“You’re watching a zombie movie. Why didn’t you call me to watch with you?”
As soon as Lu Yan finished speaking, Lu Xiang rushed over and pulled her into a tight embrace.
“Yan Bao…”
Lu Xiang’s voice was slightly choked with emotion.
At that moment, Lu Zhengyang also came over and hugged both mother and daughter tightly.
One after another, her brothers joined them, while her grandfather watched her with eyes full of heartache.
“What happened to everyone? I can barely breathe,” Lu Yan said with some difficulty.
Only then did everyone realize what they were doing and gradually released their arms.
Finally free in the middle of the group, Lu Yan was able to breathe again and began taking deep breaths of fresh air.
“Yan Bao, after Mom, Dad, and your brothers died, you must have suffered terribly all by yourself. I’m sorry. In our previous life, Mom and Dad failed to protect you. In this life, our whole family will stay together forever. We will protect you together and never let you suffer any harm again.”
Lu Xiang looked at Lu Yan with both anger and guilt on her face.
She was furious at the wretched Lu Jiaoyang, while also feeling guilty for failing to protect her little Yan Bao.
Lu Zhengyang and all of her brothers felt the same way.
Their Yan Bao was such a lovable little darling, yet that wretched woman had thrown her into a horde of zombies. Even though it was a grudge from their previous life, they would still settle it in this life and make that woman experience the suffering of the Apocalypse for herself.
“All right. Don’t forget that we still have three months, but there are also plenty of things we need to prepare for. We have to make the most of these three months. The more thoroughly we prepare, the safer we’ll be when the Apocalypse arrives.”
Seeing how emotional everyone had become, Gu Tianqi quickly brought their thoughts back to the matter at hand.
As soon as Gu Tianqi said this, everyone immediately came to their senses.
Lu Zhengyang said, “That’s right, that’s right. We need to hurry and discuss what we need to prepare, then divide up the tasks and get to work. These are some of the things your mother and I found in the novels last night that we need to prepare. We also thought of quite a few additional supplies and added them to the list. This one is for daily necessities, this one is for emergency supplies for natural disasters, and this one is…”
As he spoke, Lu Zhengyang jogged over to the seat where he had been sitting earlier and picked up the preparations he had spent the entire previous night making.
He and Lu Xiang had thought of the most things, filling at least a dozen sheets of paper.
“This is the list I made last night. I knew you would probably write down many of the everyday supplies we commonly use, so I focused mainly on things that aren’t used very often but would definitely come in handy during the Apocalypse, especially emergency supplies.”
As he spoke, Lu Jiang took out the list he had written. His list was only three or four pages long.
Lu Xiao said, “I prepared one too. I focused on things that might be needed during natural disasters. As you know, besides my love of racing, I spend most of my free time on adventures, so I’m relatively familiar with this sort of thing.”
Lu Xi said, “I’ve read quite a lot of Apocalypse novels, and I think none of you really understand weapons. Big Brother knows the most about them, but I contacted him yesterday, and they said he was out on a mission. There’s no telling when he’ll be back. So I looked up some information myself and also based it on what I read in Apocalypse novels. I made a list of some commonly used weapons. Naturally, everything I listed is something we can actually get.”
Jin Huai said, “I’m a doctor, so I’m the most familiar with medicines. That’s why my list is entirely made up of commonly used and essential medications, all of which will be useful after the Apocalypse arrives.”
Gu Tianqi said, “I’m old, so my hands and feet aren’t as quick as they used to be, and my mind isn’t as sharp either. I didn’t make a list. I thought I’d wait until you all finished yours, then look through them and add anything you might have overlooked.”
Everyone had taken out their lists, leaving only Lu Yan’s.
Lu Yan raised the stack of printed lists in her hand and said, “I thought of quite a lot too. I dictated everything by voice and had it printed out.”
Lu Zhengyang said, “Then let’s organize all the lists together and go through them to see if we’ve missed anything.”
“Okay,” everyone agreed before handing all their lists to Lu Zhengyang.
Lu Zhengyang gathered everyone’s lists and went to the computer at the front of the audiovisual room. He scanned all the lists, and the system automatically categorized and organized everything after scanning them, removing duplicate entries in the process.
Before long, a newly organized master list appeared on the large screen.
The very first category was food, because people could never live without food. Without anything to eat, they would easily starve to death.
No matter how plentiful everything else was, it would all be useless without food.
The food category was divided into raw and cooked food.
Cooked food: steamed buns, youtiao, glass noodles, noodles, KFC, McDonald’s, tiger skin chicken feet, stir fried beef with wild chili peppers and celery, minced pork with eggplant and green beans, braised fish, sauerkraut fish, boiled fish in spicy sauce, spicy diced chicken, Kung Pao chicken, hot and sour lotus root strips…
Western style steak, braised shark fin, mapo tofu, glass noodles with scallops, salt and pepper shrimp, golden shell river prawns, salt and pepper king crab, sweet and sour pork, braised pork…
Beef skewers, lamb skewers, grilled chicken feet, grilled chicken legs, grilled eggplant, grilled tofu skin, grilled kidneys, grilled oysters, stir fried rice noodles…
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From breakfast shops to food stalls, then from large hotels to all kinds of late night snacks, it seemed that the list had covered practically every menu imaginable. There were at least several hundred dishes.
“Who wrote this menu?” Lu Xiang asked, looking at the menu like a list with an expression of exasperation.
Everyone shook their heads.
Lu Xi said, “The daily necessities list should have been written only by you, Dad, and Yan Bao. You three wrote the most. Wasn’t this written by one of you?”
Lu Yan said, “Hmph! You’re really blaming the wrong person. I can’t even recognize all the complicated dishes on this menu, let alone write or dictate them. Do you really think I’m that amazing?”
After hearing Lu Yan say this, everyone naturally believed her. They nodded and turned their eyes toward Lu Zhengyang.
Receiving everyone’s questioning looks, Lu Zhengyang hurriedly said, “It wasn’t me either. Your mother and I thought about things together last night. For cooked food like this, we only made a general note for breakfast, lunch, dinner, late night snacks, and so on. We certainly didn’t have enough time to list every dish.”
Lu Xiang agreed. “That’s right. What your father and I had in mind was simply to find several good restaurants and hotels and place orders when the time came. There was no need to dictate every dish on the menu.”
“Then who was it?” everyone asked in confusion.
Lu Yan said, “Um, could it have been automatically optimized and generated by the computer system, Xiao You? Otherwise, there are so many dishes. It would have taken an entire night just to write them all down.”
After Lu Yan said this, everyone felt that it made sense.
And so, they moved on from the matter.
There was also quite a long list of raw foods, but fortunately, it no longer looked like someone was reciting an entire menu.
The first priority among the raw foods was staple food, including rice, flour, grains, cooking oil, and water.
Various grains, rice, white flour, all kinds of beans, rapeseed oil, peanut oil, corn oil, soybean oil, olive oil…