"Bandit, have you no respect for the law?"
A Yu pointed at Qin Shilei and scolded, "This convenience store was clearly given to us by my father, yet you shamelessly refuse to leave."
"That's right, the name on the business license is my father-in-law's," Xu Tiancheng chimed in.
Qin Shilei said indifferently, "My classmate lives upstairs. She knows the store owner, and it's not your father."
"This..."
A Yu fabricated, "He's our adopted father. He has no children, so couldn't he give it to us?"
"Pfft!"
Qin Shilei was amused by her words. "A fine adopted father indeed. Actually, I was just bluffing earlier."
"Get out!"
Xu Tiancheng, enraged, barked, "You're not welcome here, so get out!"
"My husband went to martial arts school and absorbed two crystal cores. If you don't want to die, you'd better leave quickly."
A Yu also threatened.
After all was said and done, it was because Qin Shilei held a long sword and had just decapitated a zombie with one swing. This made them hesitate to drive him away by force.
Qin Shilei crossed his arms and said coldly, "I'm taking this place!"
If they could occupy this convenience store, why couldn't he snatch it away?
"Then go ask for it in hell."
Xu Tiancheng raised his cleaver and charged ferociously.
If this were a day earlier, with someone charging at him with a knife, Qin Shilei would have turned and run. Now, he could calmly face the other's fierce demeanor.
In the eyes of Qin Shilei, who had mastered swordplay, the opponent was full of flaws.
His shoulder dropped, and the Seven Star Sword was drawn, striking the opponent's right wrist.
With a clang, the cleaver fell to the ground.
He lifted his leg and kicked.
Xu Tiancheng curled up like a shrimp and fell backward, crashing into the shelves behind him before stopping.
"Tiancheng, are you alright?"
A Yu rushed to help her husband and then turned to curse, "You bandit, you villain, you'll definitely go to hell."
"Now, get out immediately!"
Qin Shilei stepped forward, the Seven Star Sword pointing at the other.
"You..."
A Yu wanted to continue cursing, but as soon as she met Qin Shilei's cold gaze, her words stopped abruptly.
"Let's go."
Xu Tiancheng glanced up, then gritted his teeth and said to his wife.
After getting up, they went to a corner, picked up large backpacks each, and walked towards the door.
He unlocked the door and pushed it open.
Xu Tiancheng let his wife go ahead.
He turned to look back and saw Qin Shilei still four or five meters away.
A wicked plan suddenly formed in his mind.
He bent down as if to put the lock on the ground, but his left foot stepped out of the door.
As he straightened up, his left hand instantly grasped the glass door handle on the left, preparing to close the door and lock it from the outside.
His peripheral vision caught a cold glint that appeared in front of him.
"Ah!"
Half of his forearm was severed by a sword, but the glass door also swung forward to close.
In extreme pain, Xu Tiancheng gritted his teeth and tried to thread the lock onto the handle of the right glass door.
Qin Shilei retracted his right hand and used the spine of his sword to pull along the edge of the left glass door.
The almost-closed glass door swung open again.
Seeing that he was cornered, Xu Tiancheng threw the lock towards Qin Shilei and turned to run into the distance.
He hadn't taken two steps before a sword tip pierced through his chest. All his strength vanished, and he fell to the ground weakly.
"Don't kill me, I'll run far away right now."
A Yu, who was terrified by the scene, suddenly came to her senses, waving her hands in front of her chest and begging for mercy.
The answer was a sword flash as fast as lightning.
Since he had crossed the threshold of killing, Qin Shilei felt he shouldn't leave someone with such deep animosity alive. Killing so many zombies, killing people didn't seem so hard to accept.
Qin Shilei bent down and opened the two backpacks on the ground. They indeed contained food and other supplies.
Xu Tiancheng had been quite thoughtful. He guarded a convenience store and had prepared two backpacks with necessities. If there were any emergencies, he could grab the backpacks and flee at any time.
He brought the backpacks back into the convenience store, extracted the crystal cores from the three zombies inside, and then disposed of their bodies outside.
As night was falling, he decided to spend the night in the convenience store.
After checking the doors and windows again to ensure they were secure, he turned and entered the convenience store's small kitchen.
It was a kitchen less than two square meters.
The rice cooker had already finished cooking rice, and the corn and pork rib soup was still simmering. On the counter, there was a plate of washed Chinese greens and a plate of sliced cured meat.
Qin Shilei thought for a moment and decided to cook the greens and cured meat.
Sitting on a small stool, eating cured meat with rice, and occasionally drinking some rib soup, Qin Shilei almost forgot that he had transmigrated to the apocalypse.
He opened the chat channel:
"So hungry, can anyone send me a piece of bread."
"A beautiful school flower proficient in eighteen fighting techniques, seeking patronage, as long as there's something to eat."
"The person above might misunderstand the meaning of 'beautiful'."
"Being a shut-in is a good quality. I just bought a box of instant noodles. Anyone who sends nudes might get a bucket from me."
"Can a guy's photo work? I'll send it immediately."
"Get lost!"
On the chat channel, over ninety percent of the messages were about begging for food or showing off what they had to eat.
Thinking about having a home-cooked meal for dinner, Qin Shilei instantly felt a sense of overwhelming happiness.
"Almost forgot about the trading system."
Qin Shilei put down his bowl and chopsticks, walked to a shelf, and put the food and drinks on it into the trading system.
Back at the table, he casually posted a few advertisements on the chat channel.
"Hui Min Convenience Store Grand Sale! Any two items from water, bread, ham sausage, and instant noodles can be exchanged for one crystal core."
As soon as the advertisement was posted, a stream of people responded.
"Big shot, I'm Star performer, can you give me some food? Let's chat privately."
"Big shot, I finally got one crystal core, can I exchange it for more items?"
"Poster, don't disrupt the market, everyone is trading one pack of instant noodles for one crystal core."
"Scammer, get lost!"
Qin Shilei browsed the chat channel while eating, but he didn't post another message.
A few minutes later.
A small red dot appeared on the trading channel button.
He clicked on it and saw that one of the five shelves was empty, and he had also gained a crystal core.
Qin Shilei's eyes lit up, and he hurried to restock the shelves.
Then, every few minutes, he would sell one item.
An hour later, he had accumulated a total of 18 crystal cores.
The food sold was merely a drop in the bucket for the convenience store.
This situation continued until ten o'clock at night, when the rate of selling items began to slow down.
For over four hours, Qin Shilei had been excitedly putting items on the trading system. The rewards were astonishing.
He had collected a total of 69 crystal cores.
Combined with the three he found in the convenience store, he now had 72 crystal cores in his possession.
"Roar!"
Just as Qin Shilei was lost in the joy of his gains, a loud roar suddenly erupted.
"Gurgle."
The zombies' roars outside the window continued one after another, as if responding to the initial roar.
Could it be a zombie king?
A sense of unease flickered through Qin Shilei's mind.