After gathering all the sheep, Cheng Feng quickly rushed back home. This place was deep in the mountains where he rarely went before, and with such a strong smell of blood, he was worried it might attract wild beasts. With his current strength, facing wild animals head-on would still be difficult.
Once he got home safely, he shut the yard gate and finally had time to deal with the twelve sheep.
This was a huge harvest—but after processing them, where would he store all the meat?
He had bought six large freezers and placed three in each of the two rooms downstairs. They were already packed full of frozen food. There was simply no space left to store all twelve sheep.
But turning all the meat into dried meat like he had done before felt like a waste.
He really loved fresh lamb.
If only his storage space were bigger!
This thought had crossed his mind countless times, but his craving for fresh lamb made it especially strong now. As he cleaned the wool, he kept repeating it in his mind.
“If only I had another space this big. I’d hunt more sheep and store all the meat. Wild boars, rabbits… whatever I find, I’ll hunt it all and store it! Then I can eat it slowly!”
As he kept muttering, the leaf-shaped mark on his chest suddenly grew hot. Before he could react, his consciousness entered the space.
He stood there, stunned, looking at a staircase that had suddenly appeared, leading upward.
Why was there suddenly a staircase?
Did his wish just come true?
If he followed it, would there be another space?
Though surprised, his excitement outweighed his doubts, so his consciousness “walked” up the stairs.
What he found was a space even larger than the basement. Its size wasn’t just about floor area—it was the unlimited height above!
This area was about 600 square meters, twice as large as the one below. Surrounding it was thick fog. His consciousness couldn’t pass through it, and he couldn’t see what lay beyond.
In theory, as long as he stacked things high enough, he could store everything here!
He recalled how, in the original story, the female lead’s space was also surrounded by fog at first. As it upgraded, the fog gradually disappeared and the space expanded.
So this must be the true form of the space—he hadn’t fully unlocked it before. Did he just unlock it by accident?
Right—upgrade!
He should try upgrading it!
Cheng Feng immediately placed a gold ring he had always worn into the new space. Nothing happened.
Not giving up, he gathered all his gold, silver, and jade items and put them in. There was quite a bit—more than what the female lead had used the first time.
Still, nothing changed.
He accepted it. He hadn’t figured out how it worked yet. But gaining this new, limitless storage space still made him extremely happy.
What he didn’t know was that someone had already used gold, silver, and jade to upgrade the space to its limit. What he added couldn’t cause any change.
Now he wondered if time was frozen in this space.
After testing, he found that, like the basement below, time was indeed frozen, and living creatures still couldn’t be stored. That was fine—keeping things fresh was enough.
He now called the original 300-square-meter, 8-meter-high space the “basement,” since it was below.
As for the wine cellar under his house, it had been downgraded—now it was just a “cellar.”
With the new space, he began moving everything in his house into it. Nothing was safer than storing things there.
Everything in the cellar except the wine was moved into the upper space and stacked neatly.
He even moved all six large freezers into the space. After all, he still had a big refrigerator at home for daily use, which would also save electricity.
Firewood was also dried and stored inside, safe from moisture and insects. He stacked it high—it didn’t matter, since he could access everything with his mind.
Now that he had unlimited storage, he planned to grow more vegetables, gather more wild plants, and hunt more animals—store everything!
Thinking about his growing supplies, Cheng Feng smiled so hard his eyes nearly disappeared.
He didn’t care that the apocalypse would end in ten years. By then, the world would be completely different. Who knew if he’d ever be able to eat such natural food again?
What he didn’t know was that Shen Mu was standing at the edge of his own unlocked space, staring at another area separated by a barrier.
First, six stacked freezers appeared.
Then boxes—cardboard, wooden, even bamboo baskets.
Later, bundles of firewood.
Shen Mu was completely stunned.
Who was putting things into his space?!
And in an area he hadn’t even unlocked yet!
Fortunately, he noticed that the other person could only use a limited area and could only stack things upward. That calmed him down.
It seemed this space didn’t belong to him alone.
Thinking of the origin of the jade pendant he always wore, Shen Mu decided he needed to check his mother’s belongings to find the reason behind this situation.
Still, if things could remain peaceful, he thought as he looked at his own stockpile—everyone has their own opportunities. As long as the other person didn’t invade his area or try to take his supplies, they could coexist peacefully.
But if the other party became too greedy…
Then he would have to fight for control of the space.
Meanwhile, after organizing everything, Cheng Feng left only an off-road vehicle in the basement, using it mainly for collecting supplies.
Official warnings were being issued one after another, urging people to prepare for the apocalypse.
It wasn’t that they were certain it would happen, but it was already January and the temperature was still over 20°C—highly abnormal. And the information they had been analyzing kept being proven true.
The next thing to be confirmed…
The zombie virus.
To maintain stability, they had no choice but to issue warnings while deploying the military to maintain order.
The authorities were doing everything they could to prepare. But no one knew how dangerous the zombie virus would be. They could only prepare as much as possible.
As for the future…
Thinking of the prophecy about superpowers, everyone understood: if the apocalypse was real, the future would belong to those with abilities.