Apocalypse: Resources consumed by women will be returned ten thousandfold.

--Translated by likesnovel--

Some people vented their anger on the Patrol Team members.

Others took advantage of the chaos and quietly slipped away.

As for Grandma Xu, she was even worse. While everyone was distracted, she secretly stole several pieces of food from other survivors.

Jiang Fan swept his gaze across the crowd.

Yet he still couldn't find the person whose username was **"I'm Really Not a Fox."**

Had that female streamer not shown up?

He frowned slightly.

Under normal circumstances, whenever he stared at a woman he had never met before for more than a few seconds, the system would automatically display her information.

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**Sun Jie**

Age: **32**

**Appearance: 5/10** (So ordinary that nothing about her stands out.)

**Virtue: 2/10** (Married **3 times**. Her previous **2 husbands** were practically left with nothing.)

Overall Score: **5**

**[Ding! Does not meet the system's minimum requirements!]**

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**Deng Xiaona**

Age: **39**

**Appearance: 3/10**

**Virtue: 10/10** (Never had a sexual relationship.)

Overall Score: **3**

**[Ding! Does not meet the system's minimum requirements!]**

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At that moment, another profile suddenly appeared above the head of a plain-looking middle-aged woman standing quietly in the corner.

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**Hu Lili**

Age: **22**

**Appearance: 9.5/10** (Huge... very huge.)

**Virtue: 10/10** (Never had a sexual relationship.)

Overall Score: **9.5**

**[Ding! Meets the system's requirements!]**

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Huh?

**9.5 points?**

There was actually a top-tier beauty like this hiding inside the building?

Jiang Fan stared at the middle-aged woman for quite some time.

Then realization dawned on him.

Makeup.

Not makeup meant to make her prettier.

But makeup deliberately designed to make herself look ugly.

Smart.

Hu Lili?

Jiang Fan instantly understood.

The fox.

She really was that female streamer.

At that moment, Hu Lili was looking at him nervously, seemingly struggling with whether she should approach him and complete the transaction.

A faint smile appeared on Jiang Fan's lips.

He walked directly toward her through the chaotic crowd.

Wherever he passed, people immediately stepped aside.

No one dared provoke him anymore.

Jiang Fan got straight to the point.

“Hu Lili, did you bring the Black Lychee?”

Hu Lili jumped in surprise.

She immediately touched her face, thinking her makeup had come off and exposed her identity.

“Yes... I brought it. You recognized me?”

Jiang Fan didn't explain.

Instead, he took out **5 packs of instant noodles** and silently looked at her.

Hu Lili's eyes instantly lit up.

She swallowed hard before slowly opening her backpack and taking out a food container.

When she opened the lid—

A single black lychee appeared before Jiang Fan.

Jiang Fan chuckled and reached out to take the container.

Finally...

The **3rd Enlightenment Fruit** was in his hands.

Beside him, Tang Xuerou and Xu Mengqian watched the exchange with confusion.

Neither understood why Jiang Fan seemed so interested in this ordinary-looking woman.

But the moment they saw the black lychee, everything became clear.

So Jiang Fan had come here specifically for another supernatural fruit.

Hmph!

This woman was truly stupid.

She had obtained a supernatural fruit and still refused to eat it herself.

Looking at Hu Lili's plain appearance, neither woman felt threatened in the slightest.

On the contrary, they felt even more confident.

A woman like this...

Could never steal Jiang Fan away from them.

Jiang Fan handed over the **5 packs of instant noodles** and smiled.

“Interested in moving in with me?”

Hu Lili immediately hugged the noodles tightly, as if afraid someone would snatch them away.

Then she nervously shook her head.

“I... I prefer living alone.”

Jiang Fan wasn't in a hurry.

“That's fine.”

“When you finish all that food, you can contact me.”

“I still have plenty left.”

He considered himself a man of principles.

Since they had agreed beforehand that this was a trade, he would treat it as a trade.

However...

If someone agreed to a deal and then changed their mind at the last second—

Jiang Fan was more than willing to teach them exactly what cruelty meant.

Fortunately, Hu Lili hadn't caused any trouble.

So he had no reason to break his word or simply take the fruit by force.

After all, food would eventually run out.

Once the day came when she was truly starving...

She would be far more willing to submit to him.

Hu Lili bit her lip.

After hesitating for a while, she didn't reject him outright.

“C-Could you give me some time to think about it?”

Jiang Fan smiled.

“Of course.”

Then he casually asked,

“By the way, where did you find this Black Lychee?”

Now that she had food in her hands, Hu Lili felt much more at ease.

Without thinking too much, she answered,

“From the ivy growing on the outside wall of your building.”

Jiang Fan nodded slightly.

He said nothing else.

But his mind was racing.

Every Enlightenment Fruit he had discovered so far had grown on completely different plants.

Succulents.

Ivy vines.

And even the wild weeds mentioned by that lightning-powered man.

It was strange.

Far too strange.

Why could almost any type of plant produce an Enlightenment Fruit?

What exactly did all these plants have in common?

Jiang Fan couldn't figure it out.

Just then—

A loud uproar suddenly erupted from the crowd!

The chaos on the 21st floor finally began to die down.

Several members of the Patrol Team lay collapsed in pools of blood, their bodies barely moving, hanging on the edge of death.

As for the food they had just stolen moments ago...

It had already been snatched away by someone else.

The entire situation had descended into complete anarchy.

People shoved, fought, and wrestled over food while desperately trying to save themselves.

Hu Lili's face turned deathly pale.

A chilling sensation crawled from the base of her spine all the way to her scalp.

