Even without cheats, we must survive the apocalypse

Sir Lobelin, accompanied by his entourage, came to where Chu Xiao and the others were, forcing Chu Xiao to put on a bright and respectful smile and stand up from the sofa.

Anna snorted, took Ruan Mengmeng's arm, turned her head away and refused to pay attention to her father.

"Are you satisfied with the gift I gave you?" Sir Lobelin glanced at Eta behind Chu Xiao and said with a hint of amusement.

"I'm really flattered." Chu Xiao showed a perfectly awkward smile and deliberately glanced at Ruan Mengmeng.

This small action caught the attention of Sir Lobelin, who laughed out loud and patted Chu Xiao on the shoulder: "It seems that you still need to spend some time to adapt to this new life - you must serve your new master well and don't embarrass me."

The second half of the sentence was addressed to Aita.

Aita nodded slightly and replied: "I will regard the master as everything."

Then, Sir Sir walked to Anna and Ruan Mengmeng. Anna groaned and hid behind Ruan Mengmeng, refusing to look at her father. Sir Lobelin smiled helplessly and turned to Ruan Mengmeng and said, "Miss Ruan, as you can see, Anna has never had many friends. I hope you can be her friend."

Ruan Mengmeng turned her head to look at the girl and said seriously: "Anna's personality is quite to my liking. I will protect her."

With Ruan Mengmeng's personality, it would be difficult for her to speak in such a refined way. But Sir Lobelin didn't care. Instead, he smiled and said, "Miss Ruan, are you Ruan Zhaolong's daughter?"

"Do you know my old man?" Ruan Mengmeng asked curiously.

"That's right. I don't know your father, but he is a legendary figure. In the other world, his reputation is much greater than you think." Sir said, "At first I didn't think you were his daughter. If I hadn't heard from Shikoti that you could fight with her, I probably wouldn't have thought of this."

"Then do you know his current situation?" Ruan Mengmeng rarely showed a trace of anxiety.

"I don't know about that," Sir Lobelin replied softly, "but it would be a pity if a legend like him was not chosen."

Chapter 32 Friendship

Ruan Zhaolong is a legend. His biological daughter, Ruan Mengmeng, curled her lips in disdain. She could not associate the sloppy and greasy middle-aged father with the word "legend". In Ruan Mengmeng's impression, her father is rude and lustful, and he is always unruly, with the image of a middle-aged greasy old man. However, this outdated old man has become a "hero" in the eyes of others.

Sir Lobelin did not continue to introduce the deeds of Ruan Mengmeng's father. After saying hello, he looked at his daughter helplessly and then left surrounded by his followers.

Chu Xiao breathed a sigh of relief only after Sir left.

"Miss Ruan, your father is so powerful." After Sir Lobelin left, Anna suddenly came back to life and asked Ruan Mengmeng with great interest. Her interest suddenly became very high, and there was a strange light in her eyes when she looked at Ruan Mengmeng - just as Sir Lobelin said, Anna actually didn't have many friends.

"I don't know either." Ruan Mengmeng scratched her head, not understanding why her father was so famous overseas. "He was just a gangster. Although he made some achievements and got rich early, his family business was not small, but that's all. Otherwise, why would he offend someone and run back to China in disgrace? Oh, by the way, just call me by my name. Miss Ruan sounds so awkward."

"Then... I'll call you Mengmeng, is that okay?" Anna asked a little cautiously.

"That's fine," Ruan Mengmeng patted Anna's shoulder generously, "I've already called you Anna a long time ago anyway."

"Then can we really be friends?" She was very cautious, as if the word friend was very important to her, so the girl was so careful to confirm it many times. Due to her living environment, although Anna had a material life that ordinary people could not achieve, it also made her lack of close friends around her.

"Why not?" Ruan Mengmeng patted her chest. "I think you are a pretty good person. You heard it just now. I will protect you from now on."

Anna felt as if a stone had been lifted from her heart. She held Ruan Mengmeng's hand and smiled brightly.

"Mengmeng!" she muttered happily, as if savoring the joy the name brought her.

"By the way, Mengmeng, you just said that your father ran back to China because he offended someone," Anna couldn't help but feel curious. After all, not everyone is qualified to be described as a "legend" by their father. "But according to my father, your father is a very powerful person. What did he do to force such a person to run away?"

"That's why I said that you foreigners must have made a mistake. I don't deny that my father has some skills, but at most he is just a big scoundrel who has successfully cleaned up his name." Ruan Mengmeng didn't mind digging up her father's embarrassing stories. "I heard that he killed several drug lords in Mexico single-handedly, and offended the local big gangs, so he had to escape back in disgrace. My father even boasted that those people drove tanks to chase him, but he ran away. Tanks, why didn't he say that they drove fighter jets to chase him."

