Livia kept sending messages to Arthur, each one more outrageous than the last.
Now, she was the one who acted like Arthur's licker. He wanted to laugh.
Livia probably never thought that she would beg him like this one day. However, facing Livia's pleading, Arthur had no sympathy in his heart.
It's her own fault. She deserved it.
After finishing his meal, Arthur looked through the window and saw the situation outside.
Today is Monday. There were many people working near the warehouse, but now there is no one outside. They all hid in the shade.
It's too hot.
The phone shows that the temperature outside has reached 65℃ today. With this high temperature, staying outside for a few more minutes may cause heat stroke or even death.
Even if you stay at home and turn on the air conditioner to 16℃, the indoor temperature will not be lower than 50℃. Moreover, ordinary air conditioners will be scrapped in a short time if they continue to operate in such an extreme environment.
On the other hand, Arthur's cold storage uses advanced professional refrigeration equipment, and the number of equipment is 3 times more than that of cold storage of the same size. And the walls are also equipped with special materials.
Now the indoor temperature is only 10℃.
I can't feel the heat at all, and it's even a little cold, so I need to wear a coat.
Arthur lay comfortably on the real cow-skin sofa, with the PS5 connected to the 100-inch large-screen TV, and found a game to play out of boredom.
It's not bad to have an apocalypse in Los Angeles.
It's already early morning the next day when Arthur is finally a little sleepy.
Arthur prepares to take a bath and go to sleep.
Come to the bathroom built in advance, take out a few buckets of water from the his ability space and pour them into the bathtub.
This bathtub has a built-in massage function. Arthur bought it from a shopping mall warehouse. I heard that it is a limited edition and costs 200,000(cny).
It's really comfortable to lie in it.
However, it's still a little worse than a real massage. I'll ask a real person to do it.
Arthur put a bunch of imported grapes next to him, and then ate some while taking a bath.
That was so relaxing that I've never experienced before I rebirth!
Thinking back to his previous life, he was as hot as a dog.
Lying in the big bathtub, Arthur checked the real-time status on his phone.
The first day has passed, and the world has begun to change.
Many trees have begun to wither and turn yellow, the water level has begun to drop, and some old equipment has also failed and been scrapped.
"F:ck, my power box is aging, and the air conditioner can't be used during a power outage."
"What's this? Hundreds of mice have come to my house, all of them are here to escape from the heat, help!"
"Mice are better than centipedes and cockroaches. I am the one who needs to be saved, help me."
"The ambulance has been honking today, it seems that many people have suffered from heat stroke."
The environment is too bad due to this natural disaster. Many elderly people have not survived the high temperature. However, most people still don't feel a sense of crisis, and they still want to live as usual. They even hope that the high temperature will continue as they don't need to go to work or school.
However, Arthur knows that this is just the last calm before the storm. Because the situation is not particularly bad now, everyone still has water, electricity, and food at home.
However, when the water and electricity are cut off in a few days, and there is no food at home, they will not be that optimistic.
By then, the world will be in complete chaos, and no one will care about laws and order. Because in the front of life, everything is worthless.
Moreover, the world will be hit by a virus——Zombie virus and evolution virus. Either of these two viruses will cause a fatal blow to human society.
Let's introduce the Zombie virus, the victim once got infected, the organism will become bloodthirsty and only know how to attack and destroy.
And for the evolution virus, although it won't make people lose their minds and also give them powerful special abilities, you should never think this is a good thing to the unstable society in the disaster.
After gaining inhuman power, will people be law-abiding and obey the law?
For example, when Arthur rescued Lmiu, he met a fat woman and an annoying child.
Such a child of a few years old showed a violent side in peacetime, what will he do when let alone by adults in the chaotic outbreak?
For those loan sharks who violently collected debts, they beat people in peacetime and even violated women's will. What will happen after the outbreak occurs?
After they gain powerful power, will they think of protecting the weak? No, they will be more unscrupulous in oppressing the weak.
The number of people who died at their hands was no less than that of those who died because of zombies.
Moreover, there were quite a lot of such people, and even Arthur could hardly guarantee that he would not become a person like that.
Will I bully the other survivors? I have no answer either…
However, this does not mean that Arthur should not use superpowers to kill. This is the only means of survival in the end times. He must gain more strength.
There is nothing wrong with strength, but people always think a powerful person who doesn't help the weak is wrong.
Arthur just wants to survive the outbreak.
"Although I already have spatial abilities, I still need to strengthen my space ability. I can't just eat and wait for death."
Special abilities are divided into levels 1-10. The higher the level, the stronger the superpower.
In his previous life, Arthur just owned an ordinary first-level ability, belonging to the weakest group, and his combat power was no different from that of ordinary people. Because the initial spatial ability did not have any combat means, only a use as storage space. Unlike other attacking superpowers such as fire and electricity, which have strong combat power from the beginning.
There are two ways to increase the level of superpowers.
The first way is to absorb more evolution viruses.
However, the number of evolution viruses is extremely scarce, and probably only one in a hundred people can find it.
The second method is to kill zombies or other superpowers owners and absorb the enhanced crystals in their brains. This is the main method used to improve superpower strength as people never hesitate to kill some for their own benefit.
Unfortunately, Arthur had no strength to kill zombies in his previous life, nor could he find more evolutionary viruses.
