C1 The Eve of the Apocalypse

The dark cave became the graveyard of a legendary beast tamer.

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"Ouch! It hurts... Where is this place?"

At this moment, as Yang Tian was standing in a strange and yet familiar place, looking at the somehow familiar surroundings, he immediately sobered up.

"This is my manor?"

Even after twenty years since the apocalypse, Yang Tian still remembered his own manor.

The pre-apocalyptic manor was Yang Tian's main economic source of income. With a ten acre land size, seven acres were used to grow crops, two were used to grow fruit trees and the remaining one acre was used to raise livestock.

However, after the apocalypse began, the manor became a habitat of alien creatures, a land of death.

"After I have struggled for twenty years since the apocalypse, the heavens have finally showed mercy and granted me another chance."

Looking around his manor, Yang Tian couldn't help but laugh out loud. He had a chance to start all over again!

Looking at the date on his phone, Yang Tian knew that he did not have much time left. In three days, it would be the end of the world. He had to get ready for it within this period.

Vegetables were a precious supplement in the apocalypse, so Yang Tian had to protect them well. But there were bound to be some wildflowers and weeds near the vegetables, some of which would mutate upon the arrival of the apocalypse, and thus become aggressive towards the vegetables. Therefore, his first task was to clean up all the wildflowers and weeds in the manor.

With a total of ten acres of land, It would probably take a lot of time to clean this whole place up.

However, right before he got to his feet, his stomach gurgled.

Yang Tian touched his stomach and cursed. Before he even started working, he was already hungry. Luckily, there was still some leftovers from the morning in the kitchen. After quickly stuffing himself, Yang Tian picked up the hoe and started working.

Yang Tian had to protect these vegetables and made sure they survive the apocalypse, because by that time, these vegetables would be very precious. As for whether or not to remove the fruit trees, Yang Tian hadn't made up his mind. The mutated fruit trees would attack people, but their fruits were also very precious. Yang Tian wasn't sure what kind of changes the fruits in his manor would go through, so he was a little hesitant.

"Alright, I'll just leave them be. Who knows, maybe I'll get lucky."

After thinking about it, Yang Tian decided to leave these fruit trees as they were, but the weeds around them had to be removed, especially the man-eating flowers. During the early days of the apocalypse, they were very annoying enemies. Yang Tian would definitely not allow such plants to appear in his own manor.

"Phew!"

After working for only an hour, Yang Tian was already exhausted, sweating profusely.

"I am too weak!"

Yang Tian sighed wearily as he wiped cold sweat off his forehead. At the beginning of the apocalypse, Yang Tian suffered a lot because of this weak body.

"I should go buy some necessities first!"

Yang Tian was too tired to continue the weeding, so he decided to go out and buy some groceries for the apocalypse.

Presently, Yang Tian had fifty thousand yuan in his savings, which he fully withdrew. In the apocalypse, money was useless.

His first stop was the supermarket. Yang Tian bought all the rice there, which weighed approximately three tons, and he also rented a truck, spending a total of fifteen thousand yuan. The rice alone filled half of the truck.

Additionally, Yang Tian bought a lot of compressed food, which were precious in the apocalypse.

The remaining space in the truck was occupied by compressed biscuits, chocolate, instant noodles, chips and so on.

This had cost Yang Tian another thirty thousand yuan. It was the first time there had ever been such a generous customer in the supermarket. Yang Tian wanted to drive the truck himself but it was against the supermarket regulations, so he had to use his ID card as mortgage.

"One ID card for a truck. What a bargain!"

What use would the ID card be of when the apocalypse arrived?

Immediately afterwards, Yang Tian came to a sword and knife processing factory. Here he could get the real good stuff that couldn't be found in other stores or markets.

"Stop right there! We didn't ask for any delivery service!"

When the factory owner saw Yang Tian driving a truck, he thought that he was here to delivery goods or something.

"Excuse me, sir. I'm here to buy things."

"Oh? Then what do you want to buy?" The factory owner sized Yang Tian up suspiciously.

This kind of factory only did business with acquaintances. This was the first time the owner had met Yang Tian. How could he be sure that Yang Tian wasn't a cop here to bring the factory down?

"I want ten Tang Sabers, ten curved blades and five shields, all of which made of high-density alloy. Make sure the sabers and blades were sharp enough."

"Oh, sir. There must be some misunderstanding. You see, we run a proper business here. We don't have what you want. Why don't you go shopping in other factories?"

"This is five thousand yuan. Get the things ready now!"

"Sir, we are decent businessmen. We don't want to get involved in trouble..."

"Do I look like I have all day to listen to your bullshit?"

Yang Tian's eyes revealed a fierce light, and the factory owner was so scared that he took a few steps back.

"I understand. I will get them now!"

The factory owner was truly frightened. He had seen lots of ruthless people before, but none of them were as vicious as Yang Tian.

He immediately ran to the workshop and told all the workers to stop what they were doing and do their best to complete Yang Tian's order.

"Boss, what's wrong? Why is this order so urgent?"

"This customer is a real badass. You guys better hurry up!"

"O...okay!"

The worker had just looked through the window when he saw Yang Tian staring at him fiercely. He shivered and dropped the hammer in his hand.

"Hurry up and finish it so I can send him away. Otherwise, who knows what he'll do!" The owner urged.

He then walked out of the workshop towards Yang Tian and forced a smile.

"Sir, why don't you go inside and have a seat? I have already instructed the workers to work on your order. I'm sure it will be done soon."

"No need. I'll just wait here."

Yang Tian refused. He sat in the delivery truck, waiting for the completion of his order.

It took almost three hours for the factory to prepare the things that Yang Tian had asked for. The sabers were made of pure carbon steel and the curved blades were made of alloy. They were of top grade in terms of both thickness and sharpness.

"Sir, here you are."

The factory owner wrapped these things in a wooden box and handed it to Yang Tian. The back of the truck was already filled up with goods, so Yang Tian placed it on the passenger seat.

Yang Tian drove the truck back to his own manor. Since he lived alone, he could only move the goods slowly all by himself.

There was a house in the manor where Yang Tian used to live. Next to it was the warehouse with an area of more than a thousand square meters, enough to pile the goods on the truck.

There were also some vegetables and fruits in the warehouse. Yang Tian put them aside and stored the rice and compressed food in the rest of the warehouse.

It was already six o'clock when Yang Tian returned. By the time he had finished arranging the goods, it was already nine o'clock.