Beloved Daddy In Apocalypse
20. Yin Zhen's Concern

"Father, I want more!"

Yin Mei excitedly thrust her already empty plate to Yin Zhen. Yin Zhen who saw that quietly grimaced inwardly.

"May'er just eat papa's, papa's full."

"really? Then Mei'er will eat papa's food!"

Just a moment ago, Yin Zhen was too focused on his work to forget the existence of Yin Mei who was asleep in the car with both doors open. He felt guilty and immediately brought Yin Mei to buy him his wish food, and now they were in the favorite chicken restaurant of her little girl.

After building the underground vault, he who was originally going to set up the formation array to maintain the stability and sturdiness of the vault, had to undo it because he did not want to let Yin Mei wait any longer.

Yin Zhen occasionally looked at his phone, but unfortunately there was no reply at all from Mei Qi.

"Where did this guy go? Does he work in the woods? Even now he still hasn't read my message."

The time the Mana Gate opened was now less than six days, and he had to quickly gather Mei Qi and his entire family who were indirectly Yin Mei family as well.

He once again sent another text message to Mei Qi. Hoping that Mei Qi would read it straight away and give it a reply.

It wasn't long before the two finally finished their lunch which was supposed to be dinner considering the time they had eaten just now. Yin Mei who did not want to return to the hotel sooner wanted to shop for snacks with her papa.

"Papa, Mei'er wants ice cream!"

"Alright, papa will buy it for you. We'll find a department store first."

After a five-minute drive, they stopped in front of a small convenience store selling heavy meals and snacks. Yin Zhen scavenged his little girl then entered the convenience store casually.

"Papa, stop first."

Yin Mei's gaze was diverted at a teenage girl who was mobbed by a group of men next to an alley on the other side of the convenience store.

"Papa, why did they hit that brother? Did they fight?"

Yin Zhen followed the direction of his little princess and replied, "they were just playing around. How did Mei'er know they were fighting?"

"Because that big brother looks uncomfortable being mobbed by that many older brothers. Can't papa help him? Mama once told Mei'er that when someone needs help, we have to help him."

Yin Zhen was silent for a moment. He didn't care much about the teenage girl actually, but he wasn't too comfortable with the bullying that was happening in the community either.

"Mei'er wants papa to help that brother? What did you get after helping your brother?"

Yin Mei was instantly flustered, she frowned looking like she was thinking hard, "eumm... That's... Uh! Mei'er's gonna give papa half the ice cream later. Hows it? Isn't that fair?"

"Haha! Alright... All right, papa can't wait to eat ice cream now."

He stepped closer to the center of the crowd, the teenage-year-old girl looked disheveled with blue bruises on her face and her legs slightly exposed from wearing a short skirt.

"You dare to decide on me, huh?! Base******not shameless! You don't even have parents but you dare to be pretentious in front of me. Basic******fucking!"

The man with quite a terrible appearance was about to kick back the shin of the girl in front of him, but a fairly hard blow suddenly landed on the back of his neck.

The man immediately turned to look at the perpetrator, and it turned out that the culprit was a grown man who was scavenging his son casually. "What are you doing, huh?!"

Yin Zhen shrugged both of his shoulders unconcernedly, "didn't you see? I just hit your neck. Still hurt?"

The other six men who were observing Yin Zhen from the side began to take on cues to attack Yin Zhen. While Yin Zhen still looked relaxed.

"Fucking basics! Since you're older, that doesn't mean I won't fight you! Attack her!"

"Dad!"

The other six men directly charged towards Yin Zhen, but the father figure for Yin Mei retreated quickly, too quickly until no one noticed her movements. He used his one hand to subvert everyone, his swift movements and his overwhelming strength left the six men unable to do anything after being defeated by Yin Zhen.

For Yin Zhen, defeating those who were only ordinary humans was truly a waste of his time, but he also did not want to refuse Yin Mei's request, after all, helping carefully was necessary on several occasions.

"Damn! Run!"

Inevitably the man could only order all his friends to flee, until shortly afterwards, the narrow alleyway street that had been quite crowded, was quite crowded, now completely deserted leaving only a father and son pair and a girl in high school uniform.

