The two old girlfriends opened their phone translator to show Bai Yaoyao: “Little sister, come visit our country! We promise to treat you well and show you around.”
Bai Yaoyao weakly shook her head, tears welling in her eyes as she typed on her phone: “I can’t, sisters. I’m too frightened and just want to go home to rest. My heart is still pounding…”
The old girlfriends nodded understandingly, hugged her once more, exchanged contact information, and reluctantly bid farewell.
After putting on her mask and hat, Bai Yaoyao instantly dropped her act. It had been a while since she last acted, and she felt somewhat rusty. Some of her earlier expressions hadn’t been quite right—they could have been more nuanced.
As for the “girlfriends'” invitation…
Why visit H Country? Ten dishes, eight of them kimchi—hardly worth the time.
Bai Yaoyao dozed off briefly on the plane and soon arrived in Huaguo, unconsciously breaking into a smile.
Exiting the airport, she watched the bustling crowds and felt truly content.
No zombies, no mutated beasts, no mutated plants. No constant fear of losing her life, no need to live in perpetual anxiety…
Bai Yaoyao shook her head vigorously, hailed a taxi, and headed to a hotel in downtown A City. As soon as she arrived, she received a call from her big client, Wang Fugui.
“Assassin Sis, I declare! From today onward, you are my goddess! Hahaha, incredible! The number one on the Killer Rankings truly lives up to the title!”
“Did you transfer the money?” Bai Yaoyao had no patience for nonsense and only cared about what mattered to her.
“I’ll do it right after hanging up! Assassin Sis, could I have the honor of meeting…”
Hearing that Wang Fugui would transfer the money after the call, Bai Yaoyao immediately hung up. If he was going to pay, why waste words? Compliments couldn’t buy meat.
Sure enough, the money arrived shortly after.
…
“You brat, what the hell are you doing? Another 10 billion spent! Can you go one day without squandering our fortune?” Wang Fugui’s father, Wang Yuanbao, yelled at his rebellious son.
“How is this squandering? Last time I spent money, Sato died, and you made double the profit, didn’t you?” Wang Fugui retorted.
Wang Yuanbao roared, “And this time?”
“This time… this time it might just save both our lives!” Wang Fugui blurted out randomly.
To change the subject, Wang Fugui leaned closer to Wang Yuanbao and whispered, “Old man, did you know? The Yasukuni Shrine was bombed.”
“Of course I know! Haven’t you seen how everyone on the streets is cheering wildly? The entire internet is crashing from the traffic! It’s like the heavens have opened their eyes! If I weren’t in such a good mood today, you’d already be lying on the ground!” Wang Yuanbao replied.
“Hahaha, that was my doing! I hired someone to do it!”
“Stop bragging!” Wang Yuanbao didn’t believe him at all.
“It’s true! I hired the same assassin who helped me kill Sato. I paid 10 billion, and she succeeded!” Wang Fugui grew anxious seeing his father’s disbelief.
“What? You’re serious? Holy shit, our Wang family has finally made it! And you only gave her 10 billion? How stingy! Transfer another 5 billion! Then come with me to offer incense and kowtow to your great-grandfather!” Wang Yuanbao exclaimed joyfully, looking at his foolish son with affectionate eyes.
Little did Wang Fugui know that the excuse he had casually made would one day come true…
…
Bai Yaoyao lay on the large bed, reviewing her stockpile checklist. She marked checkboxes next to items already purchased and circled those still needed.
Hearing a text notification, she checked her phone and discovered Wang Fugui had transferred an additional 5 billion to her account!
Bai Yaoyao froze. Was this what it meant to be recklessly wealthy? Not only was he ignoring their agreed price, he was increasing it!
Combined with the extra 200 million from their last mission, she figured she might as well throw him a bone.
She dialed Wang Fugui’s number.
“Hey there, assassin lady!”
“Could you do me a favor?” Bai Yaoyao asked.
Wang Fugui was momentarily stunned, then swelled with pride. The legendary shrine-destroyer was asking him for help! What did that prove? That he was the real deal!
Puffing out his chest, he declared, “Name it! Consider it done!”
“I need you to buy me ten thousand generators, ten thousand solar panels, and ten thousand batteries at the fastest possible speed.” Bai Yaoyao chose her words carefully. She could acquire these items herself, but since she’d received so much extra money, she wanted to subtly help this simple-minded cash cow.
Anyone with half a brain would ponder her underlying motives.
Unexpectedly, the dim-witted tycoon immediately pressed, “Miss, are you changing careers? Or are you being hunted? I can send reinforcements! Our Wang family has connections!”
