Salted Fish Transmigrated Into An Apocalyptic Book - Chapter 1
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In the bustling supermarket, customers spontaneously stopped shopping and looked at the girl pushing a cart with surprise.
She was in her early twenties and was very beautiful wearing blue sportswear while her hair was tied back in a ponytail.
Her arms were so thin as if they would break even with a little force, but the cart in front of her was piled higher than her head.
Biscuits, instant noodles and beverages… She basically bought all the food in the supermarket.
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The girl noticed everyone’s eyes and laughed sheepishly.
“There are too many people in our family and we eat a lot. Haha… Excuse me.”
People quickly made way for her and she pushed the cart to the cash register where there were three carts of the same height that’s been parked.
Now everyone was even more surprised.
How big is their family that she bought so much food all at once?
But the girl still didn’t stop. After parking the cart in her hand, she immediately pushed another empty cart and walked towards the shelves then continued to put food without a stop.
50 packs of instant noodles, 80 packs of biscuits, 30 bottles of drinks and 60 boxes of coffee…
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Jiang Miaomiao mentally counted the amount while looking at the shelves and felt that it was still too few.
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But she can’t do anything about it, the money on her hand is too little. She can’t buy without consideration and she could only make do with it.
Anyway, based on her capability, it should last for no less than three months after the zombie outbreak.
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This isn’t the real world, but an apocalyptic book. After reading this book, Jiang Miaomiao transmigrated and became the cannon fodder with the same name as her.
The book’s Jiang Miaomiao was an orphan. She’s studying in college while working part time jobs to earn her living expenses. She has already saved 20,000 to 30,000 yuan.
After the zombie outbreak in the original book, she escaped from the city together with her schoolmates, which were the male lead and the female lead. She was bitten to death by a zombie on the road, which also triggered the first conflict between the hero and the heroine.
When she was reading, Jiang Miaomiao felt sorry for this character.
A girl who works so hard died in the first three chapters just because she’s not the protagonist.
She might as well start to find a place to hide and store more supplies then maybe she could hold on for a few more months.
So when she discovered that she had transmigrated into this character, Jiang Miaomiao made a decisive decision.
Why would she escape? She’ll also die anyway.
It’s better to spend all her money to buy delicious food and have fun. She’ll have a good time before dying.
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Tomorrow is the first day of the zombie outbreak, so she has to speed up.
Jiang Miaomiao rushed up.
Two hours later, she swiped her card to check out in the shocked eyes of everyone in the supermarket. Then she pushed the carts to the service desk and asked to deliver them at her place.
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The employee printed the list and asked her to sign and leave her address.
Jiang Miaomiao finished signing and handed it to her. The employee took a glance at her address and cast her an envious gaze.
The address above is from a famous District Villa in the city.
She lives in a Villa at a young age and shops like she’s throwing money. Is she a second generation rich?
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Jiang Miaomiao could only smile bitterlyㅡshe previously lived in a school dormitory so it wasn’t convenient to store food in advance. In order to choose a safe and reliable place with enough space to serve as her base, she specially spent 10,000 yuan to rent a two storey Villa with a basement with front and back garden near the suburbs.
After the zombie outbreak, humans either fled or became zombies. So in theory, she could live indefinitely until she dies.
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After leaving the supermarket, Jiang Miaomiao went to the only local electromechanical market because there was still an extremely important thing to buy.
That is the generator.
She can’t go out in the apocalypse, but she must play with her mobile phone and computer. She would die without electricity.
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The weather in April was quite cool. Jiang Miaomiao arrived at the electromechanical market by bus. After getting off the bus, she looked for a shop selling generators and soon saw one.
She pointed to the machine about half a person tall in the middle of the shop and asked:
“Is this a generator? How much is it?”
The boss nodded, “Thirty thousand.”
“Cough… thirty, thirty thousand?”
So expensive!
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“Are you going to use it at home or at your company? There are small ones for home use which are much cheaper.”
“Show it to me.”
