CHAPTER 115: CHAPTER 115: I’M NOT THE HOLY MOTHER IN THE APOCALYPSE 21

Mi Lu couldn’t help but roll her eyes when she saw Li Wenbo holding the bathtub. "Brother, do you dare to eat pig blood from the bathtub!"

"It’s fine!" Li Wenbo said in a hearty tone that completely mismatched his own temperament, "This bathtub was bought and never used. We always use the shower. At the time, we took it for convenience to bathe outside, and now it’s just right to use it as a bowl!"

The few people who had just been chased to death by the mutant pig were dumbfounded, watching as the mutant pig—almost taking their lives—was so easily killed. Then, several people came out, bustling to bleed and dismember it, each as excited as if slaughtering a New Year’s pig!

Li Wenxuan, Li Wenbo, and Mi Lu were busy handling this mutant fat pig, Doumi jumped around making things more difficult, Red Jade sat to the side crunching on bugs, and only Lin Shuangshuang had nothing to do after killing the mutant pig.

With nothing to do, Lin Shuangshuang turned her gaze to these people who were nearly running out of breath from being chased by the mutant pig. There were about a dozen people, including nearly ten tall young men! Although their faces were full of fatigue, they stood upright.

These men vaguely took on a protective stance, surrounding three people who were slumped on the ground.

Among these three, one was an old man with white hair yet elegant demeanor, another was a scholarly-looking man in his thirties wearing gold-rimmed glasses, and the last was a girl no older than fifteen with a bun hairstyle, an oval face, sweet and lively looks.

Lin Shuangshuang didn’t know the identity of the three people slumped on the ground, but she knew they must be people with backgrounds.

Because these ten or so young men surrounding them in a protective stance, although wearing ordinary clothes, had a distinctly obvious aura—clearly trained soldiers, and elite ones at that.

Lin Shuangshuang had a natural fondness for soldiers! When the apocalypse began, humans were initially scattered, and it was these soldiers who first established safe bases. They fought on the front lines against mutant creatures, opening up paths for these ordinary people with their lives!

When superpower users wreaked havoc, slaughtering ordinary people, it was still these soldiers with superpowers protecting the common people who suppressed those brutal superpower users, giving ordinary people without superpowers a space to survive.

In both chaos and prosperity, these soldiers have always been guarding this country, protecting all the people within it, bringing an unparalleled sense of security.

Not to mention, Lin Shuangshuang had been saved twice by soldiers before and received a lot of help from them. At this moment, seeing these plainclothes soldiers, Lin Shuangshuang couldn’t help but feel a sense of closeness.

It’s not that ordinary people don’t have good people, or that soldiers are 100% good people! That’s impossible. It’s just that, compared to some ordinary people who believe in egoism, soldiers subjected to rigorous training and patriotic education are less likely to be bad.

Perhaps because Lin Shuangshuang stared at them for a bit too long, among the soldiers, a tough-featured, manly leader-like soldier took a step forward to thank Lin Shuangshuang, "Just now, thank you for saving us! We are really grateful!"

Once he spoke, the others also stepped forward, all talking at once to thank Lin Shuangshuang, including the three people on the ground who had just caught their breath. The teenage girl looked at Lin Shuangshuang with eyes full of admiration, "Sister, you are so cool! Just like an ancient female knight!"

Lin Shuangshuang was very curious about the identity of these people, but outwardly she just nodded slightly with a calm expression, not saying much, acting very aloof.

Lin Shuangshuang was never someone good at talking, especially when facing strangers, she had nothing to say. In her past life, Lin Shuangshuang had once forced herself to be more talkative to fit into Li Man’s team.

But in reality, doing so was useless; those who hated her still hated her, those who schemed against her still schemed, those who wanted her dead still wanted her dead!

Since that is the case, in this life Lin Shuangshuang decided she would no longer force herself to communicate with people; being aloof is being aloof. True friends won’t mind her aloof personality; for those who aren’t friends, their liking or disliking has nothing to do with her!

The people trying to make conversation didn’t expect Lin Shuangshuang to be so indifferent, feeling a bit awkward. Lin Shuangshuang’s cold demeanor left them unsure of what to say.

It was the old man with white hair who looked worriedly at those busy killing the mutant pig and said to Lin Shuangshuang, "Girl, these mutated animals haven’t been tested yet, and it’s unknown whether humans can eat them or if they’ll have side effects. If you’re hungry, we have some compressed biscuits and such. It’s better not to eat that pig to avoid any bad reactions."

Lin Shuangshuang frowned. The old man obviously meant well, but his words suddenly reminded Lin Shuangshuang of something from her previous life. She remembered that at the start of the apocalypse, the government and military established many bases to shelter and protect ordinary people.

Although due to drastic changes in the world, the military could only rescue and protect a limited number of people, at that time military and government bases were symbols of safety, places everyone yearned for. There was food, and protection there, with lives guaranteed if they reached there.

But gradually, more and more ordinary people became stronger after eating mutated creatures, leading to the proliferation of private bases!

However, the government and military bases became increasingly weak, as the soldiers’ physical strength didn’t improve significantly, causing many bases to be breached by mutant creatures. The ordinary people—the ones with particularly poor physical conditions protected by the military and government bases—were forced into displacement, enduring various bizarre rules of private bases, seeking protection from those with strong martial power.

Because in her previous life, Lin Shuangshuang met Li Man early on and then roamed with his team between various private bases, finally settling in Zhao Yan’s father’s private base, she never interacted with government and official bases, so she didn’t know much.

Now, hearing the old man’s words, Lin Shuangshuang couldn’t help but boldly guess, perhaps in her previous life, government and military bases—backed by national reserves and worried about the unknown effects of these mutated creatures on human bodies—didn’t consume post-apocalyptic mutated plants and animals initially, but ate pre-apocalyptic reserved food. So the army, which should have evolved the most, had almost no advancement, becoming powerless in controlling superpower users later on.

But later, the military surely started eating mutated creatures, and the soldiers’ physical fitness, being incomparable to ordinary people, naturally improved at a speed that ordinary people couldn’t match, which is why they successfully eradicated the out-of-control superpower users in those private bases!

This guess left Lin Shuangshuang shocked. Though perhaps absurd, it might just be the truth—because of sufficient resources, because professionals were too powerful, because of over-protection and caution, lagging and resulting in tragedy. If true, that would be too tragic!

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