Looking at Shuang'Er, who seemed to be moving as slowly as rust, Ye Fan couldn't help but find it amusing.

No matter how strong she is, at her core, she's still just a little girl.

Ye Fan said deliberately, "Hey! Shuang'Er, I haven't seen you all morning. I thought you wouldn't come, but it seems you've brought good news, right?"

Shuang'Er opened her mouth, her face slightly flushed, her big eyes unconsciously filled with pleading: "Um... about the money I owe you, can you give me an extension for one day?"

"Oh! From the way you spoke this morning, I thought you had the money by now? Did something unexpected happen?"

Shuang'Er nodded lightly, "There was a bit of a hiccup, but it's just a small issue. I'm sure I can find them today."

"Have your teammates gone missing?"

"Yeah, they promised to wait for me in a certain place, but I couldn't find them at all, and I can't get in touch with them now."

"Are you sure you can find them today?"

Shuang'Er thought for a moment, "It should be possible. Why don't we think it over while having a meal?"

"Alright, follow me."

Ye Fan was hungry too, so he led Shuang'Er to Qin Yumo's Mountain Range Hotel.

Because of makeup, Qin Yumo didn't recognize Ye Fan, but she stared at Shuang'Er for a good while.

Always proud of her beauty, she found Shuang'Er particularly annoying.

This little girl, stunningly pretty, where did she come from?

But guests are guests, so she had to accommodate them, arranging a private room for Ye Fan and Shuang'Er.

Once inside, Shuang'Er picked up the menu without waiting for Ye Fan.

"Wow! The dishes here are so ample, even Mutant Beast Meat has so many varieties. Can I order freely?"

Ye Fan poured himself a cup of tea and took a sip, "If you're treating, then you can order however you want."

Having regained her confidence, Shuang'Er said, "I will treat, but you pay first. Once I get the money, I'll give it all to you."

And with that, she started ordering food directly.

"A large portion of braised river fish, also a large portion of beef bone hotpot, add all these vegetables. Wow! There's watermelon juice too? Is there watermelon in this season?"

The server, recording the order, replied, "It's all greenhouse grown by our farmers under Leader Ye's direction. Not only do we have watermelon, but also all kinds of seasonal vegetables."

"I'm from the south, why don't other places have this?"

"Other places don't have as much land as we do. After Leader Ye defeated the zombie hordes twice, we have no zombies for hundreds of miles around, allowing us to utilize so much land."

"Your people must be quite hardworking."

"People everywhere are hardworking. Mostly, it's because our leader is exceptional. Without him, Dawn City wouldn't be what it is today."

Shuang'Er blinked, "Is he really that good?"

"Of course! You can ask any resident of Dawn City; no one doesn't like Leader Ye. He's done so much for us. Compared to any other base, Dawn City is the best."

Shuang'Er wasn't entirely convinced but didn't question further. She continued to order a few more dishes and requested two large pitchers of watermelon juice before handing over the menu to the server.

After a while, the food arrived, and the two started eating heartily.

Ye Fan always had a good appetite, but today, the girl sitting opposite him was eating with gusto too, tempting him to eat even more than usual.

Six dishes, one hotpot, and a bowl of rice were swept clean by the two, and the watermelon juice was also finished, finally filling them up.

After settling the bill, it totaled over 400 Light Yuan.

Another day of high consumption.

After paying, Ye Fan asked Shuang'Er, "Are you going to look for your companions now?"

Shuang'Er thought for a moment, "I still need to find them, but I can go alone. At six in the evening, whether I find them or not, I'll meet you here."

"Alright, you go ahead. I have some other things to take care of too."

Shuang'Er nodded and said goodbye to Ye Fan, leaving Mountain Range Hotel alone.

This time, she didn't deliberately look for her teammates, realizing that without a target, searching might be futile.

Having just heard the server's words, she felt the need to calm down and take a good look at Dawn City.

After leaving the hotel, she wandered aimlessly along the streets.

She had seen Dawn City on TV before, but the TV version and the reality were two completely different things.

The city planning and greening of Dawn City are excellent, with luxury cars flowing on the streets and pedestrians moving in an orderly manner.

Stores line both sides of the road, with dazzling signs that exude a homely, market-like atmosphere.

Everyone is dressed well, and many are even wearing branded clothes. If she didn't know the outside of the city was still a wasteland, she might have mistaken this for not being a post-apocalyptic world at all.

"Miss! Miss! Would you like to take a look at this tracksuit? A limited Armani edition before the apocalypse, it used to cost tens of thousands per set, now it's just twenty Light Yuan."

Shuang'Er was stopped by someone, a woman with a friendly face.

