A pale blue, semi-transparent screen shimmered into view before her eyes as Jiang Shengyue examined the only item in her backpack.
[Gene Potential Activation Potion: Within half an hour of injection, it activates the user’s potential. Activation effect is 100% guaranteed with no side effects.]
Back in her small room, she stared at the metal syringe, barely half a palm’s length, that had appeared in her hand, her dry, pale lips pressed tightly together.
After only a few seconds of deliberation, she picked up the metal syringe and measured it against her arm.
You can’t catch a wolf without risking the bait!
No matter where this System came from, as long as it was her aid, she would welcome it with open arms!
She raised her thin left arm, its skin stretched over barely any flesh, and drove the icy needle into the bluish vein beneath her skin.
As the cold liquid flowed in, a domineering yet gentle energy surged through Jiang Shengyue’s entire body.
In places invisible to the naked eye, her cells were silently rupturing and recombining.
Jiang Shengyue’s eyes went unfocused as she recalled her past life.
After being expelled from Liandao Jidi, she had Awakened a Plant-type Supernatural Ability at a critical moment.
It was a notoriously useless Ability—weak in attack and energy-draining to boot.
But she firmly believed there were no useless Abilities, only useless people who couldn’t use them!
After being driven out of Liandao Jidi, she drifted from one Exploration Squad to another to survive.
To stay alive, she studied day and night the uses of her Plant Ability beyond simply catalyzing crops.
In the end, relying on her endless array of versatile techniques, she carved out a place for herself among those blood-on-the-blade types.
A solitary woman with a frail body, she had actually survived six years of the Apocalypse on the very Ability they mocked as trash.
If she hadn’t later encountered that disgusting man, couldn’t she have kept going in the Apocalypse?
Just remembering that greasy, affected face made Jiang Shengyue’s stomach turn!
She closed her eyes and pressed those memories back into the depths of her mind—no rush. Not one of them would escape.
“Hm?”
Jiang Shengyue sensed that she was now connected to an unknown Space.
It covered an area equivalent to a basketball court, about fifteen meters high, and was completely empty at the moment.
Jiang Shengyue’s eyes lit up instantly—a Spatial Domain!
This System’s stuff really was useful!
In her past life, she had heard of people Awakening Space Abilities, but supposedly theirs were only a few cubic meters in size.
Don’t underestimate a support-type Awakener—they were highly sought after in exploration teams.
With a Space, her odds of surviving the Apocalypse increased yet again. She was practically a walking warehouse now!
“Stockpiling supplies just got so much easier!”
Jiang Shengyue collected everything in her small room into the Space, then turned and left.
The instant the door closed, a barely perceptible distortion cracked through the Space behind her.
As if an invisible hand had grasped that stretch of space, creasing it, then quietly let go.
“Miss, I can offer you 5.6 million for this place, but once it’s sold, it’s mine!
Such a prime location—you sure about this?”
The man sitting behind the cluttered, worn desk across from Jiang Shengyue had tattooed sleeves and wore a tank top.
His shrewd eyes, peeking out from under shoulder-length messy hair, sized her up and down without any attempt at disguise.
“We sign the contract today!”
The air in the room was thick and stale, making Jiang Shengyue’s throat itch. “Ahem—I’ll come collect the property tomorrow morning.”
No way she’d let this bloodsucker get a bargain. He wanted the house?
Dream on!
Handling the paperwork briskly, Jiang Shengyue received 5.6 million in payment for the house and left that shabby, smoke-filled office where she could barely breathe.
She found a quiet, pleasant restaurant and browsed housing listings in Róngníng Shì on her phone while eating lunch.
“Finding a suitable shelter isn’t easy either.”
An hour ago, she had owned property, but now it had all turned into 5.6 million in her bank account.
Besides, Yunlan Gardens didn’t even need to be considered.
That was a residential area—the better its location now, the more miserable it would be after the Apocalypse!
A densely populated residential area was out of the question; she needed to look toward the suburbs instead.
This would basically be her main base of operations in the future, so she had to be careful.
