Liu Yang ignored the whispering women and spoke directly to Zhao Lina and her best friend next to her, Zhou Qiuping: "Go take a shower. If you want food, you can come to my room to find me later."
The two lowered their heads without speaking, merely nodding. They found an empty room to settle down in, then went to take a shower.
After showering, the two lay on the bed.
Zhou Qiuping's face showed a look of dissatisfaction: "Just a security guard, what's he so smug about! He used to take the salary we paid, and now he dares to boss us around, even wanting us to submit to him. It's absolutely infuriating!"
"Forget it, stop talking. Be careful not to be overheard," Zhao Lina persuaded Zhou Qiuping.
"So what if he hears? What's the big deal?" Zhou Qiuping curled her lips, her face full of disdain.
"Oh, if you put it that way, do you want to go back to being trapped in that bedroom, starving to the point of eating shit?" Zhao Lina asked back.
Hearing these words, Zhou Qiuping instantly shuddered.
They had been trapped in that bedroom for five whole days. Starting from the third day, that zombie banged on the door relentlessly for two full days!
During those two days, they had no food and couldn't sleep well.
It was simply double torture, both physical and mental.
Just remembering that feeling made her whole body tremble.
"See? You're scared, aren't you? If we hadn't come to this villa, do you think we could get a good night's sleep?
He may be a security guard, but now we have to throw away all our previous occupations and statuses.
Because it's the apocalypse now, different from before. You and I are no longer rich young ladies. Our homes are gone, so how can we talk about being rich? You have to understand this point," Zhao Lina said calmly.
Having been trapped for so many days, Zhao Lina's mind had been thinking non-stop every single day.
When trapped in the room, she was thinking about how to escape, where they could flee to, and how they could survive.
In the end, she reached a conclusion.
Even if they escaped the room, two weak women would find it hard to survive.
If they ran into survivors with ill intentions, they might be raped, killed, or even eaten as food!
Zhao Lina had long made preparations for the worst.
Now, Liu Yang appeared not to force them.
This had already greatly exceeded Zhao Lina's expectations.
In the apocalypse, with no constraints of morality or law, what could a strong man do to weak women? It really wasn't hard to imagine.
After hearing Zhao Lina's words, the expression on Zhou Qiuping's face became even more helpless:
"I know this too, I just can't wrap my head around it. Clearly just a few days ago, we were living the lives of rich young ladies, pampered and catered to, popular with everyone at school.
Even I had dozens of suitors, let alone you who had a full thousand suitors. Whatever you wanted, just posting on Moments would bring a bunch of simp dogs sending gifts. But now... sigh! The gap is just too huge!"
Zhou Qiuping couldn't understand.
Her family background, appearance, and even academic grades were inferior to Zhao Lina's.
But even so, she had dozens of suitors, surrounded every day by those simps, and the sense of satisfaction in her heart was almost indescribable.
Now she was threatened by a security guard to submit to him.
She really found it hard to accept, and it was normal to feel a bit resentful in her heart.
But what she couldn't understand most was why Zhao Lina, who had an even larger drop in status, seemed so calm with not a single word of complaint.
"Lina, do you really want to yield like this? Before, rich heirs offered you sports cars worth millions and you didn't agree. Now you're actually going to agree to a security guard?!"
Zhou Qiuping looked at Zhao Lina with utter incomprehension and said.
"That was before. Things are different now. Before, I had my own plans for life and my own ideals to achieve, so naturally I wouldn't be swayed by those rich heirs.
Gifting presents, bags, and sports cars are all non-essential material goods that didn't help my ideals or my plans at all, so naturally I wouldn't be moved by them.
But now, without food, we die. This is a very realistic problem. And once dead, everything is gone.
From a biological perspective, no matter how lowly a creature is, even a single bacterium, it doesn't want to die. Everything a living organism does is to survive. I am no different.
We must survive first before talking about ideals and the future," Zhao Lina said calmly.
Zhou Qiuping listened to Zhao Lina's words, showing a shocked expression. This level of awareness was something she couldn't imagine.
In the end, she shook her head and said sincerely to Zhao Lina:
"Lina, I really admire you. No matter when, you can maintain the coolest head without letting emotions control your thinking. Maybe this is what a truly exceptional person is like."
Zhao Lina's composure earned her admiration.
Perhaps this was the rationality beyond ordinary people possessed by a female top student in science.
"Your emotions are just what a normal person should have, so don't dwell on it too much. You'll figure it out after staying hungry for one more night. I'm going to find him now," Zhao Lina comforted Zhou Qiuping.
However, this piece of comfort sounded remarkably awkward to Zhou Qiuping.
Figure it out after staying hungry for one more night?
Uh...
Can I choose not to go hungry?
Before she had the chance to speak, Zhao Lina had already left the room.
She went up to the second floor.
Zhou Qiuping opened her mouth, but ultimately said nothing.
It seemed she was bound to go hungry tonight, having been beaten to the punch by Zhao Lina...
This star scholar best friend was indeed one step ahead in everything!
...
Upstairs, Liu Yang was lying on the bed resting.
Clearing out the entire villa area today had exhausted him quite a bit.
However, having rescued two female survivors made it all worth it.
Soon, there was a knock at his door.
"Oh? Figured it out so quickly? It seems hunger really makes people sober. I just wonder which of the two it is?"
"Come in!" Liu Yang called out toward the door.
When he saw the person who pushed the door open and entered, his eyes instantly lit up.
So beautiful!
Really too beautiful!
Liu Yang never expected that a survivor he casually saved would turn out to be so beautiful; in terms of appearance and figure, she didn't even lose to He Yushi!
Liu Yang looked at her, feeling she seemed a bit familiar.
Looking closely.
He finally remembered who she was.
He said to her in surprise, "You... aren't you that girl known as the top scholar campus belle, Zhao something?"
"It's Zhao Lina," the top scholar campus belle said in a soft voice, her fair face flushing red.
"Oh, right, right, right! Zhao Lina, I remember you. Not only are you extremely beautiful, but you also regularly rank first in the grade. The students in school often praised you like a legend, saying you're the hardest girl to court in the entire school! I didn't expect the person I saved was you!"[STORY_END]
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