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Chapter Two- The House
Wu Qingyuan had already experienced this matter in his previous life, so he knew the mind of his aunt’s family very well.
These people had been coveting his house as early as when his parents died. If he hadn’t been an adult at that time and had a tough personality, these people would have shown their true colors and robbed the house directly.
After all, for him, apart from the commemorative significance of the house left by his parents, the value of the house is not that important. What he did before was practically giving it to them in the name of their blood relations, and the income was proportional to the risk. The house wasn’t valued at hundreds of millions, but there would still be a deposit of millions.
But for ordinary working-class people like his aunt’s family, a house in the city center is definitely a huge temptation, enough to make them care for an unimportant nephew.
Although he hesitated in the previous life, he finally relented and gave the house out, but this time, it would not be so easy for these white-eyed wolves to take his house!
“Auntie, I can sell the house to you, and the price can be cheaper. The market price is 1.3 million yuan. For the sake of being relatives, you can give me one million yuan, but you must give the money right away. It must be the full amount, if you can’t then I won’t sell the house…”
Wu Qingyuan stared at his greedy aunt and uncle in front of him.
He didn’t plan to keep the house; it was about to be the end of the world, with the sheer volume of zombies, the entire city would become ruins, and the house would be worthless.
As for money, it will soon become a wastepaper. He is not short of money, but if he can collect a little more money for preparing supplies then he should. He isn’t greedy- since his aunt’s family wants his house so much, then he is willing to part with it, for a price.
“What? One million? Full payment?!”
As soon as Wu Qingyuan finished speaking, Wu Sufen and her husband instantly exploded and screamed, looking at him a little strangely, never expecting that he would offer such a condition.
According to this husband and wife’s thinking, Wu Qingyuan is rich, and he always responds to them on their requests. Things can get easily done or taken after they speak just a few sentences. Now that the other party actually wants money, and it’s as much as one million, they can’t help but assume that maybe Wu Qingyuan’s mind is sick? To even ask them for money!
Wu Sufen and her husband looked at each other, and they both felt dissatisfied with Wu Qingyuan, but they didn’t show their true colors. The house has not yet been obtained so they are not so stupid to do so now.
“Qingyuan, can you take an IOU for this money? You know the situation of your aunt’s house. Your uncle only earns a few thousand yuan a month. Where can your aunt collect so much money at once? We rely on his salary for food and drink, yesterday your cousin came back to ask for your uncle’s and my pension money…”
As soon as she closed her eyes and opened her mouth, Wu Sufen squeezed out tears from her eyes, wiped her tears, and began to pretend to be poor like her usual strategy. Tears flowed as she spoke- truly a living acting school.
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She didn’t need to say her inner thoughts- Wu Qingyuan could see through it at a glance, and his heart sneered even more.
“I haven’t told you about something yet- recently, I have been in a tight spot and need money urgently. If you don’t want to buy this house, then I still plan to sell it. But since we are relatives, I will definitely consider my aunt first but if you can’t give me the money right away, I can only sell this house to others…”
Wu Qingyuan stated this directly, and after saying so, he was about to get up and leave. Wu Sufen saw this and quickly grabbed him.
“Hey, what are you doing, my eldest nephew, after thinking about it again- your aunt didn’t say that I wouldn’t give you any money, but one million is really too much. One hundred thousand. How about aunt give you 100,000 first? You just need to wait for the rest…”
Wu Qingyuan remained unmoved and continued to walk outside. She couldn’t hold him back so Wu Sufen was anxious and could only call for him while cursing in her heart, she needed to hold him steady before she could talk.
Wu Qingyuan had already figured out her thoughts a long time ago and went on walking as if he didn’t hear her. He knew that his aunt would not give up.
Although his house is not worth too much money because of its small area- its location is in the center of the city. It’s not easy to buy a house in this kind of place now. To say that one million is too expensive for such a house, it means that one isn’t a trustworthy person. But will they give up the opportunity to take advantage of him? Absolutely impossible!
Seeing that Wu Qingyuan was no longer willing to discuss and walking even faster, Wu Sufen almost died of anxiety, and quickly signaled at her husband who went to the door to block Wu Qingyuan, as they anxiously chased him.
“My eldest nephew- don’t go. Your aunt just misspoke. One million is one million, but your aunt can only give you half first. You have to give us a month to find someone to borrow the rest from. Since I’m your aunt, you don’t have to be so hard tempered about this.”