The owner took her to a small generator, he tapped it and said, “Well, this one is only three thousand five hundred.”
Three thousand five hundred is still expensive. She doesn’t have much money in her hand and she hasn’t bought drinking water yet.
However, the feeling of running out of electricity is unimaginable. Jiang Miaomiao said daringly: “Make it cheaper and I’ll introduce your shop to my neighbors so they will also buy from you.”
“Then three thousand four hundred.”
“Can’t you sell it for three thousand?”
Jiang Miaomiao looked at him pitifully and her eyes were full of pleading.
A bucket of purified water costs 5 yuan and if she could save 500 yuan, she could buy 100 buckets of purified water.
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After their long bargaining, the owner finally agreed to the price. Jiang Miaomiao paid the deposit and asked him to send it to the Villa tonight.
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Calculating the time, the supermarket delivery should be almost there. She was too busy to catch her breath and immediately took the bus home to pick up the goods.
The time was just right. The pickup truck came soon not long after she got home. The delivery guy helped unload the goods and opened the pickup then asked:
“Why did you buy so many things at once? Do you want to open a snack bar?”
“My family relatives are coming to play. I’m afraid there won’t be enough food for children to eat, haha. Please help me move them to the basement.”
Jiang Miaomiao rolled up her sleeves and worked with him. She was so exhausted and sweaty after unloading a truckload of goods. All of them were stuffed into the basement.
The pickup drove away and Jiang Miaomiao lay on the sofa, took out her mobile phone and dialed a number that she wrote down on the road.
“Hello, is this the Sweet and Purified Water Company?”
“Yes.”
“I would like to order purified water.”
“Okay, how much do you need?”
“500 buckets, deliver it tonight.”
2500 yuan is her last savings.
The other party was shocked: “So much? Well… I’m afraid we don’t have that much supply.”
“How much do you have now?”
“Only 250 buckets are filled this morning, do you think that’s enough?”
This isn’t enough. Drinking, cooking, bathing and brushing teeth all need water. She can lack anything but this.
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After the apocalyptic outbreak, the water plantations were damaged and the city soon ran out of water.
Jiang Miaomiao sat cross legged on the sofa stroking her chin while contemplating and asked:
“Do you have any empty buckets?”
“Do you want to buy empty buckets? It’s not for sale.”
Jiang Miaomiao displayed her pestering skills and chatted with him for half an hour. She finally bought 300 empty buckets at a price of 3 yuan each and they would be delivered tonight.
She would just fill them with tap water and seal them. In the future, she will use them when she finishes her purified water.
Although it’s not clean, it’s still better than nothing.
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Moreover, she also bought a stove and fuel, she could boil water to drink.
Jiang Miaomiao could finally relax. She lay on the sofa and took a rest while thinking about what else she hadn’t bought.
After a careful calculation, there’s actually a lot.
When the disaster broke out, the hearts of the people turned sinister. It would be best to have guns and bullets for self protection.
The generator might break down and it’s good to have a backup plan.
The apocalypse’s weather is harsh and it’s easy to fall ill. She better store enough medicine.
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She doesn’t have much stuff because there’s too little money in hand so she could only hold on to the food first.
But anyway, she didn’t plan to live for too long. She doesn’t know when her time would come. There’s not much difference, life is as short as a few decades and as long as a hundred years.
At night, the generator and purified water were delivered.
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Jiang Miaomiao asked the owner to teach her how to use the generator. She learned that this thing needs oil to work so she went to a nearby gas station and bought a few barrels of diesel.
The basement was already full so she cleaned up the living room. The sofa and coffee tables were all squeezed together. The buckets were piled up against the wall and occupied half of the living room.
When everything was done, it was already midnight.
Jiang Miaomiao ordered a super rich barbecue for herself with more than 300 pieces. After today, she would never be able to eat like this again.
She opened the live broadcast APP on her phone and logged in to her account when she was about to eat her barbecue.
