"Comfortable?" A voice that sent a chill down her spine sounded from the other side of the cell gate.
"Older sister!" Lin Yu made her voice sickeningly sweet and happy as if delighted to know her sister is here.
"Oh? Are you that happy to see me?" Lin Mei's cold voice held no warmth.
"Did you bring something to eat?" Ignoring her sister's cold voice, Lin Yu asked excitedly.
"What would you like?" After a long time, Lin Mei asked with slight amusement. Hearing her question, Lin Yu looked around the room and started naming. "Coco, cereal, soft white bread, warm full cream milk, Manga, TV screen, movies, music videos oh...and a bathing kit."
"Where do you think you are?!" Xu Jun shouted in outrage.
"Brother in law? Why do you still sound so angry at me? I explained clearly that I don't have your things. Honestly, passing through a place will brand a person as a thief? What a joke!" She sounded both wronged and angry.
"If you really didn't steal anything, then Xu Jun is promising to let you go." Lin Mei said in a low voice.
"Then why are you wasting time? Open the cell and let me go!" Lin Yu stood up and stood by the cell entrance.
"He is willing to let you go under my custody. You are not free from suspicion. Thereforeyou need to be monitored. " Lin Mei said surprising Lin Yu.
"Why?" Lin Yu asked genuinely confused.
"The alternative is for you to die." Xu Jun said coolly.
"Are you going to watch me 24hours of the day?" Lin Yu rolled her eyes.
"No but I will have remote access to your house arrest ankle bracelet. I can see where you are at all times and if I disapprove of your behavior I will be able to punish you."
"Ankle bracelet? Punishment?" Lin Yu is familiar with these little bracelets that organizations put on warriors who sold themselves into service.
They can restrict abilities, and release electric shock to punish disobedient slaves. These bracelets are nearly indestructible and give others complete control over a person just like the collar of a slave.
"Putting a leash on me is a bit sick don't you think?" Lin Yu pretended to be scared but inside she is very mad. This couple of rotten potatoes wants to enslave her!
"The two of you really deserve death." Lin Yu spat with thick killing intent. Her eyes turned into those of her beast and the words came out as a growl.
"What did you say?" Lin Mei asked her incredulously. The killing intent was fleeting, she almost thought she felt wrong.
"I said you... and your boy toy are begging to be murdered brutally by me." The tone is a little excited. They finally saw the terrifying eyes which made them feel the cold grip of death at the back of their necks.
"Is that how you feel about us? We're trying to help you leave this place alive!" Xu Jun said in outrage.
"Yeah, don't bother. You put false charges on me just to let your girlfriend vent her mother's anger on me." The tone has returned to being relaxed as usual but the two can not forget that chill down their spines when she made a threat last time.
Lin Mei had first thought that Lin Yu was also reborn but she is not sure about this conclusion since Lin Yu seems oblivious of the past life.
They opened the cell and four men entered surrounding her. In quick movement, she beheaded all four with a rune weapon before appearing outside the cell door holding a sharp knife inside her sister's stomach.
"Oh dear, I seem to have misplaced my green toad poison blade." She pulled it out letting the blood from Lin Mei's stomach fall on the ground.
"Mei Mei!" Xu Jun panicked and shouted.
"I wouldn't move if I were you." Lin Yu said bringing Lin Mei up with her shirt.
"Why did you choose to stab her? Why not me?" Xu Jun shouted with tears in his eyes.
"Because the idea of enslaving me came from her. Didn't it?" Lin Yu kicked Lin Mei in the stomach making the pain from intensify and blood flow. She passed out.
"Just because of that?" Xu Jun shouted wanting to move closely but the same green bladed dagger appeared in her hand still dripping blood.
"This kind of poison will immediately suck on all the body's spirit energy draining it dry. The more energy you have the faster it works. The only way she could cure it is if I give her the antidote but...she wants to enslave me." After stabbing her sister without hesitation, every time she speaks it sounds like a villain monolog.
Lin Mei had been too stunned to see her sister move so fast that even though she is at tier three spirit warrior, she didn't feel her movements like she usually does. It was as if Lin Yu disappeared from her senses for a moment, and that had been enough for the other party to stab her.
