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When the car drove out of the underground garage, Lin Yue glanced at the rearview mirror.

In the mirror is the glass curtain wall of the company building, reflecting the dazzling white light in the afternoon sun.Twelfth floor, Tower A. He has been working here for three years.On the seventh day after the apocalypse breaks out, half of this building will collapse in an explosion caused by a gas leak, burying all the things that have not been taken away in time - workstations, documents, pothos, unfinished instant coffee - all under the reinforced concrete.Including Lao Zhou’s body.He died on the way from the company to his home on the third day of the apocalypse.

Lin Yue withdrew his gaze, turned the steering wheel all the way to the right, and merged into the main road.

The first place he went to was the Wanbang Warehouse Supermarket in the east of the city.In the previous life, that place was a battleground for military strategists in the early days of the apocalypse - a total of 20,000 square meters of warehouses, with everything from food to daily necessities to building materials.In the first week of the apocalypse, five groups of people fought at the door, but no one got it in the end because the entire area was flooded by the zombies on the seventh day.But he was not there to grab supplies today.He had personally seen the inventory list of that warehouse in his previous life - in the intelligence files of the safe zone, that list was filed as "important strategic resources that could not be obtained".He only needed to verify one thing: those things were still there.

When the car passed the intersection, Lin Yue glanced at the time on the car navigation system.14:58.It's not even the evening rush hour yet, so there aren't too many cars on the road.He charged his mobile phone,

"September 12, 2025, 14:58. Confirmation: The first batch of infection symptoms appeared after 17:00 on September 15th, with a time error of no more than two hours. The location of case zero is at the T3 terminal of Chengnan International Airport, international arrivals exit. The mode of infection is contact with body fluids. The first person bitten will develop symptoms about nine hours later, and then--"

He paused.

And then this street, this district, this city, will turn into hell within twelve hours.

Lin Yue wrote down all these details.The memory of the previous life is one account, and the five years of apocalyptic experience is another account.He will bring these two accounts back to this life without missing a beat.

At 15:06, the car parked in the parking lot of Wanbang Warehouse Supermarket.

Lin Yue got out of the car without locking the door - a habit he had practiced for five years in his previous life and had yet to change when he was reborn.He took a step before realizing it, turned around, locked the car, and strode into the supermarket.

There are very few people in the warehouse supermarket on weekday afternoons.The air conditioner is turned on full blast, brisk pop songs are playing on the radio, and the water mist nozzles in the fresh food area make a regular squeaking sound.Lin Yue pushed a shopping cart, without stopping in the food and daily necessities areas, and walked directly through the entire shelf to the innermost part.

Building materials area.

He stood in front of the row of shelves, his eyes swept from the first frame to the last, and then the corners of his mouth moved.

The things are still there.

Industrial grade dust masks, 50 pieces in three boxes.High-grade cement, twelve bags.Steel bar binding wire, a large plate.There are also three small gasoline generators, each with a price tag of 4,200. They are placed at the bottom of the shelf, covered with a thin layer of dust. Apparently no one has touched them for a long time.These are things that ordinary people would never take a second look at on a daily basis, but starting from the third day of the apocalypse, a bag of cement can buy half a life.

Lin Yue took out his mobile phone from his pocket and took a photo of the shelf.Then he asked, "What's the quantity?"From the building materials section to the hardware section to the outdoor supplies section, he spent a full forty minutes carving into his mind the distribution map of available supplies in the entire supermarket.The lock on the unloading area door at the back of the warehouse is an old-fashioned mortise lock that can be fixed with a crowbar.The logistics channel leads directly to the back alley, which is three meters wide and can pass a light truck.

He stood at the door of the unloading area and deduced it in his mind.The first twelve hours after the apocalypse broke out was the most chaotic window period in the entire city. No one bothered to rob supermarkets, and everyone ran to hospitals and government buildings.That was the best time for him to take action.Using a truck and five people, the building materials area and half of the hardware area can be evacuated within an hour.

"Sir, do you need help?"

Lin Yue turned around.A young employee wearing a supermarket uniform was looking at him with some vigilance in his eyes.This person had been standing in the building materials area for almost 40 minutes, not only not looking to buy anything, but also taking photos. In the security manual of the warehouse supermarket, this behavior is called "stepping on the spot."

The judgment of "stepping on the spot" is accurate.It's just that this employee couldn't have guessed that he was stepping on the end of the world.

"No, thank you." Lin Yue said in a calm tone, "I am helping the company make a purchasing budget and need to check the inventory on the spot."

He turned the phone screen over and took a look at the other party - it was indeed the supply list he had just made.The guard on the employee's face relaxed a little, but he still looked at him twice before walking away.Lin Yue didn't care.There are still 58 hours left. Even if the employee calls the police and files a report, it will be too late to investigate him.

