Wang Fugui

The two older besties opened the translation apps on their phones and showed Bai Yaoyao a message: "Come visit our country, little sister. We promise we'll take good care of you and show you around."

Bai Yaoyao shook her head weakly and typed with tears in her eyes: "No, thank you. I was so frightened that I just want to go home and rest. My heart is still pounding..."

The older women nodded in understanding. They hugged again, exchanged contact information, and reluctantly said goodbye.

Bai Yaoyao put on her mask and hat, instantly dropping the act. It had been ages since she had acted like that, and she was a little rusty. One of her expressions earlier had still felt off; she could have made it more nuanced.

As for the invitation from her "two besties"...

Why go to H Country? Eight out of every ten dishes were kimchi. It wasn't worth wasting her time.

Bai Yaoyao took a short nap on the plane, and by the time she woke, she had arrived in Huaguo. The corners of her lips lifted of their own accord.

After landing and leaving the terminal, she watched the people coming and going. It felt wonderful.

No zombies, no mutated beasts, no mutated plants. No chance of losing her life at any moment, no need to constantly live in fear...

Bai Yaoyao shook her head hard and took a taxi to a hotel in downtown A City. She had barely arrived when her big client, Wang Fugui, called.

"Miss Assassin, I hereby declare that from today onward, you're my god! Hahaha, fucking awesome! You really deserve that number-one spot in the assassin rankings!"

"Have you sent the money?" Bai Yaoyao didn't want to hear any nonsense. She only cared about what mattered to her.

"I will! As soon as we hang up! Miss Assassin, could I have the honor of meeting-"

The moment Bai Yaoyao heard that Wang Fugui would send the money after they hung up, she ended the call. If he was going to pay, why waste time talking? Could a couple of compliments buy her meat?

Sure enough, the money arrived shortly afterward.

"You little bastard, what the fuck are you doing? Another billion! Can you go one single day without squandering money?" Wang Fugui's father, Wang Yuanbao, shouted at his wayward son.

"How am I squandering money? Last time I spent money, Sato died. Didn't that let you earn back twice as much?" Wang Fugui retorted.

Wang Yuanbao roared, "Then what about this time?"

"This time... this time, it might save both our lives!" Wang Fugui tossed out a random excuse.

To change the subject, Wang Fugui leaned closer to Wang Baiwan and whispered, "Old man, did you know the Yasukuni Shrine got blown up?"

"Of course I know! Haven't you seen everyone out on the streets cheering their heads off? The whole internet crashed from the traffic! Heaven finally opened its eyes!

"If I weren't in such a good mood today, you'd already be flat on the floor!" Wang Yuanbao replied.

"Hahaha! Yours truly hired someone to do it!"

"Bullshit!" Wang Yuanbao didn't believe a word of it.

"It's true! I hired the same assassin who killed Sato for me last time. I paid her a billion, and she pulled it off!" Seeing that his father didn't believe him, Wang Fugui grew anxious.

"What? You're serious? Holy shit, our Wang family has finally made something of itself! And you only fucking gave her a billion? What a cheapskate! Send her another five hundred million!

"Then come with me to offer incense to your great-grandfather and kowtow to him!" Wang Yuanbao said in delighted surprise, looking at his foolish son with eyes full of fatherly love.

Wang Fugui had no idea that the excuse he had casually made up would actually come true one day...

Bai Yaoyao lay on the big bed, looking through her stockpiling checklist. She checked off what she had already bought and circled what she still needed.

Hearing a text notification, she checked her phone and discovered that Wang Fugui had transferred another five hundred million!

Bai Yaoyao froze. Was being fucking rich a license to do whatever you wanted? He wouldn't even stick to the agreed price-he had to raise it!

Adding that to the extra two hundred million from her previous job, she thought it over and decided she might as well give him an opportunity.

So she called Wang Fugui.

"Hey, Miss Assassin!"

"Could you do me a favor?" Bai Yaoyao asked.

Wang Fugui froze, then immediately felt he had made something of himself. The person who had blown up the shrine was asking him for help. What did that prove? That he was the most awesome one of all!

So he declared generously, "Just say the word! I'll get it done!"

"Buy me ten thousand generators, along with ten thousand solar panels and storage batteries, as quickly as possible," Bai Yaoyao said after some thought. She could buy these things herself, but after accepting so much extra money, she wanted to discreetly help this rich idiot.

Anyone with a little sense would think more deeply about her intentions.

Instead, the rich idiot Wang Fugui immediately asked, "Miss Assassin, are you changing careers? Or is someone hunting you down? I'll send people to rescue you! Our Wang family has people we can call on!"

