would surely rush back as soon as possible. They needed to rendezvous with Tang Mo here.

Also, until Tang Mo returned, they had to help their boss protect her family.

Tang Mo had saved the lives of Lin Yu, his sister, and Xiao Tao. From the bottom of their hearts, they already considered themselves Tang Mo’s people and saw her as their boss.

Moreover, Xiao Tao had lived with the Wen Family for a while, during which Lin Yi had treated her as warmly as a goddaughter.

Neither Lin Yi’s nor Wen Jianshu’s attribute values were high. With the world in such chaos, there was no telling what might have happened even to the Wen Family, so they naturally had to rush back immediately.

What they hadn’t expected, however, was that Wen Jianshu and Lin Yi, who had lived a life of pampered luxury in the early days of the apocalypse, could adapt their mindsets so quickly to the sudden change. That wasn’t something an ordinary person could do.

In reality, Lin Yi had come from a background of hardship. Even after marrying into the Wen Family, giving birth to a son, and her daughter becoming number one on the Huaxia Rankings, she never forgot her roots.

At her core, Lin Yi was still that same tough, hardworking woman who could raise a daughter all by herself.

As for Wen Jianshu, he had never been one to care about others’ opinions. If he were, he wouldn’t have resisted his family’s pressure to marry for so many years.

Money, power, status—all of it seemed so insignificant in the face of the apocalypse, in the face of Life itself.

Before the apocalypse, their family’s businesses were spread across the country and even internationally. When the apocalypse first descended, they received some advance warning, allowing them to stockpile supplies and preserve some of their strength. As the new social order was established in the early days, they once again gained a measure of power.

But the moment the Hell Era arrived—when countless man-eating fissures split the earth, when the world’s last vestiges of civilization were wiped out in an instant, when the air turned bone-chillingly cold and snow began to fall from the sky...

...with his broad perspective, Wen Jianshu immediately understood that the world’s deck had been completely reshuffled.

Although Wen Jianshu’s attribute value was poor, his ring was well-stocked with all kinds of supplies and life-saving items.

So, he was mentally prepared for the sudden arrival of the Hell Era and naturally wasn’t caught in a panic.

He just never imagined that the Hell Era would bring not only earthquakes but also a plummeting temperature. It was as if it wanted to give people no chance of survival, driving everyone to their deaths.

Lin Yu and Xiao Tao hadn’t wanted to cut in line, but Lin Yu was holding Xianxian, who was so frozen she couldn’t even speak. At this point, they didn’t care about the rules and pushed directly through the crowd and into the Protective Shield.

’It doesn’t matter if the boss chews us out. The most important thing is to get Xianxian warm.’

”Who the hell are you? You got a death wish? Cutting in line! Don’t you know whose territory this is? You’ve never heard of Tang Mo?”

Everyone waiting in line had been freezing for a long time, all of them patiently waiting their turn. Seeing someone cut in now naturally made them furious.

Tang Mo, holding Yangyang, had been standing beside Lin Yi the whole time. Hearing the commotion, she looked up.

Seeing that Lin Yu and Xiao Tao were the ones causing the disturbance, she hurried over.

”Get in here, quick.”

Contrary to what Lin Yu had expected, his boss didn’t scold them for breaking the rules and failing to set a good example. Instead, she urged them to hurry inside.

Tang Mo saw Xianxian’s little face, which had turned purple from the cold. She thrust Yangyang into Xiao Tao’s arms, took Xianxian, and began to gently warm the little girl with her spiritual power.

’She’s just a little girl. If she gets frostbite, it could lead to serious problems later.’

Yangyang had been comfortable in his sister’s arms, but he was suddenly shoved into a cold embrace. His lip had just started to quiver for a cry when he saw Sister Xiao Tao’s face.

During her stay with the Wen Family, Xiao Tao had played with the little guy every day, and they were very close.

Yangyang looked over at his sister and saw her holding a nearly frozen little girl. He seemed to understand the situation. He held back the tears he was about to shed, found a comfortable spot in Sister Xiao Tao’s arms, and drifted back to sleep.

’A little cold is a little cold,’ he thought. ’At least Sister Xiao Tao’s embrace is much softer.’

If Tang Mo knew that her two-year-old brother was already critiquing her figure, who knows what she would think.