You say the cataclysm only comes after you've cleared the entire dungeon?

Seeing her parents through the screen, Lou Fengyue's eyes reddened again.

His mouth was stuffed full, but tears were streaming down his face.

"Dad, Mom..." she sniffed, her words muffled, "I miss you..."

Pan Quan sobbed uncontrollably. Lou Qingjian put his arm around his wife's shoulder, and the man in his fifties said with tears in his eyes, "It's good that you're back. Your mother and I will book tickets right away and come to be with you."

Lou Fengyue swallowed the food in her mouth, but could no longer taste it.

She shook her head and said, "Mom and Dad, could you move in with me? I'll have my brother come back tomorrow to pick you up and bring all your things. I have a room here."

Having finally found their daughter, Lou Qingjian and Pan Quan naturally complied with her every request, nodding without hesitation.

"Okay, Mom and Dad will pack our bags now and move over tomorrow." Pan Quan looked at her daughter's thin figure with heartache, "My dear daughter, how much suffering you must have endured..."

Lou Qingjian sighed softly and patted his wife's shoulder. "Alright. Yueyue, you eat first. Your mother and I will go pack our luggage."

"Mm." Lou Fengyue nodded and looked up at her brother.

Lou Yunzheng turned the camera back, "Dad, Mom, bring all your valuables. You can buy the rest when you come over. I'll drive back to pick you up first thing tomorrow morning."

After exchanging a few words, Lou Yunzheng hung up the phone.

Looking at his sister with her mouth full of oil, Lou Yunzheng felt both sorry for her and doting on her. He took a tissue and wiped the red oil from the corner of her lips.

"Yueyue, how about your brother comes and stay with you for a few days?"

Lou Fengyue's eyes lit up almost imperceptibly.

Is there really such a good thing? It saves her the trouble of coming up with an excuse.

She nodded eagerly, "Sure. Brother, why don't you stay a few more days? Buy some extra groceries at the rented place so Xiaoshuang won't go hungry."

Shen Xiaoshuang is Lou Yunzheng's girlfriend.

Lou Fengyue had met this future sister-in-law before; she was quite pretty, but she really couldn't bring herself to like her.

He doesn't have a regular job; he spends his days eating, drinking, and having fun, using Lou Yunzheng's salary to buy all sorts of high-end cosmetics, skincare products, clothes, jewelry, and bags.

It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that she was being kept by Lou Yunzheng.

After all, she was her brother's girlfriend, and her brother, being love-struck, was happy to spend money to support her, so Lou Fengyue didn't comment much.

What she couldn't tolerate was that Shen Xiaoshuang had been eyeing her apartment.

This apartment was a private property her parents bought for her when she came of age, using up all their savings, because they were afraid she would be bullied if she met the wrong person in the future.

Only her name was written.

After Shen Xiaoshuang learned about this, she would always say, openly or secretly, that Lou Qingjian and his wife were biased, not buying a wedding house for their son, but instead buying a house for their daughter who had just come of age.

Last year, Shen Xiaoshuang went home with Lou Yunzheng to meet his parents. During the dinner, he subtly hinted that he wanted her to transfer the ownership of her apartment to Lou Yunzheng as their wedding home.

The end times are coming, and survival is always the first priority.

Lou Fengyue didn't want her brother to do something foolish and risk going out just to deliver food to Shen Xiaoshuang.

Lou Yunzheng was well aware that the two elders did not like Shen Xiaoshuang, so he naturally had no intention of bringing Shen Xiaoshuang to live with them.

His sister, who had been missing for half a year, finally returned. During the family reunion, he didn't want anything else to spoil the atmosphere.

"Don't worry." Lou Yunzheng patted his sister's head. "Xiaoshuang is an adult and will take good care of herself."

Besides, he's only here for a few days; it's not like he doesn't want her anymore.

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That evening, Lou Yunzheng returned to his rented apartment, and on the way, he bought a lot of dumplings, steamed buns, and fruit to fill the refrigerator.

