Apocalyptic Disasters: Carrying a bun and hoarding supplies

Sat Jul 12 2025

Chapter 496: What Ill Motives are you hiding?

The entire night passed by without much change. It was a dreamless night, and with Lei Qian by her side, Bai Meiyue’s sleep was even more peaceful. She only woke up when sunlight started to pour out of the windows through the curtains. When Bai Meiyue sat up straight on the bed, she realised that Lei Qian had already woken up and left the room after cooking breakfast for her.

He had left a note for her saying where he was going and that she should eat breakfast before going somewhere.

Bai Meiyue pushed back the quilt and was about to get up from the bed when something sharp struck her tailbone. It was a pain similar to getting pricked by a needle and Bai Meiyue had to suck in a bunch of deep breaths to calm herself down. She was about four months pregnant and was soon moving into her fifth. It was time for her tailbone to start hurting.

She needed to go and ask Shen Zhen to help her do a prenatal check-up to see if everything was alright. Maybe she would even ask Shen Zhen to tell her some sleeping positions that would help her sleep peacefully without hurting the child.

Rubbing her back, Bai Meiyue got up from the bed and skipped taking a bath, as she had already taken one before she went to sleep. She got dressed and then went to the kitchen, where she picked up the tea eggs prepared by Lei Qian and ate them along with the egg and cauliflower rice.

Once she was done eating, she finished her orange juice and then walked out of the penthouse. When she went to the third floor, she ran into Sister Lin, who was baking some rice cakes over the old heater that had a curved top with the brazier burning underneath. The rice cakes were getting grilled slowly as she flipped them over and applied the sauce mix that she had prepared.

When Sister Lin saw Bai Meiyue coming, she smiled at her and said, "Yesterday, Mo He brought one more ability user from somewhere. He is a wood ability user; I think he can help us grow vegetables. If he stays."

Because of the rumours that Bai Meiyue had opened a hospital with excellent doctors and nurses, a lot of supernatural ability users would stumble onto the third floor. As they came to get their injuries treated, Bai Meiyue naturally didn’t force them to work for her or stay in her team.

She simply asked them whether they wanted to stay or they wanted to live. Some chose to stay while some chose to leave; Bai Meiyue didn’t stop them. They were free to choose whatever they wanted. Of course, after they finished paying for the medical treatment; if not, then they had to stay and work for her.

"We can only hope." Bai Meiyue didn’t want to dash Sister Lin’s hope, as she knew that the woman was only hoping for the best for their team. She greeted Zhou Hongbei and was about to head inside the room when the sound of footsteps stopped her. She turned around and saw Lu Yin, Dacheng and Fox coming together.

They were accompanied by soldiers carrying guns in their hands.

"Ah, you are cooking rice cakes. It seems like you are doing well?" Fox remarked with a smile on his face. Even though the two factions were going against one another, Fox still maintained a neutral attitude.

Sister Lin looked at Fox, who was smiling at her. There was a saying that one shouldn’t hit a smiling face; thus, even though Sister Lin was slightly upset, she still smiled back at Fox and questioned, "Would you like some?" She was only asking this out of politeness, but Fox immediately held out his hand and said, "Yes, please."

Now that he had caught her like this, Sister Lin had no other choice but to hand him one and to Dacheng and Lu Yin as well. Bai Meiyue had to admit that Fox was really smart. Others would have thought twice before acting so shamelessly, but the man seemed so thick-skinned that he cared about nothing. As long as he could get his hands on some benefit.

"Don’t look at me like that." As if sensing what was going on in Bai Meiyue’s head, he said to her with a smile, "We have a large population at base, and we can only eat this much. I hardly get any meat or rice to eat. This is certainly nice."

Bai Meiyue rolled her eyes when she heard the words of the sly man. When she didn’t say anything, Fox simply took another bite and then turned to look at her belly before saying to her, "It seems like you are moving into the fifth month, aren’t you?"

"Not yet."

Though she was, suddenly the sound of alarm bells started to ring in Bai Meiyue’s head, and she didn’t want to tell the truth to the man. Thus, she lied. Bai Meiyue didn’t know why, but she immediately felt that there was something wrong with Fox asking her about her pregnancy. Though he made it sound casual, Bai Meiyue had dealt with him enough in her past life to know that nothing about Fox was casual. He never did anything that could be counted as casual.

She squinted her eyes and looked at Fox with the hint of ferociousness of a mother bear, as if she would skin him alive if he were to get any closer to her or her child.

When Fox saw the change in her, he stiffened because he never thought that Bai Meiyue would show him such a reaction over something so normal. He wondered if he had done something that made Bai Meiyue look at him in such a manner.

However, before he could ask anything, Lei Qian came running, as he had heard from Bai Meiyue’s mother that she had gone to the hospital and he was worried that something had happened to her.

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