Wasn’t this the woman he had hooked up with at a nightclub the day before the Apocalypse?
Zhao Yin couldn’t remember her name at the moment, only that after that night, the Apocalypse came, and he never saw her again.
The scene before him was exactly the same as that day.
The strong psychological quality cultivated over seven years of the Apocalypse quickly made Zhao Yin understand.
He had died in the seventh year of the Apocalypse and returned to before the Apocalypse!
“You little naughty boy, I told you not to move, and you really didn’t move?” The woman’s face was still buried in Zhao Yin’s chest, her delicate waist twisting restlessly, her lazy voice carrying dissatisfaction.
“When I come out to play with men, I never give a second chance.
Think it over.
Don’t you really want to take the opportunity to have more fun?”
The next moment, the woman felt the man beneath her roll over, directly flipping her off the bed.
She fell to the floor, clutching her chest and screaming curses: “F*ck, are you crazy?!”
Zhao Yin ignored her completely, jumped off the bed in one leap, and stood in front of the dressing mirror.
He looked at the young face in the mirror.
Unlike the weathered look from the Apocalypse, twenty-two-year-old Zhao Yin had fair skin, looked somewhat slender, and carried a slight bookish air.
With his height of 1.85 meters, he was exactly the tall, skinny type that those infatuated girls loved most before the Apocalypse.
Zhao Yin’s heartbeat began to speed up…
“You f*cking help me up!” The woman glared at Zhao Yin fiercely.
“I, Wang Xiaole, have been around, but I’ve never seen a man as heartless as you who leaves after getting what he wants!”
Zhao Yin snapped back to reality and turned around to get dressed without saying a word.
In his memory, this very night at midnight was the moment the Apocalypse would arrive!
He didn’t want to waste time on this kind of woman.
This kind of woman who came out to play was merely a tool for venting.
In his previous life, he had no attachment to her; in this life, he wouldn’t let her become a stumbling block either.
“What are you doing?
Are you just going to leave like that?” The woman grew even angrier and also began to get dressed, as if she was ready to fight Zhao Yin.
Although it wasn’t her first time going out to play, she felt as if she had been seduced and then abandoned.
Zhao Yin finally put on his shoes and socks, grabbed the cigarettes, lighter, phone, and the open box of condoms from the table, and stuffed them into his pocket.
Suddenly remembering something, he turned and walked toward the woman.
“You…
what are you going to do?” Fear finally appeared on the woman’s face.
Only then did the woman notice that the little puppy who had been so affectionate last night now seemed like a different person.
Just one look at Zhao Yin’s eyes made her feel cold all over.
Zhao Yin stopped in front of her, took out his wallet, pulled out a thousand-yuan note, slowly bent down, and tucked it into the woman’s chest, then pinched her cheek.
“I never play for free.”
With that, he turned and walked out of the hotel room.
He had almost forgotten his habit from his previous life—paying after being with a woman.
Once money was given, they owed each other nothing.
In the early morning, the roads were already bustling with traffic, and the sidewalks were crowded with people.
There were elderly couples strolling hand in hand, women leading children, and office workers hurrying to work early…
All of them had one thing in common—they were clean and tidy from head to toe.
From roadside breakfast shops came the aroma of fried dough sticks and steamed buns.
Nearby there were also roast duck shops, braised meat shops, cake shops, milk tea shops…
A long-lost feeling surged in his heart, and Zhao Yin was overwhelmed with mixed emotions.
In the past, he hadn’t known to cherish this kind of peaceful life, but after the Apocalypse, he had returned to this very scene many times in his dreams.
Had he really come back?
Zhao Yin slowly raised his head and looked toward Guangzhou City No.2 Middle School.
The future Contract Master, Lin Tianfeng, should still be working as a teacher there now.
But now was not the time to deal with him.
He had to wait until after the Apocalypse broke out, then use Lin Tianfeng’s hand to find that Star Crystal carrying the SSS-grade Ability.
In this life, Zhao Yin didn’t plan to build any base.
He understood that only having strong personal strength mattered.
As for Ning Yue, Jiang Xiner, and Xiao Dao, Zhao Yin had met them in the sixth year of the Apocalypse and had never cared about their pasts.
Now, among the vast sea of people, he couldn’t find them, so he could only leave it for later.
We were now in a peaceful and prosperous era.
Only Zhao Yin knew that fireworks were fleeting; the prosperity before his eyes was merely the brilliance before the Apocalypse erupted.
At midnight tonight, an unprecedented meteor shower would fall from the sky.
Countless meteorites would plummet, smashing Blue Star into a battered mess.
The entire world would become an Apocalypse furnace.
Most buildings would be destroyed by the meteorites, and the supplies humans relied on for survival would also be ruined in the ruins.
Especially food—even if some remained, most would spoil under the high temperatures.
A month later, unknown radiation would fill the earth.
Ninety-eight percent of humanity would turn into zombies, and the surviving humans, animals, and plants would begin to mutate…
Zhao Yin sorted out his thoughts.
His plan was to stockpile supplies!
After the Apocalypse broke out, all ordinary food would rapidly spoil, and new Transcendent Food would appear.
So he didn’t need to hoard too much—he just needed enough to last until after the meteor shower ended.
Zhao Yin took a ride home.
