73: My son's silent protest!
They watched as the men carried boxes of supplies to Bai Wanning's floor, and couldn't help but sneer and whisper, "Look at that woman. Things are already so unclear, yet there are always people who love to stir up trouble. She must have used some underhanded means to get these things."
"I bet she slept with those men to get them. She's pretty, so wouldn't it be easy for her?"
"A pretty face is capital. She doesn't have to do anything; she just lies down and gets supplies. Unlike us, who have to snatch things with our own hands, little by little."
"And she always pretends to be more virtuous than us. In the end, isn't she just a plaything for those in power?"
Bai Wanning paused, spun around abruptly, and fixed her gaze on the man who had just spoken.
The next second, she walked towards him without hesitation.
The man instantly froze in terror, his eyes wide with fear as he stared at her.
"You... what do you want to do—ah, ah, ah, ah!"
The man's face was slashed by her from top to bottom, bloody and mangled, his mouth gaping wide, unable to close.
In an instant, the hall fell silent. Everyone held their breath, staring at Bai Wanning in horror.
"Since your mouth can't close, then just keep it that way forever."
She uttered this sentence indifferently, then turned and left, dagger in hand.
They were still far from the main city, and the zombies hadn't spread here yet.
However, Bai Wanning wasn't in a hurry. Many people in this building had already been bitten by Mutant Rats, so it was only a matter of time before something happened.
These people could still jump around for a while longer.
Everyone watched her ascend the stairs step by step, dumbfounded, as if they had seen a ghost.
This woman... she's simply a lunatic!
After Xie Yi and the others left, Bai Wanning instructed her Older Brothers to bring up all fifteen 12-liter barrels of gasoline, fifty-five 120-liter barrels of gasoline, four hundred sets of warm clothing, as well as some coal and food for warmth.
The remaining boxes contained 40 solar panels, 19 heating rods, 8 special mobile phones, 14 generators, 25 water purifiers and motors, 30 barrels of cooking oil, and 100 sets of cold-weather clothing and shoes (with non-slip boots).
There were also several power banks.
As for the gold coins and antiques, she quietly put them into her space pocket when her Older Brothers weren't paying attention.
"Where did you get all these things?" Bai Zhan sighed, lying on the sofa. Watching his younger sister busy herself around the room while he could only lie in bed because his ribs were broken, he felt nothing but incompetence and uselessness.
"Someone helped me," Bai Wanning replied calmly. She glanced at the clock on the wall, then looked back at her mother: "Mom, I'm hungry. Can you prepare something for me?"
"What do you want to eat?" Mother Bai quickly asked.
"Something delicious." Like the last peaceful dinner she would ever eat in this world.
While waiting for dinner, Bai Wanning locked herself in her room and resumed cultivating. She held the zombie crystal core she had found, silently absorbing its essence. In her previous life, she hadn't learned to use the power of crystal cores for fun.
No one wanted to see an Ability User grow stronger, so she never found a teacher to teach her how to properly absorb crystal cores.
At that time, Bai Wanning was desperate. She eventually washed off the brain matter clinging to the crystal core and swallowed it whole.
The taste was sickening, but she didn't want to die, so she could only desperately cling to life.
Fortunately, she had extremely high comprehension. Watching other Ability Users absorb crystal cores, she quickly imitated and learned.
It was also because of her experience in her previous life that she could now easily absorb most of the crystal cores and their essence into her body.
Of course, she also kept a portion of the crystal cores, because she knew her family would definitely need them later.
"Wanning, dinner's ready, come down and eat!" Just as she was diligently guiding the essence within her body, her mother's voice came from downstairs.
"Coming." Bai Wanning finished absorbing the essence, responded softly, and then stood up.
But as soon as she stood steady, she felt her body sway slightly, and a wave of dizziness washed over her.
She grabbed the edge of the table, trying to steady herself.
"It seems Mother has been too harsh on you," Bai Wanning muttered softly, looking down and touching her still-flat abdomen.
Before, she hadn't felt anything unusual, but now, exhaustion surged like a tide, making it hard for her to breathe.
Only then did she realize that she had pushed herself to her limit.
She had pushed herself too hard; her body and core felt drained, with even the last bit of energy squeezed out.
If she hadn't been pregnant, this might not have affected her so much.
But she was pregnant!
Bai Wanning sighed and shook her head gently: "Bai Wanning, you need to change this fatal habit of yours."
She had known for a long time that she should slow down, but years of relentless struggle had accustomed her to a high-pressure pace.
In her previous life, she worked so hard that she often felt like she worked twenty-eight hours a day.
So even though she had already stockpiled enough supplies, she couldn't help but want a little more.
After weeks of nearly starving, she had developed an extreme hoarding habit.
However, in the end, the reason she prepared so many supplies was to live a stable life, give herself enough rest, and provide a stable growth environment for the baby in her belly.
"Xiao Cai, forgive Mother," Bai Wanning apologized earnestly to her abdomen, looking down. "From now on, Mother will rest well and won't make herself suffer anymore."
For her, nothing was more important than her son's health.
She suddenly thought of Shen Zhen, and her heart stirred: Was that woman still living in this apartment? Because of the tsunami three days ago, her original plan to kidnap Shen Zhen was completely disrupted.