"Ding!" The elevator doors opened.
The siblings entered the elevator and pressed the button for their floor, not noticing that the elevator was still going down. When the doors opened again, they realized they had taken the wrong elevator, and they were now on the hotel's underground parking floor.
The people on the basement floor, seeing that there were still passengers in the elevator, gave a faint smile and said nothing. They simply entered the elevator.
Just as the elevator doors were about to close, Jianyi seemed to see something and suddenly rushed out.
Chen Junsheng's eyes darkened, and he quickly followed.
"What's wrong with these people?" one of the passengers inside the elevator muttered softly, then asked the two of them irritably, "Are you getting on or not?"
Their response was only the echo of their voices in the empty parking garage. The two of them completely ignored the annoyed passenger.
The elevator doors closed, and it continued its ascent, leaving Jianyi and Chen Junsheng behind.
"Sis, what's going on?" Chen Junsheng asked in confusion, following behind Jianyi.
Jianyi didn't answer; her eyes were fixed on three large blocks covered with black rain tarps in the corner of the parking garage.
She quickly walked up to one of the large blocks, gently lifted a corner of the tarp, and revealed a steel car body underneath. Jianyi was instantly taken aback and took a step back in shock.
"Sis!" Chen Junsheng hurriedly supported her to prevent her from falling. He saw the steel car body beneath the tarp with a quick glance, then quickly averted his gaze, looking concerned at Jianyi, who seemed startled.
"Are you okay?" he asked.
"...I'm fine," Jianyi replied after a moment, brushing away his hand. Her startled expression gradually returned to normal.
With a serious face, she approached the large block again and lifted a larger section of the tarp, revealing the modified super motorhome beneath.
This motorhome had the same exterior design as the one she had just rented, but it had undergone reinforcement and modifications, making it much better than the one she had rented. Furthermore, the one before her was brand new.
No, it should be said that all three modified custom motorhomes before her were brand new.
Jianyi hardly had to think, and the image of Huo Chengzhang's face automatically came to mind. She had an intuitive feeling that these three motorhomes were prepared by Huo Chengzhang.
But he was a wealthy second-generation CEO who was living a comfortable life. Why would he prepare three motorhomes in the hotel's underground parking garage? And why were they covered with rain tarps and hidden so discreetly?
Could it be that he had also experienced a rebirth?
With this thought, Jianyi's heart sank as if a heavy hammer had struck it. She never expected that the person who had been hiding his superpowers in her previous life, Chen Junsheng, would reveal to her that he had already awakened his abilities. It seemed that her rebirth had brought many changes compared to her previous life.
Before, she had been worried about how to coax Chen Junsheng into using his superpowers to protect her. Now it seemed that fate had taken care of it for her.
It was as if even the heavens didn't want her to die again and had sent Chen Junsheng, the little fool, to her side.
"How could I be afraid of you? I'm overjoyed that my sister has superpowers!" Jianyi said with excitement, pretending to be innocent. She asked him to demonstrate his spatial superpower and even pretended to ask if he could use it to store many things.
Chen Junsheng, seeing her enthusiasm for his spatial superpower, felt a momentary darkness in his eyes. However, he quickly concealed it.
With a mix of nervousness and excitement, Chen Junsheng activated his superpower to show Jianyi how he could manipulate space, moving an object from one place to another.
Spatial manipulation, as the name suggested, allowed him to move objects from one location to another. At first glance, this ability might not seem particularly powerful, but he could use it to move himself, making it convenient for escaping or assassinating targets.
However, after demonstrating for less than two minutes, Chen Junsheng knelt on the ground, panting and covered in sweat, looking completely exhausted.
It seemed that he was still inexperienced in controlling his superpower, but with practice, he would improve. At least, that's what Jianyi thought with satisfaction.
What she didn't know was that Chen Junsheng's eyes, hidden under his long hair, didn't show any signs of exhaustion. Instead, they were filled with a darkness that she couldn't detect.
After a long silence, the distant clock tower rang the midnight bell, indicating the arrival of a new day.
"Dong... Dong... Dong..."
The long and muffled toll of the bell marked the passage of time. In the dimly lit room, Jianyi, who had been sitting on the sofa without moving, raised her head and looked at the deep blue night sky outside the window.
The room had no lights on except for a small crystal desk lamp on the coffee table in the corner. The dim lighting, which would have made most people uneasy, provided a sense of security to Jianyi, who had lived in the post-apocalyptic world for several years.
"Chen Junsheng, I had a dream..."
Her eyes, as dark as ink, gazed at Chen Junsheng through the dim light, as if they were filled with starlight, and she spoke as if she were sharing a secret.
In that moment, Chen Junsheng thought that even if she told him that the world was about to end tomorrow, he would nod and believe every word she said.
"What kind of dream?" he asked.
"I dreamed of the end of the world, where there were many monsters that looked like humans invading our city... The greed and ugliness of human nature were fully exposed, and everyone was killing each other for survival. The whole world was in darkness..."
Jianyi described various aspects of the apocalypse from her dream, creating a reasonable justification for her actions in the days to come.
Of course, the prerequisite was that Chen Junsheng would believe her.
In the dim light, the teenager showed a hesitant surprise at first, as if he hadn't initially realized that he should be surprised by what she was describing. It was only after a while that he seemed to understand and appeared somewhat dumbfounded.
"You don't believe it?" Jianyi probed.
Chen Junsheng shook his head hastily. "No, I believe you. I believe everything you say."
"So, all the things I've done in the past few days are to prepare for the arrival of the end times," Jianyi continued to fabricate, "But the dream felt so real that I'm convinced it's something that's going to happen soon. However, I don't dare to tell anyone because I know no one would believe me."
"I believe you!" Chen Junsheng exclaimed earnestly.
After a pause, he added, "Sis, don't be afraid. I'll protect you."
Then, as if he had made up his mind, he bit his lip and suddenly said, "Actually, I've undergone some changes in my body... It's like those superhumans you mentioned in your dream. I seem to have... gained some kind of ability, the power to control space."
Jianyi was astonished. She hadn't expected Chen Junsheng, who had hidden his abilities in her previous life, to reveal to her that he had awakened them long ago.
Seeing the shock on her face, Chen Junsheng looked at her with concern and asked, "Are you scared of me?"
Jianyi, internally overwhelmed by the revelation, managed to say with a reassuring smile, "How could I be scared of you? I'm thrilled that my brother has superpowers!"
She then asked him to demonstrate his spatial ability and pretended to be fascinated by it, even playfully asking if he could use it to store many things.
As Chen Junsheng displayed his spatial superpower with a mix of nervousness and excitement, he noticed a brief dimming in Jianyi's eyes. However, he quickly concealed it.
Little did Jianyi know that beneath his long hair, Chen Junsheng's shining eyes didn't betray any exhaustion but rather held a darkness that remained hidden from her.
As the new day began to dawn, Jianyi and Chen Junsheng embarked on a journey filled with uncertainties, both aware that they were heading into a world that might soon resemble the apocalyptic dream Jianyi had described.