Story introduction
Book title: "The Last Grocery Store in the End of the World"
Tags: #apocalyptic #superpower #survivalmanagement #hardcorerealism #suspense
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In the third year of the apocalypse, the least valuable thing in the ruins is human life, and the most valuable is clean water and unexpired medicine.
While others were snatching cans, rummaging through rubbish, and killing people for half a piece of compressed biscuit in the ruins, Shen Xu opened a grocery store in Nanduanqiao. The shop is small, but the shelves are ridiculously full - thirty-seven bottles of water, eight packs of compressed biscuits, iodine, cephalosporin, vacuum brown sugar, and even a box of matches. In this fog-shrouded wasteland, this shop seemed like an irrational existence.
No one knows where her goods come from. Only those who have run with her know that she can smell supplies. Within three hundred meters, the clean water is like grass after rain, the medicine is like mint, and the ammunition smells of cold rust. This ability is the only compensation left to her in the end of the world - the price is the loss of all her family members.
But the shop's rules also offended many people: no credit, no adulteration, and no asking about the origin.
The people in the Gray Tower forced her to "join", the Scavengers Guild wanted to take advantage of her abilities, and the mysterious "Rhizome" organization in the underground pipe gallery was eyeing her. What's even more troublesome is that her nose begins to smell things that shouldn't exist - there are artificial chemical residues on the zombies, the smell of formalin deep in the gray tower, and behind the Echo Radio signal, there is a shocking secret about the truth of the apocalypse.
Shen Xu just wants to survive by holding on to his shop. But in this cannibal ruins, being alone has always been a luxury.
Reader comments
The suspense thread is buried deep enough to attract me to keep watching.
The suspense thread is buried deep enough to attract me to keep watching.