Bab 14: Stockpiling an Armoury
"…You've grown stronger. It should be obvious, but I only really noticed how much stronger you became in that last battle." Miu said quietly after Zhan returned.
"Have you thought about what I said? Do you still want to follow me?"
"Of course!" She smiled and said this without hesitation. Zhan paused for a moment, then grinned back.
He was glad that Miu would be with him for the second wave. A beauty, the closest thing he had to a friend, and also…a doctor. Well, she never officially got her license to practice, which is why she ended up working as a doctor for the syndicate. Her skill was unquestionable, Zhan still didn't know why she lost her right to practice medicine legally.
"So, umm…when should we get together, and start properly preparing for everything to erupt? Do we need supplies, where are we going to go, ah, I really don't know what to do…" She muttered the last bit, but Zhan understood how she felt.
In terms of advantages, his advantage, besides knowing that the end of days would be coming three weeks from now, lay only in his personal strength. Did he know how to survive through the apocalypse? Of course not! But he could probably kill anything that came his way…hopefully.
"We can stay in my apartment at first. I don't know how long we'll be able to stay for, but once I get back I'll have the manager start ordering in supplies. Also, weapons, defences…hmm, I could buy weapons from the syndicate actually." Zhan's eyes lit up as he thought of this idea. The syndicate was definitely the organisation to go to for all of his military grade weaponry needs! He was rich enough to buy these things too!
After thinking through it some more, Zhan remembered that he was still mid-conversation with Miu. He quickly grabbed a piece of paper and pen, then wrote down his address and phone number.
"Either call me on this number, or show up at this address and ask for the resident of room 120. Bring your sister…but nobody else."
"Ok, I understand." Miu quickly nodded. She knew Zhan was worried that she would take advantage of his offer and show up with friends or family, but she didn't really have any close friends, and she didn't speak with her parents anymore. She hadn't spoken to her parents since the argument they had when she lost her right to practice medicine just weeks before she was supposed to graduate.
She was still in a bit of a daze as Zhan hurriedly left, then only looked at the piece of paper long after he was gone. However, seeing this slip of paper left her stunned.
"Huh? Isn't this the same apartment complex that my sister moved into?"
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"Zhan!" Nui called out happily as Zhan walked in.
It was later in the evening right now and she was feeling bored. Shia only returned at around 10pm each day, she really worked hard, making Nui feel a bit embarrassed by her current workless lifestyle. Still, she couldn't help but feel a bit lonely during the day. Especially after Zhan left hurriedly a couple of days earlier. He hadn't said much and she was feeling anxious, thinking that something might have happened to him somehow.
She jumped up from the sofa and skipped a few steps forwards, stopping a couple of feet in front of him. She stared up at him, but then froze.
'Gah, just what am I doing?! Why did I run over to him, what should I do now?!'
"W-welcome home…"
'Adorable.' Zhan thought as he looked down at the awkward girl. She was so easy to see through that it was genuinely quite funny.
They sat down and watched TV for a while as they waited for Shia. Zhan was planning on finding her when he got back, but her shift ended a moment ago, so she should be back soon anyway. When he heard her enter, Zhan stood up and walked towards the door, followed by Nui, who followed him without thinking.
"Shia, I have a job for you!" Zhan grinned as he thought about his grand plans. Shia had a bad feeling about this, but she was his employee after all, she couldn't just refuse it if it related to her job as a manager.
Zhan handed her a list, which she read through uncertainly and finally looked up at Zhan with a sense of foreboding.
"Buy everything on that list!"
"Huh?! This, there's enough supplies on this list to stockpile a small village through winter!"
"A small village, or an apartment complex." Zhan grinned.
He came up with this plan whilst speaking with Miu. Until now, he hadn't decided how to approach this second wave, but now it seemed so obvious. His apartment building was already a heavily reinforced, modern building, designed to resist against fires, earthquakes and other such disasters. He could just stockpile on supplies and close off the block from the outside world!
