Chapter 190: Sorrowful person Chapter 190: Sorrowful person Su Yinhe left with the supermarket, clear-cut and decisive.
She was gone, and so was the supermarket.
The saddest were those from Sun Base who had shopped at her place and liked buying things at the supermarket.
For example, several members of the Cheetah Team.
For example, Xiao Cao who liked Su Yinhe and finally saved up enough Crystal Cores to see her and have a chat.
And for example, Qin Mingzhou.
“They’re gone, all gone. Those two left as well, just abandoning me. Weren’t we friends?” Qin Mingzhou was very sad.
“What’s wrong, boss?” His subordinate was puzzled to see him so disconsolate.
“My soul has left my body,” said Qin Mingzhou, still very sad.
“Ah? Soul? Is that really a thing?” His subordinate did not understand.
“Suppose so,” Qin Mingzhou replied, too sad to think.
“Boss…” His subordinate hesitated to speak.
The subordinate felt a bit embarrassed.
“Hehehe, boss, I still want to eat instant noodles. When can we have some again?”
“It’ll probably be a long while from now.” Qin Mingzhou was even more saddened.
“Ah?” His subordinate did not understand why it would take so long.
Qin Mingzhou used to be very generous. Just a few days ago, if they wanted to eat, they’d just tell Qin Mingzhou, and he would agree without a second thought.
He thought it was an easy ask.
But unexpectedly, Qin Mingzhou refused today.
“These instant noodles are all I have left. If I give them to you guys to eat, they’ll be gone in a few days. I won’t even have had a few packs myself.”
If it had been before, they would have eaten all they wanted.
After all, he was an Advanced Superpower User with plenty of Crystal Cores, which he could easily get more of when they ran out.
Before Galaxy was running a supermarket.
But now, there was no supermarket.
He had Crystal Cores but no place to buy anything.
He was just a little busy recently and hadn’t gone for a few days.
He assumed the supermarket would always be open.
But, he had not gone for just a few days.
As soon as he had time, he rushed over.
But what did he find? Empty space, no, not even a structure left.
Not only was Galaxy gone, but those two men were gone, too.
Clearly, they had left together.
Damn it, it was so frustrating.
Why didn’t they take him with them?
Frustrating, frustrating.
When will they return?
He hadn’t bought enough yet.
Would he not be able to buy anything in the future?
He saved up so many Crystal Cores. He had taken on a high-risk mission issued by a base with others and, despite the hardships, completed it. He didn’t want anything but the Crystal Cores, all to spend at the supermarket.
But then, such a big supermarket disappeared without a trace.
He was extremely upset now.
His subordinate didn’t understand Qin Mingzhou’s sorrow.
The subordinate wasn’t that great, but ever since he followed Qin Mingzhou, he always showered him with extravagant praise.
He was also timid, scared to fight zombies, scared of the bizarre mutant animals and Mutated Plants, and because he really knew how to shower others in praise.
The previous boss he followed liked to listen to his flatteries too, so he just hid behind the boss all the time, tucking himself in the safest spot when going out on tasks.
Never really trained much.
Even though he had a superpower, and awakened it rather early, due to this, he was still a low-level superpower user.
But fortunately, because he was good at flattering and choosing the right boss, he rarely went hungry.
At least he wasn’t starving to the brink of death.
He had followed Qin Mingzhou, and it took a long time to accumulate just a little bit of Crystal Cores. Following Qin Mingzhou to the supermarket, he spent them all at once.
Afterwards, he hadn’t managed to accumulate any more Crystal Cores.
Naturally, he hadn’t been to the supermarket to buy anything since then.
So he was unaware that the supermarket was no more.
Therefore, he couldn’t understand Qin Mingzhou’s sadness; he couldn’t empathize.
Qin Mingzhou could only grieve alone.
Little Brother had his own sorrows, with no instant noodles to eat. Although rice was good, the thing about instant noodles was that you’d start to crave them terribly after a while without any.
He hadn’t touched instant noodles in five days already.
Both of them were grieving, even though it wasn’t over the same thing, the sentiment was the same.
Seeing how sad Little Brother was, Qin Mingzhou felt somewhat consoled.
This Little Brother was quite good, not only capable of spouting flattering nonsense but also willing to share in the grief.
If the supermarket ever came back, he’d buy some instant noodles and give him a few extra packs.
After all, they’d been together for quite a while.
Damn it, could the supermarket ever come back?
Xu Jiaoqin was equally sorrowful. She had hooked up with Yun Wujiu and, fearing they might accidentally conceive a life, had planned to buy some condoms.
Xu Jiaoqin wasn’t very fond of children, and in times like these, having children was akin to courting death.
Both she and Yun Wujiu were Advanced Superpower Users, but even so, they couldn’t be sure they could protect a child.
One slip-up, and it could cost two lives.
Humans were hard-pressed to defy nature.
If it hadn’t been impossible to get a vasectomy, Yun Wujiu would have gone for one by now.
But now, there were no hospitals left.
People had to fend for themselves even with severed limbs.
Vasectomies were out of the question.
So after deciding to sleep together, they had wanted to go out and buy some condoms.
But the supermarket was gone.
And with it, the condoms.
Xu Jiaoqin turned hostile in an instant, “I take back what I said before, let’s return to our original relationship.”
So, if they couldn’t sleep together, did their relationship have to revert?
That’s what Yun Wujiu was thinking, and that’s what he asked.
“What else?” Xu Jiaoqin replied ruthlessly, “I agreed because you have a good body, a handsome face, but if we can’t sleep together, let’s just continue being pure teammates.”
“But…” Couldn’t they just sleep chastely under one cover?
“Don’t even think about it.” Xu Jiaoqin cut him off bluntly.
Then she went off to tend to her own business.
Recently feeling a bit lustful, Xu Jiaoqin had agreed as soon as Yun Wujiu confessed, thinking they could buy condoms since the supermarket was there.
But now that the supermarket was gone, so were the condoms, and when it came to desires—she couldn’t seek out a man for resolution.
So she’d just have to deal with it herself, or keep herself busier with things until the desires faded.
If only it weren’t the apocalypse now, she could have just picked up a math textbook to kill any arousal.
Xu Jiaoqin left cleanly and decisively, leaving Yun Wujiu disheveled in the wind.
Without the supermarket, his wife was gone as well.
Supermarket! Would you ever come back?
May the bodhisattva bless us, it must return, he needed his fragrant wife.
He couldn’t be without a wife.
Yun Wujiu decided to make a wish to the bodhisattva every day, praying for the supermarket’s return.
He was willing to go a month without instant noodles, without meat.
All he asked was for the supermarket to come back quickly, for his soft and fragrant wife.
Xu Jiaoqin was sad; Yun Wujiu was even sadder.
Sun Base had a few more mournful souls.