The post-apocalyptic world has a space full of supplies.

Chapter 101 Gu Nanfeng Awakens

After breakfast, Qin Yuan and Du Wenqing checked the entire three-bedroom apartment inside and out. Apart from the room where Gu Nanfeng was resting, Qin Yuan did not notice anything unusual in other areas.

Lu Yuan added another bag of nutrient solution to the medical machine. Then he went out with Qin Yuan and Du Wenqing to check the surrounding area. They planned to first go and take a look at the small apartment directly opposite Gu Nanfeng's room on this floor.

It was an unfinished house. Because several windows were not installed, there was a thick layer of snow in several places inside. Although Qin Yuan's physical condition had improved, he really couldn't stand the temperature today. He stomped his feet and quickly asked Lu Yuan for a military overcoat to wrap himself in.

Du Wenqing and Lu Yuan were so cold they didn't want to talk. Every time the strong north wind blew into the room, the two of them shivered. In the end, Qin Yuan had to check the room next to Gu Nanfeng's room, which was separated by a wall, but there was nothing in the room.

After leaving the apartment, Lu Yuan took out a thermometer from his spatial storage. The outdoor temperature had already reached minus fifty-five degrees Celsius, and both he and Du Wenqing were freezing. In the end, Du Wenqing and Lu Yuan had to go back to their temporary apartment first, while Qin Yuan went alone to check on the situation of the four apartments upstairs and downstairs.

Although Qin Yuan possessed fire-type abilities and had a much better physique than the other two, he was still quite cold at this temperature. He quickly ran up to the seventh floor and first checked the neighboring apartment, which was also an unfinished unit. Qin Yuan went inside and looked around, but found nothing unusual.

Then he went upstairs to the apartment where they were temporarily staying. This apartment was also furnished, just like the one downstairs, and the door lock was the latest model of facial recognition electronic lock. Qin Yuan fiddled with it for a long time in the cold wind before he was able to open it.

He inspected the apartment; there was nothing wrong with it, and the decor was much more luxurious than the one downstairs, with a noticeably higher quality finish. The bedroom window in the downstairs apartment seemed to be original to the developer, while the master bedroom window had shattered from the cold the previous night. Du Wenqing had reinforced the guest bedroom wall with an extra layer of mud because Gu Nanfeng was staying there. Qin Yuan considered that if all else failed, he would go downstairs later and have them bring the medical equipment to this apartment.

Qin Yuan shakily closed the door, but before he even reached the fifth floor, he heard a loud bang. Then, the strange feeling that had been making him feel particularly uncomfortable since morning suddenly disappeared.

The loud noise came from their apartment; it sounded like the floor-to-ceiling glass in the living room had shattered from the cold. He rushed back inside, only to find that the spot where the glass window had been had been replaced by a large mud wall. But judging from the mud wall still crumbling and sputtering mud onto the floor, it wouldn't last much longer.

Without wasting words, Qin Yuan directly instructed Lu Yuan to put the equipment they had taken out back into his space and empty the food from the refrigerator. He opened the guest bedroom door, intending to take Gu Nanfeng out of the medical machine and go upstairs.

To everyone's surprise, as soon as the guest room door opened, Gu Nanfeng, who should have been lying unconscious in the medical machine, was already sitting up. He was slowly tidying up his thin clothes, seemingly unaffected by the cold air that had just been brought in.

"Brother Gu!" Lu Yuan had finished tidying up everything in the living room and was about to go inside to pack up the other appliances when he saw that Gu Nanfeng had already stood up. His complexion was rosy, and he looked to be in good spirits, not at all like a patient who had been unconscious for several days and was recovering from a serious illness.

"There's no time to get excited, Lu Yuan. Let's pack our things first. Old Du won't last much longer." Qin Yuan remained relatively calm. He immediately pulled Gu Nanfeng out of the room and waited for Lu Yuan to pack up the equipment.

In the living room, Du Wenqing's forehead was already drenched in sweat. Because Qin Yuan hadn't closed the door when he returned, the sweat froze into icicles hanging on his face, and it was obvious that he was in very poor condition. The mud wall blocking the broken French windows was also starting to leak air in several places.

Lu Yuan quickly packed up all the supplies, and Qin Yuan carried the nearly exhausted Du Wenqing on his back. The four of them ran upstairs.

Just as they stepped outside, the earthen wall in front of the French windows instantly crumbled. Without Du Wenqing's condensation, the dust returned to the air and was buried by the howling wind and snow. Soon, the living room was covered with a layer of snow.

Upon entering the seventh-floor apartment, Du Wenqing was so weak that he couldn't even speak. His lips were bluish-purple, his teeth were chattering, and his whole body was convulsing. Lu Yuan and Qin Yuan didn't know whether he was frostbitten or what the problem was.

