End of the World, Rebirth as a Queen

City C, Jian'an Base.

"Ah~Ah~Wu..." The wailing sounds lingered in the dark room in the basement.

While roaring, it jumped up desperately, baring its teeth and pouncing on the person outside the cage. If it hadn't been restrained, it would have bitten the other person's neck off long ago.

"Scream! Scream in pain! Hahahaha..." A female voice, sharp and vicious, with a sense of pleasure in revenge.

The crackling electric currents stimulated the strange beast in the cage to wail continuously and fall to the ground and twitch.

Seeing that it didn't move, the whipping sounds followed again.

"Why don't you scream? Call your master to save you~"

"Oh! She can't make it in time, right?? Hahahaha... In this way, Brother Lin Bei is mine, oh! No, it's Brother Pluto..."

"That's Ghost Spider! She's definitely dead there... hehe... she's definitely dead~"

"You beast, if you want to blame someone, you can only blame your bad luck for choosing her as your master... I liked you at the beginning, too, what a pity... Now when I see you, I will think of everything that happened that day~" The girl touched her face, as if she could still feel the pain at that time, and the hatred in her eyes increased instead of decreased.

So she pressed the electric shock button again, and once again the electric current and wailing sounded simultaneously...

This was a place similar to a torture chamber. A pitch-black beast lay quietly on the ground in a metal cage. From time to time, you could hear a dripping sound. That was the blood dripping from its body. The injury and bleeding did not look obvious because of the fur, but the dripping sound was enough to prove that its injury was definitely not light.

Its eyes were closed and it looked as quiet as if it had lost all life. If it hadn't been for its slightly rising and falling abdomen, one would have thought it had ascended to heaven on the spot. A thick iron chain extended from its neck, and at the other end of the chain was a transformer box, which was the instrument for controlling the electric shock.

To prevent it from being electrocuted by the high-power current.

The iron cage and iron chain show the danger level of this strange beast.

After the torturer left, two guards came in to clean up the ground and tools.

"This strange beast is incredible! I don't know where the young lady got it from~" The guard guarding the dark room, holding a baton in his hand, said to his colleague next to him.

"Who knows? It's a sure win for a beast of this caliber whether it's tamed as a pet or thrown into an arena. But the young lady locked it up here, torturing it with electric shocks and whippings every day. I really don't understand the young lady's habits... Do people with money and power have strange ideas?" Another guard rubbed his nose, looking puzzled, and took a bucket to flush the ground.

"With the torture Miss has been doing, I don't think it will live long~"

"As little minions, we should stay out of the big lady's business. Only by doing more and talking less can we live longer." The man holding the baton was now holding a broom and trying to clean the blood stains on the ground.

"Lord Pluto is not here these days, so the young lady is free! If Lord Pluto comes back, the young lady probably won't have time to take care of this strange beast~" His colleague brought another bucket of water and washed the stains on the ground into the drain.

"It's unfortunate for Lord Pluto to meet a woman like the young lady..."

He ignored his colleagues' warnings. Life was already difficult, so what was wrong with saying a few words in this dark room underground?

My colleague stood up straight without saying a word, put down the broom, took out a bucket of meat and poured it into a deformed stainless steel basin, and pushed it in through a small window on the side of the cage that was specially used to deliver food.

The meat is not very fresh, there are flies and mosquitoes flying around, and it has a strong odor.

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After Lu Zhu found out Xuan Guang's whereabouts, he did not look for Chen Hua and the others anymore, but went directly to the entrance of Jian'an Base in City C.

She originally wanted to use the various seeds she had saved before to make supplies for the base, but in the end she changed them.

She came here to find people and partners, and she didn't know if there would be any trouble among them to keep her by using the seeds.

So Lu Zhu took out some things she had taken from the scrap yard, such as a broken induction cooker, a foot iron, copper coins, and some wild yams, and sneaked into the outer city of the base.

Only after entering did Lu Zhu realize that the base in City C was different from other places.

They have a U-shaped management model. The outermost area is where people live in tents and wander around without supplies. Further in is the outer city of the base, where ordinary people with supplies and some ordinary abilities live. The center is the core of the base, which is full of high-level people with abilities and those in power in the base.

People in the outer city are like white-collar workers in a company, working diligently to use their abilities to make a living, while people in the inner city just sit back and enjoy life. After all, managers make the rules and those who are managed follow them.

As for the Miss Ling mentioned by the person outside, Lu Zhu found out after asking that person that she lived in the inner city.

She is the daughter of the base commander.

Lu Zhu had a headache. It would be difficult to enter the inner city!

At this moment, Lu Zhu was standing in the bustling crowd, feeling as if he was in another world.

The overall living standard in the outer city is not much different from before the apocalypse, except that money is no longer needed for transactions.

A simple and crude form of barter. If there are too many supplies, they will be handed over to the supply exchange center in exchange for points, and then the points can be used to buy things.

Lu Zhu did not plan to live here for a long time, so she came to a place similar to a hotel. Since she was new and had no identification information, this was an accommodation arranged by the base. A person without an identification could stay here for a maximum of seven days.

Lu Zhu took out a pack of cigarettes and wanted to exchange it for a few days' accommodation, but the front desk clerk took one look at the crushed cigarette box and looked at it with disdain and contempt.

"That won't work. You can only stay here until tomorrow at most. If you want to stay here for seven days, you must add other supplies..."

Lu Zhu looked embarrassed, rummaged around in his backpack, and took out three Alps-shaped milk hard candies.

The moment the receptionist saw the candy bars, her eyes lit up. Although life in the outer city was similar to before the apocalypse, many things were still makeshift, and food was a scarce commodity.

Sugar is even more so. After such a long time in the apocalypse, the country was frozen by floods and extremely hot, so a lot of sugar could not be preserved. Now seeing the candies in intact packaging, how could she not be excited.

Looking at her expression, Lu Zhu knew that she had picked the right one. She looked conflicted, put one on the front desk, and put the rest into her bag.

The receptionist stood up anxiously, took Lu Zhu's hand, and put on an apologetic smile.

"My lady, I don't know you. If you need anything, just tell me. I'll let you stay for ten days with the three candies. What do you think?"

The front desk made a 180-degree turn, which made Lu Zhu raise an eyebrow. She didn't expect that candy would be so attractive?

She is not sure how long she will stay here. In addition to looking for Chen Hua and the others, Xuan Guang is now also here.

Next up is that family, they may be settled in City C now!

It takes time to find them.

So Lu Zhu took out a few pieces of roasted meat and a lollipop of the same brand from her bag and handed them to the front desk, and put the lollipop directly into her left pocket.

"I'll stay for a month, can you do it?"

The receptionist looked at her pocket, then looked at what Lu Zhu had taken out, and swallowed.

Finally, he nodded heavily: "Okay~"