Chapter 1: The Countdown to the End Begins
At 2 p.m. on December 29, XXXX, there were still 72 hours left before the outbreak of the end times.
An Ning stood in front of the mirror and stared at his two-year-old self for more than ten minutes, making sure that he had really crossed over!
With 72 hours to go before the zombie virus outbreak, she quickly summed up her current situation in her mind.
First, she traveled to another time and space to herself.
Before the crossing, she was fourteen years old, was robbed, and was knocked out of the head from behind, and she definitely couldn't survive. When she fell unconscious, a voice spoke to her in her head, allowing her to travel to another world.
She couldn't understand what the voice said about black hole relativity, particle symmetry, mirror space-time, etc., she only knew that this body was also herself, living in a parallel space-time and space to her original world.
Her two own fates changed after a car accident when she was six years old, she was adopted by her grandmother, she didn't know what she experienced in this world, she had no memory of this world.
Second, she had the opportunity to go back to see her grandmother.
The voice said that she would be in this world for ten years at most. The longer she survives here, the longer she can spend with her grandmother when she returns. The time ratio is two to one, which means that living in this world for two days can be exchanged for one day in her world.
And the more zombies she kills and saves people, the greater the exchange ratio will be, and it can rise to one to two at most.
What makes An Ning happiest is that the time for her to go back can be seamlessly connected, no matter how long she stays here, time in her own world will not flow, it is just a blink of an eye at Grandma's, and Grandma doesn't have to worry about her at all.
An Ning listened well in front, and when she heard this, she began to talk about the conditions, of course it is good to connect seamlessly, but what is the use of docking when she is opened? You have to go back in advance to prevent it!
As for how far in advance, An Ning used her skills on the street for more than ten years, and finally managed to get three months ahead of schedule.
Originally, she planned to strive for three years in advance, but there has been a severe drought for more than two years on their side, and now all kinds of materials are being restricted, there is a shortage of water and food, and everyone is living very hard. In particular, there is a limit of two litres of water per person per day, including all domestic and drinking water.
She and her grandmother live in their own small yard in the suburbs, but fortunately there is a well in the yard, and they earn living expenses by delivering water to people in the city.
It was too chaotic outside, and grandma would rather endure the pain than leave the house in peace.
But An Ning still secretly ran out to deliver water to make money, grandma's leg can't be cured, she has to find a way to save grandma.
She secretly went out for more than a month, and she was about to save enough money for her grandmother's surgery, and she escaped an unknown number of crises, and finally fell under the crowbar.
Grandma is still paralyzed at home, she must go back! So as long as there is the slightest possibility, she has to seize it. She was actually very satisfied with being able to go back three months early.
An Ning began to quickly observe and summarize his situation after the crossing.
First, she is still called An Ning, 16 years old, and now lives in a cramped and simple self-built rental house in an urban village on the outskirts of City F.
Second, she has no memory of this body, and she has no relatives and friends around her, so she can only rely on herself to survive in the last days.
Third, she is very poor, and she has a large scar on her back that has just healed, and she has no shelter, supplies, vehicles, and companions for survival in the last days.
An Ning sorted out the few items in the house and quickly summed them up.
This is the benefit of traveling to herself, even if the experiences of the two after the age of six are completely different, An Ning is still that An Ning, she knows herself too well.
There was an ID card in the wallet she found, with the name Zhang Jing on it, eighteen years old, who looked five or six points like An Ning, but it was definitely not An Ning, and a bank card, and the signature on the back was also Zhang Jing.
An Ning knew at a touch that this ID card was real, and the bank card was also real, and she was now using Zhang Jing's identity.
There was also a simple rental contract in her wallet, which An Ning couldn't read, and only found the last date of signature, showing that Zhang Jing had rented here a week ago.
She closed the window and closed the curtains, quickly swept around the room, then removed the suitcase used as a bedside table by the head of the bed, found a tattered old book for the foot of the bed behind the suitcase, took out the old book and shook it, and found an ID card in the two old pages glued together.
An Ning whistled lightly, and she knew that no matter how long she looked, she wouldn't be stupid! Besides, it's two years older than before, so it's definitely smarter, isn't it!