The woman held a brand new luxury tracksuit, and Shuang'Er, being perceptive, could immediately tell it was genuine.

"This set costs twenty Light Yuan?"

The woman hesitated for a moment: "If you find it expensive, fifteen Light Yuan would work too."

"Fifteen?" Shuang'Er's big eyes widened even more, feeling incredulous.

"Yes, miss, fifteen really can't be any cheaper. This is genuine, my husband is part of an Adventurer Squad. Their squad isn't very strong, so they didn't manage to gather essentials like grain and fuel, only some clothes from fashion stores. This set is in the best condition, and you're so pretty, it would suit you perfectly. You get what you pay for, you can't possibly want to buy those clothes for just one or two Yuan, right?"

"There are clothes for one or two Yuan?"

"Yes, because there are fewer people and more clothes, they're definitely not fetching high prices. I also have clothes for one or two Yuan, and even some second-hand ones for as little as fifty cents. But seeing how beautiful you are, you probably wouldn't want to wear second-hand clothes; who knows if they've been stained with zombie blood, wouldn't you agree?"

Shuang'Er was shocked as she listened, suddenly realizing that tens of thousands of Light Yuan was actually quite a significant amount of money.

She asked the woman selling clothes another question: "Sister, I don't have money right now, but I want to earn money. Can I ask, how long does it take to earn five hundred thousand Light Yuan?"

The woman looked her up and down: "Miss, five hundred thousand Light Yuan in Dawn City, being frugal and financially savvy, would last a lifetime, and it's also money that many people won't earn in a lifetime, but..."

"But what?"

"But sister, let me advise you, we must earn money through proper channels. You're young and beautiful, don't learn from those women who let themselves fall, going to Seven-Star River to earn money. Even if you go to Dawn Grand Theater to perform and dance, that's a way out."

"Me dance? Can a woman like me find such high-end work here?"

"Of course, miss, Dawn City is not like other places, where currently women have no status. Women can't fight zombies, can't gather supplies, and are only reduced to being men's accessories and tools for pleasure. But Dawn City is different. Leader Ye personally went abroad, defeated Hai Shan Wei's Rakshasa, and saved tens of thousands of us women. He told us that women are fewer than men in the apocalypse, and that we shouldn't underestimate ourselves. As long as we maintain our dignity and work hard, there will be good opportunities. Many employment positions in Dawn City prioritize women."

Shuang'Er found it hard to believe, having come from Jiangzhou where she had seen much of the post-apocalyptic world.

She had seen how low the status of women was in the apocalypse. No matter what kind of woman you were before the apocalypse, when survival was about basic physical needs, you had no status.

No matter if you were a white-collar worker, a company executive, a PhD graduate, or a business elite, if you lacked physical strength and couldn't fight zombies, you were only fit to cook and sleep with men, and even then, you would only get to eat porridge.

Being pretty might make things slightly better, but inevitably, you'd become a plaything for the powerful, and equality would not be a topic of discussion.

Those men who lost legal restraints and gained power wouldn't take women seriously at all.

Unless you became a Mutant, you couldn't control your own fate, but even then, the overall situation remained unfavorable compared to men.

Even with her current strength, she could only be in a subordinate position.

This apocalypse is completely unfair to women, and there's never been any respect.

But in Dawn City, she heard something different.

"Then... Leader Ye must have a lot of girlfriends, right?"

The woman chuckled: "Indeed, many people want to be his girlfriend, but unfortunately, he doesn't have a single one."

"Why? Shouldn't a person like him have no shortage of women?"

"Little sister, let me tell you a secret. Some say Leader Ye isn't interested in women, but we don't really believe it. He's just wholeheartedly focused on the people of Dawn City, busy with no time to have a girlfriend. We all hope someone can help him in his personal life."

The shocking conversation ended, and Shuang'Er continued to wander aimlessly on the streets of Dawn City.

Her mind was in turmoil, and now she had two things to accomplish.

One was to complete the assassination task given by her adoptive father, but that's very difficult.

The Inner City District of the Dawn Army is tightly guarded, and a mist even hovers above it; she doesn't know where to start.

The second task is to find her teammates and repay the money she owes Chen Bufan.

After thinking for a long time, Shuang'Er decided to pay back the money first.

After all, there's no clue on assassinating Ye Fan, but earning money is an urgent priority.

But she quickly realized, just as the woman said, that earning enough money in a short time is basically impossible without doing something beyond conventional means.

So, she set her sights on the Star Night Wolf Pack, which she sees as a completely villainous Adventurer Squad.

Perhaps her missing teammates are in their hands.

Even if she can't find her teammates, she could rob them of some ill-gotten gains.

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