The Apocalypse Took Everything, This Time I Hoard It All First
Chapter 15: Fulfillment

Chapter 15: Chapter 15: Fulfillment

"Wow!"

Luna Dawson and Miles Dawson stared at Max, their eyes shining with approval and admiration.

Max suddenly felt their intense gazes on him and coughed twice in embarrassment.

"It’s all part of the job."

He then continued with the details.

Armored doors and windows: The entire house is fitted with triple-layer alloy bulletproof doors and windows, combined with explosion-proof glass, capable of withstanding rifle fire and even armor-piercing rounds. While the exterior is designed to look like luxurious villa windows consistent with the style of the house, the interior is incredibly sturdy.

The walls, roof, and floors are filled with Kevlar or composite armor materials, providing excellent resistance to explosions and assaults...

A concealed ground radar and area-isolation system detects moving targets on the ground both inside and outside the perimeter walls. Upon detecting an intrusion, the system can automatically lower hidden bulletproof and explosion-proof shutters from within the walls, partitioning the villa into different zones to delay intruders...

Even in the event of a total power outage, the rooftop solar panels, paired with a high-capacity lithium iron phosphate energy storage system, allow the entire house to operate off-grid. The basement generator room is concealed and features soundproofing, heat dissipation, and electromagnetic shielding.

Max gave a general overview of the various security measures already built into the safe house villa, as well as the functions planned for the second phase of renovations. He stated that a fifty-million-dollar budget was enough for him to pull out all the stops.

At the end of his presentation, he concluded, "A top-tier safe house shouldn’t just be a cold metal box. It should be a fortress that outsiders can’t recognize as one, while also making its residents feel like they’re in a warm, welcoming home."

After hearing this, Luna Dawson promptly paid the final twenty million. Max, in turn, promised to have the work completed within a month, making it move-in ready for the owner.

With the renovation in Kensington arranged, Luna Dawson stored the cargo trucks, mobile home, and portable toilets from the warehouse into her space. She then drove one of the vans and spent another day collecting roast duck and various other prepared meals.

After smelling roast duck all day, both of them felt like the grease was clogging their throats. They both swore they wouldn’t eat duck again for at least a month!

They took a flight at noon the next day, arriving back in Southen on the evening of October 18th.

While the two were training and arranging the safe house renovations, Mrs. Dawson hadn’t been idle either. She spent several days at the wholesale farmers’ market, restocking all sorts of supplies.

Various seeds: wheat, rice, soybeans, corn, fruit tree saplings, vegetable seeds, grain seeds, spice seeds, as well as various mushroom spores and associated farming equipment...

Vegetables and fruits: spinach, bok choy, celtuce, water spinach, durian, sugar-apple, longan, lychee, watermelon, cantaloupe, grapes...

Various flours, dried noodles, cellophane noodles, sweet potato starch noodles, rice noodles, potato starch noodles, and so on...

Light and dark soy sauce, chicken bouillon, MSG, oyster sauce, along with various meal kits like pickled fish soup, spicy crawfish, and hot pot bases—a thousand boxes of each.

Livestock young: piglets, calves, lambs, as well as chickens, ducks, geese, and so on, including aquaculture fry and various types of feed...

All kinds of tobacco, alcohol, and tea were also a major focus. Red wine, white spirits, and beer would all be hard currency in the apocalypse. They bought a thousand boxes each of high, medium, and low-end varieties.

Toilet paper, sanitary napkins, shampoo, body wash, soap, toothbrushes, toothpaste... a thousand boxes of every daily necessity.

Kitchen supplies, including pots, bowls, and utensils of all shapes and sizes, were also essential. They also added another five hundred boxes each of the previously ordered semi-prepared hot pot and barbecue ingredients, canned meat, canned fruit, instant noodles, luosifen, hot and sour noodles, and pre-made meals.

After moving the young livestock into her space, Luna Dawson specifically partitioned off an area downstream of the small river with wooden planks. This area was dedicated to raising livestock like pigs, cattle, and sheep, as well as poultry like chickens, ducks, and geese. She didn’t confine them, letting them roam free.

Luna didn’t even spare the river, stocking it with various types of fish and shrimp fry.