Bai Yaoyao: (|| Д)
After steadying her breathing, she continued, “I also need coal. Ten thousand tons. If you can’t get that much, I’ll take whatever quantity available.”
Wang Fugui replied, “I can help, but this is such a drastic pivot! Let me tell you, miss, this isn’t how business works – you’ll lose money this way. Our Wang family are professionals in commerce…”
As Wang Fugui rambled on, Bai Yaoyao felt a headache coming on. She took a deep breath, deciding this would be her final attempt to enlighten him. If he still couldn’t grasp the situation, he could die for all she cared. Without basic intelligence, he wouldn’t survive the apocalypse anyway.
“I also need water. Purified water, mineral water, and domestic water! Ten thousand tons of each!”
“I’m paying for everything. Just tell me if you can procure these or not.”
Her tone unconsciously turned fierce.
“Yes, yes! I’ll go tell my… I mean I’ll have my father arrange it immediately! Guaranteed to deliver everything you requested, likely more! No charge!” Wang Fugui hurriedly agreed upon detecting her irritation.
“No! I said I’m paying! I’ll send you the delivery address later!” Bai Yaoyao snapped. With brainless people like this, normal communication was impossible.
Wang Fugui quickly acquiesced. This was the mastermind who’d blown up the sacred shrine – if he angered her, she could slaughter him as easily as butchering a piglet.
Better not provoke her! Definitely not!
He rushed upstairs to relay Bai Yaoyao’s requests to his father. He lacked the capability to gather such resources so quickly.
Upon hearing the list, Wang Yuanbao paused, sensing something amiss. Would someone capable of destroying sacred toilets suddenly switch to business ventures? Only his foolish son would believe that.
He immediately mobilized his connections to gather all requested items at maximum speed, not only securing the lowest possible prices but also adding extra quantities to each category!
He had saved Bai Yaoyao a fortune.
Wang Yuanbao didn’t know if his guess was correct, but he followed Bai Yaoyao’s lead and bought many things. They arranged everything from clothing, food, shelter, to transportation, and even reinforced his villa.
Bai Yaoyao rented a house in the suburbs of A City. Besides going to the factory daily to collect supplies, she also visited several delicious restaurants, ordering 500 meals from each every day, scheduled to be delivered at staggered times.
Shredded pork with garlic sauce, garlic spare ribs, black pepper beef short ribs, hand-shredded lemon chicken, double-cooked pork slices, farmhouse stir-fried pork, boiled fish in chili oil, fish with pickled vegetables, cola chicken wings, shredded pork in Beijing sauce, Northeast-style thick noodles, braised pork, sautéed potatoes, green peppers and eggplant, pickled pepper bullfrog, spicy basa fish, mapo tofu, husband and wife lung slices, mixed vegetable salad, oyster sauce lettuce, cauliflower with pork…
Huaguo had too many delicious foods; it was impossible to stockpile them all. They still needed to secure raw ingredients.
After checking the supplies already in her space, she made some slight additions.
She bought another 20,000 bags each of Northeast rice and Southern rice.
Since she had purchased little flour in Japan, she ordered another 50,000 jin.
She ordered 20 tons each of mutton, beef, chicken, duck, and pork.
For various vegetables and fruits, she ordered nearly 3,000 jin of each.
Most importantly, for hot pot and barbecue—Bai Yaoyao’s favorites—she directly stocked up 10 million worth of ingredients.
She also placed multiple orders at different KFC stores over several days, with each store receiving an order for 3,000 various combo meals daily. Xiao Dai in the organization loved these fried junk foods the most.
Bai Yaoyao also found a furniture wholesale market and purchased 5,000 units each of beds, mattresses, bedding sets, tables, chairs, and cabinets.
After all, she had money now. If she couldn’t use them all, she could exchange them with the authorities for crystal cores to level up.
Since Bai Yaoyao couldn’t cook, she almost forgot that cooking required seasonings. In Japan, she had only bought basic seasonings like sugar, salt, and seafood soy sauce.
So she specifically searched online and bought 1,000 boxes each of all the commonly used seasonings.
Starting from the second year of the apocalypse, the authorities developed some new rations, but they tasted terrible. Anyone with any capability wouldn’t willingly eat them, though they did help alleviate the food crisis to some extent.
Finally, the most important item: seeds! They could be planted in her space. Although the current cultivable area was small, it might expand as she leveled up later.
So she directly cleared out several wholesale stores, covering all available vegetables, fruits, and medicinal herbs.
This was hope—it couldn’t be lacking.