(Word count: about 950 words)
Li Aixia closed her eyes in cold despair, hearing the child's weak cry and Wang Ailiang's hoarse shout. In their previous life, their family of four were like ants, struggling for three months in the "Road Survival Game" that swept the world, and finally died in an everything-devouring super sandstorm. Supplies are exhausted and hope is lost.
When she opened her eyes again, she returned to the 72 hours before the game came, and beside her was her husband Wang Ailiang, who also woke up from the nightmare with a look of horror on his face. The moment they looked at each other, endless grief and ecstasy intertwined - the couple were reborn together!
The biggest regret and failure in my previous life was that I failed to protect my two children and responded hastily to the sudden apocalypse, making mistakes every step of the way. In this life, this regret has become the most ardent motivation. Failure means witnessing the death of their loved ones again, which is a bargain their souls cannot bear.
Time is the first "impossible mission" they face. There are only 72 hours, order has not yet collapsed, and currency still has value. They must race against time. Wang Ailiang decisively quit his job, and Li Aixia quickly suspended her children from school. They wiped out all their savings, lines of credit, and even mortgaged their property (even though they knew it would soon be worthless) with the clear goal of hoarding everything they needed to survive—high-calorie, shelf-stable food, drinking water, medicine, fuel, tools, cold and heat-resistant clothing, and most importantly, a rudimentary, reliable starter vehicle. Relying on their past life memories, they avoided several "trap" resource points with the highest initial death rate, and accurately targeted several relatively safe and resource-rich initial locations.
