AWB Chapter 4 Stocking up
Chapter 4 Stocking up
Miao Yin spent the entire afternoon searching, making sure she had all the food she needed before leaving.
The Leng family's house burned down, and the small manor was still under renovation. She found a nice hotel nearby, slept there for one night, and woke up naturally the next day. She left Bai Niangzi at the hotel, left some food there, and then went to the warehouse.
The bosses are very dedicated to handling large orders, and they will never delay delivery if they can deliver it as soon as possible. Goods ordered yesterday are already almost filling the warehouse today.
Miao Yin looked at the full granary and touched it with one hand. Wherever she touched, all the items disappeared automatically.
This is one of the manifestations of her supernatural ability.
The first disaster of the apocalypse came from mutated zombies of their own kind.
Some humans suddenly undergo strange mutations, such as growing long arms and legs, having more eyes, or fusing with objects or small animals to form new species.
Their appearance is distorted and terrifying; they have an extreme craving for flesh and blood and are extremely aggressive.
Countless people died under their fangs, devoured clean, bones and marrow.
At the same time, people with superpowers appeared. Some of them could breathe fire, and some could manipulate sand. This group of people was different from ordinary people who were unarmed. They quickly became the backbone of the common people.
Miao Yin belongs to this category of people.
The government categorized supernatural abilities into three types.
The first category is the nature type, which refers to the ability to control elements such as metal, wood, water, fire, and earth. This is also the most common type of ability user.
The second category is the special type, which includes abilities other than those of the natural type, such as having spatial abilities or the ability to heal wounds.
The third type, composite superpowers, is the rarest and the type of superpower most valued by the government.
The term "composite type" refers to a single superpower that appears to be a single superpower, but its outward manifestation presents multiple different superpower effects.
Each superpower has its own name. Just like Tu Hao, whose superpower was called "Crying Wolf," it could greatly enhance the user's physical abilities, making him as aggressive as a wolf and able to foresee danger.
However, it also exhibits a mental deterrent capability.
Therefore, the Crying Wolf, which should have belonged to a special type, was instead identified as a composite type of superpower.
The same applies to Miao Yin's special ability.
That year, she was kicked out of the Leng family home and suddenly awakened under the oppression of a giant zombie.
Her awakened superpower is called Blood Guanyin.
The Blood Guanyin appears to be a curse-like superpower, but it actually manifests in several forms.
The first one is the Guanyin Eighty-Eight Temples, a portable space where you can see eighty-eight Guanyin temples, with endless stretches of withered grass between them.
Miao Yin couldn't calculate the exact size of the space, but it was boundless and could hold a large number of items. Moreover, time stood still inside.
Unfortunately, it can only hold inanimate objects; living things cannot enter. However, as the owner, she can freely enter and exit the space and is not subject to the control of internal time.
The second one is the Spell of Seeing. When used on a living being, it will create a small red tattoo of a withered willow branch, which will then fade and disappear. It can be applied directly as long as the two parties are within three meters of each other.
This is a mark unique to Miao Yin. With this mark, she can remotely control and bring blood curses to people. With just a thought, the black and red soul fire can devour the host body.
This has always been her source of pleasure when tormenting people.
In her past life, Miao Yin used this ability to control 120 talented individuals, making them follow her and form a survival team, which included Tu Hao.
These 120 people are all outstanding, with useful superpowers suitable for survival. They are capable in both formal and informal settings, and can be ordered around as they please. If they disobey, just burn them with a spell, and they will behave again.
Unfortunately, she was locked up in the Leng family for too long. As soon as she got out, she went crazy and only cared about her body, not her brain. She made a wrong move and lost her life.
The third is the molten fire, a blackish-red liquid flame like magma, which can burn everything and is extremely corrosive.
In her past life, Miao Yin concealed the fact that she possessed a combination of superpowers in order to hide her true abilities. In front of outsiders, she only showed Mi Huo. Even if there were people who knew the truth, they could not speak because of the curse.
Therefore, most people in the previous life believed that the Ghost Guanyin belonged to the natural type and was designated by the government as the most powerful fire-type ability user.
