Chapter 4: Shopping Spree Begins

The entire space felt like a secluded paradise, an ethereal and otherworldly atmosphere. Just as Mu Qingyu was about to explore it, she was startled awake by a voice.

"Miss, we've arrived at Muxiang Garden," the taxi driver announced as he stopped the car. In his mind, the passenger in the back seat was simply asleep, leaning back in her chair.

Mu Qingyu then realized that she was still in the taxi. Looking out the window, her logistics park, "Mu Xiangyuan," was already very close.

With the relevant paperwork in hand, Mu Qingyu quickly met with Lü Peng, the current manager of Mu Xiangyuan. The passing of Old Master Mu was no secret, and the employees here knew that the boss was changing.

"Miss Mu is planning to close the logistics park business?" Lu Peng was quite surprised after hearing Mu Qingyu's request. He had considered that the new boss might lay off employees, but he hadn't expected the new boss to seem to be planning to start anew. What would happen to the more than thirty employees in the park?!

“Ms. Mu, you may not be familiar with the logistics park’s situation. Our park has always been consistently profitable. You can take a look at the financial report. I hope you…” Lu Peng intended to make a last-ditch effort to salvage the situation.

“Manager Lü, you’ve misunderstood.” Mu Qingyu gently waved her hand to politely interrupt him: “I don’t want to close the logistics park. I have another sum of money to open the supermarket. I just need to use the logistics park to handle some procedures. I know the logistics park is profitable, otherwise Grandpa wouldn’t have kept it.”

What do you mean by opening a supermarket?! It's just an excuse! Mu Qingyu needs to leverage the advantages of the logistics park to stockpile goods on a large scale; she needs to prepare for the apocalypse a month from now!

Lu Peng was a sensible man and had no intention of intimidating his new boss. After learning that Mu Qingyu had no intention of closing the logistics park, he began to diligently carry out Mu Qingyu's instructions.

The logistics park covers eight hectares and is located on the banks of a canal in the northern suburbs of City A. The entire Muxiangyuan complex has about one hundred warehouses of varying sizes. The warehousing business primarily focuses on long-term storage, so the number of vehicles and goods coming and going each day is not very high. Furthermore, it's impossible for the warehouses to be fully occupied at all times.

Mu Qingyu was now alone in a huge warehouse. She had Lü Peng move several empty warehouses to store goods for her "supermarket". Afterwards, she sent Lü Peng away under the pretext of a visit.

She was still preoccupied with the dreamlike scene she had witnessed in the taxi. Strangely, after she got out of the car, the pair of blood-red jade bracelets on her wrists vanished, replaced by a bright red cinnabar birthmark that had inexplicably appeared on her wrist.

The appearance of that space in her mind triggered some memories of her past life.

The reason Mu Qingyu did not choose the property worth more than 300 million was because she knew that the property could not be sold in the short term, and if she insisted on the house, she would be entangled by Mu Xiangnan and Mu Xiangbei's various despicable means.

She's rootless and adrift here, and they'll keep her from doing anything else. Mu Xiangnan sold houses in his past life.

In her past life, Mu Qingyu couldn't withstand the psychological manipulation of the Mu family and transferred the property to Mu Xiangnan and Ou Mingxin. Although the conflict shifted to Mu Xiangnan and Mu Xiangbei, Mu Qingyu left with nothing and moved back into the cramped and dilapidated rented room.

Later, the conflict between the two Mu brothers escalated, and Mu Xiangnan also attempted to sell the house to cash out and leave, or mortgage it to a bank for a loan. However, such a large transaction was not a simple matter to begin with, and with Mu Xiangbei's repeated obstruction, the Mu family's ancestral home was never successfully cashed out before the apocalypse broke out.

The one who triggered Mu Qingyu's memories now is Mu Xiaoxiao. In her previous life, Mu Xiaoxiao was a space ability user, and one of the earliest ability users.

She seemed to have started hoarding supplies using her spatial abilities quite early on. Therefore, after the apocalypse, Mu Xiaoxiao had no worries about food or clothing, with Mu Xiangnan and Ou Mingxin taking care of her like nannies. And Huo Siyu, her ultimate simp, was also incredibly attentive to her.

Mu Xiaoxiao even used her resources to build an elite team of more than ten people.

Mu Xiaoxiao lived a very comfortable life after the apocalypse.

Mu Qingyu, on the other hand, became a complete contrast to Mu Xiaoxiao, struggling to survive in the apocalypse...

Spatial ability? Did Mu Xiaoxiao really possess spatial ability so early on? Mu Qingyu thought of the blood jade bracelet she hadn't retrieved in her previous life and her cousin Mu Qingrong, who had been tormented by Mu Xiaoxiao ever since the apocalypse.

Who hasn't read a few novels yet?

Mu Qingyu has now deliberately sought out a private space. She wants to test whether the otherworldly place she saw from the car is just a figment of her dream or something that actually exists.

Look, isn't that cinnabar mole the key to our breakthrough?

Mu Qingyu began to concentrate her mental energy on the cinnabar mole. In less than half an hour, her mind became dazed again, and she saw that outer space once more!

The view before me is exactly the same as what I saw before!

After confirming the existence of the space and the method of entering it, Mu Qingyu conducted another experiment. She began to use her mind to transfer some visible objects into the space.

It's inside! Completely intact!

At this moment, Mu Qingyu was certain that Mu had no spatial abilities in her previous life; she had obtained the space of this Blood Jade Bracelet!

With the space available, some of the problems that had been troubling Mu Qingyu were immediately solved!

Therefore, Mu Qingyu changed her plans and decided to head to the large trading market in the south of the city immediately.

Standing before the gates of the "South City Goods Trading Center," Mu Qingyu felt a pang of regret. This place and Mu Xiangyuan were too far apart, one in the southern suburbs and the other in the northern suburbs. Otherwise, after the apocalypse, this would have been a perfect harvesting ground.

Without lingering, Mu Qingyu headed straight for the grain area. Rice was the primary element for solving the problem of food and clothing!

She currently carries a bank card with ten million yuan in cash, and another hundred thousand yuan is pocket money given to her by Grandpa Mu over the past few months, which she hasn't spent. But that's okay, she's here to place an order, so she can pay in cash first and then pay the balance after the goods arrive. This way, she can delay the payment for a few days so that she can have more funds to manage later.

Mu Qingyu had the warehouse usage permits for Mu Xiangyuan, so when Mu Qingyu approached the largest grain and oil merchant in the area, the merchant quickly believed Mu Qingyu's claim that he wanted to open a large supermarket.

From the very first grain and oil merchant, Mu Qingyu ordered 100 tons of rice, 50 tons of flour, and 1,000 barrels of cooking oil. Mu Qingyu didn't ask for the best; she only wanted safe and cost-effective options.

The wholesale price of one ton of rice is 2,500 yuan, so one hundred tons of rice would cost 250,000 yuan. The wholesale price of one ton of flour is 3,300 yuan, so fifty tons of flour would cost 165,000 yuan. The wholesale price of one barrel of cooking oil is 43 yuan, so one thousand barrels would cost 43,000 yuan. The initial estimated cost for the first stop was 458,000 yuan, but the grain and oil shop owner readily bargained down the price, and the final transaction was for 455,000 yuan.

Mu Qingyu paid a deposit of 100,000 yuan. The two parties signed a simple agreement, and the balance would be settled after the other party delivered all the goods to Mu Xiangyuan's warehouse.