Qin Family Mansion.
In the luxurious dining room, Qin Jun was enjoying dinner with his family.
Only seven people were present.
Besides Qin Jun and his father Qin Yuan, there were three uncles: Qin Shanglong, Qin De, Qin Ming,
and two aunts: Qin Yueg and Qin Li.
Together, they were the direct members of the Qin Family.
The Qin Family is an ancient powerful clan with strict rules and clear hierarchy.
The main lineage controls most of the family resources, while collateral branches rely on the main line, like layers of a pyramid,
forming the towering Qin Family tree.
Qin Jun's uncles and aunts all hold high government positions.
Qin Ming is the first secretary of the imperial court's office and a candidate for the next top seven elite.
Qin De is the Minister of Commerce.
Qin Shanglong is commander of the Southeast Military District with the rank of General.
Qin Yueg heads the National Energy Administration, controlling the country's resource lifelines.
Qin Li is Dongdu's Executive Vice Governor, effectively the city's top leader.
All direct Qin Family members are high-ranking officials at department or vice-national level.
This shows how terrifyingly powerful the Qin Family is!
Before the unrest erupted, the Qin Family foresaw danger—when over 3,000 infected appeared in the capital,
their senior members fled the capital to Dongdu, escaping the disaster.
Many think the apocalypse would reshuffle power, allowing small people to rise.
This is a foolish notion.
Top clans like the Qin Family control enormous power and resources, with far earlier and better information than ordinary people.
When most don't know what's happening, they already prepare thoroughly.
When the apocalypse struck, their power shielded them from zombies.
As social order collapsed, they plundered resources and monopolized wealth to become rulers.
They are the beneficiaries of the old era but not dependent on it.
After the old era fell, the apocalypse was their playground.
Those eliminated by the apocalypse were petty upstarts like the Jiangjing An Family.
However, a wild card is talent awakening.
In the apocalypse, true nobility can only be evolvers.
Luckily, most of the Qin Family have awakened talents.
No other family likely combines evolution and power like them.
Other top clans have wealth and power but no talents.
Talent-awakened people mostly come from humble origins without power, starting too low...
The Qin Family, a chosen clan, is destined to dominate the apocalypse!
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Dinner was sumptuous.
Pan-fried cod, red date and white fungus soup, Arctic surf clam with cuttlefish, soy sauce steamed turbot—exquisite top-tier dishes.
Strict selection of ingredients and luxurious cooking methods equivalent to state banquets—the Qin Family chefs are banquet masters.
Though the apocalypse limits food sources, this does not affect the lifestyle of Qin Jun and the ruling tier...
"Qin Jun, you're already a level 2 evolver?"
Qin Shanglong smiled appreciatively.
Human adaptability to the apocalypse is surprisingly quick.
In just one month, the talent evolution system was understood from the black obelisks and other places.
Talents tier from F to SSS, with higher levels stronger and greater potential.
Evolvers also have strength levels, from 1 to 12.
A month in, almost all evolvers are level 1.
Qin Jun is already level 2—this talent excites the Qin Family greatly.
In the age of talent evolution, the Qin Family's true reliance is not their tens of thousands of troops or endless wealth.
It is their own strength.
Qin Jun nodded with a smile, "Thanks to those energy cores."
Energy cores are crystals inside zombies and monsters, containing pure energy to aid evolvers' cultivation.
Qin Family built a large research facility gathering thousands of scientists specializing in evolution and supernatural power.
They even secretly conduct human experiments...
While other evolvers grope in the dark, Qin Family, backed by absolute scientific resources, controls cultivation methods, far surpassing others!
This is the power of combining talent evolution with influence!
Over the month, Dongdu's army frequently went on large-scale operations in surrounding towns to exterminate zombies and obtain energy cores.
Yet energy cores remain scarce.
Despite killing over ten thousand zombies, the military secured just over six hundred energy cores.
Some ambitious ordinary people also joined these dangerous operations, with over 70% casualties!
They risked their lives to acquire a few energy cores, which were all handed over to Qin Family.
The Qin Family's payment was merely merit points—no cost to them...
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