Bai Yaoyao: (|| ﾟДﾟ)

After composing herself, Bai Yaoyao said, "And coal. I want ten thousand metric tons. If there isn't that much available, I'll take whatever you can get."

Wang Fugui said, "I can help, but these products are all over the place. Listen, Miss Assassin, you can't run a business like this. You'll lose money. Our Wang family knows business inside and out..."

Listening to Wang Fugui ramble on gave Bai Yaoyao a headache. She took a deep breath and decided to give him one last chance. If he still couldn't understand, he could go die. Without any brains, he wouldn't survive the apocalypse anyway.

"I also need water. Purified water, mineral water, and water for household use! Ten thousand metric tons of each!

"I'll pay. Just tell me whether you can help me buy them."

Bai Yaoyao's tone grew much fiercer despite herself.

"Yes, yes! I'll go arran-I'll go ask my dad to arrange it right now! I guarantee you'll get at least as much as you asked for, never less! Free of charge!" Hearing the urgency in Bai Yaoyao's voice, Wang Fugui hurriedly agreed.

"No! I said I'm paying! I'll send you the delivery address in a moment!" Bai Yaoyao snapped. There was no talking normally to someone this brainless.

Wang Fugui hastily said yes over and over. This was a powerhouse who could blow up the shrine. If he pissed her off and she came to kill him, wouldn't it be as easy as slaughtering a piglet?

He couldn't afford to offend her. Absolutely not!

He hurried upstairs and told his father what Bai Yaoyao had asked him to do. He certainly didn't have the ability to acquire all those supplies so quickly himself.

Wang Yuanbao was taken aback. He had a feeling there was more to this. Would someone capable of something as monumental as blowing up the shrine suddenly go into business for no reason? Only his idiot son would think that.

He immediately used his connections to gather everything Bai Yaoyao needed as quickly as possible. Not only did he get everything at the lowest price, but he also added extra quantities of every item!

That saved Bai Yaoyao a fortune.

Wang Yuanbao didn't know whether his suspicions were correct, but he followed Bai Yaoyao's lead and bought plenty of supplies himself. He covered clothing, food, shelter, and transportation, and even reinforced his villa.

Bai Yaoyao rented a house on the outskirts of A City. Besides visiting the factory building every day to collect supplies, she went to several restaurants with delicious food and ordered five hundred meals a day from each, with deliveries staggered throughout the day.

Fish-fragrant shredded pork, garlic pork ribs, black pepper beef short ribs, shredded lemon chicken, crispy sweet-and-sour pork, farmhouse stir-fried pork, Sichuan boiled fish, pickled mustard fish, cola chicken wings, shredded pork in sweet bean sauce, northeastern mung bean sheet salad, braised pork belly, stir-fried potato, eggplant, and green pepper, bullfrog with pickled chilies, spicy basa fish, mapo tofu, beef and offal in chili sauce, mixed vegetable salad, lettuce in oyster sauce, cauliflower stir-fried with pork...

Huaguo had far too many delicious dishes. Stockpiling them all was impossible. She still needed to acquire ingredients.

She checked the supplies already in her storage space and topped them up a little.

She bought another twenty thousand bags each of northeastern rice and southern rice.

She hadn't bought much flour in R Country, so she ordered another twenty-five thousand kilograms.

She ordered twenty metric tons each of lamb, beef, chicken, duck, and pork.

She also ordered fifteen hundred kilograms of almost every kind of vegetable and fruit.

Most importantly, she stockpiled ten million worth of ingredients for her favorite foods: hot pot and barbecue.

She also placed orders with different KFC branches for many consecutive days, ordering three thousand assorted combo meals from each branch every day. Xiaodai from the organization loved this fried junk food most.

Bai Yaoyao also found a furniture wholesale market and bought five thousand each of beds, mattresses, four-piece bedding sets, tables, chairs, and cabinets.

She had money now anyway. If she couldn't use it all later, she could trade the leftovers to the authorities for crystal cores to level up.

Because Bai Yaoyao couldn't cook, she had nearly forgotten that cooking required seasonings. In R Country, she had only bought basics such as sugar, salt, and seafood soy sauce.

So she specifically searched online and bought a thousand cases each of all the seasonings commonly used in everyday cooking.

Starting in the second year of the apocalypse, the authorities had developed some new rations, but they all tasted awful. Anyone with any ability wouldn't choose to eat them, though they did alleviate the food crisis to some extent.

Finally, the most important thing: seeds! She could plant them in her storage space. Although the area available for planting was tiny now, it would very likely grow as she leveled up.

So she completely bought out several wholesale shops, covering every vegetable, fruit, and medicinal herb she could find.

These were hope. She couldn't do without them.