On the land on the other side of the river, upstream, all sorts of saplings had been planted in an orderly fashion. Fortunately, everything within the space was controlled by her spiritual power, which was very convenient as she didn’t need to do the physical labor herself.

Luna Dawson propped her feet on Rollo’s belly, opened her laptop, and reviewed the list of supplies and categories. They had pretty much bought everything.

During the stockpiling period, constantly moving things into her space had also exercised her spiritual power.

Luna Dawson’s external perception was becoming more and more sensitive. Now, even with the door closed, she could sense someone walking past outside the courtyard.

’This change was a pleasant surprise for Luna Dawson. Isn’t this the perception of a Spiritual Ability User from her past life?!’

Whenever Luna Dawson closed her eyes to focus, it felt as if countless spiritual threads were extending outward, exploring the world around her. She could now perceive a radius of about ten meters.

Luna Dawson happily shared this with her family, which greatly boosted their confidence in surviving the apocalypse.

Time slipped by quietly as everyone was busy with their preparations, and soon, it was mid-November...

On this day, when Victor Lewis, the director of the Security Bureau, received the notice about the Novis earthquake, his hand trembled, and tea from his cup spilled all over his desk.

A ten-person team at the Security Bureau was responsible for reading and sorting the emails in the public inbox in shifts. When a staff member had mentioned this overseas email to him, he had dismissed it as a prank from someone abroad.

Victor Lewis even thought the person was incredibly childish.

But when a typhoon made landfall a few days later, and the hardest-hit area was the exact place mentioned in the email, he remembered it again.

However, he had also reasoned that since the national meteorological station had already issued a typhoon warning, the prediction’s accuracy was more likely due to speculation and coincidence.

That is, until the early morning of the 16th, when he was jolted awake by the report of the earthquake disaster in Novis.

Typhoons could be predicted based on meteorological data, but the time and magnitude of an earthquake could not!

A chill ran down his spine. The blood seemed to drain from his limbs, leaving them ice-cold. He opened the email and read it over and over.

At the same time, he contacted familiar heads of other departments to ask if they had also received this email.

After comparing notes, everyone was shocked that the email’s predictions had all come true. But this information about a future apocalypse was so bizarre it was hard to believe. It didn’t conform to the laws of nature and seemed like complete nonsense.

For now, they could only wait and see, planning to discuss it further later. After all, if this event were to actually happen, it wasn’t something a few of them could solve.

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Meanwhile, on Luna Dawson’s end, she was rummaging through the freezer when she discovered that Miles Dawson had eaten all of her favorite chocolate ice cream. She hunted him down to give him a pummeling, which was when she remembered they hadn’t bought ice cream and various desserts in bulk.

In the apocalypse, when one’s spirit is tense, sugar can bring pleasure and relaxation.

Putting thought into action, Luna Dawson contacted an ice cream manufacturer in the city and ordered five hundred boxes of assorted ice cream bars. She also ordered five hundred boxes of various breads and cakes from a chain bakery’s supplier.

She ordered two thousand external hard drives and found a professional to download teaching materials from all walks of life, movies, TV shows, novels, documentaries, and more onto them.

She purchased a large amount of fitness equipment and various gaming consoles...

The inner world must not be left empty!

A month of this chaotic life flew by, and she had just over ten million in funds left.

’The villa is finished, and the bulk of the purchasing is done,’ Luna Dawson thought to herself. ’For the rest of the time, I’ll just buy things as I think of them.’

After Evan Olson returned, the family of three trained hard with him every day. Evan Olson couldn’t help but marvel that after coming into money, the family didn’t just slack off; instead, they became even more intense.

Mrs. Dawson was a bit older and wasn’t aiming to master advanced fighting techniques. She just wanted to improve her physical fitness and have some ability to protect herself.

So, he arranged a gentle basic physical conditioning routine for her, combined with simple escape techniques and self-defense skills. The movements were broken down meticulously and taught at a slow pace to ensure she could keep up without getting injured. Meanwhile, the brother and sister sparred with each other to improve their fighting skills.

When he heard the big-mouthed Miles Dawson recount the "glorious tale" of his sister pinching Kevin Keane’s butt the moment they met, he couldn’t help but facepalm, sighing at how much of a handful Luna Dawson was.