Bab 3: Chapter 3 Hoarding of Supplies
As everyone should know, food supplies were the most important thing even in ancient times, this factor could decide the fall or rise of a city. Without food, people will starve and die. That's why this is the first thing that Kisha needs to secure, and that's her mission that the system made her do. Missions are classified from F to S classes, SS and SSS class are rare but not unheard of, but it was deadly.
This time, to complete the 100M supply gathering mission Kisha decided to go directly to Duke. Not only will it save her time but it will also help Duke save his forces from taking a hit from the apocalypse.
Kisha first met Duke on her 80th rebirth, their meeting was brief but it left a huge impression on her. They did not meet again until her 99th rebirth, he was the only one she could call a true friend, and fought side by side with her. He watched her back and even sacrificed his life to save her after they built a safe haven for everyone. But who would have thought that the place they built with their sweat and blood would soon fall on the traitorous couple's hand.
Just thinking about it makes Kisha's blood boil and felt that she let Duke down but at the same time, she feels gratified because she has a chance to meet Duke again and make sure to correct her mistakes and choices.
Duke took another sip of his coffee. His deep husky voice broke Kisha's reminisce of the past. "Ms. Aldens, a magic trick, and words without evidence will not be enough to make me believe you."
Kisha thinks for a second before she calls 008 in her mind to check her stats.
"Host, would you like to check your status window?"
"Yes."
[Kisha Aldens]
Level 0
Strength: 18 (+ 10)
Stamina: 20 (+ 10)
Defense: 16 (+ 10)
Agility: 15 (+ 10)
Mental Capacity: 25 (+ 10)
Charm: 27 (+ 10)
Leadership: 25 (+ 10)
Title: 100th Life (additional 10 stat points in all stats)
Skills: None
Talent: Close Combat, Heightened Senses
Gift: Pheonix's Nirvana, Eye of the truth
"Host, we have to start over again. Although this is going to be your last chance in life, the additional 10 points in all stats and the 100 thousand points will be a great help to move around this time." 008 said emotionally.
5 points in stats would be the average starting point for level zeros, those who have reached 10 points are considered well-trained in martial arts.
Kisha noticed a piece of additional information in her status window. "008, when did I receive a new gift?" She stared at her new gift Eye of the truth
008 checked the history when they obtained the Eye of the Truth from his archive. "Host, you obtained it when you died in the hands of those dogs!"
"Let's check the details of this gift." She instructed.
Duke cleared his throat to get Kisha's attention as he had been waiting for her to continue for a long time, she's been staring blankly in front of her.
She picks up her glass of water, acting nonchalantly cold and the Eye of the Truth's detail is on display in front of her.
Eye of the Truth
Details: A gift from the Gods to the poor soul who has tasted all kinds of bitterness of life and betrayal from their loved ones. Helps the user to check other's status windows. An active skill. "Upgradable"
Kisha's eyes lit up after reading the gift's details and immediately tried it on Duke.
[Duke Winters]
Level 0
Strength: 20
Stamina: 20
Defense: 20
Agility: 19
Mental Capacity: 20
Charm: 38
Leadership: 40
Title: None
Skills: None
Talent: Multi-faceted
Gift: Tyrant
"OMG! Host! He is not a human at all! No wonder you could not win him in duels." You even have the plus points but you can't still be compared to him. 008 could only think about the other half of his sentence because he knew that if he said more, his system upgrade would be pushed to the back of the to-do list.
Kisha's lips twitch as he looks at Duke enviously. "Comparison will only make one's heart breaks." She thought
"Forgive me for taking too long to rearrange my thoughts, Duke. Although, I cannot prove what I said about the virus and blood rain right now. You'll see it tomorrow, however, the disappearance of the glass of water is no mere magic trick. It is called space type ability." to give her words more impact, she put the entire coffee table including his coffee and her water in her inventory.
This time, Duke sits straight and looks straight into her eyes. "This space ability allows you to store anything in it?"
She nodded and took out the coffee table again, she didn't need to touch the items to store them in her inventory, as long as she could see it she could store them but it would consume her mental stats. Those who have high mental capacity will more likely awaken a mental type ability.
"You wanted the 100M worth of supplies to store in your space?"