At 15:50, Lin Yue left the supermarket and drove home.

His residence is a rental apartment near the company, with one bedroom and one living room, 42 square meters, and the monthly rent is 2,300.When I opened the door, the entrance light was still on - I forgot to turn it off when I went out this morning.In his previous life, he always forgot to turn off the lights. Su Muqing had told him about this several times.She said that your monthly electricity bill is enough to buy three boxes of instant noodles. Before the apocalypse, he didn't take it seriously. After the apocalypse, he would have no more light to waste.

Lin Yue stood in the entrance hall and looked around the room.The T-shirt he changed out of yesterday was thrown on the sofa, a half bottle of Coke and a half-opened suspense novel were on the coffee table, and there were two bowls soaking in the kitchen sink.This is the normal life of a twenty-six-year-old ordinary office worker, undisciplined, comfortable, and unprepared.When he looked at these, he felt like he was watching another person's life.In a sense, it is indeed another person.

He walked into the bedroom and dug out a dusty hiking bag from the depths of the closet.Unzip the zipper and dump out the contents—old sneakers, some quick-dry clothes, a sleeping bag, a Swiss Army knife.These were all the equipment he saved while playing outdoors when he was in college in his previous life, and he never used them again after working.He picked out the ones he could use, threw away the rest, and placed the bag at the door.

Then there's money.

Lin Yue has a credit card limit of 50,000 yuan, a time deposit certificate of 80,000 yuan, and all the savings he has saved for three years of work - 120,000 yuan in a financial management account.Altogether, it’s less than three hundred thousand.This amount of money is quite a lot under normal circumstances, but it is far from enough to support what he will do next.

He needs a bigger sum of money.

The second-hand car dealer Lin met when he was driving a car specializes in mortgaged cars and urgent-sale cars. He takes in all kinds of cars without asking where they came from, and does not check the procedures. The transaction is in cash.After the outbreak of the apocalypse in the previous life, Lao Sun died very early - he tried to run out of the city in a newly mortgaged car on the second day of the virus outbreak, but was stopped by the military at the highway entrance. It was not because of the virus, but because the car was carrying a financial dispute and had been in the system for more than a year.The scene was chaotic and the soldier on duty was highly nervous. After a few quarrels, he was shot in the chest and died in the driver's seat.

It was the second day of the end of the world.Lin Yue was not at the scene at the time, but later heard from a survivor who escaped from the highway.

"Old Sun." When the call was connected, Lin Yue went straight to the point, "I have a car to sell. I picked it up early this year, white, automatic transmission, mileage 16,000. No accidents, complete procedures. Fixed price, 80,000. The deal must be completed before tomorrow."

Old Sun on the other end of the phone was stunned for a moment, and then laughed: "Brother Lin, 80,000? You don't know how much your new car will cost? You can't take me for granted at the fixed price. 60,000, I will pay you today."

"Seventy-five thousand. I want it today."

"Seventy thousand. No more. I'll take your car back and have it ready. If I resell it, I'll just make some hard money. Seventy thousand, I'll transfer it tonight. Will you pick up the car tomorrow?"

"Okay." Lin Yue didn't argue with him, "But I won't go to your store. You take the contract with you and come downstairs to me at eight o'clock tonight. I'll sign it in person and hand over the keys in person."

"Sure." Lao Sun agreed happily, "But Brother Lin, you are suddenly in a hurry to sell the car. What happened to you?"

Lin Yue didn't answer.He hung up the phone.

At 15:30, he started calling second-hand housing agencies to list his parents' house in his hometown for sale.The house in a neighboring city was the only inheritance left to him by his parents. He had not lived in it since graduation. He rented it out to a family of three and collected some rent every month to subsidize the mortgage.When the agent answered the phone, his tone was one of surprise - they like this kind of owners who are eager to sell, and the price is very low.But Lin Yue didn't give them the chance to lower the price.

"The base price is 600,000, non-negotiable. Those who can pay the full amount within three days will have priority in signing, and those who can't will be exempted from negotiation. The house will be put on the shelves this afternoon, and intensive inspections will be arranged tomorrow. I don't care what you do, I want to get the money before Monday."

"Mr. Lin, the time is indeed too tight. Where is the market price of your apartment type-"

"Six hundred thousand. If you can sell it, you can get the agency fee. If you can't, I'll find someone else."

"Okay, okay, I'll make arrangements right away."

Lin Yue hung up the phone and made a quick calculation in his mind.The car payment of 70,000 plus the salary balance of 47,000 is 117,000.If the house in my hometown can be sold as expected, 600,000 yuan will be available before Monday.Including credit cards and financial accounts, his wartime liquidity was probably more than 800,000.All this money must be spent within three days and turned into supplies.

Not enough.

But he had nothing more to cash in.

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