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The chubby little girl immediately went out after her. "Mother, you can't do this to mommy!"

Xia Man deliberately s.h.i.+elded off the chubby little girl's words and looked at the surrounding people. After confirming that the other people were just unconscious and wouldn't be a major obstacle later on, she immediately carried a basin of water into the kitchen.

With her little arms and legs, the chubby girl followed Xia Man closely from behind, incessantly whining, "Mother, I'm hungry…"

Xia Man looked back and threw a chicken leg straight to the chubby little girl.

The chubby little girl swiftly caught it, her eyes s.h.i.+ning. "Mother, mommy will definitely be alright!"

"Watch these people well, else I'll guarantee for the entire year, you are to only eat porridge…" Xia Man seriously looked at the chubby little girl.

The chubby little girl's mouth twitched. "Why do women make things difficult for women…"

"……" Black lines could be seen on Xia Man's face as she carried the water into the room. The chubby little girl's rant dispersed some of the haze in Xia Man's heart.

Qu Zhen was almost entirely covered in sweat. Her entire person looked as if she was just taken out of water. Dripping wet!

Xia Man bent down and swept the hair sticking all over Qu Zhen's face. 

This pale face, which had appeared countless times in her dreams, was also in a suffering expression. She wasn't allowed to live, nor to die.

Just like what Fa Wu said, living is the biggest punishment.

Xia Man wrung the handkerchief dry and wiped Qu Zhen's sweat, little by little.

She didn't know what it meant, but she didn't want to consider it.

Xia Man had seen plenty of human mutation in her previous lifetime. To be more precise, she had seen plenty of people who failed in mutation. Just as they said, that process is what every mutated person had gone through.

The mutation process, is the mutation of genes in the entire body due to a certain type of radiation. Unlike natural genetic mutations, which has a small probability of happening, this type of mutation has the probability of happening in which nearly half the survivors will have experienced the entire process of it.

Because of the genetic mutation, the DNA sequence goes through rearrangements, which leads to the cells in the body to generally riot, entirely regenerating.

This process, is something like transforming a person.

Xia Man looked at Qu Zhen, whose face had begun to seem indistinct. Unexpectedly, she didn't feel any fear. As long as she thought of how the person lying on the bed was Qu Zhen, her heart immediately calmed.

Because Qu Zhen's body had begun to rot, Xia Man stopped wiping Qu Zhen's sweat and sat on the bedside, earnestly looking after Qu Zhen.

At once, as if experiencing her first rebirth, Qu Zhen's appearance gradually reconstructed. There was a sudden inexplicable feeling in Xia Man's heart.

Qu Zhen felt she was in a sea of flames, unable to find an exit and without redemption, and could only continuously move forward.

Until suddenly, a thread of cold breath rushed in. Qu Zhen unconsciously went after it, and her eyes opened.

"Xia Man!?" When Qu Zhen opened her eyes, the first thing she realized was that Xia Man was gone from her arms.

She was originally certain that Qu Zhen was alright as she was watching the remaining people outside. But when she heard her voice, she immediately went in.

"Qu Zhen?" When Xia Man opened the door, she was immediately pulled into Qu Zhen's embrace. "What happened?"

Qu Zhen tightly held Xia Man. Smelling the sweet scent of Xia Man's hair, the panic of not being able to find Xia Man whilst in the flames gradually disappeared. "You're fine."

When Xia Man heard this, her heart was immediately moved. This person is always like this. No matter what happened, her first reaction is "you're fine."

"Mommy, so biased!" The chubby little girl made an aggrieved face. "Mother certainly did nothing, since she has the power to enslave me…"

Qu Zhen only now let go of Xia Man. "Isn't it Mommy Xia Man? Why is it mother now?" Qu Zhen was anxious Xia Man might be unhappy.

"Auntie Hua said Mommy Xia is not nice, so calling her mother would be better." The chubby little girl unhesitantly sold out her teammate this time.

