My Days Running a Supermarket in the Apocalypse

The morning sunlight was a bit too bright.

Yamana rode her electric scooter through the deserted streets.

The road was littered with all sorts of mangled, rotting flesh and animal remains, which really tested her driving skills.

"Great news! The Lucky Supermarket across from the downtown building has opened! They have everything – food and drinks..."

The girl's pleasant voice echoed repeatedly from the loudspeaker throughout the streets and alleys.

and……

Behind Shan Nai's electric scooter followed a string of menacing zombies!

The scene was so beautiful that even the system dared not look.

It's truly the focus of everyone's attention.

Good guy.

The loudspeaker announcement didn't attract a single living person, but the zombies swarmed in like a chain reaction. If Shan Nai hadn't been riding so fast, they would have blocked her way long ago.

Although they couldn't reach the mountain, they could hear the loudspeaker's announcement, so they rushed towards her little electric car.

Cheng Xu, who lived just a few blocks from the supermarket, was the first to hear the broadcast.

He picked up his binoculars, opened the window, and craned his neck to look in the direction of the broadcast.

Xiong Mingming and Xiao Hang also stopped their card game and leaned against the window to listen carefully. "Brother Xu, it sounds like the voice of the owner of Lucky Supermarket!"

He had heard Yamana's voice the last time he squatted across from the supermarket to observe.

"Yes, she's a small supermarket owner. She probably wants to promote the supermarket's existence." Cheng Xu watched for a while, then put down his binoculars.

"Isn't she afraid of attracting zombies?" Xiong Mingming asked, puzzled.

Pan Li saw Cheng Xu standing by the window in the building across the street and frowned. "Brother, what's going on? Such a commotion is bound to attract a lot of zombies. Is this guy crazy?"

After a week, Cheng Xu finally settled down in this small apartment.

Of course, he also took the initiative to greet Song Ze, the original resident upstairs, but Song Ze ignored him.

During that time, I also met Pan Li and his daughter, who lived on the roof of the building opposite the apartment, a few times.

There are now seven survivors near the small apartment, and some of them have almost run out of supplies in the past few days.

Although we live close by, we just want to feel more at ease with more people around. In the long aftermath of the apocalypse, sometimes we don't see a single living person for months at a time.

Everyone is self-reliant and wary of each other. Cheng Xugang mentioned Lucky Supermarket to Pan Li yesterday.

“It’s the Lucky Supermarket I told you about before.” Cheng Xu glanced sideways at the man on the roof of the bungalow across the street.

Pan Li's pupils dilated instantly.

He initially didn't believe what Cheng Xu said. Who would open a supermarket in the apocalypse?

Having finally found a place to hide, the mother and daughter certainly didn't want to wander around.

But he heard everything that was broadcast over the loudspeaker clearly.

He was very anxious about the fact that he had almost run out of supplies. He could hold on for a few more days, but he was afraid that his young daughter would not be able to.

My daughter, Pan Tao, is over four years old this year.

Right after the apocalypse, he took his wife, who was a few months pregnant, and fled to their old house in the countryside. Later, the mother passed away due to illness.

"Brothers, are you planning to go to the supermarket today?" Pan Li greeted him with a smile, his face beaming with joy.

"Yes, I went," Cheng Xu answered truthfully.

These past few days, I've been fighting zombies with Xiong Mingming, and we've had some small successes.

Pan Li laughed, "Then let's go together, so we can keep each other company!" He looked down at his thin daughter in his arms, met her longing eyes, and gently stroked her head.

Cheng Xu did not refuse, nodded silently, and closed the window.

"Brother Xu, with the boss promoting this so extensively, won't the supermarket run out of supplies?" Xiong Mingming asked.

He always thought that Shan Nai might be a spatial ability user, and that he had stockpiled a lot of supplies that he couldn't use up and wanted to exchange for crystal cores.

Yang Liu sat to the side and smiled. "They're still promoting their supermarket. The quantity of supplies isn't our concern. As long as we can buy supplies, that's fine. The owner of Lucky Supermarket is very mysterious, so we'd better not say anything."

The woman's intuition told her that the small business owner was mysterious and should not be messed with or offended.

Cheng Xu expressed his agreement.

Xiong Mingming also seemed to be deep in thought.