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Since she had transmigrated into this book three days ago, she registered an account to broadcast her progress in purchasing materials in preparation for the apocalypse.
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She didn’t plan to escape, but what if someone wanted to? It’s a good thing if her videos could influence everyone to prepare in advance.
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However, the world is currently very peaceful and suddenly this kind of video appeared. Although it attracted a lot of attention, most of them laughed at her and thought she was crazy.
As a matter of fact as soon as her live broadcast started, there were people who were already squatting and waiting to watch her show.
“This lunatic is here again, hahaha.”
“This elder sister is so funny. What’s the use of preparing these lousy things? Hello, how bad would the apocalypse look anyway?”
“You have food while I have guns. Elder sister, your house will be my barn! If you don’t have a gun, you should equip yourself with two kitchen knives.”
“You’re probably just bored, right? Hahaha.”
“Girls would be girls, they can’t see the bigger picture.”
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Jiang Miaomiao just shrugged and ignored them. After all, this video wasn’t for them.
She took out her purchase list and read it out loud.
Fortunately, the number of people watching tonight’s live broadcast exceeded 200,000.
As the number of people increased, some of them gradually supported her or found it fascinating and gave her rewards.
When her broadcast was almost ending, she estimated that she actually earned a few thousand yuan. This means that she could buy more.
Jiang Miaomiao looked at the screen and sincerely said: “Tomorrow is the end of the world. I wish everyone’s father could stay together with their family and friends, escape successfully and live a healthy and smooth life. This is the end of tonight’s live broadcast, goodbye.”
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She hasn’t finished one third of her barbecue. Jiang Miaomiao put the leftovers in the refrigerator and walked to the window.
The windows are equipped with anti-theft barriers which she specially selected when renting a house in hope to let her hold on for a while when facing those zombies.
It’s late at night, but the distant sky was still red, it should be where the downtown is.
If she remembered it correctly, the first wave of zombies that broke out in the original book would be within these three days and the entire city would become a living hell on earth.
She was probably too nervous. Jiang Miaomiao stayed up all night and watched the sunrise with her eyes open.
At ten in the morning, everyone was living as usual when a small video suddenly appeared on a video website.
“A man on Haoshan Road was biting passers-by on the street and it’s suspected to be a rabies attack!”
The video was very bloody and it attracted a lot of attention in just half an hour.
A second video came out while everyone was still in a middle of discussion whether it was really a rabies attack.
Then a 3rd and 4th video followed after…
At eleven o’clock, the downtown went out of control and people began to flee.
The District Villa has also been affected. A lot of people ran home to hide and the supermarkets along the road encountered panic buying.
Food, water, medicines and other supplies were all sold out.
Numerous videos have been circulating and some people speculated that this should be a new type of infectious disease.
Jiang Miaomiao didn’t go out all day. She sat by the window to see the situation while eating her leftover barbecue from yesterday.
During the night of the same day, plenty of vicious attacks occurred with tens of thousands of casualties.
The government sent troops to suppress it, but they also suffered from infection and had to use the remaining personnel to organize the citizens to retreat to safe cities.
The military cars opened the road and the citizens followed in their private cars.
When the convoy passed by the District Villa, the neighbor next door kindly knocked on her door and asked if she needed a ride.
According to the progress of the original book, security is only temporary and it would only take more than a month for all the major cities on the earth to fall. Survivors could only wander in areas such as virgin forests, deserts and even oceans.
Needless to say, in contrast to the tribulations and thrills that would happen during this period, she would rather eat and drink here in the Villa she rented.
Jiang Miaomiao gave them some food and medicine bottles, “Thank you, but I still won’t leave. I wish you all the best.”
The other party was shocked, “Are you sure?”
She nodded and watched her neighbors leave then closed the door. She locked it and pushed the sofa, table and everything that could be moved and used it to block the door.
Then she went upstairs and walked inside her bedroom, locked the door, opened her computer and started playing games.
The noise outside is affecting her gaming experience so she put on her headphones.15
T/N: this novel is funny, promise