In Ruan Mengmeng's view, her father was just bragging in order to escape in an embarrassing way, but it sounded different when other people heard it.

Anna knew more about this than Ruan Mengmeng, and after a moment of hesitation, she said, “Mengmeng, maybe your father is not bragging.”

"No bragging?" Ruan Mengmeng blinked, "It's just a gang, where did the tanks come from?"

"I think your father might have killed a warlord instead of a drug lord..." Anna's eyes almost lit up. "He's really amazing! He was able to kill such a big shot single-handedly, and even escaped unscathed from a military-level pursuit!"

……

The two girls were chatting animatedly. Chu Xiao, accompanied by the maid Aita, watched the scene silently.

"The lonely girl finally made friends. Don't you think this is a very beautiful picture?" A voice suddenly said

Chu Xiao turned his head and found that Shi Kodi had come to his side without him knowing when.

"That's not the tone you use to express your admiration for something beautiful." Chu Xiao looked at the woman warily. The other person's tone sounded more like mockery than expression of admiration.

"How could that be?" Shikoti tilted her head slightly and said deliberately, "Perhaps I am witnessing the beginning of a beautiful friendship. This is really... touching."

Chu Xiao didn't say anything. He was glad that the woman in front of him didn't have any emotion in her eyes. She wouldn't believe in anything beautiful. Chu Xiao was very familiar with that look because he saw it almost every day these days. It was a look that was used to darkness. Because it was used to darkness, no matter how bright it was, it would only make it think of the shadow under the light.

"Maybe you can get along well with someone I know." Chu Xiao thought of An Suxin's beautiful face, and his heart felt soft.

Shikoti raised her eyebrows slightly, as if smiling: "Oh, so, besides this little girlfriend, do you have other companions?"

"Of course not." Chu Xiao lied without blushing or breathing hard.

Shi Koti did not continue on this topic. She just stared into Chu Xiao's eyes and said meaningfully, "If I have the chance, I really want to meet your friend."

Chu Xiao looked at Shi Kou Di's face and had to admit that this mixed-race beauty was really a rare beauty. Among the girls he knew, only An Suxin and his own sister could compete with her. However, what Chu Xiao cared about was not her stunning appearance, but the inexplicable sense of familiarity.

Chu Xiao finally couldn't help but ask, "Have we met somewhere before?"

Shikoti smiled faintly upon hearing this, but did not give a direct answer: "Oh, is this a pick-up technique that has been outdated for a long time?"

"You probably haven't seen it before. If I had met a woman as beautiful as you once, I would never forget her." This sentence was not a flattery, but a statement of fact.

"This flattery is really old-fashioned, but I am quite happy to hear it." Shi Koti suddenly stretched out her hand, hooked Chu Xiao's chin, and deliberately blew a breath on Chu Xiao's face, "So, I decided to give you a chance to get close to me. It depends on whether you have the courage."

She took the lead and walked towards the dance floor - at this moment, there were many men and women dancing to the music on the dance floor.

The mixed-race beauty turned around indifferently, with her back to the lights of the dance floor, and stretched out her hand to Chu Xiao: "Would you like to ask me to dance with you?"

Chu Xiao took a deep breath, glanced at the people around him, especially at Eta who was not far away from him, and then grabbed Shi Koti's slender hand: "I'm happy to do so."

(ps: Ruan's father is not considering having him appear in the main story for the time being, so just let him be a background character for now)

Chapter 33 Dance

Chu Xiao couldn't dance, and he actually had no interest in running into the dance floor with a dangerous woman to join in the fun - no matter how beautiful Shi Koti was.

However, Chu Xiao understood Shi Koti's hint. This woman had something to say, and she was just using dancing to create an opportunity to whisper. Of course, he didn't trust Shi Koti, but after all, Chu Xiao didn't trust anyone on this ship except Ruan Mengmeng, and at most he could barely add a little Anna.

However, many of Shikoti's actions did help Chu Xiao and his companions. Before boarding the ship, she vaguely revealed Sir Lobelin's character so that Chu Xiao would not blindly make the wrong choice. She then secretly slipped a note to him, letting Chu Xiao know the trap hidden in the room.

Regardless of the purpose, this woman's actions did help a lot, and he should give her corresponding trust, but Chu Xiao could not feel the slightest kindness from Shi Koti's actions.

The mixed-race beauty was wearing a bodyguard uniform, which was quite capable and totally out of place with the ladies in the dance floor. However, Shikoti did not need gorgeous clothes to set off her beauty. Even if she was wearing an ordinary uniform, this woman's peerless appearance could still easily bring out a heroic spirit.