In the end, he couldn't even beat Livia's family…
However, since he was reborn. Arthur would never make the same mistake again. He would collect a batch of evolutionary viruses in advance and quickly improve his attack skills.
Moreover, Lmiu was by his side in this life, but she had not obtained the evolutionary virus. Now she was just an ordinary cat.
"I don't know where she got the virus last time." Arthur glanced at the tabby cat snoring on the sofa.
He really wanted to find these evolutionary viruses. Only with powerful abilities can they deal with enemies and powerful zombies. Only then can they protect themselves.
With a decision in mind, Arthur immediately began to make a plan. Arthur remembered that the zombie virus broke out in his previous life on the fifth night of the apocalypse, and the evolutionary virus probably appeared at the same time.
He first took out a map of Los Angeles. He looked up the location where he was infected with the virus in his previous life, and the possible range of Lmiu's activities in his previous life.
Finally, the approximate location was determined.
Time flew past and it was the fifth day of the apocalypse.
These days, Arthur has been staying in the cold storage every day, because the virus has not yet arrived, and there is no point in going out early.
The weather outside is very hot. But he is not idle either. Instead, he took out the VR equipment and played the biochemical crisis to experience the scene of facing advanced zombies in the future.
In order to accumulate some experience in fighting zombies seriously, he played until he was exhausted, so he slept until 7 pm.
The temperature of the main cold storage is also very comfortable. After his debugging, the indoor temperature has been maintained at around 18-20℃, which is the most comfortable temperature for the human body.
If he was not hungry and he needed to find the evolution virus today, he would not wake up at all. The big bed with a width for ten people was so comfortable~ It's a pity that the bed is a bit empty and something is missing.
After stretched.
Arthur got up and cooked himself a bowl of abalone and sea cucumber porridge. It is not healthy to eat greasy food with an empty stomach, so he put the steak aside.
Although his cooking skills are average(really suc:ks), the ingredients are high-quality, so Arthur's meals are still quite delicious.
"Someday I have to find a chef to cook for me."
While eating porridge, Arthur took out his mobile phone.
Livia had stopped sending him messages. The last message was at 10 o'clock last night.
She must be dead now. She was in Southeast Asia, the temperature there was over 70℃, and she had no money to cool herself down there.
Arthur just felt refreshed. He looked at today's news.
[The temperature in Los Angeles has been stable at 65℃.
In just 5 days, the water level of Los Angeles Reservoir evaporated and dropped by more than 50 meters. Some small lakes and ponds have dried up.
According to statistics from the water plant company, the population in Los Angeles consumed a total of 100 million tons of water in these three days, and the average daily water consumption was more than 10 times the usual.]
This does not include the evaporated water.
The price of tap water has now risen from about 3(cny)/ton to 3,000(cny)/ton. It has increased a thousand times. The key point is that the water supply of the water plant is not enough to supply the whole city. Some areas have already stopped supplying water, and only supply is within the wealthy areas.
Supply is insufficient to meet demand. You can't buy it even if you have money. Moreover, under the continuous high temperature, natural fires have occurred in many places because of the dry air, resulting in power outages in more than half of the city.
The only air conditioner that citizens have also lost its function.
More than 80% of the elderly did not survive. Some young people with poor health also died due to lack of water.
According to news statistics, the number of deaths in Los Angeles hospitals alone exceeded a hundred thousand.
This does not include some people who may have died at home or on the streets. If added up, it may exceed one million.
This is only the fifth day, and the zombie apocalypse has not yet broken out.
Now, the streets are in chaos. People who were originally staying at home peacefully come out to find food and water under the blazing massive fire ball up in the sky.
The city's crime rate suddenly soared by 350%. Robberies and fights are happening on every street. The police and firefighters on duty are simply too busy to handle it.
Arthur's cold storage also lost power to run. Fortunately, he has a generator and fuel, which can generate electricity by himself. The temperature in the cold storage did not change, and it was still very comfortable.
Arthur sighed in his heart.
In his previous life, he was just like them, as hot as a dog, fighting with people for a mouthful of water.
Fortunately, in this life, he prepared supplies in advance and built a cold storage, so he didn't have to lose his life for a piece of bread. However, his fuel was limited, and he couldn't always use the generator to generate electricity. He needed to think of other ways.
He glanced at the sleeping Lmiu.
"Let you rest for two days first, and then work for me honestly."
After drinking the abalone and sea cucumber porridge, the time came to 8 o'clock in the evening. Arthur estimated that there were less than two and a half hours left before the zombie outbreak in the previous life.
It would take about 1 hour to drive to the destination by himself. Excluding the possible errors in the middle.
If Arthur went out now, he could just catch up with the time when the first batch of viruses landed on the blue planet.
With a map and protective equipment, Arthur prepared to go out.
"Dong Dong Dong!"
However, just as Arthur was about to go out, the door of the cold storage was suddenly knocked. He frowned and walked over, looking outside through the special window that can look through from inside only.
He found several men holding tools, knocking on his door.
"Bro, are you sure there are supplies in here?" a man's voice asked.
Then, a somewhat rough man's voice said: "Of course, I delivered goods here a few days ago, mineral water worth tens of millions. If we occupy this place, we won't have to worry about water for several years."
"Moreover, I carefully observed at the time that this cold storage uses top-level refrigeration equipment, and the temperature inside will never exceed 30℃!"
"Damn, 30℃, it must be so cool!"
"What are you waiting for, pry it open quickly."