NABC Chapter 29 High Temperature Apocalypse 1
Chapter 29 High Temperature Apocalypse 1
A series of high-temperature warnings popped up on Jiang Ping's phone, and his finger unconsciously swiped across the screen.
A world of high temperatures?
It's the apocalypse again.
This time, she transmigrated into the body of Yan Yiping, a junior college student living in Huliu Village, whose parents sell snacks in town.
Having suffered at their hands in a past life, one of the original owner's wishes was to stay away from his family.
After recovering from his illness, Yan Yiping packed a few clothes and left Huliu Village under the pretext of going to another province for a summer job.
He didn't ask his parents for the fare, only saying that it was a job introduced by a classmate.
However, it was obvious that the original owner's parents breathed a huge sigh of relief.
The system told her that the couple had lent their savings to relatives to buy a house and help them pay off the loan, and they didn't have any money left for their daughter's schooling...
I was speechless.
What kind of oddball is this?
……
The scorching sun baked the earth, and the temperature rose day by day.
After arriving in Nan'an City by high-speed rail, Yan Yiping found a hotel to settle in before disguising himself and starting his feast.
In the original owner's memory, there were countless delicious foods in Nan'an City, but unfortunately she was short of money at the time and could only satisfy her cravings by watching videos on her phone.
Upon seeing this, the system very tactfully arranged a food and game gift pack for the original owner.
She didn't miss a thing: food streets, breakfast shops, roadside stalls, boxed lunch restaurants, supermarkets, snack shops, small restaurants, and hotel banquet halls. She also bought vegetables, fruits, seeds, fish and shrimp, dried fruits, nuts, milk tea, ice cream, fried chicken, steamed buns, soy milk, all kinds of noodles, hot and sour noodles…
Too hot? No problem.
Yan Yiping tried to cool herself down, but the effect was so-so and it couldn't stop her shopping enthusiasm.
With a system in place to earn money to support his family, Yan Yiping now only needs to focus on shopping.
In her previous life, the original owner was also working away from home at this time, but she was understanding of her parents' complaints.
Little did they know that their family didn't even have enough money for tuition.
By the end of August, just as the original owner was planning to go directly to school, she received a notice from the school that the start of the semester was postponed.
She kept hearing people around her discussing the temperature at work, and she started to feel a little worried.
Thinking it better to be prepared, he sent several boxes of supplies home before returning to the village.
With limited savings, I only bought a few large bottles of Yibao mineral water, a few boxes of compressed biscuits, a few boxes of chocolates, sunglasses, sunscreen, and some common medicines.
I spent most of my salary on this, and even got a scolding when I got home.
The things they bought were also lost; their strict parents gave them away to relatives as gifts.
However, the original owner felt that there was still food at home, enough to last for a while, so she didn't bother to buy anything else to keep at home.
*
If the original owner's parents had been selling snacks in town for over ten years, their life should have been quite comfortable; at least the original owner wouldn't have needed to do summer jobs.
After all, there was a lot of transient population in the town, and the residents were good at eating. The original owner's parents worked year-round and only rented a place in front of someone else's shop to set up a stall.
Where did all the money go?
Look at this business, it's been so long and they can't even afford to rent a storefront.
Upon closer examination, both the strict father and mother were quite eccentric.
The couple never forgets to complain about being poor to their daughter every day. They don't feel tired even after a busy day, and after closing up shop, they tacitly try to please their respective siblings.
At first, the strict father had some complaints about the strict mother's behavior. The strict mother was not weak, and she said that since they both earned money, why couldn't she bring it home...
Has anyone considered the original owner of this body...?
No...
After the original owner was born, the strict father suffered an accident that affected his fertility, making it impossible for him to have any more children.
Among Yan's father's relatives were some unscrupulous people who said that the original owner of the body had brought bad luck to Yan's descendants, and Yan actually believed that the original owner of the body had brought bad luck to people.
Yan's mother also didn't want to have any more children, and since it wouldn't affect their married life anyway, she didn't plan to get a divorce.