In the end, Wu Sufen still didn’t want to give so much. She still wanted to take advantage of him.
“Five hundred thousand is too little. I’m anxious since I need money now, so Auntie, you can give me 800 thousand first, and I can give you time to borrow the remaining 200 thousand, otherwise I won’t discuss this matter. You can think about it and call me tonight.”
Wu Qingyuan pierced her carefully mended thoughts and spoke resolutely. He pushed his uncle aside who was blocking the door out of the way and left without paying attention to Wu Sufen who was shouting at him from behind.
That night, Wu Sufen did not call him, but he was not in a hurry. He was confident that his aunt’s family would be more anxious than him.
Putting the things regarding the house out of the way, Wu Qingyuan began to plan to deal with the varying affairs before the he ran out of time rather than wasting time with these white-eyed wolves, how to live in the end of the world is more important.
In his previous life, he lived for ten years in the last days with his unique wood and space dual-system abilities. If it wasn’t for the bad luck he encountered when he went out to find supplies and met a huge group of zombies, he believed that he would be able to continue to live.
Although the zombies in the last days are terrifying, zombies cannot reproduce but humans can, and more and more people have been awakening abilities in the later period of the last days.
By the tenth year of the end of the world, human powers were already very powerful, and a lot of the zombies were wiped out. According to the statistics of the major base alliances at that time, as long as humans work hard for another ten years, the apocalypse will end and a new era will come. They may return to the good life before the end of the world. However, he knew that this premise is impossible, in other words, the end times may continue forever. Even if the problem with the zombies were solved, the earth’s environment has suffered huge damage. Various plants and animals have mutated, and it would be very difficult to return to the pre-apocalyptic state.
After ten years of living in the apocalypse, even if Wu Qingyuan’s temperament is already very tough, it was still difficult for him to accept living in purgatory forever in the apocalypse.
Not only him, but all human beings are the same. The motivation and hope for everyone to live is the beautiful future vision of “The End of the World will End” issued by the Major Base Alliances.
Therefore, he now wants to choose another path and leave this purgatory world directly.
Yes, leaving here and fleeing across another world is possible- having experienced such a mystical thing as rebirth, Wu Qingyuan has no doubt about being able to cross worlds.
His second grandfather told him this secret.
Speaking of his second grandfather, few people in the Wu family know about him, because this second grandfather, from his grandfather’s generation, has basically cut off relations with the Wu family and only calls him occasionally.
Knowing the existence and deeds of his second grandfather, when his own grandfather passed away, his second grandfather had wanted to move with the Wu family, but the Wu family rejected it.
It was said that his second grandfather was very good in his earlier years- he was a college student of that era, able to sit in an office, and eat from the iron rice bowl of the country. In that era, he was a great ancestor- but then he came together with a man. At that time, the thoughts were feudal, and the older generations could not accept it. His great grandfather had felt ashamed, so he kicked his second son out of the house and severed their relationship. The two went abroad and waited until his great grandfather died before coming back to China.
However, unbeknownst to anyone but him, his grandfather and his second brother have a good relationship and have been secretly in contact the whole time.
Later, when the apocalypse broke out, it was this second grandfather who called him and told him a secret. He asked him to go to a mountain in a small town in Province Y. There was a place there where he could leave this terrifying apocalypse and travel to another world- where he has an opportunity for a peaceful world.
At that time, he didn’t care. The world became chaotic after the apocalypse broke out, so he had no chance to go, and he didn’t believe in crossing over to another world. It felt too absurd, but at this moment, he believed- if he could be reborn, then how is crossing to another world impossible?
So now he has two paths to choose from.
First, it was to leave this world and live in another strange world. Second, to continue staying here until the end the apocalypse come and ushers in a new era of mankind.
Both roads were risky, but after ten years of apocalyptic life, Wu Qingyuan would rather take the risk and try to leave this world. No matter how bad it was, it won’t be worse than being watched by a group of zombies all day long. It was both disgusting and made your brain numb, also, he was really fed up with life in the apocalypse.
Even if the first path fails to succeed, then at worst he will experience the apocalypse again, without any loss.
After spending all night thinking about it, Wu Qingyuan started to take action the next morning when he woke up.
Although he has a dual-element ability, one of which is a spatial ability, his space is not large, even if it was filled with supplies, it will only be enough for him to live for one or two years.
So what he can do to prepare is to buy some essentials that he can’t produce or make by himself, and then prepare enough seeds.
