Natural Disaster Apocalypse: I Rely on Exp*oits to Hoard Hundreds of Billions in Supplies

Ye Qing endured a half hour of dazed disbelief after waking from the apocalypse’s fifth year back to April 9, 2029—half a year before the world collapsed. In her previous life, she had been unprepared when the extreme cold struck, freezing the planet for six months, and she developed rotting frostbite while scavenging food for Leng Huaishu and his group. When the Extreme Heat suddenly followed, her festering wounds bled onto a dark thumb ring inherited from her grandfather, activating a gray, timeless Space that could only store dead things. That Space allowed her to drag Leng Huaishu to the Haicheng Base, only for him and Yang Qingqing to later break her limbs, throw her into a gutter outside the base, and torment her until she rotted alive in stinking mud. Now reborn, she vowed never to repeat the same mistakes.

Ye Qing removed the thumb ring, pricked her finger, and dripped blood onto it. The ring glowed, and she was instantly inside a transformed Space: an antique two-story building covered by a transparent glass dome, with a nearly dry well in the yard. Outside the dome stretched the familiar gray infinity. The building contained a hidden compartment on the second floor filled with three nine-layered golden nanmu cabinets, each holding turquoise porcelain vats labeled low-grade, mid-grade, and high-grade Spirit Water, Earth Marrow, and Jade Nectar. She tasted a drop of low-grade Spirit Water, and her entire body expelled black oily filth, her strength and skin improved dramatically. She finally understood that she now possessed not only the original preserving Space but also a living area and miraculous liquids that could cleanse her marrow.

Determined to hoard supplies for the coming disasters, Ye Qing first needed money. She had only 13,654.5 yuan. Remembering the Madman she met during the Extreme Heat in her past life, a hacker who had taught her advanced coding and Dark Web knowledge, she logged into the Dark Web using the account of a Big Beautiful Country tycoon. She skillfully bypassed firewalls, transferred over 550 billion Pretty Country dollars through shady deals, and laundered the funds into three anonymous Rui Country bank accounts. Then she hired an expert forger to create a false inheritance certificate, paying 5% of the inheritance as a reward and using a Grizzly Country weapons big shot’s identity to ensure the forger would not dare betray her. She also applied for multiple tourist visas through an international travel agency and took out fast online loans to have nearly 40,000 yuan on hand.

Leaving her rental apartment, Ye Qing greedily enjoyed the peaceful world. She splurged on a huge meal at a high-end restaurant, bought street snacks and drinks in bulk, and began compiling elaborate supply lists broken down by country, province, and local needs. She planned to return to Jie City after stocking up abroad, because Jie City is an inland karst area far from rivers and seas, and its surrounding caves would absorb floodwaters from melting ice. Moreover, both Leng Huaishu and Yang Qingqing still lived in Jie City. Ye Qing was determined to witness Leng Huaishu’s struggle and especially wanted Yang Qingqing dead before the apocalypse, since in her past life Yang Qingqing’s uncle, the third-in-command of Haicheng Base, had ordered her crippled and thrown to the dogs.

That night, she only slept fitfully, haunted by nightmares of her rotting death, each episode stoking her hatred. The next morning she went to her job as a lowly intern clerk at a small private company, typed up a resignation report stating she was going abroad to inherit hundreds of billions of assets, and demanded her previous month’s salary from the stingy boss Luo Yuanjian. After collecting the money, she left the company, agreeing to future shopping appointments with curious colleagues while holding back all warnings about the apocalypse. She knew human nature too well to gamble on revealing the truth. In this life, she would be selfish and ruthless—hoarding every supply she could, entering the Space at will, and ensuring she never again starved, froze, or suffered the knife-like pains of hunger. Her only goals were to survive and to settle debts with those who had wronged her, starting with the poison couple who had doomed her to a gutter’s death.