Reborn One Week Before the Apocalypse

Chapter 459 -449: Farewell

Xu Ru held on for a few more days, but in the end, the hunger became unbearable.

When a person is starving, all reason vanishes. The only thought in her mind was, ‘I need to eat.’

Xu Ru stumbled outside, hoping to find something to eat—even if it was just wild grass or tree bark from the landscaping.

But her body was already extremely weak. She didn’t even last two minutes in the poison fog before she collapsed.

Xu Ru fell not far from Tan Jing. Her eyes were wide open as she stared at her mother’s corpse, her heart filled with desolation.

‘I’m not going to survive the day,’ she knew.

‘What a pity. The internet said the apocalypse was about to end, that everything would get better soon, but I couldn’t even hold on for the last few days.’

Filled with such bitter resentment, Xu Ru stared fixedly ahead until she finally breathed her last.

What Xu Ru didn’t know was that on the day after she died, the world’s poison fog dissipated.

The world had finally returned to its former peace.

If only she had held on for one more day, she would have seen the blue sky again. She was only a single step away from hope.

Meanwhile, Xu Yuanshan, unable to move in the property management center, could see the world outside the window. He was the only one left there.

Xu Yuanshan watched with his own eyes as the poison fog outside the window dissipated bit by bit. He wanted to drag his body toward the door, but he was completely helpless.

His body was in excruciating pain, yet Xu Yuanshan let out a gleeful laugh.

‘To think that everyone else died, and I’m the only one who survived. I actually made it to the day the world is at peace again.’

‘Perhaps this is fate!’

Xu Yuanshan lay in the corner for a long time, feeling for the first time that his own fate was the best of all.

But how could Tang Mo allow Xu Yuanshan to have a good fate? Wouldn’t that be a great injustice to Xu Yin?

The moment the fog cleared, Tang Mo arrived at the property management center and personally ended Xu Yuanshan’s Life.

If she had let Xu Yuanshan go to his death just one day earlier, he would have considered it a release.

But now, with the good days finally here after he had endured so much, dying on a day so sunny and bright that its warmth could be felt on the skin would undoubtedly bring immense pain and resentment.

And what Tang Mo wanted was his pain. She had to pay back what Xu Yin’s family had suffered in the last life tenfold, a hundredfold. Only then could Tang Mo consider the mission Xu Yin entrusted to her complete.

Having dealt with the last person, Tang Mo walked out of the property management center and looked up at the sun.

‘It’s time for me to go back.’ Tang Mo could already feel it. The door would appear soon, and she would return to the real world.

But before that, there was one last thing she had to do.

The poison fog dissipated, the sun came out, and the entire nation celebrated.

However, people had been trapped for so long that they still didn’t dare to venture out easily.

It wasn’t until the television began to continuously broadcast that the outside world was safe and the air quality had returned to normal that people finally dared to step out of their homes.

Everyone rushed out of their houses to bask in the sun. They hadn’t seen sunlight in so long that many couldn’t help but stare directly at the bright, warm, radiant star, even as it stung their eyes.

Many tilted their heads back to look, tears streaming down their faces.

It was hard to say if it was the sun’s glare stinging their eyes or if they were simply overwhelmed with emotion.

The poison fog outside was gone, plants were beginning to grow again, and people would soon be able to resume work and production.

Government departments also began to launch their relief efforts on a grand scale. Everything was moving forward in an orderly and positive direction.

Although the world’s economy might have been set back several decades by those three dark months, after experiencing all this, people understood all too well that nothing was more important than simply being alive.

At that moment, the Xu Family’s home was filled with joyous laughter. Having endured the difficult days, they had finally welcomed hope and light.

They still had plenty of food left at home, and that evening, Tang Mo personally cooked a feast for the family.

It was the best meal she’d had since coming to this world. Everyone ate to their hearts’ content, chatting about the future as they did.

Tang Mo simply smiled and nodded, saying very little, because she knew that the future they spoke of had nothing to do with her.

What she was doing now was giving Mr. and Mrs. Xu one last beautiful memory.

After dinner, at Tang Mo’s suggestion, the family took a photo together.

In the photo, everyone was beaming.

That night, Tang Mo returned to her room and wrote a letter.

The letter’s main content was a farewell.

Tang Mo kept the reason vague. She wrote that during the three-month apocalypse, she had found a more important mission and had to leave to fulfill it.

She asked her mom and dad to forgive her, explaining that she probably wouldn’t be coming back, but that she would take good care of herself so Mr. and Mrs. Xu wouldn’t have to worry.

There is no banquet that doesn’t end, and that was true even for parents and their children.

Surviving these three months of apocalypse was already a great fortune, so they shouldn’t be sad about her departure.

She asked them to give all their love for her to Pingping and An’an, who would take good care of them and keep them company in her place.

Tang Mo placed the letter on her desk and weighed it down with her phone.

The phone’s screen was displaying the family photo they had just taken.

In truth, Tang Mo didn’t have to do any of this. A reminder in her Sea of Consciousness had already told her that the mission in this world was complete. The door would appear at midnight, and then she could leave.

But after experiencing several worlds, Tang Mo found that she was very different from when she had first been reborn.

The biggest difference was that she seemed to have genuinely felt something amidst it all.

She had felt the sincere love between people.

Compared to her initial indifference and nonchalance, Tang Mo felt she had become softer. Many of her views were different from how they were at the beginning.

It was true that in a dog-eat-dog apocalypse, there would always be countless filthy deeds and disgusting people.

But at the same time, no matter what the world became, it would never lack love or the act of being loved.

Love is a human instinct, something that can change the world and can never be erased by it.

That was why Tang Mo still left a farewell for Xu Jinsan and Zhou Jingyi.

Even if this farewell was somewhat feeble, it was the last thoughtful gesture she could make. It was far better than leaving without a word.

With everything done, Tang Mo quietly waited in her room for midnight to arrive.

She waited for that familiar, glowing door to suddenly appear in her room, ready to step through it.

This world was good, but Tang Mo felt no lingering attachment. It wasn’t her world, and a more important mission was waiting for her to complete.