Apocalypse: I have a supermarket stocked with supplies

Chapter 191: Satisfactory answer Chapter 191: Satisfactory answer After spending a few days in the little villa, the three of them went down to the Underground City again.

This time, they had a purpose.

Many women below might have gotten used to this kind of life, but there must still be those who disliked this way of living, who yearned for the life on the surface.

What they needed to do was to help these women who wanted to get out.

To take them up to the surface.

Perhaps they would die as soon as they got out, perhaps life above would be very hard, far less comfortable than the one underground.

But every person should have the right to choose.

To be honest, this was kind of foolish.

Only the three of them had the time to do this kind of thing.

This kind of trivial pursuit, in most people’s eyes, was useless, even superfluous.

The women who wanted to leave were, in fact, easy to find.

All you had to do was look into their eyes.

The eyes of those who wanted to stay, and those who wanted to leave, were different.

Their eyes sparkled with light, they longed for freedom.

They were working hard to show them the world outside.

The first person they found was named Shen Qingran.

The moment they saw Shen Qingran, they knew she was different from the others.

When they first asked her, Shen Qingran played dumb, “What are you talking about? What’s all this about above and below?”

She looked around, her gaze dodging.

They had no idea how shocked Shen Qingran was on the inside.

After being captured and brought down, Shen Qingran had always fantasized about going back up, having seen the world outside, how could anyone stand to live underground continuously.

She was a Superpower User, she could feed herself with her own abilities, why should she have to use her body?

Shen Qingran was not someone who valued purity greatly—if it were necessary, on the brink of starvation, she was willing to exchange her body for something to keep herself alive.

In the apocalypse, purity was worthless, food, and her life were more important.

But not this kind of trade.

She felt she could sustain herself, but after entering this base, she didn’t even have the right to choose; they knocked her out and took her to the Underground City, where she was locked in a small room with many other women.

Someone would give them lessons, make them wear revealing clothes, teach them how to show off the curves of their bodies.

Those who taught them told them that from now on, they would live in the Underground City, in this so-called Eden Garden.

As long as they were obedient, they would no longer have to endure the harshness of the weather nor face the horrific natural disasters.

They would have food every day, a safe house to live in.

All this, just for standing on the street in revealing clothes every day.

Among the women in the room, many had been exchanging their bodies for food since the apocalypse began; hearing these benefits, they agreed without a second word.

Some thought it was safe here, with food and drink, and agreed as well.

Then there were those, like her, who felt they could survive on their own, who didn’t want to stay.

For the first two types of women, those who taught them praised them and rewarded them with cooked chunks of meat. For the latter type, they were pricked with saltwater-soaked needles.

They had initially considered using whips, but they were afraid of damaging their bodies, leaving scars.

They poked them with needles, kicked them, and eventually locked these women separately in tiny, dark rooms, without food or drink.

They said it was to let them think it over, and when they had thought it through, they would be let out.

Some were stubborn and ended up dying inside.

Others couldn’t take it anymore in the end and begged to be released.

Shen Qingran was the latter.

She yielded, but her heart had not completely given in.

She might have learned from them, but her heart still yearned for life above ground.

At first, Shen Qingran felt she was lonely.

But later, after joining an organization, she discovered that there were many, many people just like her.

They chose to submit to survive, but in their hearts, they were always thinking of leaving, to go and see the sun outside again.

The light down here was too cold, too indifferent.

The organization was always looking for a way out, but they had all failed.

There had been someone who actually made it to the surface, but there were no women on the surface of the base; as soon as she got out, she was discovered, beaten half to death, locked up for a few days, and the next time she came out, it was as a corpse.

The base also often sent people to probe these women; if anything was discovered, they would be captured, starved for a few days, and made to confess.

Once, a member of the organization was caught, starved for a few days, and couldn’t hold out; she confessed everything about the organization.

The people from above the base dispatched a capture team, and the organization was hit hard, losing most of its veterans.

Then they became very cautious and vigilant, learning to play dumb and pretend not to understand.

In the past, the base always sent women to probe, woman to woman, there was more trust between them, and it was very easy to probe them.

This time, three men came to ask—were there no women to help them probe? Could they only find men?

Shen Qingran skillfully played dumb.

And prepared to see how these three “men” would test her.

She was now battle-hardened; after all, she had been locked up dozens of times, drawing lessons from each time, Shen Qingran had become very practiced at these tricks.

“Do you really not want to go above? We found a passage; if you want to leave, you can come with us,” Lin Murong was in charge of talking to her.

“Leave? Why would I leave, it’s so good here, with food and drink, it’s…good,” Shen Qingran was playing dumb, deliberately using sarcasm, but when she saw Lin Murong’s sincere eyes, for some reason she suddenly found it a little hard to keep on speaking.

Good?

Where was it good?

They were clearly not doing well at all.

She didn’t want to stay in this Eden Garden, didn’t want to exchange her body for food, nor did she want to learn those techniques for seducing others.

She wanted to enhance her superpower, fight Zombies, kill mutant animals, and eradicate Mutated Plants.

She wanted to be an Advanced Superpower User; she knew she was not strong, and if she relied on herself, she might go hungry, alternating between fasting and feasting, and she might even die.

But she still wanted to go out, to look at the blue sky above the ground, to look at the sun above the surface.

It had been a very long time since she had seen the sun.

It was also quite strange; before the apocalypse, she thought about sun protection every day, applying sunscreen, carrying an umbrella, wishing she could stay indoors every day, not to see the sun.

But once she truly didn’t see the sun anymore, she longed to bask in the sunlight below it.

“Is it really that good?” Lin Murong’s eyes met hers.

Shen Qingran’s eyelashes trembled slightly, and she awkwardly avoided his gaze, “Of…of course, we’re so happy here, just stand outside for a bit each day, and we won’t go hungry at all.”

Isn’t this the answer you wanted to hear?

Just go.

Leave quickly after hearing the satisfying answer.

If you don’t leave, I can’t keep from denying what I’ve said.