In the office.
Xander Kane’s eyes widened, his face flushing red.
“Shannon, why didn’t you tell me earlier about selling the shares?
This is a family matter.
What do you mean by bringing it up at the shareholders’ meeting?”
Ginny Jarvis glanced at her brother, signaling him to keep quiet.
“Uncle Xander, it’s like this.
I…
I really don’t want to stay in Breven anymore.
I feel like I see Mom and Dad everywhere I look every day, so my brother wanted to take me traveling around.
I…
SOB SOB SOB…
Uncle Xander, it’s all my fault…”
“There, there, Jarvis.
Uncle Xander definitely won’t blame us now that he knows, right, Uncle Xander?”
The siblings played the role of innocent victims to perfection.
Sure enough, Xander and Shane Dawson, who stood beside him, said nothing, merely patting the siblings’ shoulders comfortingly.
Shane pushed up the glasses on the bridge of his nose and spoke slowly.
“Shannon, how about you and your sister transfer the shares to me and your uncle, and we pay you the market price?”
Ginny looked hesitantly at Sean Kane, who also wore an expression of hesitation and bewilderment.
“Then…
then can Uncle Xander and Shane pay in cash?
We want to take a trip to clear our minds and then settle abroad.
We don’t want to return to Zenia, this place of heartbreak, ever again.
As long as we can get some dividends every year to cover our living expenses, that will be enough,” Sean said, lowering his head and stroking Ginny’s hair.
Xander and Shane exchanged a glance, then both nodded.
Xander spoke up again.
“Don’t worry, we won’t let you suffer any losses.
Between the two of you, you hold sixty percent of the shares.
Discuss it between yourselves to decide how much you want to transfer, then let me know the price.
How does that sound?”
“Alright…
then can you give us the cash as soon as possible?
We want to leave Breven immediately.”
“We can,” Shane chimed in from the side.
Having received the siblings’ assurance, the two men left Sean’s office.
Watching them leave, Sean’s expression instantly darkened.
“Heh, they really couldn’t wait.
Mom and Dad treated them so well.
Hmph, what ungrateful wretches.”
“It’s fine, Sean.
The private investigator might not make any progress anyway.
If we can’t find any evidence, we’ll just deal with them on the night the zombie virus breaks out.”
Ultimately, the siblings unanimously decided to sell fifty percent of their shares for a total of twelve billion.
Six billion would be paid in cash, with the remainder transferred to them annually in the form of company dividends.
“This just means they don’t want to pay the rest.
Heh, company dividends?
They get to decide how much to distribute.
Good thing the apocalypse is coming.
Hmph!” Sean stared gloomily at the contract in front of him.
“The apocalypse is almost here anyway.
Heh, let them take those shares to hell.”
Afterward, the two of them signed the contract, called a local courier service, and had the document delivered to Xander.
Ginny mainly figured that this was probably all the cash Xander and Shane could scrape together.
They had likely coughed up everything they had embezzled over the years, mortgaged their houses and cars, and perhaps even pledged their own company shares.
For the time being, the two began ordering supplies from everywhere.
The change of CEO at the Kane Group couldn’t be announced quickly, as they had to consider stock market fluctuations.
The current situation was actually perfect, so they planned to announce it only after the Black Friday sale.
After all, the Kane Group’s primary businesses were shopping malls, real estate, and supermarkets!
This made it extremely convenient for Sean to use his identity as the Kane Group’s CEO to hoard supplies.
Stockpiling such a massive amount of goods would normally attract a lot of attention, but doing so under the guise of stocking supermarkets was a completely different story.
Sean used the Black Friday sale as his excuse for everything, and he even had the legal department draft a special non-disclosure agreement.
For the electronic signings, Sean sent out all the documents himself.
Seeing that the CEO personally handled the contracts, the suppliers attached even greater importance to the collaboration.
They wondered if Sean, having just taken office, wanted to use the Black Friday sale to make a significant achievement.
Because of this, Sean’s supply stockpiling went quite smoothly.
The only issue was the sheer volume of goods required; the fastest deliveries would take a week, while most would take half a month, and some even required a full month.
Having contacted nearly a hundred suppliers, Sean was so busy every day that his feet barely touched the ground.
He finally got everything sorted out after a week, leaving only the task of transportation.
When it came to food, they hoarded a massive amount of instant meals—self-heating rice, self-heating stew pots, hot and sour noodles, instant rice noodles, sausages, assorted braised meats, and various canned meats.
They ordered ten million boxes of each, totaling 1.36 billion dollars.
However, they only paid a deposit of nearly two hundred million, with the remaining balance due within half a year.
Rice, flour, and cooking oil went without saying.
They directly purchased special storage barrels, each capable of holding one ton.
They ordered fifty barrels of each, paying a deposit of 500,000, with the rest to be paid upon delivery.
