In a simple yet elegant single apartment, a young woman lay on the bed.
Her features were delicate, her skin as fair as porcelain, and her seaweed-like black hair cascaded around her, giving off a dreamy aura.
However, at this moment, the woman was drenched in sweat.
Her expression was one of great pain, as if enduring immense torment.
Suddenly, the woman sat up abruptly, clutching the sheets as she gasped for air.
Beads of sweat, the size of beans, trickled down her porcelain cheeks, sliding along her slender neck and disappearing into her collar.
It took Su Nian quite a while to catch her breath, her gaze fixed blankly at a certain spot before finally shifting.
Looking around, Su Nian felt somewhat disoriented. Where was she?
Could it be that someone had rescued her?
But who would rescue her? Who could possibly save her?
The acid rain came suddenly, pouring down from the sky like a deluge.
Not only her, but all those exposed to the outdoors were corroded by the acid rain, with no chance of escape.
Even if someone did rescue her, in the post-apocalyptic world, where could one find such a clean and tidy room?
Even the blanket she held emitted the warm scent of sunlight.
Wait!
Su Nian's eyes widened in disbelief as she looked around. Wasn't this the apartment she had always lived in before the apocalypse?
Realizing this, Su Nian's heart began to race, almost jumping out of her throat.
Su Nian lifted the blanket, fumbling on the bed until she found her phone under the pillow.
The phone clearly displayed the date: May 20, 20XX!
Upon seeing this date, tears streamed down Su Nian's face instantly.
She had returned!
She had really returned!
After struggling in the apocalypse for ten years and ultimately unable to escape the cruel fate of death, she had somehow returned to three months before the apocalypse!
Su Nian didn't bother to wipe away the tears from her face, hastily using her right thumb to open the phone and access the banking app.
Seeing the balance of twenty-one billion displayed on it, Su Nian breathed a sigh of relief.
In the previous life, the apocalypse came without warning.
By the time everyone realized something was wrong, money had lost its original value.
Although Su Nian had plenty of money, it was useless; she couldn't buy supplies with it.
All that money had become useless digits.
In this life, she would never let this money go to waste again.
She would spend it all!
Convert it all into supplies!
But where could she store so many supplies?
"If only there was a space..."
As soon as the words left her lips, Su Nian remembered something.
When she was young, her mother gave her a jade necklace to wear close to her body.
That jade was an emerald, square and without any design sense, but her mother said it was their family heirloom.
In her previous life, she had always worn that necklace until the world became increasingly dangerous, and she dared not wear it around her neck anymore, fearing it would attract attention from others, so she kept it close to her body.
But at some point, she lost it, and she had been sad for a long time.
After all, it was the only keepsake her mother left her!
But now, that necklace was still hanging around her neck!
With that thought in mind, Su Nian took off the necklace.
Looking at the jade in her palm, Su Nian had a bold idea.
"In novels, family heirlooms often have a space. I wonder if mine does..."
As she spoke, Su Nian got out of bed and put on slippers before heading to the kitchen.
Su Nian picked up a fruit knife without hesitation and made a cut on her fingertip.
Her slender and fair finger was instantly cut, blood gushing out. Su Nian, however, didn't even furrow her brow. She directly placed the jade on it.
A miraculous thing happened!
The blood, upon contact with the jade, was absorbed by it.
The color of the jade gradually deepened, quickly changing from emerald green to dark red.
Until the jade turned blood red, a flash of red light appeared before Su Nian's eyes, and the jade disappeared along with it.
What also disappeared was the wound.
If there weren't still bloodstains on the fruit knife, Su Nian would almost have thought that everything before was her illusion.
At that moment, an image appeared in Su Nian's mind.
It was a dim space, empty and void of any objects.
Su Nian couldn't enter it herself, but she could sense the size of the space and every position within it.
The space was ten meters high and approximately the size of ten football fields.
Su Nian looked at the fruit knife in her hand, silently thinking to collect it. The fruit knife disappeared instantly.
And in the corner of the space, there lay a fruit knife quietly.
Without time to rejoice, Su Nian repeated the process, thinking to retrieve it, and the fruit knife appeared in her hand again.
After experimenting many times, Su Nian gradually calmed down.
Her mother hadn't lied to her!
This was indeed a family heirloom!
The novels hadn't lied to her either!
Family heirlooms did have a space!
Previously, she worried that she wouldn't have a place to store the supplies she bought, but now she only worried about whether her money could buy enough things to fill this space.
Putting down the fruit knife, Su Nian went to the refrigerator and opened it.
The refrigerator, with its double doors, was filled with various ingredients.
Fruits, vegetables, bread, yogurt, eggs.
In the freezer below, there were various meats.
Su Nian reached out and took bread, yogurt, and fruit, holding them in her arms.
Using her elbow to close the refrigerator door, Su Nian sat directly on the carpet in the living room, placing everything in front of her and opening them one by one, eating heartily.
After struggling to survive in the apocalypse for ten years, even bread and vegetables were a luxury.
In those years, just to survive, Su Nian had gnawed on bark, eaten grass roots, and even soil.
Eating the soft and fragrant bread again, the flavorful yogurt, and the crisp and sweet fruit, Su Nian felt tears of happiness welling up.
Taking a deep breath, Su Nian held back the tears.
She couldn't cry!
She had a lot of things to do!
She had to make the most of her time to eat full, every minute and every second could not be wasted!
Until she was full, Su Nian stopped.
Looking at the yogurt with only two sips left, Su Nian had an idea and directly stored it in the space.
She wanted to try whether this space had a preservation effect, so she could better determine what supplies she needed to hoard.
Of course, Su Nian didn't idle either. After eating and drinking enough, she returned to the bedroom and turned on the computer.
Opening a blank document, Su Nian began to plan what supplies she needed to buy.
It was May 20th now, not yet officially entering summer, and the temperature was very pleasant.
But starting today, the weather would gradually get warmer.
Initially, the gradually warming weather didn't attract anyone's attention.
After all, summer was always hotter day by day.
It wasn't until the end of August, when the weather remained scorching hot, with temperatures soaring to forty-five degrees, that people began to notice something was wrong.
It was only then that many people realized it hadn't rained for a month.
With no rain and rising temperatures, people's hearts grew restless, and they began to rush to buy supplies, and talk of the apocalypse began from that time.