"With your abilities, finding out some inside information shouldn't be difficult," Ling Yi said without looking up from his phone.
"I do know some information. People are panicking right now, and nobody knows what will happen next," the bearded man probed.
The bearded man was clearly misunderstanding, or perhaps he had imagined Ling Yi's identity.
Otherwise, who could so easily find out someone's entire family history? That's terrifying.
Ling Yi shook his head. "I don't know what will happen next, but finding a safe place and storing enough supplies is always a good idea."
That's as good as saying nothing at all.
The bearded man looked conflicted, and after a long pause, he said, "I heard that the authorities have been concealing the impending apocalypse to avoid causing panic."
"But in reality, the authorities had already set up a large number of shelters inland, and some wealthy and powerful people had already begun their evacuation a month in advance, entering the shelters early on."
"If someone hadn't publicly shared information about the apocalypse online, ordinary people probably wouldn't have known that disaster was imminent."
Ling Yi frowned. Although he was very unhappy with this approach, he didn't comment on it.
This is, after all, a world of Doomsday Drill, or rather, Parallel World.
He was just a passerby, a Qiusheng, a temporary participant, who would leave after a hundred days.
Ling Yi didn't care at all about how the world would turn out in the future.
Just like in the movie 2012, those with money and power can build Noah's Ark and seek a glimmer of hope.
But what about ordinary people?
Like the family of the doctor, a supporting character in the movie, facing the impending cataclysmic disaster, they could only eat their last meal together before waiting to die.
"This world has never been fair. Weakness is the original sin. Sometimes the weak don't even have the right to choose!" Ling Yi murmured.
Upon hearing Ling Yi's words, the bearded man immediately fell silent.
Silence fell inside the car.
The bearded man lived a life of constant uncertainty, and he understood all too well that weakness was the original sin.
The number of comments in Ling Yi's live stream room has also decreased significantly.
This world has never been fair; the weak don't even have the right to choose.
Those words are so hurtful.
What they're watching now is just a live broadcast, Doomsday Drill.
But what if one day, the apocalypse really comes? Will they, like the ordinary people in this Doomsday Drill world, be abandoned?
As seen in the footage from live stream room Number Five, those people swallowed by the tsunami could only helplessly await their death in despair.
The car arrived at the Ruidu Commercial Building quickly.
However, at this moment, the Ruidu Commercial Building was surrounded by a group of people who were holding sticks and other weapons and were trying to damage the building's doors and windows.
If it were anywhere else, Ling Yi wouldn't bother with it at all.
The basement of the Ruidu Commercial Building was where Ling Yi stored his supplies and would also serve as his refuge for the next hundred days, Ling Yi naturally couldn't ignore it.
These people are all ordinary locals.
It's unclear who instigated them to target the shelter Ling Yi chose.
The apocalypse is just beginning, and chaos is already emerging.
In fact, Gao City is not yet in dire need of supplies.
It seems someone with ulterior motives targeted this shelter, using supplies as bait to lure these fools into stealing the supplies, and incidentally helping them take over the shelter.
Ling Yi didn't care about the truth.
As Ling Yi stepped out of the car, a wave of intense heat immediately hit him.
The car had air conditioning, and the temperature was only around 18 degrees Celsius, while outside it was like a scorching Purgatory, with the temperature probably already exceeding 50 degrees Celsius.
This is very abnormal.
It should be known that the higher the altitude, the lower the temperature should be.
In previous years, the hottest temperature in Gao City was around 24 or 25 degrees Celsius, never exceeding 30 degrees Celsius.
Moreover, the sky was covered with dark clouds, preventing sunlight from shining through.
According to the information Ling Yi has gathered in the past few days, the weather in this world began to become chaotic several months ago.
Now, extreme weather events are becoming increasingly frequent.
Ling Yi stared coldly at the people in front of him, his eyes filled with murderous intent.
Whether it's a virtual world or the real world, since it's Doomsday Drill and a Qiusheng, it should look like a doomsday Qiusheng.
To Qiusheng in the apocalypse, one must be decisive and ruthless, and never be a saint.
Ling Yi took out a pistol from his pocket and fired two shots directly into the sky.
The loud sound of the pistol instantly drew the attention of everyone present.
The people looked in the direction of the gunshot and saw a young man calmly changing the magazine on his pistol.
"From now on, anyone who doesn't leave within ten seconds will die!" Ling Yi's voice was not loud, and his tone was very calm, as if he were chatting with someone.
Given his high school student appearance, he doesn't seem threatening at all.
However, these people dared not speak up.
Ling Yi didn't exude a strong sense of oppression, but the bearded man and his entourage behind Ling Yi did.
"Ten, nine, eight..." Ling Yi began counting down to himself.
"Who are you, you idiot? I don't believe you'd actually dare to shoot us."
"Bang!" A gunshot rang out.
The person who had spoken had a bloody hole in his forehead and collapsed, his face filled with astonishment.
Everyone shuddered; they then realized that the high school student wasn't joking.