The streets are deserted.

Yamana, holding onto the bicycle handlebars, stuck out one foot and kicked over a crooked-necked zombie blocking her way, muttering, "Get out of the way!"

[Host, they don't understand.]

“That’s true…” Shan Nai pursed her lips, twisted the handlebars, and smashed a few more zombies away with a bang.

Meanwhile, in the underground parking garage beneath her feet, two men were straining to listen to the echoes of the radio broadcast.

"...bread, biscuits, mineral water, apples, bananas, braised eggs, braised pork, rice..."

"Sixth Brother, did you hear that?" Sun Gui asked, his face contorted in pain, as he reached up and rubbed his ear. "I'm so hungry I'm hallucinating! Braised pork and rice keep popping into my head!"

Wang Laoliu tugged at his messy beard, shook his hair, and finally gave up on walking, collapsing to the ground, utterly dejected. "I think I'm hallucinating too... We're both going to die, damn it!"

Gan!

Wang Laoliu had had enough of living hand to mouth; he might as well die.

"Across from the downtown building... a supermarket has opened! Bread, biscuits, bottled water, apples, bananas, braised eggs..."

The sweet voice grew clearer and clearer, and Sun Gui quickly stepped forward and nudged Wang Laoliu, "Someone is shouting up there, we didn't mishear! Come on, let's go out and see!"

He listened carefully several times, and even slapped himself a few times. Now he was absolutely certain that the voice was not a hallucination.

"I'm not going. It's full of zombies, and I'm too hungry to walk..."

"Fine, you're not leaving, huh? I'm leaving!" Sun Gui glared at the person lying on the ground and ran towards the garage exit.

He doesn't want to die yet.

Fortune favors the bold, and a miserable life is worse than a glorious death.

When Sun Gui ran out of the garage, he was panting heavily, his legs were trembling, and his whole body was shaking. He had no strength left.

Thinking about it, I must have gone without food for three days. If it weren't for the half-bottle of dirty water I got earlier, I would have been completely cold by now.

"Holy crap! What's going on?!"

Just as Sun Guigang regained his footing by leaning against the wall, he saw Shan Nai riding a small electric scooter, leading a large group of menacing zombies.

The scene nearly scared him to death, and he immediately knelt down in the direction of Yamanaka.

My legs went weak with fear!

"Little...little aunt...grandma...please...don't come any closer!"

Sun Gui waved his hands wildly, shook his head like a broken wave drum, and his face turned deathly pale.

"Don't be afraid! Lucky Supermarket across from the downtown building has opened! They have supplies, come and buy some!"

Shannai didn't hear what he said, but felt that she had finally seen a living person, and hurriedly told him the location of the supermarket.

After all, she was followed by a string of zombies, making it difficult for her to stop and have a proper conversation with others.

She was afraid the zombies would discover the living person, so she could only stay far away from Sun Gui and use a megaphone to spread the message.

Sun Gui was dumbfounded.

The little girl on the electric bike stopped on the spot, but none of the zombies around her could get close to her.

This...psychic ability? That's so cool, Sun Gui thought.

"Okay—!" Sun Gui shouted back, then hid in the garage again. He was so scared!

I've never seen so many zombies before.

Shan Nai smiled with satisfaction upon receiving Sun Gui's reply, "There are still living people here."

The loudspeaker broadcast the announcement all morning.

Shannai doesn't just wander around aimlessly; she deliberately chooses places where she can easily hide to promote her work.

There's no need to waste time on dangerous buildings or earthquake-damaged areas.

"System, I used to read novels where the system could detect survivors! Can you do that?" Shan Nai suddenly asked.

[1105 is just a supermarket management system, it doesn't have that kind of configuration, host, you won't dislike me, will you? (?﹏?)]

The system's cute, milky-bubbly sounds are intentional!

"Uh...it's okay, it's okay. We're each other's only support now, and I still need you to protect me. How could I possibly look down on you? You're a system, yet you're acting like you're about to cry."

That pitiful tone, so clever!

[The system is so touched, the host is so kind.]

"Of course," Shan Nai thought to herself. It wouldn't be bad to have this little friend by her side.

"Hey! Pretty girl, is what you're saying for real?"

Yamana was startled by the sudden sound from above.