Apocalypse Arrival - Chapter 4

“Girl? Why did you remember your brother today? Haha.”

When her cousin Xu Xiangyang’s voice came from the other end of the phone, Chu Qianxun could not control herself and her eyes turned red for a moment.

Was it possible that after getting reborn and returning to a young body, even her tear glands degenerated back to their original state?

Chu Qianxun remembered that she hadn’t really shed tears for many years.

Of course not counting the times when she used her female identity to shed crocodile tears when it was difficult to survive.

“Brother Xiangyang, I have something to tell you,” Chu Qianxun quickly controlled her emotions.

“Eh, eh, you say it. I am listening,” Xu Xiangyang’s nervous voice came from the other end of the phone.

In the background, there was the noise of cooking in the kitchen, and a middle-aged man asked, “Whose is it? What is she saying? Wife, let’s listen to the call.”

Afterward, there was a sound of colliding tables and chairs, and the end of the phone became extremely quiet.

Chu Qianxun could imagine that at this moment, her aunt and uncle quickly squeezed in front of her cousin Xu Xiangyang’s phone, and the family of three waited to listen to her words.

More than a year ago, Chu Qianxun’s parents were both killed in a car accident.

Chu Qianxun, who had just entered college at the time could hardly accept that bad news.

She very ignorantly vented that kind of grief to her aunt’s family who really treated her well.

Her aunt’s family’s economic conditions weren’t particularly good.

Her uncle and cousin guarded a small aluminum alloy shop in the community, and their income was dismal. Sometimes, they received some remodeling jobs to help the family.

Her aunt was just an ordinary housewife.

After Chu Qianxun’s parents died, they left a house and four to five million in cash.

Some ill-intentioned relatives often talked in Chu Qianxun’s ears, and therefore she felt that her aunt’s care for her was all for stealing the little property left by her parents.

After her parents died, her aunt and uncle were busy and took care of her parents’ funeral affairs, and they simply ran errands for her to handle the inheritance of house property rights, the handover of inheritance and other cumbersome procedures.

But her brain still failed to understand for a while. She used a cold face toward these relatives who really loved her.

Her aunt’s family attributed her yin and yang (extreme) attitude to the fact that she had not yet come out of the grief of losing her parents. Not only did they not mind, but they felt more pity and cared for her.

At the moment when the end came, the students in the dormitory were busy contacting their parents and relatives.

As an orphan, Chu Qianxun received only two calls.

“Xunxun, is there chaos there? Don’t be afraid, don’t be afraid, aunt and uncle will pick you up.”

“Xunxun, don’t run around while you are at school. I will drive to Huacheng to find you.”

That was the last time she heard from her aunt and cousin.

In the messy years that followed, Chu Qianxun returned to Ludao island after several twists and turns, but never found the aunt’s family again.

That was also the biggest regret in her heart so far.

“Hey, why don’t you talk, Xunxun? Where are you now?” The cousin’s voice came from the other end of the phone.

Chu Qianxun snapped out of her memory. She raised her head, looked at the window full of potted plants in the aunt’s house upstairs, and replied softly, “Of course I am in the dormitory, cousin.”

She wanted to go upstairs and see her cousin’s family.

But she couldn’t do that. She couldn’t explain why she suddenly ran back from college.

At the same time she still had too much to do, and there was no extra time to delay.

Chu Qianxun looked down at her watch. It was 8:30 in the morning on March 18th.

There were four days left before the end.

“One of my classmates has a villa in Ludao and wants to install some aluminum alloy anti-theft doors and windows. I told him I’ll ask you to help,” Chu Qianxun began to execute the plan.

“Oh, Xunxun, you still pick up a job for your older brother? Okay, where was the address? I will go and see it with my dad.”

After selling the house the previous day, Chu Qianxun rented another place.

The owner of the villa was abroad, and the right was entrusted to an agent. Chu Qianxun readily paid one month’s rent, deposit and intermediary fees. She signed a three-year lease. The only requirement was that she could renovate and strengthen the doors and windows.

After the doomsday broke out, because Ludao was a lonely island with a small population, relatively few demons appeared on the island. The demons that did not evolve outside the island in the early days couldn’t cross the sea.

There was a large group of troops stationed near Ludao island. The troops reacted quickly and suppressed the demons on the island with powerful ammunition.

They blew up the bridge and controlled the situation in Ludao. The early Ludao became a paradise for survivors. But this also led to the destruction of Ludao island in the later period.

Chu Qianxun also returned to Ludao island in the early days after the outbreak. At that time, she and some survivors were arranged near a villa area.

She remembered that the security in that area had been relatively good in the early days of the end, and the residents who had lived there had not been driven out.

She intended to trick her cousin’s family into the villa area and stay in the villa she rented.

At least at the moment when the doomsday broke out, she could let them stay there.

“Cousin, you go there today. No, it’s better to go now.” Chu Qianxun didn’t give Xu Xiangyang time to think about it, “It is not a lot of work. Just install aluminum alloy anti-theft windows on a few windows and reinforce them. Install a ring of anti-theft high-voltage lines at the gate, and the yard wall. It is enough. They will pay 200,000 yuan. Their only condition is for the work to be fast. It must be done in four days.”

“Four days? Why so urgent?”

“Brother Xiangyang, I patted my chest in front of my classmates and boasted. You must go, I have collected all the money for you. I got one hundred thousand. I will first send you a picture of the villa.”

Xu Xiangyang still wanted to talk, but the phone was hung up.

Then, he got WeChat notification. Chu Qianxun sent a few photos.

It was a two-story single-family villa surrounded by a high wall. The entire villa had up to a dozen windows.

Finally, there was also a screenshot of Chu Qianxun’s SMS receiving a transfer of 100,000 yuan from someone, dated the previous day.

Xu Xiangyang showed his father, Xu Mao, the photos on the phone, and the two discussed it.