"Seven, six, five..."
Most of these people were ordinary people; the sight of gunfire and death nearly scared them out of their wits.
As the first person retreated and turned to leave, others began to leave one after another.
In the blink of an eye, only about twenty-three people remained on the scene.
These people, including the one who just spoke, are most likely the instigators of this incident.
Many people looked at one of the short, middle-aged men.
This person is most likely the leader of these people.
But none of that matters.
"Three, two, one!"
As the countdown ended, Ling Yi pulled the trigger without hesitation.
The firing rate was slow, with a shot rang out approximately every two or three seconds.
As the second and third people fell to the ground after being shot in the forehead, the remaining people could no longer bear the fear in their hearts and turned to run away.
But Ling Yi had no intention of letting them go.
Next, Ling Yi will live in this world for one hundred days, and he doesn't want to have to deal with these rotten people and these messy things every day during those one hundred days.
"Bang, bang, bang!"
Ling Yi didn't fire quickly, but every shot hit the target's head accurately.
Moreover, whoever runs will die first.
After emptying one magazine, Ling Yi's hand trembled, and in less than a second, the second magazine was switched as quickly as if by magic.
The frequency of the gunshots was not affected in the slightest when Ling Yi changed the magazine.
Some people were terrified and rushed towards Ling Yi while screaming.
But what awaited him was a bullet that, though intensely hot, could steal away his body heat.
In the apocalypse... one must act ruthlessly; without a heart of stone and a hand of steel, how can one stand firm?
Gao City is not a large city, with a local population of 650,000, and can only support 650,000 people.
Now, however, Gao City has a population of nearly ten million.
This sum of ten million was gradually brought in from all over the country during this period.
The news of the impending apocalypse was unknown to ordinary people, but it was no secret in upper-class circles.
If Ling Yi could think that Gao City was the safest place, then others naturally could too.
But when there are too many people, the problems become much bigger.
With Gao City's current material reserves, it is simply impossible to supply the needs of ten million people.
Within a week, Gao City will face a shortage of supplies.
In order to survive, anything could happen.
In less than three minutes, besides Ling Yi and his group, the only other person still alive at the scene was the short, middle-aged man.
Ling Yi had already emptied two magazines and was changing to the third.
"Why?" the short, middle-aged man asked, his face grim.
"This building is mine. You come here to steal my things, and you're asking me why?" Ling Yi said Taunt.
"I see. But you won't live much longer. Now, the whole of Gao City knows you have an Lower Chamber Lower Chamber here, which contains nearly two hundred tons of survival supplies."
"When this Gao City becomes an isolated island, you will all..."
"Bang!"
A bullet pierced his forehead.
"You talk too much nonsense!"
Then, Ling Yi looked at the bearded man and said, "Bring over what I asked for."
The bearded man glanced at Ling Yi, said "okay," then took out his phone and sent a message.
At the same time, Ling Yi also sent a message to Sariminglan.
A moment later, the metal doors of the shopping mall slowly opened.
A beautiful face peeked out from behind the door.
This was Sariminglan, the agent Ling Yi Hire in Gao City a few days ago.
"Boss?" Upon seeing Ling Yi, Sariminglan asked softly, her voice trembling with tears.
"It's me!"
The two had video chatted, Sariminglan naturally knew Ling Yi.
But at this moment, Sariminglan was filled with regret.
Although the salary is high, it's terrifying!
This guy actually had a gun, and he could just kill people without warning—more than twenty at once.
She's just graduated from university; she's still a kid. When has she ever seen anything like this?
But now, she dared not show the slightest dissatisfaction.
Ling Yi walked up to Sariminglan: "Your work is finished. You can leave anytime."
Upon hearing Ling Yi tell her to leave, Sariminglan glanced at the corpse in front of the door and desperately wanted to run away.
But reason told her that compared to the dangers outside, this place was actually one of the safest places in the entire Gao City.
She was well aware of the news that the Arctic were melting and that the end of the world was coming.
Ling Yi has ample supplies here, and the Lower Chamber is sturdy and secure. Where could she go if she left?
Should we go to the official survival base?
However, in Sariminglan's view, a survival base might not necessarily be as safe as Ling Yi's place.
The key issue is that even if she wanted to get into the survival base, she had no way of doing so.
So, Sariminglan stood there at the door, conflicted.
A dozen minutes later, three vans arrived.
Under Ling Yi's arrangement, they drove directly into the main entrance of Ruidu Commercial Building and into the lobby on the first floor.
Ling Yi settled the final payment with the bearded man, then closed the metal door of the shopping mall.
The bearded man stood outside the door for a good ten seconds before getting into his car and leaving.
Inside the door, Ling Yi glanced at the extremely nervous Sariminglan and said, "If you don't want to leave, then get to work!"
Ling Yi opened one of the vans, revealing neatly arranged wooden crates inside.
Upon opening one of the boxes, a strong smell of ink wafted out, and inside came six rifles, the famous AK47s.