The apocalypse arrives. Mutants run rampant, cities crumble into ruins, and humanity struggles to survive in fear.
Xia Ran, an ordinary office worker, unexpectedly binds to the “Apocalypse Space Supermarket.” Its shelves are piled high with rice, flour, cooking oil, medicine, weapons, and everything else. While others are still chewing tree bark, she already has all the supplies she needs.
But she doesn’t just look out for herself. Beneath the gray wall at the village entrance, she saves Aunt Zhang’s family from mutants. On the threshing ground, she wins over veteran Li Lei’s squad with a box of instant noodles. In the laboratory, she gives fleeing researcher Lu Zhe a generator and a purification device, rekindling his hope.
The Space Supermarket is her trump card, not her shackles. She trades ten sacks of rice for seeds from a neighboring village and grows lush crops in abandoned fields. She trades a few boxes of antibiotics for weapons from the veterans, building an impregnable defense at the village entrance. With a dose of an improved antibody, she connects three survivor bases and becomes “Sister Ran,” trusted by everyone in the apocalypse.
From an ordinary person hiding in her rented apartment to stock up, to a “village chief” leading everyone in reclaiming farmland; from trading instant noodles for trust to using the Space Supermarket to shift the balance of power in the apocalypse, Xia Ran’s shelves hold supplies, but what she protects is people’s hearts, and what she nurtures is hope for an entire village.
When mutants surround the village, other bases call for help, and a test tube of Lu Zhe’s antibodies glows pale blue, Xia Ran finally understands: in the apocalypse, the most precious thing has never been the canned food on the shelves, but the people willing to work the fields beside you with a hoe in hand and stand guard at night with a rifle.
This is a story about stockpiling supplies, surviving, and, above all, “rebuilding a home in the apocalypse.” The shelves may not be full, but hope never runs out.
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