Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
“Hi!”
The agent was a young man with short hair. He bent down and waved at Su Su who was in the car. When Su Su paid the taxi driver, the agent started to introduce the place to Su Su enthusiastically.
“The people that living in this area are all rich people. Miss Su, you’ve made an excellent choice to rent a house here. Whether it’s a place for your parents to visit or for you to live on your own in the future, this house is a good choice. The environment here is elegant and the scenery is beautiful… Blah, blah, blah, blah.”
Judging from the intention of the agent, the agent hoped that Su Su would rent the house for a longer period of time. She did not answer the agent and paid the rest of the money to the agent after she withdrew money from the ATM beside the main entrance of the villa area. The two of them signed the contract on the spot and did not need the agent to bring her around. After Su Su took the key and the access card, she entered the villa area on her own.
Since this place was for the rich people to live, RMB 5,000 for a month was considered cheap. The security measures at the main entrance were quite good. It was a orange steel door. If the owner drove in, the steel door would open from left to right. If anybody walked in like Su Su and swiped the access card, a small door that only allowed one person to enter would open on the steel door.
At least at the beginning of the chaotic era, with such a large door and protection, it would not be very messy in here.
She walked around the villa area for a long time because she was not familiar with the route. Su Su walked for about two to three hours before she found the villa she rented. She stood outside and looked at the surrounding for a while, the appearance was exactly the same as the picture posted on the agency’s website. The interior was also well-decorated. It was spacious and bright. The windows were bright and clean too.
She then check out the whole villa that she rented. She felt that the owner did not live there before after he bought it. There were only a few bed frames upstairs, and the bed frame looked quite expensive. There was not even a single quilt or blanket there. It was the same in the kitchen, there were cooking utensils, but not a single grain of rice could be found there. The three refrigerators were all new as well. When she opened the refrigerator, it still had the smell of plastic.
Su Su frowned and rubbed her empty stomach. She looked at her flat stomach and said, “I’m sorry, dear. I made you hungry. I’m so happy that I forgot to eat.”
When the plague came, it was disastrous, and humans had turned into zombies. In that hopeless world, some humans mutated as well. During the apocalypse, these mutated humans were called superhuman.
Superhuman were divided into five elements: metal, wood, water, fire, and earth. Those were the basic element mutations. Some people would have a second mutation on these basic elements, but no matter how they mutated, these superhuman were divided into three major categories. It was just like the magic attack, physical attack, and healing jobs appeared in the game.
Each of them had their own strengths. The physiques of water and fire users might not be as tough and durable as those of other users. However, they were still much stronger than ordinary people. For a water user like Su Su, it did not matter if she starved herself for a few days. She would still be alive and kicking after starving for a few days.
However, she had forgotten that she was still an ordinary person now. Her power might be awakening later, but it was far from her best like 12 years later. She walked around the kitchen, but she could not find anything to eat. Her knees felt weak, and she almost knelt on the ground.
In the huge kitchen, the yellow tiles had complicated patterns. The sunlight outside the window was blocked by something. A green shadow swayed with the wind, as if it was waving at Su Su.
She tilted her head and saw a grapefruit tree outside the window. In November’s weather, the fruits were already huge. It was yellow, and it looked like balls, hanging between the branches and leaves. Clearly, it was luring Su Su to pluck them.
Su Su did not think twice. She rolled up her sleeves, lifted her skirt a little. She climbed up the tree with a fruit knife in her mouth. If this was before the apocalypse in her previous life, Su Su would never have dared to do so. However, she climbed up the tree with ease. After climbing up the tree, she picked a grapefruit and ate it on the spot. She did not care whether it was sour or not, she just ate it. She even picked another one after she finished!
She sat on the tree and ate four grapefruits. Each grapefruit was as big as a small ball. After eating until her stomach was bloated, Su Su jumped down from the tree and ran back to the living room. She then lay on the soft and comfortable leather sofa and fell asleep.
When she woke up, the sky was already dark. Su Su sat up straight and touched her forehead. Great, she had a fever!
A fever was a sign that her power was awakening. Of course, it was also a sign that some people might become zombies. It was already November, so there should be many people who had the same symptoms as Su Su. This fever would come and go, the fever lasted for a few days and stopped for a few days. The fever would spread, and finally, it turned into a pandemic. Then, it would completely turn into a plague.
Su Su felt cold. She took out a white jacket and a pair of jeans from her backpack to change into. Then, she looked at her phone. Her phone was set to silent mode. When she was asleep, her parents had called her several times, so Su Su called back. However, no one picked up. She called her house phone again, but no one picked up either. They were probably already on their way to Xiang City.
It was good that they started their journey. Su Su nodded. Then, she took her bank card and access card as she went out to get some supplies. She had eaten so many grapefruits just now, and her stomach was bloated. Hence, it was no problem for her to walk for two or three hours.
She really had a walk for two hours and walked out of the Apple Villa area. Su Su used an app to call for a car. She wanted to go to a nearby market before 8:00 p.m. because it was already night time, so most of the vegetable and meat sellers had closed their stalls. There were also a few stores that sold grain, oil, and dried goods that were open, but they were also planning to close after cleaning up.
“Mister, please give me RMB 30,000 of rice!”
Su Su walked into a rice store and asked to buy RMB 30,000 of rice. The owner of the rice store was a chubby uncle in his forties. He had a cigarette in his mouth and a big gold ring on his finger. He raised his eyes and glanced at Su Su as he laughed disdainfully.
“Hey, do you know that’s a lot of rice?”
As he spoke, the owner took out a big white sack with one hand and put it beside Su Su. He held the cigarette between his fingers and pointed at the sack on the ground. “This is 50 catties of rice. It’s RMB 3 per catty. You want RMB 30,000 of rice, right? Are you sure?”
Su Su lowered her head in embarrassment. Before the apocalypse, she was a lady that had never did any chores. After the apocalypse, the prices of those goods had skyrocketed. Thus, it was incomparable to the current prices, she thought that RMB 30,000 of rice was only enough for them to eat for a month. She did not expect that in this era, rice was only RMB 3 per catty.
RMB 2,000 of rice was enough for a family of four to eat for a year!