Lin Mei felt immense pain, her could feel her innards rotting at a very fast pace and then her spirit power getting zapped away from her as a very fast pace. "What...?" What kind of demonic poison is this? Where did Lin Yu, that brainless fool get it?
Lin Yu ignored her dying sister and took out a long brown coat, a pair of short heel female boots to look elegant and put them on. Walking down the corridor as if she owns the place, Xu Jun felt like he doesn't know her at all. Remembering the glint in her eye as she stabbed Lin Mei in the stomach, he shook his head feeling like this is a nightmare.
"Take me out of here if you wish to save her." Lin Yu said in a dark tone full of command. She kicked Lin Mei again for good measure.
"You are going to pay for this!" Xu Jun who is known for his calm demeanor lost his temper completely. He looked at Lin Yu as if he wants to rip her to shreds.
"I don't doubt it. But you should remember this is your fault Xu Jun, if you hadn't dumped false charges on me just to please her, she wouldn't be dying on the floor right now." Lin Yu gave him a couple of light slaps just to humiliate him. Seeing the usually arrogant young master Xu keep silent, she felt bored and walked on pushing him to show the way.
"You won't get away with this." Xu Jun gritted out. His eyes are blood shot, he has never wanted to kill someone this bad. The thought of Lin Mei laying on the cold floor losing her life force little by little made him feel murderous.
"Relax, she won't die." Lin Yu said.
"You stabbed her with some toad poison blade and then left her on the ground without care!" He roared.
"She'll be out for a couple of days, you'll have plenty of time to place her on a comfortable bed." She saw they are almost outside and let him go. Confident he will not do anything to her while she holds the life of his beloved.
"What about the antidote?" He asked looking at her with a voice tinged with despair. The last image of Lin Mei felt like this entire world is crumbling leaving him completely cold. So cold. Just then, Lin Yu's careless voice sounded.
"She doesn't need it urgently. I want her to remember her younger sister for a while and then when I'm good and ready, she may find deliverance." She walked out of the large mansion with light steps, felling a bit smug.
"You mean to torture her!" He said in horror. "Lin Yu, don't do this. Her mother took you in and gave you a life of a young lady. How can you bare to harm her?" He asked her with a hoarse voice.
Before she could respond, a thunder crackling punch landed on her stomach with a loud boom sending her flying in the air. But instead of her body crashing down she landed on all four.
Because her attention had been on the many guards surrounding her, she didn't think someone will be stupid enough to attack her while she holds the antidote to Lin Mei's the poison.
As she landed, the black hair pulled from her back and seemed to become a long dancing shadow. In a blink of an eye, she pulled out a metal bat, not wanting to accidentally kill her half brother, she swung it just as he meant to land another punch.
His fist met the hard metal in the air... bones shattered deforming his hand instantly making him a usually cold man let out a scream full of pain. Lin Yu didn't feel soft hearted because of this, in fact she felt he cries so beautifully. In her last life, her family had this unfortunate habit of pissing her off.
They didn't like the result did they? Now, lets see what my new family has instore for me. I do hope you have a tenacious body, able to bare all sorts of things from this young lady when she loses her temper. hehe...
Lines between her past life and this life seems to blur.
She didn't give Lin Miyue a chance to recover, raising the metal bat again, she repeatedly brought it down fracturing bones, displacing organs and the last one made put him directly unconscious.
"You're killing him!" Xu Jun is frightened seeing such a bloody scene. He wanted to rush up and protect Mei Mei's brother, but seeing how heavy handed this girl is, she might just decide he is too much of a nuisance.
"Relax, he has lightning body. He should heal fully in two days. This is just a small lesson from me." Lin Yu responded to Xu Jun while kicking her older brother worsening his severe injuries.
"Anyone else?" She looked at the group coldly. If she wasn't suspected to have all the materials of the family they would have shot her by now.
Her face and some part of her coat are splashed with blood from Lin Miyue. One look from her made the seasoned men take successive steps back. That bloody image coupled with her deep red eyes made a shiver crawl up their collective spines.
