001 Return to Before the Apocalypse_2

Fang Mengyao raised an eyebrow, completely unconcerned as she spoke, "Is that so? Too bad you'll never see it. Let me tell you one last thing, Fang Mengyao has been dead for a while now."

"Ah————"

A painful scream tore through the night sky. Fang Yuxin suddenly opened her eyes, only to find she wasn't lying on the cold ground emanating a thick stench of decay, but rather in a warm, soft bed.

She hastily reached out to turn on the light, but the familiar surroundings made her freeze.

This place... could it actually be... could it actually be her home before the apocalypse? Fang Mengyao's icy, venomous words seemed to still echo in her ears. At this moment, she suddenly wasn't sure anymore. Could the heart-wrenching pain and the despair of losing her loved ones not be real, just a ludicrous nightmare?

"Meow~~~~~" A soft cat's meow sounded. The next moment, Fang Yuxin felt something fuzzy and warm rubbing against her arm.

Fang Yuxin lifted the blanket only to see Angela nestled by her side, pressing against her arm. The cat raised its head and yawned, a pair of blue eyes looking confusedly at Fang Yuxin. Seeing its cute appearance, Fang Yuxin's wildly throbbing heart suddenly calmed down. She reached out to hug Angela, and thoughts of Fang Mengyao's words, especially regarding Angela, made her heart twist.

Angela was a beautiful ragdoll cat, gentle, obedient, and especially clean, loved by everyone in the Fang Family. But Fang Mengyao had treated it so cruelly. How could she be so heartless?

As Fang Yuxin was pondering this, a knocking sound suddenly came from the door, followed by Qu Qianhe's voice, "Xinxin, are you alright? Did you have a nightmare?"

"I... I'm fine," Fang Yuxin responded while quickly jumping off the bed and dashing over to open the door, "Mom, why are you up? I'm really fine, I just got scared awake by a nightmare. Sorry for waking you up."

Qu Qianhe wore a silk robe, its soft material clinging to her lovely figure. She closed the door, cupped Fang Yuxin's face to look at her. Fang Yuxin was frightened and her complexion hadn't yet recovered, so Qu Qianhe sat her down and handed her a cup of water before asking with concern, "Xinxin, what dream did you have?"

Fang Yuxin had always been quite bold, rarely scared. But this time she was visibly terrified, and Qu Qianhe couldn't help but worry.

Fang Yuxin took a sip of water subconsciously; it was warm and soothing. Seeing the worry on Qu Qianhe's face, she suddenly remembered how in that long dream, Qu Qianhe had been injured by zombies while protecting her and later died by suicide to avoid turning into a zombie. Fang Yuxin's heart panicked, and putting down the cup, she took Qu Qianhe's hand. Qu Qianhe's hand was well-cared for, and her fingers were soft.

Feeling the warmth of Qu Qianhe's palm and the strength of her grip in return, Fang Yuxin gradually calmed down. Right now, she truly didn't know what to make of the nightmare, and until she figured it out, she couldn't worry Qu Qianhe with it.

So Fang Yuxin shook her head, "It's nothing, just a scene from some movie that startled me. Mom, don't worry about it, I'm alright. Look, it's only a bit after two. You'd better go back to sleep, or Dad won't be able to sleep either."

Seeing that Fang Yuxin refused to talk, Qu Qianhe didn't press further and just said, "If you don't want to talk about it, then let it be. After all, it was just a dream and nothing to fuss over. I'm headed back now; your dad is still worried."

Fang Yuxin walked Qu Qianhe to the door and watched as she returned to her room, then closed the door and slowly slid down to the floor, leaning against it.

The dream had been too real, so real that she couldn't help but doubt that it was all true. An apocalypse, zombies, superpower users—the whole world had changed! In a post-apocalyptic world where strength was everything, no matter how high your status was before, if you hadn't evolved a superpower, if you lacked formidable force, you would be nothing more than an insect, and even prey at the mercy of others!

In that dream, of the entire Fang Family, only her brother Fang Yuyang had Awakened a powerful Wind Superpower. Her parents, even she herself, were just Ordinary People. At the start of the apocalypse, her parents were gravely injured by zombies while protecting her, and they had to commit suicide to avoid becoming zombies. She and Fang Yuyang, to avoid the zombies in the city, fled to a newly developed suburban villa area where they bought a villa.

At that time, Fang Mengyao had been with them. But before long, other survivors also arrived at that place and even fought viciously over the villa. It was during those times that Fang Mengyao began to show her true, hideous colors, undermining their reputation and eventually even driving her and Fang Yuyang out of the villa!