The Bai Family’s eyes shifted in unison between the middle-aged Bai Zhengxuan and Liu Jing, then back again to the older couple, scrutinizing them closely.

The difference was huge.

They didn’t look like their future selves at all.

They suddenly appeared several decades younger.

"Well, the car is about to get washed away. How about we push the car out first?"

The middle-aged Bai Zhengxuan awkwardly touched his nose, feeling a bit uneasy under all those gazes.

As he spoke, the middle-aged Bai Zhengxuan glanced outside the bus.

The bus was still in the middle of the rushing river, seemingly moments away from being swept away.

"Oh, no need to push. I’ll just move the car a bit!"

Bai Yifan grinned broadly, walked straight to the driver’s seat, and started the vehicle.

The bus gave a slight shudder and quietly moved away from the middle of the river.

Even though the water had covered the tires, there was no fear of sinking. The bus had been modified; once the windows were rolled up, it could swim through the river without concern.

Guaranteed by Mr. Bai’s future decades-long imprisonment!

Watching the river slowly recede, the middle-aged Bai Zhengxuan and the middle-aged Liu Jing exchanged a silent glance with Bai Xiqin.

They curled their lips.

Only their granddaughter could have fooled them this way!

In the post-apocalyptic world, they were among the strongest of the strong.

Neither zombies nor superpower users had ever gotten the better of them.

They had traveled nearly everywhere, seeking out all visible mutant animals until, finally, they found Chenghuang.

Many forces coveted the divine beast Chenghuang, but they managed to carve a bloody path and became the first to use Chenghuang to travel back in time.

To think they were outwitted by their own granddaughter.

There was no choice but to admit defeat.

"How did you get here?"

Bai Zhengxuan looked at the middle-aged Bai Zhengxuan’s face, feeling slightly awkward.

He finally recalled that he himself had looked quite identical to the middle-aged Bai Zhengxuan when he was younger.

He just never thought that this person was his future self.

After all, the age difference was too great.

"Chenghuang appeared in the distant future, and we used it to return to the past," the middle-aged Bai Zhengxuan explained.

"So Chenghuang, the divine beast, really exists!" Bai Zhengxuan mused slightly.

The many strange creatures recorded in the Classic of Mountains and Seas began to appear in the apocalypse.

All of it confirmed that the once-glorious ancient legends would gradually emerge in their future.

Seeing his future self look so youthful made Bai Zhengxuan raise his eyebrows slightly.

The Bai Family knew the apocalypse would erupt thanks to Xiao Niu’s dreams and her prematurely awakened superpower.

Xiao Niu had mentioned that in her dreams, elderly superpower users would regrow black hair.

Initially, he thought Xiao Niu was exaggerating, but now it seemed the reality was even more extraordinary than her dreams.

It was almost as if they had undergone an age-reversal depicted in novels.

"Why did you come here?" Liu Jing, her eyes slightly red, asked her future self, feeling a sudden pang of sadness.

As a forensic doctor, she never showed her emotions, even in the face of major disasters, and considered herself a strong woman.

Her intuition told her something terrible had happened in the future.

Xiao Niu had said that, in the future, their entire family would be wiped out.

That was a dream, and the Bai Family believed it to about ninety percent certainty.

Yet there was still a ten percent hope that dreams aren’t always real or prophetic.

Things that hadn’t yet happened were a nightmare to them, not reality.

Their future selves and partners hadn’t perished.

What, then, was their future supposed to be?

"We... came to find someone." The middle-aged Liu Jing glanced silently at Bai Xiqin.

"Looking for me."

Bai Xiqin’s dark eyes curved slightly as she tightly held the middle-aged Liu Jing’s hand.

This feeling was wonderful.

She had finally reunited with her grandparents in the post-apocalyptic world.

This had been her only regret when she self-destructed during the apocalypse.

"Why didn’t you come looking for me?"

Bai Yifan, seeing the middle-aged Bai Zhengxuan and Liu Jing’s doting gaze on his older sister, felt a slight twinge of jealousy.

This was too much!

He was also a grandchild. Why did it seem like his future grandparents always had their eyes on his sister?

"Oh, we’re looking for you too."

The middle-aged Liu Jing gave Bai Yifan a half-hearted glance before turning back with a loving look at Bai Xiqin.

Bai Yifan: ...

Suddenly, Bai Yifan remembered something extremely important.

He recalled his sister saying before that his poor sports performance led him to be "picked off by their own instead of an outsider."!

Was this true?

"Future grandparents, may I ask you a serious question? I hope you can answer honestly," Bai Yifan fidgeted, visibly apprehensive.

"Go ahead!"

The middle-aged Liu Jing regarded Bai Yifan, who seemed almost like a dull child, and nodded calmly.

No matter how silly their grandson was, he was still their own, and answering a question or two wouldn’t hurt.

"Ahem, in the future, am I really ’picked off by their own instead of an outsider’?"

Bai Yifan glanced weakly at Bai Anhai, who had garlicky breath from breakfast.

If it were his mom, that would be fine, as at least it would be all in the family, and there’d be no garlic smell.

But if it were his dad...having garlic as his last sensation before death was tough to swallow.

"Yes!"

The middle-aged Liu Jing nodded decisively.

There was no intention of deceiving Bai Yifan.

Telling their family the truth about the future now would make them cautious and prevent them from repeating past mistakes.

Bai Yifan: ...

"I have nothing else to ask."

Feeling downcast, Bai Yifan slumped on the sofa, remaining silent.

A gentle "yes" had shattered his last bit of luck.

"You’re here because our entire family is wiped out in the future?"

Liu Jing knitted her brows, voicing the outcome she most dreaded.

"Not entirely wiped out, just us two left." The middle-aged Liu Jing pointed to herself and the middle-aged Bai Zhengxuan, her gaze complicated.

This was the true agony.

Had their grandchildren perished entirely from the start, the two of them would certainly have lost their will to live as well.

What kept them going was the news that Xiao Niu was still alive.

In the vast sea of people, finding one person was incredibly difficult.

When they finally had a lead on her, every hope was shattered.

This feeling was really bad.

They didn’t want to endure it again.

Liu Jing and Bai Zhengxuan were silent for a moment.

Just imagining it filled them with despair for their future selves.

At their age, the only motivation to live was their children.

"Xiao Niu, how did you know they came for you?"

After a long silence, Bai Anhai suddenly spoke up, his expression somber.

He remembered his daughter initially saying she knew the apocalypse was coming because of a prophetic dream.

But seeing how familiar she seemed with their future selves, it seemed like reliving her past experiences.

"I don’t quite know how to explain. Haven’t you all read plenty of post-apocalyptic novels? It’s like all the main characters—rebirth."

Bai Xiqin looked slightly uncomfortable. 𝐟𝕣𝕖𝐞𝐰𝕖𝚋𝐧𝗼𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝗰𝐨𝐦

Initially, she said it was a dream, which was a bit of a deception to her family.

Without warning.

Bai Xiqin fell into a warm embrace.

She looked up to find Wang Yiyun’s eyes filled with heartache.