They also stockpiled plenty of various other condiments—especially the most commonly used salt, sugar, light soy sauce, dark soy sauce, chili peppers, and chill bean paste.
They specifically sought out a hotel supplier and ordered twenty-five hundred kilograms of each.
Even after clearing out the supplier’s entire inventory, they were still short by two-thirds; the rest would take at least half a month to arrive.
They paid a twenty million deposit, with the remainder due once everything was delivered.
As for water, Sean specifically bought storage tanks for drinking water.
Each tank held two hundred and fifty kilograms, and he bought fifty tanks in total.
He also ordered ten million cases of 500-milliliter bottled mineral water, with twenty-four bottles per case.
He paid a five million deposit, with the remaining balance to be settled within half a month of delivery.
He even specifically purchased several water purification machines, spending over seventeen million.
For beverages, tobacco, alcohol, and snacks, Ginny only spent around thirty million on hoarding.
She planned to directly sweep through tobacco and alcohol factories, as well as warehouse supermarkets, once her Ability awakened.
After all, beverages, tobacco, and alcohol would be the most scarce commodities in the apocalypse.
At first, one Level 1 Crystal Stone could be exchanged for a single cigarette, but eventually, even a dozen might not be enough to trade for one.
They also ordered a lot of meat and freezable seafood.
It was just a pity that her spatial dimension couldn’t hold living creatures; otherwise, she would definitely put in plenty of chickens, ducks, fish, pigs, cattle, sheep, and live seafood.
Those things would be truly scarce in the apocalypse once the water resources were contaminated.
They ordered ten thousand tons of each item, paying a twenty percent deposit upfront, forty percent upon delivery, and the remaining balance within a month.
The deposit for the meat alone came to 230 million, leaving nearly 500 million to be prepared for the rest.
However, since the apocalypse would arrive less than half a month after the goods were delivered, who would care whether the debts were paid or not?
They also ordered some clothes, quilts, and maternal and baby products, but not too many, spending around thirteen million.
Ginny hoarded nearly two million worth of daily necessities, such as shampoo, shower gel, and toilet paper.
She didn’t hoard too much; after all, if she kept buying at this rate, it might cause a panic.
Medical supplies were even fewer.
She only hoarded rubbing alcohol, bandaging gauze, cotton swabs, and some daily medications, totaling one million.
To store gasoline and diesel, the two specifically bought over a dozen large storage tanks.
They also ordered a considerable amount of barreled gasoline and diesel, ten tons of each.
The cost of the storage tanks, combined with the gasoline and diesel, came to over seventy million.
They also purchased some solar panels and diesel generators, spending over twelve million in total.
They bought 100 automatic card shufflers for a total of 340,000.
To avoid the possibility of not finding a safe place at the start, Ginny also bought 100 sets of traditional hand-shuffled card decks.
She also purchased two boxes of playing cards, with 200 decks per box, totaling 400 decks, spending 8,000 in all.
Immediately after, Ginny went to the largest computer mall in Sheridan and bought twenty high-performance laptops.
At 23,000 each, the discounted total came to 400,000.
She bought fifty of the latest model smartphones with the highest storage capacity.
At 16,000 per phone with a fifteen percent discount, she ultimately spent 680,000.
She bought fifty 15TB hard drives at 2,000 each, totaling 100,000.
After taking them back, Ginny filled them up by downloading TV shows, movies, and novels, and also packed the hard drives with single-player games.
She specifically set aside two hard drives for e-books.
She downloaded all kinds of e-books and saved them onto USB flash drives.
The games were for their large group to play together when the time came.
The books were to help them live better lives after the apocalypse and rebuild their homeland!
Last, but most importantly, were the vegetable seeds.
Ginny remembered that the soil had also been contaminated in her previous life, so she searched online for thirty to forty shops selling nutrient soil.
She bought a total of ten tons of nutrient soil at 1.2 dollars per kilogram, spending a total of 30,000.
She bought one ton of fertilizer at 10.4 dollars per kilogram, totaling 10,000.
She bought one million various vegetable seeds, spending a total of 150,000.
Ginny bought these primarily because she wanted to establish her own safe base after the apocalypse.
But since the land in her previous life had been contaminated, making it impossible to grow vegetables, she decided to just hoard them for now.
Her spatial dimension was large enough anyway.
As for the essential books, Ginny still decided to buy some physical copies.
Covering all sorts of subjects and industries, she bought a full ten thousand-plus volumes, spending thirteen million in total.
She planned to collect many rare and valuable books into her spatial dimension later on.
After all, at the beginning of the apocalypse, no one would pay attention to things like books; everyone would be desperately focused on supplies.
With this, Ginny’s hoarding was completely sorted out.
All she had to do now was wait for the calls from couriers and suppliers.