This ID card is real, the name on it is An Ning, who just turned 16 last month, and whose address is a vocational school on the outskirts of City F.
An Ning rummaged through the house again and found a pile of things she had hidden.
Eight thousand three hundred and twenty yuan in cash, a Vacheron Constantin men's watch, a white gold chain necklace with several diamond pendants of at least one carat, two sets of keys, a student ID card and a campus card showing that she is a freshman this year and majored in Chinese.
Seeing the student ID, An Ning was overjoyed, she is a college student! It's only a junior college, but at least she's in school!
After the car accident at the age of six, she was traumatized, and she couldn't remember what happened before the car accident at all, and it took several years to raise it, but she still left some sequelae, and dyslexia was one of them, so she was forced to drop out of primary school after half a year of school.
Although she didn't care at all, she was still very envious of people who could go to school.
An Ning grabbed the old book and read it, but unfortunately, most of the words were still unrecognizable, and the sentences were incomplete, and he still had dyslexia in this time and space.
She threw away the book in a little frustration, and it was about to be the end of the world, and she didn't have time to get emotional.
Everything in the room was rummaged through by her, and An Ning sat on the bed with her chin propped up with a puzzled expression.
Her clothes and supplies (hers, of course, this body is hers), and she unceremoniously took in everything that was peaceful in this world. It all looks good, and it's not a big name, but it's not cheap.
In other words, her life here is definitely not poor, but she completely abandoned her previous life and came to this urban village, and she didn't even want her identity and studies.
What is the reason for this?
There was too little information at hand for An Ning to find an answer. And there are less than 72 hours left before the zombie virus outbreak, and she doesn't have time to explore this, the most important thing now is to save her life and escape!
An Ning put away the cash, ID card, watch, and diamond necklace and put it in a small waist bag and tied it around her waist, and tidied up her hair and went out.
She didn't know anything about the current state of the world, so she had to go out and find out first.
Half an hour later, An Ning sat in the millet noodle shop opened by her landlord next to the rental house, finished a bowl of beef rice noodles with a smile, and asked her what she needed to know.
The voice in her head before crossing told her that this world was exactly the same as her original world except for her grandmother and the people she knew.
Fortunately, An Ning also lived on the outskirts of F City in her previous life, although she lived in the southern suburbs and this is the northern suburbs, but a lot of important information is still useful.
It has been more than half a month since the Internet and communications were cut off and all electromagnetic signals have been cut off, and not only the Internet, mobile phones, and wired telephones cannot be used, but even radio and television have been paralyzed.
It is not a complete interruption, it will recover for a while intermittently every few hours or a dozen hours, and it will not recover for more than an hour at most.
And now it's been nearly twenty hours since the last signal was restored.
It is said that because of the problem of the deviation of the earth's two-level magnetic field, even the satellites in the sky have intermittently no signal as on the ground, and I heard that the country is stepping up to solve the problem, so everyone is not particularly alarmed.
The uncle and aunt on the street have listened to the street propaganda but can't understand these professional terms, of course, An Ning has not read the book, and she can't understand them when they say it.
And this is not imminent, the most worrying thing now is the outbreak of a new type of encephalitis around the world, many people fall into a coma after a brief fever, and no matter what means are used to wake them up.
The first case has been in a coma for more than half a month, and more and more people are falling into this strange coma.
It is said that 1 in 10 people in the world is now in a coma, and scientists have not been able to figure out what this disease is, but they are sure that the disease is not contagious, so although there are not as many people on the streets as before, it is not enough to cause social unrest.
After the network was disconnected, the most stressful was the bank, everyone started to use cash again, and there was a long queue at the door of the bank, which was open 24 hours a day, and everyone was waiting for the network to resume cash withdrawal.
There are three tented bank temporary agencies on the street of Anning Rice Noodles, with bank staff and heavily armed security guards on duty, waiting for the network to be restored and immediately withdraw money from everyone.
