Rebirth before Apocalypse: My Whole Family are Bigshots!-Chapter 52: The Faint Hope of the Radio

"Sis, is this meat for me?"

Bai Yifan couldn’t help but swallow.

He remembered his sister saying he should eat meat to enhance his superpower.

"Yep." Bai Xiqin slyly grinned.

"He can’t finish it all by himself, right? Should we help him out a bit?" Bai Zhengxuan was practically drooling.

Mr. Bai wasted no time absorbing crystal cores for the sake of braised pig knuckle.

The stronger the superpower got, the healthier he became, the more he could eat, the more he ate, the more he craved, and the stronger the superpower became.

An endless cycle.

Bai Xiqin thought that sooner or later, her grandfather would become a superpower master!

"Alright, when you dish out the food for Taowu, save some for you all." Bai Xiqin said calmly.

Everyone: ...

That stupid ancient fierce beast Taowu sure did help a lot, it was the one that killed the mutant golden retriever.

It just felt like they were fighting with a pet for food.

"Xiao Niu, did this golden retriever eat zombies, that’s why there is a lot of black blood in its mouth?" Leng Yebai suddenly asked.

Bai Xiqin slightly curled her lips, finally someone noticed this issue.

Bai Xiqin smiled at Leng Yebai, with a look that said "you’re great".

Leng Yebai was slightly stunned, and a blush crept onto his face instantly.

Xiao Niu’s sudden expression of admiration made his heart almost stop beating. (Uncertain from where someone derived this deduction.)

"It ate zombies?" Bai Yifan’s face stiffened slightly for a moment.

Zombies weren’t considered the same species, just a bunch of walking corpses.

But no matter how mindless zombies were, they used to be humans while alive, live humans.

They could have been your friends or family.

If the dog ate zombies, wouldn’t eating the dog equate to... eating humans?

Bai Yifan’s face turned slightly pale and he subconsciously stepped back a little.

"Yes, most carnivorous mutant animals eat zombies." Bai Xiqin said seriously, "Superpower users who eat mutant animals can enhance their superpowers, but many people deliberately overlook that many mutant animals also eat zombies."

"How do you tell if a mutant animal has eaten zombies?" Bai Anhai glanced at the delicious-looking meat in the pot, his stomach churning slightly.

If all mutant animals ate zombies, he would be willing to never eat mutant animals again.

The inherent values hadn’t been completely crushed, and the family wasn’t out of food, so why make things difficult for himself?

"Look at the mouth and stomach. The most obvious feature of superpower animals that have eaten zombies is that their mouths and stomachs will contain black blood, which contains a large amount of virus." Bai Xiqin explained.

"Then, let’s only capture mutant animals that don’t eat zombies in the future!" Bai Zhengxuan quickly waved his hand, "Just throw all of this away!" 𝗳𝗿𝐞𝕖𝘄𝗲𝕓𝗻𝚘𝚟𝕖𝐥.𝚌𝕠𝕞

"What I want to say is, if you have to eat this type of mutant animal, you must clean the virus out of its body properly."

Bai Xiqin saw the look of rejection on everyone’s faces and let out a subtle sigh of relief.

In the previous life, no matter how hungry she got, she would never eat these mutant animals that had consumed zombies or humans.

For mutant animals, zombies were just food and protein for the stomach.

Logically speaking, there was no taboo against humans eating mutant animals.

But when people ate a lot of these mutant animals, sometimes the people themselves would change too.

People would find that the meat of mutant animals that had eaten zombies became more delicious, enticing like pufferfish.

At that time, how much humanity would be left?

A small portion of people would also discover that eating zombie-eating mutant animals was very powerful.

If people directly attacked superpower users...

The morality in the apocalypse darkened because of this.

When there was no food, eating one or two infected mutant animals seemed harmless.

But this stuff might be as addictive as a dangerous drug, causing reliance.

Bai Xiqin recounted various events from the three years after the apocalypse, one word at a time.

Using Zhao Mimi’s appearance, Bai Xiqin revealed the darkness she hadn’t shared before.

Zombies eating humans, mutant animals eating humans, eating zombies, humans eating...

Human scheming was sometimes far scarier than zombies.

"The apocalypse is even more horrifying than what novels depict." Bai Zhengxuan sat on the sofa, feeling slightly cold.

At his age, he only wanted to enhance his superpowers and eat braised pig knuckle.

Since the apocalypse began, the family stayed together. After hearing their granddaughter’s detailed description of the apocalypse, they were indescribably shocked but also calmly accepting it.

Now, hearing their granddaughter recount the darkness once more, he felt this wasn’t an apocalypse.

This was Hell on Earth.

The Bai Family was emotionally stirred, each person grateful that Xiao Niu had a prophetic dream.

Fortunate that not one member of the family was missing.

Leng Yebai looked at Bai Xiqin, his eyes full of distress.

Only he knew that Bai Xiqin’s calm recount was from real experiences.

He couldn’t empathize; just dreaming of the brutal scenes in the research institute had left him dazed for a long time.

He couldn’t imagine how fragile Xiao Niu had survived in the apocalypse for three years, the pain she must have endured those three years.

"Alright, alright, don’t be so heavy-hearted, I just wanted to tell everyone to not eat recklessly in the future and to stay true to oneself!" Bai Xiqin grinned, showing her teeth to everyone.

"In the future, I’ll only eat meals made by people with the surname Bai!" Wang Yiyun said.

She was a Funeral Master and wasn’t afraid of all that lively protein, but wasn’t insane.

"Right, just meals made by men with the surname Bai!" Liu Jing calmly added.

The women with the surname Bai didn’t cook, her daughter-in-law was hardly careful.

Leng Yebai: ...

Can he still change his surname now?

"Sis, if this stuff can’t be eaten, just throw it out!" Bai Yifan frowned at the meat in the pot.

If this stuff could potentially cause addiction, it’s better not to touch it.

"Okay!"

Bai Xiqin raised her eyebrows, calmly putting the pot of meat into her space and setting it in front of Taowu.

"Here’s your new food bowl, eat up!"

Bai Xiqin silently transmitted a message to the space.

This was a newly discovered ability of Bai Xiqin’s.

Taowu, an ancient fierce beast, could crunch humans without hesitation, no psychological burden to worry about.

As for addiction, it only affected humans, not animals.

――

Today marks the fifteenth day of the apocalypse.

The Bai Family scavenged a lot of materials again in Z City, killed many zombies, and filled several sacks with crystal cores in the space.

The next target.

The light steel villa manufacturing plant in Z City.

Before that, the Bai Family had an important thing left to do.

The fifteenth day was a significant day.

The bus quietly parked by the roadside, and Bai Zhengxuan seriously fiddled with a radio.

Satellites were all disabled by the energy tide, the network crashed, and phones turned to scrap metal.

During the first fifteen days of energy turbulence, all radio stations went down, and electromagnetic waves, which could even spread in a vacuum, couldn’t transmit any frequencies.

On the fifteenth day of the apocalypse, a few radio stations began to function again.

Static――

Static noise came from the radio.

Bai Zhengxuan held his breath, patiently switching from one frequency to another.

"...all...survivors...this is...Phantom Safety Base...location is..."

A man’s voice came intermittently from the radio.