Apocalypse: After Being Reborn, I Stocked Up on All Supplies

Chapter 68: Chapter 68 The True Arrival of the Apocalypse

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After luxuriating in a lavish red wine bath and resting on the couch for a while, Jiang Yan thought about what to do next when she heard a “beep-beep—beep-beep-beep!” the two short and three long alarm sounds from the monitor.

If she remembered correctly, this should have been the warning tone indicating the portable energy cabinet in the safe house was running low on power.

She promptly took off her bathrobe, changed into a set of lightweight sportswear, and then exited from “Space.”

As soon as she returned to the living room, she felt the temperature outside was much colder than before she had entered “Space.”

This cold wasn’t just due to the temperature difference between “Space” and the safe house.

Most likely, there had been another drop in the outside temperature.

She walked over to the wall and glanced at the thermometer.

Sure enough, the outside temperature had now dropped to 12 degrees, and indoors, it was only 20 degrees.

Generally, the indoor and outdoor temperature difference was about 5 degrees.

However, because her room used insulating materials, the difference was even greater.

With this rate of temperature drop, likely, once the rainstorm ended, everyone would face the most severe problem of extreme cold.

According to her not so accurate memory from her last life, prior to the extreme cold, there would be a major earthquake and a widespread plague of mutant bugs.

Jiang Yan suddenly felt that the natural disasters in this lifetime were more severe than in the last.

First, there was the sudden extreme heat, followed closely by heavy rain.

Before people could react, the rain had flooded their doorsteps.

At the onset of the disaster, most people harbored some luck, thinking they might be spared.

It was this mentality that caused people to miss the best opportunity for self-rescue during an unsuspecting wait.

Of course, some with a keen sense of crisis had prepared, but they were in the minority.

Moreover, logically speaking, during the previous high temperatures, many reservoirs, rivers, and underground rivers had dried up.

The initial rains would likely have been absorbed.

But they were not.

This only meant that the rainfall was too vast, far exceeding the natural absorption capacity of these channels.

Many people’s food supplies at home would have run out long ago.

If the rain had been lighter and the water levels had risen more slowly, they could have gone out and scrounged for supplies at zero cost.

Even if those supplies had spoiled during the previous high heat, they could have served to stave off hunger for a while.

But now, continuous torrents of rain and thunder had trapped everyone inside their homes.

Any hope and means of searching for supplies were completely cut off.

Even if some families had rubber boats and dared to venture out in the rain, the supplies were already submerged deep under the water.

Without navigation and positioning, everything was a vast ocean.

Finding anything was questionable.

Without professional equipment and sufficient manpower, retrieval would be very difficult.

Of course, some people would attempt to reach high-rise office buildings.

But how much supplies could they scavenge?

Especially since even the most powerful authorities had suddenly disappeared without a trace…

All signs indicated that none of this was a good omen.

Jiang Yan’s brow furrowed slightly as she walked straight to the master bedroom.

From here, she could see the central garden of the Shallow Bay District and other buildings, as well as the rising water level.

But today’s rain was so dense that it almost completely obscured the view, forcing her to take out the high-powered telescope.

She had not checked in a while, and now the water level had already risen to the 12th floor.

The building across the darkness was deathly still.

She could faintly see sparse figures moving upward.

Of course, occasionally, some figures appeared “forcefully jumping” from the windows.

These figures seemed to have alive and dead among them.

The drama of survival of the fittest was not only happening in building A, but also in other buildings and districts.

After watching for a while, Jiang Yan put down the telescope and calculated the time.

If compared to her last life, the rainstorm would likely reduce somewhat when it reached the 16th floor, in about two or three days.

By that time, the rain would still be falling, but sparser and might even pause for three to four hours.

When exactly it would stop, she did not know.

This period would last only three to four days.

These three to four days would be the only window of opportunity for everyone to find supplies and survive.

After that, the likelihood of people going out and surviving dropped almost to zero.

Four days later, a heavier rainstorm would come again.

The water levels would start to rise crazily and flood most parts of the city.

Anming’s geographical environment was unique, surrounded by mountains and resembling a basin in the center.

It was very likely that the floodwaters rushing from all directions on the mountains would inundate the city.

And most people would either starve, drown, be washed away by the flood, or lose their lives in the survival of the fittest during this super rainstorm.

That would mark the real onset of the apocalypse.

From that moment, those who still harbored a sliver of hope inside would completely plunge into endless despair.

The subsequent earthquakes and mutant bug disasters would claim more lives.

Then, with the coming extreme cold, all things would be entrapped in ice, and human wickedness would be fully unleashed.

In her last life, it was during this extreme cold that she became a meal for Song Deming and his mistress’s family.

As Jiang Yan recalled these events, her mood unconsciously turned heavy.

Returning to the living room, she glanced out the floor-to-ceiling window.

The shopping center she had visited earlier had been a vast ocean a few days ago.

The high-rise apartment built next to it, though not as tall as Shallow Bay Building A, was still half visible above the water.

The old district she had flown over in her flight suit had long since disappeared under the rooftops.

The entire city, as far as the eye could see, was pitch dark.

Only during the flashes of lightning could one catch a glimpse of a few isolated high-rise buildings standing alone in the rain.

“Beep-beep—beep-beep-beep!”

The portable energy cabinet’s secondary alarm pulled Jiang Yan’s thoughts back from her heavy memories.

In her safe house, other than the master bedroom, pillars, and load-bearing walls, she had asked the renovation company to connect the remaining areas with the living room, so the energy cabinet was placed right next to a pillar in the corner of the living room.

Jiang Yan walked over, turned off the main switch, then placed her hand on the portable energy cabinet, thought “retrieve,” and stored the energy cabinet into “Space.” @@novelbin@@

The top of the Space Apple Cabin was equipped with photovoltaic panels for recharging.

With another thought, she took out a fully charged portable energy cabinet.

She turned on the switch, and the safe house was powered up again.

However, she did not immediately return to “Space.”

As the monitors and intrusion detection systems reconnected to the power, they required a reboot process.

She planned to wait until these devices restarted and confirm everything was functioning normally before entering “Space.”

“Beep!”

Soon, all the devices and screens had resumed normal operation.