End of the World Cycle

Zhang Mingfang's eyes widened as she looked at the list her daughter made.

"50 tons of rice? 50 tons of corn? 50 tons of wheat? So much? We can't buy it. We don't have a grain-related business license, so we can't buy so much grain. It's illegal."

"I know. Take this and go directly to the Grain and Oil Bureau." Xie Qin took out a grain and oil foreign trade transaction certificate from his backpack and handed it to Zhang Mingfang.

"Where did you get this?"

"It's fake, but this code is real. Just go and buy it. The Grain and Oil Bureau's office is in Linhai City. It has been flooded a long time ago. It will take at least a week for them to connect to the internal system for inspection. By then, no one will have the energy to come to us."

Xie Qin calculated the time and took advantage of the loophole. Zhang Mingfang went there without hesitation. As expected, everything went smoothly. The staff only registered the code and sold it directly to Zhang Mingfang. After paying the total of 60 yuan, truckloads of grain and oil began to be delivered to the port.

In two days, 150 tons of food filled up thirty giant containers. That night, Xie Qin directly loaded all the food into the space.

Xie Qin's current space system is at level three, and its size is comparable to that of a small city. Although it is empty, 150 tons of food seem small in the space.

This space can only be used for storage as a warehouse. Fortunately, time is prohibited in the space, and there is no need to worry about the food expiring. In the following time, the mother and daughter began to act separately. Zhang Mingfang was responsible for wandering around the major wholesale markets and driving a rented truck to collect fresh vegetables, fruits and meat. Every day, three trucks were transported to the container. Xie Qin only needed to go there every night to put these things in the space, which was convenient.

Xie Qin also found seven or eight farms and rented a warehouse of 50 square meters as a transfer station. He collected about 200 tons of poultry such as chickens, ducks, geese, fish, cattle, sheep, pigs, and rabbits. It cost about million yuan.

We collected 100 tons of vegetables, fruits, oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, and almost all the stores in the city were sold out. In the end, we stopped because we ran out of money. We spent another 200 million yuan on these things, and after paying for the rent, we only had about yuan left.

Five days had passed by then, and Xie Qin asked her mother to pick up her brother from the hospital, and told them to go home and not come out again. Xie Qin was wandering on the streets that were already flooded, looking for opportunities (zero-yuan shopping).

She needs so many things, including gasoline, generators, solar panels, various cars and boats. She has no money and can only find opportunities to buy them for free.

It was already July 22. It was raining heavily. Xie Qin was wearing a raincoat and holding an umbrella, looking up at the sky. The country hadn't taken any action. Could it be that all these emails had no effect at all? It was reasonable to say that the rain had been falling for 22 days. Were they not alert at all?

There were no pedestrians on the road, and many shopping malls were closed. Fortunately, the takeaways in this city were still running. After going to several fast food restaurants, Xie Qin ordered nearly a thousand boxed meals of various flavors, which cost nearly 20,000 yuan. After finding an opportunity to store them in the space, he thought it would be convenient to eat out in the future.

I found some restaurants that were still open and bought a lot of signature dishes for hundreds of dollars. I also bought all the snacks I could find. After a morning, I only had 150,000 yuan left in my pocket.

The car stopped at a diving club. Dongyue City didn't sell diving suits, so only this club could buy them. Diving suits were cheap at a few hundred yuan, ranging from 150 to 190 yuan. Xie Qin bought one each, but the equipment was a bit expensive, more than yuan per set. He bought five sets, and also bought oxygen cylinders and oxygen injection machines, spending more than yuan. He also found a store selling fishing gear and bought some better rafts and propellers, and nearly yuan was gone.

Thinking that he didn't need other things urgently, he decided to wait until no one was around to go shopping for free. However, quilts were something that couldn't be soaked in water, so he went directly to the local famous home textile market in the afternoon and went in despite the heavy rain. Fortunately, although there was water accumulation in the market, it did not affect the opening of the doors, so the inside was open. Xie Qin spent the remaining 100,000 yuan on home clothes, bed sheets, quilt covers, blankets, etc. He bought everything he liked without looking at the styles.

