At dawn, Lin Wenwen was standing before the mirror, speechlessly squeezing the fat on her belly.
"Are you saying that you want me to help you lose weight? I was brought back by you accidentally to help you lose weight? Why?" Lin Wenwen looked at Dong Xinxin's face in the mirror and said unhappily.
"Eh, you have nothing to do anyway. Please help me!" Dong Xin Xin said in Lin Wenwen's mind with a weak voice, "I need to gain energy from this body to heal. This current body of mine is too lame. Let alone providing energy, the impurities inside this body can even hinder me from healing."
Lin Wenwen had no words to argue with that.
So, if she wanted to go back to where she came from, she needed to strengthen Dong Xinxin's body and allow the latter to heal. Only when the latter regained the control of her own body could she send Lin Wenwen back.
What an unexpected disaster!
"What exactly is your superpower?" asked Lin Wenwen to the mirror with curiosity, "Why did you come back seven years ago?"
"I didn't have a choice," said Dong Xinxin, "I didn't know which year I'd come back to."
Clearly, the girl had a story. "So, you didn't come back voluntarily," said Lin Wenwen, "Are you a time traveler? Why did you come back?"
After a short silence, Dong Xinxin responded, "I'd be dead if I didn't come back… Actually, I think I'm already dead."
"Dead?" Lin Wenwen was surprised on hearing that, "Are you saying that you came back to this year when you died? How did you die?"
Lin Wenwen asked the last question without thinking. She was curious about how Dong Xinxin brought her back to the past accidentally.
"I was killed by zombies during a mission," said Dong Xinxin blandly.
She died because of a man. To save that man, she consumed up her energy. They were injured, then encountered post-apocalyptic robbers. At last, she and the man chose to be killed by zombies instead of the robbers.
She didn't want to tell Lin Wenwen about the real cause of her death, so she told her that she was killed by zombies during a mission.
"So, what did your death have to do with me?" Lin Wenwen asked another question, "Why did you bring me back to the past?"
"I'm not sure," said Dong Xinxin helplessly, "All I remember is I seemed to have seen a blurry figure in my last moment. After that, I lost consciousness. When I woke up, I found myself unable to move, and you in my body."
"So, you don't even know how you brought me here. How do you know how to send me back to the future then?" Lin Wenwen looked at Dong Xinxin's face in the mirror and asked.
"Didn't I tell you that your body is in my space? When I have healed and regained the control of my body, I'll be able to send you back into your own body. By then, you'll be expelled by this timeline and automatically sent back to the future," Dong Xinxin explained.
"I'll be expelled by this timeline? I won't be destroyed, will I?" Lin Wenwen was a little worried.
"With my power, I can send you into the space orbit, so you don't need to worry that this timeline might erase your existence."
"Oh, good!" Lin Wenwen sighed with relief.
While the two of them were talking in the bathroom, door knocks were heard.
Lin Wenwen wiped her face and said, "Your brother is here. Do you think he'll believe what I said?"
"He's spent the whole night processing it. He at least believes sixty percent of what you said now," said Dong Xinxin with a bland voice.
Lin Wenwen turned and walked out of the bathroom, then opened the door of her room. Dong Lijia was standing out there with a sallow face.
"Get in," Lin Wenwen turned and let him in.
Dong Lijia came in and looked at her with a struggling look on her face, then walked to the couch and sat down. Lin Wenwen shut the door and walked to the desk, then dragged out the chair for herself to sit on. Then, she looked at Dong Lijia and said, "Do you believe me?"
Dong Lijia swallowed his saliva and said, "If you're not my sister, where is my sister? What happened to her?"
Lin Wenwen said, "She's great. She'll be back in a while. You don't need to worry about her safety."
Dong Lijia let out a slight sigh with relief and then said, "Then… what do you want me to do?"
Lin Wenwen rolled her eyes, "Now you know that the world is going to end. What do you want to do? Sit here and wait for death? Or sit here and wait to turn into a zombie? What if you survived and didn't turn into a zombie? The world would fall into chaos. I think you don't need me to tell you about that. Have you watched one of those zombie movies?"
Dong Lijia looked at her silently. A few seconds later, he nodded and said, "I get it. But… what are you going to do?"
Lin Wenwen looked at him and responded lazily, "You don't need to know that. I'm not going to hurt your sister anyway. If I wanted to hurt her, I wouldn't have bothered to tell you the truth. Oh, I'm out of money. Lend me some."
Hearing what she said, Dong Lijia still had doubts in his heart. The last few words she said confused him. "You want to borrow money? Isn't the world ending? What do you need money for? Besides, my sister has quite some allowance. You can spend her money, can't you?"
"When the apocalypse actually happens, money will become useless. But, it hasn't happened yet. I need to buy things. Do you want me to steal?" Lin Wenwen looked at him impatiently.
"Buy what?" Dong Lijia looked at her with confusion.
Lin Wenwen stood up, said, "That's none of your concern. Just give me the money. Oh, there's another mission for you. Go and deal with your parents. I won't do that."
"What? Tell my parents?" Dong Lijia was a little stunned.
"Yeah. Tell your parents to sell everything that they can sell, then buy a good amount of rice, flour, and water, stock as much supplies as possible," said Lin Wenwen while walking toward the closet, "In the post-apocalyptic era, those things can save your lives. You guys still have three months to make plans about how to purchase and store those supplies."
Having finished talking, she walked into the closet and found the sportswear area, then took out a sports suit and put it on.
Dong Lijia still didn't want to believe what Lin Wenwen said. However, her tone of speaking, her attitude, and the combat skill that she displayed last night all clearly told him that he had to believe her.
What if it were all true? If it were true, he would regret not believing her, wouldn't he? If what she said were true, if the world would become a chaotic place with zombies and viruses everywhere in three months, the people who had no preparations would really die very easily!
But, how was he going to tell that to his family and friends? Would they think of him as a crazy person?
Also, he needed to get money. In the coming three months, he needed to purchase a great amount of food and water, as well as vehicles and weapons. He needed money to do that.
As Lin Wenwen put on a loose-fitting, extra, extra, extra large sports suit and came out of the closet, she found Dong Lijia's brows knitted into an even deeper frown than before.