There are 35 hours left until the doomsday countdown.
The sky was like a punctured hole, with torrential rain pouring down, and thunder rumbling as if to shatter the earth.
Shi Man sent a text message to the boss. The message generally stated that she had taken the goods, but she didn't have the boss's payment method. She asked him to contact her again after he finished dealing with his family matters.
As a guarantee, she left some collateral in the warehouse.
Shi Man had placed five hundred catties of vacuum-packed rice in the warehouse. In peaceful times, her actions would surely land her in jail for at least three years.
But with the apocalypse about to descend, five hundred catties of vacuum-packed rice would definitely be life-saving food!
The boss didn't reply immediately. Shi Man guessed that he would be very busy tonight and until the apocalypse arrived, so she didn't linger and drove away.
The wipers scraped across the windshield, but the rain was so heavy that it severely affected driving visibility.
Fortunately, due to the heavy rain and being near the outskirts, there were very few vehicles on the road. Just as she was about to turn from a small road onto a main road, Milk suddenly meowed anxiously.
Shi Man instinctively pulled over, took Milk out of its cage, and asked, "What's wrong?"
Milk ignored her, scratching at the car window. Shi Man caught Milk in her arms and, following the car's headlights, saw a blue corrugated iron fence surrounding the area. In front of the fence stood a sign: "Construction Site, No Entry for Unauthorized Personnel."
Shi Man's eyes lit up. She looked at the real estate development company listed below the construction slogan on the iron fence and vaguely remembered that this project seemed to have caused a major stir in C City and even trended on hot searches.
She searched online, and sure enough!
This was an unfinished building complex, but because the developer absconded, the project was shelved, workers went on strike, and the construction site was sealed.
Shi Man's eyes instantly blazed with fervor.
She had already anticipated that upgrading her homestead would require many things later. Collecting supplies after the apocalypse would not be as easy as it was now!
Go big or go home!
With the divine beast's blessing, plus the agility, speed, and two points of luck she had just added, it was time to act!
To be safe, Shi Man put on a mask and a black raincoat, turned off the car lights, and directly climbed over the corrugated iron fence.
She wondered if it was her imagination, but Shi Man felt that her night vision seemed to have improved as well.
In the rainy night, the abandoned construction site only echoed with the sound of raindrops pattering down.
Steel materials piled up like mountains under the tarpaulins, and not far away there was also river sand. Shi Man directly put them into her backpack. Inside the unfinished building, there were also many bagged cement materials, as well as mountains of bricks and stones.
In addition, Shi Man also put a large truck parked on the construction site into her warehouse.
Although she didn't have a B2 driver's license, during her years of survival in the apocalypse in her previous life, many 'skills' had been forced to be maxed out.
Shi Man collected things to her heart's content until her head started to feel swollen. Only then did she stop. With this haul, her warehouse was only half full.
She spent two hours at the construction site.
Shi Man climbed back over the wall, tossing her raincoat behind her. Even though she was wearing a raincoat, she was still wet.
Fortunately, the air conditioning in this dilapidated minivan wasn't broken. Shi Man turned on the warm air, drove five kilometers, stopped for a short rest, took out a hamburger from her backpack, and ate it, then drank a cup of soda to replenish her sugar levels.
She didn't forget to take out two cat treats to reward Milk.
Shi Man checked the time: 5 AM. Her agreed pickup time with the meat stall owner was 7 AM, so without delay, Shi Man drove to the slaughterhouse.
At 6:30 AM, she arrived at the slaughterhouse.
Shi Man took advantage of the darkness and, on a road without surveillance, switched to the construction site truck and drove directly to pick up the goods.
The slaughterhouse workers loaded all the pork, beef, lamb, chicken, duck, and geese she had ordered onto the truck, as well as the processed livestock and pig blood, beef blood, and lamb blood.
When Shi Man had looked at the map earlier, she found that there was a chicken and duck farm about a thousand meters away. She had forgotten to buy eggs and duck eggs before, so she simply drove to the farm and bought ten thousand chicken eggs, duck eggs, and goose eggs each. At the same time, she also bought five thousand fertilized eggs of each kind.
She already had high-yield Black Soil, so who's to say she couldn't raise chickens and ducks in the future?
Shi Man had tried to bring Milk into the warehouse before, but while she could enter, Milk was excluded. Clearly, live creatures couldn't enter the warehouse.
Otherwise, Shi Man would have wanted to buy a pile of live poultry and livestock to put in there!
