Faced with a small shopping cart, Nadine had to negotiate with the staff to pay directly and have the items delivered to her car.
The car was packed to the brim.
Nadine pretended to drive around outside for a while, then went back into the car to reclaim some space before returning to the supermarket.
The second floor housed various packaged foods.
There were rice, flour, grains, and oil, as well as dried goods and snacks, and a variety of sauces and seasonings.
Nadine skipped the rice, flour, and grains and went straight to the dried goods and snacks section.
There were various dried vegetables like mushrooms and black fungus, as well as dozens of nuts and dried fruits.
There were colorful candies and a variety of packaged puffed foods.
Although the prices were not cheap, Nadine preferred to stock up in her home country.
So she picked up a few bags just for show.
Who knew how long this terrifying apocalypse would last? These foods wouldn't last long either, disappearing from human sight before long.
But since she was here, she might as well stock up and enjoy the taste.
The third floor housed daily necessities and clothing.
The first thing that caught her eye was rows of skincare products and cosmetics.
Nadine's eyes lit up.
How could she forget such important things!
Even in the apocalypse, she wouldn't neglect to protect her skin!
Eye cream, face cream, essence, cleanser, lotion, serum, toner, hyaluronic acid, face masks, sunscreen, and primer.
Hydrating, moisturizing, whitening, spot removing, anti-wrinkle, firming, lifting, anti-aging.
A hundred boxes of each brand.
Foundation, powder, blush, eyebrow pencil, eyeshadow, eyeliner, mascara, makeup remover, lip balm, lip gloss, lipstick, lip liner, perfume, cologne.
Although she rarely used these makeup products, she still bought fifty boxes of each brand.
In addition, there were hair growth, dyeing, perming, hair removal, breast enhancement, body shaping, deodorant, and other products, each with over twenty boxes.
After the apocalypse, various natural disasters struck, destroying human civilization in an instant.
These seemingly ordinary things now might never be seen again.
As for clothes, forget it.
Without even looking at the labels, Nadine knew that most of them were made in Hua Country, expensive and ill-fitting compared to clothes back home.
After all, L Country's clothes were mostly designed according to the body shape of L Country people.
Just thinking of a report she had seen online before, saying that L Country had developed a fabric that could withstand heat, wearing clothes made from it could isolate external high temperatures, up to sixty degrees.
It's hard to endure the heat when it's hot, even with more clothes on.
Nadine looked around but couldn't find any.
She asked the staff, and after checking the computer inventory, they said, "Madam, sorry! The supermarket doesn't have these clothes. Maybe you can check on Amazon."
Nadine slapped her forehead, realizing she had forgotten about L Country's large online shopping platform.
Entering the shopping platform, she searched for keywords and found them indeed.
Since these were good things, she naturally stocked up on them, emptying the inventory and putting them all in her shopping cart.
She bought heat-resistant clothing, sunscreen clothing, and needed to replenish cold-proof items.
Although she had bought a lot of assault suits and cold-proof clothing back in her home country, she had only bought ten sets of extreme cold-proof clothing and polar sleeping bags.
Since they were available here, Nadine naturally wouldn't miss out.
999 items, reaching the inventory limit, all put into the shopping cart.
After buying clothes, she started buying shoes.
Comfort was the priority.
Sneakers, hiking boots, snow boots, each with a thousand pairs.
Shoes were the most wasteful, and for the same style, she needed at least two pairs a year.
As Nadine was immersed in shopping and unable to extricate herself, she suddenly realized that there was less than an hour left until the teleportation.
Instantly, all thoughts vanished from her mind. She drove quickly towards the abandoned building next to J State University.
She didn't want to disappear in front of people and cause unnecessary trouble.
"Squeak!" The sound of intense braking was accompanied by the opening of the car door. Nadine rushed out of the car and then leaned against it.
In the moment the car disappeared, Nadine also disappeared.
Due to time constraints, she was forcibly teleported back to her apartment.
Back at the apartment, just as she was settling down, she heard the pitter-patter of rain outside.
Looking at the continuous rain outside, Nadine's heart tightened.
This was the prologue to the apocalypse.
Yes, this was just the prologue.
At this moment, no one could associate this rain with the impending apocalypse.
Even though the rain was getting heavier and the water level had reached two meters deep,
everyone treated it as a common urban flooding. After all, the water would recede, and tomorrow's sun would still shine brightly.
Little did they know, many people would never see the sun again.
Taking a deep breath and exhaling the frustration in her heart, Nadine picked up her umbrella, ready to go out to the courier transfer station to pick up her packages.
She had too many packages, and the nearby courier stations couldn't accommodate them all, so she had to be notified to pick them up at the transfer station herself.
As soon as she opened the door, she smelled a foul odor. Nadine looked down and found that there were a lot of garbage piled up outside her door, including several bags of kitchen waste that had already rotted, with several rats crawling around inside, making Nadine shudder with disgust.
At that moment, the door of the neighboring landlord opened, and at the same time, a black garbage bag was thrown straight towards her door.
The landlady saw Nadine and was only slightly embarrassed for a moment before saying confidently, "Oh, little Xu, you're back. It's been raining heavily these past few days, and we're old, so it's inconvenient for us to go out and throw away the garbage. We thought since you weren't home, we could just leave it outside your door, you wouldn't mind, right?"
Nadine didn't say a word, just bent down to pick up the garbage bag on the ground.
Seeing this, the landlady smiled, "Little Xu, are you going to take out the trash? Wait a moment, I still have some more at home. Could you help me throw them out together?"
Before she finished speaking, a bunch of garbage was thrown at her door.
Together with the garbage, there were rats that had been fed with garbage.
"Ah-ah-ah-ah..."
The landlady was scared and screamed.
The deafening sound immediately attracted several neighbors from upstairs and downstairs.
"Oh my, Mrs. Wang, what's going on at your place? Why is there so much garbage?"
Trembling, the landlady pointed at Nadine, "She, she actually threw garbage into my house. I don't know how her parents taught her, she has no manners at all!"
"These are obviously your garbage. I'm just returning them to you!" Nadine grabbed the broom next to the door and started sweeping.
She swept all the remaining garbage in front of her door back into the landlady's house.
This action immediately attracted a lot of criticism.
After all, in their eyes, Nadine was just a tenant, and Mrs. Wang was the landlord, the real neighbor.
A tenant being so arrogant, they simply didn't put them, the homeowners, in their eyes.