Before Anning checked out and walked out of the rice noodle shop, he checked out with the landlord and grandmother: "Grandma Sun, I have found a job, and it is in the big hotel on the side of Xiaogang Wharf, the boss has food and accommodation, and I want to go to live in the store." ”
An Ning is beautiful and smiles very sweet and well-behaved, Grandma Sun likes such a little girl, she added an extra beef to her when she ate rice noodles just now, and when she heard that she had found a job, she was also happy for her, and she was not embarrassed at all, not only refunded the deposit of the house to her, but even the rent was only 50 yuan.
"You little girl, it's not easy to be outside, but pay more attention to safety!"
An Ning took out the seven hundred and fifty yuan returned by Grandma Sun, and leaned closer to whisper to her, "Grandma Sun, I heard our boss ask us to purchase and stock up on goods today, saying that in three days at most, the price of grain, vegetables and meat in our city will rise sharply!" He was in such a hurry to get me to work just so that I could help clean up the warehouse. ”
Grandma Sun immediately believed it, although bad things have happened one after another recently, but the government has regulated it very well, and there has been no price increase and shortage in the market, but in case there is anything that the people don't know!
People who open big restaurants must have more doors than their small people, and they don't suffer a loss if they follow the food!
An Ning went back to pack her luggage, only brought light clothes, and when she went out to take a taxi with a small suitcase, she saw Grandma Sun discussing with the old man and lady on the street to go to Tun Mi Tun Meat together.
An Ning looked at them and smiled, and sure enough, he directly told them that grandma's end times were coming, hurry up and eat! They're going to think that the kid is having hysteria, and if you tell them it's going to go up, a bunch of grandparents will have to run to the market.
Before An Ning got into the taxi, she ran to explain to Grandma Sun: "Grandma Sun, salt and sugar have risen the most, as well as milk powder and chocolate, buy more for Zixuan." ”
Grandma Sun nodded hurriedly, her little granddaughter is only two years old, and she can't lack food!
An Ning rubbed Xiao Zixuan, who was eating puree in the trolley, got into a taxi with a smile, wore her most expensive clothes, and stayed in a super five-star hotel in the city, and then asked the manager to hire a security car and four security personnel in the hotel.
This hotel is the best and oldest hotel in F City, the reputation is very guaranteed, the main thing about Anning living here is to take a fancy to his family only to the hotel customer service security staff.
At 4 p.m. on December 29, XXXX, there were still 70 hours left before the outbreak of the end times.
Anning settled in, please keep spending more than 9,000 yuan in his hand, and owe the hotel more than 10,000 yuan for security. With the only twelve dollars left, I hurried to the busiest street in the city, and found the largest mortgage house for valuables, and wanted to exchange the Vacheron Constantin and white gold diamond necklace for cash.
This kind of mortgage bank can lend immediately, which is the most suitable for Anning who is waiting for money urgently, of course, it must be at a very low price, but now is not the time to think about this.
In the original world, An Ning has been running errands with the eighth grandfather who lives in an alley since she was a child, and the eighth grandfather is the one who runs a mortgage bank, so she knows how to sell things for a price.
And she looks very deceptive, pink, fair, delicate and beautiful little girl, well-dressed and well-behaved, at first glance, she is a good child who has been cultivated by rich and noble families with all their efforts, and it will not make people doubt the source of such a luxury.
An Ning talked to the mortgage bank with a little arrogance, revealing that she wanted to dispose of everything related to her ex-boyfriend when she fell out of love, plus she wanted to sell it and not redeem it, even if she didn't have an invoice and relevant certificates, the store didn't refuse her things.
Her luck is very good, as soon as the negotiation is completed, she came to the Internet, and the store checked it on the Internet to make sure that the watch and necklace are not stolen goods, and also confirmed that An Ning has no bad records, so she has to be valued.
An Ning knew that they had many channels to do this business, and they could find out what ordinary people could find with a lot of effort, so she didn't use Zhang Jing's ID card, but used her own identity for the manager to query.
Then, as if he was curious about their query system, he asked, "Can you find out about my other property status as well?" ”
The manager with a big mole next to his nose turned the computer screen to An Ning, "You can find out, you have a 220-square-meter large duplex in the Binjiang Community of F City, and there is a single-family villa in H City, and I will take a look at the specific situation of stocks and trust funds......"