Various flower markets and hardware distribution markets in C City were all concentrated in the suburbs. Shi Man went to the flower market and bought a batch of seeds and fruit saplings.
Chinese cabbage, oilseed rape, cabbage, lettuce, tomato seedlings, strawberry seedlings, chili seedlings, apple trees, pear trees, mango trees, cherry saplings… whatever she could find in the market, she wanted all of it!
Then she went to the hardware market and bought the spare parts needed to modify a nail gun. After another two hours of busy work, she put the items into her backpack, and then, following suit, she drove the truck to a place without surveillance or pedestrians, switched back to the minivan, and drove back into the city.
First, she went to the market to pick up the vegetables and fruits she had ordered. Shi Man didn't go home. She glanced at her phone, which had been receiving calls and WeChat messages non-stop since 9 AM.
The calls were naturally from Shi Dahai.
Shi Man opened the remote surveillance, and through the panel, she could see Shi Dahai's Mercedes parked at the entrance of the old building.
Shi Man drove to a coffee shop two kilometers from her home, sent Shi Dahai her location, and arranged to meet him there.
Fifteen minutes later, Shi Dahai arrived.
Shi Man's appearance at the moment was truly not neat. She had been caught in the rain last night and had been busy ever since, and her cold white skin made her dark circles particularly noticeable.
She had a pair of peach blossom eyes, deep and clear double eyelids, and a high nose bridge. In terms of looks, she had indeed inherited and surpassed her mother's beauty. In her freshman year, she had encountered several internet celebrity incubation companies wanting to sign her when she was distributing flyers on the pedestrian street.
Shi Dahai was filled with frustration. He looked at her with gloomy and scrutinizing eyes, and then, in a condescending tone, he began to lecture her: "Not home first thing in the morning, look at you, you look like a ghost. Did you go sneaking around last night?"
Shi Man took a sip of coffee and threw the contract she had prepared onto the table: "Either sign the contract, give me the money, and take the house, or get lost. You only have five minutes to consider."
Shi Dahai's face turned red with anger, but the ten Million yuan in demolition compensation still forced him to calm down. After taking the contract and reading it, he raised his voice:
"What kind of ridiculous contract is this! You want me to transfer the money to you first? What does it mean that the old building can only be transferred after seven days?"
"I lost the homestead certificate. The fastest it can be reissued is seven days," Shi Man said coldly. "What, are you afraid I'll run off with your money? Whatever, you don't have to sign it. Someone else will buy it anyway."
"Wait!"
Seeing Shi Man's unyielding attitude, Shi Dahai hesitated instead. He wasn't afraid of Shi Man running off with the money; he had been in business for so many years, and he had connections.
"I'll sign this contract, and I can give you the money in advance, but don't run around these next few days. Stay honestly in the old building!"
"Okay." Shi Man nodded. "Have your secretary transfer the money. Under your company's name, I assume a large transfer won't make me wait too long, right?"
Shi Dahai gritted his teeth.
Half an hour later, Shi Man's account had several more zeros.
She signed the contract with a flourish, not giving Shi Dahai a chance to speak. She stood up, "You pay for the coffee."
With that, Shi Man left without looking back.
Shi Dahai was so angry that he smashed the cup directly. Once he got the old building, he would definitely sell that little bastard Shi Man to northern Myanmar to have her kidneys harvested!
"Sir, this is a public place. Damaging property requires compensation," the waiter patiently reminded him.
Shi Dahai: "Pay then! Can't I afford a cup? How much, tell me!"
The waiter suppressed the urge to roll his eyes and said with a forced smile, "Sir, your table's total consumption is ten thousand three hundred eighty yuan."
Shi Dahai shrieked: "What kind of black market is this! Is your cup Diamond ? It costs ten thousand yuan!"
Waiter: "Sir, the cup is only eighty yuan, three hundred yuan is for two cups of coffee, and the remaining ten thousand yuan is for the one hundred portions of desserts and small cakes, as well as Rwandan Bourbon coffee beans that the lady who left earlier packed up."
The coffee shop Shi Man chose was known for being unaffordable to drink or eat at.
A cup of coffee was 150 yuan, a piece of cake the size of half a palm started at fifty yuan, and those Rwandan coffee beans cost 165 yuan per pound.
But ~ it didn't matter, it wasn't Shi Man paying anyway.
Shi Dahai's face turned from green to purple, and from purple to red!
That little bitch Shi Man!!! Ahhh! Not only would he harvest Shi Man's kidneys, but he would also harvest her heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and guts!