Arriving at the next Retail shop, Grace took her time to look around to examine the products on display. Once she was done, she approached the employee awaiting her.
"Hello. I want to place a big order." She told him and watched as he immediately grabbed a notepad and a pen from the counter, ready to note down her order.
"I want 100 Barrels with 200 Gallon water storage capacity, 500 barrels with 100 Gallon water storage capacity, 1000 Portable Water Containers of 1-5 Gallon capacity, and 1000 Collapsible water containers."
The employee swiftly noted down the orders while Grace continued. "Also 100 home water testing kits and 100 TDS meters. As well as 10,000 water bladder packs." Lastly, she added Hoses, clamps, and other fittings to complete the order.
Ten minutes later, she was walking out of the shop after making the down payment and leaving the address of the warehouse and her phone number behind with the employee.
Her next shop was a mega mart where she placed the order for the remaining items she needed to finish her stockpile of water. The items she ordered there were - water purification tablets, unscented bleach, electrolyte tablets and powders, and moisturizing wipes.
By the time she finished, it was already past noon. She drove to a small restaurant and had a delicious lunch. During the past two days when she was locked inside her condo, she spent most of her time learning more about the Infinite Realm and the system.
One interesting thing that she found out about the system was that it had a feature to store downloaded contents. Thus, as she enjoyed her lunch in a cozy corner of the restaurant, she decided to download her all-time favorite movies that she always used to rewatch.
She was also planning to download series, dramas, songs, podcasts, audio books, funny videos, informational materials, books, comics, and more whenever she would find enough free times.
Though she initially planned to download a lot of research materials, information on different topics, and such, 2025 informed her that the system already had information stored in it about pretty much everything out there that humans could do or had found about.
The reason such a function was made in the system in the first place was because Dr. Kian created the system during the years of apocalypse and he knew the possibility of the world losing all sources of information if the apocalypse continued for several decades or even centuries. Hence, he decided to store all the data within the system to leave a hope for the future.
The more Grace got to explore the system and its features, the more impressed she felt with Dr. Kian. As her thoughts drifted to the handsome doctor, she found a smile forming on her lips at the recollection of their last meeting.
But as soon as she realized what she was doing, she straightened up and stopped smiling, returning to her serious self. She quickly finished her lunch and had a cup of herbal tea before once again heading to buy supplies.
After water supplies, her next mission was to stock up food supplies and she was starting with canned foods as they were the best considering there was no one to tell how long the apocalypse was going to last.
She drove straight to the biggest warehouse club in the city. She parked her car in the parking and climbed out before heading inside. Once the employees there got to know that she was there with a big order, they immediately led her to meet the Manager.
"A very good afternoon, Ms Brown. Please have a seat." The manager, a man in his late thirties, greeted Grace politely before offering her a seat on the couch placed next to the big glass windows. "I heard you want to place a big order for canned foods."
"That's right." Grace replied and saw a big smile blooming on the manager's face. "Please go ahead and tell us what you want." He said while signaling an employee to note down the order.
"100,000 cans of all these vegetables - Corn, Green beans, Peas, Carrots, Tomatoes, Spinach, Mixed Vegetables, Potatoes, Mushrooms, Asparagus, Beets, Pumpkin, Sweet Potatoes/Yams, Artichoke hearts, Bamboo shoots, Water chestnuts, Okra, Collard Greens, Turnip Greens, Chickpeas, Lentils, Pimento, Bell pepper, Fermented Cabbage."
Both the manager and the employee were staring at her with shock written all over their faces. It was the manager who pulled himself together first and asked just to verify, "Ms. Brown, you want 100,000 cans of each of these vegetables?"
"That's right." Grace answered calmly and then added, "I'm actually planning to open the biggest supermarket this city has ever seen. If things went right with this order, I might end up becoming your regular customer."
And that was more than enough to make the manager forget all about his shock and focus on fulfilling her order to make sure that she would pick his warehouse for the long-term business.
"Shall I continue with my orders?" Grace asked and noticed how her question surprised the manager who wasn't expecting for her to order more. But he quickly returned to his professional mode and nodded his head. "Please go ahead, Ms. Brown."
"100,000 cans for each of these fruits - Peaches, Pineapple, Pears, Tangerines, Cherries, Lychee, Apples, Mangoes, Grapefruit, Papaya, Coconut, Guava, Cranberries, Apricots, Plums, Oranges, Jackfruit, Nectarines, Dragon fruit, Fig, Bananas, Strawberries, Blueberries, Gooseberries, Mulberries, Elderberries, Blackberries, Quince, Prunes, and Fruit Cocktail."