Chapter 57: This Is an Unavoidable Calamity, No Matter Who You Think You Are!

The car continued driving on the way back.

After rubbing her chest for a moment, Chen Keqing finally calmed down completely.

To be honest, the past two days had been so “ordinary” for her that she had hardly believed Su Ze’s previous explanations.

She had thought that it was merely an excuse Su Ze used to live with her.

Unexpectedly, what happened tonight shattered her world view…

In this society, there really was a group of people standing at the top of the food chain.

To them, killing an ordinary person seemed as easy as lifting a finger…

“Don’t worry, everything’s been resolved. Didn’t you hear just now that the person on the call was smashed to death? No one will trouble us for now,” Su Ze explained again when he saw Chen Keqing’s imagination running wild.

“He was really smashed to death?” Chen Keqing asked with wide eyes, surprise written all over her pretty face.

She had been wondering whether the high-altitude falling object had also been deliberately orchestrated…

“Yes, he couldn’t be more dead,” Su Ze nodded.

He casually made another call, this time to Qin Yushi.

When the call connected,

Su Ze got straight to the point: “The Bai family senior Young Master is dead. I’m letting you know.”

Qin Yushi had been waiting for Su Ze to call back, but when he did, she didn’t know what to say.

The Bai family, with their all-seeing power and status as the top force in Su City… were they really that easy to handle?

“Believe it or not,” Su Ze said with a smile.

Through the phone, he could almost see Qin Yushi’s stunned expression.

He continued, “I just calculated the time: from when the Bai family senior Young Master went to find you until he called me, there was enough time for you to call me a dozen times, but you didn’t call at once.”

Setting aside whether the person Su Ze mentioned was really dead,

Qin Yushi, unusually honest, admitted directly, “I hesitated because I had to consider whether to go all in with you. If you can’t handle it, I won’t help much, and in the end, I’d still take the fall.”

Su Ze responded with an approving sound, “I understand.”

It was indeed understandable.

Because Qin Yushi certainly knew that calling Su Ze was effectively making a final choice.

She was going to help Su Ze deal with the Bai family.

This was not just talking; once she made that choice, she was bound for life.

After all, Bai Zhimao had truly vanished without a trace, and the Bai family could not remain sane…

“I’m pulling into the garage now. I’ll hang up.” With that, Su Ze prepared to end the call.

“Wait, let me confirm: you’re saying the Bai family senior Young Master, Bai Xianjun, is dead, right?” Qin Yushi asked word by word.

“Yes.”

“So, what are your plans now?” Qin Yushi asked, inhaling deeply, her tone serious and tense.

“Tell me, did you skip the news today or what?” Su Ze’s tone was light as if joking.

“The news?”

“It’s doomsday for the whole world, and you’re still worrying about this and that. If you really have spare time, I suggest you go buy more food and stock up so you won’t starve when doomsday arrives.”

Su Ze’s tone sounded exactly like a joke.

But Qin Yushi took it seriously. She quickly switched topics and asked, “Do you think the doomsday news is real?”

Su Ze laughed, “I think it’s real. So, I’ll wish you good luck for doomsday in advance. Bye.”

Without giving Qin Yushi a chance to continue chatting, Su Ze hung up.

He thought, So it turns out that people like Qin Yushi in the upper class haven’t heard much either.

And the Bai family’s Young Master probably never thought doomsday would actually come. Otherwise, how could he have the time and energy to orchestrate such a scheme?

Society, this time at least, was somewhat fair…

And at that moment, a song began playing through the car’s speakers.

“The sun forsakes this final second to punish people’s pride I endure the torment of the cold and the arrogant roar of the north wind to resist fate This is an unavoidable calamity, no matter who you think you are, anything and everything…”

He opened the door and changed his shoes.

Su Ze casually tossed the car keys onto the shoe cabinet.

“Is tomorrow really doomsday?” Chen Keqing, who had first changed into slippers, blinked and asked.

“Classmate Chen Keqing, asking that question just now made you sound a bit dim-witted,” Su Ze said exasperatedly, rubbing his forehead.

After he had chatted briefly about doomsday with Qin Yushi on the phone, Chen Keqing picked up the topic again and kept talking about it.

It wasn’t that Su Ze was avoiding the topic; he just didn’t want to discuss it in depth. Did he have to explain to Chen Keqing exactly what would happen after doomsday right now?

“I was just asking,” Chen Keqing pouted defiantly. “And aren’t I just worried? You told someone on the phone to stock up on food. If you really believe in doomsday, shouldn’t we go buy food now?”

“Hmm…” Su Ze pondered.

He recalled that during his previous simulations at the beginning of doomsday, Chen Keqing always dragged him out to buy supplies, but most of the time they returned empty-handed…

“There’s still plenty of snacks at home, but… not enough,” Chen Keqing said with a serious expression. She was genuinely considering whether they should go buy supplies now.

“Why don’t you think about what exactly we need to buy first?” Su Ze said, somewhat amused.

“Oh, I’ll go inside and check, then write a shopping list…” Chen Keqing turned and went to inventory their supplies.

To be fair, if Chen Keqing was in an ordinary household, her idea of stocking up in advance might actually help her family weather the initial chaos of doomsday…

After all, at this moment, as soon as Su Ze opened his phone, he saw numerous sources claiming the doomsday news was fearmongering…

In other words, the whole world had yet to accept the fact that doomsday was about to arrive.

“We speculate that the anomalies now appearing across the ocean are caused by multiple factors. On one hand, solar flares are active; on the other, there may be chemical pollution…”

Sitting on the sofa, Su Ze casually turned on the TV.

He happened to see experts pontificating on TV. Su Ze actually had no bias against that label, and he wasn’t even surprised by the nonsense spoken by the people on the program.

A bit of rational analysis revealed that indeed nothing too terrifying had happened.

It was just a celestial anomaly.

There were no sudden mass monster outbreaks, nor people turning into zombies.

The sky was just dimmed, the sun hidden, leaving only an unusually colored, eerie blood moon.

“The anomalies will gradually spread: Day 1, the world will fall into eternal night; Day 2, temperatures will drop; Day 3, Contaminated Zones will begin to appear; Day 4 through Day 5, the Contaminated Zones will fully erupt and sweep across the world…”

Distracted by the news, Su Ze mentally recalled his apocalypse simulation.

Until Chen Keqing finished inventorying their household supplies.

She came out of the room.

“I’ve decided what to buy. Let’s go right now.” Chen Keqing stripped off her school uniform, changed into thicker clothes, and looked full of energy.