Tang Xuerou and Xu Mengqian instinctively moved closer, clutching Jiang Fan's arms tightly.

Only Jiang Fan remained calm.

No matter how chaotic the scene became, nobody dared approach him.

An empty circle nearly 3 meters wide naturally formed around him.

In the apocalypse, humanity's instinct to bully the weak and fear the strong was laid bare for all to see.

"Ahhh! Tao Tao! Tao Tao!"

Grandma Xu's miserable scream echoed through the corridor.

The troublesome little boy had been knocked to the ground during the chaos.

Then the panicked crowd had trampled over him more than 10 times.

Blood immediately gushed from his mouth.

"Save my grandson! Somebody save him!"

Grandma Xu cried hysterically.

But no one paid attention to her.

Everyone was too busy saving themselves.

Finally, the elderly traditional Chinese doctor, Li Qingquan, let out a soft sigh and walked back.

As if seeing a savior, Grandma Xu immediately grabbed his hand.

"Please save Tao Tao! He's a good boy!"

"Doctor Li, you have to save him!"

Li Qingquan replied solemnly,

"I'll do my best."

He crouched beside Tao Tao.

Checking his pulse.

Examining his pupils.

After a moment, he slowly shook his head.

"If this had happened before the apocalypse, rushing him to a hospital immediately might have saved him."

"But now..."

He sighed heavily.

Then stood up.

Grandma Xu's face turned as white as paper.

She desperately grabbed his pant leg.

"If he dies, how am I supposed to explain it to his parents?"

"Doctor Li, please save him!"

"There has to be a way!"

Li Qingquan smiled bitterly.

"I'm sorry, Sister Xu."

"There's truly nothing I can do."

Grandma Xu's expression immediately changed.

She shouted,

"I understand now!"

"You doctors only care about money, don't you?!"

"100 yuan? 500 yuan?"

"I have money at home!"

"As long as you save Tao Tao, I'll give you everything!"

Li Qingquan was left speechless.

Then he said seriously,

"This has nothing to do with money."

"We simply don't have the conditions necessary to treat him."

But Grandma Xu continued tugging at his pant leg like a madwoman.

"He was only stepped on a few times!"

"How could it be this serious?"

"I know what you want—money!"

"If you don't save him, you're letting him die!"

"You have no medical ethics!"

Li Qingquan was kind-hearted.

But that didn't mean he would tolerate unreasonable accusations.

"Nonsense!"

He shook off her grip.

Then turned and walked away without another word.

Grandma Xu collapsed onto the floor, wailing.

"Why won't you take my grandson for treatment?!"

"What gives you the right not to take us to a doctor?!"

Then she burst into loud sobs.

"Someone help us!"

"That old man is letting us die!"

"How heartless!"

"Oh, what a miserable life!"

"Li Qingquan!"

"I'm going to report you to the hospital!"

Tang Xuerou and Xu Mengqian looked at her with undisguised contempt.

Meanwhile, Jiang Fan watched the entire drama with great interest.

Then he casually said,

"Grandma Xu, stop crying."

"Your grandson is already dead."

Grandma Xu immediately turned toward Tao Tao.

The mischievous boy who had always been full of energy now had a bluish-purple face.

Not a single breath remained.

"AHHH!"

"Tao Tao!"

"Tao Tao, wake up!"

"If you die, how am I supposed to face your parents?!"

Grandma Xu's eyes rolled back.

Her body collapsed heavily onto the floor.

She fainted on the spot.

Jiang Fan pursed his lips slightly.

Then he turned toward Hu Lili, who was hiding in a corner clutching her 5 packs of instant noodles tightly.

He knew exactly what she was afraid of.

So he deliberately asked,

"Why haven't you gone home yet?"

Hu Lili forced out a nervous smile.

"I... I'll go back later..."

The truth was...

She didn't dare leave.

When the crowd had scattered earlier, she had clearly noticed several men staring greedily at the food in her arms.

If Jiang Fan hadn't been standing nearby...

She would have been robbed already.

Now she didn't even dare go downstairs.

Who knew if someone was waiting to ambush her and steal her food?

Jiang Fan replied indifferently,

"Suit yourself."

"Wait here if you want."

After saying that, he led Tang Xuerou and Xu Mengqian upstairs.

Not long afterward, the corridor that had been filled with chaos became eerily silent once again.

Several corpses remained scattered across the floor.

As for the living...

Only the unconscious Grandma Xu was left behind.

The atmosphere was so creepy it made one's skin crawl.

Hu Lili nearly burst into tears.

She waited several more minutes before finally gathering enough courage to descend the stairs.

Every step was cautious.

She walked on tiptoe the entire way.

Fortunately, nothing happened.

At last, she returned safely to her apartment.

The moment she closed the door behind her, her body went limp.

She slid to the floor.

Both legs were so weak she could barely stand.

...

Through Tang Xuerou's apartment, Jiang Fan observed everything that had happened.

He already knew the corridor was empty.

The only mutated beast nearby was Bai Yan.

At this moment, it was lying in front of Tang Xuerou's door, standing guard.

So in reality...

Nothing in the hallway posed any threat to Hu Lili.

Everything Jiang Fan had done was simply intended to scare her.

This woman was fairly clever.

But not clever enough.

In a few more days, when those 5 packs of instant noodles were gone...

She would eventually kneel before him and beg.

Still placing her hopes on government rescue?

Heh...

Jiang Fan sneered inwardly.

Then he withdrew his attention.

Taking out the 3rd Enlightenment Fruit from the food container, he handed it to Tang Xuerou.

"Here."

"Eat it."