Chapter 3: The End of the World
The next day, Yao Tao went to wholesale a truckload of snacks and fruits.
Various candied fruits, such as plums, preserved fruits, and various dried fruit candied fruits.
Various junk puffed foods, potato chips, shrimp crackers, squid rings, and popcorn.
Various dried fruits, including almonds, walnuts, hazelnuts, macadamia nuts, almonds, beans, and peas.
Dried meat, dried fish, dried meat, fish fillets, and shredded squid.
She also tried all kinds of instant drinks.
In addition to various bean powders, lotus root powders, milk powder, and sesame paste that can be used as breakfast, she also bought a lot of milk tea in disposable cups.
She hesitated for a moment as she passed the wine aisle and ordered a few cases of red and white wine.
She doesn't drink often, but holding a wine glass and standing on the top of the mutant tree to admire the apocalyptic scenery should be a good pastime.
So she went on to pick out various crystal goblets, as well as some uniquely shaped mugs, bowls and salad bowls.
Beautiful tableware will make you feel better when eating.
She ordered more than a dozen boxes of each kind of fruit, paid the deposit under the enthusiastic gazes of several bosses, and left the wholesale market.
Finally she went to a nearby hardware store.
She only bought a few things here.
A waterproof backpack, hard hat, fire shovel, fire pick, headlamp, waterproof tent, nail gun and several rolls of safety rope.
She has to prepare for the free shopping after the end of the world.
After the apocalypse began, it took people a long time to realize that they needed to stockpile supplies, and they were all looting food supplies. The products in the hardware wholesale city were not very competitive, so she planned to start from there.
The phone rang again.
It’s Zhu Hua.
Zhu Hua sent her many text messages and called her many times these days, but she didn't answer or reply.
She hadn't been living at home these days. Zhu Hua went to her house but found no one there. He then went to her workplace to look for her, but his boss told him that Yao Tao had taken a leave and hadn't come to work for some time.
Zhu Hua was a little confused.
Just because he didn't accompany her to the hospital to get medicine that day, she threw a tantrum at herself and disappeared?
At first he didn't take it seriously.
Girls, if they are angry, just comfort them.
But more than ten days passed and Yao Tao never replied to his text message.
Zhu Hua lost his patience.
If it weren't for the task given to him by his third uncle, asking him to be friends with Yao Tao, he would have looked down on women like Yao Tao.
Not only is her family financially poor, but she herself is also in poor health. She has had surgery and it is uncertain how many years she can live... He couldn't understand why his third uncle insisted on letting him and Yao Tao be together.
One time, he was really fed up with Yao Tao and complained to his third uncle. As a result, his third uncle scolded him and said that he could not do anything and could not even win over a woman.
This remark irritated Zhu Hua.
His third uncle holds an official position and has the final say in the family. Even his father listens to him.
His third uncle looked down on him, which made him feel very angry.
Isn't she just a woman?
Look at him getting her!
As a result...Yao Tao ignored him for more than ten days.
Zhu Hua dialed Yao Tao's number over and over again in frustration.
Yao Tao didn't block him, she just didn't answer.
Zhu Hua clicked on her circle of friends, but Yao Tao's circle of friends had not been updated for fifteen days, and even all the previous posts had been deleted.
Zhu Hua: ???
What's going on?
Cleared your Moments?
It was as if something had happened that he was unaware of.
Could it be that Yao Tao cheated on him?
This was his first thought.
Yes, that's definitely the case.
This bitch, I haven't even said I dislike you yet, and you dare to cheat on me... I'll kill you...
After get off work, he went to Yao Tao's house angrily.
They usually date outside. He looked down on Yao Tao's small 40-square-meter house and felt uncomfortable staying in the room.
He never entered her house, and even when he sent her home, he only walked her downstairs.
Yao Tao thought he was a true gentleman, but in fact he just disliked her house because it was small and shabby.
Zhu Hua knocked on the door for a long time but Yao Tao didn't open it.
"Yao Tao, are you home?" he shouted at the top of his voice outside the door.
After a while, the neighbor opened the door and glared at him fiercely, "Why are you knocking? The wall paint is falling into the rice cooker."
Zhu Hua quickly asked, "Excuse me... do you know Yao Tao is at home?"
"She hasn't been back for several days." The neighbor replied unhappily.
Zhu Hua stood at the door of Yao Tao's house in a daze, not knowing what to do.
A few days ago, his third uncle told him to "warm up" his relationship with Yao Tao in the near future, saying that it would be good for their family.
He seems to have messed up...
What to do? Uncle San will definitely scold him.
He was looking for Yao Tao everywhere like a headless fly, but he didn't know that Yao Tao was lying leisurely on the bed in the hotel, checking the supplies stored in her space.
"There are still five batches of supplies that have not arrived. We are still short of sanitary products and some dairy products." She made a mark on the small notebook she carried with her and muttered to herself.
In addition to milk powder and yogurt, she also ordered a lot of dairy products such as cheese and condensed milk.
She also bought some different kinds of chocolate, such as dark chocolate, nut chocolate, milk chocolate, chocolate sauce, etc.
How can a refined life be complete without sweet chocolate?
Yao Tao turned over in bed, supporting her chin with her hands and swinging her feet rhythmically.
She also bought some seasonings and sauces, but afterwards she always remembered that she was missing something.
There's nothing she can do about it, since she has so little money that she has to rely on buying for free in the future.
Half a month passed in a flash.
The day of the end of the world has finally arrived.
Yao Tao got up early, left the hotel and went out for a morning run, breathing the normal morning air filled with exhaust fumes and haze for the last time.
People in the city are busy running around as usual.
No one knew that on this day, the world would turn upside down.
Yao Tao drank a bowl of tofu pudding, ate a piece of red bean fried cake and a fried dough stick at a breakfast stall.
Today will be a busy day and she must eat some rich food.
After breakfast she checked out of the hotel and left with her waterproof backpack.
At 9:30 in the morning, she came to the hardware wholesale city again.
After observing the surrounding environment, she went to the platform on the roof of a building opposite.
Standing on the roof and looking down at the ground, Yao Tao stared at the time.
At 9:45, there was a sudden commotion downstairs.
Here we come!
Yao Tao calmly put on a mask, tied herself firmly to the railing of the platform with a safety rope, and put on a safety helmet on her head.
The plants in the green belt suddenly twitched, attracting many passers-by to watch.
"Look over there, what's moving?"
"snake?"
"Oh my god, that's scary."
"The roots over here are moving too."
"Don't get too close, there seems to be something in the soil..."
Just as people were talking about it, the plants in the green belt suddenly grew in size. The originally thin branches grew to the thickness of an adult's thigh in a few seconds.
"Ahhhhhh... Monster!"
“How did the plants survive?”
“Run!”
The plants in the green belts are growing rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye, and their thick roots extend out of the soil and reach around.
In order to stabilize the huge plant body, the roots also grew wildly and entangled around nearby buildings.
Some buildings were completely overturned by the huge force generated by the plants breaking through the ground, some were penetrated by the branches of the plants, and some were lifted off the foundation by the plants and held in the air like a small building made of building blocks.
The building where Yao Tao was located began to tilt.
Some windows of the building were broken, and various domestic plants began to mutate. Chlorophytum, cactus, asparagus fern... all joined the ranks of destroying the city.
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