Ji Yanyu tightly tied the apron, wore his gloves, mask, and covered his hair with a cloth.
With a broom on his left hand and a rag on his other hand, he took a heavy step inside and started cleaning.
With less than a day before the apocalypse, Ji Yanyu took his time to clean the room.
Is it wise? It's not.
But since he'll be leaving this place soon, and will soon–
Ji Yanyu looked at the wall clock and fell silent.
It is nine in the morning.
Well, maybe clean after buying everything he needs.
Ji Yanyu guiltily put down the broom and the rag and went to the place where his inheritance was hidden, conveniently, his grandparents prepared a card for him to use where all their money had been transferred to before they died, as if they knew there time was soon up.
It was originally prepared for his graduate studies but thinking of the impending apocalypse, he can only apologize to his grandpa and grandad.
Inside the study table's cabinet were three cards, two from his grandparents and one named to him but was used by them. He wasn't the one depositing but those two sweet grandpas that only thought about his future.
Ji Yanyu quietly traced the cards and sighed, those two are really.. they're too good for him.
On the table, there was a frame of him and his grandpas. It was taken five years ago, when they had a picnic at a nearby park.
The two old man were smiling so happily after being hugged by his 14 years old self, he vaguely remembered it was taken by a stranger they asked for a while to take a picture of them.
He could still vividly remember being teased by his grandad and being hugged breathless by his grandpa, his life back then basically revolved around them and their unconditional affection for him..
He really misses them. If only..
Ji Yanyu pursed his lips and gently rubbed the dust off the picture, it's okay, at least, at least these two lovebirds no longer have to suffer the gloom of the apocalypse.
It's good, that these two people are already at peace.
Ji Yanyu tightly shut his eyes and went out of the room, he can't afford to stay any longer.
In the shopping mart that he frequently goes to due to their cheap prices, Ji Yanyu quickly navigated along the shelves and took out a variety of canned goods and toothpaste, his priority is food and hygiene products.
Canned meat, canned fruit, beef jerky, dry berries, plain crackers, oats, dried spices, canned beans, legumes, grains.
Basically, he took out every food out of the shelves with long lifespans. Ji Yanyu doesn't remember how space abilities works, after all, the protagonist uses a game inventory to store foods, and it works differently with the space abilities of cannon fodders like him who has no golden finger.
But according to novels he had previously read, it'll always be a space storage that cannot keep foods fresh.
Better to be sure than sorry, he bought every food that doesn't easily go bad.
Ji Yanyu didn't forget his body soaps, toothpastes, toothbrushes, antiperspirants, and well, some lotions. He went to a drug store and bought a lot of over-the-counter medicines, anti-inflammatory drugs, cotton swabs, bandages, fever reducers, bandaids, etc.
Afterwards, he went to a water station and bought gallons of water, thinking about it, he also went to a water filter supplier and painfully bought water purifiers and filters that nearly costed him half of his life.
Ji Yanyu bought few solar lights, solar bulbs, solar fans, solar charges then solar panels, batteries, and other necessities to install a solar panel and connect the purifier with it, he didn't forget to get a small generator, and electrical circuits just in case solar energy can't support the purifier.
Lastly, he bought gallons of gas for the generator and spent the last bit of his money to do the same process until his balance reach rock bottom.
Ji Yanyu even thought about loaning but thinking that it might not be given to him today, he decided to forget it.
With a tired body and an empty pocket, Ji Yanyu entered his house that had never felt so crowded before.
Looking at the boxes piled up, he can't help but rub his numb arms, looks like he can't rest yet.
Ji Yanyu opened the television and his face suddenly changed into a frown.
[ Several cities worldwide are under severe lockdowns after several cases of uncontrollable cannibalizing of humans or living livestock close to their proximity that was said to be caused by an unrecorded virus ]
[ In the country, City B, C, D, E... and Provinces of AA, BB, CC, DD... had found an increase of similar cases and are under the preparation for long-term isolation to limit the casualties ]
[ Researches of NCO who studied the sudden meteorite bombardment five months ago found chemical and radioactive elements that were proven to have a relationship to the cannibalistic behaviors of individuals that had appeared a few days after the meteorite incident.. ]
Ji Yanyu recalled the novel and felt his heart thump, looking at the clock striking midnight he clenched his tightening chest and swallowed.
He took the last energy he can muster to turn off the the news and walk into his bedroom, he have the feeling that the apocalypse is about to begin.
A strong surge of heat enveloped his whole body, it was extremely abrupt and strange that Ji Yanyu immediately remembered the description of the beginning of the apocalypse.
With dizzy subconsciousness, Ji Yanyu fell splat on the floor with flushed cheeks and ragged breathing, inside him were his cells fighting off the chemical reaction that had been inside him for a while.
His body temperature rose up in response to the invading elements with an attempt to disintegrate the intruders, however, it only further aggravated the cells that has similar reactions to cancer cells. Multiplying and spreading in a speed that cannot be underestimated.
Unseen by the naked eye, molecules of unknown origins bit by bit flew towards the unsuspecting organs, slowly but surely changing the original function of these programmed biological structures.
This occurrence happened to all the people who were still conscious and living, the moment the clock struck midnight, bit by bit, the people that had not been infected by cannibalistic humans fell into a state of unconsciousness that caused unimaginable casualties.
That was the start of the Apocalypse.