Chapter 1
Changnan City
Ji Yang lay on the bed. Having just been startled from a dream, a trace of lingering fear remained on her face. Her eyes stared blankly at the ceiling, where a dolphin she had painted in her teens, chubby and quite cute, was still visible.
The paint used was good quality; it hadn’t faded even after so many years.
Ji Yang took several seconds to recover before fumbling for her phone to check the time. 8:30 AM.
She recalled how she’d been late countless times in college because she couldn’t wake up, causing her participation grades to be terrifyingly low. Yet now, she woke up around eight every day.
It was really…
Ji Yang silently got up, her mind already starting to plan the day’s itinerary.
Today was the fifth day of her rebirth.
Of the four days prior, she had spent the first day processing the fact of her rebirth, organizing her finances, and staying up all night researching what kinds of natural disasters would occur in a doomsday scenario and how to deal with them.
On the second day, Ji Yang rented a large warehouse and hired people specifically to help receive goods there. Meanwhile, she contacted major daily necessity manufacturers to purchase supplies, including but not limited to—pots, pans, bowls, disposable cutlery, cassette stoves, gas canisters, tables, chairs, stools, and clothes for all four seasons…
Using a large supermarket as a reference for variety, the quantity she bought was enough to last her two lifetimes.
On the third day, Ji Yang ordered a custom-modified vehicle and put her company shares and various properties up for sale. Her father quickly noticed and called to chew her out before buying back the shares for forty million.
On the fourth day, Ji Yang scheduled a renovation team to overhaul her apartment in Jiafu Community. The focus was on the doors and windows, all of which were to be made of bulletproof, explosion-proof, high-temperature-resistant, and low-temperature-resistant materials. The price was exorbitant and required special ordering, but these were exactly what Ji Yang wanted.
And what she needed to do today was go abroad and spend the rest of the money she had on hand.
Because Ji Yang had been reborn from five years in the future.
She clearly remembered that 95 days from now, just after the New Year, a massive snowstorm would completely paralyze the transportation system. Countless workers returning to the cities would be stranded at airports and high-speed rail stations, their cars stuck on the roads.
The state immediately took action to clear the snow.
Everyone thought it would be over quickly, but the snow only fell harder and heavier. Snow shoveled in the morning would be replaced by a half-meter-high accumulation by the afternoon, making it impossible to walk.
Day after day passed, and the temperature continued to drop. It wasn’t as sudden as in the apocalypse novels she used to read, but within a month, the temperature still fell to minus forty or fifty degrees Celsius.
Food reserves were not enough, and countless people who went out to buy supplies never returned.
Slowly, the world changed.
The apocalypse, which had once only existed in novels, had arrived.
Ji Yang’s family was well-off. She lived in a large villa, and because they had worried about food shortages around the New Year, the family had hoarded a lot of food, allowing them to scrape by in the initial phase.
But when the snow buried the second floor of the villa and showed no signs of stopping, she too began to panic, desperately calling her parents.
Her parents had long since divorced and started their own families. By then, the blizzard had been raging for over a month, and food shortages had already become a serious problem. Both sides kept making excuses, unwilling for Ji Yang to come over. But with her life on the line, Ji Yang shamelessly went to her father’s place, which was the closest.
That decision was the beginning of a nightmare.
Even for the wealthy, with money in hand, it gradually became impossible to buy food. At first, it was fine. The rich cared about their reputation, so even if they were unhappy about her arrival, they maintained a semblance of civility.
But as three months, then four months passed… and the situation grew more severe, their attitudes changed. Even though Ji Yang went out every day to scavenge for supplies, they still resented her for eating too much and wasting fuel.
Until one day, as Ji Yang was sleeping groggily, her bedroom door was opened. Someone crept onto her bed. The sudden cold jolted her awake, and only then did she realize that her father had sold her for ten jin of grain.
Perhaps she had anticipated it on some level, as she had always kept a pair of scissors hidden under her pillow. In that moment, she chose to stab the person to death with them.
Having killed for the first time, Ji Yang was plagued by nightmares for days. But her father, stepmother, and other relatives became noticeably more subdued. She suddenly realized the importance of strength.
After that, Ji Yang worked even harder to collect supplies. Half a month later, government officials appeared, offering to evacuate survivors. She decisively went with them to a base.
But under the shadow of the apocalypse, nothing was easy. Life at the base was also incredibly difficult. Her frostbitten sores never healed, and she was starved until she was just skin and bones, but she couldn’t bring herself to die. She just kept enduring.
She endured until the extreme cold passed and the temperatures began to rise.
Everyone cheered, thinking the terrifying little ice age was finally over. But to their horror, the melting ice and snow, combined with torrential rains, triggered a flood that swept towards the survivors, completely submerging the base.
Later, after she managed to survive that, she found the temperature climbing higher and higher, eventually reaching over fifty degrees Celsius!
Some people died of heatstroke, others died of thirst, and even more died from infected wounds with no medicine to treat them.
After two years of extreme heat, the temperature began to fall. Ji Yang thought she was about to make it through, but then a great fog arrived, bringing with it countless epidemics. People infected with various viruses began to retaliate against society.
Ji Yang was very lucky. She only contracted one type of virus and, after using the points she had worked herself to death to earn to buy a specific cure, she became a thorn in the side of everyone around her, as if they all wished she were dead.
She lived in constant fear every day, hoping for order to be restored, when the half-constructed base once again faced a devastating disaster—an earthquake.
This time, Ji Yang didn’t make it.
She was too exhausted. When the earthquake hit, she couldn’t run for long before being swallowed by a fissure in the earth, losing consciousness.