There were many surprised or jealous eyes on the dance floor, and Chu Xiao was in the center of these eyes at the moment, and she felt like an actor walking to the center of the stage. Even the orchestra's performance just happened to finish a song, as if they were waiting for this beauty to walk into the dance floor and become the focus of the whole audience.

It was not until this time that Chu Xiao finally realized a very critical problem.

——He can't dance at all!

"What kind of dance is this?" Chu Xiao asked in a low voice.

"Waltz." Shikoti smiled slightly, turned around gracefully and casually, and stood opposite Chu Xiao.

The men and women on the dance floor had already lined up and saluted each other. Chu Xiao was a beat late and had to follow the others and slowly bow his head to salute his female partner opposite him. He was embarrassed to find that, whether intentionally or not, he and Shi Koti were placed in the center of the dance floor, as if they were the protagonists of the dance.

When Shi Koti's hand rested on Chu Xiao's shoulder, Chu Xiao even felt that his muscles were so tense that they were almost stiff.

"Use your other hand to hold my waist."

"Oh oh!" Chu Xiao hurriedly did as he was told and felt as if he had become a puppet.

"You touched my butt." Shi Koti looked at Chu Xiao with a playful smile, "Take advantage of me?"

"Ah... um, sorry." Chu Xiao quickly put his hand that had crossed the line back to the correct position. At the same time, he couldn't help feeling a little regretful. He was so nervous that he completely ignored the feel of his hand just now.

The two were now extremely close, almost hugging each other. At this distance, Shikoti's beautiful mixed-race face appeared in Chu Xiao's eyes in the form of a close-up, almost occupying his entire field of vision. Her face combined the characteristics of both the East and the West, with deep and delicate features, and soft and delicate. Even at such a close distance, her face still looked flawless, and her skin was as delicate as white jade.

The cheerful and passionate dance prelude slowly sounded, the song was Johann Strauss II's "Voice of Spring". Chu Xiao certainly didn't know what song the orchestra was playing live, but he felt familiar with it, probably because he had heard it in "Tom and Jerry" when he was a child. His entire impression of waltz was that a man and a woman were leaning against each other and spinning in circles under the beautiful music, but that was all. He had no idea what the dance steps and rhythm were.

"Well, I can't dance at all." Chu Xiao whispered in Shikoti's ear. At such a close distance, he could even smell the faint fragrance on the other person.

"I can see that." Shikoti smiled lightly with ease.

Chu Xiao breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that at least he had an old hand guiding him and he could just follow along and deal with things, so he probably wouldn't make a big fool of himself.

"Oh, I forgot to tell you." Shikoti suddenly said, "Actually, this is also my first time dancing with someone. It feels quite fresh."

Chu Xiao's heart sank immediately. In his opinion, making a fool of oneself was a small matter. The problem was that two people who couldn't dance were standing on the dance floor like this, which attracted a lot of attention. If they made more jokes, they wouldn't be able to talk to each other in private.

However, Chu Xiao soon found out that she had thought too much. Shi Kodi's dance steps were not like what she said. Her movements were skillful and gorgeous. She even had enough energy to guide Chu Xiao, a rookie who knew nothing about dance steps, so that he would not be so embarrassed.

Her movements were very standard, even professional. She rotated, tilted, and swung in one smooth and continuous motion. Her body rose and fell like waves. Following the beat of the music, even with a burden like Chu Xiao, her dance was full of rhythmic beauty. Even without the contrast of gorgeous clothes, her dance was still full of stunning beauty.

"Relax, don't be so nervous." Shi Koti said cheerfully, holding Chu Xiao's hand and turning around gracefully, then holding his shoulders again, "This is just an arty dance party. Do you really think these people are good at dancing? No one cares whether the dance is good or not, they only care whether their dance partner is pretty enough."

"Didn't you say this was your first time dancing?" Chu Xiao suspected that Shi Kodi was lying to her, but on this issue, there was really no need for her to lie to herself.

"Yes, it is indeed my first time dancing with someone, but I didn't say I don't know how to dance." Shi Koti's words left Chu Xiao speechless. "But are you sure you want to spend this time asking such boring questions? Of course, if you insist on doing so, I don't mind."

Chu Xiao immediately realized that he was not here to pick up girls and learn dancing. He cursed himself for being "lustful" and quickly shifted his thoughts to the main business: "Why are you helping us?"

This is the issue that Chu Xiao is most concerned about at the moment. They met Shi Kodi by chance and their positions were almost hostile, but she took the initiative to help Chu Xiao a lot: "I don't believe that you suddenly have a kind heart and want to help innocent people."

"Could it be that I can't suddenly be kind and save your lives out of compassion?"

Chu Xiao shook his head: "Although I can't tell you why, I don't think you are that kind of person."

Shikoti replied, "Don't worry, I do have my own plans. The reason is very simple. Like you two, I am not on the same side as the people on this ship. I need a partner to help me achieve my goal, and you are just the right person."