Just then, a silent hum fell on the area, no one dared to made a move. Lin Yu suddenly turned into black flames and disappeared from her spot. It isn't teleportation but shadow warping. A high level skill she learned the skill from her spirit body.
Mastering skills is one of the most important effects of awakening a spirit body. Every now and then, new skills will be learned and mastered by the spirit warrior who possess a spirit body. It makes everyone wish to awaken a spirit body as it is a guaranteed way to become a powerhouse in a short time.
If not for the occasional need for cleansing of the spirit palace, spirit warriors who awakened a spirit body will be the most powerful warriors to exist in the world. Unfortunately they run a large risk of becoming mutated creatures if their spirit palace is corrupted by unclean energy.
As soon as she appeared inside her flat, she warped to the docks where the Xu supplies were previously stolen by her. Then she reappeared in the jade store where she bought her space jade. The place is then emptied by her because Lin Yu will need jade to inscribe various useful inscriptions in the future.
Lin Yu has a talent for spirit inscriptions just as Lin Mei has an uncanny talent for talisman. Inscriptions can be turned into formations and powered with spirit stones. As a high level thief, Emely had dismantled thousands of inscription formations in her line of work.
She had spent most of her childhood learning the intricate principles of inscriptions. She was drawn to them and upon realizing people use them as lock and key to secure their treasures, a new world opened up for her.
After cleaning the city of all the jade she could find, she turned her attention towards the four large supermarkets. Lin Yu walked towards the only supermarket without humans living inside. It turns out, there's a reason for that particular detail. She found small sized creatures crawling all over the place. The scene is more than a little bit disturbing, it makes one's scalp tingle.
Luckily she hadn't come for food, but for the shelves in each store on her way. Lin Yu wants to organize her supplies in her space. Especially the many restaurants takeaways she had bought and duplicated using the stone pillar in her space.
As soon as she entered the supermarket, hallowed out corpses liters the ground, frozen stiff by the cold temperature or this many dead bodies would be stinking up the place.
Lin Yu used her shadow flames to clean up the scene. The various mutated creatures saw a living human and pounced in her direction as if seeing a delicious snack.
Humans don't seem to come out these days, mostly because a normal human would freeze in seconds after getting touched by the snow.
It is just that bad. This is not just the cold, it is the cold in an apocalypse.
This gave her the perfect opportunity to incinerate all the mutated animals in the store, careful not to destroy her shelves.
The mutated ants, rats and even the spiders in the supermarket are all deformed in some way, others have grown extra eyes, limbs and even mouths. The sight is hard to bare.
Just as she thinks they are all gone, a three legged beast descended the stairs one step at a time. It has one huge eye in the middle of its deformed face. When Lin Yu moved her head to the side, that large eye follows her looking very creepy. The mouth covers half of it's face.
The body seems to be human but with green skin. Most importantly she couldn't see it's arms. "Where are your arms?" She looked curiously at the thing finding this new type of figure mortifying.
The thing moved very fast, before she is done with analyzing, it had already come before her.
Opening its mouth, a pungent smell assaulted her with full force making her eyes burn.
The next thing she is attacked by a long slimy thing. It wrapped around her neck dragging her towards the open mouth with astonishing strength.
If she hesitated she will be devoured. The thing's mouth is open to an impossible size. She concentrated her shadow flame and reduced it to nothing. A glistening green gem fell on the ground with a clinking sound.
After picking it up, she spotted another grotesque creature headed for her. It has several mouths, there are large teeth showing from inside each drooling mouth. Lin Yu shuddered, she wondered it it has several stomachs as well.
There's a mouth on the face, on it's chest there's at least two, drooling a disgusting liquid, with occasional long tongue sticking out grazing it's sharp looking teeth.
It's size is easily three men put together in both heights and size. Without waiting, she eliminated it after exerting a bit more effort than the last one. Another green gem fell off the ashes.
Lin Yu is currently training to only burn what she means to destroy. Instead of flooding the supermarket with her shadow flame, she sends over wisps of her power with the aid of her well developed spirit power, she picked the creatures one by one letting her flame consume them completely.
