I Opened a Convenience Store in the Apocalypse

A sudden global "Red Mist Event" turns 90% of humanity into bloodthirsty monsters. The survivors either awaken supernatural abilities or, in Chu Linfeng's case, gain an "NPC Template": he cannot fight, but can activate the "Doomsday Convenience Store System." Using an abandoned supermarket as his base, he gets by through "shady deals": trading half a bottle of water for the permanent loss of fire esper Lin Qiang's sense of pain, extracting future intelligence from reborn survivor Zhao Ming, and even trading AI Xiao Qi's obsession with cash registers for the coordinates of a nuclear power plant.

He sets up VIP and blacklist systems, goading Tiger Camp and Wolf Howl Camp into fighting over "Golden VIP" status while secretly selling both sides maps and pocketing the profits. He uses a crisis involving intelligent zombies to seize command of the camps, turning the military from a threat into an "ammunition supplier." Later, he goes even further beyond the limits of morality: he forces his mother, Zhang Lan, to mortgage five years of her freedom for fever medicine for her daughter; manipulates a scientist into trading his emotions for equipment, driving him insane; and even collects fragments of souls to make puppet shopkeepers…

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.