After failing to find anything, Pei Mo came to his mother. “Mommy, you’re amazing!”
Gu Nanyi hugged her son. “Does Momo want to know where it went?”
“Can Momo know? But isn’t this the most amazing part of a magician’s trick? Mommy is willing to tell Momo?”
Hearing this, Gu Nanyi lightly pinched Pei Mo’s nose. “You’re Mommy’s precious baby, so of course Mommy is willing to tell you. Close your eyes, Momo.”
“Okay.”
Pei Mo obediently closed his eyes. Just a few seconds later, he heard his mommy tell him to open them.
When he opened his eyes, he discovered that everything around him had changed.
“Mommy, where are we? Is this Mommy’s secret base? Am I the first person to know about it?”
As soon as Pei Mo finished speaking, he heard his daddy’s voice. “Wrong, Momo. Daddy was the first to know about it.”
He looked at the daddy standing behind Mommy. “Daddy, you’re mean.”
Seeing the father and son staring at each other, Gu Nanyi quickly stepped in to make peace.
“Momo, do you want to see where the food outside went?”
“Yes!”
Pei Mo immediately shifted his attention.
The family of three went to the warehouse and opened the door.
Inside, they saw neatly arranged takeout containers on the nearest shelf.
Time was completely still inside the warehouse, so there was no need to worry about the food spoiling. The moment the food was taken out, its heat appeared again.
However, Gu Nanyi and the others could enter without any problems. The time-freezing effect only applied to food.
Pei Mo looked around. “Mommy, this place is so nice. What’s over there?”
“Is that a traditional courtyard house?”
Pei Mo had seen his grandmother’s courtyard house before, but it was not nearly as large as this one.
Ding Shu’s courtyard house had been passed down through her family for generations. It was said that the Ding family had once been related to the imperial family.
“Yes, that’s a traditional courtyard house. There’s a lake over there. Momo, you’re not allowed to go over there, understand?”
“Mm, Momo will listen to Mommy.”
“What a good boy.”
Afterward, Gu Nanyi took Pei Mo around the space for a long time before they left.
Pei Mo was still young, so he had to take a nap after lunch.
Mo Nan and Mo Bei returned, and Gu Nanyi and Pei Yichen asked them to watch Pei Mo while they went to order firearms.
“Mo Bei, Mo Nan, when Momo wakes up, he’ll need to use the bathroom, drink some water, and have some fruit. If Momo gets hungry, prepare something warm and easy to digest for him.”
Mo Bei and Mo Nan listened to BOSS’s instructions.
“Yes, BOSS.”
The two then left.
That afternoon, they also went to the black market to order generators, solar panels, wind power generation equipment, and other supplies.
After all, during the apocalypse, there would only be two kinds of weather: extreme heat and extreme cold.
After night fell, the two entered an underground bar.
This place was essentially a trading hub for the black market.
They changed their clothes, put on masks and hats, and entered.
Most of the people here dressed similarly, all to avoid revealing their identities.
Of course, many bodyguards accompanied them as well, because they were afraid someone might try to rob them.
After all, there were no rules to speak of in the black market.
Gu Nanyi and Pei Yichen entered a small room. It was obvious that this meeting had been arranged in advance.
Once inside, they found the cramped room packed with people.
The people inside had not expected only two people to show up.
“You’re the ones who ordered the firearms?”
“Does it look like we aren’t?”
“It does… We just didn’t expect only two of you to come.”
As he spoke, he gave the people behind him a look.
He then stood up. “Come on. I’ll take you to see the firearms you ordered.”
Gu Nanyi and Pei Yichen followed the man without paying any attention to the people behind them.
They arrived at a forest not far away, where two trucks were parked.
“Check them.”
Gu Nanyi went to inspect the firearms while Pei Yichen stood beside the truck.
After confirming that everything was in order, she nodded at Pei Yichen.
“How is it? These are all the latest firearms. We hand over the goods once the money is paid?”
“No problem.” Pei Yichen gave a cold laugh.
“Then hand it over.”
The man kept one hand behind his back. The moment he received the money, he planned to strike and kill the two of them.
Killing one another and taking the goods was common in their line of work.
Gu Nanyi took out a black card.
When the man saw it, he asked, “What does this mean? Didn’t we agree on cash?”
Gu Nanyi replied, “When did we ever say we were going to pay you?”
As she finished speaking, the black card in her hand flew out and sliced through the artery in the man’s neck.
The man clutched his neck and stared at them in disbelief.
Then he fell to his knees and collapsed to the ground.
He never imagined that this would be his fate.
The people behind him did not know whether to leave or stay, but Gu Nanyi and Pei Yichen gave them no chance to react. They attacked directly.
Hearing the commotion, none of them escaped.
Ten minutes later, Gu Nanyi and Pei Yichen stood side by side, their black clothes and hands covered in blood.
Pei Yichen stored all the firearms from the trucks inside the space, then entered Gu Nanyi’s space.
When they came back out, the two had changed into fresh clothes and brought out an off-road vehicle they had purchased that afternoon.
Gu Nanyi also casually stored the two trucks in space.
As for the bodies, they left them there. Someone from the black market would come to clean them up anyway.
The black market had patrols. If they found bodies, they would simply bury them on the spot.
The two drove back to the hotel, where Pei Mo had already woken up.
“Mommy, Daddy, where did you go?”
“Momo.” Gu Nanyi immediately picked up her son and kissed him.
She had missed him terribly during the half day they had been apart.
“Look, Mommy bought this for you. Do you like it?”
Pei Mo took the toy gun model Gu Nanyi had bought for him.
“Wow, Mommy! How did you know I wanted this? I love you, Mommy!”
“Go play.”
“Okay!”
Pei Yichen called Mo Bei and Mo Nan into the second bedroom.
He asked about their purchases that day.
Mo Bei said, “BOSS, as you instructed, we basically placed orders with all the factories. Everything will be ready in five days. But BOSS, how are we going to transport everything back?”
“There’s no need to worry about that. Just have them deliver everything to the coast. We’ll take a cruise ship back when the time comes.”
Mo Bei and Mo Nan replied, “Okay, BOSS.”
Mo Nan and Mo Bei left, and Pei Yichen took out his phone and made a call.
After the other person answered, he asked, “What made you think of calling me?”
“Big Brother.”
The person on the other end was Pei Yichen’s elder brother, Pei Yiming.
Pei Yiming managed all of the companies overseas.
Pei Yichen, meanwhile, managed all of the companies within the country.
“Big Brother, I want a cruise ship to depart from R Country and take us back home.”
“When? I’ll make the arrangements.”
“Five days from now.”
“Okay, I know.”
“Big Brother, come back home in five days. There’s something important we need to discuss.”
“Mm, understood.”
Hearing the serious tone in his younger brother’s voice, Pei Yiming took it seriously as well.
After hanging up, Pei Yiming, who was far away in M Country, sat in his office chair.
Someone entered without knocking.
“Brother Yiming.”
Pei Yiming looked at the youthful-looking person in front of him. “Why did you sneak out again? Who was it that had a fever a few days ago?”
The person being scolded pouted aggrievedly. “I was bored at home by myself.”
“Shi Yu!” Pei Yiming disapproved and called his name directly.
“Here!” Shi Yu immediately stood up straight.
Pei Yiming looked at the person in front of him helplessly.
“All right. Be more careful these next few days. We’re going back home in five days.”
“Okay. But, Brother Yiming, what are we going back for?”
“I don’t know!”
“Oh!”
One said he did not know, and the other accepted the answer as a matter of course without asking anything else.