Last night, Li Yao thought about the extreme cold coming. She decided to prepare coal, charcoal, and firewood now. If she were alone, she knew exactly how much to prepare, but now with two teammates—who were also colleagues—she needed to stock up more.
She really wanted to tell the director that if possible, she’d prefer to participate in the show alone.
She had already found out the addresses of the coal and firewood factories and planned to pick up a batch today.
She also bought some electronics online. When she got home, she started downloading movies, TV dramas, novels, and single-player games—long cold winters required entertainment.
She even bought a bunch of recipes. She had read that the interstellar environment was a culinary desert with no tasty food. Once she had enough retirement money, she thought she might become a food blogger.
She preloaded the meat she had ordered onto her truck. Seeing the pre-packaged goods, she felt her truck was too small and needed to upgrade to a bigger one.
After storing the meat in her space, she went to the vegetable market and packed all the vegetables she wanted. The morning market’s leafy greens still had fresh dew. She loaded truckloads of vegetables into her space.
Seeing all this gave her a great sense of security.
After finishing these errands, she ordered coal and charcoal and asked where she could buy firewood.
She needed such large quantities that she casually said they were a camping club. A group of wealthy second-generation youths wanted to camp, so they prepared extra supplies.
The coal factory owner didn’t understand why camping required so much coal.
Li Yao explained, “Our company has camping sites all over the country, so we need a lot, but spread out, not much at each site.”
The owner thought about it—he didn’t understand wealthy people’s lifestyles, but as long as he got paid, he didn’t care.
She first took part of the order away and told the owner, “For the rest of the coal, I’ll give you a warehouse address later. Just deliver it there.”
She paid in full and asked the owner to inquire about firewood, as she wanted a large amount too.
After storing a batch of charcoal in her space, she realized one warehouse was nowhere near enough. The previous warehouse was officially called a supermarket warehouse. If she sent a large batch of coal there now, it would raise suspicion.
She went to an agent and rented another warehouse. There was an empty warehouse outside the city, and she rented it for one month.
Normally, they didn’t rent monthly, but Li Yao was generous with money, so she got the warehouse.
When the coal factory owner delivered the goods, only Li Yao was there to receive them.
Seeing the briquettes and charcoal in the warehouse, she felt even more reassured.
After confirming everyone left, she stored the goods in her space.
She looked at the warehouse, thinking she could store online purchases here as well.
She hired a temporary warehouse manager to receive goods during the day, and when she was free, she would come to pick up the shipments.
Li Yao was busy every day, barely having time to stand still, forgetting she was live-streaming.
Meat, vegetables, fruit, daily necessities, online purchases—she inspected everything herself. Only by personally checking the goods could she ease her worries about the uncertain future.
[Why is Li Yao so busy every day?]
[Honestly, watching her so busy seems kind of stress-relieving.]
[If I were on Earth experiencing the apocalypse, having all this stuff would give me massive peace of mind.]
[Li Yao is just creating hype; it’s boring. Let’s go watch Bai Shuya’s livestream. Her little house fulfills all my fantasies.]
Many still disliked Li Yao.
The most popular streams on the Earth Survival show were Bai Shuya’s and actor Su Qingyun’s.
Bai Shuya’s two teammates were interstellar male model Yue Yijia and martial arts star Liang Xuetong.
After learning Bai Shuya’s address, they rushed over. They requested weapons, medicine, and enough nutrition fluids.
The weapons were cold weapons designed to Earth specs, but made from interstellar materials—very durable.
“Brother Yue, Brother Liang, do you like this?” Bai Shuya came out holding a bouquet of hydrangeas.
“I really like this color,” Yue Yijia said.
He was a famous interstellar model who loved bright colors. He liked the flowers Bai Shuya brought back.
The interstellar environment had many plants, but Earth’s flowers were more vibrant.
“This is called hydrangea. I want to plant these in my garden,” Bai Shuya smiled.
She carefully studied color matching. Now her garden looked like a painting.
Liang Xuetong looked at the carefully designed garden but was still worried about the Earth apocalypse.
He somewhat understood the disaster’s severe consequences.
He said to Bai Shuya, “We should fence the yard to be safer.”
Liang Xuetong was the oldest of the three, in his thirties, a martial arts star with real skills. In the apocalypse, having this big brother was necessary.
Bai Shuya smiled, “Okay, I’ll arrange for people to do that this afternoon.”
[Wow, I really envy this yard.]
[As expected, the big brother is reliable. With Liang Xuetong around, my sister feels very safe.]
[I really like this group. It’s so warm and cozy every day.]
[Yes, and I love the banter between actor Su Qingyun and rising star Feng Yuqi—they’re basically on a public-funded romance.]
Zhou Chengxing’s show had a lot of viewers since it started. Some were happy, some upset, but all got attention—except Li Yao, which troubled Qiu Ling greatly.
The company intended to promote Bai Shuya. They bought several rounds of trending searches for her. Poor Li Yao had appeared twice on trending searches, but both were negative. Her livestream barely had any viewers, mostly haters.
Qiu Ling wanted to help but felt powerless.
When Bai Shuya rested at night, the cameras turned off automatically. She wanted to see what Li Yao was doing. If she were interstellar, she’d find a way to watch other people’s streams.
Unfortunately, here, there was no way.
She ignored the problems ahead and focused more on Li Yao’s reputation. Before, she was oppressed by Li Yao; now she wanted to see how Li Yao was doing.
Li Yao was so busy she forgot she was live streaming. In the afternoon, she went to the warehouse to collect grain, then to pick up fruit. This time, the fruit wholesaler delivered half a truckload of expensive fruit.
Li Yao thought and ordered several more truckloads of pricey fruit, spending 600,000 yuan.
At night, she drove to pick up coal and also packed her deliveries into her space.
It was already 10 PM. Li Yao thought for a moment and went for a late-night snack. The smell of street barbecue hit her head—lamb skewers, beef skewers, tendon, scallops, oysters, smashed cucumbers…
She ordered a full table. The owner looked at her in surprise: “Miss, if you’re alone, that might be a bit too much.”
Li Yao waved her hand, “It’s okay. If I can’t finish it, I’ll pack it to go.”