After arriving at her destination, Chu Ning first rented a warehouse before beginning a shopping frenzy.
She bought one thousand 25-kilogram bags each of Wuchang rice, fragrant rice, and red rice. She purchased one thousand kilograms each of high-gluten flour, medium-gluten flour, low-gluten flour, and all-purpose flour. She also stocked up on one thousand kilograms each of millet, black rice, glutinous rice, and brown rice, along with one thousand kilograms each of mung beans, soybeans, black beans, and other varieties of beans. As for noodles, sweet potato vermicelli, rice noodles, and potato starch noodles, she bought one thousand kilograms of each.
Next came cooking essentials.
She ordered one thousand barrels each of peanut oil, rapeseed oil, and camellia oil, along with two hundred bottles each of olive oil, corn oil, and sesame oil. Salt was an absolute necessity, so she purchased ten thousand bags. She also bought one thousand bottles each of light soy sauce, oyster sauce, and soy sauce, along with two hundred kilograms each of star anise, bay leaves, cinnamon bark, and other spices. White sugar, rock sugar, and brown sugar came to five hundred kilograms each.
Without caring what the shop owners thought, she paid in full and instructed them to deliver everything to her warehouse.
Pressed for time, Chu Ning hurried to a nearby water plant and placed an order for one hundred large water storage tanks. Each tank could hold five tons of water and was equipped with a valve at the bottom for convenient access.
After paying the deposit, she instructed the owner to fill every tank with clean water before delivering them to her warehouse.
Just then, she received a phone call informing her that the grain shipment had already arrived.
Chu Ning immediately drove to the warehouse, unlocked the doors, and directed the workers to unload everything inside.
Once everyone had left, she closed the warehouse doors and stored everything inside her spatial storage, arranging it neatly in the underground warehouse before reopening the warehouse and leaving.
After locking up, she headed straight to the nearest wholesale pharmaceutical market.
She purchased one hundred boxes each of emergency medical supplies, cold medicine, anti-inflammatory drugs, antibiotics, calcium tablets, multivitamins, disinfectant, gauze, face masks, bandages, and painkillers.
She also bought one hundred boxes each of medicated oils for sprains and bruises, trauma medications, and medicines for chronic illnesses such as high blood pressure and diabetes.
After all, as people grew older, no one knew what illnesses they might develop.
Even if she never needed them herself, they could always be traded for valuable resources.
At one point, Chu Ning grew hungry and bought two meat buns, eating them while continuing to shop.
She had less than seven days remaining.
Every minute counted.
As before, she paid first and instructed every supplier to deliver the medicine directly to her warehouse.
By the time she finished at the pharmaceutical market, it was already past three in the afternoon.
Without taking a break, she drove straight to the clothing wholesale market.
In the apocalypse, appearances didn’t matter.
Comfort and mobility came first.
She purchased one thousand sets each of spring and summer sportswear, autumn and winter sportswear, and one thousand pairs of athletic shoes.
She also bought one thousand of the thickest down jackets available, along with one thousand sets each of thermal underwear, military coats, padded cotton jackets, down comforters, and goose-down quilts.
Everything she chose prioritized maximum warmth.
By the time she left the clothing market, night had already fallen.
Completely exhausted, Chu Ning realized that many other supplies could simply be purchased online.
She drove home and stopped by a restaurant downstairs in her residential complex, ordering ten takeout portions of her favorite meals.
After returning home, she ate one serving herself and stored the remaining nine inside her spatial storage.
After dinner, she entered the space to check on the items she had left there earlier.
The frozen pork belly remained exactly as frozen as before.
The bowl of zhajiang noodles was still steaming hot.
When she took it out, it was as though it had just been cooked.
Her eyes immediately lit up.
This confirmed that the space possessed perfect preservation.
Anything placed inside remained exactly as it had been when stored.
Finishing her meal quickly, Chu Ning sat down and began online shopping.
She specifically chose products shipped from Jiang City or elsewhere within the province so they could arrive the same day or the following day.
Every order listed the rented warehouse as the delivery address.
