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Chloe reached out to help, but Emily stopped her. 

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“Go sit over there and focus on absorbing the cores to stabilize your rank. Get your body into peak condition, Emily told 

her. 

Chloe wasn’t much of a cook anyway, so she’d just end up making things harder in the kitchen. 

“Thanks,” Chloe said. She genuinely meant it. 

Then she pulled out a massive oven from the restaurant. “How about we cook some pasta?” 

At least she knew how to cook pasta. 

Emily nodded, set aside what she was doing, and sealed up every door and window tight, making sure not even a sliver was left open before heading back to the kitchen. 

Chloe might be powerful, but when it came to the little things, she just wasn’t as attentive as Emily. 

Even so, the hungry people in the building could still catch a faint whiff of bread in the air. 

“Who’s cooking pasta?” someone called out. 

“Who’s making pancakes?” another voice chimed in. 

“Oh my god, I can smell soup,” someone else gasped. 

Every window in the building was thrown open, revealing gaunt, hungry faces. 

“Is that amazing smell coming from our building? Which apartment is it?” someone wondered aloud. 

Chloe and Emily shared a look, choosing to ignore the comments. 

Fortunately, the aroma only drifted out through the cracks in the windows, so faint that no one could tell exactly where it was coming from. 

Heads popped out one after another, eyes hungrily scanning the air, trying to catch every bit of the aroma and swallowing hard. 

It had been ages since anyone had eaten cooked food. What used to be an everyday food had become something truly precious. 

There was a frantic pounding at the door. Chloe and Emily exchanged a look, choosing to ignore it. 

The banging only got louder, now joined by a woman’s desperate sobs and cries. 

Peering through the peephole, they saw a woman in tattered clothes frantically pounding on their door. Her ragged outfit barely hid her delicate skin, the fabric doing little to cover her up 

It was obvious the rips in her clothes were intentional, leaving little to the imagination. 

She clutched a child tightly in her arms, her face pale and desperate as she pleaded, “Please, help my child. She’s been starving for days. Can you spare some food?” 

Emily couldn’t help but feel bad, but she just bit her lip and kept quiet. 

Chloe suddenly asked, “Do you think I’m being too heartless?” 

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Emily shook her head. “It’s tough enough just to survive in the apocalypse. I can help her this time, but I can’t do it for the rest of my life.” 

Chloe just smiled and shook her head, pointing at the woman collapsing at their door. 

She said, “See how the rips in her clothes are just enough to show off her chest, and the tear in her pants perfectly reveals her underwear? The rest of her outfit is untouched.” 

It suddenly clicked for Emily. She covered her mouth, shocked. “Are you saying she did this on purpose?” 

Chloe didn’t say a word. She just gave a cold nod. 

When Chloe didn’t open the door, the woman’s face contorted with rage, and she spat angrily on the ground. 

“Maybe this whole family’s dead already,” she sneered, then turned and headed for Apartment 1. 

She kept up the same act, banging and sobbing at the door, while the baby in her arms stayed eerily still. No one knew if it was dead or just knocked out from starvation. 

Emily was peeking through the peephole when she suddenly gasped. 

“Chloe, look,” she blurted out. 

Outside, a scrawny man opened the door, his gaze hungrily swept over the woman, especially lingering on her exposed chest. 

“Sir, please, I haven’t eaten in three days, and I’ve got no milk left. My baby’s so hungry that she’s passed out. Please, just give us a bite to eat,” the woman cried out. 

As soon as the door cracked open, the woman in rags wrapped herself around the skinny man’s leg, pressing her whole body up against him without hesitation. 

The man’s eyes flashed with greed. Even with the metal door between them, he could practically feel her softness, and he had to force himself to snap out of it. 

“Is it just you?” he asked. 

She nodded frantically. “Everyone else in my family is gone. It’s just my kid and me now.” 

The man looked around nervously, then cautiously unlocked the door and tried to pull her inside. 

Just then, a woman, short and stout, stormed out of the apartment with a kitchen knife in hand, looking fierce enough to scare anyone off. 

“Honey, what’s this supposed to mean?” she demanded. 

The skinny man glared at her. “Let her in first, then we’ll talk.” 

“Not happening. You’d better start talking, or nobody’s getting through this door.” The chubby woman wasn’t about to let anyone push her around. 

As they were shoving and arguing, seven or eight burly men suddenly showed up by the stairs and quickly pinned down the skinny man and the chubby woman. 

“What do you want?” the skinny man demanded. 

The men burst out laughing, one of them copping a feel of the woman’s chest. “Nice work. Later, you’ll get a taste of some two–legged sheep broth.” 

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The woman gave a weak smile. “Thanks.” 

Emily covered the peephole, casting a puzzled glance at Chloe, who was giving off an icy vibe. 

“What’s a two–legged sheep? Don’t sheep have four legs, though?” Emily asked. 

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Hearing that, Chloe suddenly looked up, her eyes sparkling with endless coldness and sorrow, like the night sky. 

She parted her lips, her voice dry and resigned. “Two–legged sheep means people.” 

Emily’s eyes went wide, her mouth dropped open, and she quickly slapped a hand over it to keep herself from screaming. 

Emily felt ice crawl down her spine, her knees almost buckling. “Wait, are you saying they actually eat people?” 

Chloe gave a firm nod, her voice cold. “That couple they grabbed? They’re what those guys call two–legged sheep. 

After that, neither of them spoke. A heavy sense of grief and resignation hung in the air. 

In silence, Emily started making flatbreads and baking bread. 

Chloe kept herself busy, mapping out their escape route. 

It wasn’t until the early hours of the morning that the two finally managed to get some sleep. 

The sudden banging on the door snapped Chloe awake on the couch. She checked the peephole and saw some stranger outside, looking mean as hell and holding a big axe. 

“Open up. I know you’re in there. You better do as I say, or I’ll smash this door down myself,” the man yelled. 

Chloe’s expression was ice–cold, and the aura she gave off was downright terrifying, like she could freeze the whole room with just a glare. 

‘No doubt about it, the couple next door sold us out, Chloe thought grimly. 

Chloe and Emily exchanged a look. 

Emily quickly stepped back, readying herself for a fight, while Chloe rushed into the kitchen and stashed all the food and supplies into her spiritual space. 

She made sure not a single thing was left behind in either of the bedrooms. 

Chloe had just finished stashing everything away when a jagged hole appeared in the wooden door, the blade of an axe punching right through. 

The guy outside had already started swinging, chopping at the door with wild force. 

In the next moment, the door was smashed apart, splinters flying everywhere, and the savage–looking man burst into view. 

When he caught sight of Chloe, his eyes widened in awe at her beauty. He cocked his head and licked his lips, looking her up 

and down. 

“That punk wasn’t lying. There really is a delicate little girl living here,” he smirked. 

Then seven or eight more men crowded in, grinning like hungry wolves, some even starting to drool. 

“Sir, this girl looks stunning. Once you’re done, how about letting us have some fun, too?” one of them leered. 

“Yeah, we’ve never had a babe this gorgeous before. I bet she’s something special,” another chimed in, his voice thick with 

sleaze. 

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