Chapter 1: The End of the World, Falling Backwards, Ballet

2135, the third year of the apocalypse.

Iron Orchid’s current situation was a bit awkward.

She was hanging upside down from a large tree on the edge of a cliff in a very strange way. (See picture)

Below her feet was a horde of ferocious and terrifying zombies with gaping mouths.

Above her head was an unfathomable abyss, with gusts of cold wind.

The way forward and backward were blocked.

Any slackening would result in a very miserable death.

Iron Orchid had nowhere to retreat.

She did have a jade pendant space, which she had accidentally obtained just two days ago.

But this space was very useless.

Inside, besides a bamboo forest hut with a courtyard, there was only endless black land.

Yes, there were no rivers, no grass, no mountains.

And no food.

If you threw a cockroach that couldn’t be killed in there, it probably wouldn’t survive three days.

Moreover, the space had limitations, you could only enter once a day, and you could only stay for a maximum of one hour.

She had already been in there today, and now she couldn’t go back into the space to hide.

The key was that even if she went in, she would still be in the same place when she came out, so it was useless!

This time, Iron Orchid ventured into the forest to take on a mission from the base to collect a thousand-year-old Ganoderma lucidum.

After three years of the apocalypse, most of the cities were destroyed, and many plants and animals, as well as the land, were polluted.

The black land in Iron Orchid’s space was probably the last piece of clean land.

She wanted to plant something in it, but unfortunately, she didn’t have any seeds.

Originally, she wanted to take this opportunity to see if she could find some wild fruit seeds in the forest.

But she didn’t find any seeds, instead, she ran into a zombie horde.

And it happened while she was picking the thousand-year-old Ganoderma lucidum!

Now she was hanging upside down from the tree, holding the Ganoderma lucidum in her left hand, a dagger in her right hand, and her feet were hooked on the trunk of the tree, precariously balanced.

One slip, and she would be smashed to pieces.

At this moment, Iron Orchid was filled with regret.

She hated herself for not being a monkey!

If she were a monkey, she could just swing her butt and stretch her arms, and she could swing far away.

She wouldn’t be in this awkward position.

“Tick-tock!”

A drop of foul-smelling mucus dripped onto Iron Orchid’s face.

Her heart skipped a beat.

She turned her head to look!

My God!

A zombie with only half a head and a rotting body was quickly climbing up the tree towards her.

Iron Orchid almost spat out a mouthful of blood.

Brother, for a bite to eat, do you have to be so desperate?!

“Plop! Plop!”

The other zombies followed suit, jumping down like dumplings.

Some fell into the abyss, some hung on the trees.

More and more zombies on the tree rushed towards her.

“Brother, spitting on people is rude, remember that next time, okay?”

Iron Orchid killed the half-headed zombie that was close at hand with a dagger.

She kicked off the tree, and her whole body plummeted downwards.

Everyone must die, sooner or later!

It was better to die in the abyss than to be bitten to pieces by zombies.

Iron Orchid thought very clearly.

She smiled, spread her arms, and imitated the scenes on TV, feeling the thrill of falling at high speed.

Suddenly! Something flashed through her mind.

Iron Orchid opened her eyes wide, her will to survive strong.

No! She couldn’t die now!

She had cooked a bowl of noodles in the space, and she hadn’t had time to eat it yet!

It was something she had saved for a long time and was reluctant to eat!

“God, let me fall slower! Let me survive until midnight tonight, go into the space, eat the noodles, and then come out and die!”

Iron Orchid twisted her body frantically, performing an upside-down ballet in mid-air.

The result was… her falling speed doubled.

“Bang!”

Her brains splattered, blood flowed everywhere.

Iron Orchid died, still thinking about that bowl of noodles.

So when she opened her eyes again and saw the clear soup noodles in front of her, she still felt a little unreal.

“Hungry? Want some noodles?”

The old lady holding the noodles smiled at her eagerly.

Iron Orchid’s head was a little dazed.

Did the Lady Meng Po in the underworld stop selling Meng Po soup and started selling noodles instead?

“If you want to eat, just agree to do something for me, I’ll give you as many noodles as you want.”

As soon as the old lady finished speaking, Iron Orchid immediately nodded:

“I agree!”

These were steaming, scallion-sprinkled, fragrant noodles!

No matter what it was, eat first and ask questions later!

“That’s right.”

The old lady smiled contentedly and handed her the bowl.

Iron Orchid picked up the bowl and devoured it in a whirlwind.

In less than ten seconds, a large bowl of noodles was slurped up.

The old lady was dumbfounded.

Iron Orchid wiped her mouth, “Any more? It’s too little.”

She was really hungry.

In the apocalypse, she didn’t have any superpowers, relying only on her martial arts skills, she could only do some simple tasks to get a small amount of supplies.

She had a big appetite, and she had hardly eaten her fill in those few years of the apocalypse.

The old lady: “There is… I just made some noodles… Want another half bowl?”

Iron Orchid waved her hand: “Just bring the pot over!”

……

At the door of the room.

Seeing Iron Orchid holding the iron pot and eating noodles in big mouthfuls, everyone was stunned.

“Mom, how does she eat like that, her eating manners are so rude!”

Hu Xiaolian looked disgusted.

“She must be starving for three days, she can’t hold it anymore.”

The old lady, Hu Xiaolian’s mother, Zhang Cui, said.

“Wife, your method is still good, look, isn’t she obedient now?”

Hu Zhuzi said with a smile, while casting a suggestive glance at the girl in front of him.

He hadn’t noticed before that this girl had such a good figure.

Although she was thin like a bone, the places that should be protruding were not missing at all.

That white and tender little face made his heart itch.

Hu Zhuzi’s eyes flashed with a hint of evil.

This girl was soft-tempered, if he took advantage of her secretly, she wouldn’t dare to say anything.

……

Iron Orchid didn’t know that someone was plotting against her.

At this moment, her attention was all on eating.

She finished a pot of noodles in less than two minutes, even the soup at the bottom of the pot was drunk up.

But she still wasn’t full.

“Do you have any steamed buns?”

Iron Orchid turned to Zhang Cui.

“What do you want steamed buns for?”

Zhang Cui was speechless.

This was two and a half pounds of noodles, a whole pot, enough for five or six people to eat.

She didn’t expect this dead girl to finish it all by herself.

She was a real glutton!

Although the noodles were originally from the dead girl’s house.

But now they were living in the dead girl’s house, all the things in the house were naturally theirs.

If it wasn’t for something they needed from her, she would have turned her face long ago!

“There’s still some oil in the pot, I want to eat it with steamed buns.”

Iron Orchid’s eyes lit up when she said this.

Oil was a good thing, it was a scarce commodity in the apocalypse, only the top people could eat it.

People like her, who had no background and no superpowers, were just bottom-level laborers, they could only eat boiled food, of course, it was good to have something to eat.

The consequence of not eating oil for three years was severe constipation.

Every time Iron Orchid went to the toilet, her face would be squeezed into an emoji.

It was so painful! ಥ_ಥ!