Reborn in the Apocalypse: A Commoner's Survival Log

It was completely silent outside, without a sound.

Along the way, Zhou Yang drove very slowly, after all, the visibility was not high and he was afraid of hitting someone.

Although people are probably not out and about now, there's no guarantee that someone might have collapsed on the street because they didn't make it home in time.

Believe it or not, he actually saw quite a few pedestrians lying on the roadside along the way, and even a young couple lying in the middle of the road hugging each other.

With no other option, Zhou Yang had to temporarily stop the car and move the young couple to two separate corners a certain distance apart, so that if one of them mutated into a zombie, the other wouldn't die on the spot.

And so, what should have been a half-hour drive took Zhou Yang more than an hour to reach the largest shopping mall in the city center.

The mall doors were wide open at the moment. After all, the fog hadn't arrived too late, and the large shopping malls and supermarkets in the city center were still open for business.

At the entrance gate, a few people lay scattered about, mostly young people who didn't believe in superstition.

Zhou Yang shook his head and walked past these people directly into the mall.

There were also quite a few people lying down in twos and threes inside. Judging from their clothes, in addition to the sales assistants from various stores, there were also quite a few individual customers.

Ignoring all the people, Zhou Yang went straight to the underground supermarket, where it was in a similar state, with many people lying haphazardly.

He first went to the fresh produce section and put all the relatively fresh fruits, vegetables, meats, and seafood—things that wouldn't last past two days—into his storage space. As for the frozen items, he didn't touch them for the time being, since the power wouldn't go out for about half a month after the apocalypse, and the frozen items wouldn't spoil anytime soon. Besides, he had plenty of frozen items in his storage space; he could eat them all in a lifetime.

As for the rice and grain section, Zhou Yang didn't take much of the vacuum-packed rice and flour, only about a third of it. However, he put all the loose rice and coarse grains displayed outside into his space. These grains exposed to the air were easily contaminated by zombies, so it was better to take them away.

Zhou Yang also took away all the fresh milk and yogurt that needed to be refrigerated, since keeping them would be a waste anyway.

Next, he went to the daily necessities section and took half of everything he could use. He then took more from the beverage and confectionery sections. Chocolate, in particular, was the best food for replenishing energy and sugar, and it was also easy to carry.

Finally, he arrived at the mother and baby section. He thought that although in his past life he couldn't even support himself, let alone get married, maybe he'd finally be able to get married in this life? He should prepare more things.

So Zhou Yang bought out every single baby product on the shelf. Considering that women have their periods, Zhou Yang went back and took all the sanitary napkins. She also took everything else, including brown sugar ginger tea, herbal tea, iron supplements, and nutritional milk powder.

After the supermarket had finished packing up, Zhou Yang returned to the first floor of the mall.

The first floor mainly consists of jewelry stores and car showrooms, as well as a few milk tea shops, coffee shops, KFC, and McDonald's.

Zhou Yang first collected the gold and silver ornaments, as well as the better jade pieces from various jewelry stores, into his space.

Gold can be used in many scientific research products and remains scarce in the post-apocalyptic world. As for silver and jade, they both have calming, antibacterial, and detoxifying effects, and long-term wear is beneficial to the human body. They will also be very popular after the post-apocalyptic world stabilizes.

In his previous life, he had seen many wealthy people collect and wear silver and jade ornaments in his base; otherwise, he wouldn't have been targeted.

He then went to the car dealership, found the keys, and took all the SUVs away.

Cars are consumables in the apocalypse, and you can never have too many. As for the sports cars, Zhou Yang didn't even glance at them. Those things can only drive on flat ground, they're loud, and they attract zombies, so they're not practical at all.

Zhou Yang didn't overlook the milk tea shops either, as milk tea powder, coffee powder, and coffee beans were scarce resources in the apocalypse. As for KFC and McDonald's fried chicken and hamburgers, he naturally took them all, even ransacking their cold storage and clearing out their entire stock.

After finishing the first floor, the second, third, and fourth floors mainly sold home furnishings, children's clothing, and men's and women's clothing. Adhering to the principle of "better to buy the wrong thing than let it go," Zhou Yang bought everything.

The fifth and sixth floors are the dining area.

Zhou Yang searched around and managed to get quite a few pre-made dishes, seasonings, and grains and oils.

The top floor houses a movie theater and a fitness club, but Zhou Yang wasn't interested and didn't go up.

After finishing at the mall, Zhou Yang began to explore several surrounding commercial streets.

Restaurants, hotels, pharmacies, cake shops, maternity and baby stores, mobile phone shops, bars, bookstores, pet shops... Zhou Yang basically didn't miss any unlocked shops. However, apart from the books in the bookstores, he didn't take all the other supplies, after all, he had to leave some options for others to survive.

I was busy until midnight, and finally finished collecting this area.

Without stopping, Zhou Yang drove directly to the Municipal People's Hospital, a few kilometers away.

He doesn't really lack basic over-the-counter medications, but he doesn't have many prescription drugs or some special-effect drugs in his inventory. Basic medical devices are also a key focus of this collection.

Upon arriving at the hospital, we entered through the emergency department.

The first thing you see is a pile of patients and their families lying on the ground, along with quite a few doctors and nurses.

Who knows how many of these people will mutate into zombies, and the doctors and nurses might not even be able to escape and will die here.

Zhou Yang felt uncomfortable just thinking about it.

The hospitals were overflowing with patients, many of whom were in poor health and more susceptible to turning into zombies. As a result, at the very beginning of the apocalypse, all hospitals became disaster zones and among the most difficult places to gather supplies.

He couldn't take care of the patients and their families, but the doctors and nurses could still try to save them.

He cleared out several consultation rooms, dragged the doctors and nurses in groups of four, took ropes from his storage space and tied their hands and feet with slipknots, then tied them to the four corners of the consultation room to ensure they wouldn't touch each other before closing the consultation room door.

After dealing with the doctors and nurses, Zhou Yang went to the pharmacy area and picked up a portion of various Western and Chinese medicines. Then she went to the outpatient and testing areas and collected some commonly used testing instruments, including several ultrasound and color Doppler ultrasound machines.

By the time I left the hospital, it was almost 3 a.m.

Not feeling sleepy, Zhou Yang made no plans to rest.

The industrial park was a bit far from here, so he planned to go to one of the nearby gas stations to get some more fuel. Now, he could use his employee card to refuel for free, as much as he wanted, with no upper limit.

Zhou Yang rubbed his hands together and smiled, his eyes crinkling.

Arriving at the nearest gas station, Zhou Yang swiped a gas card from among the fallen staff. Using the car as cover, he took out an empty container from his storage compartment and started filling up. This time, he didn't just fill up with 92-octane gasoline and diesel, but also 95-octane and 98-octane gasoline. After filling up, he even marked the container with a marker to avoid taking the wrong one later.

After raiding two gas stations, Zhou Yang unexpectedly discovered a large gasoline tanker truck that hadn't yet unloaded its cargo at the third. Without hesitation, he stored it in his spatial storage; this single tanker was equivalent to all the gasoline he had collected since the apocalypse. From now on, he wouldn't have to worry about gasoline in the post-apocalyptic world.

Now that he had enough gasoline, Zhou Yang only needed to collect some diesel fuel for backup, since he also had diesel generators and speedboats that required a lot of fuel.

I was busy until 5 a.m., and finally managed to store enough diesel fuel.

Zhou Yang was indeed tired and sleepy at this time, so he found a quiet place to park the car, went into his space, ate something, took a shower, and went straight to sleep.