Before he could see it, the network that had just been restored was disconnected again.
An Ning didn't expect to be so rich!
Binjiang Community is the best community in F City, in this close to the first-tier city, a flat is at least 50,000 yuan!
The single-family villas in H City are more expensive, and the price is tens of millions of dollars!
Listen to the manager, she also has stocks and trusts!
But now she is living in a small rental house in an urban village under someone else's identity.
An Ning didn't have time to investigate deeply, knowing this, she could get more money, which was a good thing for her, and the most important thing right now.
She quietly continued to chat with the manager while appraising the watch and necklace, during which she inadvertently revealed that she broke up with her boyfriend because her father had a business problem, and her boyfriend's family refused to borrow money for emergencies.
Sure enough, the manager of the big mole immediately began to lobby her step by step, asking her to mortgage the house and villa in her name, and they could give her a particularly good price.
An Ning showed that she was very tempted, but she had not yet made up her mind, and the manager estimated a good price for her the watch and necklace in order to catch a big fish.
A Vacheron Constantin watch with an original price of more than 700,000 yuan and a diamond necklace of about 200,000 yuan, and finally mortgaged 450,000 yuan in cash.
An Ning knew that this price was already fair, and it was to be taught by the eighth grandfather, and a patron like her, who did not have any relevant proof and was clearly short of money, would be good if she could give 200,000.
An Ning put the money into the suitcase she brought, and the manager of the big scab continued to persuade her to mortgage the property, she said that she wanted to think about it, and the big scab was very enthusiastic to find someone to take her home, she declined, and waved to the door of the store, and soon two heavily armed security guards entered the door and escorted her away.
The manager of the big mole still didn't give up, and asked her to leave her contact information when she delivered it to the door, An Ning told him to think about it, and followed the security car back to the hotel.
After settling the security payment, An Ning took out the remaining 400,000 yuan and put 100,000 yuan in the hotel's safe, put 330,000 yuan on his body and put it in his big backpack, found a map and drew a circle in the northern suburbs, and went out to find a place to stay.
At 6 p.m. on December 29, XXXX, 68 hours before the outbreak of the end times.
An Ning successfully rented a single-family villa in a villa complex on the outskirts of F City.
Prior to this, she had rented several warehouses in a rented warehouse closest to the complex.
Although An Ning was young, she couldn't go to school, so she followed the old residents of the urban village on the streets, and was very familiar with the situation in F City, and finally decided to live in this villa area after the outbreak of the end times.
She didn't think about going back to the house in her name in the city, and before she figured out why she wanted to live incognito and secretly, she might have thrown herself into the net by going back so rashly.
And she didn't know what was going on over there, and if she couldn't get out of the room, she wouldn't have a place to cry.
Moreover, although the house in the center of the city is expensive, it is not suitable for survival and escape after the end of the world.
The city center has a large population, and it will definitely be surrounded by zombies at that time, and the traffic jam is usually serious.
The biggest advantage of her villa in the northern suburbs is that the transportation is convenient, very close to the entrance of the expressway, close to several provincial roads, and there are many scenic spots near the mountains and sightseeing.
The best thing is that this villa area is the closest community to the garrison base in F City, close to the army, this is the safest place in the last days!
The owner of the property in the community entrusted the rental business, and Anning rented a villa near the most desolate west gate of the community, and the road on the west gate was built very hidden, and people who were not familiar with it could hardly find it.
Looking at the grass on the side of the road, you can see that there are almost no people walking, and there are few residents here, and it seems that they usually do not enter and exit from the west gate, and it is not easy to be found when you do something in Anning.
Moreover, the landlord is abroad, and the property is fully entrusted to handle the rental procedures, so Anning does not have to worry about the landlord coming to collect the house in the last days.
So it took Anning less than an hour to rent this villa for two years and a rent of 300,000.
After paying the rent in full, An Ning took the key and tried all the doors, didn't stay in the villa long, and hurried to take a taxi to the city.
The end times are getting closer and closer, and she can't afford to delay for a minute!