Bai Yaoyao opened the 1988 app, first notified the warehouse location to the shelf suppliers, then purchased 50,000 buckets of White Elephant Brand Braised Beef Noodles.
Having already stockpiled other instant food products in R-country with substantial quantities, she didn’t bulk purchase more, only replenishing flavors she and her brothers particularly enjoyed.
For clothing, she ordered 10,000 sets each of combat-style outfits in all sizes.
Daily wear was also stocked across categories – from baby onesies to elderly padded jackets, mostly sportswear with some casual styles included.
Sun-protective clothing, cold-weather gear, raincoats and rain boots – 10,000 sets each.
Returning to the app’s main page, she browsed recommendations.
Chocolate? Buy!
Premium tobacco and alcohol? Buy!
Baby diapers? Buy!
Sea buckthorn puree? Buy!
Baseball bats? Buy!
Various paper, pens, notebooks? Buy!
Large speakers? Buy!
Traditional Chinese herbs? Buy!
…
Bai Yaoyao meticulously filled every possible gap, purchasing anything that might prove useful without exception.
The joy of unlimited spending was so overwhelming that Peiqi, who’d been receiving packages these past few days, was completely bewildered. What was Sister Yao planning?
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Was she abandoning future preparations altogether?
Peiqi quickly transferred all his money to Bai Yaoyao, fearing he might hinder her important plans.
Watching her card balance diminish brought Bai Yaoyao increasing peace of mind. Discovering leftover funds yesterday, she transferred another 10 billion Huaguo currency to Fatty to convert entirely into explosives – those things were incredibly effective.
Combined with her space ability’s 200-meter activation range, the imagery of deploying them during zombie sieges was utterly satisfying.
Only when her card balance dropped to 1 million did Bai Yaoyao cease her spending frenzy.
Spending money was absolutely exhausting!
Curling under blankets on her spacious bed, Bai Yaoyao prepared to sleep when her phone rang.
[Swiss Bank] October 26, 23:55: Dear VIP client, account ending 0699 has received Huaguo currency 1,200,000,000.00. Current balance: 12,010,000,000. Remain vigilant against fraud during transfers.
…
A series of notification messages flooded in.
Her brothers had transferred all their money to her.
Bai Yaoyao: ()
Forget sleeping – time to resume crazy shopping! Food, drinks, clothing, supplies – restock everything! She eagerly anticipated emptying the funds again!
By 5 AM, Bai Yaoyao yawned and fell asleep, money still remaining unspent – apparently she lacked the competence to even spend properly.
…
Bai Yaoyao slept until noon before rising.
Checking the date – November 1st, her birthday. More precisely, the day she and Fatty were found by Shifu.
After freshening up, she dressed in practical sportswear with a high ponytail, driving to Yujian Mountain to meet someone crucial – the person who’d saved her life.
Upon arrival, she immediately began ascending, choosing undeveloped trails to avoid the morning exercise crowds since she’d arrived early.
Bai Yaoyao loved mountain climbing – the view from summits, the scent of wild vegetation surrounding her.
On this day in her previous life, she had also come to climb the mountain, though not as early in the morning, so there were still quite a few people. Disliking crowds and wanting some peace and quiet, she had chosen not to take the usual route.
When she reached the halfway point, she noticed someone stuck on the hillside. If not for a tree blocking the way, they would have likely rolled straight down the mountain, with no chance of survival.
Bai Yaoyao was curious and went over to take a look. To her surprise, the person was still breathing. Glancing up at the steep slope, she couldn’t help but remark on how lucky they were.
Normally, Bai Yaoyao would have taken a glance and left at most. But after a recent period of killing until she was numb, with blood filling her mind every time she closed her eyes, she wanted to do a good deed on her birthday. Besides, this man…
Well… he was quite good-looking…
So she helped drag him to level ground, stopped the bleeding, gave him basic first aid, and finally called an ambulance.
After that, she forgot all about it.
After the apocalypse began, she once got separated from her teammates during a zombie attack. While fleeing, she accidentally fell into an ant nest. Just when she thought she was done for, this very man saved her.
But at the time, she was delirious from ant venom. By the time she woke up, she was surrounded by her teammates, and the man had vanished again.
Later, on another dangerous occasion, she was miraculously rescued. Though she didn’t know who had saved her, she always felt it was connected to this man.
So in this life, Bai Yaoyao made sure to come to Yujian Mountain early in the morning, timing it precisely.
She hoped to meet him earlier this time and decided to be a good person through and through—taking him straight to the hospital!
But after scouring the entire mountain, she didn’t find a single trace of him, though she did come across plenty of snakes, insects, rats, and ants. Bai Yaoyao wondered if she had misremembered the location—after all, ten years had passed, and her memory wasn’t entirely clear.
Still, she searched every possible spot until 8 p.m., but there was no sign of him. “Forget it, I’m leaving,” she thought. “At this point, even if I did miss him, he’d probably have bled to death anyway.”
Bai Yaoyao couldn’t help but feel a sense of urgency. She wondered if her rebirth had caused a butterfly effect, leading to deviations from her previous life’s events even before the apocalypse began.
After returning and clearing away traces of her presence, she immediately booked a ticket to find Fatty.
Weapons and medical supplies had already been purchased, but smuggling them into Huaguo was difficult, so the exchange was set up in Country E. Dealing with old partners made the transaction smooth and uneventful.
After instructing Fatty to quickly notify their comrades to gather with Peiqi in H City as soon as possible, Bai Yaoyao headed to Iraq to find Shitou.
She had been unable to reach Shitou along the way—his phone was out of credit, which worried her greatly, fearing something might have happened to him.
It wasn’t until she had taken out several gang leaders that she finally learned Shitou’s whereabouts. He was perfectly fine—just broke and unable to top up his phone.
Bai Yaoyao quietly tucked the knife in her hand into her pocket. Thinking of those unjustly slain gang leaders, she sighed, “Oh well, I’ll burn some paper money for you when I have the time.”
After collecting the fuel Shitou had “procured,” she urged him to return to their home country immediately. Shitou watched in astonishment as Bai Yaoyao made the items vanish like magic. His perpetually icy expression finally showed a flicker of emotion.
“Yao-jie, I…”
Bai Yaoyao cut him off. “I’ll explain everything to all of you when we’re back. Hurry up and return home.”
“No, Sis Yao, you…” Shitou still wanted to ask.
“No time to explain, Brother Shitou! I still have to go to Los Angeles to find Monkey. Let’s chat when I’m back in the country!” After saying this, Bai Yaoyao hurried away.
Watching Bai Yaoyao’s figure vanish at lightning speed, Shitou sighed helplessly and muttered to himself: “I was trying to say I’m broke and can’t afford a plane ticket.”
After a moment’s thought, Shitou turned his gaze toward the gangsters who hadn’t been eliminated by Sis Yao yet. Borrowing some money for a plane ticket… wouldn’t be too much to ask, right?