Fourth, the Ghost Body. It can make the owner's physical fitness stronger and stronger, enhance the five senses, increase speed, and gradually become immune to various toxins as the level of supernatural ability increases, until she is immune to all poisons. Her excessive physical fitness can even make her resist many other supernatural effects.
But correspondingly, her skin will become pale, her eyes will become dark, and her lips and nails will become bright red, like a vengeful ghost. Even a normal person's metabolism will gradually weaken, and she will gradually become inhuman.
Depending on their strength, individuals with special abilities are divided into six levels: S, A, B, C, D, and E.
After being reborn, Miao Yin had her body checked.
Her superpower returned, but its strength was far less than before, dropping from S-rank to D-rank.
For example, the Mi Huo that could burn hundreds of deformed people to death in her previous life can now only burn a few courtyards. She has to set fires everywhere, and the effect is short-lived. Excessive consumption of fire will cause her to faint.
The subtle changes brought about by the ghost body are a long-term process, which is why her body is still weak.
Miao Yin packed up all the grain in the warehouse and went out to buy more once again.
With food secured, the next step is daily necessities.
She ate a bowl of wontons on the way and then walked into the daily necessities wholesale market.
She looked at the tissues on the shelf.
In the apocalypse, people's quality of life plummeted, and even getting enough to eat became a problem, let alone precious things like paper.
She bought a thousand boxes of tissues, hundreds of boxes of wet wipes, towels, and essential sanitary napkins for women, as well as various shampoo sets, shower gel, soap, combs, hair ties, pillows, blankets, mattresses, toothbrushes, toothpaste, laundry detergent, and other daily necessities.
Sunscreen, sunblock lotion, facial cleanser, lotion, and medical masks were all purchased by the box.
The wholesale market was huge, and in addition to everyday items, Miao Yin also found several shops selling extreme sports equipment.
As soon as she went in, she bought a hundred sets of cold-weather and heat-resistant clothing, including down jackets, cotton hats, icebreakers for survival, cotton boots, hoes, survival toolboxes, diving equipment, ropes, knives, batteries, compasses, sleeping bags, umbrellas, backpacks...
While the disasters caused by the mutated organisms killed many people, it was actually the later Ice Age and high temperatures that caused the massacre of humanity.
If you can hide from or resist mutated creatures, and have a chance to survive as long as you dare to fight, then no one in the world can avoid the minus eighty degree Celsius. All life facing such an equal disaster can only endure it, and if it cannot endure it, it will become one of the many ice sculptures.
Of course, most of them survived, but they just managed to live for a few more months.
As usual, Miao Yin paid the money and left the warehouse address.
She still needs to check on the medicine.
In the apocalypse, even a small anti-inflammatory drug can be a lifesaver.
Wholesale pharmaceuticals are not a simple matter; they require many licenses, especially for certain types of drugs such as saline solutions and antibiotics.
Ordinary medicines are fine; the Leng family has its own pharmaceutical industry, with some responsible for production and others for transportation. With a little manipulation, she can get her hands on them all.
However, her current identity is being closely watched, so this matter cannot be resolved so quickly and must be addressed step by step.
Several merchants had previously terminated their contracts with the Leng family and signed with other companies, but the drugs that the factory produced and purchased for them were still in use, and Miao Yin did not change the production quota. The extra goods are now stored in the warehouse.
If we stock up a little bit every day, we can move them all into the Guanyin Eighty-Eight Temples in one go.
As for those precious medicines and medical equipment that can only be prescribed in hospitals, we'll have to find another way.
After finishing all that, it was already dark. Miao Yin took a taxi and returned to the hotel, looking travel-worn.
In the bathroom, after washing her face, her pale face, still wet with water droplets, was reflected in the mirror.
The exhaustion of the past few days had finally taken its toll on her body, leaving her dizzy and her hands and feet trembling.
but it does not matter.
Miao Yin leaned closer to the mirror, her expression calm and icy.
Over the past few days, under the transformation of the ghost body, the color of her eyes has become increasingly dark; the original light brown, like glass, has now turned into a dark brown.
Soon, it will turn into a ghostly deep black that is invisible even to the pupils.
When that time comes, she will have the strength to hunt her chosen prey.