On the Eve of Chapter 54
Lin Xi spent two years staying at home.
This period of time made her feel disconnected:
By day she's a small-time farmer tinkering with farming, and by night she's an online shop owner.
Because she started early and has a good eye for product selection, Lin Xi's online store is very popular on Xiaolvshu.
All of this is thanks to the time difference. She is a reborn person who knows what will be popular in the future, so she has a good grasp of product selection and marketing, and has made more than 10,000 yuan in profit for ten consecutive months.
Lin Xi's wallet is very full, with more savings than when she emptied her family's coffers and sold everything in her previous life.
But in reality, she was just a farmer.
They handle simple agricultural products while selling bright and beautiful clothing and accessories.
She's only twenty-five this year, the perfect age to love beauty and dressing up, and to have the financial means to fulfill her desires, but she knows no one will notice her dressing up.
She hasn't posted a single update on WeChat Moments in the past two years, and she rarely goes out.
Lin Xi could only recall how the outside world had developed by remembering her past life.
Even before the apocalypse arrived, she had already entered a state of seclusion.
Aside from the hard work of farming, this kind of life was generally comfortable for Lin Xi.
When she gets really bored, Lin Xi drives her car to Yunxiang city to go shopping, relax, and have a nice meal.
No one in the village bothered her anymore, and the onlookers got used to it after a while, and the area outside Lin Xi's house gradually quieted down.
Occasionally, curious children will travel from afar to set up drones and peek inside the "prison":
Inside the giant iron cage, behind a glass wall covered with privacy film, was just an ordinary two-story self-built house and a small field in front of it.
Sometimes you can see women wearing full sun protection gear working in the fields.
There was nothing unusual about the house, and there was no sign of any treasure.
He seems to be a patient suffering from "persecution complex" who is hiding in the countryside to recuperate.
During this "recuperation" period, Lin Xi learned many methods of planting crops, and improved upon the shortcomings by studying agricultural encyclopedias or observing farmers' planting methods.
She grows most of the vegetables that are suitable for the climate of Yunxiang.
An orange tree and a tangerine tree were transplanted into the yard. Lin Xi took good care of them according to the encyclopedia, and the two trees survived, but they showed no signs of bearing fruit.
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March 20, 2025, two months before the zombie outbreak.
Lin Xi started driving out at the same time every day.
—To stockpile supplies.
Her home is in the most remote part of the village, and she has to pass by most of the houses to go to town to pick up a package or buy something.
Bringing back truckloads of supplies just days before a zombie outbreak would attract too much attention.
Even though Lin Xi's family was an impregnable fortress, Lin Xi didn't want to hoard supplies so openly.
The most unpredictable thing in the apocalypse is the human heart. Human wisdom is boundless, and someone might just find a loophole in Lin Xi's house and break in.
A common man is innocent, but possessing a treasure is a crime.
Avoiding being targeted by others can mitigate certain risks.
So she leaves home around eight o'clock every morning and returns around five o'clock in the afternoon with a truckload of supplies.
The villagers who came and went still paid close attention to her, pointing and whispering whenever they saw her car drive away.
"Is the orphan from Lin Lao Er's family out working every day, leaving early and returning late?"
"It feels like I leave home at this time every day."
"Wow! Her mental illness is cured? That paranoia?"
"Who knows? She acts like everyone's after her house."
"That's right. Her house is in such a bad location. It was only because Lin Lao Er's mother didn't like that her second son had a daughter that she gave him such a dilapidated house."
“Her uncle isn’t really after this house; the houses in Nanhua are the real value.”
"By the way, why doesn't she go back to Nanhua?"
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Ignoring the gossip, Lin Xi focused on stockpiling supplies.
Toilet paper, sanitary napkins, face towels, shower gel, shampoo, and other daily necessities are all purchased online in bulk and shipped to various nearby courier stations.
Lin Xi drives her beat-up car back in batches every day, gradually filling the storage cabinets in the bathroom, and placing the ones that don't fit on the shelves in the storage room.
Because she was faking her work schedule, leaving early and returning late every day, she could only stay outside during the day.
Just in time for a pre-apocalyptic celebration—
Anyway, she made a lot of money from her online store. Every morning she would pick up express deliveries and order supplies, have a nice meal at a favorite restaurant at noon, and spend her afternoons either watching movies, shopping, or singing. If she got too tired, she would rent a room for a few hours to rest.
At five o'clock, I drove home with a truckload of supplies.
Her car is a compact sedan, and even when it's fully packed, it can't hold much.
Frequent small-volume shipments are inefficient; it took a week to ship just daily necessities.
Lin Xi paid extra to have a logistics company secretly deliver 50 bottles of purified water in the early morning.
She has a water purification system, but she's still afraid of accidents.
Fifty barrels of purified water were too many and too heavy for her to carry herself, so she had to ask a logistics company to deliver them late at night.
Next, 30 bags of rice, 10 bags of flour, 8 years' worth of oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar, various condiments, and all kinds of spare kitchen utensils were successively delivered.
Then there are various crop seeds, fertilizers, and farm tools.
These items all need to be sealed and kept dry. Lin Xi put sealed bags over the snakeskin bags and stacked them one by one in the storage room on the first floor for easy access.
When the evacuation was completed, there was only one month left before the zombie outbreak.
Lin Xi gradually stockpiled various instant foods, snacks, and medicines.
Because of the busy work of stocking up on goods, Lin Xi's online store business fell behind.
After fulfilling the accumulated orders, Lin Xi removed all products from her online store and replaced them with various cost-effective food items.
These foods are mostly fast food products, candies, chocolates, compressed biscuits, and other items to replenish energy.
She didn't post the news of the impending apocalypse online, and not only did no one believe her, but her account, which had hundreds of thousands of active followers, might also be banned for spreading rumors.
I just hope that some lucky people will understand and buy some to stock up at home, in case the apocalypse happens.
How one survives after that is up to fate.
After the online store suddenly removed all trendy clothing and accessories and replaced them with food links, Lin Xi received many private messages:
"Has the account been sold to someone else?"
"My account was hacked?"
At the same time, I lost a lot of followers.
Lin Xi had no time to worry about that. The food links she posted were priced very low, and after deducting the platform's fees, she barely made any money herself; it was purely for charity.
I have a clear conscience.
Lin Xi still goes out during the day to enjoy herself, transports supplies home in the evening, and regularly sends out online store orders at night.
However, there are far fewer orders than before, and they can be shipped out in a short time.
With only three days left before the zombie outbreak, Lin Xi drove to the nearest Heim supermarket to Yunxiang every day to stock up on high-quality fresh produce.
They mainly stock up on various kinds of meat.
Lin Xi's small cold storage can hold about three years' worth of frozen meat.
Lin Xi has a small house by the river in her backyard specifically for raising fish. She draws water from the river, purifies it, and then introduces the fish into the house. The survival rate is quite good.
She had thought about raising chickens in the yard, where the chickens would lay eggs, the eggs would hatch into more chickens, and there would be a continuous supply of meat in the apocalypse.
However, considering that the crowing of roosters would attract zombies and people, and the consequences would outweigh the benefits, it was not implemented.
In any case, fresh protein can be obtained from fish.
In addition, I stocked up on 6 boxes of high-quality apples, which can be stored in the cold storage for at least 6 months.
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