That afternoon...
Ashira came out of an old office building in the city center. When she came out, her account had an additional ₱12.28 million.
This kind of small loan company is even more exploitative than vampires. She sold the house to Her Family for ₱16 million, but only got ₱12.28 million when selling it to the blood-sucking small loan company. And the interest was extremely high.
Ash signed a promissory note with them for seven-day repayment. Within seven days, she had to return ₱16 million to the loan company, or they would take the house.
This was simply a bottomless pit, just to suck up her house! But it didn't matter, because she never planned to pay it back! And she didn't even have the house anymore!
This 12 day loan cycle was timed perfectly, right before the apocalypse arrived, the loan company would be able to find the her Family.
By then, both sides would be fighting fiercely like dogs biting dogs. Neither of them was easy to mess with, it was just unknown who would have the upper hand! But no matter who won, in a few days, this house would turn into a pile of dust.
Ashira now had ₱12.28 million, looking at the money the loan company had deposited into her account. With a thought, she borrowed from all the lending platforms on the market!
After a round of operations, she gained another ₱4.09 million (Pure plot arrangement, everyone must not get online loans! Stay away from online loans, live a happy life!!!)
Now Ashira had ₱30.28 million in her hands. She could fiercely stock up on another wave of supplies. After her funds were ample, she first went to a building materials factory to continue reinforcing her fortress.
After first buying 40 to 50 cameras, she found the generator seller. She needed a power generation device. Generators are divided into wind, hydro, thermal, and diesel.
The first three types were not very suitable; installation was troublesome, very time-consuming, and generally there was no stock, requiring custom orders from professional manufacturers. Diesel, however, was very suitable.
"How many kilowatts of a generator do you want?" the seller asked.
"How many do you have?" She said without looking at the man Infront of her.
"We have ₱200,000, ₱400,000, ₱1.6 million to ₱6.55 million, anything over a billion is expensive."
Ash roughly understood the characteristics of diesel generators. For example, the smallest 30-kilowatt one, the price is roughly between ₱81,899 and ₱163,798.
A mid-range general 200-kilowatt one costs between ₱409,228 and ₱800,000. A 300-kilowatt one costs over ₱800,000 and prices double from there. Anything over a thousand kilowatts starts at a million or more.
Moreover, imported ones are 20% to 30% more expensive than domestic ones.
"Buying domestic is fine. The quality of our domestic ones is no worse than imported ones, and domestic ones are more durable, with high practicality. Imported ones are also picky about diesel. What do you plan to buy it for? Opening a restaurant?" the boss continued to introduce.
"Yes." She just said.
She needed electricity to power the grid for daily bunker lighting; using a restaurant-grade one would be enough.
However, she still bought the most expensive and most powerful one. Because her system rewards would increase according to her level!
If she was going to get one, she had to get the best!
"I want the best, a one-step solution! Money is not a problem." Ashira said, acting like a rich person, and bought the most cost-effective and best generator in his store for ₱9.82 million.
Seeing Ash like this, the Man's face was practically blooming with smiles.
Ashira asked him to give her a few extra things. Ash wanted all the small, scattered items in his store, such as soundproofing mats, tool kits, small, less valuable items, she wanted them all as extras.
The Man didn't hesitate at all, and at the end, he even gave Ash the remaining ten-odd liters of diesel in the store.
Seeing the oil, Ashira's eyes immediately lit up. "Sir, do you know anyone who can get oil a bit cheaper?"
Diesel wasn't easy to buy. When buying it at a gas station with an ID card, you had to register every time, and could only buy a few liters at a time. Many gas stations didn't even sell bulk oil, only selling it when fueling cars.
However, someone who sells generators like this likely knows some connections. There's a black market for oil. Some shady small workshops steal oil from large oil fields and collect ownerless oil with complicated origins from the sea, process it themselves, and sell it secretly.
This is black oil.
Sure enough, after she finished speaking, the Man's face showed mystery. He pulled Ashira aside and handed her a business card.
"If you need oil, call this number and just say I introduced you. They can give you a discount, 20% cheaper than the market price!"
"Oky, Thanks." Ash took the business card.
Indeed, these related industries all had connections with each other.
As ash was about to leave, the man murmured, "The flu outbreak recently, business is really bad."
"Yeah." Ash casually agreed and strode away, saying nothing more.
This flu was actually a precursor to the apocalypse. Half a month after the flu virus outbreak, infected people successively died suddenly, and before everyone had emerged from the pain of losing loved ones, they discovered that all these deceased relatives had 'come back to life'.
Of course, this coming back to life turned them into another kind of creature—Zombies!
In her previous life, Ash had been busy with Michael's wedding during this time. Michael's fiancee 'Denise' was found to be pregnant during this period. Besides paying for new furniture and renovations for them, she also busied herself accompanying her to the hospital.
On the day the apocalypse arrived, she happened to be at the hospital accompanying her new sister-in-law to get reports. At that time, she heard screams erupting in the hospital.
She personally witnessed a patient who had been wheeled in for emergency treatment and declared dad suddenly sit up in the corridor and bite the relatives next to him.
A group of people ran to stop and block him, but Ash saw that the first relative who was bitten started mutating all over within five minutes.
He twitched and crawled up from the ground. After he stiffly stood up, there was no trace of blood color all over his body, and his eyes had turned into the lead gray of Zombies in movies!
There were no eyeballs, no vitality, emitting a terrifying light of hunger and bloodlust. He opened his gaping maw and bite on the people around him who were trying to stop him.
The entire hospital erupted in chaos.
Such things were happening in every corner of the hospital. Everyone who was bitten would mutate within five minutes and join in biting others!
Ashira was also scared at the time, but in order to protect her pregnant soon to be sister-in-law, she remained very calm, bravely picked up a weapon to fight back against the charging Zombies, and led her out through the riot.
It was precisely because she performed too well from the start that the her Family felt she was very capable, and from then on, they let her handle everything! Searching for supplies, protecting everyone, Ash was always in charge!
In her previous life, she had always felt that being needed by them and being able to protect the whole family was her satisfaction!
Heh heh, but that also depends on whether she was protecting family or a den of beasts! But in this life, she would absolutely never be a fool again!
Ash had the man send the items to the warehouse and called on the way to inquire about the diesel. And they could deliver it; they could send it to her tomorrow.
Ash told him to send as much as he had; she wanted all the stock he had. She directly bought out 1 million worth of his stock! The other party gave her a 25% discount. Ashira spent nearly ₱16,380 on this trip out today.