As she browsed listings, she calculated in her head—
With her parents’ inheritance included, she now had 15.6 million.
It looked like a lot, but to handle an Apocalypse with not only harsh climates but also Zombies with ease, it wasn’t enough.
An indestructible shelter, weapons, supplies—none of these could be lacking.
And these things couldn’t be just for herself alone; she already had a concrete plan for the future in mind.
Want to live through the Apocalypse with ease, unafraid of others’ threats?
Then supplies, power, territory, and subordinates were all equally indispensable!
Just how miserable the fate of a lone wolf in the Apocalypse could be, her own experience made clear.
In her past life, she had actually wanted to join a big base and lean on a big tree for shelter—some protection for a sickly weakling like her.
But she died before she could even get started—the nearest big base was Deng Xingpeng’s base!
That piece of trash threw her out a mere ten minutes after she entered, subjecting her to a vicious humiliation.
“But things are different now!
A fresh start, with the System in hand.
I’m destined to walk at the very front.
No matter how big a base you lean on, you’re still at others’ mercy?
Since I’ve been given one more restart, of course I’m going to play it big!
Rather than leaning on someone else’s tree, I’ll become the biggest tree of this Apocalypse—one that blots out the sky!
I am power, I am freedom!”
Jiang Shengyue’s eyes gleamed with shifting depths, flickering indistinctly in the dappled sunlight.
Suddenly her mood shifted, and she let out a soft, long sigh.
“But first, I’d better hurry up and get some money to nourish this little sapling of mine…”
That afternoon, in the western outskirts of Róngníng Shì.
Jiang Shengyue stared at the nearly thousand-square-meter warehouse before her and fell silent.
So this was one of the legacies her research-scientist parents had left her?
The warehouse was split into two sides. On the left were many machines covered with transparent protective film and dust cloths—apparently all experimental equipment.
On the right, large cardboard boxes were neatly stacked in piles, with no markings on the outside; counting them, there were 200 boxes.
Jiang Shengyue stepped forward and opened one. Inside, supply packages were neatly arranged.
Each supply package contained a ration and a first-aid kit!
The ration consisted of five 100-gram packs of compressed biscuits plus a self-heating meal convenient for eating in the field!
The first-aid kit was the standard common version.
It included gauze, band-aids, fever-reducing patches, alcohol swabs, anti-inflammatory medication, and more—very practical items even for ordinary people.
There were 5 such supply packages in this one box, which meant the warehouse held a full 1,000!
And the production date was only a few years ago! Stored in her time-frozen Space, they wouldn’t spoil at all!
“So this is what Deng Xingpeng relied on to claim the Base Lord position.”
These supplies might seem like a pile of dispensable things in peacetime, but if taken to the mid-Apocalypse…
A single supply pack would get people fighting tooth and nail over it!
Back then, even eating old rice would be a top-tier luxury, let alone self-heating meals?
She wondered if, in this lifetime, Deng Xingpeng could still take Liandao Jidi without these resources to rely on?
Jiang Shengyue actually had her own plans for that capable scumbag of an uncle.
She just hoped he would work hard and not collapse under her torment.
She was still counting on him to take Liandao Jidi, after all.
Once again, she prayed that Deng Xingpeng would prove himself!
Jiang Shengyue stored everything into her Space.
For the first time, she began to question her parents, whom she had no memory of—were they really just ordinary researchers?
Who would stockpile this many supplies for no reason? It looked as if they had been prepared for the Apocalypse!
Moreover, her parents had died when she was very young, yet the production dates on these items were from recent years.
Jiang Shengyue felt like there was a tangled mess of threads in her mind. What she needed now was an opportunity to find that crucial loose .
【Ding! Main quest activated—Find the Perfect Apocalypse Shelter!】
【Complete the quest to unlock access to the Dixiacheng!】
【Warning! If the final confirmed location does not meet the system’s shelter requirements, the quest will fail and the system will detach itself!】
Before she could think it over, the system’s cold notification tone rang out.