As for the original owner, in her heart her daughter would always get married, so she just raised her casually.
After that, the couple only treated the original owner well on the surface, but their hearts were actually elsewhere.
You treat your brother to dinner today, and I'll borrow money from you tomorrow.
You buy a TV for your aunt's family, and I'll send my new bed back to my parents' house.
You buy a cell phone for your nephew, and I'll buy a computer for my niece.
The main theme is competitiveness.
……
When I was a child, no matter how tough or wronged I felt, my parents would give me a piece of candy or tell me a lie to make me feel better.
When the original owner got to university, he saw how other students and their parents interacted and felt like a joke.
After finally regaining her senses, her parents, for some unknown reason, started to repair their relationship with her, buying her new sweaters, suitcases, and giving her an extra two hundred yuan for living expenses.
In less than half a year, the original owner softened and thought that the past was over.
During her junior year summer vacation, she returned to her village after finishing her job, where the persistently high temperatures did not decrease but instead increased.
The school has postponed its opening, so we can't move in early either.
The supplies I had stockpiled in advance were all given away by my parents, and the money I had earned from working was also spent.
I was forced to stay at home and listen to my parents' sarcastic remarks.
She learned to let her strict parents talk to her so much that it went in one ear and out the other, and she didn't react much.
This offended them, who thought she had become foolish from reading too much and believed everything they heard.
They have money but don't know how to be filial to their parents; they just squander money online every day.
They were still complaining to their relatives on their phones that the original owner was abnormal for reading too many books, learning things like hoarding and spending money recklessly.
The system told Yan Yiping that in his previous life, the original owner's parents kept such secrets to cover up their guilt about not having money.
The temperature is too high for my body to handle, so we had to put our food business on hold and could only watch helplessly as prices outside soared.
They probably know they've messed up, but they just don't want to admit it.
While idle at home, she had nothing better to say than that. She complained that if there really was a drought, why didn't her cousins, who worked in the city, know about it?
The original owner wanted to defend himself, but didn't know how to say it.
Several of my cousins even created a small group chat to discuss how the original owner's entire family was mentally ill.
It's clear that the strict father and mother's lives were wasted.
……
As water supply in cities shifted from rationed and time-limited to water trucks and ID card-based water distribution, river and well water in rural areas gradually dried up.
Behind their backs, the relatives unanimously bought and stockpiled a lot of things.
My cousins couldn't make it in the city anymore and were planning to return to the village.
For some reason, no one told the Yan couple to buy some things to keep at home.
What they didn't expect was that even after notifying the Yan family, they didn't have the money to stockpile goods; all the money was with their relatives.
However, since the Yan family ran a food business in the countryside, they always had some food in stock, so they wouldn't starve to death so easily.
Therefore, when the village chief organized people to go to town to buy supplies, the Yan family refused without even thinking about it.
The family has no spare money right now, and they firmly believe that the drought will end soon.
Perhaps only by thinking this way can I mask the panic in my heart.
……
Without water, people can hardly survive, and crops in the fields cannot survive either.
The villagers were stunned. The staff stationed in the village, seeing that something was wrong, packed their things and returned to the city overnight.
With her parents in a daze and unable to extricate herself from the family, no one knew the fear in the original owner's heart.
Before the villagers could even lay a hand on their fellow villagers, the Yan family had brought about their own demise.
All the uncles and aunts had to do was put on a miserable face, and the strict father would send them things from home.
Not to be outdone, the strict mother secretly delivered half a bucket of settled muddy water to her brother in the dark.
Even being disliked is a joy.
They even had the energy to grumble and complain, saying that if the original owner hadn't earned more money and bought more supplies, they wouldn't have had such a hard time.
They didn't leave their house for three consecutive days to take care of their siblings, and that's when the neighbors found them dead at home.
The two of them got what they wanted.
As for the original owner's whereabouts, no one cares.
After her parents went insane following the power outage in the village, she chose to leave Huliu Village alone.
He survived for three years in the apocalypse with only a few bottles of water and a few bags of chocolate, instant noodles, and bread that he had secretly hidden away.
……