Women’s rights. In other words, “women” plus “power.”

The apocalypse. In other words, “the world after the end of everything.”

Because it’s a world of female power, and because it’s post-apocalyptic, women hold absolute power over violence in every situation.

Men—especially handsome men—are little more than tools of production and trade goods for women, most of the time.

No one cares what men think or feel. They just need to contribute as much seed as possible, and they’ve already more than fulfilled their duties as human beings.

…

That was precisely why Diona had decided Lin Mo was definitely a slut.

After all, any woman would absolutely lose control at the sight of a man like him!

Diona was no exception…

Clutching Lin Mo tightly, she pulled him backward, dragging him all the way onto the bed of the jeep. Then Diona glanced back at the approaching horde of zombies.

“W-Wah… my poor friends…”

Lin Mo covered his eyes and kept up the act. “Those damn bandits killed them all. Thank you, my hero…”

My hero.

Those four words landed in Diona’s heart and sent a sudden, shiver-inducing thrill through her.

His voice, his figure, his face, even his alluring aura—everything about him tempted her, made her want to grind him down again and again until not a drop was left.

But Diona held back.

After all, she wasn’t some rapist! She was, more or less, a girl with good manners and self-respect. So there was no need to rush into that sort of thing…

“You said they were your companions?”

Diona cast a look of feigned pity at the bodies scattered across the plaza.

Among the corpses wearing strange clothes similar to this pretty boy’s, there were quite a lot of men!

Though they were all old and ugly.

But even so! To survive alongside so many men… Grr (gritting her teeth). The woman who’d put this group together must have led a pretty debauched life.

Still, Diona couldn’t understand women who liked ugly men.

As far as she was concerned, one man was all she needed.

After quickly sweeping her gaze over the bodies, Diona instantly picked out the leader based on experience.

So she jumped out of the jeep again. She rushed over and yanked a necklace from Bai Xiaomei’s neck. Bai Xiaomei had been dead for quite some time; her body was nearly cold.

(This one was definitely his old flame!)

(She’s dead anyway. I might as well play the good Samaritan and get him to fall for me instead…)

Thinking this, Diona’s eyes sparkled as she leaped back onto the jeep.

She grabbed Lin Mo’s hand. The gentle warmth seeping from the young man’s palm made her heart race so hard it felt like it might leap right out of her chest.

“I’m sorry. I had no idea you’d been through so much.”

Diona did her best to suppress the lust burning inside her and keep up the appearance of a kind, gentle girl.

Pity shone in the blonde girl’s eyes. The corners of her mouth turned down slightly, and a faintly apologetic expression crossed her face.

“Things are urgent. I can’t help you bury their bodies.”

“But at least you can keep this as a memento.”

“…” (Lin Mo)

Lin Mo blinked, feigning confusion.

He took the quest necklace his deceased friend had used to accept system missions, but thought to himself: She’s dead. What use is this to me?

“Thank you…”

Lin Mo lowered his head and, following his understanding of how people acted in this world of female power, put on the bashful look of a young man.

“Thank you so much…”

“Get behind me!” Diona reached out and pulled Lin Mo behind her.

While the two of them had been talking, the zombies had drawn close enough to pose a real threat, snarling as they came.

Once she had Lin Mo behind her, Diona raised her little silver pistol and fired three shots in quick succession, hitting the foreheads of the three nearest zombies.

“What’s taking you so long? Are you done yet?! For crying out loud—are you all waiting in line to take a dump in the toilet?!”

“We’re coming, we’re coming!” The three women Diona had sent to scavenge for supplies burst out of Big Goldfish Supermarket, each carrying an enormous bundle.

“Jackpot! We hit the jackpot!” they shouted.

“We can’t do this, Diona!” The woman driving up front saw in the rearview mirror that the road behind them was completely blocked by a horde of zombies.

“There’s no way I can get through here! It’s over, we’re finished! Let’s ditch the jeep and run!” (Woman)

“Don’t you dare give me that defeatist crap!”

Diona was furious. She kicked the metal railing behind the driver’s cab.

Clang—

As the railing rattled, Diona even fired two shots behind them, breaking the legs of two zombies at the front of the horde to slow it down for a moment.

“Do you want to be bait for those bandits who just ran off? Huh?!”

Diona caught a bundle one of her companions tossed up, then grabbed another and dropped it beside Lin Mo.

She waved her little pistol.

“Come on, come on! Everybody, get in!”

“We can’t! There’s no way through!” the woman in the cab shouted again, panicked.

“There’s a road on the other side of the plaza, isn’t there? Drive!” (Diona)

“But there’s a wall right across from us…” The woman’s panicked voice grew confused.

Then, at last, she cried out in delight.

“All right—hold on tight! I’m gonna ram it again!!”

With a cheer from the driver, the jeep—its front end heavily modified and its bumper reinforced with welded steel bars and pipes—accelerated toward the wall across the plaza.

Another crash rang out. This time, there were no more zombies blocking their way.

With that second crash, they finally cleared the plaza outside Big Goldfish Supermarket. Realizing everyone had made it out unharmed, the women burst into jubilant cheers.

Throughout all this, Lin Mo had been leaning against the steel panel on the right side of the truck bed, his shoulder forced against Diona’s firm, shapely thigh.

(Anyone could’ve figured out that you go in the same way you get out…)

(But facing such a terrifying horde of zombies, she hadn’t shown even the slightest fear from beginning to end?)

Lin Mo looked up at the fine braid of blonde hair down Diona’s back. He couldn’t help but admire the women of this world even more.

“Oof—”

Suddenly, a slight bump made Diona lose her balance and lean backward.

Her firm, rounded butt landed squarely on Lin Mo’s face just as he looked up.

“Ah, sorry.”

Realizing how rude she’d been, Diona sprang forward as if shocked, briefly putting some distance between herself and Lin Mo.

In the reddening light of the late-afternoon sun, the color that had tinted the clouds also flushed the girl’s cheeks a faint red.

She pressed her lips together hard and drew in her stomach, her lips still tightly pursed. Her pupils stayed fixed on Lin Mo’s face.

At that very moment, the other women in the jeep had also noticed Lin Mo’s astonishing, unparalleled beauty.