When she woke up, she found that she had been reborn, one hundred days before the great snowstorm.
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Right after her rebirth, Ji Yang’s emotional state was highly unstable. She cried and laughed for a long time.
At one point, she even wanted to commit suicide.
But when the blade touched her neck, she couldn’t go through with it.
Her past life had been so difficult, yet she had survived for five years. To be reborn was already luckier than anyone else; she should live even better this time.
But when she had made the attempt, the blade was too sharp and had accidentally nicked her skin. As a drop of blood fell, it landed on the thumb ring hanging from her necklace. In that instant, a dimensional space appeared in Ji Yang’s mind.
The space wasn’t large, just about the size of her family’s villa, around five hundred square meters. It was empty and somewhat ethereal, without even solid ground, and she didn’t know its upper limit.
But this was enough to make her ecstatic.
Especially since after tasting blood, the thumb ring had vanished completely, leaving a green, tattoo-like mark on her collarbone. She didn’t even have to worry about losing it.
Wasn’t this the perfect apocalypse guarantee?!
After digesting the series of events—her rebirth and the appearance of the space—Ji Yang calmed down. The first thing she did was order takeout to reward her soul, which had suffered for so many years.
Once she was full, she began to plan how to hoard supplies to face the cataclysms.
Extreme cold, extreme heat, and floods were relatively easy to deal with. As long as she secured a high-altitude location, had enough to eat and drink, and could fend off the prying eyes of others, she could get through them with ease.
But an earthquake was different.
That was the first time Ji Yang felt that the phrase “feet planted firmly on the ground” was wrong.
When the earthquake came, she had run desperately towards an open area, only to feel as if her feet were on ocean waves, rising and falling, swaying with the massive swells. It was impossible to walk. The slightest movement sent her tumbling to the ground, the world spinning around her.
It wasn’t until a terrifying vortex of air current formed that she realized the earth had split open, and she was right in the middle of the fissure…
Therefore, since she had a space, besides food, the next things she needed were… a helicopter and fuel. She never wanted to be on the ground during an earthquake again, a piece of floating duckweed waiting to be devoured.
Unfortunately, the space was not large, which meant she could buy even fewer things. Even with money, it was a bit frustrating.
However, just as she was finalizing her plan and putting some important items from her house into the space, she discovered that the space consumed jade!
Some of the jade jewelry her grandmother had left her vanished the moment they entered the space!
In its place, the space had nearly doubled in size.
With a space of over a thousand square meters, the amount of supplies she could hoard was more than doubled.
The plan changed drastically!
It went from ensuring her basic survival to ensuring she could live in absolute comfort—
Ji Yang passed all the gold and silver jewelry, luxury goods, and other items in her house through the space. After confirming that it only consumed jade, she immediately had someone sell the other valuables online. She scrambled to save money, intending to expand the space first.
Renting the warehouse was to save time. In the future, all the various things she ordered from manufacturers or bought online could be sent directly to the warehouse, and she could collect everything in one go when she had time.
Ordering a modified vehicle was to cope with travel during the future period of extreme heat.
During the extreme cold, everyone would be snowed in at home, limited to small-scale activities. But during the extreme heat that followed the floods and torrential rains, there would definitely be a need to go out.
As for the remaining survival supplies—rice, flour, grains, oil, vegetables, fruits, medicine, and survival gear—she planned to buy as much as possible abroad. Besides, there were many things, like various weapons, that simply couldn’t be bought domestically.
In the face of the apocalypse, she had suffered so much in her previous life mainly because her combat strength was insufficient. She had been a spoiled, willful, and ignorant rich girl who didn’t like to exercise, maintaining her figure solely through dieting. So after the apocalypse began, she couldn’t win fights. Finding supplies was hard, and protecting them was even harder.
If it weren’t for the fact that she later learned to kill, daring to fight and risk her life, which made others fear her and not provoke her unless it was a life-or-death situation, she would never have been able to buy the cure.
Therefore, this time, Ji Yang naturally had to use weapons to increase her own combat strength.
In addition to that, there was fuel—gasoline and diesel.
In the future, fuel would be exorbitantly expensive. Where could one buy large quantities of it? Abroad, of course.
So, for a long time to come, Ji Yang would be traveling extensively overseas.
Her mind now completely clear, she quickly washed her face and brushed her teeth. With a wave of her hand, a packaged, still-steaming breakfast appeared. Since she had a flight to catch, she couldn’t eat anything too greasy, so her breakfast was noodles with a fried egg.
It was also covered with green vegetables.
In her past life, she hadn’t eaten fresh vegetables for so long, relying entirely on various vitamin supplements for nutrition. On the second day after her rebirth, she had gone to a hotpot buffet for lunch, and eighty percent of what she took was vegetables. The fresh, tender greens, dipped in sauce, were so delicious that her soul felt like it was floating.
The waitress, however, thought she had been cheated on and kindly brought her two servings of the restaurant’s limited-edition cheese-baked spiny lobster.
Ji Yang was so moved she was on the verge of tears. One would never see a scene like this after the apocalypse.
After finishing her breakfast, she casually tossed the disposable container into a trash bin in her space. Having been hardened by the hardships of the apocalypse, she knew that even a used container shouldn’t be thrown away; it might be useful later. Anyway, time was frozen in the space, so it wouldn’t start to smell.
Ji Yang quickly selected a car from the garage and started it.
Half an hour later, the car pulled up directly at the airport. Ji Yang was greeted by the flight crew and boarded the plane immediately.
First stop, Myanmar.