It was located in a high-end residential complex in the center of Guangzhou City, left to him by his parents before they passed away.
His parents had been executives at state-owned enterprises and died in a car accident when he was fifteen.
The inheritance and compensation left by his parents allowed Zhao Yin to live a more comfortable life than ordinary people before the Apocalypse.
Combined with the lack of discipline, it shaped his unrestrained and dissolute personality.
In his previous life, when the Apocalypse broke out, Zhao Yin had been sleeping at home.
His villa luckily avoided the meteorite impact.
So Zhao Yin decided that when the Apocalypse broke out, he should still hide at home.
He walked straight into the garage, got into his Audi A6, and headed straight to the ice cream factory ten kilometers away.
The meteor shower would last a full month before stopping.
At first, it would create terrifying high temperatures, so he had to buy ice to solve that problem.
In his previous life, he had struggled through that month in the high heat, and by the time the meteor shower ended, he had almost died.
He didn’t have much strength to search for supplies, and he missed being in the first wave to discover the secret of the Star Crystals.
Guangzhou City was only a third-tier city in the country and didn’t have a large ice-making factory, but an ice cream factory would definitely be able to make ice.
When Zhao Yin arrived at the ice cream factory, he went straight to the factory director’s office.
Under the promise of a hefty sum, the director readily agreed to deliver fifty tons of ice to Zhao Yin’s address before dark.
Next, Zhao Yin went to the building materials market and bought a large quantity of insulation boards, nail guns, and high-temperature-resistant adhesive…
After settling the price, Zhao Yin asked the owner to help hire a group of decoration workers.
Work had to start today, and the more people, the better.
After handling these matters, he drove to the supermarket to purchase the most important food.
Whatever Zhao Yin could fancy, he packed into large bags: salt-baked chicken, canned meat, compressed biscuits, pure milk, instant noodles, ham sausages…
all kinds of nuts and dried fruits…
Cooked foods with preservatives could be stored a bit longer, so Zhao Yin bought plenty of all of them.
As for raw meat, eggs, vegetables, and fruits, he didn’t take any.
More important than food was bottled water.
He directly ordered thirty barrels.
After the Apocalypse, water, electricity, and gas would all be cut off.
He bought three canisters of liquefied gas and ten waterproof flashlights.
He had purchased enough living supplies for over a month, and if he saved, it would be enough for three months.
Only then did Zhao Yin stop with satisfaction.
Next were weapons.
Although he had developed strong combat instincts in the Apocalypse, his physique was still that of an ordinary person.
He still needed to have suitable initial weapons.
He went to a butcher at the food market and bought a pig-slaughtering knife and a bone cleaver for five hundred yuan.
The tools used by professional butchers for their livelihood were incomparable to ordinary knives in both steel quality and sharpness.
Then he went to a car repair shop and asked someone to weld a meter-long iron handle onto the bone cleaver.
“An inch longer, an inch stronger.” The ordinary bone cleaver had transformed into a great killing weapon, while the pig-slaughtering knife was intended for close combat.
After putting both knives into the trunk of the Audi A6, Zhao Yin finally went to buy a few gas masks…
Finally, he had purchased every item he could think of!
When Zhao Yin returned home, it was already dusk.
At this moment, a red sun slanted in the sky, and crimson clouds bathed the earth, casting a dreamlike hue over the world.
It seemed as if the world itself felt something and was blooming with its final radiance, reluctant to let go of the past!
Zhao Yin sat in the car, quietly watching for two minutes, bidding farewell to the homeland in his dreams.
He got out of the car.
Several trucks were already parked outside the villa.
From the supermarket, building materials stalls…
the decoration workers he had hired earlier at the building materials stall had also arrived, thirty-odd people in total.
Only the ice from the ice cream factory hadn’t arrived yet.
Zhao Yin gave each of the decoration workers a thousand-yuan red envelope and asked them to help move all the useless furniture out of the villa and then bring the building materials inside.
For these ordinary people who earned money by the sweat of their brow, a thousand-yuan red envelope was worth several days’ wages, so everyone worked with great enthusiasm.
The thirty-plus skilled decoration workers were extremely fast.
Time was tight.
Zhao Yin’s requirement was that appearance didn’t matter, professionalism didn’t matter, practicality was all that counted.
At 7:30 in the evening, the sky had darkened.
All the insulation panels had been laid!
The ice from the ice cream factory had also been delivered.
Fifty tons of ice nearly filled the entire living room.
After Zhao Yin paid the final amount, it was already 9:30 at night!
After seeing off the last batch of ice cream factory porters, only Zhao Yin remained in the villa.
Looking at the mountain of ice and supplies, and the fully covered insulation boards, he finally felt at ease.
Zhao Yin had been hungry all day.
He glanced at the sports watch on his wrist.
There were still two and a half hours left, so he went out to the area outside the community and had a big meal, also buying ten packs of soft-pack Zhonghua cigarettes.
When he returned to the villa, it was 10:30!
Zhao Yin closed all the doors and windows, sealing them completely with the remaining insulation boards, leaving only a small movable window to observe the outside situation.
The time reached 11:30!
There was still half an hour before the Apocalypse arrived.
Zhao Yin sat in the villa filled with cold air, waiting quietly.
Time passed minute by minute.
Buzz, buzz…
The phone alarm beside him finally went off.
The Apocalypse had come!