Su Yu finally understood the meaning of the saying “money can make the devil turn the mill.”
Su Dad spent only five million yuan.
This batch of reagents, which was supposed to be destroyed, was secretly stolen out.
This completely wiped away Su Yu’s sleepiness.
Soon, Su Yu and her mother sat together in the Su family’s laboratory.
Inside the lab stood an analysis and testing device.
By using the instrument, they could roughly determine the components of the reagent.
The test results brought both shock and joy.
Shock, because the rescue serum that was supposed to be released by the government five years later had actually been developed much earlier.
Perhaps they already knew early on that this serum couldn’t resist the virus, and that the test subjects were just tools to confirm this.
Joy, because having the emergency rescue serum now meant that the superpowers could be activated.
However, Su Mom was unwilling to let Su Yu take the risk directly.
Su Yu looked at the four iron cages in front of her and said, “Sorry, little monkeys.”
Four cages each held monkeys or orangutans of different species.
Monkeys and orangutans share the closest genetic similarity to humans.
Using them for experiments minimized errors.
Su Yu knew it was highly unethical to experiment on other species.
But after the disaster, these little monkeys would not survive the extreme heat or cold.
Death or mutation awaited them.
Therefore, Su Yu felt no excessive pity.
As the emergency rescue serum was injected into the monkeys, all that was left was to wait.
Su Yu stayed home to observe their condition.
Su Mom directly began the stockpiling process.
As Chairman of Su Group, Su Dad’s every move easily attracted outside attention.
So he did not participate in the early stage of stockpiling.
One of the most important resources for surviving the apocalypse was water.
Su Mom immediately went to the largest drinking water factory in the neighboring city.
Considering increased water use in extreme heat and that water supplies worldwide would soon be cut off due to the heat,
Su Mom planned to buy not only drinking water but also water for daily living.
Calculating the lifetime water usage for a family of three, Su Mom needed to purchase about 30,000 tons of mineral water.
Thinking that money would become meaningless after the disaster,
Su Mom directly bought 100,000 tons of mineral water.
Each barrel of mineral water held 19 liters.
100,000 tons equaled roughly 5 million barrels.
Using the excuse of packaging for export, Su Mom signed a contract with the factory manager.
The manager didn’t think much about why they wanted to export; he only saw it as a huge order.
After bargaining, Su Mom got the price down to 6 yuan per barrel.
Total cost: 30 million yuan.
The manager’s hand trembled while signing the contract.
He seemed to have already imagined taking nearly a million yuan from company dividends.
Su Mom left a delivery address not far from Mingyue Huafu.
The delivery location was a warehouse covering about 10,000 square meters.
Su Yu had once wondered where such a large warehouse came from.
“Before, I mocked your dad for not catching any fish, so he just bought these two warehouses with one big wave of his hand. He said he wanted to fill them up with the fish he caught.”
Su Mom smiled a little.
Su Yu seemed to hear her mutter, “So childish.”
The words were full of indulgence toward Su Dad.
Since the water factory also supplied other places, it was impossible to deliver all 5 million barrels at once.
By contract, delivery was split into 20 days, 250,000 barrels per day to the warehouse.
Meanwhile, Su Mom bought ten household water purifiers online for 20,000 yuan.
When winter came, these would be used to purify melted ice for water.
Besides drinking mineral water daily, various beverages were also essential.
Given the huge stockpile, buying at supermarkets wasn’t cost-effective and couldn’t meet supply needs.
It might also arouse suspicion.
So Su Mom went to the beverage wholesale market.
Coke, Wangji Lao, Dafen, special drinks Dongpeng, Susuita, Qingcha Jasmine, Guoshuang Bei, coconut brand coconut juice, Pure Milk Cow, Tesu Lun, and many other drinks were all part of her shopping list.
Each type was packed in cartons of 24 bottles, with 1,000 cartons stocked each—20,000 cartons total.
At average wholesale prices, the total cost was 2 million yuan.
Alcohol has many effects and benefits, making it a rare treasure in the apocalypse.
Including promoting metabolism, supplementing nutrition, aiding digestion, and warming the body.
Therefore, stockpiling alcohol was also essential.
One hundred cartons each of Crown Vodka, Moët Champagne, Martell Brandy, Ricard Anise liqueur.
Su Mom also stocked a lot of famous domestic liquors:
One hundred cartons each of Taimao, Laojiao Luzhou, Wuye Liang, Jianchun Nan.
Total cost: 20 million yuan.
As for Su Yu, she had made a major discovery.
Three of the monkeys injected with the serum had begun to lower their heads.
They seemed tired.
Su Yu kept watching their changes.
Before long, three little monkeys fell asleep.
Another little monkey was gripping the cage bars tightly, looking very excited.
After a moment, this overly excited monkey’s body rapidly expanded.
The originally large cage now seemed crowded.
Seeing the monkey’s change, Su Yu’s eye twitched.
She had seen people in the apocalypse activate power abilities, and their bodies would swell like this.
Could it be that this little monkey also activated a power ability?
Su Yu hurried to test the monkey’s physical condition with the instrument.
But as soon as Su Yu moved, the monkey moved in sync.
Whatever Su Yu did, the monkey imitated in the cage.
Their movements and expressions were almost identical.
“Are you copying me?”
Su Yu stopped and asked.
The monkey also stopped, opened and closed its mouth, making sounds.
“Nihou… xue hou hou.”
“You can speak?!”
“Suo hua, suo hua.”
The monkey babbled again.
Though the monkey’s sounds were broken, Su Yu could tell it was trying to imitate human speech.
Its unclear speech clearly mixed in Chinese pronunciation.
Could the monkey’s intelligence also have improved thanks to JJ001?!
Su Yu then checked the other three monkeys’ states.
The other three were simply asleep from exhaustion.
Tests showed no abnormalities in their bodies.
Meaning JJ001 was at worst ineffective, but not lethal.
After confirming everything, Su Yu took out a syringe filled with JJ001.
Five years after the disaster, when humanity discovered that the rescue serum could activate powers, almost everyone chose to be injected.
Though the rescue serum couldn’t prevent infection by the zombie virus, it at least strengthened people’s ability to fight zombies.
However, the emergency serum didn’t work for everyone.
Half of people, like the three monkeys in front of Su Yu, had no reaction after injection.
There were exceptions, though.
Some people’s immunity decreased after injection.
In the apocalypse, decreased immunity was equivalent to slow death.
Hence Su Mom didn’t dare let Su Yu use it directly.
With the experiments on the little monkeys, it was at least proven the reagent was safe.
Thinking this, Su Yu drew JJ001 into the syringe.