Before they could even check on Gu Nanfeng's recovery, they were back in the same guest room downstairs, on the same medical machine, but this time it was Du Wenqing lying inside.

Gu Nanfeng didn't know how to help for a moment, so he could only watch as Lu Yuan and Qin Yuan set up the medical machine and power generation equipment, while Lu Yuan tried to pull off Du Wenqing's clothes. Because of sweating, his clothes were frozen to his body.

Unsure if this would damage Lu Yuan's only high-tech medical machine, the two did not hesitate at all and put Du Wenqing inside.

This time, Lu Yuan didn't forget to add nutrient solution. Soon, the medical machine started the program, closed the hatch, and a bunch of data appeared on the screen before entering the loading stage. This time, Du Wenqing's medical time was shorter than Gu Nanfeng's, only a dozen hours.

Seeing that the medical machine was working properly, Lu Yuan and Qin Yuan finally breathed a sigh of relief and collapsed onto the bed next to it.

Gu Nanfeng, who had been observing the whole process, stared incredulously at the medical machine that looked like a giant egg. "You cured me with this?"

“Actually, I’m not sure if it will work.” Lu Yuan patted the white exterior of the medical machine, then turned to Qin Yuan, who was lying to the side, and pulled him up as well, saying, “Captain Qin, let’s reinforce it before the glass freezes and cracks.”

In the post-apocalyptic world, Qin Yuan and Lu Yuan were both experienced in infrastructure construction. They didn't plan to ask Gu Nanfeng, who had just woken up, for help. The two of them took the ready-made concrete and bricks from Lu Yuan's space and began to build a wall by the living room window.

Gu Nanfeng didn't come out with them immediately. He kept looking at the medical machine in the guest room, staring at the precision bar on it, and even circled around it a few times. He couldn't figure it out, so he finally came out to help build the wall.

Lu Yuan had originally planned to let Gu Nanfeng rest first, but he discovered that Gu Nanfeng was building the wall faster than him, and even faster than Qin Yuan. After Qin Yuan evolved his superpower, his physique was also strengthened, so he could do these kinds of physical tasks very quickly. Although Gu Nanfeng usually paid attention to exercising, he was still no match for Qin Yuan before.

Lu Yuan stared at Gu Nanfeng for a long time before finally asking, "Brother Gu, has your physique improved as well?"

"Yes, that's right." Gu Nanfeng didn't hide anything. He raised his left hand and shook it, then looked at Qin Yuan and said calmly, "Because he awakened his superpower, his physique has also improved significantly."

"What?" Upon hearing Gu Nanfeng's words, Lu Yuan and Qin Yuan both stopped what they were doing and looked at Gu Nanfeng in shock. Gu Nanfeng, however, continued building the wall at his own pace.

"Brother Gu, what kind of superpower did you evolve? Is it a combat type? Am I the only newbie among us?" Lu Yuan picked up his tools again and bombarded Gu Nanfeng with questions while building a wall.

“Hmm, there’s a lightning-based superpower.” Gu Nanfeng said, looking at Lu Yuan’s expectant eyes, he knew that Lu Yuan wanted to see what this superpower was like. So, a few “crackling” flashes of lightning accompanied by thunder echoed through the neighborhood outside the window.

"You didn't tell me you were the one who caused this thunder outside, did you?" Qin Yuan had practically bricked up the windows in front of him. Seeing the lightning and thunder outside, he turned to look at Gu Nanfeng with some disbelief. "Why can't I believe it?"

“It’s definitely not me.” Gu Nanfeng smiled, raised his left hand, and a sizzling ball of electricity formed in his palm. Under Gu Nanfeng’s control, this small blue ball would grow larger and smaller. When it was small, it was just a solid blue sphere in his palm, but when it was large, it could expand to the point where it could envelop the three of them in the middle of the lightning sphere.

"So cool." Lu Yuan looked at Gu Nanfeng's superpower and felt completely dumbfounded. How come everyone else has superpowers and he has nothing? Oh no, he has a spatial ring, but strictly speaking, that's not a superpower.

The thunder only rang out twice before stopping, but it was visibly snowing even heavier outside. Many windows in the neighborhood were cracked from the frost, some cracking loudly in the strong wind. To prevent the house from being damaged by the snowstorm again, the three stopped chatting and focused on reinforcing the house first.

Around 4 p.m., it was completely dark outside. They finally managed to seal all the windows. To ensure they could observe the outside situation, Gu Nanfeng left two small holes in the walls facing the living room and kitchen.