She nodded and knew that Duke had finally believed in her. "So please prepare it as soon as possible, 20% clothes for all seasons and all genders, 30% Medicines, 40% food including live animals and aquatic animals as I have use for them, and 10% utility items. It would be great if you could add a bulletproof Hummer as a bonus." Kisha tried to smile as sweetly as she could but for 008 it could only see a scheming smile on her face.
Duke coldly smirks as he looks at her smiling face. "You think I will give you the supplies?"
"Well of course. Do you think we have the time to waste when I mentioned that it will be tomorrow? Besides, you have to spend as much money as you can to hoard supplies. Don't you have your people?" Her voice sounded cold and aloof but her words carried warmth as she truly worries for him.
The sincerity and warmth in her eyes are overflowing, only a blind person would not see it. And she's doing her best to lower the coldness and killing intent her body is emitting that has accumulated over the repeated years she has lived in the apocalypse. She really wanted to give Duke a good start in the apocalypse so he could build his forces early on.
He stops talking as he ponders deeply on his choices he taps his index finger on his lap, and as a thought hits him, his tapping stops and he looks at her seriously. "Then tell me more of the information you know."
Kisha readily accepts. "Sure."
But before she could continue, a knock on the door interrupted them. Tristan entered after the knock. "Master, I have already taken care of the issue that you gave me earlier, her assets have been frozen for the investigation as the authorities uncover embezzlement with the director's involvement." Only after he spoke did he notice that a woman was sitting across from Duke.
"Mmm. Good. Since you're back, I want you to use half of the empire's assets and my family's assets to purchase all kinds of livestock, live aquatic animals, all kinds of food supplies, Medicine, clothes, and other important things that could last for years. Do not forget bulletproof SUVs and military trucks and a few tons of Gas. And make sure to convert the remaining asset of the empire and my family's into gold bars and secure it with the supplies."
Tristan was shocked to hear this instruction from Duke. "Master, what's going on? How will we explain this to the board of directors, what about the patriarch?" Are we going in a war? Tristan's jaws are wide open as he does not know what led to this decision.
Duke did not even stop to consider the board of directors' dissatisfaction and his family's thoughts. It's not just hundreds of millions they are talking about but hundreds of billions that need to be spent. "You don't need to explain anything, we needed all this in less than a day, separate a 100M worth of supply for Ms. Aldens here."
Kisha glanced at the nervous Tristan and generously commented. "If you have choppers, planes, or ships that you would want to safely keep for future use, I could also help you keep them, just pay me with supplies."
The woman in front of him has a mischievous smile on her face, she looks like a cat who stole a fish for dinner. He unconsciously smiled as he watch Kisha cute antics.
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Bab 4: Chapter 4 Planning
Tristan retreated with a surging headache to do the task assigned to him as fast as he could with the limited time they had.
As soon as he is out of the room, Duke jumps into the conversation. "Care to explain the entirety of the omitted information you got? How did you chance upon this knowledge before it occurred? And why did you come to me?"
Even though Duke has a good impression of Kisha, he still needs to be vigilant because a lot of people want to drag him down from his position and they will use any kinds of method just to achieve their goal.
Kisha understands this the most, Duke often talks about his venture in the business world whenever they are out on a mission in her previous life, so she understands him like the back of her hand. " This is not the first time I have experienced this." She dropped the bomb without warning and it caught Duke off guard but his face still showed calm and indifferent expression as if they were talking about the weather.
He has been trying to decipher everything she had said from the beginning til now but it's just hard to comprehend because no one would even jump to the conclusion that she had died and come back to life to re-experience the apocalypse, will they?
"You're probably wondering what am I even trying to say." Kisha chuckled as she tucked the few loose strands of her long curly black hair into her ear. "I have died and came back to life a day before the apocalypse." She stares right back at him as she reiterates the words.
No matter how steady a person Duke was, that information still struck his brain cells and made him daze for a while until he slowly processed the information and accepted the possibility of it being true. Because if everything she says ends up happening tomorrow including her awakened superpowers, then more likely than not, her being reborn after death is also true.
He slowly took a breath as he evaluated her every action, he narrowed his eyes and asked. "Why did you decide to share this information with me and not the government? This could save millions of lives."
Other than Duke, everyone else would just treat her as a lunatic who preaches the end of the world like the crazy people who shout in the central square that the end of the world is near. She would just waste her time doing so and she did try that before and the passersby just laughed at her crazy antics.