"Thank you so much uncle.." the girl immediately lowered her head in thanks to Yin Zhen. If it wasn't for Yin Zhen, I don't know what would happen now, maybe he would have to go home with a limp leg.

Yin Zhen sighed softly while shaking his head, "already, it doesn't matter."

As soon as Yin Zhen turned around and was about to enter the convenience store to buy ice cream, the sound of rumbling bellies came from the belly of the girl in the school uniform.

Yin Zhen momentarily stopped his steps, he then said slowly, "you, follow me..."

The girl while holding back the embarrassment was unwilling to follow Yin Zhen from behind. The three of them entered the convenience store, Yin Zhen who originally intended to buy ice cream and some snacks now had to change back his plans because of others.

He bought a dozen instant noodles, some snacks and fresh drinks, of course ice cream. After paying him at the cashier's desk, Yin Zhen handed one of his grocery crackers to the uniformed girl.

"This, for you to eat."

Bing Lan who was shocked when she saw the uncle in front of her casually gave her a crackle of food and drink to him. "It... Uncle, I'm fine. Uncle doesn't have to give this."

Yin Mei who had been silent raised her voice, "beautiful sister, when someone else gives you something with good intentions, it would be better if the beautiful sister accepts it. Isn't that right, papa? My mother said that to me..."

Yin Zhen furiously rubbed the tops of Yin Mei's head, "this little princess is so smart, surely your intelligence is from me."

"Papa, don't mess with my hair."

"Oh, alright." he said as he continued to rub the tops of Yin Mei's head in anxiety, ignoring Yin Mei's previous words.

Bing Lan who was looking at the cute scene between the father and little princess subconsciously smiled. She missed her father who had gone missing all of a sudden, of course she also missed her mother who was now away with another man. But when the figure of the old woman appeared in his mind, he sighed softly.

"There are many uncles... I will definitely repay uncle's kindness in the future!"

"There's no need for that, you just have to live a good life. Whether it's your parents or someone else who takes care of you, they'll be happy to see the girl they've raised become a successful and kind person."

There was actually another reason why Yin Zhen decided to help Bing Lan, it was because he could feel the fluctuations of the traces of Qi energy from the body of the girl in uniform. He did not know for sure, but if his conjecture was correct, then the girl in uniform would become a Mage with a high Mana capacity after the Mana gate opened later, and that was of course true if Bing Lan was not infected with the Mana waves that suddenly invaded Earth.

Bing Lan turned around leaving behind Yin Zhen and Yin Mei.

***

The next day still with the same schedule, Yin Zhen woke up his little daughter, bathed her, picked her clothes and fed her. The daily routine with the child makes Yin Zhen look more like a loving father than the image of a person who once ruled the Universe in a previous life.

Even though one day and one night had passed, Mei Qi still had not replied to her message and had not even read it. He who did not know what was going on with the mother of his son was a little worried.

"Did he really work in the interior? No, I have to find her for now, but I can't leave Mei'er either..."

He looked at his phone and someone immediately flashed through his mind, "then I had to ask for his help."

Without the slightest hesitation, he called Long Hu, the Zi Tian Assistant who should be able to investigate the whereabouts of someone.

"Hello, Mr. Yin, what is the need until you call me first?" long Hu replied from across there who was quite surprised to receive a call from Yin Zhen, the most mysterious person even after he dug up information from various sources.

"Can I ask for your help? The mother of my son could not be contacted until now, I was worried that something bad happened to her. Can you trace her whereabouts?"

"No problem, can master Yin give me his identity? I'll ask the other team to keep track of where it is, and maybe the results will come out in an hour."

"All right, then thank you very much. By the way, I hope that you and that Zi Tian do not leave the land of China, because something will happen within five days. I'm telling you this because of my gratitude. It would also be better if you stayed with your relatives at the Heaven Garden Hotel or nearby."

Long Hu who was working on his work frowned not understanding the meaning of Yin Zhen's words, "what do you mean? What's going to happen?"

"You'll find out later, but you better take my words seriously."