"Do I have a choice?" Chu Xiao thought it through quickly. He had few options. No matter how luxurious and prosperous the life on this ship was, he couldn't stay. He had to find a chance to escape from here as soon as possible and reunite with his sister. He didn't care why Shikoti and Sir Lobelin, who belonged to the same cult, were not of the same kind. Since the other party took the initiative to show goodwill, Shikoti could indeed be a good partner.

"What do you want me to do?" Chu Xiao asked in a low voice.

"Don't worry for now," Shi Koti half-lay on Chu Xiao's arms as the music played, her whole body stretching out like a flower, "You have to get rid of their surveillance of you first."

Chapter 34 Intelligence

According to Shi Koti, Chu Xiao and Ruan Mengmeng were outsiders who boarded the ship midway, so the ship's security department naturally couldn't just leave them alone. In the final analysis, the installation of the eavesdropping device was not at the behest of Lobelin, but was a spontaneous act of the ship's security department.

Chu Xiao had not grasped the positioning of this ship from the beginning. This large ship that could accommodate tens of thousands of people was not just a base for survivors at sea, but a kingdom at sea. It had a considerable number of C-level staff working hard to ensure the normal operation of this "society" at sea, and the security department was responsible for the order and safety on board.

Monitoring outsiders is part of the security department's job, and it's a necessary procedure for safety reasons. It's not that Sir Lobelin is suspicious of Chu Xiao and the others - and certainly not that he trusts them that much. In fact, as the ruler of the Nibelungen, Sir doesn't need to care about such things at all, because his subordinates will naturally complete it according to the clear security management system.

If there is no problem, everyone is happy. If there is a problem, it is just a matter of cleaning up two small bugs.

However, Chu Xiao was relieved when he learned about this situation. Since it is a necessary process of the ship's department's work, the monitoring will have a clear and specific time limit. After all, no one has the time to monitor their movements all the time.

"48 hours." Shikoti gave a time limit. "This is the monitoring time limit set by the Security Department for outsiders. As long as you don't reveal any problems within this time limit, the monitoring of you will naturally be lifted."

This time was shorter than Chu Xiao expected, which also made Chu Xiao feel a little relieved.

"How can I get off the boat?" Chu Xiao asked again. As the dance progressed, his movements became more and more coherent. Although he was still a complete amateur, he was no longer as embarrassed as at the beginning.

"After you help me accomplish my goal, I will naturally help you leave here." Shikoti said, "Before that, I suggest you don't act on your own. Don't underestimate the defense of this ship. You will be shot dead if you trespass or leave without permission, so don't seek death before you help me."

"Then Anna..." Chu Xiao thought of the naive young lady. If the defense of this ship is really so tight, then how did Anna run away from home?

"Don't take her affairs seriously," Shikoti smiled softly, "It was just a little game that Sir played with his rebellious daughter. He just wanted her to learn a lesson, but he didn't expect something went wrong."

This explanation makes sense. Although Chu Xiao always feels that there is something else going on here, Shi Koti did not explain more and Chu Xiao had no interest in asking further questions.

The dance music was coming to an end soon. Chu Xiao took advantage of the last moment to quickly ask some questions, and Shi Koti answered them selectively. As for the "purpose" of Shi Koti needing Chu Xiao's help, she chose to keep it secret for the time being.

According to Shikoti, at this stage, there is no need for Chu Xiao to know what she is going to do.

Finally, with the beautiful melody of "The Voice of Spring", this first waltz in life finally came to an end. Shi Koti took Chu Xiao's arm, left the dance floor, and walked towards the corner where Ruan Mengmeng and Anna were. Chu Xiao felt the amazed gazes from all directions.

Of course, he knew that these eyes were not directed at him, but at the mixed-race beauty's stunning looks and wonderful dancing posture. As for Chu Xiao, he was completely regarded as a tool for Shi Koti to show her beautiful dancing posture.

Back to the small corner where the few of them had stayed before, Anna and Ruan Mengmeng were still sitting on the sofa, with a lot of exquisite food in front of them. Eta stood in the empty seat left by Chu Xiao, like a loyal dog waiting for his master to return.

Besides them, there were some other outsiders in the corner.

Miss Ruan was very beautiful, only slightly inferior to Shikoti. She was youthful and beautiful, with a fiery red highlight on her forehead, which gave her a rebellious demeanor. Moreover, she was not like Anna, who aroused concerns because of her identity. Therefore, he was not surprised at the appearance of annoying flies and had already made preparations to drive away the insects.

However, what he didn't expect was that all the flies that flew over were young and good-looking "female flies".

"What's going on?" Chu Xiao blinked, unable to understand why so many people came here when he just went out to dance.