Honestly, it would be easier if he could just kick all of the residents out, but this would be difficult. He couldn't kick them out legally, and using force on hundreds of people was too tricky, even for Zhan. It would be easier just to buy enough supplies to pacify them all, he could easily afford it and money would become obsolete soon enough (in his opinion) anyway!
Of course, Shia couldn't obtain everything they needed. He also visited the old man before leaving the arena, and after speaking for just one hour, they agreed on a hefty trade deal.
The old man didn't even ask why Zhan wanted to buy hundreds of guns, hundreds of thousands of bullets, as well as rocket launchers, grenades, bombs, land mines and other extremely illegal items.
Zhan didn't care enough to think about it, it was fine so long as he received the weaponry. He did already own one or two guns, just in case, but this wouldn't be enough.
Guns would get broken, and he might need to arm tens of people in order to defend the apartment complex. Well, he wouldn't easily hand out automatic rifles to people he didn't know, but there was a chance that this might be necessary.
He didn't care about the cost, he just wanted his own certified armoury!
Guns ranged from a thousand dollars for hand guns, 3-5000 for semi automatic rifles and shotguns, double that for fully automatic rifles, 50,000 for each of the three sniper rifles, 100,000 for the rocket launchers, 500-2000 for each grenade and landmine and more expensive bombs ranging from 5,000 up to 20,000. Indeed, this covered around a fifth of it.
But this was far from all. Zhan wasn't convinced that this would all be enough, so he specially bought some individual, high intensity weaponry. The most extreme of which perhaps, was the 'roof mounted building protection rotary canon.'
This was a certified war machine…it was genuinely used by some militaries as a defence measure to guard highly sensitive and at risk bases. It was capable of firing up to 1,000 high velocity bullets per minute, though this speed of use would cause it to heat up and it could only be used for one minute straight like this. The so called bullets though, were armour piercing projectiles of death, each one of these bullets weighed almost one pound and could tear directly through a tank or fighter jet.
The canon would be brought over by a helicopter of the syndicate in three days time and attached to the roof of the apartment building. Of course, It would be fitted with a retractable steel cover to guard and hide it. Not onto that, but it would be fitted onto a track so that it could be manoeuvred and shot from anywhere on the outside of the roof, or along the cross tracks passing through the centre.
Yeah, it was a bit excessive. That cannon alone, along with 100,000 rounds of ammunition, would cost him 30 million. This was also why Zhan spent so much on the other guns and bought hundreds of them…everything else combined only added up to 15 million.
He wanted to build traps around the building, but he was in the middle of the city so this wasn't really possible. Just in case though, He also spent another 3 million on various supplies that could be used to build traps. The syndicate would deliver it all soon and he would just store most of everything in the basement.
With the armoury side of things sorted, Zhan came up with a list of supplies that he left to Shia. Shia was left dumbfounded and annoyed that he would do this, but she had no choice but to do it. She started the following day, buying massive amounts of various canned foods, clothing, hygiene products and so on. She realised again that Zhan was filthy rich, to be able to spend 2 million so easily like this.
He didn't tell her about the armoury just yet.
Three days later, the syndicate members arrived. The arena was closed and their operations were narrowed down due to 'domestic affairs', but they still agreed to this deal with Zhan. He wasn't yet aware of this, but the old man planned to use this exchange to 'remind' Zhan that they were allies.
The old man believed that his syndicate could survive and thrive in the coming apocalypse with their superior weaponry. He owned his own certified army after all, and with a little preparation, he thought that this apocalypse could actually be his chance to rise to power.
Zhan was oblivious to all of this and only felt happy that everything he requested was being supplied. At the same time, deliveries of food, clothing and other necessities were continually arriving by the lorry full.
There were two entrances to the apartment complex; the front and the back. The front was for public use, whilst the back was for staff only. Or at least, this is what everyone believed.
Zhan couldn't exactly haul all of these guns in via public routes, but this wasn't a problem. This apartment complex actually had a vast underground storage unit. Well, it also doubled up as a bomb shelter or a nuclear hideout…he supposed that they could just hide in there as a last resort if things got really bad, but it wasn't a long term solution he was willing to endure.
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