003 It turns out it was a waste of effort

Hua Mi tapped on one of the buildings, and a dialogue box immediately popped up: "Activate Level 1 Factory, requires 10,000 yuan."

That expensive?

She thought about the several hundred thousand yuan lying in her bank account and decided to try pushing ten thousand yuan into it to see what kind of factory could be built?

The prompt replied: "Non-apocalypse supermarket revenue source, does not meet the specification."

Did it mean she had to sell the items in the supermarket first to unlock this strange building?

Hua Mi had a bit of a headache; money was just paper in the apocalypse, who would still use it to buy things?

At first, everyone robbed for supplies, and as time went by, they started using the Crystal Cores from Mutant Beasts and Zombies as currency.

Hua Mi didn't have time to think longer, as her phone soon rang.

Caller ID: Fang Xin.

This bitch! Hua Mi directly hung up Fang Xin's call.

But Fang Xin called again, many times in a row.

Impatient, Hua Mi answered the call without saying a word, only to hear Fang Xin's pretentious sobbing,

"Sister, sister, are you okay? I saw on the news that your complex collapsed due to shoddy construction during the earthquake, I'm so worried about you, sister."

"Sister, Brother Ziran and I have been trying to call you, but your phone was unreachable. Are you alright, please talk."

Then, a male voice came from the phone,

"Ah Mi, are you alright? We are all very worried about you, listen to me, I really didn't have another woman behind your back."

These words reminded Hua Mi of a distant memory.

At this time in her last life, Qin Ziran was her boyfriend. Once, she had discovered records of Qin Ziran checking into a hotel with another woman.

The records were quite frequent.

So, Hua Mi had suggested breaking up, went out to drink away her sorrows, and even extravagantly paid for a man.

Back then, she didn't know that Qin Ziran's affair was with Fang Xin, and she had even confided in Fang Xin for over half a month.

It was only several years into the apocalypse when she met a friend of Qin Ziran that she learned Qin Ziran and Fang Xin had been together long before.

After that revelation, during a mission, Fang Xin pushed Hua Mi into a Zombie Tide.

And now, Qin Ziran was still in the period of not accepting the breakup.

Hua Mi coldly said into the phone,

"Haven't we already broken up? Whether you have another woman or not, I have no feelings for you anymore, stop calling me, I'm very busy right now."

After saying that, she hung up on Fang Xin's call and then blocked her.

A while later, Hua Mi started browsing shopping websites on her phone; previously, when she was in the ruins, there was no network or communication signal.

Now it seemed the network was gradually being restored; as Hua Mi continued browsing, the internet speed became faster.

She made several calls to the supplier and ordered twenty thousand bottles of mineral water.

The supplier asked laughingly:

"I heard your complex collapsed with just a slight shake, are you buying all this mineral water for disaster relief?"

"No, I'm planning to sell it."

Hua Mi thought for a moment, then said to the supplier:

"You see, our region isn't seismically active, and yet we still experienced an earthquake. Who knows what might happen next; there might be more earthquakes, the weather might get colder, so it's better to stock up on supplies to slowly sell them. If they don't sell, I can still use them myself."

She tried to keep her tone light yet hinted a warning.

After all, today it was just one complex that collapsed, but tomorrow could be different.

The supplier seemed thoughtful, and without knowing whether he believed Hua Mi or not, followed the usual supply process; an hour later, he sent a large truck with twenty thousand bottles of mineral water to Hua Mi.

The complex behind Hua Mi was a pile of rubble; rescue teams had sealed off the entire collapsed complex, and all rescued people were sent to a nearby park for shelter.

For a while, other than Hua Mi's small supermarket, there wasn't a soul in the vast expanse of rubble.

The roads were bad, high buildings had collapsed, and debris, messed-up furniture, and broken household items were everywhere... The truck couldn't drive directly to the supermarket entrance.

So the supplier thoughtfully provided a team of workers for Hua Mi, who manually carried the twenty thousand bottles of mineral water into the supermarket inside the ruins.

After the workers left, Hua Mi gradually moved the mineral water stacked in front of the supermarket door into the Level 1 storage.

While moving them, she grumbled about the "apocalypse supermarket."

Why was it that in the novels she read before, people with a space just waved their hand, and the goods would automatically store themselves, but she had to move them manually?

Just as this thought crossed her mind, the heavy box of mineral water in her hands disappeared.

The transparent panel reappeared,

"Level 1 Storage: Mineral Water X52"

Hua Mi: "???"

So all those hours she spent tediously moving all the supermarket's items into Level 1 storage were wasted?

Hua Mi beat her chest and stamped her feet for a while but continued to quickly place the piled-up mineral water at the supermarket entrance into Level 1 storage.

By then, the sky had turned dim, and several men in rescue team uniforms approached.

One of the men pointed at Hua Mi's small supermarket,

"Captain, the supermarket I mentioned is right there."

The team leader nodded and led the lifeguards forward, just about to speak when Hua Mi, carrying a box of mineral water, turned around.

Seeing Hua Mi's face, the rescue team captain hesitated for a moment.

It was the woman from last night...

He squinted slightly, took off his helmet, and stood in place, giving Hua Mi a faint smile,

"What a coincidence."

Hua Mi looked puzzledly at the lifeguard captain, feeling that he looked familiar but couldn't recall where she had seen him.

Probably someone from her past life whom she had met once, but because so much time had passed, she had forgotten him in the sea of memory.

The man waited a moment, and seeing that Hua Mi had no other reaction, he frowned slightly, hugged his helmet with one arm, and took two steps toward Hua Mi, asking,

"Don't you remember me?"

Hua Mi honestly nodded, indeed not remembering.

So, what is it now? Can't we talk about something important?

The lifeguard captain's bronze face soured, and he hummed as he looked at the small pile of mineral water left by Hua Mi's side,

"We came to buy some water to drink, the logistics supplies haven't arrived yet, and the teammates are very thirsty."

Too many people were buried beneath this complex, and the normally quick-purchasing rescue team logistics, for some reason, had a hiccup this time.

So the mineral water that was supposed to supply the rescue team and survivors had not been delivered.