"Might be, but how many of them would believe me? If I showed what I can do, I might even be dragged by the government and be locked down." She drank a mouthful of water to wet her throat. "You, on the other hand, are different. As long as there's conclusive evidence, you'll listen and will not bet your people's lives to a possible danger."
Although his enemies call him ruthless and coldblooded. But in truth, he is a good person, he is protective of his own and a good leader. This is also the reason why she started hanging out with him in her previous life, they are each other's confidant, and if anyone needs help they don't need to ask questions as they have absolute trust in each other, only if she did not make that mistake. He wouldn't have to die. Remembering the sad past, Kisha's body slightly trembled and her eyes clouded in pain, but she quickly adjusted her emotions. All these minor changes were captured by Duke's decerning eyes, even if he did not know her, he could feel the trust she had in him which somehow made him happy.
Kisha shared her knowledge with Duke about the virus that will spread tomorrow. The said virus is one that laid dormant in the ice territory up north. It was kept by towering ice walls that buried the Greenlands when the ice age hit the earth. This ice age saved the remaining life on earth but it still took thousands to millions of years for the life to slowly prosper again. But now, because of climate change, the heat slowly dissolves the ice walls over time, and there have been more earthquakes that resulted in the virus escaping its confinement.
This was discovered by a dedicated scientist five years post-apocalypse. Only a quarter of humanity will be lucky enough to awaken a superpower, another quarter will remain normal, and a small minority will be asymptomatic where they look like a normal human but their bodily fluids can turn normal humans into zombies. And the rest will become a mindless human-eating monster.
Superhumans will be categorized into regulars and irregulars and their powers after awakening will start from Level 0. Regulars are the known powers like elementals which are more common but they will still be classified from low, middle to high class. The low class is the support type, the middle class is the defensive-attack type that has appropriate damage or defense, while the high class has destructive attacks and indestructible defenses. The best example of high-class elemental power is lightning users. Lightning users can attack and defend at the same time that's why it was the most revered ability but also as rare as irregulars. Irregulars have no known pattern of ability and Kisha can be identified as an irregular for possessing the system.
As smart as Duke, he has already figured out almost everything without Kisha mentioning it. So he already decided what he had to do to make sure he was well prepared. "Based on your explanation, your space ability is a support type. Is that the reason why you died so many times in your last life?"
"Pfft" 008 was trying his best not to burst out laughing after hearing Duke's honest question.
Kisha on the other hand felt her face heat up for the first time after so long due to her embarrassment. It was because her system was really useful and almost omnipotent but because of her timid, naive, and overtrusting nature that was engraved down to her bones that she had to die at almost every turn.
There was a saying "Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything." It's also because she had always tried to save everyone that she ended up sacrificing herself and back then she did not understand that she couldn't save every human just because she had her system. A person who's trying to become a hero will end up sacrificing either their loved ones or themselves which she had understood by now.
"Ehem. I'll tell you some other time. We don't have much time to begin with." Duke noticed her deflecting his question so he understood that her experience would either be embarrassing or a utter humiliation to her ability.
He did not try to probe her about her ability because his instinct told him that she would not keep it from him for long and that he could trust her.
Duke contemplated for ten minutes, trying to formulate a plan in his head for his next step, and took out City A's map that they use for strategic planning for all their ventures. He encircled three spots outside the city. " If most people will turn into those monsters you mentioned, then Cities will not be safe for creating a base, we will be besieged sooner or later. We need a place that can be self-sustaining, easy to defend but hard to besiege."
They look at the three locations at the same time after weighing the pros and cons both pointed in a valley surrounded by the mounted cliff that only has one entrance.
Duke looked at Kisha with appreciation and smiled happily, he realized that he and Kisha had the same way of thinking that did not differ from the other.
The three locations are farmland near the river, a warehouse on the outskirts, and Duke's hidden base where he trains his private guards. The warehouse, although located on the outskirts, is still a little closer to the city, the farmland could be a self-sustaining base however, even though Kisha has never heard of a zombie swimming in the water but there are mutant animals, they could sneak in from the river to their base and it was equally dangerous even if they set up a prevention safety measures.
She stared at the map again and was hit by a realization. "Do you think, we can both develop the two locations as our food production line and our main base?" Kisha asked after thinking about it again.
If they could think of a prevention safety measure that is almost perfect or maybe with the help of her system this could be her best option, there's no saying because, in the hidden base, they could be attacked by mutant plants from the mountain or mutant rats or snakes. Nowhere is safe but she has enough points now.
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