If she fell out of favor, the Su family would immediately be ruined.
Especially Su Yue, a beautiful woman with no powerful background. What would happen to her was almost too obvious to imagine.
Becoming a plaything for the powerful would be a relatively good outcome. If she were taken as a slave by those brutal thugs, that would truly be a fate worse than death!
It would be better for her to be with Qin Jun from the start.
At least Qin Jun treated those around him fairly well, and he was also very handsome, without the perversions and cruelty of those rich scions.
He was, after all, a decent match...
However, Su Ya wasn't planning to send her sister to Qin Jun immediately. After all, she still needed to give her parents some time to adjust...
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A month had passed since the apocalypse broke out.
The situation had finally become clear.
Over 3.7 billion people worldwide had died, and in their place emerged 3.7 billion monsters known as zombies.
Most of these zombies roamed the cities, but many had also begun spreading out, frantically searching for living people to devour.
They wanted to turn the world into a zombie paradise.
The military had suffered heavy losses, and the surviving forces had each taken control of their territories, forming the nascent stages of warlord factions.
Those who still hoped the national government could salvage the situation were completely disillusioned.
After this catastrophe, the national government had completely collapsed. They couldn't even maintain their own existence, let alone control the regions.
Survivors had established shelters and bases in the wilderness or on the outskirts far from the cities, huddling together for warmth.
After all, in the apocalypse, it was nearly impossible to survive alone.
At first, the situation in these shelters was still peaceful. People clung to the old ways, respecting the elderly, caring for the young, and showing courtesy to women and children.
But soon, in the face of hunger, morality and human rights proved to be incredibly fragile.
Those with absolute power, the evolvers, became the ruling class in the shelters. They received priority access to food, resources, and even women.
Meanwhile, ordinary people without power became the lowest class.
They couldn't get enough to eat and had to fight over the scraps left by the evolvers. Even the trash was something they had to struggle for to fill their stomachs.
Even their wives and daughters became resources.
They could be traded or used to curry favor with the evolvers.
And they had no other choice.
Because those who dared to resist were all dead...
Some evolvers would kill them outright, while the more merciful ones would drive these troublemakers out of the shelter.
Before long, they would become zombie food.
One can't help but marvel at humanity's adaptability.
From a highly civilized social structure to a bloody and brutal one, it took only a month for humans to get used to it...
This is truly a hopeless era...
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For ordinary people, this is the worst of times.
But for Qin Jun, it is undoubtedly the best of times!
Because in the apocalypse, all restraints have vanished, and raw power brutally suppresses the masses.
And they can only passively accept it.
There will be no more public opinion storms, no more protests.
Because in this era, there is no justice, no righteousness, only power and slaughter.
The law of the jungle has become the first principle—being weak is the original sin!
Everyone must immediately adapt to the rules of this era because death comes so easily and is so insignificant in this world.
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Dongdu City.
Dongdu was now entirely the private domain of the Qin family. In just one month, a wall surrounding the city had been built.
The wall was about 70 kilometers long, 15 meters high, and 8 meters wide.
There were a total of eighteen exits, with 1,656 firepower and observation points set up along the wall.
This would make Dongdu City as impregnable as a fortress against the zombies!
Building such a magnificent wall in just one month would have been nearly impossible in the old days.
There would have been too many factors to consider, like whether it would affect traffic, the workers' rest time, and so on...
But now, none of that needed to be considered.
For the past month, the top priority in Dongdu was building the wall. All streets were under military control, and all resources were dedicated to the wall's construction.
As for the workers' rest time—there was none.
The Qin family conscripted over 400,000 workers to build the wall, and they only got an average of 4 hours of rest per day.
In this month of intense, continuous labor, about 6,800 people died of exhaustion.
And the only reward these workers got for risking their lives was that their families were allowed to live in the city...
But no matter what, the wall in Dongdu City was completed, completely isolating the city from the outside world where countless zombies roamed.
This was likely one of the few cities in the world able to erect such a wall.
After all, Dongdu had a complete industrial chain and three large power plants, so it was self-sufficient in terms of industrial facilities.
The only problem was food—feeding millions of people was an astronomical task each day.
Although Dongdu had millions of tons of grain stored, enough to last a year, they couldn't just rely on that.
After all, not much food could be grown in the city, so they had to venture into the dangerous wilderness to obtain more.
So, on the fourth day of the apocalypse, Dongdu announced that the old currency was obsolete, and performance points would take its place. Each person could use these points to exchange for food.
And the way to earn performance points was simple—work.
It didn't matter what your previous profession was, whether you were a teacher, a driver, a white-collar worker, or a financial professional.
None of that was important.
Because now, you only had one identity: a subject of the Qin family.
Or in other words, a slave.
You had to work in the factories to earn performance points, and then exchange all of your points for food to keep you alive.
Then, repeat the same cycle tomorrow, day after day, with no end in sight.
The entire Dongdu felt like a giant machine, and all the ordinary people were just cogs in it.
They could never stop. Once they were worn out, they would be discarded immediately and replaced with new cogs.
As for the evolvers—it had to be said that individual awakening talents were incredibly rare. Among Dongdu's population of several million, there were only a little over 200 evolvers.
The Qin family quickly recruited these evolvers with wealth and status, making them loyal subordinates.
As for whether these evolvers would break free from the Qin family's control, there was no need to worry.
Because the Qin family itself was the largest evolver organization—nearly every one of its hundreds of family members had evolved, a miracle in itself!
And the 300,000-strong garrison in Dongdu had naturally become the Qin family's private army.
They were no longer the protectors of the people but had turned into a violent machine to maintain the Qin family's rule!
With the loyalty of the military and evolvers, the Qin family's rule in Dongdu was as solid as a rock, giving them total control over every aspect of the city.
Of course, the Qin family hadn't completely crushed the hopes of ordinary people.
In this city ruled by the Qin family, if ordinary people wanted to change their fate, they had to join the military or work hard.
After accumulating enough merit, they could escape the fate of being mere pigs under the Qin family's rule—becoming a part of Qin Jun's system of control.
And the people responded with surprising docility—they knew full well.
Even though life in the city was tough, with their hard work barely keeping them from starving,
Compared to the extremely dangerous outside world, this place was already a paradise.
At least they were still alive.
Isn't that right?
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Dongdu, Third Military Factory.
"Damn it! Is this even fit for human consumption?"
A young man with an oily face angrily slammed the lunchbox he was holding onto a machine, his face full of resentment and rage.
In the lunchbox was a dark, sludgy substance with a faint sour smell, making one want to vomit.
Yet this was his ration.
The other workers stared at the young man's lunchbox, constantly swallowing their saliva.
This stuff, worse than pig feed, was now a rare delicacy in their eyes...
The young man's name was Li Deng. He was twenty-one years old and a student at Dongdu University.
When the apocalypse broke out, he survived, but his parents and relatives all died in the catastrophe—or more precisely, they were killed in the military's indiscriminate bombing.
After that, he was assigned to the Third Military Factory, where after a week of training, he was put to work in the workshop, producing low-precision components.
He had to work thirteen hours a day in the workshop just to earn this pig-slop-like food.
After enduring it for a month, Li Deng could no longer hold it in!
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