The electrical and water circulation systems that had been set up downstairs had to be redone. Fortunately, Gu Nanfeng was there this time, and they did it quickly and it was simpler and easier to use than before.

By the time they finished renovating the house, it was already past 7 p.m. Considering that Gu Nanfeng had been unconscious for several days and hadn't eaten anything, Lu Yuan took out a lot of ready-made food from his spatial storage and set it up on a small table. The three of them enjoyed the meal immensely, but unfortunately, Du Wenqing didn't get to eat it.

Du Wenqing's exhaustion was due to excessive consumption of his superpowers, a fact known to all three of them. For some unknown reason, Du Wenqing's evolutionary state differed from that of Qin Yuan and Gu Nanfeng. Although he possessed superpowers, his physical constitution had not increased, and each use of his superpowers consumed a great deal of physical strength.

"I'm really afraid that Old Du will run out of energy one day." While eating dinner, Qin Yuan glanced in the direction of the guest room. When he carried Du Wenqing up this morning, he could clearly feel that Du Wenqing had become lighter. It seemed that every time he used his superpower, he was consuming his own life force.

“Captain Du’s situation is indeed very special.” Gu Nanfeng hadn’t eaten for several days. Although he felt that his body was recovering quite well, he still chose to eat light food. He said while drinking porridge, “Before I woke up, I used my consciousness to explore all living things within a fifty-meter radius around here.”

"It's you?" Qin Yuan felt that same sensation of being seen through from head to toe that morning returned. He bit his chopsticks as he looked at Gu Nanfeng, but didn't know what to say. "You..."

"Captain Qin has a red glow on him, which is a manifestation of fire-type ability, but Captain Du has nothing on him." Gu Nanfeng pretended not to see Qin Yuan's expression and continued, "I also tried to use my consciousness to probe further away, but maybe my ability level is not high enough. I could only vaguely sense two green glows in the opposite direction. I guess that should be wood-type ability."

“But the people on the other side sensed your probing.” Lu Yuan said while eating the stir-fried pork in his bowl. Earlier that morning, Wei Cheng from the building across the street asked them on the walkie-talkie if there was anything going on here. They clearly sensed something unusual, but couldn’t quite put their finger on it.

"Ahem, I still can't control it well. I'll try my best not to let others find out in the future." Gu Nanfeng smiled embarrassedly. This kind of consciousness detection felt like it was stripping everyone within the detection range bare, seeing them through inside and out. It was indeed impolite, but also very practical.

"Wait a minute." Qin Yuan suddenly looked up at Gu Nanfeng, his face full of displeasure, and said, "So you've evolved two superpowers?"

“You could say that, but I think that this kind of mental ability is more of an awakening than an evolution.” Gu Nanfeng had finished eating, wiped his mouth, and leaned back in his chair. “Humans suddenly being able to control wind, fire, lightning, and water, I think that kind of ability is an evolution, but the mental kind… I think it’s an awakening.”

Gu Nanfeng didn't know how to describe this mental ability for a moment. It didn't have any offensive capabilities at the moment, and could only detect things around it. It was more like a human's mental power had been awakened and strengthened, and it could detect things further and more clearly through consciousness.

"You're giving me a headache." Qin Yuan had finished eating and leaned back in his chair, burping. Although he hadn't been eating badly lately, the ready-made dishes in Lu Yuan's space were all from famous restaurants, and he wasn't willing to miss out on a single bite.

“Me too.” Lu Yuan was still immersed in the grief and indignation of why everyone else had superpowers while he didn’t, but now Gu Nanfeng was saying that he counted as having two superpowers. How could God be so unfair?

After dinner, Lu Yuan went to check on Du Wenqing's condition. The medical machine showed that the progress bar was more than halfway through, and it would be over in a little over four hours. Afterwards, he brought Gu Nanfeng some clean clothes to take a shower, since he had been lying in bed for several days.

Only Lu Yuan and Qin Yuan remained in the living room, lost in thought. They had no idea what had become of the four people in the other car—whether they had arrived at the base or not. The satellite phone was completely unusable, and the snowstorm outside was getting worse every day. Although the zombie crisis was over, they were still at a loss.

Just as the two were sighing, a rumbling sound suddenly came from outside, as if something had collapsed.

Lu Yuan walked to the small observation hole in the living room and took out a night vision telescope to look. The night vision telescope couldn't see very far, and Lu Yuan looked for a long time but couldn't see anything, but the rumbling sound was getting louder and louder. Qin Yuan also came over to take a look, but it was already dark, and he couldn't see what was going on outside either.

A moment later, the intercom in the living room rang; it was Wei Cheng from the building across the street.

"Brother Qin, an office building has collapsed in the CBD across from our neighborhood..."