After running around outside for a month, Liu Ruoyan returned to her apartment and curled up on the sofa, feeling extremely tired in her body.
However, she was extremely satisfied in her heart.
Just looking at the full supplies in the space, Liu Ruoyan felt a great sense of security.
Liu Ruoyan took out the printed checklist again to check for omissions and fill in the gaps.
There was less than a month left before the apocalypse, and she wanted to take a good look to see what else she hadn't bought.
Upon this inspection, Liu Ruoyan found that she had actually missed quite a few things.
Diesel generators, gasoline generators, solar power storage panels, solar-powered lights, solar-powered mobile phone chargers, flashlights, storage batteries, candles, fans, air-conditioning fans, small electric heaters, and warm patches all needed to be arranged.
There was also a very important thing, that is, seeds.
After the apocalypse, the climate would be extreme, and the conditions outside were simply not suitable for the growth of crops. People had no way to plant, and life became even more difficult.
Although Liu Ruoyan didn't know how to farm, it might come in handy to prepare some seeds now.
To ensure everything was foolproof, Liu Ruoyan went to the seed store to buy seeds and also collected the seeds reserved by farmers in the countryside.
They would keep the seeds in their hands, but once it got really hot, they couldn't preserve them and could only watch the seeds go bad, so it was better to sell them to her.
Liu Ruoyan wasn't a cold-hearted person after all. Looking at these simple and honest uncles and aunts, she still gave them a reminder.
"My friend works at the meteorological station and said that there will be continuous high temperatures. You'd better buy more food and drinks and store them well."
This one-sentence reminder didn't need to worry about leaving any traces that could be traced.
She probably wouldn't have the chance to see these people here again.
Plus, she had deliberately put on makeup and disguised herself, so even if they met again, they might not be able to recognize her.
After buying the seeds, Liu Ruoyan went to buy fuels.
In terms of fuels, Liu Ruoyan bought twenty tons of coal.
After thinking about it, Liu Ruoyan added gas cylinders. When she drove to pick them up, she planned to store at least a thousand cylinders.
She also needed to buy several hundred boxes of portable gas canisters.
Liu Ruoyan also bought ten diesel tricycles, ten pedal tricycles, and ten bicycles.
She also bought a lot of accessories for various vehicles.
In the apocalypse, only a few people could drive cars.
Those who could drive a diesel tricycle would already be quite cool.
Most people would ride pedal tricycles or bicycles.
During the days when she was running around in other cities, Liu Ruoyan would always look for delicious food whenever she had the chance.
Now in her space, just the various cooked foods alone filled ten shelves.
To be able to place more delicious foods, Liu Ruoyan also bought small storage racks and placed them on top of the large shelves.
At a glance, the shelves were neatly arranged, and every bit of space was utilized to the extreme.
There were also ten empty shelves beside them. Liu Ruoyan planned to put the meals she cooked herself on them.
From now on, Liu Ruoyan didn't plan to go out anymore. She would cook for herself every meal in the future.
Each time she would cook a bit more, and the extra would be put into disposable lunch boxes and stored in the space, so that she could take them out and eat them directly when it was inconvenient to cook.
For more than two months, Liu Ruoyan had been busy collecting various supplies and hadn't paid much attention to the time.
Now that she was free, she found that the time had already entered mid-August.
Liu Ruoyan deliberately searched for posts on the Internet. The Internet was still quite normal, and there was no talk about the apocalypse at all.
But Liu Ruoyan knew that this was just the calm before the storm, and it wouldn't last long.
In the following days, Liu Ruoyan only went out occasionally to buy some small things that she suddenly thought of.
For the rest of the most of the time, Liu Ruoyan stayed at home in the apartment and cooked.
Liu Ruoyan was originally good at cooking. Although she had been out of practice for ten years because of the apocalypse, as soon as she started cooking again, she quickly regained her touch.
She cooked different dishes every day, and the aroma could almost waft ten miles away.
Even, Liu Ruoyan saw someone asking in the community group who was cooking delicious food at home all day long, making him so hungry that he could wake up in the middle of the night.
Seeing this message, Liu Ruoyan just laughed it off.
What she was more concerned about were some posts on the Internet.
As the time was approaching the end of August, not only did the temperature not drop, but it was rising day by day.
On Weibo, there were news every day about passers-by being fainted by the heat and kind-hearted people helping to call the emergency number.
At first, when everyone saw this kind of news, they all sighed below that there was true love in the world.
But as the time passed day by day, soon someone sensed that something was wrong.
Early one morning, Liu Ruoyan was used to eating breakfast while scrolling through her phone. A post that was pushed to the top caught all of Liu Ruoyan's attention.
"This weather is getting more and more abnormal. Early this morning, the temperature has already risen to 40 degrees. The weather warning says that the highest temperature during the day will be as high as 45 degrees.
Just being hot is okay, but haven't you noticed that recently the whole country has been reporting high temperatures and it hasn't rained for more than a month?
I heard the old folks say that when things are abnormal, there must be something fishy. Everyone had better stock up more food and drinks at home. It's always good to be prepared."
Seeing this post, Liu Ruoyan really wanted to give it a like, but in the end she held back.
This post had already been hyped up, and there were hundreds of comments below it.
Some people agreed with the poster's point of view, while others said that the poster was worrying too much.
It's just hot weather. It happens every year. What's the big deal?
At these remarks, a sarcastic smile flashed in Liu Ruoyan's eyes.
Soon these people would know whether the poster was really worrying too much or not.
Liu Ruoyan remembered that in her previous life, the temperature reached 50 degrees on September 1st.
50 degrees was already a temperature not suitable for people to survive. At that time, all companies took holidays and changed to working from home.
Even supermarkets, shopping malls, and various shops on the street also changed to opening at night.
There were still three days left until September 1st. Liu Ruoyan thought about it and then went out.
However, as soon as Liu Ruoyan walked out of the apartment building, she sensed that something was wrong.
There were waves of heat all around her, without a single breeze, and the air seemed to be distorted by the sun.
As soon as she walked into the sun, Liu Ruoyan immediately retreated to the shade.
Even so, the little bit of exposed skin was still sunburned red, making Liu Ruoyan feel a burning pain.
Liu Ruoyan frowned, turned around and entered the unit door, and took the elevator upstairs.
Back in the room, Liu Ruoyan found an outdoor thermometer and stretched it out of the window.
The numbers on the thermometer kept jumping up. When it stopped, the two numbers 51 were clearly shown on it.
Liu Ruoyan looked at the thermometer with a frown.
Had the high temperature outbreak come earlier?
Although it was unexpected, on careful thought, it was also reasonable.
She could be reborn, so what was impossible about the time of the event happening a bit earlier?
However, the temperature was rising so fast that it didn't give people any buffer time. It was estimated that many people were not prepared.