The tasks is daunting and needs intense discipline. In her last life she was a thief and had to enter highly secured places. This taught her patience and stealth. She imagined each target as a treasure she must steal without leaving evidence of her presence.
The training is going well, she ended up learning the aspect of shadow and flame exclusively managing to cover a place with her shadow without obliterating everything inside like she did when she put Xu agents unconscious on their first meeting.
She couldn't remember how she did it but now it can be done as she wishes. The best part about flooding an area with her power is that with in the shadow she can see everything perfectly.
As long as a person is within her shadow they are on a chopping block. Lin Yu conducted an experiment. The entire floor is thus turned into a dark place filled with her shadow then she erased the enemies simultaneously while leaving everything intact.
When the shadows reseeded the store is clean of the corpses, the mutated animals and even the dry blood on the ground is gone.
She let out a smile and then took what she had come here for. The store shelves. These shelves have a lot of food still because of the mutated creatures from before, whoever came here would be attacked immediately.
She didn't take the food but used her flame to get rid of the screws nailing the shelves in the shop walls and floor.
Then she took all the shelves away leaving the food, snacks and fridges full. Going upstairs she took away the shelves in the others floors as well.
There she had found a few monsters and got rid of them all and then entered into a coffee shop she took away the machines to make coffee and the backing equipment in the back. Then she took away all display boxes, paper cups and the stoves.
She did this is a restaurant where all the customer seats tables, the counter and all the cooking materials are taken away by her. She didn't even spare the glass windows and the decorative lights, dishes, utensils, gas cylinders and even the kitchen smoke dispenser was un-installed by her flame.
The mall is cleaned up of the equipment but the food is let behind, just not on any shelf. In the fridge she took away the ice.
Lin Yu has the artifact that can replicate items so she will use it as the prince had attempted that year when disasters hit. He had duplicated food and fed the entire city on his own.
After this stop, Lin Yu walked out towards B city. That is where Gu Fang will establish a base and built an underground city. With her resources, she can definitely convince him to take her in.
She drove a moto bike avoiding obstacles on the way like a pro biker. To reach B city she still has three cities to cross after leaving C city completely.
There are wholesale enterprises in F city. The apocalypse has only been going on for a bout a week. However, when she reached the place, it is completely empty. In fact, the supermarket warehouse were also looted completely If she had checked she would have seen it.
Even at the factories in D county only thing remaining is the machines for processing can food, sausages, polonies, Vienna's, and meat patties. Without delay she took them all into her space and on the way she found the other places also emptied completely.
Fabric plant processing equipment. Shoe maker, leather processor and other cloth processing machines were taken away by her.
The monsters on the way kept attacking her but she hasn't run into a monster above tier 4 peak level which is her current strength in both body and spirit power.
The world has really become rugged. The buildings are destroyed by the large monsters and the food is destroyed by the smaller monsters. Another thing is the plants slowly taking over the abandoned cities turning them into forests little by little.
Tonight there us only a small county before Lin Yu will be able to reach B base. She needs to get ready. In her past life she knew many cultivation manuals but that was immortality cultivation but in this world they have to cultivate spiritual awakening.
The jade space should have a few but that house is choosy about whom to give out the owner's things.
Lin Yu used the pills and potions in the space storage room to raise her strength. Both body and her flame.
The third week she made it to B city she started farming. The animals now have separate places to sleep and walk around. She started by planting rice. Then wheat, corn and maize. Occasionally she would make cheese, milk and even soy milk from soy beans.
She uses the batteries for these machines. She will be able to make wheat floor and when the time comes.
During her travels Lin Yu saw many animal farms and saw that many of the animals remaining have already mutated. According to her information they can be eaten but only part of their bodies can still be eaten.
The soil has slowly began to dry up and all the plants on it died one by one. The places with fertile soil have all been taken over by mutated plants and beasts.
Currently she is inside a tall building inside B city watching Gu Fang and his men clear out the city and barricading the building they are staying in.
Lin Yu felt like a stalker but she has very little choice after harming her half siblings. If she doesn't make alliances she will be isolated a destroyed by those people.
'Sigh.. it's the life of a villain.'
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