The sold-out Hua Xiangrong, who was lying on the sofa, felt chilly all over her body.

"What happened to them?" Qu Zhen realized that Hua Xiangrong, Zhang Lin, and Fa Wu were all lying in agony.

"Mutation." Xia Man answered. "From now on, human beings are at the bottom of the food chain. The original human beings have turned into several species because of the acid rain. One is like you now, mutated into possessing a supernatural ability among supernatural abilities. Also through the same way, zombies roaming outside at this moment, as well as bones wrapped in skin."

"They??" Qu Zhen was about to say something when she saw from the distance that Fa Wu had already begun to melt. Right! His entire body was melting.

Xia Man reached out and pulled Qu Zhen. "Don't go over, he's evolving."

Qu Zhen was slightly surprised."I came over like that too?"

Xia Man nodded.

"Mommy, haven't you realized that your clothes have been changed?" When the chubby little girl saw Xia Man's eyes sweeping over, she obediently continued playing by herself, as though she wasn't the one who said that.

 Qu Zhen paid attention to these. In this situation, her heart was entirely occupied by Xia Man.

"Cough cough cough!" Xia Man coughed to hide her embarra.s.sment. "There are quite a lot of clothes you can wear in my s.p.a.ce. Since it would be inconvenient to get them from the car, I gave you the ones in the s.p.a.ce."

Qu Zhen's heart was ecstatic when she saw Xia Man's red face. However, she maintained an indifferent expression. "I got it."

Qu Zhen looked at the completely unrecognizable people on the sofa. She felt complicated, imagining how Xia Man looked at that time.

When the several people on the sofa woke up, the first thing they reacted to was the extremely terrible stench!

All three of them looked as if they just came out of a disgusting sewer. This completely different contrast, re-examining her clean and fresh self, the corners of Qu Zhen's mouth couldn't help but rise.

Hua Xiangrong hadn't finished preparing the meal, so Xia Man went in to continue the preparation. And Qu Zhen told everyone about the present situation outside.

"Laoda, does that mean we have supernatural abilities now?" Hua Xiangrong's two eyes shone, completely ignoring her present situation.

Qu Zhen nodded. She could already feel the heat on her palms, where a purple flame was.

"Don't you feel something strange in your palms? I can feel something there, but I can't see anything." Fa Wu was the first to speak. 

"Like this." Qu Zhen extended her hand, and a purple flame immediately appeared on her palm.

Outside, Qu Zhen was learning about everyone's abilities, while Xia Man in the kitchen, starting to cook.

"Mother, mommy's three subordinates are not bad!" The chubby little girl suddenly appeared behind Xia Man.

Xia Man was still cooking. Of course, she knew that Fa Wu was a wind wielder, and Hua Xiangrong and Zhang Lin were opposingly a fire wielder and an ice wielder. Those are all offensive abilities!

"Mother, you shouldn't make such a serious face all the time!" The chubby little girl licked her short chubby fingers and innocently said, "Every time you're unhappy, mommy will also be unhappy. Then I'll only be allowed to eat porridge…"

"……" Xia Man glanced at the chubby little girl. "Say any more, and believe it or not, you'll only be allowed to eat porridge for the entire year…"

The chubby little girl pridefully turned around in a cute manner. Don't speak, just don't speak!

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Sorry for the late update! I actually fell asleep while translating……

And apologies in advance if there are strange phrasings or grammatical mistakes… I was (and still am) sleepy, and Funsie can't proofread until next month or so……

So if you spot mistakes or strange phrasings, please do inform me! You can inform me through the Discord server. There's a channel for that.

And I forgot to inform, updates of will be at 10 A.M. GMT-4 on their respective update days. If late, then…… 

Either something happened, or I just procrastinated. Huehuehue.

And should I change the Chinese honorifics/t.i.tles (dage, laoda, etc) or should I just make them all in Chinese? I want to make it consistent.

See you next update!

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