[Rule-based horror + management and upgrades + apocalypse survival + strong female lead + ensemble cast + mild horror]
On her final night after being laid off, Jiang Ying finished covering her coworker’s last night shift, only to receive a food delivery order from seven years in the future.
The order contained only a black umbrella and a warning of death:
“At midnight, a girl in red will enter the store. Don’t let her buy the thirteenth umbrella.”
“At 12:17, you will die.”
After midnight, the whole city plunged into darkness. The living stopped in their tracks, and the rules of the strange tales began to take hold.
Only the convenience store where Jiang Ying worked still had its lights on.
Customers wanted to buy her lifespan, the dead demanded to be rehired, and her future self kept sending orders that contradicted one another. Yet Jiang Ying unexpectedly took over the convenience store’s operations.
Save one person, and the safe zone expands by one square meter.
Complete an order, and you can unlock a warehouse, a clinic, and delivery service across districts.
Take in employees and take over branch stores, and you can even rebuild the city’s entire system of survival.
Later, while everyone else was still searching for a safe house amid the strange tales, Jiang Ying had turned a single 24-hour convenience store into the last city in the apocalypse.
But she gradually discovered that the seven safe stores were not meant to save the city.
They were seven locks.
And at the end of the chain, her future self was waiting for the woman she was now.