Regardless of whether he can escape to another world or what that world is like, as long as he has seeds, he will not starve to death’ as a wood-type awakened person, there are many ways he can live.
And if he can’t leave in the end and has to stay in this world, he can also find a safe place with a sparse population, use the wood power to plant and ripen in order to solve the food problem, and survive until the end of the end of the world.
After planning- clothes, shoes, rice, noodles, grains, oils, soy, vinegar, salt, sugar and tea, etc. Wu Qingyuan ordered these directly through the internet to purchase them. It is too laborious to purchase all these items in person, and online purchases not only save time, but also the price is cheaper.
Although he is not short of money, it is more convenient to buy online and deliver to the door. He naturally has to choose the most time-saving method. Only a few months were left before the end of the world, and he still has a lot to do.
After completing these purchases, Wu Qingyuan himself went to the farmer’s market to purchase the remaining needed seeds. Because of his limited space, he could not prepare everything.
In the end, he didn’t spend a lot of money to buy the necessary food and supplies, as well as seeds, and he still had a lot of savings left.
After thinking about it, Wu Qingyuan asked some old friends to help with the remaining money on hand, and replaced them all with gold.
There are always mentions about the usefullness of antiques and gold, no matter the era. He doesn’t know what the other world his second grandfather mentioned but as long as the peaceful world of human life develops to a certain extent, gold is likely to be used as currency and has a certain value.
Even if he can’t go to the world described by his second grandfather, gold will definitely restore its value after the end of the end of the world and human beings return to a normal society. Since ancient times, gold has been a value-preserving thing, so it is basically not wrong to change to gold.
Anyway, it won’t be long before this money will turn into wastepaper, and his space can no longer be filled with more supplies. These are all his hard-earned money earned by his hard work. If it really becomes wastepaper, then he will feel very sad.
It took more than half a month to deal with these matters, and his aunt’s house, who had not showed movement, finally called.
Looking at the incoming call on the phone, Wu Qingyuan, who had been busy for more than half a month, finally showed a smile on his face, and the chance for revenge on these guys came!
yo? i dont know how i didnt notice the al qaeda reference in this when first reading? that’s so random and wild lmfaooo
What’s the “Al Qaeda” reference your talking about
the author calls an alliance that is for peace in the og world “al qaeda alliance.” if u dont know what the al qaeda is irl google it. there’s no way the author didnt know what it is so it’s a bit wild lol.
So 基地联盟 here means “base alliance,” not Al Qaeda. Al Qaeda is 基地组织 in Chinese, referred as 基地 for short.
that makes sense! so it was a mistranslation. thanks for clarifying lmaoo tho im kinda sad it isnt real cuz it was hilarious to me
second grandpa, come and stay with me instead! You can bring ur wife along !
SORRY I DIDNT MEAN TO REPLY TO YOU
I wonder what second grandfather knows and did he escape himself? 🧐. Thank you
Totally like the idea of hoarding golds.. (^o^)
Wow, he had made really thoughtful preparations! I wondering if 2nd grandfather will be also in another world or no~ ₍՞◌′ᵕ‵ू◌₎
Thank You for the chapter ( ˘ ³˘)♥
FYI 基地联盟 means “base alliance,” not Al Qaeda. Al Qaeda is 基地组织.
Thanks for translating this story!
Also, it should be “he kicked his second son out of the house.”
Good
Gold, good ideia!
This is interesting I’m starting to understand the concept instead of a regular apocalypse novel he’s instantly going to jump into another world I’m excited 😂😂
You should consider silver and jade too. They are valuable especially jades
I always wonder why zombie storylines always go hand in hand with apocalypse and destroyed civilisations. It’s not like someone has to physically be present for internet, radio and power to work as long as the army clears out important power maintenance areas couldn’t they continue to operate? Anyways, I’m guessing since this novel has gers then maybe his second grandfather had traveled to the otherworld and the man he brought back to this world is a ger
It doesn’t help that its not just the bases of power that would need to be cleared. All power line areas would need to be maintained as well, which is a massive infrastructure. The army would likely just clear out enough for their own communications to work
It’s seems that I’m just like my sister whom I criticize every time she watch drama. “Don’t even bother asking her list of drama she watch, she will download a drama only to realize she already watch it, don’t worry about spoiler the minute she watch the drama and on to the next one she already forgot the previous drama she watch” and I somehow didn’t read the Al Qaeda part. My shrimpy brain is so useless 😭