Reborn One Week Before the Apocalypse

Chapter 275: Chapter 265: We Meet Again

But she hadn’t expected An Yang to bounce back so quickly after losing the fight with her over the Space Ring.

Not only had his own strength improved rapidly, but he had also led his team back to glory.

Although there was a lot about An Yang she couldn’t stand, and they were destined to walk different paths and could never be friends, Tang Mo still admired people who worked hard.

In fact, she had never intended to make an enemy of An Yang. After all, he had saved her once back in school.

Not that she’d really needed it.

An Yang spotted Tang Mo in the crowd as well. He gave her a distant nod before walking past.

Tang Mo smiled faintly. ’Everyone’s so good at keeping up appearances,’ she thought.

Right, how could she forget? An Yang had been the student council president back in school. He was a master of putting on a front.

Tang Mo hadn’t forgotten the look in his eyes when he’d seen her at the auction—the way he’d gritted his teeth.

But he must have thought things through later. Making an enemy of Tang Mo in S Base was not a smart choice.

When Tang Mo got home, she gave Lin Yi a shock. How could her perfectly fine daughter come back with a limp?

Still, having known her daughter for so long, Lin Yi had some understanding of her temperament. She let Tang Mo go upstairs to rest without even eating.

Tang Mo forced herself to finish a shower before collapsing onto her bed in a comfortable set of pajamas.

Lying in bed, she stubbornly observed the motionless, unresponsive bead in her sea of consciousness.

’Why isn’t there any reaction? Do I really have to work myself to death to trigger it?’

Filled with such indignation, Tang Mo drifted off to sleep before she knew it.

When she woke up again, the sun was already high in the sky the next day.

”Hiss... so sore.”

The moment she tried to get up to use the restroom, Tang Mo felt the aching soreness throughout her body.

The previous day’s workout had been too intense, and she hadn’t stretched enough afterward. It was inevitable that her slight frame would be wracked with muscle soreness.

This pain was probably going to last for a while.

Qin Ling still hadn’t returned today. After lying in bed for a while, Tang Mo decided she couldn’t waste any more time. She had to do something.

After all, she hadn’t temporarily given up searching for the pattern to fuse with the bead just so she could laze around and sleep in S Base.

But as for continuing her training today, the spirit was willing, but the flesh was weak...

After a simple self-massage and some stretching exercises in her room, Tang Mo set out for the mission center to pick up a mission.

Tang Mo hadn’t really been to the mission center much in this life.

But the place was not unfamiliar to her. In her previous life, her squad was always there, accepting missions to exchange for Crystal Cores just to keep the team alive.

Back then, however, their squad’s limited strength meant they could only take on the simplest missions.

The danger and difficulty weren’t high, but consequently, the rewards were also meager—barely enough to keep everyone fed.

And later, when everyone risked it all to take on a high-difficulty mission, Tang Mo had gloriously gotten a GAME OVER.

The lesson here is that people really need to know their own limits.

Now, Tang Mo was heading to the mission center to see for herself if there were any interesting missions. After all, the people who posted them offered more than just Crystal Cores; there were also all sorts of strange, valuable, and interesting things.

It was already noon when Tang Mo arrived at the mission center. It wasn’t very crowded, as the people who truly needed missions to provide for their families were all early risers.

People of leisure and wealth like Tang Mo were a rare sight here.

But even with the sparse crowd, Tang Mo still ran into some old acquaintances—not just one, but a pair.

”Tang Mo? The number one in Huaxia is here taking missions too?”

Seeing Tang Mo, Qin Fen, who had been about to accept a mission, stopped and walked over to greet her.

And the one holding onto Qin Fen’s arm was Wenqing.

She hadn’t paid attention to the gossip for a while. She never expected Qin Fen and Wenqing to actually get together.

Tang Mo, who was always out and about and missed all the juicy gossip, found the world a truly amazing place.

How did she remember the one who’d gotten together with Qin Fen before being Rong Rong, that relative of the Li Family who had argued with her at the auction?

’What is with this Qin Fen? How is it that every woman he finds seems destined to clash with me?’

Tang Mo decided to stay far away from Qin Fen from now on. His taste in women was truly one-of-a-kind.

In fact, Tang Mo’s memory served her right. The person by Qin Fen’s side before had indeed been Rong Rong.

Back then, both had ulterior motives, planning to team up and cause trouble.

But Qin Fen soon realized that offending Tang Mo meant offending Qin Ling. The Li Family quickly abandoned Rong Rong completely, making her useless to him.

Just then, Wenqing, who had recently won Mr. Wen Sr.’s favor, appeared on the scene. Although Wenqing wasn’t as beautiful as Rong Rong, she excelled at currying favor and was useful to him, so naturally, he chose to be with her.

What Qin Fen didn’t know yet, however, was that Wenqing had also been given the cold shoulder by Mr. Wen Sr. after offending Tang Mo at the last family dinner.

Strictly speaking, Wenqing, who had no blood ties to the Wen Family, was actually in a worse position than Rong Rong, who at least had a connection to the Li Family.

”What, so a laggard like you is allowed to take missions, but I’m not?”

Tang Mo had zero goodwill for Qin Fen. She knew he was always stirring up trouble and targeting her Qin Ling.

So when she spoke, she didn’t pull any punches.

”Fine, fine. You’re the strong one. You take the mission.”

Qin Fen turned away, having been thoroughly rebuffed.

These days, Qin Ling no longer bothered with the base’s affairs, his strength growing ever greater.

And Tang Mo herself had leaped from being an ordinary woman to the number one in Huaxia.

Qin Fen had long understood that there was no need for him to make enemies of these two anymore.

What he wanted had never changed: power in S Base. Now, his rivals were the Wen Family and the Li Family.

He had been there for the last beast horde attack and witnessed the entire event firsthand.

Anyone with half a brain who had seen that chaotic battle would not choose to make an enemy of Tang Mo.

But just because Qin Fen had half a brain left didn’t mean the woman beside him did.

Wenqing’s gaze toward Tang Mo was like daggers. No matter how hard she tried to hide it, others could still see it.

She had schemed and struggled to enter the Wen Family and win the old master’s favor. She never imagined that just because Tang Mo came for one meal, she would instantly become an outsider.

Now, she had finally managed to latch onto a powerhouse like Qin Fen, someone she had to carefully please every day. On what grounds could this woman speak so arrogantly to him?

Wenqing felt it was incredibly unfair. But she never considered that the biggest difference between her and Tang Mo was that she always relied on others to get what she wanted, whereas Tang Mo had always relied on herself.