Natural Disaster Strikes: I Stockpiled Billions and Carved My Way Through the Apocalypse

As soon as he finished speaking, the villa area on the small hill below was instantly submerged by the raging mudslide.

"Holy crap!" Old Hou's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets. "Are there still people living in that villa area?"

"Probably," Mu Jiuyue said after glancing through her binoculars. "There's no one left now."

Old Hou's lips trembled incessantly.

The power of nature is truly immense; it's a power that even language struggles to express.

Even though they were quite far apart, they could still feel how that world-destroying power ruthlessly destroyed a small world.

Wei Lie rushed over: "Are you alright?"

Mu Jiuyue shook her head: "It's nothing, how about you?"

"My men have all been evacuated, so there were no casualties." Wei Lie looked into the distance with a solemn expression and said, "I wonder how things are at the shelter."

No sooner had he finished speaking than Wei Lie's phone rang.

Wei Lie immediately pressed the speakerphone button and heard a panicked voice coming from the other end of the line: "Mr. Wei, the square in the northwest corner of the shelter has been destroyed by the mudslide. I heard that more than a thousand people were swept away in an instant."

"Are you all alright?" Wei Lie asked.

"We're alright. Our villa area is underground, so it's relatively safe. But the buildings above ground weren't so lucky. Although they weren't hit by the mudslide, the falling rocks from the mountain still injured quite a few people. Fortunately, the mudslide only grazed past the shelter. If..." The other person's voice was filled with lingering fear.

Yes, if the mudslide had veered even slightly in that direction...

The entire shelter will be completely submerged.

“You guys can come back. We don’t need to guard the shelter anymore,” Wei Lie said. “We’re not short of trouble.”

"Let's wait and see. Business here is at its peak right now," the men replied. "Boss Wei cares about us brothers, and we have to think about him too. If we don't earn more supplies, how will we survive even bigger natural disasters in the future?"

Wei Lie sighed, "Then you guys be careful. If anything seems wrong, run. Supplies are secondary; life is the most important thing."

"Yes."

After hanging up the phone, Wei Lie turned to Mu Jiuyue: "I finally understand why you built this shelter here. Jiuyue, you saved our lives. You probably don't know that F City has been completely flooded, and only one in ten people survived."

F City is where Wei Lie used to live.

It was also once his stronghold.

It was because of his intuition that he chose to believe Mu Jiuyue, saving himself and a group of his men.

"Is it that bad?" Mu Jiuyue remained silent. "Weren't they evacuated beforehand?"

“It was too late. The floodwaters, carrying mudslides, came too fast.” Wei Lie’s voice was low and somber. “In an instant, more than a dozen boats were swallowed up, each carrying tens of thousands of people. The most terrifying thing is that those who hadn’t had time to evacuate were almost instantly buried under the water by the mudslides, and there was no time to save them. Only those who had prepared in advance and left early managed to escape. F City has become a living hell.”

As soon as he finished speaking, everyone fell silent.

Old Hou closed his eyes.

He simply couldn't bear to hear about such a tragic scene.

That's several million people!

That's it.

“Right now, geological disasters are erupting all over the world. We're doing relatively well here because we still have people to coordinate efforts. In those areas where no one is being mobilized, many cities have already been wiped out.” Wei Lie continued, “The higher-ups have decided to relocate all residents of coastal cities to the central and western regions. We…”

“K City has a geographical advantage, so it’s not time to relocate yet.” Mu Jiuyue’s voice was soft but firm: “Because the coming cold will be even more deadly.”

Old Hou turned and walked inside: "I'm going to cook."

Mu Jiuyue glanced at his retreating figure and asked Wei Lie, "How many of the satellites in the sky are still usable now?"

“Seventy percent,” Wei Lie replied.

"Too fast!" Mu Jiuyue frowned. "At this rate, I'm afraid all the satellites will be rendered useless once the severe cold arrives. At that point, even scheduling them will be difficult."

Ground transportation was completely lost, maritime transport collapsed, and air travel was impossible due to the low temperatures.

By then, the Great Eastern Kingdom will also be in chaos.

"Yes." Wei Lie frowned deeply, seemingly having some ideas but finding it difficult to make up his mind.

Mu Jiuyue gave him one last reassurance: "This rainstorm has been going on for over a month now. I can't say for sure that it will stop in three months. What if it stops earlier?"

Wei Lie's heart skipped a beat, and without saying a word, he turned and left.

He walked while making phone calls, remotely directing operations.

Mu Jiuyue guessed that Wei Lie definitely had more men than just those on the mountain. Otherwise, where did he get all that information?

This is the last chance to reduce staff.

Once the bitter cold arrives, those outside may never be able to return.

That kind of weather can get as cold as minus 100 degrees Celsius!

Walking outside is a death sentence.

Today, Wei Lie's canteen, unusually, didn't play TV dramas, but instead showed live surveillance footage from around the world.

As one camera after another goes dark, you know that one place after another has fallen.

Everyone felt inexplicably heavy-hearted.

So much so that even the food Lao Hou makes loses its appeal.

In the footage, a village was peaceful and serene in the rain, with people occasionally hurrying by outside wearing raincoats and holding umbrellas.

Suddenly, a loud roar attracted the attention of the villagers.

They all looked in the direction of the noise, and then their expressions changed drastically.

Many people screamed incessantly, frantically searching for places to hide like headless flies.

But it was too late, everything was too late.

A mudslide, carrying debris, dead branches, rotten wood, and other garbage, poured down like a torrent.

Like a monster with its jaws wide open, it slowly devoured the entire village.

A young girl stood in the middle of the road in despair. She had even lost the courage to run away. She could only watch helplessly as the mudslide struck, swept away, and disappeared in an instant, her face filled with terror.

There wasn't even a ripple.

And just like that, they completely disappeared from this world.

More and more people escaped from their houses, but more and more people were swallowed up by the mudslide.

In just a few seconds, the once peaceful village vanished, as if it had never existed at all.

The atmosphere in the cafeteria became extremely oppressive.

Someone muttered a curse under their breath: "Damn it..."

He didn't even know who to yell at.

Someone patted him on the shoulder and said, "I didn't understand before why President Wei sold all his assets to bring us to this remote mountain village. Now I realize that President Wei saved all of our lives."