All the things were transported to the warehouse. After Xie Qin put them away, he found that the water had reached his calves. The rain was getting heavier. A dangerous atmosphere was coming from afar. Xie Qin stood on the side of the truck and saw the coastline from a distance. The sea seemed to have formed a wave and was heading towards the city.

The seawater began to flow back. Xie Qin rode his motorcycle back towards the building without hesitation.

The closer he got to the city center, the more Xie Qin realized something was wrong. There were more soldiers and police on the streets. Notices were being distributed door to door, and Xie Qin also received one. He couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief after reading it. The country has begun to take action. In a peaceful and prosperous era, the most powerful thing is the country. As long as they give advance warning, there will be no complete chaos.

Almost two-thirds of the people in the entire urban area need to relocate, all of whom live less than 50 meters from the coastline, and move north collectively. But Xie Qin saw that most people were resistant, but the people in charge of the power dispersion were prepared, and every household was given a housing voucher and 500,000 yuan in relocation fees, and most people followed suit.

Only a very small number of people stayed. After repeated broadcasts, everyone knew that the rain would last for nearly half a year. Of course, some people believed it and some did not. The staff would not try to persuade those who refused to leave no matter what.

Xie Qin didn't look at him any more and went straight back home. As soon as he got home, the smell of food wafted into the air. Xie Qin then realized that he had been busy buying food all day and he hadn't eaten a single bite.

"Qinqin, can you tell me when this apocalypse will be over?" Zhang Mingfang asked at the dinner table. At first, Zhang Mingfang was skeptical about what her daughter said because she thought she was smart. But today, when the country began to organize the army to evacuate the people, Zhang Mingfang finally believed it.

"It's not going to work, mom, don't worry, take good care of your brother, we will be safe."

After dinner, Xie Qin stood in front of the large French window in the apartment's living room and knocked on it with a little force. Finally, he nodded with satisfaction. Fortunately, the quality should be comparable to bulletproof glass.

I found a computer, connected it to the smart lock at the door, and spent nearly half an hour changing the password system of their room so that their house could not be opened by anyone else.

At around nine o'clock in the evening, the heavy rain outside blurred all vision. In the dim light, Xie Qin watched the lights in the distant areas dim one by one. The city had a power outage.

All night long, there were sirens outside, as well as the sounds of yachts and kayaks, transporting batches of people to evacuate. At three in the morning, there was a knock on Xie Qin's door. The person who came was the property manager of the building, who asked Xie Qin and his family whether they wanted to leave with the rescue team. If they did not leave, each person in the household would be given 200 kilograms of rice, 200 kilograms of meat, 200 kilograms of potatoes, and a portion of seasoning that would last for half a year. Xie Qin, of course, chose to stay.

The next morning, it seemed quiet outside. Xie Qin stood at the window and looked down at the building. The water had already flooded the second floor. The water level rose five meters overnight. Moreover, the rain was getting heavier. Many people who refused to move out yesterday began to regret it and went to the soldiers who were distributing supplies.

After distributing the supplies, Xie Qin looked at the trucks of supplies and the ships filled with people. After the last military ship disappeared from sight, Xie Qin knew that no one would come to this place anymore.

The water was not deep enough and it was not time for her to get out. Fortunately, the country was prepared and the signal tower base stations were still in operation. The properties with signals left formed a group. Xie Qin took her mother's mobile phone and looked at it. From the group, Xie Qin counted and found that there were 208 households living from the 16th floor upwards.

After counting the number of people, the entire building had 208 households and 512 people. This number was beyond Xie Qin's expectations. He thought there wouldn't be many people left. It seemed that he had underestimated the appeal of a good house.

