The city was now filled everywhere with armed soldiers, official personnel salvaging supplies, and some uncooperative ability users.
She was alone. It was best not to invite trouble—just collect supplies steadily and safely.
Carrying the solar panels, Su Yun headed home. There were still several sets of solar panels she had picked out and hidden in that shop.
Once the city lost power and the authorities could no longer monitor these supplies, she would come back to collect them.
Su Yun walked toward home through the darkness. Gunfire rang out nonstop from the neighboring street, drawing zombies in that direction.
Buzz—buzz—buzz. The sound of a helicopter roared overhead. The helicopter landed directly on a rooftop.
“Hurry, move the supplies over here…!” someone shouted from the top floor. Dozens of fully armed soldiers rushed upstairs carrying supplies.
More than a dozen armed soldiers escorted them on both sides. Any zombie that got close was taken out with a precise headshot.
After the helicopter was loaded with supplies, it departed. Soon after, another helicopter landed on the rooftop. Using the lights, Su Yun glanced up and realized that the supplies they were transporting seemed to all be taken from the supermarket on the food street.
The gunfire attracted more and more zombies, but the soldiers had ample firepower.
“Hey! Don’t linger around here—leave quickly. Be careful not to get hit by stray bullets…!” A few more soldiers rushed out of the alley carrying supplies.
They spotted Su Yun standing at the intersection right away. They had been startled and almost opened fire.
Su Yun hugged the solar panels tighter and quickly left.
The zombies in the Garden Residential Complex also heard the gunfire outside. They wandered along the perimeter wall, trying to get out, but the wall blocked them.
Su Yun jumped onto the low wall and saw that there were quite a lot of zombies near the perimeter. She circled along the wall, found a safer spot, jumped down, and ran toward her building.
There was a lot of activity on the streets tonight. Some zombies in the stairwells had gone downstairs, but Su Yun made it home without incident.
As usual, she blocked the door with the refrigerator. Su Yun stored the solar panels in her spatial space. After setting down her backpack, the first thing she did was grab the remote from the table and turn on the air conditioner.
“So hot…” Now that she had the means, she might as well enjoy it. Starting tomorrow, she would collect more supplies—so that even when conditions worsened, she could still create good living conditions.
The cool air from the AC was wonderfully comfortable. Standing in front of it, the sweat on Su Yun’s body dried quickly, but her skin still felt sticky, and there was a strong gasoline smell on her.
Even her gloves were soaked with gasoline.
She took off her jacket and gloves, drew a bucket of water from the well in her spatial space, undressed, and sat down in it.
The icy water relaxed every pore of her skin. Resting her arms on the edge of the foldable bathing tub, Su Yun slowly sank into the water.
In forty-degree heat, soaking in ice-cold water felt incredible. After her bath, Su Yun took out a serving of crayfish noodles from her spatial space and started eating.
She had stockpiled some supplies in her spatial space, but edible food was still far too limited—there were no fresh vegetables. Just thinking about fresh vegetables made Su Yun swallow unconsciously.
After being reborn, there hadn’t been much food at home. When she went out searching for supplies, she had only managed to find some rice and flour.
She had seasonings, but no vegetables and no meat. Thinking about her previous life and now, it had been six or seven years since she’d eaten such things.
There was still a piece of braised meat she had received earlier. Eating it now would satisfy her cravings—but what about later?
Su Yun didn’t touch the braised meat. While eating the crayfish noodles, she took out the fruits she had collected earlier from her spatial space.
Today, she would extract the seeds from these fruits and test the few plots of land in her spatial space.
She had been too exhausted last night, so after bringing these things back, she had left them untouched.
After finishing the noodles, Su Yun casually placed the bowl into the dishwasher, took out a fruit knife, and began cutting the fruit.
She placed the cut fruit pieces separately in small metal bowls, setting aside the seeds from the fruit. The seeds were wrapped in moist tissues—according to the video tutorials, leaving them like this for two days would work.
Alternatively, soaking them in water was also fine. After two or three days, they would sprout.
Fortunately, the internet hadn’t gone down yet. Whenever she didn’t understand something, Su Yun searched for solutions online right away.
By the time she had separated all the fruit seeds and wrapped them in moist tissues, more than two hours had passed.
Holding the same posture for so long, when Su Yun stood up, her waist felt like it wasn’t her own—sore and aching.
Looking at the piles of moist tissues stacked on the table and sofa, Su Yun moved them all into the bedroom and laid them out on a plastic board.
Lying back on the sofa, Su Yun let her consciousness sink into the spatial space.
The land inside the space wasn’t very large—six plots in total.
Each plot was about one hundred and sixty square meters or so. One of them was the most special, its soil entirely black.
This was something she had discovered by chance recently while thinking about starting cultivation.
Wanting to test the difference between the five regular plots and the black soil, Su Yun evenly divided some of the fruit seeds. After moistening the soil, she buried the seeds.
She didn’t have many seeds on hand, so she chose to experiment mainly with blueberry and strawberry seeds.
After finishing, Su Yun opened her eyes. She remembered that her balcony at home seemed to have a few plants growing—scallions, ginger, garlic, and even some chives.