Rebirth: 100 Days Before Doomsday - Chapter 121

Chapter 121: Space Rings

[Time left before the day of the end of the world: 5 Days]

Grace shifted all the stock from the Retail store inside her space. Initially, she didn’t plan to stock up too much water supplies since she had unlimited water available in her space. But since she came across the store during their hunt for supplies, she decided to just get the products since they were available right in front of her.

Not putting special efforts in locating these supplies was a different thing, but ignoring them when they were this easily available to her – it would have been a completely stupid decision.

The store had packed water bottles of 500ML, 1L, and 2L. Water containers in sizes – 5L, 10L, 20L, 50L, and 100L. There were also large water containers, emergency water pouches, distilled water, collapsible water containers, water filters, water purification tablets, UV water purifiers, portable water bags, water collection tarps, water pumps, siphon, faucet-to-barrel adapters, bucketd with lids, mesh screens, desalination kits, unscented bleach, charcoal, sand, and finally rainwater collection systems.

While the most of the water in the apocalyptic world would no longer be in the state of being used for drinking, there were still ways to filter that water and use it. If Grace had ways for filtering water, she would be able to sell or exchange that water in future. The rainwater in future would also turn toxic, but it could also be filtered and used.

After thinking about all these possibilities, she went ahead and robbed the entire retail store, leaving behind only empty walls. Right! She took away the shelves too as they could be used for storage.

Just as she was about to walk out of the store, she stopped and turned to look at her surroundings. Though she knew that all these supplies would have gone to waste if left in the store, she couldn’t shake away the fact that she was robbing them and taking away the only source of income of some people.

Of course she knew that those people might not be able to open the store again or sell anything as the world was going to end within next five days, and the current weather wasn’t allowing anyone to even think about stepping out of their homes. But despite knowing all that, she found herself leaving behind a million in cash in the cash locker of the store.

[You should give up thinking too much about your actions. These people are beyond saving already.]

2025 reminded her when it noticed her safely placing the cash in the locker. They both knew that there was next to chance that the store owner would ever return to the store to find that money.

“You know that I don’t mind killing people, nor do I’m going to step out of my way to help anyone to survive these disasters. All I want is to not become the reason of some random innocent person’s death. Besides, the money that I’m left with is going to become worthless pieces of paper. Better to share it.” Grace replied as she walked in the shadows of the buildings, heading to the place where she and her team had agreed to meet within an hour.

For the past three days, they had been going out to hoard supplies from supermarkets, retail stores, warehouses, and factories. Because of the ongoing snowstorm, all these places were deserted, and it gave them the perfect opportunity to hoard more supplies.

In these three days of their hoarding sprint, Grace had collected more fuel, firewood, charcoal, cutlery and utensils, food, grains, dairy products, meat, poultry products, spices, salt, sauces, alcohol, electronics, medicines, books, baby products, water supplies, clothes, boots, machines, tools, sewing supplies, agriculture supplies, cooking supplies, stationary, and diffrebt types of equipment.

The night before, Maven located a vehicle retail store where he got several motorbikes, bicycles, cars, and spare parts. But they only took those vehicles that they could use during the apocalyptic world.

Her snow boots sank into the thick layer of snow, that was covering the street, as she walked toward her destination. As usual, the storm was showing no mercy as it snowed like crazy with a strong wind that was blowing across the street.

Thankfully, she was dressed appropriately for the situation or she might have caught a frostbite already because of just how cold the temperature was and also because of how ruthless the storm was being.

In the past couple of days, several deaths had been registered throughout the country. Humans weren’t the only one suffering though, the animals that were out in the open and the trees, they were suffering the most. While there was still a count of how many people had died, no one was counting the number of dogs, cats, and other animals they were losing every other hour.

People were praying day and night for the storm to stop, realizing that this volcanic winter was even worse than the flood they all barely survived through.

The flood destroyed all the agriculture in the country, and the following volcanic winter took away any remaining hope for new harvests. Now, the government was forced to open the saved supplies, but it was still not easy to distribute the food because of the storm.

The inhumane nature of men was once again back as people had started looting and killing their own neighbors in hope of finding some food. At this point, no one was afraid of the military, they were just afraid of dying from hunger.

Thankfully, the residents of Building K12 had long learned to stay away from the top three floors. Since they were looking for food to stay alive, they knew that they also needed to stay away from the top three floors if they wanted to stay alive. No one wanted to die from the hands of the monsters who resided at the top of the building.

The scary stories of the residents of the top three floors had also reached the residents of the nearby buildings, making all of them think twice before planning about ever going there to rob food.

However, there were still some people who didn’t think too much of these rumors and still headed to the twentieth floor of Building K12. While they didn’t took the warnings strongly, they sure focused on the part where it was mentioned that the residents of the top three floors of that building probably had a lot of rations in store.

Unfortunately, most of these people ended up dead as soon as they made their way to the twentieth floor. Only those, who were able to run away on time, survived but still received heavy injuries. What they didn’t know was that the only reason they were able to survive was because the people from the top floors allowed them to be as they could continue spreading the horrific stories about the top three floors of Building K12.

Grace was satisfied with how the team members residing on the twentieth floor were handling the situation. Because of them, the upper two floors were able to focus on their own works.

As she arrived at her destination, she found some of her teammates already waiting there. The rest arrived shortly as well. Once they all were safely back in one place, they immediately returned to her apartment.

Despite the harsh weather, barely anyone was feeling cold. It wasn’t only because they all were dressed warmly but also because their altered DNA allowed them to withstand the cold.

One by one, all the five of her teammates took off the rings she had handed them before they set out for the mission and placed them on the dining table. They grabbed the coffee prepared by Aleena and then headed to the living room.

On the other hand, Davain and Grace settled down at the dining table, and the latter started looking through the collection of the five rings. These were special rings that she purchased from the system once she came across them just the previous afternoon while surfing through some new sections of the system that she unlocked recently.

These rings were known as Space rings, and had the ability to store items inside them. All these five rings had area of the size of a big room inside them, allowing enough space to store items.

Grace meticulously went through the contents of each ring, examining each item and adding them to the supplies already stored in the warehouses of her space.

Food supplies, fuel, spare parts, and even luxuries like chocolate bars and high-grade liquor were filling the spaces. She nodded in satisfaction, silently commending her team for their efficiency. These spatial rings were proving to be a game-changer for their operation.

“Boss, you need to come here and save me from this woman!”

Ryan’s pleading and almost painful voice pulled her attention toward the living room. Knowing that he was talking about none other Ferah, a woman in Davian’s team, both Grace and Davian let out deep sighs…!