Xie Qin began to search the structure of the building online. The third floor to the fifth floor were all parking lots. Floors 6 to 20 were white, three-bedroom apartments like hers, with four large elevators on each floor housing ten households. Floors 21 to 50 had the same elevator as hers, but now had five households on each floor. Floors 51 to 80 had a separate elevator on the north side of the building, with two households per elevator. Floors 81 to 88 were privately installed elevators inside the building, with one elevator for each household.

The three elevators were not interconnected, so only the people on floors 16 to 50 would have the opportunity to interact with Xie Qin in the future. The property management also left 542 people, who all lived in the vacant house on the th floor with their families. Together with the property management and their families, there were people in the entire building.

After getting a general understanding of the building, Xie Qin took a rest. When he woke up, it was already seven o'clock in the evening. Fortunately, he asked his mother not to wake him up, and he slept comfortably listening to the sound of rain. Xie Qin was a little groggy after working non-stop for several days. Zhang Mingfang, who was still standing in front of the window watching the rain with her son, saw Xie Qin got up and prepared to cook.

"Mom, I can't eat anymore. Wash some fruit."

"good ."

After that, Xie Qin replaced her mother who was washing fruits and stood beside Xie Ran. After a period of rehabilitation, Xie Ran could already stand on his own with the help of a brace. At that time, Xie Ran was only eight years old, and when he stood up, he was smaller than other children of the same age, about 1.3 meters tall.

He touched his brother's head, looked at himself and then at his mother, and sighed softly. It seemed that her family's genes were not very tall. Her mother was 1.55 meters tall, her father was 1.68 meters tall, and in her previous life, she was almost an adult but she didn't grow to 1.6 meters.

"Sister, I love rain so much."

"Huh? Why?"

"It's raining so hard outside, but we are in a warm house. I feel safe. My sister and my mother are here, and there's no bad guy. I like it very much."

"If you like it, watch more. As long as Ranran is happy, that's all."

"Qinqin, eat something." After a while, my mother came over with a fruit plate.

Fresh green grapes, grapefruits and two pieces of watermelon looked refreshing. Xie Qin ate some and felt that he had some appetite. His mother used the materials provided by the state to cook potatoes and chicken. After eating a small bowl of rice, Xie Qin felt refreshed.

"Qinqin, take out some cabbage. I'll use it to cook noodles tomorrow morning."

"Okay." Then Xie Qin found half a pound of Chinese cabbage in the space and gave it to her mother.

Since the power outage, Xie Qin put all the supplies into the space, and took whatever her mother wanted. Xie Qin only bought four inconspicuous solar panels and placed them in the sun room. During this period, there was no sunlight and no electricity, so she usually only used batteries to charge her mobile phone.

In my previous life, the Internet was cut off two months after the rainy season. With the intervention of the state in this life, I don’t know how long it will last. Fortunately, Guoming is quite cooperative. Compared with the news I saw before the Internet was cut off in my previous life, the current situation is much better. There was no spontaneous migration to the north, and the people in the south were reasonably resettled in temporary housing.

Compared to the death rate of nearly one-third of the 500 million people caused by the rainy season in the previous life, only more than 170,000 people whose identities can be verified died in the flood in this life. Fewer deaths prove that the number of zombies will also decrease at the beginning of the dry season.

Xie Qin searched the news every day and finally found the news from Yue County. The D2011 train was stranded in Yue County and many people on board were rescued. Xie Qin saw the figure of that woman on the news. Zhou Lili. She successfully made it to the resettlement site.

"Wait for me to come find you, Teacher Zhou." Xie Qin murmured while looking at the screen.

For nearly ten days, Xie Qin had been staying at home. The whole building was quiet, and every household lived their lives behind closed doors. Only occasionally someone in the group asked for a change of food or snacks. Everyone had enough food and drink, so nothing happened.

On the tenth day, I have to say that the view from the building is great. You can see very far. I looked down at the flood that had reached the seventh floor, and then looked up again, it was all ocean, with only a few tall buildings still exposed.

Xie Qin counted the things he needed, took out the kayak and propeller from the space, moved around a bit, and started preparing for the zero-dollar purchase!