The red moon rises, order collapses, and the whole world becomes a wasteland that devours people. No pocket dimension, no supernatural powers awakening, only the cruelest laws of physics!
Lu Yuan dies a horrible death and is reborn, but the price is that one of the birthmarks representing his "fate" has vanished forever. He has one life left, and a year to live. To survive, he transforms into a ruthless kingpin and flips the table from the start! He risks his life to force his two older brothers to reveal their fatal weaknesses, tying the whole family to his cause. He makes a show of draining tens of billions in cash flow from the family business, then spends lavishly to build a fortress deep in the mountains, one even a regular army couldn't take!
Without a pocket dimension, he resorts to the most primitive "ant migration" method. Thirty thousand tons of Wuchang rice, huge quantities of military diesel and frozen meat, even boxes of condoms stockpiled as ingenious water-storage containers.
When the apocalypse arrives and refugees outside fight over half a moldy biscuit, the Lu family stays in an underground stronghold kept at a comfortable 22 degrees, enjoying hot pot in chili oil. But Lu Yuan's ambitions don't stop there. Using supplies as bait, he builds the wasteland's largest black market. With a few boxes of cheap medicine and canned luncheon meat, he strips warlords of their heavy machine guns and armored vehicles, and even recruits top scientists who have been cast aside, treating them like priceless treasures!
See how Lu Yuan drives a heavily modified, twelve-cylinder armored vehicle, mounts a 12.7 mm heavy machine gun, and uses nothing but steel and gunpowder to carve out absolute supremacy in this man-eating wasteland!
So cool! This book takes the wasteland law of "materials are the only truth" to its extreme! The most enjoyable slap-in-the-face scene I've ever seen was not when the protagonist killed the villain instantly with a burst of seed, but during the black market auction in the fifth year of the wasteland, a mercenary warlord showed off an expired can of cat cans as a treasure, and the protagonist team directly brought out a whole box of fresh hydroponic Chinese cabbage and red tomatoes. The protagonist bites a tomato in front of hundreds of hungry wolves. This kind of "dimensionality-reducing blow" purely relying on carbohydrates and vitamins, the scene is simply mind-numbing! The book's IQ is online, and the villain does not forcefully reduce his intelligence. The protagonist group used underground greenhouses and penicillin brewed by local methods to perform "buying bones for a thousand gold" on the black market, using luncheon meat to exchange for the top mechanical masters and veteran military doctors abandoned by the government. In the end, they just relied on this group of talents to build a steel fortress in the mountains that even the regular army could not attack. Even the corrupt officials were directly overthrown by their conspiracy. The whole crew is ruthless, the family doesn't hold them back, and the plot has a relaxed pace. Highly recommended!
I've listened to those superpowers a lot, and it feels good to listen to these hard boxes occasionally. Now I'm sitting on a new work.