Surviving the Apocalypse with a Child

The mist is closing in, and her husband is away on a mission with no idea when he will return.

With her one-year-old daughter in tow, the little one looks like a doll, with huge, adorable eyes that blink and sparkle. She's overflowing with cuteness, and Xia Yiyi loves her precious baby more than anything. She wipes away her tears. Facing an uncertain future, all she can do is stay strong.

Luckily, her husband suddenly calls and tells her a few rules, greatly increasing the chances of survival for her and their baby.

Home is important, and it's safer. She must protect it at all costs.

Fire is important. It can drive away the gloom.

While people outside are busy marveling at the strange sights in the mist and checking in at every spot, Xia Yiyi has already begun an emergency stockpile.

Medicine, for the baby and for herself.

Food: rice, flour, apples, pears, canned meat, compressed biscuits, and instant noodles.

Fuel: lamp oil, coal, firewood, and the small wind turbine her husband sent her. She installs it outside the northwest window, where the wind howls like a ghost.

She stockpiles silver and gold. They can be used against the ghosts and monsters in the mist.

Weapons, handmade, with gold and silver set into daggers, knives, and spears.

At the market, Xia Yiyi sees words appear on the mushroom logs. Above each mushroom cap float the words, So thirsty, so thirsty, need water. Above the silver fungus, the words float: I'm going to drown, I'm going to drown...

Only then does Xia Yiyi realize she can control all kinds of fungi. They have to be alive, though.

I, I, I... have I awakened a supernatural ability, one in ten thousand, just like my husband said?

It must be true. She can control fungi's growth, absorb their vitality, and take in their abilities.

Xia Yiyi looks at the dark, gloomy sky, picks up her baby, and happily showers the little one, who is cheerfully calling her Mama, with kisses.

Even with her husband away, she will protect herself and her baby.

My upcoming novel: (In the Apocalypse, I Have a Deserted Island)

Xia Nuannuan struggles to survive in the apocalypse for more than ten years. Late in the apocalypse, she awakens a deserted island of her own. It's huge, but there's not a drop of seawater beneath it, let alone fresh water.

The island is as large as a small town, yet all it has is a few cacti and one half-dead sea buckthorn tree.

There is also some scrap metal Xia Nuannuan has collected.

She awakened too late to collect any supplies.

Then, in a single moment, she transmigrates into the body of another Xia Nuannuan in Great Xia.

This girl is unloved by her father and mother, and has no food, warm clothes, or money. She's a poor little cabbage.

Xia Nuannuan throws her head back and laughs. There are green mountains, clear waters, and a sea here, as well as chickens, ducks, cattle, and sheep. There are apples, bananas, and cherries, greens, napa cabbage, and carrots, not to mention countless delicious foods. Xia Nuannuan is practically beside herself with joy.

Can love fill your stomach?

Xia Nuannuan goes to the hospital to bandage her cut wrist. I want to live. I will live.

She gathers fresh water to nourish her island and collects seeds. What? The poor little thing doesn't have a single coin left? No problem. She can earn money by working, picking up scrap, or handing out flyers...

Xia Nuannuan knows the apocalypse is coming soon. They say that after it destroys one world, it will seek out the next one to destroy.

It has to arrive before she can.

These are the things Xia Nuannuan learned over more than ten years of gathering information. Their original world had been invaded by the apocalypse, too.

Theme: Your outlook determines your fate.