She ordered one hundred boxes each of towels, toothbrushes, toothpaste, body wash, shampoo, laundry detergent, laundry powder, soap, tissues, wet wipes, sanitary pads, underwear, bras, pajamas, and sleepwear.
She also bought one thousand sets each of her favorite skincare products, body lotion, hand cream, lip balm, and cold cream.
Knowing that water would become scarce after the apocalypse, making even basic hygiene incredibly inconvenient, she also purchased one hundred portable outdoor toilets along with ten thousand disposable toilet bags.
She bought one hundred each of assault boats, inflatable boats, drones, climbing ropes, night-vision goggles, binoculars, compasses, flashlights, lanterns, and mechanical watches.
She also purchased two hundred each of electric blankets, tents, sleeping bags, moisture-proof mats, backpacks of various sizes, protective goggles, and water bottles.
Before going to bed, she ordered huge quantities of instant noodles, self-heating hot pots, luosifen, boneless chicken feet, sunflower seeds, biscuits, White Rabbit milk candies, chocolate, and every snack she enjoyed eating.
By the time she finished, she was utterly exhausted.
After taking a shower, Chu Ning set her alarm and quickly fell asleep.
It had been so long since she last enjoyed such a peaceful night’s sleep.
When the alarm rang the next morning, she woke up in a daze before quickly remembering everything.
She immediately got out of bed, washed up, prepared herself a simple breakfast of sandwiches and hot milk, changed into sportswear, and headed out to continue stockpiling supplies.
Today’s goal was meat.
Pork, lamb, beef, chicken, duck, fish…
She wanted it all.
Nutrition had to be balanced.
Nothing could be left out.
Driving to a slaughterhouse, she wholesale ordered one thousand kilograms each of pork, lamb, and beef, along with one thousand chickens, one thousand ducks, one thousand geese, and one thousand kilograms of fish.
The deliveries would be split over three days.
Everything had to be freshly slaughtered before being delivered to the cold storage facility she had rented nearby.
She then visited the seafood market, purchasing one hundred boxes each of the freshest whiteleg shrimp, giant river prawns, oysters, clams, crayfish, sea fish, lobsters, and Chinese mitten crabs.
Over the next several days, Chu Ning left home early and returned late every night, tirelessly stockpiling supplies.
Her online shopping never stopped either.
Every evening she placed new orders, and by the following afternoon nearly everything had arrived at the warehouse.
All she had to do was make a trip there and transfer everything into her spatial storage.
After five days, nearly everything on her checklist had been purchased.
The villa inside the space was now mostly filled.
The underground warehouse was completely packed.
Fortunately, retrieving anything was effortless.
With a single thought, she could instantly take out whatever she needed.
The attic was completely full.
The first-floor living room was packed with supplies.
The second and third floors held countless stacks of goods.
Even the second-floor terrace had become storage space.
That morning, as Chu Ning ate breakfast, she mentally reviewed what she still lacked.
She still had eight hundred thousand yuan left in her account.
Ring! Ring! Ring!
Her phone suddenly rang.
Looking at the caller ID, her expression immediately turned cold.
Song Xiaoxiao.
She answered the call.
The familiar voice coming from the other end instantly sent a chill through her entire body.
Hatred filled her eyes.
“Chu Ning, why haven’t you come back to class yet? This afternoon is the old witch’s lecture. She’s taking attendance.”
“I’m not feeling very well. Could you help me ask for leave?”
Song Xiaoxiao was both the class monitor and their dormitory leader.
Things like this had happened before.
Back then, Chu Ning had genuinely believed Song Xiaoxiao was responsible and kind.
Now…
Heh.
There was no rush to take revenge.
Her priority was to finish preparing everything she needed.
Once she had secured her own future, she would settle the score with Song Xiaoxiao.
In her previous life, Song Xiaoxiao had somehow discovered that the red bead was actually a portable spatial storage.
She had schemed to steal it, using it to rise through the ranks of the apocalypse, eventually earning a place in one of the major survivor bases.
Then, after the two of them met again by chance, Song Xiaoxiao had attacked her from behind…
…and shoved her straight into a horde of zombies.