He knew all too well that his girlfriend was a little princess who never lifted a finger and couldn't cook at all.

Dumplings and steamed buns don't require any cooking skills; they can be eaten as soon as they're steamed, so there's no need to worry about her going hungry.

Lou Fengyue was also busy.

Since natural disasters are unavoidable, we must prepare in advance.

A brand-new, drill-proof, cut-proof, all-steel reinforced door was installed in the apartment, ensuring safety in the short term.

But to survive, you also need food and water.

Since the apocalypse hasn't arrived yet, she has to temporarily abandon her bad habits, abide by the laws and regulations of peacetime, and purchase a batch of survival supplies.

We'll figure out how to take advantage of the situation when the heavy rain comes.

There was still 320,000 yuan in liquid funds in the bank card, plus the 60,000 yuan left after Lou Yunzheng gave him the steel door.

Three hundred and eighty thousand can buy a lot of things.

But not enough.

Lou Fengyue took out the box of jewelry from her spatial storage; most of it was pure gold.

I don't know if the price of gold has gone up or down in the past six months, and whether these pieces of jewelry can be sold for 200,000.

The next day, at 7:30.

Lou Fengyue received a message from her brother that he had already set off to return to their hometown to pick up their parents.

She also changed into a hoodie, sweatpants, a baseball cap, and a mask, and went out fully armed.

Gold prices rose faster than expected; gold jewelry that was worth only 230,000 yuan six months ago sold for nearly 320,000 yuan.

Including the money in my bank card and WeChat account, I currently have 704,000 yuan available.

Lou Fengyue rented an empty container at the container base and then headed straight to the agricultural wholesale market.

Lou Fengyue directly spent a few hundred yuan to rent an empty warehouse, and then went to the agricultural wholesale market.

She parked her car in the center of the wholesale market, put on a mask and a baseball cap, and walked from shop to shop, keeping a low profile throughout.

Stockpiling food is the most important step for survival. We ordered one hundred boxes of frozen steak and chicken. We also bought all the vegetables and common, inexpensive fruits we had on hand.

They also ordered ten pigs and one hundred chickens, ducks, and geese, asking the shopkeeper to slaughter them all.

After signing all the orders, paying the deposit, and leaving the container address, she drove away.

I went to the daily necessities wholesale market again. All the daily necessities were sold in quantities of 100 boxes or more. I paid a deposit and had the merchants deliver them to the warehouse as before.

After all this, it cost over 400,000 yuan.

Food is not enough; medicine is also needed.

Buying directly from a pharmacy would attract too much attention, and besides, pharmacies are not allowed to sell drugs in large quantities.

Cold medicine, fever reducers, and allergy medications are essential over-the-counter drugs.

Although you can buy it online, you have to fill in your personal information. If someone uses that information to track you down later, it could cause unnecessary trouble.

The most important antibiotics, however, are prescription drugs and are difficult to obtain without a doctor's prescription.

We'll have to wait until the heavy rain starts, but the water isn't too deep, before we can go look for it.

So what she buys online are mainly medical gauze and iodine, which are in high demand in the post-apocalyptic world and are currently the easiest to buy.

Most pharmacies are located on the ground floor, and if they are flooded during heavy rain, all the gauze and iodine will be ruined.

We must stock up now.

Lou Fengyue selected several different online stores and purchased the goods in batches. All of them were shipped within the province and could be delivered before the rainstorm. The addresses for all of them were container terminals.

The next issue to address is the water problem.

The best solution is, of course, to store water in advance.

She bought three 10-ton capacity water tanks and asked the store to deliver them. She drove ahead to lead the way and went directly to the container terminal.

The three water tanks were placed inside the container, almost filling the entire container.

The store also gave us two five-meter-long water pipes as a gift.

After thanking them, Lou Fengyue saw them off and then closed the container door.

With a wave of his hand, all three water tanks were stored in his spatial ring, and the container returned to its empty state.